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Re: sierra club on bbs?
By:Rob Macks
Date: 3/12/2001, 12:37 pm
In Response To: Re: sierra club on bbs? (Spidey)

: IMHO, the Sierra Club is not worthy of beetle dung . . .

: Here in Sarasota County, they held that 100 human deaths a year at a bad
: intersection was not worth the destruction of a nest of a few spotted
: somethings, and effectively thwarted the building of an overpass that
: would have saved a 100 human deaths a year just to save a couple of birds
: . . .

: It is classic anthropomorphism, the transferrance of human qualities to
: non-human entities. We're talking far left, about 2 full steps left of
: Jane Fonda. The Sierra Club sucks big-time, keep a wide berth if you value
: humankind . . .

: Best Regards, Spidey

It’s unfortunate that people believe this kind of simplistic polarizing rhetoric.

But it produces the effect for which it was intended.

Obviously people are too self absorbed to probe deeper , even when their own best interest is at stake.

The NRA was very effective with the message Chartin Heston used to terrify the legitimate hunters out there, so now we have Bush-light in office.

If the Serria Club has to use the same kind of simplistic method to get people to set down their mail order catalogs for a moment and use their brains for something other than shopping, then I’m all for it.
You have to have some kind of gimmick to get on the “news”.

The alternative is to just let folks watch their WWF matches on TV until the whole eco-system collapses.

Then we’ll be motivated by staggering death tolls.

all the best,
Uncle Robbie

Messages In This Thread

sierra club on bbs?
brett (the hitman hart)onnink -- 3/10/2001, 5:26 pm
Re: sierra club and its outings
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/14/2001, 3:02 am
Re: sierra club on bbs?
Dave -- 3/12/2001, 2:01 pm
Re: sierra club on bbs?
Spidey -- 3/11/2001, 2:41 am
Re: sierra club on bbs?
Rob Macks -- 3/12/2001, 12:37 pm
Re: sierra club on bbs?
Arlen -- 3/11/2001, 1:59 pm
Re: sierra club on bbs?
Brian Nystrom -- 3/12/2001, 12:08 pm
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bob -- 3/11/2001, 11:19 pm
Re: sierra club on bbs?
Arlen -- 3/13/2001, 4:01 pm
Local Alternatives
john doerter -- 3/15/2001, 1:02 am
Re: 100 per year? You got to be kidding *NM*
Grant Goltz -- 3/11/2001, 1:01 pm
Re: sierra club on bbs?
John Monfoe -- 3/11/2001, 4:48 am
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Alex Warren -- 3/11/2001, 7:43 am
Re: sierra club on bbs?
Don Beale -- 3/12/2001, 12:29 am
Tree Huggers
Paul Lund -- 3/12/2001, 3:47 am
Re: Tree Huggers
Don Beale -- 3/12/2001, 10:19 am
Re: Tree Huggers
Paul Lund -- 3/13/2001, 4:08 am
Re: Tree Huggers
Doug Kuik -- 3/13/2001, 1:02 pm
Re: sierra club on bbs?
brett (the hitman hart)onnink -- 3/11/2001, 12:39 pm