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To: Alighieri who wrote (387192)	5/29/2008 11:30:34 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574855

Conservative grass-roots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible June 12 by "hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars," reports at www.informationweek.com. The point: the group wants to "help Americans break free from the 'carbon-footprint guilt' being imposed by Climate Alarmists." Grassfire.org says it's skeptical over claims that man-made sources of carbon dioxide emissions - from automobile exhausts to manufacturing plants - are raising the Earth's temperature at a dangerous rate. Theories about global warming were highlighted by former Vice President's 2006 film, "An Inconvenient Truth." Grassfire.org President said such theories are off the mark. "It's time for Americans to purge ourselves of the false guilt that Al Gore and the Climate Alarmists have placed on us," Mr. Elliott said. Grassfire.org said it chose June 12 as the day it wants Americans to rev up their SUVs because it coincides with expected debate in Congress over a $1.2 billion carbon-tax rebate program. "Carbon Belch Day will have at least as much impact on the so-called 'planetary emergency' of man-made global warming as the goofy save-the-earth mandates telling us to turn our lights off for an hour," Mr. Elliott said.

To: Alighieri who wrote (387192)	5/29/2008 11:44:24 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574855

WTF did that have to do with iraq in 2003? Never mind...no need to reply with the usual crap about how iraq is the "central" blah blah blah... It is amusing to me that in one breath you [collectively] claim that America's involvement in the ME is ineffectual and in the other breath you blame America for everything going on there. We can argue about whether the effect is good or bad -- I say that Israel negotiating with Syria -- with preconditions -- is a good thing. That Syria is slow to come to the table isn't surprising. I say that Iran being on notice that they are going to have to deal with a Democracy in Iraq -- which clearly they are responding to -- is a good thing. Yes, it is ugly watching it happen -- but as with all major achievements, it is the trend that is important and nobody can dispute that the trend in Iraq right now is a positive one. We still have bad days and even weeks, but the trend for the last year has been positive and that's what thinking people are looking for.