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I have an even more blatant example of enviro-leftist and Democrat hypocrisy. "Windmills for generating supposedly 'green' electricity have killed tens of thousands of raptors and other birds at California's famed Altamont Pass 'wind farm.'
"According to the Washington Post, the freezers at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department in the Sacramento Valley are overflowing with the decapitated and mangled bodies of Golden Eagles, Kestrels, and Red-tailed Hawks, victims of the whirling blades of wind turbines used to generate supposedly 'green' electricity. Scientists estimate as many as 44,000(!!!) birds have been killed over the past two decades..."
"...enough birds are being killed to affect the resident population of Golden Eagles -at least 60 of which are killed each year..."

If an ordinary citizen, or corporation unconnected with the enviro-leftist elite killed a Golden Eagle, they would probably be sent to prison.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (George Orwell. 'Animal Farm'.)

"Do you know hwere you are, Winston?" he said.
"I don't know. I can guess. In the Ministry of Love."
"Do you know how long you have been here?"
"I don't know. Days, weeks, months---I think it is months."
"And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?"
"To make them confess."
"No, that is not the reason Try again."
"To punish them."
"No!" exclaimed O'brien. His voice had changed extraordinarily, and his face had suddenly become both stern and animated. "No! Not merely to extract your confession, nor to punish you. Shall I tell you why we have brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will you understand Winston that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured? We are not interested in those stupid crimes that you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?" (George Orwell. '1984'. Harcourt Brace. 1949.)

"The command of the old despotisms was 'Thou shalt not.' The command of the totalitarians was 'Thou shalt.' Our command is 'Thou art.' (George Orwell. '1984'. Harcourt Brace. 1949.)

I agree with Dan. Too many elitist special interest groups get too many rights and priveleges that ordinary citizens dont get. In fact, the ordinary citizens constantly see their rights and priveleges being eroded.

This comet theory is, imho, just more liberal/left junk-science. It demonstrates once again the degrading effect of the liberal/left mentality on academia and scientific investigation. The classical and much more likely theory is that the earth's water was formed by the ignition of hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere. Mix hydrogen and oxygen in a testube and ignite it and you get a reaction in the form of an explosion, of which one of the by-products is water.


"The empirical habit of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc (english socialism)." --'1984'

"Science and technology were developing at a prodigius speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. This failed to happen... partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society. ...Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices, always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage, have been developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped." ---'1984'

" Al Franken and the Backwards, Narrow-minded Totalitarian Political Philosophy That Makes Him Such a Mean-spirited Jerk: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Left "

Tyrants killed Jesus. They just happened to be Jewish and Roman tyrants.

"By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and innefficient. ...Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power (technology) to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen, or at least every citizen worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time." --- (George Orwell. '1984'. Harcourt Brace Johanovich, Inc. 1949)

It was the Democrat's toadying to special interest mobs like public employee unions that created the deficit and got the incompetent crook Davis run out of office in the first place, duh. Don't these people ever give up ?

Two quotes from George Orwell, In reference to the above article:

"One would have to be a member of the intelligentsia to believe something like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool."

"The more intelligent, the less sane."