Re: Energy Policy / Junk Science Environmentalism

At 06:32 AM 12/22/2005, glennmorton wrote:

>Now, my point is that ..optimists ...are going to believe what they
>want to believe--just like all us humans.

## Exactly.

There's the downer/negative, "can't do" pessimists want to believe:

http://www.sacredcowburgers.com/parodies/christmas_yet_to_come.jpg

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/cox/always_winter_copy.jpg

http://cagle.msnbc.com/working/051220/bok.gif

*

There's the smiling, upbeat,"can do" optimist's perspective:

http://www.siamlady.com/Images/Purple.jpg

http://img275.echo.cx/img275/212/pic248652sw.jpg

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/5504/wontbackdown7oe.jpg

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Then there are the "no core beliefs" confused, emotional basket-cases
who vacillate between the two perspectives above - depending on
whether they like the "personality" of the one who gives them the
answers to the questions that are important to ALL self-focused navel gazers:

How do I know if I've been good or
bad? http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2005/nq051220.gif

Who can I trust? http://www.strangepolitics.com/images/content/8399.jpg

~ Janice :)
Received on Thu Dec 22 11:54:17 2005