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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on April 19, 2009, 03:53:12 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5489295
Oh my.
The subway cat:
undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-19-09 12:36 PM
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Why isn't the brain green?
Two days after Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States, the Pew Research Center released a poll ranking the issues that Americans said were the most important priorities for this year. At the top of the list were several concerns — jobs and the economy — related to the current recession. Farther down, well after terrorism, deficit reduction and enÂergy (and even something the pollsters characterized as “moral declineâ€) was climate change. It was priority No. 20. That was last place.
A little more than a week after the poll was published, I took a seat in a wood-paneled room at Columbia University, where a few dozen academics had assembled for a two-day conference on the environment. In many respects, the Pew rankings were a suitable backdrop for the get-together, a meeting of researchers affiliated with something called CRED, or the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. A branch of behavioral research situated at the intersection of psychology and economics, decision science focuses on the mental procesÂses that shape our choices, behaviors and attitudes.
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Very interesting article,check it out,it's worth the read...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19Science-t....
Now, at another bonfire on Skins's island--I forgot to nab it--the subway cat complains about the frivolity of responses to this bonfire.
I dunno what the subway cat was griping about.
dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-19-09 12:45 PM
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1. because it's not easy being green
after which photograph of a toad puppet
stuntcat (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-19-09 02:05 PM
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2. bump kick
because it's the only important thing anymore, but I think I'm the only one in the world who feels that way
(and I haven't even finished the article yet, I read too slow! but TY)
That's the whole bonfire.
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lol.
only a third of Americans think humans are causing global warming.
stuff it DU
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This "behavioral economics" is the cornerstone of Dear Leader's environmental policies. It's an upgraded version of keeping up with the Jones. Basically put, it says that if the gov't can convice a certain percentage of people that doing something is a good idea, that by getting them to practice these ideas that other people around them will want to do what they have done, or they will be shamed into doing so because it will be made out that to do otherwise would be uncaring. Interesting concept, but I'm pretty sure they've underestimated the willingness of independent Americans to kick back. Now, show people where they can immediately save money by doing so and you may have something, but they haven't done that.
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I need a government babysitter
but I am just mad and bitter
cuz I ran out of kitty litter
.... oh if I only had a brain
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I need a government babysitter
but I am just mad and bitter
cuz I ran out of kitty litter
.... oh if I only had a brain
Damn, you're good, sir.
Admirable.
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Damn, you're good, sir.
Admirable.
she needs a website... is strangecritter.com taken??
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she needs a website... is strangecritter.com taken??
The subway cat actually has a website, whose name I forget.
It's got some great photographs.
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The subway cat actually has a website, whose name I forget.
It's got some great photographs.
Oh, I have no DOUBT!
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Hell, what's wrong with a little global warming? I enjoyed some on Sunday at the beach....80 and sunny in Santa Cruz CA.
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Her MySpace page is not difficult to locate.
blech.
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Her MySpace page is not difficult to locate.
blech.
maybe we rightwingers should offer to be her friend, en masse
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maybe we rightwingers should offer to be her friend, en masse
I considered it just to see what her reaction would be, but I don't want that thing on my MySpace page.
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maybe we rightwingers should offer to be her friend, en masse
How does "Hell No" sound ?
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Her MySpace page is not difficult to locate.
blech.
Her friends are just as freaky as she is! She has this male witch from Montana on there who is a complete trip! :lmao:
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I was operating under the assumption that UGP's brain had gone green with mold a long time ago?