Via Drudge.
Someone at Reuters knows BS when he sees it:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience on Friday "never waste a good crisis," as she highlighted the opportunity of rebuilding economies in a greener, less energy intensive model.
Highlighting Europe's unease the day after Russia warned that gas exports to the EU via Ukraine might be halted, she also condemned the use of energy as a political lever.
Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts
Friday, March 06, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009
Lovely Day For a Protest
Drudge is having a chuckle over this next story, posting it as his headline-of-the-hour.I don't mind playing along. The enviro-boobs are always good for a laugh:
CNSNews: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had to cancel an appearance Monday at a global warming rally in Washington, D.C., that was hit by a snowstorm because her flight was delayed, her office told CNSNews.com.
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Worrisome Warming Watch
In case the Warm-mongering doesn't seem ridiculous enough, here's an interesting piece from Reuters. (The picture, from an unrelated incident, is a look at yesterday's balmy conditions in Kentucky).
A cruise ship carrying nearly 400 people has been stuck in thick ice in the St. Lawrence River in Eastern Canada for over a day, but passengers are nonetheless having a "festive" time, the company that owns the vessel said Tuesday.
The ship, CTMA-Vacancier, chartered by a group traveling from Montreal to the Gaspe Peninsula for a cross-country skiing trip to celebrate the 475th anniversary of the region's settlement, is now inching through the heavy ice, said Leonard Arsenault, a spokesman for MTMA Group.
A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker that was already in the area tried to assist the ship, but was also having difficulty getting through the thick ice, Arsenault said.
AP Photo/Ed Reinke
Monday, December 15, 2008
Enjoy The Show
From the AP:
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.
Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
This fairy tale has two things which interest me: screenwriting, and history.
First, screenwriting. It is a basic tenet of movies that you must announce a time limit somewhere in the story. The next time you watch a movie, listen for the time limit. Sometimes it is explicit: "If we don't deactivate the nuclear device before 5 o'clock, we're all going to die." Other times, the time limit is implicit, but no less important: "When the sun goes down, the vampires will come out to kill us." The sun could go down at six, seven, or eight o'clock, but it doesn't matter: the sun has to go down sometime, and the clock is ticking. Pressure.
If you watch 100 films, 99 will tell you the time limit flat out, and others will hide it, yet just barely. You'll always be able to figure it out if you listen for it. Take Schindler's List: though no time limit is specifically stated, it is implied in the film that the characters must survive until the end of the war...whenever that is. That, too, can be the pressure point: not knowing when the end will come.
You can exert pressure on your characters in a few different ways, like other characters (the bad guy, the deranged husband, the mean boss), external forces (the stock market, the weather, the law), and personal strife (conscience, emotional disturbance, disability). The other big (and easy) way to exert pressure is to put your hero on the clock. It's an old trick, but it's an old trick because it works. Writers are always taught that they need to compress their stories and add the pressure of time.
The time limit doesn't have to appear in the first ten minutes of the story. Sometimes the story meanders along, and the writer gets nervous: the story's second act is boring and he doesn't know how to get to the big finish. How do we speed it up? Easy. "If we don't get to the church by 5 o'clock, the priest will die." Instant drama, cue car chase.
One of my favorite time limit devices can be found in Apocalypto. Since the characters had no watches or clocks, what to do? Mel Gibson came up with a good one. He trapped the hero's wife and child at the bottom of a dry well. When the hero is kidnapped and taken away, he looks to the sky and says, "Don't rain."
Why would he say that?
Good question. Later in the film, it begins to rain. Cut to the woman and child at the bottom of the well, ankle-deep in water. Cut to the hero, racing through the jungle to save them. As the film goes on, it rains harder. The well fills with water, and the woman and child are now waist-deep. Cut to the hero, sprinting, fighting off his attackers, and sprinting some more. Cut to the woman and child, neck-deep in water. Just as it looks like they're going to drown, there's the hero. He arrives just in time to rescue them.
The water in the well could easily have been the clock on a nuclear bomb, the rising water replacing the countdown of digital numbers. Same-same.
Time limits put pressure on the hero and they turn the screws on the audience. It's a necessary device, and if you look closely enough, you'll find one in every story.
Now, go back and read those two paragraphs from the AP and see if you recognize the time limit, the hero, and you.
Why you? Simple. You're the audience for this little movie they've cooked up.
Oh, and as for the history thing, I get quite a chuckle reading this global warming stuff. I was forced to study the ice ages and continental drift in school. I should have saved my time. Had I known we could elect politicians to put Pangea back together again, I would have voted for the Green Party a long time ago.
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.
Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
This fairy tale has two things which interest me: screenwriting, and history.
First, screenwriting. It is a basic tenet of movies that you must announce a time limit somewhere in the story. The next time you watch a movie, listen for the time limit. Sometimes it is explicit: "If we don't deactivate the nuclear device before 5 o'clock, we're all going to die." Other times, the time limit is implicit, but no less important: "When the sun goes down, the vampires will come out to kill us." The sun could go down at six, seven, or eight o'clock, but it doesn't matter: the sun has to go down sometime, and the clock is ticking. Pressure.
If you watch 100 films, 99 will tell you the time limit flat out, and others will hide it, yet just barely. You'll always be able to figure it out if you listen for it. Take Schindler's List: though no time limit is specifically stated, it is implied in the film that the characters must survive until the end of the war...whenever that is. That, too, can be the pressure point: not knowing when the end will come.
You can exert pressure on your characters in a few different ways, like other characters (the bad guy, the deranged husband, the mean boss), external forces (the stock market, the weather, the law), and personal strife (conscience, emotional disturbance, disability). The other big (and easy) way to exert pressure is to put your hero on the clock. It's an old trick, but it's an old trick because it works. Writers are always taught that they need to compress their stories and add the pressure of time.
The time limit doesn't have to appear in the first ten minutes of the story. Sometimes the story meanders along, and the writer gets nervous: the story's second act is boring and he doesn't know how to get to the big finish. How do we speed it up? Easy. "If we don't get to the church by 5 o'clock, the priest will die." Instant drama, cue car chase.
One of my favorite time limit devices can be found in Apocalypto. Since the characters had no watches or clocks, what to do? Mel Gibson came up with a good one. He trapped the hero's wife and child at the bottom of a dry well. When the hero is kidnapped and taken away, he looks to the sky and says, "Don't rain."
Why would he say that?
Good question. Later in the film, it begins to rain. Cut to the woman and child at the bottom of the well, ankle-deep in water. Cut to the hero, racing through the jungle to save them. As the film goes on, it rains harder. The well fills with water, and the woman and child are now waist-deep. Cut to the hero, sprinting, fighting off his attackers, and sprinting some more. Cut to the woman and child, neck-deep in water. Just as it looks like they're going to drown, there's the hero. He arrives just in time to rescue them.
The water in the well could easily have been the clock on a nuclear bomb, the rising water replacing the countdown of digital numbers. Same-same.
Time limits put pressure on the hero and they turn the screws on the audience. It's a necessary device, and if you look closely enough, you'll find one in every story.
Now, go back and read those two paragraphs from the AP and see if you recognize the time limit, the hero, and you.
Why you? Simple. You're the audience for this little movie they've cooked up.
Oh, and as for the history thing, I get quite a chuckle reading this global warming stuff. I was forced to study the ice ages and continental drift in school. I should have saved my time. Had I known we could elect politicians to put Pangea back together again, I would have voted for the Green Party a long time ago.
Friday, November 28, 2008
It's Funny What Real Problems Do
Fairy tales seem small time when compared with bad news from the stock market.
There is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change, according to findings of a poll of 12,000 citizens in 11 countries, including Canada. - Windsor Star
I'm sure there's an easy explanation. Like being told for the past 20 years that the world is heating up, only to step outside and freeze your ass of from October to May. Like usual.
This is why I think the enviro-boobs changed the theme from global warming to climate change. That way if the Earth didn't heat up on cue, they could point to a hurricane or a blizzard and say, "See! See!" Doublethink is their specialty.
People have all kinds of time to listen to garbage when they have nothing else to worry about. Then they hear that the big 3 auto makers might go bust and Senator Charles Shumer's response is that people should buy green cars. You know, the expensive hybrids that the move stars buy. Great, Chuck.
Or how about Toronto, where they've decided to charge you more for every bag of garbage you put on the curb. That's not much of a hassle for a beer swilling bachelor, but it puts the kibosh on junior's new shoes if he lives with a family of six.
Or how about the latest news from glorious Toronto: a by-law is being tabled to force shops to sell plastic bags at 5 cents apiece. Toronto takes the phrase "nickle and dime them to death" straight to heart.
Then there's the Chief of the Enviro-Boobs, Al Gore. He flies around in a gas guzzling jet while telling people to turn off their lights and pay him big bucks to mouth off about polar bears. Maybe, just maybe, people are beginning to see through the hypocrisy.
Point is, "going green" only makes you go green because you're ready to barf at how expensive it all is. Going green costs money. When wallets get tight, going green doesn't seem like a great idea.
Real life is meeting the religion of Environmentalism in a head-on collision. When the dust settles, I'm guessing real life will be the winner.
There is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change, according to findings of a poll of 12,000 citizens in 11 countries, including Canada. - Windsor Star
I'm sure there's an easy explanation. Like being told for the past 20 years that the world is heating up, only to step outside and freeze your ass of from October to May. Like usual.
This is why I think the enviro-boobs changed the theme from global warming to climate change. That way if the Earth didn't heat up on cue, they could point to a hurricane or a blizzard and say, "See! See!" Doublethink is their specialty.
People have all kinds of time to listen to garbage when they have nothing else to worry about. Then they hear that the big 3 auto makers might go bust and Senator Charles Shumer's response is that people should buy green cars. You know, the expensive hybrids that the move stars buy. Great, Chuck.
Or how about Toronto, where they've decided to charge you more for every bag of garbage you put on the curb. That's not much of a hassle for a beer swilling bachelor, but it puts the kibosh on junior's new shoes if he lives with a family of six.
Or how about the latest news from glorious Toronto: a by-law is being tabled to force shops to sell plastic bags at 5 cents apiece. Toronto takes the phrase "nickle and dime them to death" straight to heart.
Then there's the Chief of the Enviro-Boobs, Al Gore. He flies around in a gas guzzling jet while telling people to turn off their lights and pay him big bucks to mouth off about polar bears. Maybe, just maybe, people are beginning to see through the hypocrisy.
Point is, "going green" only makes you go green because you're ready to barf at how expensive it all is. Going green costs money. When wallets get tight, going green doesn't seem like a great idea.
Real life is meeting the religion of Environmentalism in a head-on collision. When the dust settles, I'm guessing real life will be the winner.
Friday, September 05, 2008
The End Is Nigh
Who says environmentalism isn't a religion? It even comes with its own Book of Revelation. Here's the end of the world, according to two writers at the Vancouver Sun. The headline: What Climate Change Will Do To Our Province. These two troubadours don't give a specific timeframe for the beginning of the end. Rather, the following takes place in the - quiet drumroll - near future...
A warmer climate makes B.C. more accommodating for once-exotic diseases, pushing health authorities to extraordinary measures to protect the public.
There are more frequent civil emergencies brought on by extreme weather events such as wind, snow and rainstorms, power outages and flooding. Warmer year-round average temperatures accommodate mosquitoes and ticks that spread diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and Lyme disease.
Funny. That sounds like East Hastings as it is right now. No global warming required.
The article goes on to warn that rats will infest the cities, and by 2050 it will be too hot to grow apples in the Okanagan Valley.
Nothing like scaring the hell out of readers by running a fairy tale in the news section. The end is nigh! Drive a hybrid! Turn off the AC! Repent! Global Warming will kill your kids! Oh, and can you spare some tickets to the Winter Olympics in 2010?
A warmer climate makes B.C. more accommodating for once-exotic diseases, pushing health authorities to extraordinary measures to protect the public.
There are more frequent civil emergencies brought on by extreme weather events such as wind, snow and rainstorms, power outages and flooding. Warmer year-round average temperatures accommodate mosquitoes and ticks that spread diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and Lyme disease.
Funny. That sounds like East Hastings as it is right now. No global warming required.
The article goes on to warn that rats will infest the cities, and by 2050 it will be too hot to grow apples in the Okanagan Valley.
Nothing like scaring the hell out of readers by running a fairy tale in the news section. The end is nigh! Drive a hybrid! Turn off the AC! Repent! Global Warming will kill your kids! Oh, and can you spare some tickets to the Winter Olympics in 2010?
Friday, June 13, 2008
Beam Them Up, Scotty
From ABC:
We are asking you to use your imagination to create short videos about what it would be like to live through the next century if we stay on our current path. Using predictions from top experts, we will brief participants on global conditions in the years 2015, 2050, 2070 and 2100 -- and we want you to describe the dangers that are unfolding before your eyes.
Submitted videos will be combined with the projections of top scientists, historians, and economists to form a powerful Web-based narrative about the perils of our future. We will also select the most compelling reports to form the backbone of our two-hour primetime ABC News broadcast: Earth 2100, airing this fall.
All right, I thought these guys were nuts before, but now they've really gone off the deep end. America's Funniest Home Videos is going to merge with the book of Revelation, and ABC will present the results on a primetime "news" program.
We are asking you to use your imagination to create short videos about what it would be like to live through the next century if we stay on our current path. Using predictions from top experts, we will brief participants on global conditions in the years 2015, 2050, 2070 and 2100 -- and we want you to describe the dangers that are unfolding before your eyes.
Submitted videos will be combined with the projections of top scientists, historians, and economists to form a powerful Web-based narrative about the perils of our future. We will also select the most compelling reports to form the backbone of our two-hour primetime ABC News broadcast: Earth 2100, airing this fall.
All right, I thought these guys were nuts before, but now they've really gone off the deep end. America's Funniest Home Videos is going to merge with the book of Revelation, and ABC will present the results on a primetime "news" program.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
NBC's Bonehead Editors
The amount of stock footage we see on a daily basis would probably boggle your mind.
I've edited tons of video, and in a pinch, I sometime have to reach for the stock footage. Let's say a guy is talking about an auto accident, or an emergency room, but I need footage to cover. No problem. I reach for the stock DVDs, flip to the medical chapter, and select one of three dozen clips showing an ambulance on the move, or a gurney being rushed through the hospital doors, or a paramedic taking someone's pulse.
When you watch Iraq war stories on the evening news, I can virtually guarantee that you're seeing a lot of stock. When a reporter talks about how many soldiers have died in the last week, the footage you see over top of her voice was almost assuredly not taped in the past couple of days. It's an impossibility. The reporter probably never sees with her own eyes half of the images that you see on your television. It's old footage, gathered together, labeled, and put on the shelf for another day. And they never tell you that.
This is especially true of live broadcasts from the field. While the reporter is talking, all kinds of images are placed before you. If she's talking about soldiers, you'll see soldiers, and if she's talking about civilian deaths, you'll see crying children. When was the footage shot? Good question. Maybe last week, or maybe last year. If the producers are feeling a bit guilty, and the footage is very old, you'll see "file" written in the corner of the screen.
In a nutshell, this is why editors don't trust the evening news. They know that a certain amount of grey obscures every news story that has stock footage in it. The stock footage, in fact, is probably the most important factor in determining how an audience will react to a news piece. Trouble is, there's no way of knowing when the footage was captured, or even where it was shot, unless they tell you.
Stock footage allows you to add some visual aids to what's being said. It adds impact. Unfortunately, it also gives you the chance to lie, or be exposed as an idiot.
Who Knew?
Take this recent news piece from NBC, about a girl marching across the North Pole. Of course she's doing it for global warming, and NBC's peacock logo in the corner of the screen is green to prove it. The stock footage in the piece shows ice collapsing into the sea. One problem: I've been to Alaska, and I know glacial ice when I see it. I've filmed it more than a few times. Glaciers have been "calving" for eternity, pushing ice into the sea, where it crashes and bubbles with great dramatic effect. It was obvious that the editor was using blue glacial ice for coverage. But in this NBC news piece, no mention is made of glaciers and, added to the global warming sound bite, we're led to believe that this is ice is falling off the North Pole because...?
Problem two: the news piece is about a girl crossing the North Pole. So why in hell are there two shots of penguins standing around on ice floes? The story shouldn't have been about global warming, it should have been about this girl's miraculous discovery that penguins have migrated thousands of miles north, and NBC was on the scene to record it.
The editor of this piece needs to have his head examined. If you're going to use stock footage to make a point, at least make sure it's from the right end of the earth. Moron.
I've edited tons of video, and in a pinch, I sometime have to reach for the stock footage. Let's say a guy is talking about an auto accident, or an emergency room, but I need footage to cover. No problem. I reach for the stock DVDs, flip to the medical chapter, and select one of three dozen clips showing an ambulance on the move, or a gurney being rushed through the hospital doors, or a paramedic taking someone's pulse.
When you watch Iraq war stories on the evening news, I can virtually guarantee that you're seeing a lot of stock. When a reporter talks about how many soldiers have died in the last week, the footage you see over top of her voice was almost assuredly not taped in the past couple of days. It's an impossibility. The reporter probably never sees with her own eyes half of the images that you see on your television. It's old footage, gathered together, labeled, and put on the shelf for another day. And they never tell you that.
This is especially true of live broadcasts from the field. While the reporter is talking, all kinds of images are placed before you. If she's talking about soldiers, you'll see soldiers, and if she's talking about civilian deaths, you'll see crying children. When was the footage shot? Good question. Maybe last week, or maybe last year. If the producers are feeling a bit guilty, and the footage is very old, you'll see "file" written in the corner of the screen.
In a nutshell, this is why editors don't trust the evening news. They know that a certain amount of grey obscures every news story that has stock footage in it. The stock footage, in fact, is probably the most important factor in determining how an audience will react to a news piece. Trouble is, there's no way of knowing when the footage was captured, or even where it was shot, unless they tell you.
Stock footage allows you to add some visual aids to what's being said. It adds impact. Unfortunately, it also gives you the chance to lie, or be exposed as an idiot.
Who Knew?
Take this recent news piece from NBC, about a girl marching across the North Pole. Of course she's doing it for global warming, and NBC's peacock logo in the corner of the screen is green to prove it. The stock footage in the piece shows ice collapsing into the sea. One problem: I've been to Alaska, and I know glacial ice when I see it. I've filmed it more than a few times. Glaciers have been "calving" for eternity, pushing ice into the sea, where it crashes and bubbles with great dramatic effect. It was obvious that the editor was using blue glacial ice for coverage. But in this NBC news piece, no mention is made of glaciers and, added to the global warming sound bite, we're led to believe that this is ice is falling off the North Pole because...?Problem two: the news piece is about a girl crossing the North Pole. So why in hell are there two shots of penguins standing around on ice floes? The story shouldn't have been about global warming, it should have been about this girl's miraculous discovery that penguins have migrated thousands of miles north, and NBC was on the scene to record it.
The editor of this piece needs to have his head examined. If you're going to use stock footage to make a point, at least make sure it's from the right end of the earth. Moron.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time Slime
Time editor tells MSNBC "there needs to be a real effort along the lines of World War II to combat global warming and climate change."
Lame publicity stunt from a lame magazine.
I don't know how far removed Time's editors are from the rest of the population. If they took their heads out of their asses for a few minutes, they might just get a better view.
"Needs to be an effort along the lines of World War II."
That's the statement from Time managing editor Richard Stengal.
With all due respect, Dick, how the hell would you know?
I've got a good idea: save trees and stop printing this old rag.
I'll stick with the original photo of men with honour (three of whom didn't make it through the war):
Lame publicity stunt from a lame magazine.
I don't know how far removed Time's editors are from the rest of the population. If they took their heads out of their asses for a few minutes, they might just get a better view.
"Needs to be an effort along the lines of World War II."
That's the statement from Time managing editor Richard Stengal.
With all due respect, Dick, how the hell would you know?
I've got a good idea: save trees and stop printing this old rag.
I'll stick with the original photo of men with honour (three of whom didn't make it through the war):
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Hedging Their Bets
The frequency of heavy precipitation events (or proportion of total rainfall from heavy falls) will very likely increase over most areas during the 21st century, with consequences to the risk of rain-generated floods.Huh?
At the same time, the proportion of land surface in extreme drought at any one time is projected to increase.
--Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Hold the Fries, I'm Having Grandma
I caught this headline today:
The article ties mental illness to bad weather and drought, then passes it off as an affect of global warming.
Says the piece, "Anticipating that severe flooding may become more frequent due to global warming, a WHO report said that independent studies in cyclone-affected Orissa and a flooded town in England has shown that post-traumatic stress disorder syndromes of different severity in affected people even after a year."
What a shocker. People who wake up to find their living room in three feet of water are stressed out. Even more shocking is that their stress is high a year later, when the bill comes due on the renovations. Now whenever you see a woman crying as she picks through the remains of her house, you'll know she's not upset: she's mentally deranged.
The assignment of blame is an age-old game. Used to be that Yahweh, or Vishnu, or Lucifer were the cause of all the strife in the world. Then atheism got hip, so you couldn't blame your troubles on a god. No problem: here comes global warming, the new gospel of the Environmental faith.
Drought? Flood? Hurricane? Not mystical Mother Nature, just little old us, and we're all going to die.
Here's a quick look at Ted Turner. Watch this clip and tell me who's the more psychotic, Ted or the drought-stricken farmer. Ted thinks there's too many people on the face of the planet, and that we need to cut back. He also says that we'll all be cannibals in thirty to forty years. So...where's the problem?
Climate change leads to psychiatric illness: WHOYeah, no kidding. Every enviro-boob I meet is a lunatic.
The article ties mental illness to bad weather and drought, then passes it off as an affect of global warming.
Says the piece, "Anticipating that severe flooding may become more frequent due to global warming, a WHO report said that independent studies in cyclone-affected Orissa and a flooded town in England has shown that post-traumatic stress disorder syndromes of different severity in affected people even after a year."
What a shocker. People who wake up to find their living room in three feet of water are stressed out. Even more shocking is that their stress is high a year later, when the bill comes due on the renovations. Now whenever you see a woman crying as she picks through the remains of her house, you'll know she's not upset: she's mentally deranged.
The assignment of blame is an age-old game. Used to be that Yahweh, or Vishnu, or Lucifer were the cause of all the strife in the world. Then atheism got hip, so you couldn't blame your troubles on a god. No problem: here comes global warming, the new gospel of the Environmental faith.
Drought? Flood? Hurricane? Not mystical Mother Nature, just little old us, and we're all going to die.
Here's a quick look at Ted Turner. Watch this clip and tell me who's the more psychotic, Ted or the drought-stricken farmer. Ted thinks there's too many people on the face of the planet, and that we need to cut back. He also says that we'll all be cannibals in thirty to forty years. So...where's the problem?
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Cherry on Suzuki
Don Cherry on Earth gigolo David Suzuki.
I caught it live last night and it cracked me up. Here's the replay:
I caught it live last night and it cracked me up. Here's the replay:
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Paper or Plastic?
Ooops.
David Santillo, a marine biologist at Greenpeace, told The Times that bad science was undermining the Government’s case for banning the bags. “It’s very unlikely that many animals are killed by plastic bags,” he said. “The evidence shows just the opposite. We are not going to solve the problem of waste by focusing on plastic bags.
“It doesn’t do the Government’s case any favours if you’ve got statements being made that aren’t supported by the scientific literature that’s out there. With larger mammals it’s fishing gear that’s the big problem. On a global basis plastic bags aren’t an issue. It would be great if statements like these weren’t made.” -- Times Online
When a dude from Greenpeace says plastic bags are okay, what's an enviro-boob to do?
Turns out the "plastic bag" myth is based on a typo. A 1987 Canadian report said that fishing nets killed a lot of animals and birds. In 2002, an Australian government paper misquoted the text as not "fishing nets," but "plastic bags."
Catch the story here.
David Santillo, a marine biologist at Greenpeace, told The Times that bad science was undermining the Government’s case for banning the bags. “It’s very unlikely that many animals are killed by plastic bags,” he said. “The evidence shows just the opposite. We are not going to solve the problem of waste by focusing on plastic bags.
“It doesn’t do the Government’s case any favours if you’ve got statements being made that aren’t supported by the scientific literature that’s out there. With larger mammals it’s fishing gear that’s the big problem. On a global basis plastic bags aren’t an issue. It would be great if statements like these weren’t made.” -- Times Online
When a dude from Greenpeace says plastic bags are okay, what's an enviro-boob to do?
Turns out the "plastic bag" myth is based on a typo. A 1987 Canadian report said that fishing nets killed a lot of animals and birds. In 2002, an Australian government paper misquoted the text as not "fishing nets," but "plastic bags."
Catch the story here.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Shiver Me Timbers
California lawmakers have passed a bill making it mandatory that global warming be taught in the classroom. The bill is heading to the state assembly, where it will presumably pass. If the Governator signs the bill, then California will be producing enviro-boobs at an even greater pace than it already is.
No surprise. California is always on the cutting edge of stupidity.
As for me, I'm with my geophysicist buddy: "We're in a very long historical curve here," he said over a pint of beer. For a moment I thought he was talking about our binge drinking, but no, he was discussing climate change. If anyone would know about the earth and all the myriad ways it can rise up and kill us, it's this guy.
"The Earth warms and cools," he added. "Always has. These people are morons." Then, to prove his brilliance, he asked a very important question: "Another beer?"
Here's a great line from the National Academy of Sciences report entitled "Climate Change is Real."
"There is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. . . . It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities. This warming has already led to changes in the Earth's climate."
First, if you have to head something, "Climate Change is Real," there's a good chance it isn't. The NAS sound like those guys that froth at the mouth when you say wrestling isn't a real sport.
Second, who says climate change isn't real? There's winter, summer, fall, spring. Lots of change. Why, just the other day, the temperature went from -10C to 0C in no time at all. Then it rained and, in a nice change, the temperature fell, the roads turned to ice, and I almost went into a ditch. That morning, my life was like a Barack Obama campaign: preaching for change while living the audacity of hope.
I want one of these global warming boneheads to come over to my place and start my car in the morning. I've been freezing my ass off for three months, firing up the car, and sitting in it for ten minutes to turn the man-made sludge into man-made oil. While my hands freeze on the wheel and the transmission sticks on the way from second to third, I could use a little warming in my life. Let's start by setting fire to all the copies of "Climate Change is Real."
No surprise. California is always on the cutting edge of stupidity.
As for me, I'm with my geophysicist buddy: "We're in a very long historical curve here," he said over a pint of beer. For a moment I thought he was talking about our binge drinking, but no, he was discussing climate change. If anyone would know about the earth and all the myriad ways it can rise up and kill us, it's this guy.
"The Earth warms and cools," he added. "Always has. These people are morons." Then, to prove his brilliance, he asked a very important question: "Another beer?"
Here's a great line from the National Academy of Sciences report entitled "Climate Change is Real."
"There is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. . . . It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities. This warming has already led to changes in the Earth's climate."
First, if you have to head something, "Climate Change is Real," there's a good chance it isn't. The NAS sound like those guys that froth at the mouth when you say wrestling isn't a real sport.
Second, who says climate change isn't real? There's winter, summer, fall, spring. Lots of change. Why, just the other day, the temperature went from -10C to 0C in no time at all. Then it rained and, in a nice change, the temperature fell, the roads turned to ice, and I almost went into a ditch. That morning, my life was like a Barack Obama campaign: preaching for change while living the audacity of hope.
I want one of these global warming boneheads to come over to my place and start my car in the morning. I've been freezing my ass off for three months, firing up the car, and sitting in it for ten minutes to turn the man-made sludge into man-made oil. While my hands freeze on the wheel and the transmission sticks on the way from second to third, I could use a little warming in my life. Let's start by setting fire to all the copies of "Climate Change is Real."
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
March of the Morons
Here's a nice shot of a balmy Toronto November, as seen in the Toronto Sun.I love winter. Not because I freeze my ass, but because I get to watch other asses freeze.
Asses of the mental variety, that is. I'm not so lude as to suggest that I watch physical asses freeze, though it can be tough to avoid when you're standing in line at a Toronto nightclub around 11pm.
Anyway, here's a list of this week's asses. As winter settles in, the enviro-boobs (er, asses) ramp up their rhetoric and pump out enough hot air to distract you from the fact that you're scraping ice off your windshield and paying too much on your heating bill.
The founders of the Green Hanukkah Campaign. These are the losers that are asking for Jews to light one less candle for the occasion. Says co-founder Liad Ortar, "The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won't need another miracle." No candles for Mr. Ortar. The only miracle is if the romantic Liad will ever get laid in this lifetime.
Brian Williams. He's the anchor of NBC News, so it should come as no shock that he is a fool. All network anchors are. Beat reporters are the ones that do the work. "Veteran anchors" are merely the failed actors that take stuff off the wire and read it. In any case, Williams decided to announce his stupidity this way:My nominee for 2007 Person of the Year is a woman--a woman with a history of abuse, a woman who has never run for elective office, someone we all know, someone who makes her presence known on a daily basis in all our lives and, for my money, is better than any male alternative. That woman is Mother Earth. I think the environment is the compelling issue of our time.Yes, he really said that. And yes, this is the man that reads you his interpretation of the important news stories on a nightly basis.
Here's another bit from the man that makes Ron Burgundy look like a genius:
"Last Christmas, my wife and I told [my father] to pick a spot on the planet, and for his present, we'd send him there. We were concerned that he was going to choose the Grover Cleveland rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike for a sandwich from a vending machine. But God love him, he's seen the light, and I think Gordon Williams is going to China this fall." -- EsquireChina? Really? But Brian, you pompous, shameless abuser, do you know what kind of a carbon footprint that's going to leave on the face of dear Mother Earth?
Shari T. Wilson. She's the Environmental Secretary for Maryland. She heads a 22-member group that is releasing a report that says the following: "As a coastal state with extensive low-lying land on the Eastern Shore and around the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland is exceeded only by Louisiana, Florida and Delaware in the percentage of its land vulnerable to accelerated sea level rise."
Poor Shari isn't the only enviro-boob in government. A US Senate committee is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to decide on a global warming bill. I hope they bundle up: the forecast for Wednesday in Washington DC is flurries with a low of 31 degrees (-1C for the Canucks). Could be worse. According to my Worrisome Warming Watch, the current temperature in Embarrass, Minnesota is 14F/-10C.
It's a busy fall for the Eco Nuts. I can't wait to see what they come up with on December 22nd. That's when the winter season actually begins.
Photos: Tracy McLaughlin/Toronto Sun
Glenn Harris/Photorazzi
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Enviro-Boobs' Plans Backfire on Birds
Ooops. "Environment-friendly" buildings in North America have turned out to be a slaughterhouse for birds. Catch the story here.
In other Enviro-Boob news, Toni Vernelli, an Englishwoman, had herself sterilized at the age of 27 in order to "protect the planet." The Daily Mail did an expose on her, where she says, "Having children is selfish. It's all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet."
Right. As if homo sapiens aren't part of the planet. But whatever. I'm guessing that Toni thought she was protecting the planet by not producing a future SUV driver. Me, I thank her for protecting the planet from a child raised by her. One less moron is a good thing. Besides, one look at tubby's picture and I'm not sure that the operation was even necessary. I'm wrong on that point, though, because in the article, you find out that Toni got knocked up. I blame it on English binge-drinking. She got an abortion and asked to be sterilized at the same time. Here's her take, as quoted by the Mail:
In other Enviro-Boob news, Toni Vernelli, an Englishwoman, had herself sterilized at the age of 27 in order to "protect the planet." The Daily Mail did an expose on her, where she says, "Having children is selfish. It's all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet."
Right. As if homo sapiens aren't part of the planet. But whatever. I'm guessing that Toni thought she was protecting the planet by not producing a future SUV driver. Me, I thank her for protecting the planet from a child raised by her. One less moron is a good thing. Besides, one look at tubby's picture and I'm not sure that the operation was even necessary. I'm wrong on that point, though, because in the article, you find out that Toni got knocked up. I blame it on English binge-drinking. She got an abortion and asked to be sterilized at the same time. Here's her take, as quoted by the Mail:
"I was horrified. I knew straight away there was no option of having the baby.After getting hitched to a twit that she met at an animal rights demonstration (homo sapiens not being animals in the animal rights movement), she found a doctor that could have her neutered. Of that, she says:
I went to my doctor about having a termination, and asked if I could be sterilized at the same time.
This time it was a male doctor. I remember saying to him: 'I want to make sure this never happens again.'
He said: 'You may not want a child, but one day you may meet a man who does'. He refused to consider it.
I didn't like having a termination, but it would have been immoral to give birth to a child that I felt strongly would only be a burden to the world.
I've never felt a twinge of guilt about what I did, and have honestly never wondered what might have been.
After my abortion, I was more determined than ever to pursue sterilization.
By then, I had my mother's support - she realized I wasn't going to grow out of my beliefs, and was proud of my campaigning work.
After the operation, which is irreversible, I didn't feel emotional - just relieved.Au contraire, nitwit. I am more than happy to accept your decision. Knowing that you will never raise a child does not disturb me in the least.
"I've never doubted that I made the right decision. Ed and I married in September 2002, and have a much nicer lifestyle as a result of not having children.
"We love walking and hiking, and we often go away for weekends.
"Every year, we also take a nice holiday - we've just come back from South Africa.
"We feel we can have one long-haul flight a year, as we are vegan and childless, thereby greatly reducing our carbon footprint and combating over-population.
"My only frustration is that other people are unable to accept my decision."
Friday, October 26, 2007
Another Final Wake Up Call - This Time We Mean It!
The UN has come out with another of its weird reports on the state of the environment and, no shock here, it is "the final wake-up call to the international community."
Tick...Tick...Tick...
As if we can take this seriously. The UN and their enviro-boob friends have been giving "final wake-up calls" for so long that I long ago hit the snooze button and called reception to tell them not to bother.
Who exactly is in this "international community?" Nobody agrees on anything, and nothing ever gets done. It might take a village to raise a Clinton kid, but the UN hasn't even managed to construct a mud hut without screwing it up, swindling cash, and letting people get massacred before their very eyes.
In their latest report, the UN tells us that there are too many people on the planet, and that the Earth can't sustain humanity's growing population. They then go on to report that children are dying at an alarming rate, and that people in Africa will starve to death in short order.
So which is it? Too many people, or too many people dying? They're opposites of the same pole, so if one is bad, the other must be good.
Starvation, by the way, is never caused by a food shortage. There's tons of food lying around. Famine has always been caused by political regimes keeping food from people, not by people wandering into a desert and realizing that there's nothing to grow so they might as well sit down and die. The UN could try to do something about thug regimes not feeding people, but they're too busy writing bogus reports on climate change. Not as messy that way.
I especially love the line in the UN's report that claims humans aren't leaving enough areas alone to nature. And here I was thinking that homo sapiens are a part of nature.
The UN jokesters never get tired of issuing "final wake-up calls." Us, the patient idiots, never seem to get tired of hearing them.
Wake me when it's over.
Tick...Tick...Tick...
As if we can take this seriously. The UN and their enviro-boob friends have been giving "final wake-up calls" for so long that I long ago hit the snooze button and called reception to tell them not to bother.Who exactly is in this "international community?" Nobody agrees on anything, and nothing ever gets done. It might take a village to raise a Clinton kid, but the UN hasn't even managed to construct a mud hut without screwing it up, swindling cash, and letting people get massacred before their very eyes.
In their latest report, the UN tells us that there are too many people on the planet, and that the Earth can't sustain humanity's growing population. They then go on to report that children are dying at an alarming rate, and that people in Africa will starve to death in short order.
So which is it? Too many people, or too many people dying? They're opposites of the same pole, so if one is bad, the other must be good.
Starvation, by the way, is never caused by a food shortage. There's tons of food lying around. Famine has always been caused by political regimes keeping food from people, not by people wandering into a desert and realizing that there's nothing to grow so they might as well sit down and die. The UN could try to do something about thug regimes not feeding people, but they're too busy writing bogus reports on climate change. Not as messy that way.
I especially love the line in the UN's report that claims humans aren't leaving enough areas alone to nature. And here I was thinking that homo sapiens are a part of nature.
The UN jokesters never get tired of issuing "final wake-up calls." Us, the patient idiots, never seem to get tired of hearing them.
Wake me when it's over.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Al Gore - Nobel Sham
Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. There's going to be a hue and cry from the old school types, who will insist that talking about polar bears is not on the same level as Theodore Roosevelt ending the Russo-Japanese war.
These critics miss the point. For the past half century, the Nobel Peace prize has not been about peace, but about politics. In the same way that a Nobel Prize for Literature means that the author's books are boring crap, so the Peace Prize means that the winner was some guy that, well, what exactly?
Child Soldiers - Sudan
Saying that environmentalists deserve a Peace Prize is a pretty big stretch. It's quite obvious that this was handed to Gore and his looney-tune buddies as a slap to George W. Bush, in the same way that it was handed to Jimmy Carter in 2002. I have no idea what Jimmy Carter has done to "advance peace," just as I have no clue what the UN and Kofi Annan ever did. He won the prize in 2001, after supervising the Oil for Fraud scandal and doing absolutely nothing to stop tyrants around the globe from murdering people, especially in Africa.
This is Ole Danbolt Mjoes, Nobel committee chairman, awarding the prize to Gore: "We would encourage all countries, including the big countries, to challenge, all of them, to think again and to say what can they do to conquer global warming. The bigger the powers, the better that they come in front of this."
Ah! Now I get it. If you use the word conquer, you can give the Peace Prize to anybody. Old Ole asserted that this was not a slap at Bush or the US for not adopting Kyoto (Clinton, darling of the Left, didn't adopt it, either). Still, one can't deny the Nobel crowd's bald politics. When handing the Peace Prize to Carter in 2002, then-committee chairman Gunnar Berge called it a "kick in the leg" to the Bush Administration. You can't get more direct than that.
Alfred Nobel, master of dynamite and TNT, started the whole Prize game back in 1895. Back then, the prize was to go to a person that fought for peace and disarmament. It now includes poverty, economic growth, and the environment. In other words, it's being watered down to include virtually anybody for anything.
Burma
The Buddhists that get shot in Thailand on a daily basis by Islamic thugs, the people struggling for democracy in Burma and getting tortured for their trouble, the peasants in Darfur that are hacked to death each and every day. No peace for them. Al Gore is being hailed as a prophet. How about doing something for peace now?
Here's another laugher from the Nobel Committee, upon presenting the award: "[Climate change] will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."
News for you, genius: the vulnerable countries are already in danger. There's no "may" about it. Violent conflict and war are taking place right this minute. Take off your rose colored political blinders for the first time in your life, and you might be able to see the blood in the streets.
It makes one ill to think that there are fat cats like Al Gore patting themselves on the back in Norway over a dubious scientific theory, while a few thousand miles away, men, women, and children are receiving the hard facts of a bullet to the brain.
These critics miss the point. For the past half century, the Nobel Peace prize has not been about peace, but about politics. In the same way that a Nobel Prize for Literature means that the author's books are boring crap, so the Peace Prize means that the winner was some guy that, well, what exactly?
Child Soldiers - Sudan
Saying that environmentalists deserve a Peace Prize is a pretty big stretch. It's quite obvious that this was handed to Gore and his looney-tune buddies as a slap to George W. Bush, in the same way that it was handed to Jimmy Carter in 2002. I have no idea what Jimmy Carter has done to "advance peace," just as I have no clue what the UN and Kofi Annan ever did. He won the prize in 2001, after supervising the Oil for Fraud scandal and doing absolutely nothing to stop tyrants around the globe from murdering people, especially in Africa.This is Ole Danbolt Mjoes, Nobel committee chairman, awarding the prize to Gore: "We would encourage all countries, including the big countries, to challenge, all of them, to think again and to say what can they do to conquer global warming. The bigger the powers, the better that they come in front of this."
Ah! Now I get it. If you use the word conquer, you can give the Peace Prize to anybody. Old Ole asserted that this was not a slap at Bush or the US for not adopting Kyoto (Clinton, darling of the Left, didn't adopt it, either). Still, one can't deny the Nobel crowd's bald politics. When handing the Peace Prize to Carter in 2002, then-committee chairman Gunnar Berge called it a "kick in the leg" to the Bush Administration. You can't get more direct than that.
Alfred Nobel, master of dynamite and TNT, started the whole Prize game back in 1895. Back then, the prize was to go to a person that fought for peace and disarmament. It now includes poverty, economic growth, and the environment. In other words, it's being watered down to include virtually anybody for anything.
Burma
The Buddhists that get shot in Thailand on a daily basis by Islamic thugs, the people struggling for democracy in Burma and getting tortured for their trouble, the peasants in Darfur that are hacked to death each and every day. No peace for them. Al Gore is being hailed as a prophet. How about doing something for peace now?Here's another laugher from the Nobel Committee, upon presenting the award: "[Climate change] will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."
News for you, genius: the vulnerable countries are already in danger. There's no "may" about it. Violent conflict and war are taking place right this minute. Take off your rose colored political blinders for the first time in your life, and you might be able to see the blood in the streets.
It makes one ill to think that there are fat cats like Al Gore patting themselves on the back in Norway over a dubious scientific theory, while a few thousand miles away, men, women, and children are receiving the hard facts of a bullet to the brain.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Polar Bears? Save the Ice - I'm Having Margaritas
I was goofing off on one one of those Facebook sites when I came across a group dedicated to saving the planet. A woman with an infant in her arms left the following message: "Oh, my heart aches for the polar bears." Actually, she put it in capital letters. I can't figure out if that is because the baby in the picture was screaming and so she shouted to be heard, or if she's just a regular enviro-boob. They seem to be shouting all the time, anyway. The only pollution they don't seem to care about is of the noise variety.I could go on a long-winded rant about this woman's priorities, but instead I'll pull a cheap move and re-print something from February 2nd. I can't bring myself to write too much more about the environment right now, and my mind hasn't changed much since then, so here goes. Enjoy.
From the Daily Mail (UK):
Global Warming Sees Polar Bears Stranded On Melting Ice
They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
Captured on film by Canadian environmentalists, the pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice. Although the magnificent creatures are well adapted to the water, and can swim scores of miles to solid land, the distance is getting ever greater as the Arctic ice diminishes.
"Swimming 100 miles is not a big deal for a polar bear, especially a fat one," said Dr Ian Stirling of the Canadian Wildlife Service. "They just kind of float along and kick. But as the ice gets farther out from shore because of warming, it’s a longer swim that costs more energy and makes them more vulnerable."
Bummer.
I don't know what to say about this global warming thing anymore. In the 70's it was global cooling. In the 80's it was warming. Then in the 90's it became 'climate change,' which was a great turn of phrase for the enviro-boobs and unemployed people that wanted to yell at lumberjacks. With the words 'climate change,' bitching about mankind's sins became an all-season sport, snow or shine, blizzard or heatwave.
I studied anthropology in school. That's what the degree says on my wall, anyway (both the degree and the wall are made from tree products. Apologies all around). During those classes we had to look back at history and count the number of ice ages and such. The theory then was that there were three big ones and a bunch of smaller ones.
Not so long ago, Toronto was under a mile of ice and the Great Lakes didn't exist. The ice had to recede in order to leave those puddles behind. So I guess one would have to say that global warming is a damn good thing. Without it, there would be no shopping on Yonge Street, and there would be no forests for the enviro-weenies to run around in.
The conceit of human beings is astounding. The idea that we parasites could affect this planet in any major way is a laugh. It's also a great chuckle watching the National Geographic specials and hearing the narrator give the Obligatory Guilt Trip. At the end of every episode, they always manage to say that such-and-such a thing will cease to exist if Man doesn't change his evil ways. Why? Because the ecosystem is fragile.
Fragile? Tell that to the people in central Florida. A fragile tornado dropped out of the sky the other day and obliterated a town, killing 20 people in the time it takes to make toast.
Katrina, she didn't look too fragile, did she? We stewards of the Earth gaped in slack-jawed wonder at her power, cowered beneath concrete, and watched as she kicked over levees as if they were anthills.
Or the tsunami (Random Aside: can someone tell me where tidal wave went?) That surfer's wetdream wiped out thousands of people and destroyed entire villages and towns in less than ten minutes.
We're supposed to protect the environment from us? Please. More like the other way around. We're as nothing on this spinning globe. Anytime it feels like it, it can give one big belch and we're history.
The Earth is not fragile, and to refute the article above, neither is a bear's grip. Timothy Treadwell could tell us that, were he still around. He's the guy who took his girlfriend up north to live with his furry friends. Treadwell's method of approaching bears was to slowly slink up to them while singing "I love you" in a high-pitched voice. He and his girlfriend are now bear shit.
Our conceit is limitless. The Earth has been through ice ages, massive earthquakes, hurricanes, innumerable volcanoes spitting sulphur into the sky, catastrophic meteorite impacts, so forth. But hairspray and unleaded gas will be the planet's demise?
Ours, maybe. But the Earth doesn't give a damn about us. Ask the next skydiver whose chute doesn't open how fragile the Earth is, and how much it cares. You'll get two four letter words in response. The first is shit!, the other is thud.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Headlines
From Breitbart.com:
Muslim chief slams 'police state' Britain, like Nazi Germany
Speaking outside the mosque shortly before the prayer session began, [Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham's Central Mosque] compared the current situation, and anti-terrorism legislation introduced in Britain in recent years, to Nazi Germany.
"The German people were told the Jews were a threat. The same thing is happening here. The Muslims are now the bogey people," he said. "It's a small community. It's easy to pick on them. That's what's being done."
A chairman of a mosque hiding behind the Jews. Interesting. I'll bet he doesn't have much to say when Ahmandinejad says Israel should be wiped off the map and all Jews should be exported to Europe.
As for what Naseem says about Muslims now being Jews in a Nazified Great Britain. Um, no.
I read a very good book last week by Richard J. Evans called The Third Reich in Power. It's the second in Evans' trilogy about the Reich, and it's the best book written about the Nazis since Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's chock full of info that nobody mentions anymore, and it shows just how evil the Nazis were, should we care to remember it.
Great Britain's anti-terror laws are not comparable to Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews. Nobody's laws are, except Sharia Law itself, and the call to jihad for global domination and the destruction of the infidel.
Here's a small sample from Evans regarding Nazi Germany's laws vis a vis their own perceived infidels:
- people with two Jewish grandparents had to get permission from the Committee for the Protection of the German Blood if they wanted to marry a non-Jew.
- Jews were not citizens, but rather subjects of the state. They had no rights, including the right to free speech.
- the Law of 7 April 1933 banned Jews from the civil service, universities, teaching professions, and the judiciary.
- in 1935, a law was passed that declared Jewish and non-Aryan foreigners could not receive German citizenship.
- Jewish businesses were not allowed to advertise in the press from 1933 onwards.
- by the end of 1936, laws were passed that banned overseas transfers of Jewish-owned funds.
- Jews were banned from sports fields, public baths, and outdoor swimming pools.
- municipalities were authorized to ban Jews from streets and districts.
- Jews were banned from carrying firearms and offensive weapons.
- The Reich Chamber of Culture banned all Jews from cinemas, theaters, concerts, and exhibitions.
- Jews were stripped of their rights as tenants. They could now be evicted at any time.
- Municipalities could order Jews to sublet parts of their houses to other Jews.
- by 1939, all tax concessions were removed from Jews, including child benefits. Jews were now taxed at a single rate, the highest one in the Reich.
- all insurance payments owed to Jews after the 1938 pogrom were confiscated by the government; Jews had to pay for and clean up the mess left by the rioting.
- on February 21, 1939, all Jewish cash, securities and valuables (except wedding rings) were ordered to be put in blocked accounts; the Reich eventually seized these accounts.
And then, once the war started, the Nazis murdered millions of them. Great Britain like Nazi Germany? I think not.
From the Daily Mail (UK):
Global Warming Sees Polar Bears Stranded On Melting Ice
They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
Captured on film by Canadian environmentalists, the pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice.
Although the magnificent creatures are well adapted to the water, and can swim scores of miles to solid land, the distance is getting ever greater as the Arctic ice diminishes.
"Swimming 100 miles is not a big deal for a polar bear, especially a fat one," said Dr Ian Stirling of the Canadian Wildlife Service.
"They just kind of float along and kick. But as the ice gets farther out from shore because of warming, it’s a longer swim that costs more energy and makes them more vulnerable."
Bummer.
I don't know what to say about this global warming thing anymore. In the 70's it was global cooling. In the 80's it was warming. Then in the 90's it became 'climate change,' which was a great turn of phrase for the enviro-boobs and unemployed people that wanted to yell at lumberjacks. With the words 'climate change,' bitching about mankind's sins became an all-season sport, snow or shine, blizzard or heatwave.
I studied anthropology in school. That's what the degree says on my wall, anyway (both the degree and the wall are made from tree products. Apologies all around). During those classes we had to look back at history and count the number of ice ages and such. The theory then was that there were three big ones and a bunch of smaller ones.
Not so long ago, Toronto was under a mile of ice and the Great Lakes didn't exist. The ice had to recede in order to leave those puddles behind. So I guess one would have to say that global warming is a damn good thing. Without it, there would be no shopping on Yonge Street, and there would be no forests for the enviro-weenies to run around in.
The conceit of human beings is astounding. The idea that we parasites could affect this planet in any major way is a laugh. It's also a great chuckle watching the National Geographic specials and hearing the narrator give the Obligatory Guilt Trip. At the end of every episode, they always manage to say that such-and-such a thing will cease to exist if Man doesn't change his evil ways. Why? Because the ecosystem is fragile.
Fragile?
Tell that to the people in central Florida. A fragile tornado dropped out of the sky the other day and obliterated a town, killing 20 people in the time it takes to make toast.
Katrina, she didn't look too fragile, did she? We stewards of the Earth gaped in slack-jawed wonder at her power, cowered beneath concrete, and watched as she kicked over levees as if they were anthills.
Or the tsunami (Random Aside: can someone tell me where tidal wave went?) That surfer's wetdream wiped out thousands of people and destroyed entire villages and towns in less than ten minutes.
We're supposed to protect the environment from us? Please. More like the other way around. We're nothing on this spinning globe. Anytime it feels like it, it can give one big belch and we're history.
The Earth is not fragile, and to refute the article above, neither is a bear's grip. Timothy Treadwell could tell us that, were he still around. He's the guy who took his girlfriend up north to live with his furry friends. Treadwell's method of approaching bears was to slowly slink up to them while singing "I love you" in a high-pitched voice. He and his girlfriend are now bear shit.
Our conceit is limitless. The Earth has been through ice ages, massive earthquakes, hurricanes, innumerable volcanoes spitting sulphur into the sky, catastrophic meteorite impacts, so forth. But hairspray and unleaded gas will be the planet's demise?
Ours, maybe. But the Earth doesn't give a damn about us. Ask the next skydiver whose chute doesn't open how fragile the Earth is, and how much it cares. You'll get two four letter words in response. The first is shit!, the other is thud.
From the Herald Sun (Australia):
Row Over Washrooms
A ROW has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code.
Muslim students have exclusive access to male and female washrooms on campus, sparking claims of bias and discrimination. The university and Islamic leaders have defended the washrooms as vital to Muslim students' prayer rituals.
Yes, if you like to pray while taking a dump, I suppose.
There is no doubt in my mind these days that Islamic fascists were wildly successful on 9/11. Lenin once said that the purpose of terrorism is terror. That's true, but it runs deeper than that. There was a Palestinian terrorist who said that before terrorism and plane hijackings became the norm, the Palestinian cause got nowhere. Once they started shooting people and blowing things up, the UN listened and they got their concessions.
The above example adds weight to the insipid idea that terrorism works. It puts a people's cause on the front page, and we weaklings bend before it.
Think back to before 9/11. You didn't see Islam in the news every day. I bet you didn't once think about 'people of cover.' You wouldn't have known about Ramadan as a religious holiday, and there's no chance you contemplated giving Muslims separate bathrooms at universities.
Then 9/11 happened. For the first few months, the story was about us, and the pain we suffered. But slowly and surely, the headlines changed. Now the story is about what we can do for them, and how we are a discriminatory people that must make allowances for people that want nothing to do with our culture and our way of life.
And with each concession, the divide deepens. When strung together in the past, separate washroom were two vile words. Now they are 'vital.'
Welcome to the new world order.
Muslim chief slams 'police state' Britain, like Nazi Germany
Speaking outside the mosque shortly before the prayer session began, [Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham's Central Mosque] compared the current situation, and anti-terrorism legislation introduced in Britain in recent years, to Nazi Germany.
"The German people were told the Jews were a threat. The same thing is happening here. The Muslims are now the bogey people," he said. "It's a small community. It's easy to pick on them. That's what's being done."
A chairman of a mosque hiding behind the Jews. Interesting. I'll bet he doesn't have much to say when Ahmandinejad says Israel should be wiped off the map and all Jews should be exported to Europe.
As for what Naseem says about Muslims now being Jews in a Nazified Great Britain. Um, no.
I read a very good book last week by Richard J. Evans called The Third Reich in Power. It's the second in Evans' trilogy about the Reich, and it's the best book written about the Nazis since Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's chock full of info that nobody mentions anymore, and it shows just how evil the Nazis were, should we care to remember it.
Great Britain's anti-terror laws are not comparable to Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews. Nobody's laws are, except Sharia Law itself, and the call to jihad for global domination and the destruction of the infidel.
Here's a small sample from Evans regarding Nazi Germany's laws vis a vis their own perceived infidels:
- people with two Jewish grandparents had to get permission from the Committee for the Protection of the German Blood if they wanted to marry a non-Jew.
- Jews were not citizens, but rather subjects of the state. They had no rights, including the right to free speech.
- the Law of 7 April 1933 banned Jews from the civil service, universities, teaching professions, and the judiciary.
- in 1935, a law was passed that declared Jewish and non-Aryan foreigners could not receive German citizenship.
- Jewish businesses were not allowed to advertise in the press from 1933 onwards.
- by the end of 1936, laws were passed that banned overseas transfers of Jewish-owned funds.
- Jews were banned from sports fields, public baths, and outdoor swimming pools.
- municipalities were authorized to ban Jews from streets and districts.
- Jews were banned from carrying firearms and offensive weapons.
- The Reich Chamber of Culture banned all Jews from cinemas, theaters, concerts, and exhibitions.
- Jews were stripped of their rights as tenants. They could now be evicted at any time.
- Municipalities could order Jews to sublet parts of their houses to other Jews.
- by 1939, all tax concessions were removed from Jews, including child benefits. Jews were now taxed at a single rate, the highest one in the Reich.
- all insurance payments owed to Jews after the 1938 pogrom were confiscated by the government; Jews had to pay for and clean up the mess left by the rioting.
- on February 21, 1939, all Jewish cash, securities and valuables (except wedding rings) were ordered to be put in blocked accounts; the Reich eventually seized these accounts.
And then, once the war started, the Nazis murdered millions of them. Great Britain like Nazi Germany? I think not.
From the Daily Mail (UK):
Global Warming Sees Polar Bears Stranded On Melting Ice
They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
Captured on film by Canadian environmentalists, the pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice.
Although the magnificent creatures are well adapted to the water, and can swim scores of miles to solid land, the distance is getting ever greater as the Arctic ice diminishes.
"Swimming 100 miles is not a big deal for a polar bear, especially a fat one," said Dr Ian Stirling of the Canadian Wildlife Service.
"They just kind of float along and kick. But as the ice gets farther out from shore because of warming, it’s a longer swim that costs more energy and makes them more vulnerable."
Bummer.
I don't know what to say about this global warming thing anymore. In the 70's it was global cooling. In the 80's it was warming. Then in the 90's it became 'climate change,' which was a great turn of phrase for the enviro-boobs and unemployed people that wanted to yell at lumberjacks. With the words 'climate change,' bitching about mankind's sins became an all-season sport, snow or shine, blizzard or heatwave.
I studied anthropology in school. That's what the degree says on my wall, anyway (both the degree and the wall are made from tree products. Apologies all around). During those classes we had to look back at history and count the number of ice ages and such. The theory then was that there were three big ones and a bunch of smaller ones.
Not so long ago, Toronto was under a mile of ice and the Great Lakes didn't exist. The ice had to recede in order to leave those puddles behind. So I guess one would have to say that global warming is a damn good thing. Without it, there would be no shopping on Yonge Street, and there would be no forests for the enviro-weenies to run around in.
The conceit of human beings is astounding. The idea that we parasites could affect this planet in any major way is a laugh. It's also a great chuckle watching the National Geographic specials and hearing the narrator give the Obligatory Guilt Trip. At the end of every episode, they always manage to say that such-and-such a thing will cease to exist if Man doesn't change his evil ways. Why? Because the ecosystem is fragile.
Fragile?
Tell that to the people in central Florida. A fragile tornado dropped out of the sky the other day and obliterated a town, killing 20 people in the time it takes to make toast.
Katrina, she didn't look too fragile, did she? We stewards of the Earth gaped in slack-jawed wonder at her power, cowered beneath concrete, and watched as she kicked over levees as if they were anthills.
Or the tsunami (Random Aside: can someone tell me where tidal wave went?) That surfer's wetdream wiped out thousands of people and destroyed entire villages and towns in less than ten minutes.
We're supposed to protect the environment from us? Please. More like the other way around. We're nothing on this spinning globe. Anytime it feels like it, it can give one big belch and we're history.
The Earth is not fragile, and to refute the article above, neither is a bear's grip. Timothy Treadwell could tell us that, were he still around. He's the guy who took his girlfriend up north to live with his furry friends. Treadwell's method of approaching bears was to slowly slink up to them while singing "I love you" in a high-pitched voice. He and his girlfriend are now bear shit.
Our conceit is limitless. The Earth has been through ice ages, massive earthquakes, hurricanes, innumerable volcanoes spitting sulphur into the sky, catastrophic meteorite impacts, so forth. But hairspray and unleaded gas will be the planet's demise?
Ours, maybe. But the Earth doesn't give a damn about us. Ask the next skydiver whose chute doesn't open how fragile the Earth is, and how much it cares. You'll get two four letter words in response. The first is shit!, the other is thud.
From the Herald Sun (Australia):
Row Over Washrooms
A ROW has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code.
Muslim students have exclusive access to male and female washrooms on campus, sparking claims of bias and discrimination. The university and Islamic leaders have defended the washrooms as vital to Muslim students' prayer rituals.
Yes, if you like to pray while taking a dump, I suppose.
There is no doubt in my mind these days that Islamic fascists were wildly successful on 9/11. Lenin once said that the purpose of terrorism is terror. That's true, but it runs deeper than that. There was a Palestinian terrorist who said that before terrorism and plane hijackings became the norm, the Palestinian cause got nowhere. Once they started shooting people and blowing things up, the UN listened and they got their concessions.
The above example adds weight to the insipid idea that terrorism works. It puts a people's cause on the front page, and we weaklings bend before it.
Think back to before 9/11. You didn't see Islam in the news every day. I bet you didn't once think about 'people of cover.' You wouldn't have known about Ramadan as a religious holiday, and there's no chance you contemplated giving Muslims separate bathrooms at universities.
Then 9/11 happened. For the first few months, the story was about us, and the pain we suffered. But slowly and surely, the headlines changed. Now the story is about what we can do for them, and how we are a discriminatory people that must make allowances for people that want nothing to do with our culture and our way of life.
And with each concession, the divide deepens. When strung together in the past, separate washroom were two vile words. Now they are 'vital.'
Welcome to the new world order.
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