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The thing is, I agree with you about the fury thing. But I can't help it that the only people who color your vision of the "Right" are the drunks left behind when the Right left the legacy of the dying northern cities to the democrats and other leftists. The "Right" is not an angry drunk in the bar or the guy doing a line off your ass. And the "Right" is not McNaRummy or Father Ashcroft.

The Right is not Racist, Sexist, or anti-immigration. The Right is law-abiding, in favor of limited (very limited) government, and hates unfairness and inefficiency. The Right does not externalize costs onto other people's children or other neighborhoods. You might think you know the Right, but all you are describing is the guy getting drunk next to you at the bar.

People like to cast themselves as part of my Right to shield their hateful views under the cloak of my dignity (see e.g., Pat Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly). And stupid people like to cast me out of the Right, in order to present a skewed picture of the Right as a drunk in a bar.

Than again, if you are invoking an image of an imaginary child being drafted to fight someone else's war, am I thinking too little of you in believing that your characterization of the "Right" was formed in a bar in a northern city?

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hello's Right: The Party of One.

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Just as long as I'm not in Sebby's drug-coma dreams.

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the party of two- he's wrong about this one- it's me!

The "Right" is not an angry drunk in the bar

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Hahahahahahahahaha!

Let's talk environmental policy. Environmental corporate externalities, e.g. pollution, are bourne by society as a whole. By other people's children. In other neighborhoods. Even in other countries. Too bad The Right doesn't include that in it's cost structure, even though it can be quanitfied. The lowered regulatory standards under Bush externalize a HUGE cost. A cost that will have to be paid for when the externalities eventually visibly and horribly materialize via cancer, lung disease and clean-up costs.

But cancer isn't money, so this cost isn't included. And increased environmental standards hinder economic growth, right? Who gives a shit if my kid or your kid pays for it later when he gets lukemia when growth increased by 7% instead of 5% b/c the utility pollution regulations were relaxed.

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Can you please cite one "relaxed standard" that goes to anything where there is evidence of harm?

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Bird in the hand is worth two in the... God, using that cliche is horrible here.

I'm amused by people who live their lives like tomorrow is promised to them. I'll take that cash now. I'll deal with the problems of 40 years from now 40 years from now.

I'm not surprised people on this board find my attitude about these things naively cavalier. A lot of you are a bunch of micromanaging super-planners. Process the data, make sure all contingencies are planned for, make the sensible decision, be safe, make sure your acorns are there for winter.

Suck my cock. Ever hit the brakes at 80 and realized you were on black ice? Ever had a biopsy come back inconclusive? Ever seen someone young close to you die of something really fucked up and totally unpredictable? Life's terminal and money's easy to come by. I need a healthy amount to live as I like, but so far, I've struggled and managed. I may never have a Rolls, but shit's never going to be bad if you're willing to work and have a brain. Dem , GOP, whig, whatever... won't mean a rats ass to me in the end anyway, so why not take the free dinners now?

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So you're beginning with the assumption that increased pollution isn't harmful, and that I must convince you otherwise? Are you R.J. Reynolds?

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I like this post, Sebby, though FWIW my post wasn't directed at you in particular, but at the increasingly indefensibility of Bushian fiscal policy.

Enjoy the dinner.

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We covered this in the old days on the Infirm politics boards. The not_Right (is that you?) used scare tactics to ban DDT. Now (insert some huge number) of children die every year because of mosquito-borne diseases.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's)? I dare you to look for any study that reasonably demonstrates they are dangerous.

You want to know the greatest environmental impact in this country? Suburbs are the greatest environmental impact.

You want to know why suburbs exist? Because the Democrats have completely fucked up almost every one of America's major cities. Look around you in Chicago. Who's the boogeyman in your wasteland? Daley? Mell? Blagoyevich? Madigan?

(lowering his voice) Obviously this is a much bigger topic, and I'll be happy to discuss it on a separate thread any time here.

Hello

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As you typed these words, your pulse increased. You exhaled more Carbon dioxide. You increased pollution.

So yes, merely saying pollution increased is meaningless unless you show what you mean. Are you speaking of the arsenic levels? Do you have any specifics, or are you flying on hyperbole here?

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S-L-O-W D-O-W-N!!!

Sebby Jr. needs you to be around when they come and try and draft him.

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If you mean Arafat, then I personally believe he is a terrorist thug. However, he at least had, until recently, the power to control people's actions in a general sense. He no longer has that power, so he no longer has any claim to particular attention.

Since you asked.

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My guess is either flouridation of urban water supplies or school desegregation.

Real estate developers and highway contractors may also play a role.

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Don't you have this ass-backwards? Allawi is about as useful as tits on a bull. And his appearance in the US was pure electioneering. Unless he had to come to the home office to sign for his paycheck.