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White House advisor reveals Bush view of climate change policy

Posted by David Roberts at 4:27 PM on 14 Sep 2007

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White House science advisor, on the options available for addressing climate change:

You only have two choices; you either have advanced technologies and get them into the marketplace, or you shut down your economies and put people out of work.

Remind me again how long until these clowns are gone?

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492 days...

...till Bush leaves office! Unless we kick them all out and hang them for high treason!

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by wildleaf at 8:11 PM on 14 Sep 2007

the binary kid

Is there any issue on which the Bushies can see anything but black and white? Are there ever more than two choices? Or is the entire universe divided between good and evil, period?

by gmunger at 2:52 PM on 15 Sep 2007

There are two kinds of people in the world

Those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

by spaceshaper at 6:45 PM on 15 Sep 2007

Modified

I heard it as "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think the humans can be reduced to just two types and those who know better."

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by JMG at 7:37 PM on 15 Sep 2007

"two kinds of people"

"There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don't."

This is the presumably original form of the witticism, made by the humorist Robert Benchley, father of "Jaws" author Peter.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/488.html

Needless to say, it has cycled around a bit. One adaptation might tickle all those math majors out there:

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who get binary, and those who don't."

As for the third-tier clowns in the current administration such as this science adviser, we may wonder if they honestly believe this sort of dimwitted oversimplification, or if they only pronounce words to that effect, fearing for their jobs.

Also we may wonder, how many people in DC, whether in the administration or not, honestly believe that the only American progress that really matters is the progress of business, the economy, enterprise, development and growth? And if they are not all Republicans, how many are Democrats?

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by caniscandida at 10:48 PM on 15 Sep 2007

three kinds

There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count and those that can't.

by trock at 1:14 AM on 16 Sep 2007
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what's worse

What's worse, that he can say that, or that he gets away with it, knowing that there won't be a huge chorus of people telling the president and mainstream medis that he is wrong, that the man should resign that there are thousands of things that can be done that won't lose people their jobs as much as create others.

He can say it because we let him get away with it.

by trock at 1:23 AM on 16 Sep 2007

A plan

Put this administration in charge of Iraq. Move them over there, duuhbya, cheney, condi, and friends to take over. Like McAurthur did in post WW2 Japan.

Hold elections here immediately for a new administration.

They would have Iraqi oil revenues to manage the whole thing. Revive the Iraqi army, send the US army home. They want a perpetual US presence in Iraq? They can provide it. A neocon paradise!

Contractors can run the whole deal over there for them. They keep telling US government is the problem, let them try it their way. With outsourcing.

Outsource the duuhbyaist regime... right to Iraq.

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by amazingdrx at 6:06 AM on 16 Sep 2007

The Weathermen's Choices

The editors of Grist (a.k.a. "The Weathermen") once again throw clear speech and logic slap back in the face of the orator.

How would the Weathermen phrase the options available?

Weathermen responses to climate change:

Listen to endless videos, movies, mp3s from Hollywood Superstars on how to convert your 10 bedroom mansion (all of them) to using a solar powered sauna.
Call up everyone, tell them they're fired from their 20th Century polluting job and promise them a "Green Job". When they show up for Green Job, tell them they misheard...it's actually a "Green Card"...you're sending them to Canada to help breed more polar bears.
Review all advanced technologies. Reject any technology not endorsed by a Willie Nelson, or has Hollywood Superstar tie-in. Results: aluminum hydrogen conversion researchers, suddenly buddy-up to Sienna Miller on a special "Energy Technology and Superstar Hot Chick" edition of Beauty and The Geek.

by jabailo at 8:55 AM on 17 Sep 2007

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