# Please make G.W.Bush a one-time mistake **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 24, 2001, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-make-g-w-bush-a-one-time-mistake/73608 "2001-07-24T10:21:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-make-g-w-bush-a-one-time-mistake/73608/21 "2001-07-25T12:01:05Z")
P.S. to George: Well done for pissing off Jimmy Carter. Do you have any idea how hard that is to do? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-make-g-w-bush-a-one-time-mistake/73608/22 "2001-07-25T12:27:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by F-Dutchman \* > Crusoe was right: My only intention by the my post was to generate: “world flame-fest” or as London\_Calling said it: > “Let the mindless, nationalistic Games commence…” Maybe you should read [What is a troll?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mtroll.html) A quote from above link. > [@](#): > > “Troll,” in the context of message boards and the like, describes somebody who is posting just to be confrontational or to raise hackles. ---
**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-make-g-w-bush-a-one-time-mistake/73608/23 "2001-07-26T05:14:17Z")
ITR: I’m not going to search for the URL’s, but trust me, I was there. Must have been the very late 70’s or early 80’s. The “Next Global Ice Age” stuff made the cover of Time, Newsweek, etc etc… Lot’s of great quotes from the scientists and so on. If you really, really have to see them in print, I might be cajoled to find some cites. Regardless if they were “right” or “wrong” the truth (really) is that we haven’t been studying the weather long enough to have any idea what normal weather is. Maybe the earth’s temperature is on an upswing, maybe not. Maybe it’s caused by humans, maybe not. Certainly large scale geologic events- Volcanos come to mind, inject tons of gases into the atmosphere in far greater quantities than we could hope to duplicate. Ozone “holes” are a doomsayers perennial favorite as well. I remember being told in grade school that the world would “run out” (As in completely) of Oil by the 1990’s; I’m still waiting. I know there are serious environmental concerns, but flat out fabrication and propaganda tends to discredit the environmentalists and make reasonable people suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-make-g-w-bush-a-one-time-mistake/73608/24 "2001-07-26T06:10:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by F-Dutchman \* > \*\*Dear Flamers, > > Usually a discussion like this in the pit brings out flames that could pale mount Etna. An onslaught of generalisations written in exuberant English, laced with vile puns and funny stereotyping. I was looking forward to this. > > Crusoe was right: My only intention by the my post was to generate: “world flame-fest” or as London\_Calling said it: > “Let the mindless, nationalistic Games commence…” > > I failed miserably. Maybe it has been done to many times or maybe the divide between Europe and the USA is just oceanic… \*\* F-Dutchman, do NOT troll. This is an Official Warning. Don’t do it again. We have enough flames break out already, we don’t need someone setting up flame fests. Lynn Bodoni Administrator For the Straight Dope ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-make-g-w-bush-a-one-time-mistake/73608/25 "2001-07-26T07:22:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by F-Dutchman \* > \*\*Make G.W. Bush a one termer Please!!! > > Voters of the USA: Please make G.W.Bush a one-time mistake. \*\* Well, don’t blame me. I voted for Gore. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2001, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-make-g-w-bush-a-one-time-mistake/73608/26 "2001-07-26T09:50:54Z")
Closing this at the request of the OP. Lynn [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-make-g-w-bush-a-one-time-mistake/73608.md?page=1)