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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/02/09

    In reply to Today in Serious Policy Proposals
    There's no way we would have won WWII if these clowns were in charge.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/02/09

    In reply to Today in Serious Policy Proposals
    Virginia never ceases to disappointment me. Cantor is obviously vying for a seat at the GOP grown ups table. Someone seriously needs to retire the "NO NEW TAXES" signs.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/02/09

    In reply to Today in Serious Policy Proposals
    Yes, if there is anything unemployed people are concerned about, it is the government taxing their non-existent income.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to Did the Romanian President Hit a 10-Year-Old in the Face?
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/02/09

    In reply to Today in Serious Policy Proposals
    Le Sigh. Bonjour Tristesse. One is so tired of this no tax increase nonsense when it's obviously aimed at relieving the country's top earners of their responsibility to give back in recognition of their fabulous success.

    Tell ya what. How about no tax increases for anyone who earns less than $100k per year? Hm? How's that look for ya, you sniveling boot-licker of the uber-wealthy? Hm?
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    Image of katastic katastic
    12/02/09

    @Miss Anita Manbadly: That's CLASS WARFARE. We don't want CLASS WARFARE. Then we'll all be SOCIALISTS. And have to go to DEATH PANELS! KENYAN DEATH PANELS!
    etc.
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    Image of econdave econdave
    12/02/09

    In reply to Today in Serious Policy Proposals
    Remember this the next time you hear a Republican complain about the budget deficit under Obama.

    These guys are completely morally bankrupt.
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/02/09

    @econdave: What you said.
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    Image of Iamdoingit Iamdoingit
    12/02/09

    In reply to Today in Serious Policy Proposals
    Look, I have to admit I am probably on the side of stop taxing people like crazy, but this guy is completely full of crap. If there were ever a ploy to get attention when you have no new ideas, this is it.

    Next up "Only capital punishment until there are no more homicides, then let's keep capital punishment on the books for convicted ________ ."
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/02/09

    @Iamdoingit: Cantor is an example of why elected officials sometimes need to be fired. Oh, the irony!
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    Image of Cogito Ergo Bibo Cogito Ergo Bibo
    12/02/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: We're trying. Most thinking folk in Virginia cringe to think this jackass represents us.

    However, please send thinking folks. We need more.
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/02/09

    @Cogito Ergo Bibo: I'm from this guy's district, and am sorry to report that he is largely beloved. Fucking Henrico County, man.
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12/02/09

    @sweet_communist: I feel your pain. Mark Sanford is my esteemed Governor, and Lindsay Graham my beloved closet case Senator. Oh, and how can I forget Jim "Jesus, America, The Troops, global warming is a myth" DeMint? It's actually kind of fun watching Graham attempt to stop acting like an asshole, and all the other idiot Republicans are tearing him to shreds for his reasonableness.
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    PaisleyPajamas promoted this comment Edited by ParahSalin at 12/02/09 9:17 PM ParahSalin was starred ParahSalin was unstarred
    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/02/09

    @ParahSalin: I'm so thankful that our statewide shame, George Allen, has finally reaped his racist-ass reward. My dad works for the state, and he had to deal with the fucker personally during his gubernatorial term. At a formal lunch with higher-up state employees, he eschewed dessert for a bucket in which to spit his chewing tobacco. Oh, and he had a noose hanging in his office when he was a lawyer in Charlottesville, and is an unapologetic lover of the Confederate flag (even here in Richmond, the former Capitol of the Confederacy, this is viewed as repulsive by most people).

    I'm terribly sorry you have to deal with South Carolinian politicians. DeMint, in particular, is a real anus. I mostly feel sorry for poor, closeted Graham.
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12:53 AM

    @sweet_communist: I've never heard of this George Allen, but he sounds like a real charmer. I agree about Lindsay, I can't imagine being a closeted gay Republican senator from South Carolina, it has to be stressful. On the other hand, he was helping to try to put Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/02/09

    In reply to Today in Serious Policy Proposals
    Giving money to the government is the equivalent of flushing it down the toilet, so I sympathize with his views.
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Perfect. Serious policy proposals like Cantor's call for equally serious comments like yours.
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    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Flushed away by all that water we have in our toilets, even in the most arid west!
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    Image of katastic katastic
    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Once again, your incisive commentary manages to both irritate and put one soundly to sleep.
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    Image of Iamdoingit Iamdoingit
    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Look, this is not about his theory. I also think the government is very inefficient. It is the way that he goes about producing nothing and saying that it is something new.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    12/02/09

    @Swifter: This is a remarkably helpful and insightful comment, which sheds light on exactly how clueless, pointless and childish the current "conservative" argument in the United States is these days.
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    12/02/09

    @katastic: At least I'm not a fucking squirrel.
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    12/02/09

    @Swifter: So how's your day going, Swifter?
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Yeah, they just waste it on dumb stuff like schools, the military, the police, libraries, and roads. If I were allowed to keep my money I could spend it on cool stuff like weed, alcohol and a big screen TV.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Says the guy who lent his life to the government. I guess your money is less flush worthy than your life?
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    12/02/09

    In reply to How the Climate Change Summit Will Be Spun
    I'm still trying to figure out what the purpose of the "hoax" is supposed to be.

    Maybe I'm not lurking the right conspiracy sites, but the only thing I've been able to determine, based on a passing Alex Jones quote, is that environmentalism (as a whole?) is an attempt to steal your land. And then... I don't know.

    Can anyone explain to me why anyone could be so angrily against curbing pollution?

    That's what it really boils down to, as far as I can tell. Even if you don't believe that global warming/climate change is real, why would you choose to be against efforts to slow down/half pollution?
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    Image of ConAir34 ConAir34
    12/02/09

    @Voyou_Charmant: It's money and control. It's always money and control.

    The #1 backers for Cap and Trade originally were Goldman Sachs and Enron.

    It creates a whole new derivatives market in Carbon trading.
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    12/02/09

    @ConAir34: Sorry found some more for you

    "$94 billion that HSBC Bank estimates has been spent globally this year on what it calls "green stimulus"—largely ethanol and other alternative energy schemes—of the kind from which Al Gore and his partners at Kleiner Perkins hope to profit handsomely."

    That is from a WSJ article.

    It's always money and control.
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    Image of The Van Buren Boys The Van Buren Boys
    12/02/09

    @ConAir34: Last I checked, none of the organizations you cited actually do any research. Yes there are some opportunists but that doesn't change physics
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    Image of ConAir34 ConAir34
    12/02/09

    @The Van Buren Boys: But the only reason this business exists is due to tis research. Not to mention grants. From that same WSJ article.

    "Consider the case of Phil Jones, the director of the CRU and the man at the heart of climategate. According to one of the documents hacked from his center, between 2000 and 2006 Mr. Jones was the recipient (or co-recipient) of some $19 million worth of research grants, a sixfold increase over what he’d been awarded in the 1990s.

    Why did the money pour in so quickly? Because the climate alarm kept ringing so loudly: The louder the alarm, the greater the sums. And who better to ring it than people like Mr. Jones, one of its likeliest beneficiaries?"
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/02/09

    @ConAir34: cause only oil companies can profit handsomely right? Only carbon-based energy companies get all the "money and control"? Cause if you're a green company, you're trying to "force" me to consume something I'm not used to!?! Quelle horreur!

    If these energy companies are so scared of lost profits, maybe they should invest in "green" technologies too. It's not anyone else's problem but their own that they put all their eggs into a non-renewable resource.
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    Image of ConAir34 ConAir34
    12/02/09

    @Helio: Enron was another big backer of earlier Cap and Trade legislation. Think on that for a minute.

    You seem to think it is more noble for "green" companies to make money based off of bad research than oil companies.

    "Green" technology will be embraced when it can produce cheaper and better energy. Technology still needs to catch up to that.
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    12/02/09

    @ConAir34: I should have said earlier that I wasn't pro-cap and trade, precisely for the reason you cited (that it creates yet another derivatives market) but where did I say anything about green companies being more noble? I just prefer there be more options available. What's wrong with diversifying the ways we power our lives?

    Furthermore, it seemed to me that you, or whoever your friends are that are concerned over "money and control," are not acknowledging that energy companies already have substantial "money and control" yet you (or they) defend them in spite of this new technology. Sure, it may be expensive/inefficient now, but the price of oil will only go up, and once it reaches $100, will I hear you bitching about windfall profits from Exxon Mobil?
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    Image of ConAir34 ConAir34
    12/02/09

    @Helio: I am not really trying to defend energy companies. I just don't want Cap and Trade type legislation to emerge and I am very tired of global warming talk.

    If oil goes up again Americans will respond as we did before and stop using as much. There are vast amounts of untapped oil and gas we would need to use up before this becomes a real worry.
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    12/02/09

    @ConAir34: I'm just hoping we'll discover some workable energy alternatives before we ruin the earth trying to wring out every last drop of crude.
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    Image of ConAir34 ConAir34
    12/02/09

    @Helio: I am sure we will. 100 years ago we had no idea what would provide a good amount of power (nuclear). 100 years from now imagine how different it will be.
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    12/02/09

    @ConAir34: You understand that this is what virtually every scientist in the country does, right? They are all competing for grant money in order to pay for their projects, so they write grant requests in order to make their cases. To argue that "ringing the alarm" (i.e. stating your case) implies that you are ginning it all up, simply because there's project money to be gotten for doing so, is specious at best. I mean, was this scientist pocketing the money and buying mansions with it? Where is the impropriety here?
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    12/02/09

    @ConAir34: Of course, part of finding and developing new energy sources is criticizing the unsuitability, or noting the winding down, of current ones. In order to understand that we need something new, we first have to understand how what we have right now is insufficient.
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    Image of ConAir34 ConAir34
    12/02/09

    @skt.smth: I have no problem with criticisms. I agree with many of them.

    I do have problems with made up fairy tale criticisms. That is the difference here.

    People are/will be trying to find affordable alternate energy sources because there is a ton of money in it.

    Currently wind/solar/geothermal etc.. just isn't up to snuff yet and this country has an uncommon fear of anything nuclear so that's out.

    Once again my only real problem here is that this science (or lack thereof) has been flawed but policy has been made and legislation written based off of these flawed conclusions.
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    12/02/09

    @ConAir34: What are the fairy tale criticisms? Set global warming entirely aside, even though it's quite real and is happening. Urban centers always have staggering asthma rates thanks to air pollution. With or without global warming, it's not safe for anybody to be breathing in massive amounts of this crap. It is a genuine health risk. That anybody would think, well global warming doesn't exist, therefore there are absolutely no problems with carbon emissions, is what really pisses me off. 1) Because it's not true. And 2) because it completely disregards all of the other non-global warming problems related to carbon emissions.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/02/09

    In reply to How the Climate Change Summit Will Be Spun
    Climate change is real. Deniers are either delusional or paid by the people who are causing the problem.
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    Image of Buttafooco Buttafooco
    12/02/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I absolutely agree but the message can get lost on those who need to heed it most when those delivering it are shown to talk the talk, but not walk the walk, as the Times article shows.
    Christ, I am having cabbage for dinner.
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    12/02/09

    @Buttafooco: The proof of the bad intentions of the deniers is this: if some portion of global warming is part of a natural cycle, shouldn't that make us redouble our efforts to keep from adding to it?
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    12/02/09

    @Buttafooco: The proof of the bad intentions of the deniers is this: if some portion of global warming is part of a natural cycle, shouldn't that make us redouble our efforts to keep from adding to it?
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    12/02/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: apparently, many don't share the notion that we should sometimes nip things in the bud......rather, they prefer to wait until the point of no return. Unfortunately, having read some of the cap and trade proposals, there are way too many loopholes for exploitation by corporations.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to How the Climate Change Summit Will Be Spun
    The Times actually has an interesting article about this, and the characters featured come out looking quite bad.

    [women.timesonline.co.uk]
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    12/01/09

    In reply to Did the Romanian President Hit a 10-Year-Old in the Face?
    OK, as the sole Romanian-American Gawker commenter--there might be others who have yet to emerge out of the woodwork--this saddens me. I mean, every time Romania makes the news in Western media outlets, it's always to a negative effect: Romanian-bred Roma people entrapping and eating the swans gliding on the lake at the Schönbrunn Castle in Vienna! Paint thinner-snuffing "children of the streets" in Bucharest! Dracula-related BS! Even my adored Tony Bourdain barfed forth a ridiculously sarcastic and mean-spirited episode about Romania for his "No Reservations" show.. Now the news of the Romanian prime minister punching a little kid in the nose circles the world..

    Give my people a break, will ya?
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/01/09

    @snugbug: So let me get this straight.
    Twilight isn't your fault?
    Damn. Now we need to find someone else to blame...
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    Image of MyrtleWilloughby MyrtleWilloughby
    12/01/09

    @snugbug: Snuggles, you are not alone! We come out at night, (to comment on Gawker) and offer blood toasts to our over-loard Andre Codrescu. And every time he goes on NPR to talk about his youth shtupping on tombstones, me, Irina Lazareanu and Bella Caroli do a shot of ţuică with a stuffed cabbage / bag of glue chaser. Care to join us? Ce pula mea?
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    snugbug promoted this comment Edited by MyrtleWilloughby at 12/01/09 9:29 PM MyrtleWilloughby was starred MyrtleWilloughby was unstarred
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    12/01/09

    @MyrtleWilloughby: Hey there, fellow vampire! You forgot to mention among the Romanian notables that O-Zone techno-meets-nonsense band that inspired the immortal "Numa Numa Kid" video.

    Fac si eu ce pot sa apar patria mioritica! Ţuică si sărmaluţe FTW!
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    Image of MyrtleWilloughby MyrtleWilloughby
    12/02/09

    @snugbug: You are my favorite - ciorba just shot out my nose! I had no idea our proud people could claim the Numa Numa song. Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionescu, Numa Numa and the Cheeky Girls? The lower Danube clearly had one hell of an ancient civilization.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/01/09

    In reply to Did the Romanian President Hit a 10-Year-Old in the Face?
    Putin would have planted a tender kiss on the child's belly.
    Russia loves children more than Romania.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season
    I didn't know Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was getting voiceover gigs...
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