pro choice ([info]retrofire) wrote,
@ 2007-06-20 23:18:00
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Addressing Climate Crisis, Bush Calls For Development Of National Air Conditioner

Best 5 second video on the internet

Thomas Barnett draws a new map for peace

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[info]nova_42
2007-06-21 08:05 pm UTC (link)
unfortunately that national air conditioner is fueled by the tears of iraqi children

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[info]retrofire
2007-06-21 11:05 pm UTC (link)
I think they would build nuclear power plants to run it - they want more nuclear power plants so badly - so it would be fueled by cancerous lungs, pancreases, uteruses, colons, breasts and maybe even brains. More cancer is part of the Social Security planning for the future. So far the life expectancy of Americans is three years less than Canadians. There is still much work to be done. 3,700 deaths each year are the result of poor air quality, but some of them are young children which doesn't really count, so progress is slow.*

*Disclaimer: This is all sarcasm. Sometimes the internet makes a sarcastic person look insane. However, this disclaimer does not necessarily mean that I am not insane. I might be able to find someone to vouch for my sanity. Can't you just take my word for it? The statisical information is accurate.**

**This was supposed to be funny. Shit.

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[info]carlalyzaj
2008-07-16 06:17 pm UTC (link)
31 Status of Iraqi Institutions: The Iraq National Library and Archive (Dar al-Kutub wa al-Watha. Iq).

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[info]nova_42
2007-06-22 02:51 am UTC (link)
LOL its so funny cause its probably true.


***i am also being sarcastic

****could this whole conversation be what's called a "moo-point"? i'm honestly not sure...lol

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Moot Point Extravaganza
[info]retrofire
2007-06-22 04:42 am UTC (link)
I had to look up moot point because my mind thought of mute point which makes some sense (and I also found out that such a mistake is actually called an egg/corn).

Also I wasn't sure of the exact definition. It took two definitions because I like my definitions razor sharp:

"Moot Point - A matter that is still open to discussion or debatable, but usually with the connotation that it is an academic question because it is no longer significant or because agreement is unlikely to be reached.

Moot Point - A debatable question, an issue open to argument; also, an irrelevant question, a matter of no importance. For example, Whether Shakespeare actually wrote the poem remains a moot point among critics, or It's a moot point whether the chicken or the egg came first. This term originated in British law where it described a point for discussion in a moot, or assembly, of law students. By the early 1700s it was being used more loosely in the present sense."

While no one enjoys beating a dead horse more than I do (not literally jeez) I think determining whether this whole conversation is a moot point would in itself be a moot point. Now if we could frame another moot point around this entire discussion I think we could be on our way to forming a "moot point onion" where layers of moot points are peeled away to reveal in the end that it was all just a series of moot points. Which brings up to the fact that this article is from "The Onion." I wonder why they call it that? hahaha

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Re: Moot Point Extravaganza
[info]nova_42
2007-06-22 10:21 pm UTC (link)
OMG awesome!! you discovered the "super-string theory" of conversational moot points!!!!!!
scientists have been searching for this for hundreds of years!!

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Re: Moot Point Extravaganza
[info]retrofire
2007-06-22 10:31 pm UTC (link)
All I ever heard of is super glue and silly string. So if it is the super-string theory then silly-glue is what would be left over. I love science.

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[info]orsolyaqumow
2008-07-16 04:51 am UTC (link)
It's a moot point really, but I would guess that the decline is particularly complex and didn't simply stem from weighty issues of unknowability (or because everyone started reading Bertrand Russell or whatever).

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[info]anniesiruz
2008-07-17 03:59 am UTC (link)
" In an early sense (now obsolete), "fuliginous" was used to describe noxious bodily vapors once thought to be produced by organic processes.

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[info]h2bw
2009-11-24 04:18 pm UTC (link)
Happy Birthday!

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