What's happening to that "consensus" on global warming?

I meant the minority report was hilarious. It's like they don't think people can/will read.
Ragu's Ragu. He posts long. I don't have a problem with it, although, Rags, you did sort of paraphrase the Surowiecki story in such a way that Obama looks worse than he did in the story. (There's nothing in the piece about his being rewarded for running the ethanol ball.) And if you don't think all the Bushes are in it up to their eyeballs with the sugar barons, you're fooling yourself.

 

Of all the SportsJournalists.com tropes, the one I'd most like to see disappear is the "you think you're so smart/you're condescending to us, you nasty elitist you." Jeebus, JR said he thinks you post too long for a message board. He's not alone. I don't care. Let a thousand flowers bloom. But take your passive-aggression elsewhere.

 

In An Inconvenient Truth, Gore's documentary about global warming, he repeatedly draws parallels among his son being nearly killed after being hit by a car, his lost position as rightful president of the united states, and of global warming itself. The documentary pandered to emotions as strongly as it did to science. To regard Gore, or anyone who makes a career out of telling half-truths in order to advance a secondary agenda, as anything more than tricksy is giving far too much credit to that which comes from the puppet's mouth.

In my jaded estimation, the majority of those who crave political power--be it the POTUS or a seat on the school board--sold their soul a long time ago and ought to be treated as if they had.

 

Ragu, you're absolutely right about ethanol in this country being a boondoggle -- though, as Fenian suggested, I don't think Obama is any worse than most when it comes to the issue, especially given that he's got plenty of Illinois farmers making money there as well as Iowa primary voters to worry about -- and here is one more tidbit for you.

The smarter ethanol plants are getting subsidized by the Japanese government as well, by selling the byproduct -- essentially the outer shell of the corn kernel -- to Japanese cattle farmers as feed. Turns out, what's left of the corn after we make ethanol out of it is still better than anything they can grow in Japan to feed cows.

US gov't. money comes in the front door, then Japanese gov't. money comes in the back. Nice work if you can get it.

 

There's nothing in the piece about Obama's "hand in the cookie jar." There isn't even a hint of a quid pro quo. Corn-based ethanol's just one of those issues where, as zeke points out, midwestern farm state senators are pretty much stuck. zeke's knowledge of cow-based politics is starting to scare me a little.
And Ragu, he didn't insult YOU. He insulted the length of your posts, which can be prodigious. Lordy.

 

Just shrug it off, Ragu. The main reason JR and Fenian don't like the length of your posts is their lips get tired.

 

Some gubba-gubba from a guy who didn't read what he posted at all.