The Loony Bin
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Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:11:02 +0000
Hiya Loonies... Here are some more of those Presidential quotes...sent to us by Ingrid... Wishes & Dreams... - ANDREA xx ***<andrea@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk>****<ajc6@ukc.ac.uk>*** ***<bloodaxe@geocities.com>***<bloodaxe@bigfoot.com>*** *** *** *** THE LOONY BIN *** *** loonies@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk *** *** Archive: http://eleceng.ukc.ac.uk/~pjw/loonies/ *** *** *** *******************Internet Goddess******************** **********************ANDROMEDA************************ ------- Forwarded foolishness follows ------- Here are some quotes from Ronald Reagan, spanning the golden years of his awe-inspiring political career: "We're not building missiles to fight a war. We're building missiles to preserve the peace." "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." Reagan '81 "A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?" Reagan '66, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park "I have flown twice over Mt St Helens out on our west coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about." Reagan '80. Actually, Mount St. Helens, at its peak activity, emitted about 2,000 tons of sulphur dioxide per day, compared with 81,000 tons per day by cars. "Facts are stupid things." '88 (slight misquote of John Adams, 'Facts are stubborn things.') "Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal." '76 Here is what Reagan said according to Political Babble by David Olive: "The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees." Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, in 1979. There is no scientific data to support this assertion