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Kimbop
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 Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:50 pm Post subject: Danny Glover has truly lost it. (But did he ever have it?) |
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Foreword: Danny Glover's opinion is just as unimportant as Pat Robertson's. No intelligent person should care what either of these morons have to say. A greater question remains: why does our media or the Hollywood elite focus attention on nonsense during a time of great Haitian need?
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| Danny Glover: �All this hell because of global warming. All this hell because of climate change. When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I�m sayin�?� |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ft5JkNWJA&feature=player_embedded
Danny Glover agrees with Pat Robinson insomuch as "God" punished us. But Danny Glover's "god" is AGW hysteria. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Foreword: Danny Glover's opinion is just as unimportant as Pat Robertson's. No intelligent person should care what either of these morons have to say. |
So I guess Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney don't count as intelligent people by your reckoning?
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Pat Robertson, right, endorsed Rudolph W. Giuliani on Wednesday, in spite of conflicting views on abortion rights, among others.
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[quote]Mitt Romney, a rival for the Republican nomination, has worked hard to win the support of Mr. Robertson and other Christian conservatives. Mr. Romney and his wife, Ann, met with Mr. Robertson at Regent University this spring, for example. And Mrs. Romney struck up a friendship with Mr. Robertson over their shared love of horses, even sending him a picture of herself on horseback[quote]
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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I had no idea what Danny Glover's opinion was on anything, let alone global warming. Thanks for spreading the word.
In this day and age anyone with access to a computer can post his opinion on anything...and many do. Before the internet, people had opinions but far fewer were exposed to them. In those days it was up to each person to evaluate each opinion and proceed from there. The only thing that has changed is the number of opinions we're exposed to.
Anyway, thanks again for informing me of Danny Glover's opinion. |
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Kimbop
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Danny Glover has a rich history of involvement in secular-progessive radical left socialist causes.
Both Glover and Robertson have demonstrated the extents of their collective insanity by politicizing this disaster. |
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Street Magic
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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Danny Glover has a rich history of involvement in secular-progessive radical left socialist causes.
Both Glover and Robertson have demonstrated the extents of their collective insanity by politicizing this disaster. |
Did Pat Robertson politicize anything with what he said? Right wing politics might have a strong religious agenda tied to it, but that doesn't mean anything loony spouted off by a Christian fundamentalist ought to be interpreted as a secret political maneuver.
And regarding Glover, whether you believe in a widespread pollution driven climate change concern or not, you can at least concede that someone who does believe in it would find it potentially relevant to a major climate related disaster.
As far as I can tell, you're the only one politicizing anything here. |
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mises
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Glover is a very popular socialist on the university know-nothing lecture circuit. He's a vocal supporter of Hugo and Fidel.
Glover seems to be saying that global warming (cooling? whatever) will increase disasters. He may have actually meant that AGW was responsible for the earthquake. The language isn't clear. He's an idiot for trying to link the issues.
What is clear is that every disaster will have politics injected into it. People like Glover and Robertson see opportunity in disaster. And these are not isolated behaviours. Everything is political. And it drives me nuts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Glover#Personal_life_and_activism |
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mises
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Street Magic
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Glover is a very popular socialist on the university know-nothing lecture circuit. He's a vocal supporter of Hugo and Fidel.
Glover seems to be saying that global warming (cooling? whatever) will increase disasters. He may have actually meant that AGW was responsible for the earthquake. The language isn't clear. He's an idiot for trying to link the issues. |
Yeah, I'm not arguing he isn't an idiot for saying what he said, just that I don't think he was trying to be political in saying it. There's probably a pretty strong correlation between socialist/leftist/liberal politics and buying into the climate change threat and if anyone is apt to genuinely believe in climate change rather than just use it for political credit, it's probably socially conscious, feeling guilty for being rich movie stars. Do you think he heard about the Haiti disaster and thought to himself how great an opportunity this would be to get some liberals elected into office through sham environmental science or does it maybe seem more likely he actually believes climate change is a relevant threat and that any campaigning he does to combat it or support those who claim to want to combat it is being done for that over the table reason?
Again with Robertson, I definitely don't think that guy had any sort of political message in blaming Haitians for forsaking Jesus either. I think that was just a pretty straight up fundamentalist Christian message. The politicizing didn't come into play until the one side started calling the other Christian wackos because of Robertson and the other side started in on the old "you're just as bad as we are" because of Glover.
I guess this is the main point of this thread, right? Green politics and often arbitrary PC codes of conduct are as widespread, obsessively followed, and irrational to those who closely examine it as religious convictions are. I can see the parallel, but even not accepting the importance of conserving water, recycling, etc. I can still entertain an explanation of why I should without thinking the person doing the explaining has given up on reality. Mindless appeals to experts are pretty lame, but I can at least understand why someone might take some researcher's word for it when said researcher is apparently well respected in a broader peer reviewing academic community responsible for stuff like the laptop I'm sending internationally accessible messages through right now.
Don't get me wrong-- I've mentioned before how much I hate people babbling on about boosting their serotonin or how depression is a brain disease that people die from every year as though suicide were a direct medical symptom and not a decision. And don't get me started on the prohibition of culturally disapproved harmless substances. Still, it's a big step forward from living in a society where most people believe dying is just that point in a person's life when his spirit gets punished or rewarded based on how much he believed all this would happen back when he was still body-bound. |
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mises
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| Again with Robertson, I definitely don't think that guy had any sort of political message in blaming Haitians for forsaking Jesus either. |
Yeah, that's fair. It isn't really political more than it is attention and agenda driven. Though I don't know how solid of a line a guy like Robertson would draw between religion and politics. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Again with Robertson, I definitely don't think that guy had any sort of political message in blaming Haitians for forsaking Jesus either. I think that was just a pretty straight up fundamentalist Christian message. |
It wasn't so much political as bigoted. The Catholic archbishop was crushed to death when the cathedral collapsed on him, but Robertson was more interested in that bizarre 200 year old story about the devil. |
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SeoulFinn
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:43 am Post subject: Re: Danny Glover has truly lost it. (But did he ever have it |
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This just in: Failed Copenhagen Summit caused the Haiti Earthquake. Mr. Glover coins a new term, AE, which stands for Anthropogenic Earthquake (not really).
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| Danny Glover: �All this hell because of global warming. All this hell because of climate change. When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I�m sayin�?� |
I certainly don't know what you are sayin', Mr. Murtaugh, er, Mr. Glover.
To me it looks like he's claiming how a succesfull Copenhagen Summit would have saved Haiti from this this devastating earthquke. What am I to understand? Every earhquke is a punishment for someting we did or didn't do?
Why pick poor Haiti? I'm sure they did not torpedo the Summit. A more fitting target would have been China, EU, US, Japan... but Haiti?
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