Re: OT - yet another OT thread

LX-i wrote:
>
> James J. Gavan wrote:
> > LX-i wrote:
> >
> >> William M. Klein wrote:
> >>
> >>> I assume it is being covered world-wide (and I wonder what it will do
> >>> for Tony Blair next week), but the CIA report came out today saying
> >>>
> >>> - No evidence of WMD were found in Iraq
> >>> - No evidence of WMD being shipped to Syria (or elsewhere) was found
> >>>
> >>> after EXTENSIVE search.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> That's not what it said - it said that some of these things were as
> >> yet unresolved. Here are some comments from the person in charge of
> >> the committee who put out that report...
> >>
> >> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/4/27/94100.shtml
> >>
> >>
> > Yeah, unresolved. (You read what you want to read Daniel).
>
> I do - and then some.
>
> > 1 - "We've looked and to date we've found nothing to say Yea or Nay".
>
> So how is that resolved? That statement itself means "we couldn't
> confirm it either way".
>

Seeing as how Bush and other officials were adamant that there were
WMD's - Mr. Bush said something about missiles striking in 45 minutes -
and that was the casus bellus - the statement as sure as hell means that
they HAVE NOT found any evidence of WMD's. With all the time that the
UN and CIA have put in on this - and I think we can take it for granted
that any finding would have been printed in red letters in 100-point
type - there are no WMD's. Never were. The CIA director is trying to
keep himself out of trouble domestically by waffling.


>
> Just tonight, our President encouraged the Senate to pass an energy bill
> that would begin building the first new refinery capacity in this
> country in a long time. One of the biggest problems with fuel refining
> and that sort of thing is the "earth before humans" tree-hugging
> environmentalist wackos (are you getting a sense of how I feel about
> these folks?) who got our government to pass all these "regulations"
> regarding emissions and such.

So it was "environmentalist wackos", was it, that proved that the lead
in leaded gasoline was deadly dangerous? Or was it them who built the
Fermi 1 breeder reactor plant at Lagoona Beach, Monroe County, Detroit -
where if a serious rupture occurred once it was operating up to 200,000
people could be killed, because there was no way they could be
evacuated? Or is it "environmental wackos" who have turned the air in
LA, New York and even Toronto into brown sludge?

> costing us millions. Luckily, it's really starting to pinch people
> where they can feel it (the pocketbook), so maybe something will be done
> to roll back some of these ridiculous regulations.

What is going to cost you BILLIONS is when the PRC takes up its
requirements for petroleum and the price goes through the roof because
there isn't enough to go around. Count on it. Get your bike oiled up
because you're going to need it.
>

>
> Free enterprise and capitalism in its purest form - ain't it great! :)
>

As long as you're the capitalist and not the customer of an unregulated
monopoly.

PL
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