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...other part is to get as realistic as possible about what we can actually do about climate change. Everybody seems to be so enamored by this idea we've got to cut emissions and we've got to cut them right now. And I understand why: because it makes us feel warm and fuzzy. We're doing something. Of course the real fact of the matter is we don't do very much. We promise a lot, but we don't actually do very much. And the honest-to-God reason is it's fairly expensive...
...Goldman Sachs, the native sons whose jobs they’ve stolen are forced into dependence on their trust funds years before their time. All the while, the foreign pretenders talk to each other in languages other than English, knowing full well that no self-respecting American could possibly understand them...
...survivors of the collapse had been overlooked by the media. It was something many survivors talked about, but she was particularly focused on the unfairness. "What hasn't been acknowledged is that even if you weren't injured or didn't lose someone, you went through something people cannot understand. You saw things," she said. She also talked about how survivors could help grieving family members. She talked of meeting a woman who had lost her son on 9/11. "She didn't understand why her son hadn't evacuated," Head said. "I was close to where...
...understand exactly why in 2007 we have found ourselves in a position where we've had this many police officers shot and killed," says Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Darrel Stephens, who also serves as president of the Major Cities Police Chiefs. "It's a big jump over the past year. We've had two officers killed in Charlotte on April 1. The last time we lost an officer who had been shot was in 1994. We went almost 14 years between that...
...DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who heads the conservative Senate Steering Committee, welcomed Bush's move - though he admitted it's purely symbolic. "I don't think we're actually going to get the legislation done," DeMint said. "But if he could help build the foundation so Americans understand it's a problem that needs to be fixed, he could do a good service if he could lay the groundwork for the next President...