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Bush to commit $US2bn to climate change
Reuters via www.news.com.au ^ | Jan. 29, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 01/28/2008 2:59:23 PM PST by jdm

THE US will commit $US2 billion ($2.27 billion) over the next three years for a new international fund to promote clean energy technologies and fight climate change, President George W. Bush will tell Congress today in his annual State of the Union speech.

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To: jdm

More conventional wisdom. Anything but look at the answers right in front of us that would cost a fraction of this amount to implement, mostly to get around obstructions and let the markets operate.


61 posted on 01/28/2008 3:39:45 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: jdm

Who is more Rino? Bush?, or the line up of current candidates?, I ask rhetorically.


62 posted on 01/28/2008 3:39:52 PM PST by So Circumstanced
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To: jdm

Will this make the spring thaw come sooner?


63 posted on 01/28/2008 3:41:22 PM PST by Parmy
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To: jdm

That man is dangerous and will be until we take the US check book away from him, and that won’t be soon enough for me! I’m sorry I ever voted for him. To say that he makes me sick would be the understatement of the day!


64 posted on 01/28/2008 3:41:57 PM PST by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: snippy_about_it

The saddest part is we will likely give money to those who not only will not solve the problem, they will subsidize it.

Remember oil shale and Synfuels; long live ADM, Cargill and the ethanol boondoggle.

We did not realize that Algore won the election after all.


65 posted on 01/28/2008 3:42:06 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: TruthConquers

You got it.


66 posted on 01/28/2008 3:45:36 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: horse_doc

noblisse oblige, with a squishy brand of Methodism


well done!


67 posted on 01/28/2008 3:46:24 PM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: horse_doc

Please translate! LOL


68 posted on 01/28/2008 3:46:48 PM PST by oldvike
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To: jdm

Cue the ‘Stupidity’ picture with GWB’s face substituted for Algore’s.


69 posted on 01/28/2008 3:47:13 PM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: rollo tomasi
As the trillions spent fighting the “war on poverty” continues, government sets out to battle with “war against the sun”.

This should be an epic battle plus will test the wills on both combatants as man and nature duke it out.

LOL Great writing for the voiceover of the movie trailer or reality show.

70 posted on 01/28/2008 3:47:44 PM PST by FoxInSocks
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To: Jim Noble
What does "to fight climate change" mean?
I mean, WHAT THE F*CK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN???

I guess it will go to a legal fund to sue the Sun and force it to stop heating up all the Inner Planets of the Solar System.

71 posted on 01/28/2008 3:48:10 PM PST by montag813
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To: jdm

It is time for those who continue to defend this traitor, liberal, jerk of a President to just shut up. I am as sick of GW as I am the admitted liberals from the Democrat party.

GW billed himself as a conservative, made all sorts of conservative-sounding promises, and what do we have to show for it? Ok - we got a couple of justices on the SCOTUS (which I will admit is pretty important), but everything else is suspect...

I support our troops, but feel that the war should not have taken a “surge” to put things back on schedule - just simply running it like a war to begin with with absolute overwhelming force would have been the best bet. But that is just armchair general talk - so I will defer to our military leaders.

But our Federal Government has continued to spend as if the money comes from a bottomless pit (well, I guess it does as the Fed keeps printing more money - thus lowering the value of the few dollars we have).

And now, GW has decided to flip-flop on the environment. He initially looked like he was going to go with reason. But now he give stock to the shysters who are promoting the global warming fraud. At a time when more and more scientists and those who REALLY study the climate are coming out to dispute the global warming claims (and while areas of the Middle East are seeing record cold spells and even snow...), GW is throwing out logic and diving head-first into the mess.

And he actually signed the bill to take away my incandescent bulbs (and is going to cause the price of automobiles to jump substantially).

From the early months or so of the GW Bush presidency - many suggested his face be placed on Mt. Rushmore. Now I would like to see his face accompanied by an article saying he was impeached.

And a large number of folks claiming to be conservative are proudly standing up and saying - YES, we will vote for someone who is even far more liberal than GW. There is not a candidate on the Republican ballot now that is even as pseudo-conservative as GW’s nearly centrist position.

So I guess that we are in for a further shift of the USA to the FAR left, regardless of candidates because so many are worried about “beating Hillary” (or Obama”). I am done. I cannot take any more of this idiocy. We cannot give a pass to someone who is not going to make the hard decisions for the LONG TERM GOOD of the US. EVERY candidate presents a clear and present danger to our well being and this country.

I will follow my own advice and vote in November for whoever comes closest to my own values. Without some kind of hijinks, that won’t be any of the current Democrat or Republican candidates. If that means “throwing away” my vote (as some on here will no doubt accuse me of), then so be it. It is time for Christians and people who care about this country to vote their conscience, not just to defeat someone who is only slightly worse than the Republican candidate.

If we hear “Hail To The Chief” played for Osama, or Hillary - then we can only blame ourselves - we have allowed the Republican Party to jump the shark. But maybe we will be shocked into an “equal-but-opposite” reaction in 4 years and the country will be begging for a real conservative. I just hate that the next POTUS will probably get at least 1 and maybe more appointments to the SCOTUS.

I am truly seeing in my time the Republican version of what we heard just a few years back from one of the most notable Democrats in the last 50 years who spoke at the Republican National Convention... our party turning its back on us.

I actually am hoping for a divided Republican Convention - and that a major number of delegates get fed up and walk out. It is time.


72 posted on 01/28/2008 3:50:33 PM PST by TheBattman (LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
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To: capt. norm
These people are going to be very embarrassed when time proves them wrong.

No they won't. They will then claim that the measures taken fixed the "problem".

73 posted on 01/28/2008 3:53:05 PM PST by TheBattman (LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
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To: jdm

pissing
money
away


74 posted on 01/28/2008 3:54:57 PM PST by gotribe (I've been disenfranchised by the GOP.)
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To: flat
BRING ON COMMON SENSE BRING ON MITT...

Yeah - that's the ticket. Mitt is several steps to the LEFT of GW when GW was elected in 2000. So basically Mitt, if on his best behavior, would be about 8 steps farther left than Hillary before the end of his first term.

But one thing I firmly believe - God will put the person we DESERVE in the office. Might be very painful (judgment often is), but maybe it will wake us up.

75 posted on 01/28/2008 3:56:18 PM PST by TheBattman (LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
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To: ronnie raygun
I liked Bush but he, just like his father have gotten snookered in by the conservationist liberal skunks. Not a very smart man!

I did not think his father was very smart and I don't think he's very smart. The only thing I can say positively about GW at this point is that he's better than the Goron or F'n' Kerry would have been. Faint praise at best.

76 posted on 01/28/2008 3:57:49 PM PST by KevinB
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To: TruthConquers

President Bush panders to the Left and they hate him anyway.

President Bush panders to the Left and they hate him anyway.

President Bush panders to the Left and they hate him anyway.

President Bush: STOP PANDERING !!! They will verbally slam you anyway !!!


77 posted on 01/28/2008 4:02:00 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001
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To: jdm

http://forums.4aynrandfans.com/index.php?showtopic=7678

We’re getting close to phase 2 of the Global Warming Scare, the implementation of environmental controls.


78 posted on 01/28/2008 4:05:04 PM PST by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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To: jdm
Same old Bush...spend spend spend, partly to make the lib journos write nicer things about him. (Yes, I believe hs's looking at his poll numbers and legacy - a lot these days)

Anyway, it ain't your money to throw around.

79 posted on 01/28/2008 4:05:29 PM PST by citizen (Capt. McQueeg: "Have any of you an explanation for the quart of missing strawberries?" (click-clack))
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To: jdm

What a joke. $2 billion over three years won’t even pay for the status report.


80 posted on 01/28/2008 4:07:03 PM PST by RightWhale (oil--the world currency)
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