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Commentary: How 'global warming' became 'climate change' and the danger of euphemisms
Chicago Tribune ^
| February 20, 2019
| by Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 02/21/2019 7:17:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Going to ask congressman Jered Huffman two questions tonight on now advertised,”extreme weather” and how the hell he thinks we can afford single payer.
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:22:22 AM PST
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I always ask:
"Aren't you embarrassed that there is such little evidence of 'AWG' that they had to change the name?"
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:23:49 AM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Words mean things, which is why they intentionally try to skew the meanings to further their agenda. What better example than “gay” for homosexual? (there’s nothing GAY about it) or “People’s Republic” for communist dictatorship?
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:24:56 AM PST
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The danger of euphemisms has always been of great concern to me, and I have always made an effort to criticize their use whenever someone uses them while talking with me.
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:28:08 AM PST
by
fortes fortuna juvat
(Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Just like in "1984" the left seeks to control the mind by controlling the language.
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:29:42 AM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:39:47 AM PST
by
aquila48
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:39:57 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: JimRed
I try to turn it back at them whenever I can....I was once asked do I support a woman's "right to choose"
I asked a woman's right to choose what? beat her children? sell her children? own slaves?
another discussion I was having, the individual kept using the term "racist". I asked them "please define racism and explain it it applies to this conversation"
then they start stuttering...
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:43:09 AM PST
by
wny
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Before Global Warming was Global Cooling. Back in the 80’s and 90’s Global Cooling was the fad. By the year 2000 we were supposed to have another Ice Age, the Great Lakes would freeze up and so on . . . Well that didn’t happen, so Global Warming became the fad . . . Since that’s a bit far fetched, lets go with Climate Change - that will work for both - must create some kind of crisis to gain mind control = that will lead to power.
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:44:05 AM PST
by
GTM01
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:45:03 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Geologist say that there have been at least five ice ages in the history of the Earth. After all of those ice ages occurred there was the follow-on change of climate which we are experiencing as well. The only difference between all those other periods of climate change both Ice Age and Recovery, I repeat, the ONLY difference in this current recovery that we are experiencing is the governmental fleecing of taxpayers.
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:53:17 AM PST
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hmmm. I guess he means like how leftist hellhole cities become our most “vulnerable and frontline communities”.
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:54:17 AM PST
by
Religion and Politics
(It is time for more than one denomination of "Political Correctness".)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Its called the weather and if anybody might notice it changes daily. Its most impacted by the sun, not man-made anything. Globull warming, climate change, is just a lot of BS
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posted on
02/21/2019 8:03:40 AM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I( always wonder what the goal of climate change is. Example: if it gets colder do we then use more fossil fuels?
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posted on
02/21/2019 8:05:52 AM PST
by
morphing libertarian
(Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Buzzed driving is Drunk Driving.
Regret after being a willing participant sex is rape.
Vaping is smoking.
Women and men are the same.
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posted on
02/21/2019 8:25:46 AM PST
by
Mr. Mohasky
(Common sense in a world lacking any, will be perceived & construed as an extreme point of view.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/21/2019 8:47:38 AM PST
by
Para-Ord.45
(Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
02/21/2019 9:14:07 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/21/2019 10:02:11 AM PST
by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: Mr. Mohasky
Women and men are the same. Nope not hardly. Half the TV shows have 100 lb women that can whip any man.
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posted on
02/21/2019 10:21:08 AM PST
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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