Posted on 08/26/2002 5:43:35 PM PDT by madfly
Along with death and taxes, the U.N.'s America-bashing is one of the few things in life you can count on. The only variables in this global version of the Whack-A-Mole game are the time, place, and manner of the whacks. This week the venue moves to Johannesburg, South Africa, the site of the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development. The forum aims to focus on the deteriorating state of the environment in poor countries. News accounts remind us that 100 presidents and prime ministers from around the world will attend-but not George W. Bush!
(gasp!)
The New York Times' "news account" of the 10-day event includes the gem: "The United States, the world's biggest polluter, has also refused to commit to time frames for reducing greenhouse gas emissions"
(Double gasp!).Of course conveniently omitted from most reports about global warming, etc., is that while the US may produce 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, we also have the world's largest economy. And what about the untold number of jobs created abroad through our ballooning trade deficit? Or the fact that we feed the world, unless thugs like Mugabe don't allow it? Then there's the small matter of our having defeated communism and kept other tyrants in check.
As Bjorn Lomborg lays out so eloquently in his book The Skeptical Environmentalist, the environment is not going to hell in a hand basket. Fewer people are dying of starvation today, energy and other natural resources are actually becoming more, not less, plentiful. Only about 0.7 percent of species are predicted to vanish within 50 years. And most forms of pollution have been widely exaggerated by ENVIROS, who won't be truly content until we all go solar and eat vegan.
While it is tempting to brush off these UN-sponsored forums as left-wing claptrap, we should resist doing so. America's dedicated liberals know they're never going to convince Americans to dump their SUVs. And they know they can't get elected on far-left agendas that will end up costing taxpayers dearly. So they look to conferences like this to publicize their pro-regulation cause, and shame the US into coughing up more foreign aid for developing countries. Middle America understands what too many who frequent these UN conferences don't-how to make an honest living. We've seen what no-strings-attached welfare system did to the poor in the US and most of us don't much feel like seeing that repeated on a global scale.
WORD OF THE WEEK
leitmotif (leit·mo·tif) n.1. A melodic passage or phrase, especially in Wagnerian opera, associated with a specific character, situation, or element. 2 A dominant and recurring theme, as in a novel. As in-The Left's recent leitmotif is that the Bush Administration is wedded to a dangerous course of unilateralism.
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Well, yeah, I know that makes sense. But the point is that they do want to destory our economy. Its socialism in action.
Freepers have a crush on Annie C. THIS girl is really hot and wise. And Heather Nauert will be writing soon too. God bless all these smart Conservative LOVELY WOMEN !!!!
......carnivore. Just kidding. She IS fine. I'm awaiting Heather Nauert's writing! There's some prime cut........and a good mind!
Not for long. We also import more. What was a positive balance of trade is rapidly going negative. I have posted proof. Show your data please.
I will say this, California only exports about 16% of it's agriculture. Almonds are our number one export followed by wine and cotton. I don't think you can feed the world on that. Off the top of my head I would say that if the vegetables and fruit you are buying at the market are not in season in your area, they probably came from out of the country. I know we are having trouble with wheat and sugar imports. We have beef coming in from New Zealand. I had an article about Asparagus from Mexico ruining our market here.
The usual - Florida elections, absentee ballots and LI likes Jeb. I'm with her there.
I did miss out on seeing Michael Jackson though. I think he was having a party for his third baby at the TI Hotel after taking in Siegfried and Roy's show just down the street.
I LOVE LAS VEGAS but pets back home prevented me from staying longer. I need to check out the Friva thread real soon.
If you missed Friva, you should try to go next time. It was a great event! (by the way, normal women talk about their nail polish, etc. in the ladies room. Conservative chicks are clearly different). LOL
The DEBATE JUST BEGAN!!! How exciting and it's from Palm Beach -
P E R F E C T!!! C-SPAN WILL COVER IT TONIGHT AT 9:00 something standard time.
I was playing blackjack when the Gloved One went by. The pit boss mentioned that there are several Michael Jackson impersonators in Vegas (imagine that on your resume), but he hadn't seen one with a 10-person entourage...
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