Day: December 19, 2009

Carolyn socks it to Sassone

Oak and Forest Leaves longtime columnist Paul Sassone

needs a lesson in patience, humanity and environmentalism. Perhaps the next time he’s in the checkout line behind a responsible person who brought reusable bags to the store, he should worry less about his melting ice cream and more about the melting polar ice caps.

Says letter writer Carolyn James, complaining about his column [not available on-line] in which he makes fun of people bringing their own bags to the checkout counter for environmental reasons and making him wait.

Yahoo! Melting ice cream vs. melting polar caps!  No contest!

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We’re keeping score, you know

What do you know?  We’re supposed to talk nice to people and not throw our weight around, and see how Obama-diplomacy worked in Cope-‘n-hang-in-there:

UK diplomatic sources . . . confirmed that China had taken huge offence at remarks by President Obama over the need to independently monitor every country[’s] carbon emissions.

In his speech President Obama said: “Without any accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page”.

The Chinese delegation interpreted these comments as an attempt to humiliate them. It prompted Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to return to his hotel and send low level delegates to take his place in the talks. [Italics added]

But what’s a kid from the South Side supposed to do when faced with inscrutable people?

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