Mouth of South predicts doom

[j]

Leave it to a Liberal Whacko....

Even while his three foundations continue to spend millions of dollars on environmental and health initiatives, Ted Turner told a newspaper group Sunday night he does not have an optimistic outlook for the future of the world.
"If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years," Turner said. "Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me."

Returning to the city that was home to the CNN and Turner Broadcasting companies he founded, Turner was the featured speaker at the Associated Press Managing Editors international coverage seminar. Turner spoke to editors from 10 regional states and admitted he may not be very good at making predictions.

"I said 20 years ago newspapers wouldn't be around in 10 years, and I was wrong," Turner said.

Turner, who now lives in Lamont, Fla., stepped down as vice chairman of AOL Time Warner and sold 50 million shares of the company's stock earlier this year.

"It's really a good thing those no-good weasels ran me off, they pushed me out," Turner said, adding he now has more time for his philanthropic projects.

Turner said his Turner Foundation focuses on environmental issues in America. He said his U.N. Foundation already has contributed about $600 million to support United Nations programs and will contribute another $400 million in the next eight years to complete his $1 billion pledge.

Turner also co-chairs the Nuclear Threat Initiative with former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, an effort that allows Turner to address his concerns that the end of the Cold War did not end the nuclear threat.

"The most dangerous thing in the world right now is the fact the Russian and American nuclear missiles, 10 years after the Cold War is over, are still a hair-trigger away with less than 10 minutes response time from two presidents who thankfully are together today," Turner said.

The ever-candid Turner also gave a negative review to the U.S. efforts in Iraq.

"We spent $87 billion to blow Iraq up and then we spent another $87 billion to put it back together, and all to get one man and we still haven't got him," Turner said. "Talk about a failure."

Turner's wealth had been estimated at more than $7 billion before the Time Warner stock dropped sharply following its merger with AOL. Earlier this month, Forbes Magazine estimated Turner's wealth at $2.3 billion, good for a tie for the No. 78 position on the magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans.

[coriolis]

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah

[GulfBreezer]

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah

LOL...........DITTO

[JetMaxx]

Hmmm....Turner and I finally agree on something....but for far different reasons..

He sees the end of the world in fifty years because he's a left wing loon who's anti-nuclear, pro-enviromental wacko..

I see it because I've studied Bible end times prophecies, and see a lot occurring today that is predicted in Revelations to occur just before the rise of the anti-Christ (just call me a Rev. Hal Lindsey wannabe

[GalvestonDuck]

Haven't people been predicting the end of the world since...well, almost the beginning?

Good song by the Newsboys:

Lights Out

last one turns the lights out, and makes sure every curtain's drawn
nails the shutters shut, he's sure
we are not of this world for long
who do you think you are?
did you figure out the date?
what do you hope to do
while you sit around and wait, wait, wait?
last one turns the lights out, and disconnects the answer-phone
stuffs all sense of mission, says
"I just can't turn the tide alone"
who do you think you are?
did you figure out the time?
what do you hope to do
while you hide out and whine, whine, whine...

Chorus
DON'T GO SHUTTIN' DOWN
'TIL THE TRUMPET SOUNDS
AND THE BATTLE IS WON
DON'T GO PUNCHIN' OUT
'TIL THE FINAL SHOUT
AND THE FATHER SAYS, "WELL DONE"

last one turns the light out, and just keeps playing dumb
these were his instructions, he's not sure where he got 'em from
why do you wanna hide in a separate class?
why do you buy the lie
of a faith under glass, glass, glass...

Chorus

last one turns the lights out, and climbs up to the top of the roof
he's sitting there 'til the Second Coming
says he's got the mathematical proof
who do you think you are?
did you figure out the date?
what do you hope to do
while you sit around and wait, wait, wait...

Chorus

[David]

Leave it to a Liberal Whacko....

Even while his three foundations continue to spend millions of dollars on environmental and health initiatives, Ted Turner told a newspaper group Sunday night he does not have an optimistic outlook for the future of the world.
"If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years," Turner said. "Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me."

Returning to the city that was home to the CNN and Turner Broadcasting companies he founded, Turner was the featured speaker at the Associated Press Managing Editors international coverage seminar. Turner spoke to editors from 10 regional states and admitted he may not be very good at making predictions.

"I said 20 years ago newspapers wouldn't be around in 10 years, and I was wrong," Turner said.

Turner, who now lives in Lamont, Fla., stepped down as vice chairman of AOL Time Warner and sold 50 million shares of the company's stock earlier this year.

"It's really a good thing those no-good weasels ran me off, they pushed me out," Turner said, adding he now has more time for his philanthropic projects.

Turner said his Turner Foundation focuses on environmental issues in America. He said his U.N. Foundation already has contributed about $600 million to support United Nations programs and will contribute another $400 million in the next eight years to complete his $1 billion pledge.

Turner also co-chairs the Nuclear Threat Initiative with former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, an effort that allows Turner to address his concerns that the end of the Cold War did not end the nuclear threat.

"The most dangerous thing in the world right now is the fact the Russian and American nuclear missiles, 10 years after the Cold War is over, are still a hair-trigger away with less than 10 minutes response time from two presidents who thankfully are together today," Turner said.

The ever-candid Turner also gave a negative review to the U.S. efforts in Iraq.

"We spent $87 billion to blow Iraq up and then we spent another $87 billion to put it back together, and all to get one man and we still haven't got him," Turner said. "Talk about a failure."

Turner's wealth had been estimated at more than $7 billion before the Time Warner stock dropped sharply following its merger with AOL. Earlier this month, Forbes Magazine estimated Turner's wealth at $2.3 billion, good for a tie for the No. 78 position on the magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans.

[wx247]

Whatever... this guy is dumb. He has a right to his opinion and I have a right to mine... mine is stated in the previous sentence.

[azsnowman]

You know what REALLY frosts my cookies?? This jerk supports the SouthWest Center For Biological Diversity, the ones who are responsible for the F'N Spotted Owl B.S. and the jerk lives in Florida?? Come on, I bet he's never seen a Spotted Owl, I mean, I live where there's *suppose* to be owls, "I've" never seen one! "JERK!" "LOL!"

Dennis

[j]

pretty bad when you donate money to a cause you know nothing about simply because its a radical position to take.

[azsnowman]

Yup......and isn't he the one who's trying to shove Buffalo ranching on people......"THAT" really gets my goat too, I'm all for the Buffalo making a comeback but I've got too many friends and Family in the cattle ranching business.

Dennis

[streetsoldier]

I love hearing about "end-time" prophecies...they have been declared, often without a clear understanding of ORIGINAL language (Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and "koine", a polyglot Greek trade speech) Scriptural evidence, for the last 2,000 years.

Didn't Christ Himself say, "Even as the lightning flashes from the east even unto the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be"? In other words, "as a thief in the night", TOTALLY UNEXPECTED or foreseeable.

I'm not worried...why are you? [/i]

[wx247]

I love hearing about "end-time" prophecies...they have been declared, often without a clear understanding of ORIGINAL language (Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and "koine", a polyglot Greek trade speech) Scriptural evidence, for the last 2,000 years.

Didn't Christ Himself say, "Even as the lightning flashes from the east even unto the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be"? In other words, "as a thief in the night", TOTALLY UNEXPECTED or foreseeable.

I'm not worried...why are you? [/i]

Amen. I couldn't have said it better.

[mf_dolphin]

As far as Ted Turner goes... "consider the source" seems to apply!

[azsnowman]

Maybe he's the Anti Christ "LOL!"

Dennis

[GalvestonDuck]

Buffalo? Can they make a comeback?

[JQ Public]

haha!