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To: Sully- who wrote (61022)	7/17/2007 4:21:40 AM
From: RinConRon	Respond to of 90947

That says it all.

To: Sully- who wrote (61022)	7/17/2007 4:29:35 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Another myth banished Betsy's Page You might have heard the story that the evil GOP and Bush administration tried to block Al Gore from holding his Live Earth extravaganza in Washington, D.C. on the national Mall there. Well, surprise, surprise. The story just isn't true. <<< But Gore's most blatant falsehood - as phony as a three-dollar carbon credit - is his claim that Republican lawmakers or global warming "deniers" prevented him from holding the concert on the Mall. This spread through the left-wing blogosphere like the proverbial wild fire, with entries on ThinkProgress claiming that Republicans "had tried to block the event from happening in DC" and on Daily Kos declaring that "[d]espite Republican efforts ...to deny this, Friday Al Gore announced LiveEarthDC." In truth, the only thing some GOP lawmakers objected to was an unusual last-minute effort to hold the concert on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, after its organizers discovered that Mall had already been booked for other events. Use of the Mall had been denied to Gore and his colleagues for one reason: they failed to apply for the proper permits before other parties had. And one of the groups "blocking" Live Earth's use of the Mall happened to be the Smithsonian Institution itself. The truth is that Gore's desires for a huge concert on the Mall were actually thwarted not by Republicans, but by a very talented group of Irish Riverdance cloggers, Vietnamese folk artists, and African-American gospel singers. They were performing as scheduled at the acclaimed annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and at a gospel show sponsored by the predominantly black Christian organization Together One Unity. It seems the "nefarious right-wingers" who organized these folk and gospel fests had the temerity to schedule their events with the National Park Service, which runs the Mall, weeks and months before Live Earth's organizers ever contacted the agency, and then not call them off when Gore let out a sneeze. >>> betsyspage.blogspot.com americanthinker.com

To: Sully- who wrote (61022)	7/17/2007 12:28:49 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Uhhhh.... Does anyone care? I mean, a baseball "record" isn't quite like the Iranian or NK nuclear crisis. Nobody is going to die if Bonds hits another ball. Except possibly one of those nuts out there in those kayaks in that COLD bay water. Let's face it: Medical, ie., human biochemical, advances are occurring at an ever increasing pace. Inevitably, someone was going to find better ways of making steroids that extracting them from hog adrenal glands- -like in a flask. Human growth hormone used to just come from humans. Guess what? There was lots of economic incentive to get around that- -originally for legitimate medical reasons. But once a way was found to synthesize it, it inevitably would be used in sports. When tests were instituted to find these, and required, the race was on to find drugs the tests wouldn't detect. And, of course, they were found. Then the tests were improved. An arms race. The one positive thing that can be said of this farcical tempest in a teapot is it has advanced understanding of human biochemistry and available drugs. I'm sure I've pissed off the fanatical sports nuts. You make let me know what you think by writing to idontgiveadamn@getalife.com.