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On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:42:42 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:23:58 -0400, Harry
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Koresh was a maniac. He didn't deserve to die, but don't put him
out to
be
some kind of American hero standing up to Big Gov't.

Certainly he was a nut but the country is full of them.
Who was the biggest threat to America?


Dick Cheney, even though he wasn't veep then.

No Al Gore was veep and in the end he may end up being the biggest
threat to the republic ever. This TV evangelist has created a scam
bigger than the derivative market where we will be paying billions of
dollars for worthless "carbon credits" and we will be buying them from
his company. 3d world countries will be selling us trees for
outrageous prices and then cutting them down anyway.
You only have to look at the freon credit program to see that kind of
abuse. Countries now manufacture CFCs for the express purpose of
selling the credits when they destroy them

Come on! He might hype it a little bit, but adverse global climate
change is
the biggest national threat we have.

Do you really think taxing carbon and using the money to buy trees in
Guatemala will change that, particularly when there is no real
guarantee the trees will stay bought.


Don't know. I'm not a carbon tax expert. Something needs to get done. If
that's a positive step, I'm all for it.


What if it isn't a positive step. What do you think you'd be for then?


I'll take this as a serious question, even though I know it isn't. It's
unclear if a carbon tax is the best way to go. It seems like it would have a
positive short-term effect, but I'd like to hear more (and not some
right-wing screamer).

What if it was proved that all the deep water oil wells are dangerous to the
point of imminent failure? What if we had to permanently shut them down?
Perhaps we need to have a dedicated program and comprehensive energy policy
that looks at our strategic national interest. Not perhaps.. we do. That
would be an even more positive step.