The screaming left is always going on about the lives that will be lost from the global warming boogeyman, yet I can't find a single newspaper willing to confront the seven lives that may be lost on Wednesday because of it. You may recall how Clinton/Gore EPA regulations forced NASA to switch to a freon-free foam, one that doesn't stick to the tanks, one that causes up to 11 times more damage to the life-saving thermal tiles, all in an effort to make the libs feel better about flying their personal jets across the globe. Ever since then we've had scare after tragedy every time a Shuttle launches.
A cursory look at Google News shows that the brave and enterprising journalists from American news organizations are completely unwilling to even mention this important story. It makes me wonder what Adolph Ochs, the publisher of the New York Times who created the journalistic oath to cover the news "without fear or favor", would think of the state of journalism today. Show me the journalist with the courage to look the families of these astronauts in the face and tell them the science has already been decided.
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Propaganda.......Defined as
August 13, 2007 - 12:59 ET by JayTeeinformation, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
Wait a minute......I forget....did I look up the Definition of Journalism ?
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
Touché!!!
August 13, 2007 - 13:05 ET by pocomocoTouché!!!
Stunning!
August 13, 2007 - 13:08 ET by MightyMouthThis is a stunning revealation, that I for one, had never heard before. Well done!
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
This reminds me of the WTC collapse on 911
August 13, 2007 - 13:35 ET by pickerseniorFreon free foam, Non Asbestos building steel insulation stopped during WTC construction, and possible results (see http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244698,00.html.)
In our rush to stop "global warming", and to make a perfect world, do or did people's lives hang in the balance? Someone smarter than I may have more insight on this.
Pickersenor
"If liberals didn't live it, it doesn't exist."
No permit available to switch to evil strong & sticky foam
August 13, 2007 - 13:39 ET by upcountrywaterCome on, the engineers havn't got their way on the foam issue.
By getting a variance in the CODE???
Feelings over science every single time..
Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.
Environmentalism kills
August 13, 2007 - 13:41 ET by nkviking75I'd love for someone to compile the Environmentalist Death Toll, the number of people who have died because of misguided and unnecessary actions motiviated by the environmental movement. I bet it's a staggering number.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Probably rivals Communism's
August 13, 2007 - 13:48 ET by drillanwrProbably rivals Communism's body count ... Or might even be included in such.
A Green Legacy of Death
August 13, 2007 - 14:01 ET by danbo94,881,486 have died from malaria since DDT was banned. One person every 12 seconds for the past 30 years.
And that's just for one of their half baked science schemes. They're now starting to use DDT again in the 3rd world. But it's taken 30 years.
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"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
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Im super serial you guys!
August 13, 2007 - 13:51 ET by third eyeRemember we are the unholy non believers in the Church run by pope Al "Manbearpig" Gore. Reason and logic are meaningless to the faithfull. This is a holy war aganist the us, the heretics who believe in the ultra-evil "free markets". To contradict the tribal elders of the AGW death cult is grounds for a fatwa aganist us...I dont know about you, but Im shaking in my boots.
It's Bush's Fault
August 13, 2007 - 14:19 ET by mattmEven though the environmentalists have, at least indirectly, caused the deaths of millions with things like the DDT ban and other roadblocks to progress, they'll somehow be able to blame it on Bush...I don't know how, seeing as it happened under Clinton, but they'll find a way.
NY Tornado caused by GW ?
August 13, 2007 - 15:57 ET by JayTeeMSNBC is connecting the Dots..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20212020/
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
may i suggest to add approx 3000 to that 7
August 13, 2007 - 16:18 ET by lunaticcringeradiomay i suggest overactive environmentalism-another religious sect of the socialist-contributed to the number of deaths in the world trade center.
if i'm not mistaken were the world trade center steel ibeam reenforced pylons not coated with asbestos above the 65th floor allowing the heat to weaken them causing the quickened collapse of the towers because the epa told them to quit using it. cause each and every one of us know hundreds of people that have died of an asbetos caused cancer from steel ibeams embedded 2 feet inside cocrete supporting pylons. don't you know someone that died from that, don't you.
anyway it doesn't matter cause everybody knows the night before george bush and dick cheney were sneaking around the world trade center planting carefully positioned high explosives and running the ignition wires, that nobody mysteriously saw, and miraculously nothing set them off prematurely, throughout the whole building to blow them up. just like he blew up that bridge over the mississippi.
i keep hearing that quote from rosie o damn she's ugly that goes something like "we now live in a world where fire melts metal"
EPA lied, people died in WTC needlessly
August 13, 2007 - 22:39 ET by pickerseniorIt's thoroughly disgusting and outrageous that people died in the WTC collapse needlessly due to EPA stopping asbestos installation above the 65th floor, which was very key to the 911 collapse. This is like the previous post about many millions died needlessly due to the banning of DDT. Foam on the shuttle was changed, which puts astronaut lives at risk due to these knee jerk liberal environmental regulations, that were not thought out regarding their impact on people's lives.
Why can't these things be publicized, or is there not enough grant money to pay off the media like the environmentalists do?
Pickersenior
"If liberals didn't live it, it doesn't exist."
Not NEWS
August 13, 2007 - 18:06 ET by BowiePunditThis was revealed after the Columbia incident. A bit behind I'm afraid.
Bowie... Still helps to
August 13, 2007 - 18:14 ET by bigtimerBowie...
Still helps to refresh people's memories or tell those that do not know that fact.
The big bad evils of asbestos have hurt a lot of things/lives in the long run...lawsuits and trial lawyers hand in hand with he enviro's....
Really helped us all in some circumstances eh?
You missed the point
August 14, 2007 - 01:28 ET by Mithridate OmbudIt's not about Columbia, it's about the current Shuttle's problems and the media's lack of mentioning the cause of said problem.