"Rick Santorum, who scored several wins this week in the Republican presidential race, told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC this morning that 'climate change is a leftist scientific conspiracy to destroy America.'"
"Rick Santorum, who scored several wins this week in the Republican presidential race, told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC this morning that 'climate change is a leftist scientific conspiracy to destroy America.'"
Santorum went on to say: "We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit."
Further, Santorum calls climate change a "hoax," says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should continue to allow coal-fired powerplants to emit mercury (even though the EPA says mercury causes 11,000 premature deaths and 130,000 asthma attacks in the U.S. every year), and says oil and gas drilling should be allowed everywhere including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Here he says on video: "Come to Pennsylvania. We are drilling oil and gas wells all over the place including in people's backyards."
Santorum went on to say: "We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit."
Further, Santorum calls climate change a "hoax," says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should continue to allow coal-fired powerplants to emit mercury (even though the EPA says mercury causes 11,000 premature deaths and 130,000 asthma attacks in the U.S. every year), and says oil and gas drilling should be allowed everywhere including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Here he says on video: "Come to Pennsylvania. We are drilling oil and gas wells all over the place including in people's backyards."
People like him are not fit for high office. In fact he should not be in charge of a donut house.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato.. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson
Maybe the Wingo plan is to render the earth post-Iraq invasion-like.
A conservative is someone who believes that firefighters, teachers, and police officers are overpaid.
"Wesley told the early Methodists to gain all they could and save all they could so that they could give all they could. It means that I consider my money to belong to God and I see myself as one of the hungry people who needs to get fed with God’s money. If I really have put all my trust in Jesus Christ as savior and Lord, then nothing I have is really my own anymore."
Republicans experience suffering the way they experience all their virtues, i.e. vicariously.
According to "just war" standards of Christian theology, if Saddam Hussein killed 30,000 Iraqis, and the Iraq War killed 120,00, how was the War "just"?
Santorum went on to say: "We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit."
Further, Santorum calls climate change a "hoax," says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should continue to allow coal-fired powerplants to emit mercury (even though the EPA says mercury causes 11,000 premature deaths and 130,000 asthma attacks in the U.S. every year), and says oil and gas drilling should be allowed everywhere including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Here he says on video: "Come to Pennsylvania. We are drilling oil and gas wells all over the place including in people's backyards."
People like him are not fit for high office. In fact he should not be in charge of a donut house.
If San(c)torum ever gets to be POTUS (God forbid!) his policies will destroy America long before climate change does! I wish I had the wherewithal to pay for a trip to the Arctic for Santorum. With any luck, he'll get eaten by a hungry polar bear who is having trouble finding food because of climate change!
The man believes that God created the world for us to destroy it? What a doofus!
"God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright." from 'A Learned Discourse on Justification', a sermon by Richard Hooker (1554-1600).
"Rick Santorum, who scored several wins this week in the Republican presidential race, told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC this morning that 'climate change is a leftist scientific conspiracy to destroy America.'"
Not sure how asking people to do the atmospheric equivalent of not pissing in the water supply could destroy America...
Jesus had two dads, and he turned out alright.~ Andy Gussert
“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions…for safety on the streets…for child care, for social welfare…for rape crisis centers, women’s refuges, reforms in the law.
If someone says, “Oh, I’m not a feminist,” I ask, “Why, what’s your problem?”
This Santorum veck pretty clearly has mistaken the US Corporatocracy for God. It's a fairly common mistake among a contingent of BNet posters as well.
I should think that even Republicans would understand that our health depends upon the health of the earth, since it's the only planet we're ever going to live on. Anyone who doesn't understand that should read some Wendell Berry followed by some Jim Kunstler, rinse, and repeat until they understand the basic fundamentals of what life is about.
You don't have to be a brainiac to understand this stuff; it just requires a little honesty -- something in very short supply among the one percent who rule us or their ridiculous fascist ideologues like Sanatorium.
