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Can I Buy A Vowel

The High Priest of the Environment spoke and there was silence!
Al Gore, through a Herculean effort, was able to quote everyone under the historical sun by direct quote or reference.
Let's review, he gets and Oscar for a propaganda piece with more half truths and scientific mumbo jumbo. Then a Nobel Peace Prize, Arafat got one (until it was stolen and going for $31.99 on e-bay.)
But this little piece he put out almost caused me to drive my bald forehead through my solid oak desk. Had it not been for students in the vicinity and tipping my hat politically, it would have ugly.
First I love how he tries to sound religious:

I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.

I thought of Steve Martin in the The Jerk when he realized his "special purpose."
There are more samplings in this speech than a rap album:

One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life's work, unfairly labeling him "The Merchant of Death" because of his invention--dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, t he inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.
Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.

the words of an ancient prophet: "Life or death, blessings or curses. Therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."

Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitler's threat: "They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent."

Yet as George Orwell reminds us: "Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."

Now, we and the earth's climate are locked in a relationship familiar to war planners: "Mutually assured destruction."

As the American poet Robert Frost wrote, "Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice." Either, he notes, "would suffice."

Mahatma Gandhi awakened the largest democracy on earth and forged a shared resolve with what he called "Satyagraha"--or "truth force."

Mahatma Gandhi awakened the largest democracy on earth and forged a shared resolve with what he called "Satyagraha"--or "truth force."

One of their visionary leaders said, "It is time we steered by the stars and not by the lights of every passing ship."

of course, this classic

In the Kanji characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, "crisis" is written with two symbols, the first meaning "danger," the second "opportunity."

In the words of the Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, "Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk."

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door."

Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?"

What disappointed me is the failure to mention the immortal words of Beck
"I got two turntables and microphone!"

Something to think about

I just finished A World Without Us. The book examines how our world would return if all of mankind were to leave by rapture, aliens or roadtrip. Either way, it is a fascinating and preachy book. It tells how NYC would flood from the subway pumps being neglected, your house would erode (see the video from the website) and how the DMZ on the 38th is a refuge from endangered animals. Good read and thought provoking. If anything, fun things to ponder and discuss with rational adults.
One of the fringe groups it does mention is the The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement with the slogan:
"May we live long and die out"
I had to mention this group for the comedic value. In a nutshell, the nutjobs want us to stop reproducing, allow our race to die out and let Mother Earth reclaim the Earth. The website is slick and funny. But, if you choose to visit the site, which I recommend to see how the other side thinks, bring your humor and common sense. It reeks of that condescending air you find in alleged intellectuals and academics without a real job.
One thing struck me, the author of The World Without Us, claimed to have talked to the author Les Knight. The name of the sites author is Les U. Knight. Could this be a brilliant joke played on the envirmental treehuggers and their massive egos led by the High Priest Al Gore? Or someone afraid to give their real name?


And from Drudge comes this gem today ...
Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly

Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy.

But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.

Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

And you have done your part young lady by preventing your and your selfish husband from procreating. Thank you for doing your part.
Okay folks, that's one lineage of lunatics out of the genetic pool. Darwin has proven his point again.

It's called an induglence

Remember when they sold carbon offesets? They may still sell these scams, I just don't travel enough to notice. As we recall, these were enviromental indulgences where you paid for your guilt when you traveled in a godless jumbojet or biplane. That thought when through my feeble grey matter when I saw this cartoon.
With that being poorly written, have you seen the hybrid SUV commerical where the teenage girl asks dad to drop her off a distance away from her cool green friends. Apparently, they are into the green thing in that part of town and she may be shunned like a leper or some crap like that. The dad casually says his SUV is a hybrid and the BS ensues. If my daughter said that, I would tell her to go Ed Begly Jr. and take a friggin' bike.
This commercial blatantly projects the juvenile attitude of the green movement.
If you are weak enough to fall from some middle school level peer pressure in buying a hybrid because of this commercial. We need to to talk. It is not a bad thing to buy a hybrid, it's your choice. I disagree with creating a social caste system to those who chose free will over arrogant marketing.

The San Fran Voting Block

from MSNBC on Alan Greenspan and the Democrats economic battle plan:

The former Fed chair, who describes himself as a "libertarian Republican," has said he believes the Democratic Party's recent skepticism about trade is a move in the wrong direction.

Democratic-elected officials have this year said they detect a souring of many Americans on globalization. Fast-track trade authority legislation that would have smoothed the way for international trade agreements died in Congress earlier this year.

"The globalization issue is one that is menacing to many," House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, has said.

The "many" she refers to are the logic-lacking, narrow minded, anti-globalization hippies. She is from San Fran, it's her friggin' base.

Another Reason to Love Global Warming

orange line shows the most direct route the ice-free Northwest Passage beside partially blocked Northeast passage (blue line)
dark gray colour represents the ice-free areas, while green represents areas with sea ice.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Arctic's Northwest Passage has opened up fully because of melting sea ice, clearing a long-sought but historically impassable route between Europe and Asia, the European Space Agency said.
Sea ice has shrunk in the Arctic to its lowest level since satellite measurements began 30 years ago, ESA said, showing images of the now "fully navigable" route between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
A shipping route through the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic has been touted as a possible cheaper option to the Panama Canal for many shippers.

Think of the billions (a unknown number, but since I thought of working for Reuters I can fudge the numbers) of explorers who died as a result of searching for the Nautical Holy Grail, the Northwest Passage.

Can you hear Al Gore making that smug "tsk, tsk" sound while reading his recycled newspaper in house that emits 20 times the energy my house does? Plus, the anti-globalization hippies will bemoan how this makes more money for evil corporations.

So party on Garth and burn some tires!

The Great Revival

The Treehuggers had a musicfest yesterday to thump their chest and proclaim their religion. I got chills as Al Gore led the unsuspecting throngs in a Goebbel-inspired rally with his 7 Point Pledge to environmental nirvana. So get ready for the masses to download the songs on their ipods and tell you drive a hybrid. You are a sinner and can only find redemption in a carbon offset or recycling. Repent sinners!

Silly Treehuggers, the Chinese don't care

An often opaque layer of polluted air covers much of eastern China in this image which was collected on 2 January 2000

One of the biggest jokes about the Holy Treaty to Save the World, Kyoto, was the omission of China and India. But the US would have to restrict is economic growth to please the environmental gods and the High Priest Al Gore.

So GW when he got elected, he correctly pulled us out of Kyoto. You want to know how China feels about global warming and environmental restrictions. Read this piece:

China Becomes World's Biggest Air Polluter
By Peter Brookes

China last week became the world's biggest air polluter, according to a Dutch government-funded environmental watchdog. The People's Republic now out-belches the United States as the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases - two years ahead of predictions.

Worse yet, thanks to prevailing wind patterns, a lot of China's pollution ends up here: As much as 40 percent of the air pollution our own West Coast states breathe originates in China.

Overall, China has 16 of the world's 20 most air-polluted cities. In some, the air carries twice the pollutants considered safe by the U.N.'s World Health Organization, causing as many as 400,000 premature deaths a year due to respiratory disease.

The World Bank has called north-central China's coal town Linfen the world's most polluted city. Coal dust hangs so heavy in the air there that cars need to use their headlights during the day.

In Beijing, the unofficial air quality index is known as the "building index." That is, how many buildings you can see down the street before the landscape turns to a pea soup-like gray fog.

Coal is the main source of those pollution "exports''; China is the world's largest producer and consumer, relying on the fuel for 70 percent of its energy/industrial needs. And coal-fired plants emit carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, mercury and dust. China already produces 25 percent of world mercury emissions and 12 percent of CO2.

And the pollution problem is on track to get worse.

Beijing plans to build 50 to 100 new coal-burning power plants a year - that's one a week - until 2012. That expansion will outstrip all the possible gains envisioned under the Kyoto environmental treaty.

There's also vehicular pollution. China has only 20 million vehicles on the road today, but expects that to skyrocket to 150 million to 300 million by 2020, dumping tons of additional CO2 into the air.

The People's Republic is also the world's largest emitter of black-carbon soot, the gray haze in vehicle exhaust. Soot blocks sunlight - and may be responsible for a 30 percent reduction in Chinese crop yields.

China's air-borne pollution not only plagues its crops, waters and forests, it pelts neighboring Japan and the Korean peninsula, too. Meanwhile, the winds bring considerable carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury to America.

While the East Coast isn't immune, the West Coast is particularly hard hit. Sensors in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have identified huge Chinese pollution clouds that cross the Pacific Ocean to the United States.

In California, Oregon and Washington, sulfur from China alone reaches 10 percent to 15 percent of the EPA's allowable levels. Overall, researchers believe a third of California's air pollution (and a fifth of Oregon's) originates in China.

Chinese pollution is basically nullifying the western states' environmental progress - and their ability to meet federally mandated Clean Air Act requirements.

Unfortunately, Beijing's unswerving focus on economic development has made China unwilling to commit to curbing emissions. Premier Wen Jiaobao has made informal pledges of cuts - but in the end delivered only increased pollution levels.

One thing the United States can and should do is offer help:

* Over the next 20 years, half the world's new buildings will be built in China. We should share expertise so that those buildings will be energy-efficient - that's a productive way to reduce energy consumption and pollution.

* We should work to open the Chinese market to energy-efficient American industrial and consumer goods. It will help reduce emissions - and maybe put a small dent in our $200 billion annual trade deficit with China.

* The United States should also push to export smokestack-scrubber technology and clean-coal technology. We can't stop China from erecting new coal-fired power and industrial plants; we can help reduce the resulting dirty emissions.

In the end, a growing Chinese middle class will be the most potent force for clean air and water. But that stratum of society is only 80 million out of 1.3 billion people now. We can't wait for China to "grow out" of its polluting ways - we need to encourage progress now.

Earth Day, Burn a Tire

As I went to Google to research a court case on the Supreme Court censoring high school newspapers, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, I came upon this load of hysterical crap on the Google home page. Today is Earth Day, the 37th at that. To commemorate this, I will burn several old computers, some tires and release 12 cans of aerosol hairspay into the atmosphere, just kidding.

In my younger days I cared about the enviroment as a child does, Ranger Rick magazine and Boy Scouts made me appreciate our wilderness and Mother Earth. But along the way it became cool and political, Al Gore the poster child of revisionist enviro-political love. Then the anti-globalization crusade with a number of socialist driven individuals hijacked the cause. Apparently Google has taken the bait and joined by bringing the "man-caused global warming" myth and Earth Day together as well. This comes from the same billion dollar corporation that allowed China to hunt down dissidents.

Long story short, you don't stop shaving your armpits and hug a tree to love the planet, but carbon offsets make you a hypocrite. There was a mildly thought provoking piece from the L.A. Times about the this ideology, Forget the whales -- save the Earth.

Environmentalism is dead because the vast majority of environmental causes simply don't matter any more. They don't matter in the way that holding a full house doesn't matter when the guy across the table is holding four aces.

Traditional environmental concerns have been trumped by a single, overriding problem: global climate change. Henry David Thoreau asked, "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

The article leans strongly to the global warming crowd, but it is a polite little op-ed to make you think. And it does talk about nuclear energy and its supporters in the old environmentalist vanguard.

old-school environmentalists Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, and Stewart Brand, who created the Whole Earth Catalog, have embraced nuclear power as a lesser evil than climate change. Are environmentalists entering an era of wrenching hand-wringing as they choose among evils?

Max Schultz has a great quote in his Green Myths op-ed:

This Earth Day, Greenpeace and its fellow environmental ecclesiasts will once again call on their flocks to take action. By all means, let us safeguard the environment - but with steps rooted in fact, not myth.

Read his piece as he mentions some facts like:

our overall per-capita timber consumption is half of what it was a century ago.

Result? According to the Forest Service, we have actually seen a net reforestation since 1985. We aren't losing forestland, we're gaining it.

alternative fuels can be as land-hungry as agriculture. The typical 1,000 megawatt coal or nuclear plant might sit on a few acres. To generate the same amount of electricity with renewables would require 60,000 acres for a utility-scale wind farm, or about 11,000 acres of photovoltaic cells capturing the sun's light.

Brings a certain warming glow to your heart, doesn't it?

Which is more heinous?

I can't decide which is more irritating:
the immature and childish remarks of Sen. Boxer or,
the cheerleader remark from the male Democrat Propaganda Officer from CNN in the end.
Had this been Inhofe making these remarks to Boxer, he would have been chastised by either of the DPOs oon duty.
More cartoons to make fun of Al Gore.




I saw this comment at The Liberal Lie, The Conservative Truth and it touched my heart in a very special way. As much as I am for free speech, I have to edit this in case a child of yours or mine should read this:

Anonymous said...
A**hole, just f***ing insane american a**holes. Maybe you don't believe in global warming but have you looked at the black sky ? how about f***ing acid rain that used to melt your auto's paint job, how about the entirely polluted water table, how about you yanks have contributed to the destruction of the entire genetic code of the planet. You dare create comedy about this serious s**t ? may your f***ed up little plutocratric fascist naziesque orwellian roveianlly infanticidal yankees burn in hell for eternity, the end, f**k are you freaks, die like the lemming dogs of war you are you sick f***ing pukes

Isn't it the cutiest and most adorable comment you have ever read. It screams tolerance and freedom to disagree or create satire.

Get'em Inhofe

If you are a card carrying tree-hugger, enviro-wacko or terrorist under the flag of ELF or Earth First, you hate this man. See, he represents something the lovers of free speech despise, the other view. He is seen as a Holocaust denier and a hate monger.
He laid the wood on Al Gore:

First, you have claimed that there is a “strong, new emerging consensus” linking global warming to an increase in hurricane intensity and duration. Yet last year, the World Meteorological Organization very clearly rejected this assertion, and other scientists agree.

Secondly, you said that East Antarctica might melt and this could raise sea levels by 20 feet, so we’re all going to die. However, according to many scientists, Antarctica is gaining ice mass, not losing it. In a 2005 study published in Science a team of researchers led by Dr. Curt Davis found an overall gain in ice mass in Antarctica over a ten year period.

And the public is catching on. Even the New York Times last week published an article about scientists, many of them your supporters, who say you have overstated your case on global warming — in fact, they warn that you may be hurting the so-called cause with your "alarmism."

Given that, it is no wonder you have turned down the chance to debate the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus. And now I understand a debate challenge has been issued by Lord Monckton of Benchley.

wait

opposing the ’93 Clinton-Gore tax increase of $32 billion, but the cost of Kyoto and other CO2 reduction schemes are estimated to be over $300 billion, ten times the cost of your ’93 tax increase. And who’s paying for it? Those on fixed incomes and the poor, who as a percent of their monthly budget spend five times more on energy than the average household.

Now, we know the trust fund baby intelligentsia supports Al Gore and his "alarmists." It's cool. Leo is behind it. Ed Bedgley, who is alive, rides his BMX to galas. But in reality, you and I pay for the changes in the end with unproven science. Give it up to left to be dishonest and distract the common man from reality, they fear the truth.
This is the pledge Gore refused:

















and I find this graph fascinating:

I saw at Malkin's, I had to add it

I am Above the Law

"You guys think you're above the law... well you ain't above mine!" Steven Segal as Nico Toscani, you pudgy karate dude, where are you? Today, Al Gore will be in DC putting on his snake oil dog and pony show about global warming. Let's get this straight, I do think there is some warming going on, nature is capable of cleaning house. Are we guilty of some acceleraltion, maybe. But not as much as ELF, Earth First or any other terrorist organization would tell you.
My point: it is not the message, but the messanger.
Al Gore is a hypocrite. He also manipulates data for his self image, Obob calls vainty, pride or arrogance.
From the Washington Time's op-ed:

How certain are you, Mr. Gore, that the "carbon offsets" you purchase actually work? Carbon offsets are supposed to compensate for your 20-room Nashville mansion's outsized energy consumption. So presumably you have reviewed the sustainable-energy projects they finance and find them to be excellent investments in a future of reduced carbon emissions.

those are indulgences by the way

Can you explain why the New York Times would devote a front-page story to the problematic factual inconsistencies and exaggerations of "An Inconvenient Truth"? It must be the vast right-wing conspiracy.
What is your plan regarding the $570,000 in royalties you have received from the mining of zinc on your property in Carthage, Tenn., which has released millions of pounds of potentially toxic materials into the air over three decades?
Explain why a persistent minority in the scientific community continues to voice skepticism of the emerging calamitous global-warming consensus, including most recently the notion that scientists even today are unable to read a "global temperature" with sufficient accuracy.

Al Gore's nemisis today, Sen. James Inhofe.


I am looking foward to this like a Bears' playoff game. My wife thinks its sexy when I Tivo C-Span, not really.

Where is the Martin Luther of the Treehuggers?

21. Thus those indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.

THE 95 THESES by Martin Luther

Travel companies such as British Airways and travel sites Travelocity and Expedia are giving ticket purchasers the chance to at least assuage guilt, and possibly help the planet, by selling so-called offsets to finance green activism. Cost: About $5 and up.

USA Today.com


Carbon offsets are the new indulgence. Feel that liberal pang of guilt with your SUV, don't worry, Pope Al Gore the Benevolent will grant you a ticket to enviromental nirvana with the purchase of a carbon off set for the low low price you are willing to pay. Your guilt is extreme, give us money. You think you can save an evil non-believer, give more. We will pray together to deliver the heretic unbelievers, especially the so-called men of science from who wickedly attack the global warming dogma.
Please disregard the following story, it is a concoction of the evil green house gas infidels,
more from the USA Today piece:

The travel companies pass along the money to a new breed of enterprises — some for-profit, some not — that invest in wind farms, solar energy, energy-efficiency technology or other green projects. They go by names such as Native Energy, Carbon Fund or TerraPass.

thus

Electrical engineer Ron Goltsch, of West Caldwell, N.J., says he looked into TerraPass because he'd been getting teased about how his frequent, worldwide travels contribute to global warming. He scrapped the idea when he learned from its website that it's in business to make money.

or this gem from BillHobbs.com with a hat tip to NewsBusters.com. Click on the site from about the faith-based enviro-scam

But how Gore buys his "carbon offsets," as revealed by The Tennessean raises serious questions. According to the newspaper's report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management:

Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe...
Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.

A scam is a scam is a scam.