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Alito Hearings; The Environmental Impact
Topic Started: Jan 13 2006, 06:04 AM (190 Views)
George K
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SEN. BIDEN PRODUCING DANGEROUSLY HIGH LEVELS OF CARBON DIOXIDE

Talkative Lawmaker Creating Environmental Threat, Scientists Fear

Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who has dominated this week’s confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito with his seemingly nonstop talking, is producing dangerously high level of carbon dioxide that could pose a serious environmental threat, leading scientists said today.

While many observers have found Sen. Biden’s interminable orating tedious and wearisome, few suspected that the lawmaker was producing gases that could threaten the ecological balance of the planet.

But at a conference in Oslo, Norway devoted to the environmental challenges posed by Sen. Biden’s endless nattering, scientists today said that the Delaware Democrat was producing levels of carbon dioxide that could prove harmful to many of the earth’s species.

“Carbon dioxide is a necessary part of the photosynthetic process that allows plants to grow,” said the University of Tokyo’s Dr. Hiroshi Kyosuke. “But the massive amounts of carbon dioxide produced by Joe Biden could prove to be too much for even the hardiest vegetation to process.”

Dr. Kyosuke and his colleagues were mulling a number of proposals for reining in the ecological threat posed by Sen. Biden, including urging the Environment Protection Agency to issue tougher emission standards for U.S. Senators.

The scientist said his peers were also “deeply concerned” about a possible environmental threat posed by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass): “There is a serious possibility that Sen. Kennedy’s head will block out the sun and cause all life on Earth to wither and die.”
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Considering the enormous volume of the greenhouse gas methane that already eminates from most parts of Washington, I think this is a pretty minor problem.
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George K
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Somebody actually timed Joe Biden. It was 11 minutes, 50 seconds from the time he started asking a question until Alito said his first word.
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- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

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They're all a bunch of wind bags enamored with the sound of their own voices.

I say, cut to the quick, already.
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JBryan
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That guy comes up for air so seldom he could practically live underwater if he could only hear the sound of his own voice.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

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Jan 13 2006, 06:19 AM
I say, cut to the quick, already.

:lol:

Please don't think of this as criticism, but I find mixed cliches amusing. I suspect you intended "cut to the chase" but perhaps not. I tend to associate "cut to the quick" with fingernails so it could be a reference to the questions on torture or maybe just the torture of listening to some of the questions.

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big al
Jan 13 2006, 09:24 AM
kathyk
Jan 13 2006, 06:19 AM
I say, cut to the quick, already.

:lol:

Please don't think of this as criticism, but I find mixed cliches amusing. I suspect you intended "cut to the chase" but perhaps not. I tend to associate "cut to the quick" with fingernails so it could be a reference to the questions on torture or maybe just the torture of listening to some of the questions.

Big Al

Al, it's no good leading the gift horse to water once the stable door is bolted.
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Funny thread! :lol:
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kathyk
Jan 13 2006, 06:09 AM
A truer example of the nattering nabobs of negatavism could ne'er be found.

I noticed your nice alliterative narration, Kathy! (Negativity notwithstanding, I thought it was neato!)
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Nerd. :nerd:
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George K
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Someone proposed that the senators be given 1 minute to ask a question. At 30 seconds, the light starts flashing, at 45 seconds the light is steady-red, and at 60 seconds, the mike is cut off.

It would make for interesting sport, no?
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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I think something along the line of electric shocks would be even more fun.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Jan 13 2006, 07:58 AM
I think something along the line of electric shocks would be even more fun.

At least the ratings on CSPAN would go up....
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Jan 13 2006, 07:28 AM
kathyk
Jan 13 2006, 06:09 AM
A truer example of the nattering nabobs of negatavism could ne'er be found.

I noticed your nice alliterative narration, Kathy! (Negativity notwithstanding, I thought it was neato!)

Does anyone else remember Spiro Agnew?

Big Al
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"jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen."
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Jan 13 2006, 08:28 AM
kathyk
Jan 13 2006, 06:09 AM
A truer example of the nattering nabobs of negatavism could ne'er be found.

I noticed your nice alliterative narration, Kathy! (Negativity notwithstanding, I thought it was neato!)

I feel sooooo old.

Al, yep.
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Spiro who?
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Jan 13 2006, 11:12 AM
Spiro who?

Isn't that what Richard M. Nixon said after the VP was indicted?

And since we're off to humor of that era, I understand that Nixon saw Deep Throat 23 times and still couldn't get it down Pat.

Big Al
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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big al
Jan 13 2006, 12:11 PM
Does anyone else remember Spiro Agnew?

Gesundheit!
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