Talk of Waco

By mec

July 1, 2009 8:19 AM | Link to this | Report comment abuse

It has become fairly well known that “greenhouse” gasses have little or nothing to do with climate change and that the planet has been in a cooling cycle for several years. The plain truth is that the ecosystem cannot support 7 billion people whether they live on primative consumption or and oil based economy.

This legislation that has just passed the house will do nothing but transfer more money from the taxpayer and into the hands of the ruling elite. If this thing gets past the senate, it will be the first distructive act by Obama that wouldn’t have been persued by either political party. Nationalization was underway during the previous administration and would have continued under a republican regime but bumping taxes in the name of a leftist pseudoreligion is uniquely Democrat.
The democrat party and obama are already slipping in the popularity polls. This money/power grab should shorten their run considerably

By Butch Miller

July 1, 2009 11:52 AM | Link to this | Report comment abuse

Buried within the Cap and Trade bill was a 98 page EPA Study that states that the Earth is not warming but in fact is cooling and will be in this cycle for at least the next 35 years. Experts all over the globe have come out and said that global warming is simply not true. The actual proven facts are that since 1850 the earth’s temperature has risen 1^ and that was before 1940. This is simply a huge tax on middle income America to bail out Obama and this Nancy Pelosi led congress that have spent us into poverty! Obama has not done one single thing to jump start this economy because in haste and crisis things can be accomplish that people otherwise would have too much common sense to stand for! I feel like there was a good reason that the good Lord blessed us with bountiful natural resources, I doubt that He intended for us to ignore them and try and out smart Him with our own plan.

By sammy

July 1, 2009 4:08 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse

Good God in heaven! Chet Edwards finally casts a vote in the interest of his constituents instead of the lunatic fringe of his party, and the Trib criticizes him for it.

From my memory, this is the first time the Trib has editorially, or otherwise, criticized Edwards for ANYTHING during his entire term in office. This must be Bill Whitaker’s doing. John Young would NEVER criticize a fellow Democrat, especially Edwards the Anointed One.

“Global warming is the biggest issue of our lifetimes.” What hyperbole! What a crock! You editorialists don’t have the first clue as to what might be the “biggest issue” of our lifetimes. “‘Our’ lifetimes” could encompass 100 years in the future. Our bellying-up economy and the ruinous reaction to it might fit that category, but only time will tell.

If the nuts in Iran or N.Korea or al Qaida unleash nuclear weapons on us or others, what then might be the “biggest issue” of our lifetimes? This breathless, panicky reaction by the global warming alarmists is just as illogical and unscientific as that of the global warming deniers.

It’s time for SOMEONE to interject a little perspective in this sophomoric food fight.