The outlines of the future are coming clear. The GOP platform refuses a federal government role in mitigating climate change by changing energy policy. Let the market decide, even if we all end up turning into scavengers. It is a dystopian view but if the climate change scientists are right; we are only at the beginning of the age of scarcity for 6.5 billion people.
Mitt Romney said it, himself: the Republicans don't care about those 6.5 billion people, they care first and foremost about you. So far as I can tell -- because the facts are hopelessly muddied by the GOP -- that means fulfilling the Norquist promise to shrink the federal government to the size it can fit and drown in a bathtub.
The public commons does not exist, beyond your backyard fence is the GOP ideal. The public good is just a way of explaining why the poor lack the initiative to find jobs.
Local jurisdictions and the states will have to tax residents and services to cope with climate change; the direction layer out by the recent Miami Herald report on adaptation costing billions, if not hundreds of billions in an effort to keep South Florida's economy from sinking beneath the waves.
It is God's will. Allah inshallah, or, whatever. The GOP platform embraces coal and oil because its top funders stand to benefit from their polluting ways until they helicopter off to whatever safe haven they have stocked with canned goods. The rest of us will still be tearing each other to bits over whether life begins at conception or the sanctity of the vagina.
When I talk to my age group around the dinner table today, and talk turns to politics, one of the first thoughts I express is how forty years ago, if you had told me the Republican Party would have come to this: conviction based on the creation myth, anti-science to the point of speaking in tongues, and the bunker-like redoubt of the nation's wealthiest polluters, I would not have believed it.
Forty years ago, it was just a few John Birch Society zealots. Somehow, it was turned around. Today's radical right winger's hijacked the Republican Party. They profess to be the majority. Not in my America.
Mitt Romney said it, himself: the Republicans don't care about those 6.5 billion people, they care first and foremost about you. So far as I can tell -- because the facts are hopelessly muddied by the GOP -- that means fulfilling the Norquist promise to shrink the federal government to the size it can fit and drown in a bathtub.
The public commons does not exist, beyond your backyard fence is the GOP ideal. The public good is just a way of explaining why the poor lack the initiative to find jobs.
Local jurisdictions and the states will have to tax residents and services to cope with climate change; the direction layer out by the recent Miami Herald report on adaptation costing billions, if not hundreds of billions in an effort to keep South Florida's economy from sinking beneath the waves.
It is God's will. Allah inshallah, or, whatever. The GOP platform embraces coal and oil because its top funders stand to benefit from their polluting ways until they helicopter off to whatever safe haven they have stocked with canned goods. The rest of us will still be tearing each other to bits over whether life begins at conception or the sanctity of the vagina.
When I talk to my age group around the dinner table today, and talk turns to politics, one of the first thoughts I express is how forty years ago, if you had told me the Republican Party would have come to this: conviction based on the creation myth, anti-science to the point of speaking in tongues, and the bunker-like redoubt of the nation's wealthiest polluters, I would not have believed it.
Forty years ago, it was just a few John Birch Society zealots. Somehow, it was turned around. Today's radical right winger's hijacked the Republican Party. They profess to be the majority. Not in my America.
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Tough week for the GOP voter suppression in federal courts:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/08/gop-suffers-tough-week-for-voting-issues-in-court-134027.html?hp=l14
The key is to overcome voter suppression efforts and voter apathy by first, making sure the electorate understand what is at stake if the new GOP takes over and then, getting turnout for the election. Students, women, minorities, poor and middle class, immigrants, children, elderly and infirm, all lose with the new GOP. Do they know that?
Romney's integrity has to be questioned if he jettisoned if he allowed the operatives and handlers to inject lies and absurdities into he and Ryan's speeches. Is that really ok with Morman church teachings?
Fortunately, our system of government has a lot of checks and balances built into it. My fear is that the Republican Party, with its wealthy base, buys them all and eliminates them before the majority of America realizes it.
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The Republicans would put us into a post-apocalypitc state without Armageddon.
They will achieve it by neglect. Ignore climate change, sea level rise, the needs of
widows, orphans and the infirmed, the demands of a global economy, and pursue
the interests of the wealthy by exploiting the prejudices and fears of the religious
right. What a great formula for leading a nation back into the dark ages, characterized
by soot and charity hospitals. If that is your goal, definitely vote Republican.
Today, in the Miami Herald, is an article on the $206 million Miami Beach will be paying to overhaul their drainage system because of sea level rise. Hard to say it isn't happening anymore.
EOM wrote about the same subject published in the Herald: Oct. 1, 2008
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2008/10/sea-level-rise-in-miami-here-now-by.html
Today's Biscayne Times covers the sea rise issue as it's cover story as well.
Jesus there are some ignorant people....it has nothing to do with the GOP or any Democrat policy...try reading your own governments documents on geoengineering,weather modification......the governments has been engaged in manipulating the weather for decades,cloud seeding,HAARP,/Scalar weaponry,causing drought,floods,altering the atmosphere,warping the magnetosphere,blowing holes in the ionosphere....fuck it got so bad in the 70's that the U.N. HAD to come up with anti weather modification warfare treaties...it is unregulated,and private industry is involved to...Californiaskywatch.com for documents.. The whole "carbon" thing is for retard level thinkers,so they can tax you.
Well now that sea level rise in the Herald it is real. The Herald should have a weekly column on it.
No it is real because a city is spending wads of money to combat it.
The issue of sea level rise is not just about Miami Beach. The Herald story talks about the South Florida Water Management District needing $50 million pumps (many of them) to keep Pembroke Pines and West Broward from going underwater. It's not just about coastal areas. Seawalls won't keep the water out - the water will seep in from under the ground and inundate all the areas that formerly were underwater - like the Airport,Hialeah, Doral. The Miami River will overflow and inundate the new Marlins Stadium. It's all documented in UM Professor Dr. Hal Wanless' presentation.
This will happen if climate conditions continue to warm. Some things have already been set into motion and are irreversible. But is there anything now that can stop and reverse this trend of a warming planet? Can it buy us more time until other measures are invented?
Can Miami lead the way for the world to show how to reduce carbon emissions? To save our city, we may be able to save the planet.
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