LA Times: Updating Bush's spin on climate change

[Kadie]

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Updating Bush's spin on climate change
The White House is choosing the president's past words carefully in its portrayal of him as a longtime ally in the fight against global warming.

By Maura Reynolds and James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writers
February 11, 2007


WASHINGTON — President Bush is widely considered one of the world's most prominent skeptics of global warming. But to hear White House officials tell it, the world's view of him is wrong.

In recent days, White House officials have made a special effort to argue that Bush has always been concerned about climate change. Moreover, they say, he has long acknowledged that human activity may be a significant factor.

"Perhaps folks have not taken notice of the fact that this is an administration that's been keenly committed both to environmentalism and conservationism from the start," White House spokesman Tony Snow said last week.

Indeed, the climate around global warming in Washington is getting hotter. Members of both parties are scrambling to get ahead of each other — and ahead of public demands — to take measures against the threat.

Apparently concerned that Bush was not perceived as being on the global warming bandwagon, White House officials released an unusual open letter Wednesday contending that "climate change has been a top priority since the president's first year in office."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-warming11feb11,1,7770335.story?track=rss

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Sure, and the free giant hummers to business ppl proves it!

[HereSince1628]

2. And I thought the Snow Storm's were in western New York.

If Tony says it, it must be true, right? I mean he used to do ads selling tin siding and aluminum windows to Iowans. How can we not trust him? Isn't he one of "us?" :crazy:

[rodeodance]

3. and the msm nods in agreement! (99.9% of them).

[sce56]

4. Next thing you know he will tout his Clear Skies initiative as fighting Global Warming

When it really is the opposite, Hey that's it look in the mirror everything he does is opposite he hasn't gone far from reading his Calvin & Hobbes books!

Calvinball

Calvinball is a game played almost exclusively by Calvin and Hobbes as a rebellion against organized team sports (like baseball), although the babysitter Rosalyn plays on one occasion. Calvinball is played with whatever implements are available, often a volleyball (referred to as the "Calvinball") and a croquet set, and the rules are invented as the game goes along. The only consistent rule is that the playing rules can never be the same for two games. Calvin and Hobbes wear masks similar to The Lone Ranger's and Zorro's while they play. Calvin tells Rosalyn that another rule is that "no one's allowed to question the masks", but as this is the only time it actually comes up, it may simply be one of the ad hoc-invented rules.

Either player may change any rule at any time (with the exception of those rules stated above). Scoring is also entirely arbitrary: Hobbes has reported scores of "Q to 12" and "oogy to boogy." Calvinball is essentially a game of wits and creativity rather than purely physical feats, and in this Hobbes is typically more successful than Calvin himself. It is often regarded as an example of nomic.

In the Tenth Anniversary Book, Watterson states that the greatest number of questions he receives concern Calvinball and how to play it. He then answers the question once and for all: "People have asked how to play Calvinball. It's pretty simple: you make up the rules as you go."


Sorry if I offend anyone with this because even I know Calvin is a better person than Bush