Mr. Rightwing
From time to time, I receive emails from an individual whose real name I'll omit, however I've come to call him "Johnny Rightwing." In the interest of (doing lip service to) fairness, I thought I'd post the one I received this morning:
Alex,
I know you're going to post on this subject anyhow, so I thought I'd beat you to the punch for once. Today the Kyoto Protocal went into effect, which the U.S. did not sign, nor should we have.
Our priority should always be to address the real and fabricated threats to U.S. national security. We owe it to the American people to put their constitutionally protected right to pollute ahead of the opinions of some beret-wearing European pacifist. What do we owe them? If anything, THEY owe US. Remember a little thing called World War 2? Apparently you do not, Mr. Brukowski. Pollution has been an American tradition since the days of Fulton, and I'll be damned if I'll let some eurotrash tell me that being American is wrong. They surely must hate our freedom.
I say; so what if the global average temperature rose by one degree Fahrenheit in the twentieth century? That's not even perceptible. Heck, I wouldn't even let my kid stay home from school if his temperature only went up that much.
I don't understand how we are supposed to remain the world's number one exporter of beef, F-16's and Ashton Kutcher DVD's without causing a certain measure of greenhouse gas emission. But I suppose you're too busy driving your electric car to your weekly communist party meetings to stop and think about how our polluting industries help to keep your neighborhoods free of Al Qaeda assassins.
Don't get me wrong; if you can think up a way to, say, manufacture land-mines in a way that is both cost-effective AND environmentally friendly, I'm sure Our Leaders would like to hear all about it. But until then, if ocean levels have to raise by a few dozen feet in order to keep our children safe, so be it.
The pollution restrictions imposed by Kyoto might very well endanger our ability to execute criminals, quietly torture suspects, blow up abortion clinics, racially profile, persecute gays, wage war, impose religion, impose democracy, impose involuntary military service, and commit election fraud. And if we let that happen, we may just as well call ourselves the United States of Canada.
God Bless the U.S.A!
[Johnny Rightwing]
[minor grammar and spelling edits]
Alex,
I know you're going to post on this subject anyhow, so I thought I'd beat you to the punch for once. Today the Kyoto Protocal went into effect, which the U.S. did not sign, nor should we have.
Our priority should always be to address the real and fabricated threats to U.S. national security. We owe it to the American people to put their constitutionally protected right to pollute ahead of the opinions of some beret-wearing European pacifist. What do we owe them? If anything, THEY owe US. Remember a little thing called World War 2? Apparently you do not, Mr. Brukowski. Pollution has been an American tradition since the days of Fulton, and I'll be damned if I'll let some eurotrash tell me that being American is wrong. They surely must hate our freedom.
I say; so what if the global average temperature rose by one degree Fahrenheit in the twentieth century? That's not even perceptible. Heck, I wouldn't even let my kid stay home from school if his temperature only went up that much.
I don't understand how we are supposed to remain the world's number one exporter of beef, F-16's and Ashton Kutcher DVD's without causing a certain measure of greenhouse gas emission. But I suppose you're too busy driving your electric car to your weekly communist party meetings to stop and think about how our polluting industries help to keep your neighborhoods free of Al Qaeda assassins.
Don't get me wrong; if you can think up a way to, say, manufacture land-mines in a way that is both cost-effective AND environmentally friendly, I'm sure Our Leaders would like to hear all about it. But until then, if ocean levels have to raise by a few dozen feet in order to keep our children safe, so be it.
The pollution restrictions imposed by Kyoto might very well endanger our ability to execute criminals, quietly torture suspects, blow up abortion clinics, racially profile, persecute gays, wage war, impose religion, impose democracy, impose involuntary military service, and commit election fraud. And if we let that happen, we may just as well call ourselves the United States of Canada.
God Bless the U.S.A!
[Johnny Rightwing]
[minor grammar and spelling edits]
posted by ab at 2/16/2005
1 Comments:
I'm firing my intern.
I'm guessing that the individual in question may have been basing his assertion on a report released by the USDA in January 2002, and therefore using outdated material, as a result of not giving a flying f*ck.
We may never know for sure.
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