wolf wrote:California seems to be paying its dues now for pioneering a counter movement against pollution. Rig an election here, burn some forests there. Liberal populations from New York to San Francisco were the most terrorized states since Bush came to power. Hardly a coincidence.
Coincidence or not, it is an interesting thesis and not one I would dismiss out of hand. Really shocking to read that Salon piece about Oregon. If Bush would have done what he said he would do at the time he took office (and I was certainly not thrilled but I listened), then he'd seem less diabolical to me. He's not a uniter nor does he seem interested in maintaining the status quo (as he said he'd do). Instead he's made, and continues to try to make, a lot of fundamental changes without any mandate, except from his sychophants. Pooh on him. I don't trust him or his henchmen, they are so obviously out to get a big piece of oil pie while stepping over lots of federal boundaries. I despise this government and have no trust in them at all. I can imagine them doing the worst things because they've already been so bad.
As to Global Warming, anybody who is still holding the covers over his head and saying "It's not we who do this," is missing the point. (For that matter, anybody who thinks it is just fuel burning is missing it, as well.) It doesn't matter the cause, because we are caught up in an ever-increasingly severe weather pattern. It's one that might shift, just as some of the Europeans have noted, from overly-hot to overly-cool and I worry very much that there's little we can do about it, now that it's been set in motion. That's my opinion.
Yes, I'm sometimes too enamored of my own opinion, but I do try... I swear I do!
