PUBLIC FORUM : WHEN IT COMES TO LYING, NEVER SAY NEVER.Once upon a time, gentlemen could lie to protect wives and children from the harsh truths of the world. Today, this course of action is not possible. Rep. Bob Livingston This article is about the politician. For the Texas musician, see Bob Livingston (musician). Robert Linlithgow Livingston IV, better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C. had to confess in public as he was about to be exposed by Hustler magazine. His was an expedient action. Any politician's child should be aware of expedient actions. They are what must take place in government. President Roosevelt's action that led to lend-lease of military equipment to Britain in World War II was expedient. Where would we be today if he had not done this? Trying to fit any government into the shoe box of Republican perfection will not work, not now or ever. - Jean D. Bull Lake Isabella Lake Isabella is a man-made earthen reservoir in Kern County, California that consists of a main and auxiliary dam. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Kern River at the junction of its two forks at Whiskey Flat. So now we find that Rep. Livingston has had several affairs. So what? It's his own personal life, just as it was Clinton's personal life when he had sex with Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted (after initially denying) to having had an "inappropriate relationship"[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. . The difference is that it was no longer personal when Clinton lied under oath about it. Then it became a matter of concern to the people who expect their president, as chief law enforcer, to obey the laws. If Clinton is allowed to remain in office, it will set a precedent. How can we ever again expect any president to be honest with the American people An American people may be:
The reason Clinton must be removed from office is not that he had an affair, which was his own private business, but that he broke the law when he lied about it. - Arline George Reseda As I watched the impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. debate, I had mixed feelings. What action really would be the best for our country? Would that be to break in a new president or excuse and go on with the president we now have? The act of perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. is punishable by law, and President Clinton should be punished in some way. If not, then all others convicted of perjury should be pardoned, starting with Mark Fuhrman. - Dana Dreyfus West Hills Global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. threat This is in response to the opinion about global warming by Joseph J. Jacobs in the Daily News on Dec. 4. Jacobs' case for dismissal of the global warming theory rests on one individual's supposed recanting of his previous predictions. For this, Jacobs is guilty of one of engineering's deadly sins: extrapolation (mathematics, algorithm) extrapolation - A mathematical procedure which estimates values of a function for certain desired inputs given values for known inputs. If the desired input is outside the range of the known values this is called extrapolation, if it is inside then without sufficient data to back it up. First, while the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jim Hansen may have been the first to recognize the potential for global warming due to human activities, he is not the only one currently working on the problem. Before one can reasonably say that there is no basis for concern, one should check with the thousands of other scientists worldwide who are also working on it. Second, Hansen's statement that future climatic changes cannot be defined with accuracy is hardly an admission that the global warming theory is bunk. Jacobs attacks environmental groups for using the global warming issue to push their ``socialistic'' agenda. As a proud member of some of the groups mentioned, I take offense at his remarks. Jacobs extols the virtues of a free-market society as the pinnacle of socioeconomic systems. What these environmental groups have realized, as have most rational people with the ability to look beyond their own selfish short-term interests, is that unlimited growth, which the free-market society espouses, is fundamentally incompatible with a world that has finite resources. It isn't a question of whether this growth must stop, but rather when. Is global warming a certainty? No. Is it a possibility? Yes. And until we can say with absolute certainty that it can't happen, wouldn't the prudent, proactive, conservative approach be to take steps to take action; to move in a matter. See also: Step to prevent it? - Thomas J. Shepherd Canyon Country Reading Jacobs' article was frustrating. Here is someone with a scientific background who should know better than to trivialize this subject with his dismal little conspiracy theory about environmental groups with a cryptosocialist agenda. We cannot yet with certainty determine what causes this temperature to rise or predict what will happen years from now. But this uncertainty cuts both ways: The current temperature increase could reverse itself or it could accelerate with dire consequences. Already, droughts, floods and scorching scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. daytime temperatures are at an all-time high. For most of last summer, for instance, two-thirds of Bangladesh was under water, while drought-stricken tropical forests burned elsewhere in Asia and in South America. Taken in isolation, any one of these elements could be ignored, but put together, they are a cause for very serious concern. It is no surprise that scientists the world over, and the vast majority of those doing climate research, are alarmed. The human population has reached a point where it can and does cause massive disturbances in Earth's environment. For Jacobs to dismiss all this as a Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club conspiracy is not being a compassionate conservative, but a dumb, blindfolded blind·fold tr.v. blind·fold·ed, blind·fold·ing, blind·folds 1. To cover the eyes of with or as if with a bandage. 2. To prevent from seeing and especially from comprehending. n. 1. and pigheaded pig·head·ed adj. Stupidly obstinate. See Synonyms at obstinate. pig  head one.
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