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Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« on: April 02, 2008, 07:15:55 AM »
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Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.” On not taking drastic action to correct global warming:

Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hottest in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Turner ridiculed the need for a big U.S. military, insisting “China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States,” and “even with our $500 billion military budget, we can't win in Iraq. We're being beaten by insurgents who don't even have any tanks.” After Rose pointed out the Iraqi insurgents “have a lot of roadside bombs that kill a lot of Americans” and wondered “where do you think they come from?”, Turner answered:

I think that they're patriots and that they don't like us because we've invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing: we'd be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded.

Ted Turner is NUTZ

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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2008, 08:09:47 AM »
Once again we learn why Fox news is #1
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2008, 09:42:28 AM »
He's an idiot.
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2008, 10:34:37 AM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on April 02, 2008, 08:09:47 AM
Once again we learn why Fox news is #1

And why his opinions are meaningless, just like Al Gore's.   :mental:
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2008, 10:41:06 AM »
"And, Grandma, what warm oily teeth you have."

"THE BETTER TO EAT YOU WITH, MY DEAR!  GRRRRRRR!"
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2008, 12:59:13 PM »
Ted and his ilk will be the first to be considered "prey"....

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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2008, 01:51:26 PM »
Scientific Declinism: The New Fundamentalism



Sorry for the quality, I don't have any mad skills or leet skills but you get concept.
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2008, 03:22:26 PM »

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China just wants to sell us shoes.

how can you be this stupid, and still remember where you live?  :whatever:
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2008, 04:25:28 PM »
Ted, you can start now, EAT ME!
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2008, 04:53:04 PM »
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Build a man a fire and he will be warm for awhile.
Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life...

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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2008, 04:57:04 PM »
Just in case Ted's right, does anyone have some good recipes for 'long pig'.  :lmao:
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2008, 05:06:17 PM »
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Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hottest in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

...Dogs and Cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!!!!!!    :rotf:
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2008, 05:55:14 PM »
After reading this, I see why the portray him the way they do in Family Guy.
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2008, 06:39:14 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on April 02, 2008, 07:15:55 AM
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Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism...
fugging kewl!!!
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2008, 07:43:17 PM »
Makes one wonder how he was smart enough to get rich and start a TV network or two
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2008, 07:46:21 PM »
We'll have to make jerky out of the Hollywood types.  They wouldn't be any good for steaks and such. 
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Re: Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2008, 07:48:34 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on April 02, 2008, 07:43:17 PM
Makes one wonder how he was smart enough to get rich and start a TV network or two
Well, you know, this is really good news for all of us who aren't as rich as maybe we would like to be, yet.  Maybe some of us didn't think we were smart enough but Ted Turner disproves the myth that a person must be intelligent to get rich.
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