| To the Editor: Latta thanked for pipeline vote |
| Written by Anderson Lee |
| Wednesday, 01 February 2012 09:32 |
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I'm don't follow the logic of Mr. Pretzer's Jan. 25th letter regarding the Keystone XL pipeline. His criticism of Congressman Latta lies in the fact that Latta wants to help "companies eager to increase their profits." Are we to understand then that corporations ought to seek a decrease in profits? These companies employ many people, and increasing profits means greater job security for the workers as well as potential for creating new jobs. Mr. Pretzer goes on to argue against the pipeline on the basis that it might not create as many jobs as projected. So what? Suppose we anticipate 10,000 new jobs but it only creates, say, 3,000. That's still 3,000 jobs that don't exist now, and a step in the right direction. Then there is the matter of President Obama's claim that the 60-day deadline for a decision is too short. This is coming from the same President who rushed a vote on the Healthcare Reform Act before legislators even had time to read the bill. Moreover, this pipeline has been in the works for years and exploring it's potential should have been a priority for this administration all along. As for the environmental concerns, I would point out that Canada is going to drill and transport the oil regardless of what gets decided. If we don't buy it, another country will. Consequently, somebody somewhere is going to build the infrastructure necessary, and then that country's environment would be disrupted. Opposing environmentalism is not tantamount to being anti-nature. Most non-environmentalists do in fact care about the planet. At the same time, we believe that American ingenuity and technology can overcome the obstacles and minimize the impact while reaping the benefits to the economy and the nation's energy supply. Thank you, Congressman Latta, for supporting this investment in our future. Anderson Lee Bowling Green |
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Comments
Be ready for Pretzer, OG, Brutus, Chris and the hand full of "Liberals" in the area to "regurgitate" the Liberal Agenda in response to our SUPPORT of Congressman Latta.
They are "oppressed" and feel threaten by the Common Sense thinking of the MAJORITY of us in Wood County.
Soon, we will be reading how the "mild" winter, we are having, is the fault of "global warming", even though this winter is NOT even amony the warmest Winters on record for our area.
In the 1800's, we had at least 10 warmer winters than this one, yet the "Liberal/Enviromentalist s" will swear our current mild winter is DUE TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE????
DAH!
Chris:
Sorry, I disagree.
Not sure where you obtained that statistic, but Climate Change has been occuring since the beginning of time and will continue with or without "human agency".
Do these same climatologists attribute the Black Swamp disappearing or the melting of the Glaciers and creation of the Grand Canyonto "human agency"?
Should it surprise me that 97% of climatologists take a Liberal thinking view on this issue? No more than someone saying that 97% of College Professors or Journalists/Media are Liberal in their thinking.
Denial will not save our grandchildren.
The glaciers that melted and created the Grand Canyon and numerous other examples around the world were the result of human interference?
Give us a break!
You need to review some more history of this area and the world?
Your grandchildren are going to be intimately familiar with the material you are neglecting.
I currently have 3 College Degrees, so I think I can tolerate your ego and "critical thinking"?
Question may be can you handle the "critical thinking" while maintaining some "common sense" and "logic"??
As I stated earlier, Climate Change has been occuring since the beginning of time and will continue with or without "human agency".
Many areas of the world would not be inhabitable today, if not for the changes in climate over the past several thousand years?
My granchildren will be fine as long as the "liberals" DON'T SPEND them into a Government Debt that their generation can not survive? That will be the major problem facing their future.
If we allow the Democrats to continue down this Socialistic path, our grandchildren will have difficulties.
Truly, your grandchildren will never forgive, should never forgive. It is not about liberal or conservative as much as you would like it to be. There is no socialism in the US, look up the definition sometime. Even the democrats are staunch capitalists. ANTHROPOGENIC climate change is a a new and real fact that you are refusing to deal with.
...will never forgive...
Now that may be the MOST nieve statement that I have read in these posts?
If you really believe that statement, then there in lies your problem with understanding this issue.
wow.
SOMEONE sure is naive (sp).
You better go, I heard your grandkids coughing.
OMG Chris! Just imagine for a moment, just WHY Mr. Vincent might "think", Climate Change isn't a hoax? Could he possibly have a "dog in the hunt"? Of COURSE he does!
A Curriculum Vitae (CV) is NOTHING more than a long version of a person's resume.
Your EGO is showing, not only is your "Pen Name" - (BGSU ALUM), but now in your "better/smarter than you" postings?
Please, spare us your ego, just share your thoughts/opinions.
Back to the point, do YOU know anything about Dr. Vincent or can you cite ANY climate scientist who refutes his work?
...didn't think so. I don't need an ego to know what a CV is, but you obviously do.
As it turns out anthropogenic climate change is real, oil has peaked, and for-profit economic policies are never going to help. Denying science or scientific endeavor in lieu of political ignorance will not help future generations. shame shame.
Given time, your maturity level might improve?
As for Vincent, I am NOT familiar with his "work" NOR have I seen you or BGSU ALUM post any "Specifics" of his work/opinions, to give a response?
As for, "what point of yours did ALUM prove?" She (Alum); I was stating that SHE again lived up to my view of her when I said, ("Your EGO is showing, not only is your "Pen Name"-(BGSU ALUM), but now in your "better/smarter than you" postings?)
Change in the World's Climate is and will Always Continue to Change and has been changing since the beginning of time. I DON'T buy into the idea that it is something that has ONLY evolved in recent time. That's ALL!
He speaks frequently at Rotary and Kiwanis events. But his work has led him to investigate water-table and temperature related issues (such as the Great Lakes algae bloom). These issues are directly related to RECENT global warming issues. He's crunched the data and will talk about it. And, while obviously climate change has been happening since the beginning of time, it has been accelerating recently.
What I was saying is that I am NOT familiar with the Specifics/Findings of his work, thus I am not in a position to either support or refute his work.
Obviously, I am totally against people who do not respect our water supply and polute it or trash our environment.
My point from the beginning is that I do not believe that climate change is something that only happened recently. It is an ongoing event that is going to continue through the end of time.
Chris, I would assume that both you and Alum, like my family, recycle. I would conclude that the vast majority of Wood Cty residents also recycle.
Since the "majority" of Wood Cty is Republican, one would have to conclude that the "Right" is NOT anti-environment as many liberals would like people to believe?
In case you hadn't noticed, there is a certain range of topics about which I am passionate, one of which is the legitimate work of my colleagues and myself. You on the other hand, are not stopped by your ignorance from posting snide stimulus-response right wing remarks. Contempt reflects back on the one who voices it.
The silence is deafening.
You prove my point every time you post. Even when you don't. Being wrong is just being wrong. No amount of debate changes that status.
Study the climate for NW Ohio since the early 1800s, when they began keeping records, and you will see that today's weather is not much different than it was, on ocassion, in the era.
So what part of "the Energy Dept put out $535 Million of your and my tax dollars in Loan Guarantees" is false???
It is either a fact or not? Do the homework and you will see that it is FACT!
How is that a cut and paste from conservative media sources???
I wonder if you will be holding on to this same biased view once Congress is done investigating the handling of Solyndra by this Administration. I am of the belief that once ALL the "Facts" come out there will be some vacancies in the current Administration.
Currently this Administration is stone walling the relase of realted materials, not only with the "Solyndra Debacle", but also with the Holder "Fast and Furious" screw up.
Oddly enough, the Obama Administration is attempting to use the "Failed Defense" of the Nixon Administration for NOT releasing the materials that have been subpoenaed by Congress, in both the Solyndra and Fast and Furious case?
DAH, Talk about poor judgement!
I look forward to our opinions then?
Two: Bobby isn't allowed any common sense, because he's nothing more than a toady to the 1%ers in this country!
He has a little orange-faced Lord and Master named John Boehner, for whom he's chief water-carrier, butt-kisser and boot-polisher.
Third: The pipeline was to through a *major* aquifer. Who's going to pay to try and decontaminate it when the pipe ruptures.
Fourth: The oil was to go to the overseas market and NOT for US consumption! Why else was the line ending in Houston when there are refineries along the way?
2) Liberals have no common sense and are the minority in this country even though their arrogance tells them otherwise.
3) Maybe we should forget oil which we all use and dump more billions of tax dollars into more Green Joke successes like the Obama Motors Chevy Volt and Solyndra.
4) Obama's BP contributors didn't approve of it.
2. "liberals have no common sense" is not really a conversation-starter is it, Nino? First, define "liberal." Then, define "common sense." I dare you to find any real example of the former who possesses none of the latter.
3. The Volt is not a "Green Joke." You have just been cutting and pasting from Foxnation or other internet blog, haven't you?
for that matter, based on your posts, you can't tell the difference between opinion media and journalism and factual reporting.
I don't know many people who would consider the NY Times as the "independent/unbiased" meida source?
Careful, you are letting Nino get to you and are showing your frustration by referring to her "ignorance"? Not like you?
By the way, I know a number of professors and "highly educated" people, who many would refer to as "kooky". I guess it would depend on the connotation with which it is used?
Do you really think your "condescending" style of name calling causes anyone to take anything you have to say "seriously"??
I doubt that Very Much!
If you have a desire/need to post on these blogs, Please have the courtesy to just give your opinion/thoughts and leave the "childish condescending", sometimes slanderous, name calling out of your posts.
They not only make you look bad, they make your whole "liberal viewpoint" look like a joke!
A little Maturity, on your part, might be usefull in getting readers to consider your opinions more seriously.
You should really try to liken yourself to Chris, as he is able to make his point and do it with class and style! As a result, most people take time to read his posts and at least consider his view point.
To blame the lack of cohesive movement on the Democrat side on anything other than a lack of organization is disingenuous. Mr. Chappaquiddick should have had himself replaced - but his party would rather lose votes than do that! The Democrats inability to control Ben Nelson is their own fault. Blame, blame, blame!!!
The *only* way to get around the 60-vote cloture (ie ending debate and allow a vote) rule imposed on the Senate by the GOP during the Bush regency, the Democrats had to convince Joe Leiberman and/or some of the moderate GOPers left in the Senate to cross the aisle and vote for cloture!
Stop listening to know-nothing, lying blowhards like that drug-addled Lush Limburger, and maybe reality will open up your eyes.
Hmmm. Let's see Obama ended the war in Iraq, that was the 1st war the USA was involved in, that the USA started for NO REASON. The war in Afganistan will be over for "US" next year. The US is not BLEEDING the 750,000 lost jobs, WE were bleeding when he FIRST took office. The list goes on and on. NINO better get ready for HUMBLE PIE, your gonna be eating a lot of it, when Obabma is re-elected.
Right now, the US is *exporting* more oil than we're importing! Why? Profit, of course! If all the oil we're exporting now was solely for domestic consumption, prices at the pump would be *half* of what it is now, no doubt!
Speculators are the sole reason gas is so high right now. Curb them, and the price would immediately go under $3/gal!
http://obamaachievements.org/list
Thank you very much brutus. I went to that site (http://obabaachievement.org/list), VERY accurate, and organized to display all the great things our President Obama, has done in his 1st of 2 terms. I know nino, and his similar type indiviuals will say "all lies", can't blieve anything the liberal journalists print to read. Oh well where's nino, with his response to your posting of "what President Obama had done so-far"?
From the list. This means even less people will be able to deduct their medical expenses against their taxable income. This shouldn't be listed as an accomplishment. If it were to be done correctly, it would have been lowered. Now, if you don't spend over 10% of your income in medical costs, you may not be able to deduct, which means you are hit even harder with taxes.
Now, this doesn't seem like a positive accomplishment, but I guess that's not the name of the list. Several other items on the tax list aren't accomplishments , as they were planned sunset provisions.
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