43, For a Final Time

I can see by the comments that George has hit a nerve. It is amazing how educated people are blinded by the written word. If it is written often enough it is fact regardless of the acutal truth. Well done George for showing these "jump on the band wagon" blinded by words not by evidence. Must be time for their second hand smoke to kill them off....

George, obviously does not have a clue about the science of global warming or whoever is paying him to deny it has convinced him that to slap the media down for their'media manufactured alarm' is the best way to deny it. How does this man get so much attention for saying such inane things about global warming? For that matter, how does he rate getting such a prime column in a fairly fair and balanced magazine such as Newsweek? George is neither fair nor balanced and he certainly is out of the loop for a man who is supposed to represent rea news. I don't get it.

"He takes his leave with the serenity of someone sustained by a providential sense of history . . .
Mr. Will, instead of providential don't you mean delusional?

???. . . refused to be stampeded toward costly "solutions" to a supposed crisis that might be chimerical, and that, if real, could be adapted for considerably less cost than will be sunk in efforts at prevention.???

I can???t remember who made this statement but it reflects my sentiments:

When you talk to someone who is concerned about costs when it come to global warming, you know you are talking to moron. The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the ecology.

God it's totally plane as day now to see just how twisted George is. The Elections must really have triggered a primordial flaw in Simple Will's Repiglican brain.

George Will

Your assessment of global temperature trends is seriously flawed. Please see this <a href=" http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/george-wills-interpretation-of-global-temperature-trends-is-flawed/"> post </a> to understand the global temperature trends since 1880 and see how El Nino - La Nina events and volcanoes cause short term - temporary pauses in the temperature rise. You picked 2001 - 2008, a period with short term La Nina cooling effects that will fade and the long term warming trend will resume.

As a baseball fan, you have given us the following commentary on a game:

" The score was unchanged in the most recent inning."

You did not tell us the overall score, Who is winning? What inning? Who has the momentum? Are any key players hurt or out of the game?

As a sports announcer, you would have failed to give us an accurate picture of the game. As a national commentator, you did fail to give us an accurate assessment of global warming trends.

For a long time I have read Newsweek faithfully... after this article, I will no more! George F Will made a mockery of everything journalists stand for. Every last word was carefully twisted until the message they hid was unrecognizable...Seriously... the reason Katrina was such a disaster was: 1. The US Army Corps of Engineers did not do their job (not state government) and 2. Given such incredible amounts of damage, New Orleans and Louisiana were relatively powerless to fix it, this is when the federal government is supposed to step in...

I reached the sentence which contained "media-manufactured alarm about man-made global warming" and just gave up. You're an idiot. I give up. Do some research please... all scientists now agree there is global climate change...

The legacy of President Bush will be evaluated every day for years. Iraq will be central to this evaluation initially but will dimish over time. President Bush's other actions outlined by Mr. Will should, over time, become more central. I suspect that an ever expanding role of government will continue for quite a long period of time. At some point a majority of the American people will decide that government can not continue to be all things to everyone.

Hey George, quit hogging the bong!

This theory that only history can judge Bush is the last desperate action of a flailing Conservative corpse. Those like George will are trying to do a Jedi mind trick on the American people and convince them that although we've judged every other president by his actions while in office we should wait ten or twenty years to see how Iraq turns out before we should judge Bush. The reality is that if Iraq turns out to be a positive it will be because the current President and future Presidents have cleaned up the steaming dung pile that George Bush left behind. Bush has left with the "I don't give a dam" attitude that he's shown towards the voice of the American people throughout his presidency. His only serenity comes from the fact that over time people will forget how sorry a president he really was.

George, is this really how you want to be remembered? This absolute "Tripe!!!!"

Geroge, is this really how you want to be remembered? This is absolute "Tripe!!!!!"

George Will's defense of Bush and his administration is reprehensible.

I am thrilled to see that America's general illiteracy in science has traveled to even high level journalists. The main data for man-made global warming is a graph that shows earth's average temperature for the past 400,000 years. So it is not surprising that the temperature did not rise in Bush's 8 years, which 0.002% of the above mentioned graph, because 8 years is not even considered in geological time. I hope that in the future, George, you either refrain from editorializing on science or put in the research time to find the correct answer. Either way, thank for contributing to the lack of scientific understanding in our country. Go USA!

Amazing how blind a smart person can be, or pretend to be. Not one drop of american blood wasted on Iraq, not one dollar wasted in Iraq did that "for the security of American freedom". It was sadly only wasted.
Iraq was no threat to America, Afganistan was, and was abandoned even before the fight started.
TSA is not making our flights saver. No one with a box cutter could highjack a plane again. Who stopped the infamous "shoe bomber" was not the TSA, or any of the security measures forced by them, but the crew and passengers of the plane where he was.
The departing administration did not make America stronger, but instead fomented fear and built a "kingdom" based on that fear. America is not stronger because of Bush, is stronger in spite of him.
Is really sad how this George W wants so much to justify the departing one (not one day too soon).

"Within the lifetimes of most Americans now living, today's media-manufactured alarm about man-made global warming might be an embarrassing memory. The nation will then be better off because Bush???during whose administration the embarrassing planet warmed not at all???refused to be stampeded toward costly "solutions" to a supposed crisis that might be chimerical, and that, if real, could be adapted for considerably less cost than will be sunk in efforts at prevention."

The only explanation for this paragraph is that it must be a clever tribute to Bush's butchering of the English language.

Now THAT is putting lipstick on a pig!