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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2007-04-20

Quotables

From Debra Saunders, San Fransisco Chronicle (as quoted in the Denver Post):

After all, no one really expects stars or rich people to sacrifice. All the glitterati have to do is really believe in global warming, maybe ride in a hybrid to the Oscars -- and then their carbon trails (which are much larger than those of people who take the bus every day) won't stink.

It's laughable. Those who believe that global warming is caused by man -- I am agnostic on that score -- claim that they are on the side of Science. That's Science with a capital S.

Yet they applaud when a so-called leader on global warming speaks as if "environmentally muscular" technologies and carbon offsets can manufacture a 25-percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020. They have this odd belief that the key to fighting global warming is not by cutting energy use, but by believing in global warming. They embrace wishful thinking -- and call it science.

Virginia State Police Superintendent Steve Flaherty:

. . . said at a news conference on Thursday investigators appreciated NBC's cooperation.

However, he added, "We're rather disappointed in the editorial decision to broadcast these disturbing images."

Flaherty said the package had turned out to yield little that investigators did not already know.

James Lileks, on Hugh Hewitt's Show:

But the next time will be worse, because somebody has realized that they’re going to be validated if they do this, and they’re going to have to figure out a better multimedia way to do it. A simple DVD isn’t going to be enough. If you can instantly post to Youtube nowadays, and given the ratings of NBC, which are pretty much in the toilet, I’m not surprised that the next guy won’t just cut directly, eliminate the middleman, and start broadcasting himself as it happens.
Posted by: Michael / 4/20/2007 12:28:00 AM

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