Green Options » clear skies initiative http://greenoptions.com/tag/clear-skies-initiative Posts tagged 'clear skies initiative' Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:25:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Mean Joe Green #32: Drowning the Unjust http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/21/mean-joe-green-32-drowning-the-unjust/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/21/mean-joe-green-32-drowning-the-unjust/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:25:55 +0000 Joe Mohr http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/21/mean-joe-green-32-drowning-the-unjust/ Mark Twain once said:

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

I imagine Mr. Twain perched in a rocking chair on a heavenly cloud doing just that.

Ironically, the rain that is soaking President Bush is much more toxic than it otherwise might have been had our dubious leader not dirtied up the skies with his Clear Skies Initiative!

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You turn to semantics.

Do you call it a bailout or a rescue plan? Invasion of privacy or the Patriot Act? A War on Terror or an invasion of a country that doesn’t possess WMD? Do you say we’re looking for oil independence or to drill in ANWR? Do you call it global warming, admitting that the earth is indeed warming, or do you call it climate change?

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