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Re: Mission Accomplished! Bush Declares Evacuation Victory

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From: tom spillman
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:37
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Grumpy AuContraire wrote:
> 
> Peter Boyd wrote:
> 
>>Grumpy AuContraire wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Peter Boyd wrote:
>>>
>>>>Grumpy AuContraire wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>snip
>>>
>>>
>>>>>The fact is that global warming/cooling are cyclical and the results are
>>>>>beyond the means of humans to control it just as major natural
>>>>>disasters.  Hurrican Katrina is a pimple when compared to the overall
>>>>>scheme of natural progression.
>>>>>
>>>>>Here's a few things to gnaw on that humans would have absolutely no
>>>>>control over and which will occur sooner or later.
>>>>>
>>>>>� Yellowstone park contains (perhaps the most) violent potential for a
>>>>>volcanic event that would significantly change world climate for years.
>>>>>
>>>>>� Deep Atlantic seismic activity could produce a tidal wave that would
>>>>>strike the east coast of the US and make that little Indonesian thang
>>>>>look like chump change.
>>>>>
>>>>>* Then of course is the "big one" (Andreas Fault adjustment) which is
>>>>>already twenty years overdue and will occur during most everyone's life time.
>>>>
>>>>And Asteroid 2004 MN4.  The asteroid
>>>>not only has the potential of minimizing
>>>>the effect of a cat 5 hurricane but may
>>>>eliminate the social security crisis.
>>>>
>>>
>>>If only it could discriminate between the stupid and bright.  But wait,
>>>didn't the hurricane do just that.  Seems that all the smart ones headed
>>>outta town.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>There is nothing like bad science that feeds multiple
>>>>>industries/bureaucracies to become the lifeblood of liberals being
>>>>>generally ignorant and reality challenged.
>>>>
>>>>I don't like bad science either.  What are your
>>>>thoughts on evolution and intelligent design?
>>>>
>>>
>>>First, my initial exposure to bad science was the so called menace of
>>>the seas, Acanthaster Planci (Crown of Thorns) starfish that was gonna
>>>kill every coral reef on earth.  Turns out that all that brouhaha in the
>>>l970 time frame was a cyclical event.  That experience converted the
>>>last liberal bones in my body to that of an independent thinker.
>>>
>>>Regarding intelligent design, bah!  We came out of a soup recipe that
>>>just happened to perk...
>>
>>Isn't that the Liberal position?
>>
> 
> 
> 
> No, not if one has worked in the sciences and is well informed.
> 
> JT

Absolutely!!

Regardless of what some liberals think, rational thought is not a 
leftist monopoly, IMNSHO...

Regards...

Tom
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