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Last updated on July 16th, 2017 at 12:40 pm
A dissenting view is denounced:
Adriane Carr, deputy leader of the federal Green party, is perplexed as to why the Kamloops-Thompson school district plans to show its secondary school students The Great Global Warming Swindle …
“You don’t have a demand to show the other side of slavery or mass murder or drunk driving,” she said. “Some things we just know are true and we go from there. We feel we are in a state of truth [on global warming] and we need to get on with trying to solve the problem.”
Slavery existed, it was a fact. Global warming materially caused by human activity, however, has yet to be established as a fact.
To the left, when something important cannot be established as a fact, one must go to one’s feelings.
Hmmmm. Ok, let’s try it.
I feel that we are in a state of truth that leftists are a bunch of panty wasted lolly dolls.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 08 29 at 11:55 AM • permalink
Ms. Carr should solve her own problems, which lead her to such a delusional state.
Cut back on the medications ?
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 08 29 at 11:57 AM • permalink
A “state of truth” must be semantically equal to “truthiness”.
At least to the greenies, anywho.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 08 29 at 12:03 PM • permalink
A “state of truth” sounds so tellingly close to being in a “state of grace,” as if we needed further evidence that this is religion, not science, we’re dealing with here.
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2007 08 29 at 12:25 PM • permalink
Some things we just know are true and we go from there.
Yeah, Adriane – like the truth that you farkin’ Lefties are INSANE.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 08 29 at 04:38 PM • permalink
“To the left, when something important cannot be established as a fact, one must go to one’s feelings.”
It’s simpler than that. On the Left, the distinction between facts and feelings does not exist. If you feel something strongly enough, it becomes true. Hence Ms. Carr’s bafflement that people continue to disagree with her. How can you possibly doubt the truth of global warming? She and her friends just know it’s true; therefore, it is. End of discussion. Stop denying the truth and get on with trying to solve the problem!
Not that there’s anything wrong…
“You don’t have a demand to show the other side of slavery or mass murder or drunk driving,” she said. “Some things we just know are true and we go from there. We feel we are in a state of truth [on global warming] and we need to get on with trying to solve the problem.”
You have given no thought whatsoever of Muslims, for centuries and STILL involved in trafficking of Africans? You don’t give a damn.
You have given no thought whatsoever to “mass murder” of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein and Islamists? You don’t give a damn.
Drunken driving, while it will kill people and not excusing it, for the loss of a family to drunk drivers, such as mine, is not on the same scale of the first two (there again those of us that have gone through said deaths think it is)…You don’t give a damn.
Gorebal Warmering only, eh?
You silly one celled brain, bitch.
It’s just amazing, when considering threads like this one and the Moonbat one above, just how much hysteria is being generated by something which hasn’t actually happened yet. I mean, there’s a theory, sure, but NOTHING YET HAS HAPPENED! Temps are the same as they were 70 years ago, there’s no documented evidence of increased extreme weather frequency (plenty more media reporting, but that’s not the same), no sea level rise beyond normal. Yes, it appears fractionally warmer than it did two hundred years ago – where there’s good evidence to suggest that was a cool period relative to the Middle Ages and the Roman Warm Period before that – so one can hardly be surprised to see some evidence of that. As for catastrophic, or even plain detrimental, consequences from such minor climate oscillation, however, NOTHING!
Look, if some real evidence comes to hand, I’ll listen. There’s enough, at the moment, to warrant close observation and ongoing scientific research into the mechanics of climate change. It’s all very well to say prevention is better than cure, but these hotheads are asking for the equivalent of a leg amputation because they’ve seen a suspicious mole on the foot. It’s crazy.
So now I am a drunken, slave-owning mass-muirder, eh? I feel a law suit coming on.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 08 29 at 08:04 PM • permalink
#3 Harry, I have already written to demand an aopology as I have never owned a single slave and I have not committed even one mass-murder.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 08 29 at 08:29 PM • permalink
“You don’t have a demand to show the other side of slavery or mass murder or drunk driving,”
I dunno about that. If my child came home from school having been only taught one side of the history of slavery, or if a judge only allowed either the defence or the prosecution in a mass murder case, I’d cry foul.
You didn’t really think those metaphors through, did you, Adriane?
Posted by blandwagon on 2007 08 29 at 08:38 PM • permalink
- #19 and 20,
For litigation purposes you might want to consider two other law firms. The first is the one Groucho Marx used: Schrechlichkeit, Schrechlichkeit, Schrechlichkeit, and Meyer. The other is the legal counsel for the magazine “The American Spectator”: Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short.#24 Vexorg,
That used to be a joke, now it’s the justification for Castro’s tyranny. “But the Cubans have national health care.”A friend of mine with experience traveling in Italy once commented that if Benny the Moose actually had made the trains run on time it would have made him the greatest administrator in Italian history since Caesar Augustus.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 08 30 at 12:51 AM • permalink
#21, don’t worry, there’s still time.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 08 31 at 01:11 AM • permalink
It’s almost as if the ages of reason and enlightenment had never happened.