Bush under fire at Paris climate meeting (Germany mocking it as "Neanderthal')

[maddezmom]

Source: afp

PARIS (AFP) - Leading players in talks to forge a pact for tackling climate change took the lash on Thursday to President George W. Bush's new blueprint for global warming, with Germany mocking it as "Neanderthal."

At a ministerial-level meeting of major carbon emitters, South Africa blasted the Bush proposal as a disastrous retreat by the planet's number-one polluter and a slap to poor countries.

The European Union -- which had challenged the United States to follow its lead on slashing greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 -- also voiced disappointment.

His proposals "will not contribute to the fight against climate change," EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told AFP, adding he hoped the US would "reconsider its options and policies."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080417/pl_afp/climatewarmingusemitters_080417193049

[Eurobabe]

1. I love my new country

:loveya: :loveya: They don't pull punches. :rofl:

[TomInTib]

2. Well, little man, seems as tho your act has worn thin.

Yeah, fuckstick, we'll let the Historians judge your legacy....

[shadowknows69]

11. If there are any historians after shrub gets done with the world.

[BadgerKid]

3. Oops...wrong door!

[gratuitous]

4. What the Germans sound like

A stern professor who takes his job seriously presented with a term paper by a mediocre student. The paper, turned in three days late, doesn't meet the length requirements, doesn't have a bibliography, typos abound, and there's a coffee ring (beer ring?) on page 3.

Bush, the mediocre student, slouches away, grousing that the professor has it in for him, doesn't appreciate good scholarship, and he'll call his dad and cost him his job. That is, if he even gives a tin shit about what the professor thinks.

[greiner3]

5. Is it too late for his mother perform an abortion?

Just thinking!

[Voice for Peace]

6. LOL what a wonderful sci fi story. A time machine to save the world from GW.

[Occulus]

22. The 'new' Twilight Zone did this once, I think

Maybe it was "The Outer Limits", now that I think about it. It was about a female scientist who had invented a method of actual time travel, while at the same time answering the question of why we never ever seem to see time travelers (because if it were possible, the logic goes, we would have seen them by now).

Her machine was powered, IIRC, by the brain of a living human fetus. She was using the time machine to go back in time and stop crimes which would have happened before they ever has a chance to happen. The problem was, each time she altered the timeline, she would end up remembering both timelines- the original one she lived through, and and the changed one, which came upon her as fully-formed, detailed memory all at once.

This quite quickly drove her completely and totally insane. Her brain was not physically capable of storing two entire lifetimes' worth of information, and her mind was incapable of parsing the contradictions- something like that. The completely unspoken implication was that that was why we never saw any time travelers- it's possible, but over time, fatal.

I can't recall the name of that episode, though. Does anyone else remember what I'm talking about?

[Voice for Peace]

23. I never saw it. But I felt my brain getting overloaded just trying to picture it.

We'd need a simpler tale.. just to deal with that one terrible mistake

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. retroactive birth control

is highly under-utilized, IMHO.

[lunatica]

7. Everything about Bush is a throwback to Neanderthal times

I don't know why they claim the Neanderthal's went extinct. There's a bunch of them in the present administration! Or am I thinking of assholes?

[RC]

15. In reality the Neanderthals were more civilized than the bu$h clan.

Maybe more so than us 'real' humans.

[dipsydoodle]

8. It's what comes of never growing up

He should've stuck with his little friends and his uke.

[darue]

21. which one is georgie? n/t

[dipsydoodle]

24. Second from the left I think

:rolf:

'Case you didn't know that's the Doll Family and I guess the pic is mid 1920s by which time they were all in their twenties too.

[Jim__]

10. May the US Congress take note! - n/t

[HuffleClaw]

12. that bush would dare to speak on climate change at all is comical

and that he'd expect to be taken seriously is just downright offensive

[NM Independent]

13. This is too funny...

"In a statement entitled "Bush's Neanderthal speech," German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said: "His speech showed not leadership but losership. We are glad that there are also other voices in the United States.""

We're glad that some people realize that. Thanks, Minister.

[hatrack]

14. Definitely K&R-worthy

One word really can say it all sometimes!

[Flagg]

16. The fact that the meeting happened in Paris

will be enough fo Republicans to dismiss it as another cheese-eating surrender monkey initiative and thus ridicule the event.

I'm starting to understand this country.

[loves_dulcinea]

17. it seems

that a certain Mrs. Merkel needs a shoulder rub...

[lunatica]

18. I'm embarrassed but glad to see they don't mince words anymore

People used to make very gentle criticisms of Bush and his foreign policies. No one wanted to come right out and call him a warmonger, liar, empire building despot or fool. Now, not so much...

[truthisfreedom]

19. Good ol' chimpie.

[saigon68]

20. Your pics are really cute

[Sentath]

25. Good to hear, but odd way to hear it. (grammar)

I don't think its any specific error, but it looks terribly odd to me to see the old phrase 'took a lash to' broken up with a date in the break.