Time man of the year

[spence]

Originally Posted by scottw

"You might be a progressive ideologue if:


4. You find that people who don't agree with you are idiots or racists or mean-spirited...

Not even close.

Why 2012 was the best year ever
Never in the history of the world has there been less hunger, less disease and more prosperity
The Spectator 15 December 2012

It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is borne out by evidence. Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity. The West remains in the economic doldrums, but most developing countries are charging ahead, and people are being lifted out of poverty at the fastest rate ever recorded. The death toll inflicted by war and natural disasters is also mercifully low. We are living in a golden age.

Why 2012 was the best year ever The Spectator

Suck it all you haters.

-spence

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

Not even close.



Suck it all you haters.

-spence

2012 may be the best year ever for the planet as a whole, but it was not the best year ever for the United States Of America. And the last time I checked, Obama didn't get elected as president of the U.N. or some League Of Nations, he is the leader of this country.

So according to Spence, we should not hold Obama responsible for the fact that the economy stinks here. Rather, we should give Obama credit for the good things that are happening everywhere else, things which in reality, Obama did not contribute to.

But in Spence-world, all the good things that have happened since 6500 B.C., are thanks to Obama.

And if I'm not inclined to give Obama 100% credit for the fact that Nepal had a good wheat crop this year, Spence says I am a 'hater'.

Got it, check.

[Jim in CT]

You have to love the irony...

Spence points to the fact that developing countries are continuing to develop, as evidence that the world is in good shape. He also says, somehow, that Obama deserves the credit for that, but we'll put that aside.

What's the irony, you ask? The irony, and it is spectacular, is this...here, Spence celebrates the development of up-and-coming countries. But if liberals like Spence had their way, they would put an immediate halt to that development, in the name of global warming. The liberals want to tell these developing countries to stop using fossil fuels, stop driving cars, stop eating cows that fart methane gas, stop building houses that use electricity and fossil fuels, stop tapping into gas and coal resources that are literally fueling the development.

So which is it, Spence? Is that development a good thing for our planet, or a bad thing? Because if it's good for those countries to use their natural resources to develop, then kindly tell me why your ilk claim that we shoudn't do the same exact thing here with our abundant coal and natural gas resources?

You can't have it both ways, Spence. Have fun getting yourself out of that intellectual corner you backed into.