Friday, April 04, 2014

Global Warming - Changing Indifference

AlterNet: Changing our Climate of Indifference - Americans need to hear from the media about the climate crisis even if there's a shortage of cheerful angles.
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2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

The Alternet like many left wing blogs bans people like me because I don't ascribe to the party line on a few issues , namely the Arab/Israeli situation and Immigration reform. I'm unabashedly for a 2 State solution in Israel/Palestine. That's not popular with lefties these days , who seem to think they can stigmatize Israel out of existence ( not going to happen, Israel is not So. Africa and Zionism is not Apartheid.) That said, I'm not a Zionist either. Palestinians deserve a State and the UN has given them one. They don't want it from what I can see, they want Israel and Jews to just vanish. So to hell with them. I'm also a Nationalist when it comes to Immigration. What does being in someone's country without permission mean if you don't enforce the law? If I go to any other country on Earth and try to stay there, work there and live there without a permit of some kind I'll be summarily tossed out. Everywhere , except of course here. So we have 12 mil. illegal residents here working, raising families and basically doing whatever. Its wrong. Illegal means illegal. Many other people enter the US and go through the legal process, am I supposed to push these law abiding folks to the back of the line for citizenship because millions of others decide to simply ignore the law? On top of that the right is using these people to destroy Labor Unions and to basically exploit them as semi-slaves by holding their status or lack thereof over their heads. Anyway, both positions make me non persona grata at the Alternet, a site that blabs on and on about freedom of speech et al. , but doesn't practice it in reality. I have no more time for leftwing hypocrites then I do rightwing ones. So the Alternet and a few others like KOS and Common Cause can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned. if they want to stink up the air about freedom and tolerance maybe they should start practicing it at their blogs first before lecturing everyone else about it.

4:11 PM
Jim Sande said...

GK thanks for the thoughtful and insightful post. I never comment anywhere, so I'm not banned from anything, I don't think. I know very little about both topic in truth. One thing I keep in the back of my mind about Israel/Palestine is something I saw a few years ago. It's about how there is tremendous intermarrying going on between both sides and that eventually that intermarrying will be so pronounced that it will be hard to differentiate who is who so to speak. Thinking about it right now it occurs to me that this is a case where immigration carries a lot of potential in the sense that it possibly diffuses hostility. Hope springs eternal...

4:58 PM

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