Interesting Thoughts On War

From a post on Yahoo:

FLIP_FLOP?

Yeah it's off topic...but these are priceless!

Quotes from when Clinton committed troops to Bosinia:

"You can support the troops but not the president."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)


Rush Limbaugh is every bit as switchable as the politicians:

"And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents and military equipment to Saddam Hussein, and why? Because Saddam 'allegedly' gassed a few Kurds in his own country.

"Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a 'war
criminal' or 'committing crimes against humanity' is the same old
thing. LIBERAL HATE SPEECH! And speaking of poison gas . . . I SAY WE ROUND UP ALL THE DRUG ADDICTS AND GAS THEM."

Rush Limbaugh, Nov. 3, 1988

Global Warming On Mars

Q: Seems Mars is going through A warming trend too. Just more evidence that global warming is a natural event. I mean set aside the evidence that the earth goes through temp changes cyclicly, long before mankind ever discovered fossil fuels, but now we have another planet in which there is evidence of weather changing. Since the Mars rovers were not built as Hummers, the Enviro-Nazis would be hard pressed to blame Humans or Fossil fuels for this happening. I guess that means they will ignore it as they do everything else that contridicts what they want to "prove".

A: So what's your theory for what would happen if you dumped 22 billion tons of extra CO2 into Earth's atmosphere each year?

Just because the Mars might be having climate change of unspecified magnitude doesn't mean it's related to Earth's. It's possible that it is, but even if so, the only possible connection, variation in solar output, has already been found to contribute no more than 10% to the current rapid warming trend.

Like you, scientists know that cyclical and non-cyclical climate changes are common on Earth. And also like you, scientists are hypercritical of each other. They are the first to pounce on colleagues who make mistakes, and especially those who make wild ass theories.

So why are scientists so much in agreement about anthropogenic climate change? It's because instead of being the kind of smooth variation you expect from natural causes, there's been an abrupt spike in warming. Eliminating all other possible causes, there's still something left over, a big something, and that something correlates almost exactly to the burning of fossil fuel in recent times.

Couple that data with the greenhouse gas theory, which was developed to explain why the Earth is not a huge snowball, and you get the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

What's So Wrong With Random Chance?

If creationists and Intelligent Design advocates don't think life could have happened by the action of so-called random chance, how do they think our bodies continue to function from one moment to the next? How do they think oxygen molecules find hemoglobin molecules to bind to, for example? Everything that goes on in a living body happens by random chance. If it happens that way now, why do they think it couldn't have happened that way from the start?

I don't mean this in a rhetorical way. I mean, do these people actually have an idea how to answer what I'm asking, or is it just that they haven't really thought it through?

Q: What Kind Of Fools Are We?

Q: these goons are concerned about rocks rolling and sand blowing billions of miles away while the USA is engulfed in poverty, crime, illegals ripping off the welfare and health care system, housing so expensive that people cant afford to live in homes they spent 30 years paying off, cant find parking in front of their own home, as leeches world wide pile into the country on visitor visas and just sit here for good, contributing to crime, welfare and healthcare costs, and packing jails.
And they spend billions watching rocks roll down hills and sand blow on mars , billions of miles away
WHAT KIND OF FOOLS ARE WE?

A: You're the fool. The entire NASA budget costs each American 15 cents a day and is worth many times more than that in PR value alone. That money goes to pay researchers, engineers, technicians, and many, many others to advance our knowledge and keep America in the forefront of space technology.

If you want to live in a country that doesn't have a space program, move to someplace like Gabon or Bangladesh. If you want to cut crime in half and save $50 billion a year, end the war on drugs. If you want to stop illegals from destroying our country, take back the tax cuts from the super rich and use the money to fund a decent border patrol.

Meanwhile, we still need to maintain higher education, we still need to maintain research and development, we still need to maintain our intellectual edge in the world. The last thing the poor people of America need is a brain drain to Europe and India caused by lame brained cretins who can't see the use in expanding our knowledge of the universe we live in.

19.5 Acres Per Person

Some people doubt that humans can have a significant impact on anything so large as the Earth. But a simple calculation shows that there's only enough Earth to give 19.5 acres to each person if evenly distributed. Of course, 70% of that is water, so that's nearly 6 acres of land and 13.5 acres of water.

Think you couldn't mess up 6 acres of land? That's pretty small, it's easy to mess that up. Back in 1750 there were 60 acres of land per person.

On top of each person's piece of the Earth sits 785 thousand tons of air. Each person now creates an average of 3.4 tons of new CO2 per year which works out to 4 parts per million. The data show that atmospheric concentration of CO2 has increased by about 1.3 ppm per year since 1958, but there are 3 times as many people as there were then. So nowadays we're putting out CO2 at an accelerated rate.

By contrast volcanoes only add about 0.025 tons ofCO2 to each person's share of the atmosphere each year. The human contribution of CO2 is 130 times that of volcanic activity.

All this is with only 6.5 billion people. The projected population peak is something like 10 to 12 billion people. Three acres of land per person, nearly 7 acres of water. That's bad. That's living on the hairy edge. With so little land per person, even a small event could cause a population crash, and we're on track to double the 1750 CO2 concentration by the time our population hits 12 billion.

They Put America First

Something found on Yahoo.

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But, just the average American ones who have really been screwed over by this Admin who promised them so much and has so miserably failed them.

They supported small government and got the largest expansion of federal government in 60 years;

They supported fiscal responsibility and got a government that turned a blind eye to corruption, fraud, overcharging, and tax evasion;

They supported honesty and acountability and received lies, misrepresentation, and evasion from accountability;

They put America First and wound up supporting a government that put corporate profit and nepotism first and America LAST.

Bottom Line: Do You Feel Safe?

In the event of another natural disaster or a major terrorist attack, do you feel that being a US citizen on US soil will ensure you have the highest possibilty of survival?

I don't. I think Louisiana dropped the ball, but Bush waited for three days after it was clear they couldn't handle it before he started doing his job. A hands-on president like Clinton would not have been able to wait so long.

Bush has gutted Federal agencies and put incompetent cronies in charge. I have no faith that any of them can do the job they were appointed to do.

Bush is unaware of the difference between wishes and reality. He says we have the resources to fight the war in Iraq and to provide adequate protection at home, but he doesn't realize that though we may HAVE those resources, they are not deployed.

In short, Bush is an okay president as long as nothing bad happens. But every time disaster strikes, and it has struck often during Bush's administration, Bush is slow to react. He's reading "My Pet Goat" instead of making sure the country is defended against terrorist attackers. or he's playing golf and politicking instead of making sure the Federal government is able to provide back up support when local government has failed.

Bush was first elected during a peaceful time when it didn't seem to matter whether the president was completely competent or not, and that is the kind of president he remains. With Bush in charge, America is only safe as long as nothing bad happens.

39 Year Old Grandmother

People were marveling over the idea of a 39 year old grandmother, so I wrote this.

39 y/o grandparents are the way of humanity, in the grand scheme of things. My grandmother married at 16. She and my grandfather met while working the fields near Brownsville. My grandfather learned paperhanging and saved up enough money to buy a 50 acre farm. My grandmother had her first child, my mother, at 18.

My mother married at 18, my father was 29 at the time. My mother had her first child at 20 y/o. My father only got 2 year degree, so I was the first in the family to finish college.

Everybody has a different story, a different path they take through life, and everybody has different values. It's good to not be so judgmental until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes. Usually then you can see how things turn out the way they do.