For Christian climate skeptics, a
sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered
on the
issue of climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and climate change is not caused by man in any way, than a lack
of action will maintain the status quo.
there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years
of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each
of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy
of their respective clubs...
of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead
of others, especially if clubs
of note have become too reactionary when it comes to
issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting
of parameters for a changing
of the guard... in the case
of Arsenal, this
sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan
on the eve
of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me
of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they
of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move
on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans
of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests
of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their
actions, especially when every fiber
of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state
of Denmark
Moore explained that an API from Sunlight would rely
on a scraping process that would involve Sunlight going the extra steps
of «going through the website everyday, and seeing what's new, storing it,
sorting it, categorizing it, and then putting it back out to the public,» while it would be most valuable for the Council to be the «primary data publisher about what's going
on in their legislative
actions, and what's happening with different
issues.»
I am very, very afraid that by the time we begin to address the
issue in any
sort of meaningful, intelligent way, the cost
of action will be ridiculously and unnecessarily high, much as buying a new car is more expensive than bothering to fix the brakes
on your old car before they cause an accident that totals the vehicle.