tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7139867921999215955..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: "Listening to the American People" "Sending A Message" "Getting It"Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-10298599822507050572010-11-12T10:19:52.679-08:002010-11-12T10:19:52.679-08:00One quibble, only 33% of republicans don't bel...One quibble, only 33% of republicans don't believe that the climate is changing.<br /><br />And while there are republican politicians who deny the climate is changing I think you'll find that most of them just give weasely answers. Even Christine O'Donnell didn't actualy come out and say that climate change isn't happening.<br /><br />What you do have is about a third of republicans who believe that the climate is changing but who feel that the government shouldn't intervene.<br /><br />This is an entirely different kettle of fish.<br /><br />I think the big problem relates to one of your big bugbears and it's technological/economic cornucopianism. The belief that the free market and future advances in technology will solve the problem for us. And the political right doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of thinking, there's plenty of people on the left who feel the same way.<br /><br />The only difference is that the right also has a large proportion of young earth creationist nutters (and I think you can forget about convincing them unfortunately) who skew things.<br /><br />What we really need to do is attack cornucopian thinking on both sides of the political spectrum. Not that I need to tell you that.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-76232636123240008192010-11-08T15:00:15.802-08:002010-11-08T15:00:15.802-08:00> This is what you hear if you actually listen
...> This is what you hear if you actually listen<br />> to the American people:<br />><br />> )!^$&?#@<*%!~);[#@(>&!@#$#*!<br /><br />So I was at the diner today facing two tubes, one showing<br />Dr. Oz demonstrating butt falsies on a department-store<br />mannikin, and the other tuned to Fox with Megyn Kelly's<br />"America Live" show. Kelly was wearing a striking<br />black, and black turtle-necked, top -- very Ann Coulter,<br />very upper-crust right-wing intellectual.<br /><br />Ms. Kelly had as her guest a "regular person" who<br />is the public face of one of the Tea Party organizations<br />in Florida (presumably this was Billie Tucker, director of the<br />First Coast Tea Party) and she was posing sympathetically-outraged<br />questions to her guest about the recent case of a Florida school-district<br />employee, also a woman, who has been "reassigned pending<br />investigation" for forwarding a (pre-election) chain letter daring to<br />suggest that the Tea Party is racist. The woman who has<br />been "reassigned" is not a teacher -- from what I can gather<br />she is something like a computer tech support person,<br />and while I do think she should have known better than to<br />pass along **any** kind of chain mail via her employer's<br />computers, the sheer affronted outrage (mixed with withering,<br />though measured, contempt on Kelly's part) being passed<br />back and forth between the Fox host and her guest had my<br />mouth hanging open a bit.<br /><br />"How damaging was this letter to your organization?" asked<br />Kelly. "We are very much interested in seeing that this woman<br />is disciplined," was the reply. "We also want her to be<br />re-educated about the meaning and goals of the Tea Party.<br />For a person whose employer is entrusted with educating our<br />children to have been involved in spreading such misinformation<br />is unacceptable to us, and we think that it is important<br />for the people involved to become better educated themselves<br />about this."<br /><br />Further details of the story can be found at:<br /><br />http://winsipcuster.blogspot.com/2010/11/cynthia-jones-humphrey-to-be.html<br />http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/05/school-employee-sends-anti-tea-party-e-mail/jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com