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   Erik Hoffner Posted 4:39 am
   21 Apr 2008

   right

   The other day I saw the one with Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson sitting on the couch...interesting to see Robertson taking a public stand for this campaign, no matter how much he makes the skin crawl.

   Erik

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   randino Posted 9:53 pm
   21 Apr 2008

   Would you want Pat Robertson driving your

   teenage daughter home from baby sitting? I don't think sooooo.

   To the point - it is all fine and good to have these troglodytes coming out for doing something for global warming. The fact is that this has not found its way to the grass roots right that is still virulently opposed to (a) admitting to the reality of global warming, and (b) enlisting to do something about it.

   The main reason is that whatever we do is going to involve public intervention in the market place and public regulation of carbon. Both are anathema to conservatives.

   Randy Cunningham

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   caniscandida Posted 10:31 pm
   21 Apr 2008

   Right, Randino!

   Erik,
   unlike the creepy Pat Robertson (but in fairness, I do not know that Al Sharpton is any better in this regard), Newt Gingrich does have a real interest in natural science.  He is a dinosaurophile; and back when I was a fossil-explainer at the American Museum of Natural History in the 90s, and when he was Speaker, he was led on a tour of the 4th-floor vertebrate-paleontology galleries by one of the VP machers.

   Whether that enlightened him in any way subsequently, of course that is hard to tell.

   Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

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