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armb ([personal profile] armb) wrote2005-07-08 11:32 am

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Apparently Fox News (or at least one of their hosts) thinks the London bombings were a good thing, stopping us getting distracted by climate change and African Aid. Bastards.
[EDIT: I might have been a bit unfair, "some good might come out of it", isn't the same as "it was a good thing". I stand by the "Bastards" reaction after reflection though.]

[identity profile] rdmaughan.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
My vindictive side hopes someone sends him a nice letter bomb so that he can play his part in helping us all to focus on what is important.

[identity profile] zanda-myrande.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
No. We just have to keep him alive long enough to see why global warming should have been on the front burner since New Scientist first began reporting on it thirty years ago (I have [livejournal.com profile] axylides's word for this, since I only ever read Grimbledon Down and Ariadne...)

[identity profile] pompe.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I think old Arrhenius, Nobel Prize 1903 or so, mentioned it back in 1896.

[identity profile] armb.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
I was going to suggest staking him somewhere just above high water level in Bangladesh next time a flood was due instead.
Hasn't it occured to these people that us ("western civilization"/"the developed world") fucking up the planet and not helping the starving might encourage people with a grudge against us to act?

[identity profile] armb.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Meanwhile, at least the dead and injured were somewhere historic:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3257000

[identity profile] armb.livejournal.com 2005-07-11 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
And also from Fox: "these people are, if necessary, prepared to spill Arab blood in addition to the blood of regular -- of nonarab people"
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22regular%20--%20of%20nonarab%20people%22