What global warming?
Letter-writer and professional geoscientist Ray Bisque (Oct. 12 Open Forum) is correct in calling Mike Mills’ column “politically polluted” (“Vote to fight warming,” Oct. 11). There is clearly a hidden agenda behind all the climate mumbo-jumbo. I am suspicious of anyone who practices science for any purpose other than to increase corporate profits. Organizations like the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition can have nothing but our best interests at heart, so we should trust them completely. If anyone tries to convince us to change our behavior, we should stick our fingers in our ears and say, “Blah, blah, blah,” until they go away.
It is critical that we maximize our emissions of so-called “greenhouse gases” by driving the least efficient cars we can build and burning all the coal we possibly can. People like Mills are trying to deprive us of our basic right to destroy everything we see. What good is a glacier if you can’t see it through the windshield of a Hummer? I urge all Americans to stay diligent, reject as biased any scientific research that isn’t funded by the fossil fuel industry, watch Fox News daily, and drive the liberals out of their neighborhoods.
Sean Gale, Denver
Comparing George W. Bush to Kim Jong Il
Kim Jong Il is a much less popular North Korean leader than his father, Kim Il Sung, was. George W. Bush is not nearly as popular as his father was, either. Both leaders have been accused of gross human rights violations, including unjustified imprisonments and torture. Both have been characterized as madmen for their unabashed use of military power to achieve political goals. Security and financial stability have deteriorated in both countries since they have been in power. But in spite of all this, and in the face of intense global outrage, both have shown impressive determination to steadfastly stay their course. It’s no wonder they don’t trust each other.
Brian Quade, Denver
Congressional ban on Internet gaming sites
Re: “Online gambling’s losing hand,” Oct. 13 editorial.
I was surprised to read your editorial regarding the online gaming bill, especially considering the flawed logic used to support your position.
First, you support the bill because gambling makes it too easy to lose so much money so quickly, yet you have not called for a ban on all gambling such as that in traditional brick-and-mortar casinos. Additionally, in the editorial you note that the bill specifically exempts state-run lotteries and horse-racing wagers, both easy ways to lose money quickly. Are you also going to call for a ban on the stock market and all online day- trading? Your argument that gambling is bad because you can lose money doing it is the same flaw contained in the bill itself.
Second, you argue that the bill is good because gambling is “very addictive.” So are alcohol, chocolate and cigarettes. This bill is a perfect example of the “nanny government” you say you are not enamored with. People can find myriad places to “flush their hard-earned cash down the tubes” that have nothing to do with gambling, online or otherwise. Like cigarettes and alcohol, there is an age requirement to participate in gambling.
If Congress was enlightened about this, it would have sought to enforce that requirement along with regulating and taxing the online gaming industry.
John A. Armstrong, Colorado Springs
Errors in Beauprez fliers mailed from Texas
Re: “Beauprez flier goofs up words and faces,” Oct. 12 news story.
One of the things mentioned in your latest story about missteps in the Beauprez campaign is that they have paid $155,000 to a company in Texas this year for printing and mailing out campaign literature.
Bob Beauprez’s managers should have awarded this contract to a Colorado company so the money could have helped provide jobs in this state. If they had, it is likely the campaign brochure would have been assembled by someone who knew that Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff was not Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter.
Jon Esty, Denver
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