Comments on: A Textbook Case of Politics http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/04/textbook-case-of-politics.html Challenging Climate Orthodoxy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/04/textbook-case-of-politics.html#comment-302 Anonymous Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:00:00 +0000 http://climateresistance.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/a-textbook-case-of-politics/#comment-302 This is how I edited the 'message' on the FOE site:<br/><br/>I am writing to commend Houghton Mifflin and all the school districts currently using the textbook: American Government, 11th edition, by Professors James Q. Wilson and John J. DiIulio, Jr. I also ask that Houghton Mifflin continue to foster true scientific debate. <br/><br/>The reason? Chapter 21 on Environmental Policy is a spot-on. We trust the textbook authors to be fair and speak the truth. To address global warming as “enmeshed in scientific uncertainty" is to address the work of our nation's and the world's top climate scientists on both sides of this political debate. <br/><br/>We need our nation's youth to be given all the information we have available so that they are able to make their own well-informed decisions. For years, Houghton Mifflin has provided that information--and I am glad that a company with such a highly respected reputation would publish a text of this depth.<br/><br/>I sincerely doubt that this will ever see Houghton Mifflin's PO box, because the idiots that run this website only want to send messages defending THEIR side of the debate. Also, I demand that the Friends of the Earth (hah!) do NOT put me on their mailing list.<br/><br/>I won't waste my governor's time with this message. She has already been bought by the global warming industry!<br/><br/>Sincerely,<br/><br/>I hope they do add my name to this and send it! If anyone else wants to use this text, feel free to do so. This is how I edited the ‘message’ on the FOE site:

I am writing to commend Houghton Mifflin and all the school districts currently using the textbook: American Government, 11th edition, by Professors James Q. Wilson and John J. DiIulio, Jr. I also ask that Houghton Mifflin continue to foster true scientific debate.

The reason? Chapter 21 on Environmental Policy is a spot-on. We trust the textbook authors to be fair and speak the truth. To address global warming as “enmeshed in scientific uncertainty” is to address the work of our nation’s and the world’s top climate scientists on both sides of this political debate.

We need our nation’s youth to be given all the information we have available so that they are able to make their own well-informed decisions. For years, Houghton Mifflin has provided that information–and I am glad that a company with such a highly respected reputation would publish a text of this depth.

I sincerely doubt that this will ever see Houghton Mifflin’s PO box, because the idiots that run this website only want to send messages defending THEIR side of the debate. Also, I demand that the Friends of the Earth (hah!) do NOT put me on their mailing list.

I won’t waste my governor’s time with this message. She has already been bought by the global warming industry!

Sincerely,

I hope they do add my name to this and send it! If anyone else wants to use this text, feel free to do so.

]]> By: john a. bailo http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/04/textbook-case-of-politics.html#comment-301 john a. bailo Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:02:00 +0000 http://climateresistance.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/a-textbook-case-of-politics/#comment-301 "Climate change policy" is a way of the entrenched to limit the expansiveness of the aspiring.<br/><br/>Think of the AGWers as the Landed Gentry. Think of Resistors as the Mercantilists. We see to expand, grow and increase our wealth and well being. The Landed Gentry want to keep things as they are by creating the bogeyman of Global Warming. <br/><br/>The result of this is to use government to tax and limit the aspiring people so that the Landed Gentry (Ted Turner) can maintain their relative status without doing any real work in the current time (resting on their laurels, so to speak).<br/><br/>I mean look at Turner. Yeah, in his day he was something. But a "cable superstation" in the age of Internet streaming video on demand is a bit hoary. If Mr. Turner wants to decrease population, he should re-evaluate his relative importance to the human race now that time has passed him by... “Climate change policy” is a way of the entrenched to limit the expansiveness of the aspiring.

Think of the AGWers as the Landed Gentry. Think of Resistors as the Mercantilists. We see to expand, grow and increase our wealth and well being. The Landed Gentry want to keep things as they are by creating the bogeyman of Global Warming.

The result of this is to use government to tax and limit the aspiring people so that the Landed Gentry (Ted Turner) can maintain their relative status without doing any real work in the current time (resting on their laurels, so to speak).

I mean look at Turner. Yeah, in his day he was something. But a “cable superstation” in the age of Internet streaming video on demand is a bit hoary. If Mr. Turner wants to decrease population, he should re-evaluate his relative importance to the human race now that time has passed him by…

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