"Stop it! Stop this cannibalism! Let's have a thread about clean, decent human beings!"
Posted on 04/02/2008 1:08:30 PM PDT by Alouette
Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.” On not taking drastic action to correct global warming:
Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
Turner ridiculed the need for a big U.S. military, insisting “China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States,” and “even with our $500 billion military budget, we can't win in Iraq. We're being beaten by insurgents who don't even have any tanks.” After Rose pointed out the Iraqi insurgents “have a lot of roadside bombs that kill a lot of Americans” and wondered “where do you think they come from?”, Turner answered:
I think that they're patriots and that they don't like us because we've invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing: we'd be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded.
"Stop it! Stop this cannibalism! Let's have a thread about clean, decent human beings!"
"I can manage the Atlanta Braves as well as any baseball coach." (lasted one game--a loss)
"Jane (Fonda) and I plan to stay married!"
Russia will probably end up the lone superpower of the world
Rubert Murdoch will fail!
My son is ready to take charge of TBS marketing (told him he was "toast" when he fired him 9 months later)
Islamic terrorism is a bogus scare tactic (said in about GHW Bush 41 administration)
CNN will kill all newspapers within 10 years (1978)
CNN will be most watched channel in America...
you need to examine yourself a little better."
Well said, FRiend
What a loon!
Where is the BARF ALERT?????
Ted is still nuts I see.
:}
Maybe he should eat me.
I have a list, too, of those I wouldn't mind feeding. Oddly enough, they're all female.
Maybe not so odd at that...except in Frisco. ;-)
If the oceans are such a threat, maybe we should just dredge them deeper, and pay for it with all the concretions (ball-like lumps for those in Rio Linda) of metallic ore in the ooze.
Pile the dredgings up in one place, and it looks a lot like new land.
"Suuuuure," you say, and start citing logistical problems, and the sheer scale needed to even be noticable; but, the real value would be watching Enviro heads explode over the mere proposal.
General misconception.
Smart and nuts are not mutually exclussive terms.
Proof: Howard Hughes; Jimmy Carter; honor students in lust.
As for his missing brains, maybe his docs should start looking for signs of undocumented amoebae in his cranium.
But.....wouldn’t global warming actually make longer growing seasons, so more crops. If the oceans rise, there’s all that water waiting to be used to irrigate - just need some desalinization plants and Bob’s your uncle. I’m sure all those snow birds would like not having to head south for the winter. I would think that global warming would be a good thing.
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Separated at birth?
IOW, 8 double-wides/acre, on average.
If I take one for the team and eat Ted, will he stop talking?
Oh good gravy, Marie!
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