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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 13555 Registered: May-04 | . "Under-polluted" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/lawrence-summers-africa-i_b_141706. html No political smears, please. This just drew my attention when I heard it. I don't know whether to laugh or bang my head against the wall. . |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2179 Registered: Nov-05 | I don't know whether to laugh or bang my head against the wall. Sadly, neither will prevent his continued existence. Amazing! |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2509 Registered: Feb-07 | That's just crazy. Goes to show that people often are promoted to their level of incompetence. I like this retort from the Brazilian Secretary of the Environment "Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane". LOL. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 13558 Registered: May-04 | . I suggest everyone read the comments at the end of the page, you'll see this was very likely taken out of context. I am taking no position on Summers, just his choice of words irregardless of whether they are whimsical or serious. It would seem this should rank among the best of the many oxymorons that come from governmental writings. . |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2181 Registered: Nov-05 | Granted, it may have been out of context. But there's an old saying: "Where there's smoke . . ." |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 13559 Registered: May-04 | . Big D has become a non-smoking city where public buildings are concerned. So, in Dallas the end to that sentence would be, "Where there's smoke ... there's a bunch of ninnies standing out in terrible weather getting their nicotine fix." . |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2515 Registered: Feb-07 | Ottawa is a non-smoking city too, only we have ninnies getting their nicotine fix in -30 degree weather, usually in gaggle huddling by the door, so you have to run a gauntlet of smoke to get in or out. |
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Gold Member Username: StryvnWisconsin Post Number: 1101 Registered: Dec-06 | And that's in summer |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2516 Registered: Feb-07 | haha. |
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Silver Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 554 Registered: Jul-07 | Perhaps the comment was somewhat tongue in cheek...context is everything. I never noticed before but I think South America is somewhat "over-forested". |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 13561 Registered: May-04 | . Yes, particularly with "overly rare" species. |
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Silver Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 557 Registered: Jul-07 | I like my species rare, but not overly rare. Never overcook a species. Tough as he!!. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 12244 Registered: Dec-04 | Nobody laughs at people huddled together outside smoking a joint... I think we can send the leftovers from nuking the whales away to South America. |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2519 Registered: Feb-07 | "Nobody laughs at people huddled together outside smoking a joint..." They laugh with them.} |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 13562 Registered: May-04 | . "Nobody laughs at people huddled together outside smoking a joint... " Eh, sure we do. We do it when we're the ones inside where it's warm, cool, dry or well lighted. Besides, who would be afraid of somebody threatening you while they're coughing up a lung? . |