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Re: Carl Sagan was a clandestine marijuana junkie his whole life

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From: John Gilmer
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:59
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>
> I forget which happened first and which was second, but Ted Turner got
> his hands on it and sped up the thing so that Sagan speaks more like a
> auctioneer or a squirrel on speed. After Sagan died, his widow(?) got a
> hold of it and went off the deep paranoia end with the left wing
> propaganda. It was ruined.
>
> Yeah, I figured Sagan for a pot head and it wasn't all that great; but
> they took his work and bastardized it for their own ends.

Among other things, Sagan seemed to have a bug up his ass on the subject of 
"Nuclear Winter."

Were he still kicking around would he propose WWIII as a solution to the 
"Global Warming Crisis?"

Slight OT:   President "O" has been reported by Drudge as wanting the 
reverse Global Warming by some kind of direct weather management by "man." 
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