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“It’s a shame that environmental action is a partisan issue,” writes the Michigan Daily’s Theresa Kennelly. “Democrats and Republicans both breathe the same air, and only if the federal government steps in to combat rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions will we maintain an ample supply of fresh air for everyone to breathe.”
Otherwise we’ll all choke to death! Kennelly’s premonition is brought about by Al Gore’s new movie, in which the wooden (it’s a compliment) ex-VP promises total doom unless we elect a tree as Jesus and recycle our housepets. Further views on Gore and his cinematic adventure:
* Actor Leonardo DiCaprio: “Go See ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ when it comes to your town! Gore is funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our ‘planetary emergency’ out to ordinary citizens before it’s too late.”
* Climate guy Dr. Robert C. Balling Jr: “The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in December 1997, giving the Clinton-Gore administration more than three years to present it to the Senate for ratification. Given Gore’s knowledge and passion for global warming, you wonder why the vice president didn’t seize on the opportunity of a lifetime?”
* The Kansas City Star: “Al Gore’s fortune and soaring Google stock could help him launch a White House race anytime he likes, Democratic insiders tell the New York Post’s Deborah Orin. Gore has served as a senior adviser to Google since 2001.”
* The Guardian’s Gary Younge: “Where was this Al Gore six years ago when he stood for president? Indeed where was he 14 years ago when he stood for vice president? Where was he when Clinton signed Kyoto but would not honour it? Where was this Al Gore when big business was bankrolling his campaign?”
* The NYT’s Paul Krugman: “Al Gore and others who hope to turn global warming into a real political issue are going to have to get tougher, because the other side doesn’t play by any known rules.”
* Jay D. Homnick on Gore’s Saturday Night Live turn: “Gore not only jested, he attempted to laugh. Look at the two pictures in the USA Today article about his appearance; have you ever seen a more strained and ghastly rictus?”
* Jonah Goldberg notes Gore’s claim that his 15th summer was spent “study[ing] the existentialists — Sartre, Camus” at the Cannes Film Festival: “According to David Maraniss’ biography of Gore, the former vice president’s 15th summer was spent working on the family farm. Remember those stories about how Al Sr. said, ‘A boy could never be president if he couldn’t plow with that damned hillside plow’? That was the same summer. Apparently, Poppa Gore thought a boy who couldn’t both plow a field and parlez French existentialism could never be president either.”
* The New Hampshire Union Leader: “It is conveniently forgotten today that former Vice President Al Gore, among other leftists, once advocated that the government artificially raise gas prices to discourage oil consumption. With the market having set gasoline at an average price of just under $3 a gallon, some interesting things are happening. For one, leftists are proclaiming their outrage at the high price of gas.”
* Al Gore: “We face a challenge in the conversation of democracy that we must be up to in order to save the climate balance on which our civilisation depends.”
* More Gore: “Will there come a time decades from now when our children or their children will ask of us, ‘What were they thinking? Why didn’t they react? Didn’t they see the evidence? Were they too distracted or too busy? Didn’t they care?’”
* The Guardian’s Richard Smith: “As I write, Al Gore is doing his pitch on global warming at the Hay Festival ... I have no confidence that our species will survive. Selfishness means we cannot make the changes we need to make: people will not give up their cars, their foreign holidays, their central heating, their meat-eating and all the other pursuits that guzzle energy and poison the planet ... these are the defects that will destroy us.”
“Where was this Al Gore six years ago when he stood for president? Indeed where was he 14 years ago when he stood for vice president? Uh oh. The Wronwright replicator strikes again!
* Al Gore: “We face a challenge in the conversation of democracy that we must be up to in order to save the climate balance on which our civilisation depends.” We sure do: one side in this “conversation” has taken to screaming and throwing ashtrays and holding its breath until the other side shouts “Kyoto!”
Selfishness means we cannot make the changes we need to make: people will not give up their cars, their foreign holidays, their central heating, their meat-eating and all the other pursuits that guzzle energy and poison the planet
Well, damn human beings, anyway! Why won’t they simply adopt a bovine aspect and graze contentedly among the fields in herd fashion, and leave the thinking up to the environmental trail bosses? Put me down - as a trail boss.
“Will there come a time decades from now when our children or their children will ask of us, ‘What were they thinking?
Well, to tell the truth, I do worry about the little bastards pissing in my urn. Must remember to write a codicil to my will asking that my ashes be scattered over Nicole Kidman.
A lot of this ‘problem’ could be alleviated if all the whining hand-wringers who are so sure civilization is doomed would just show us the courtesy to shuffle off early.
If everyone who is currently convinced that the only possible solution is to impose a huge centralized control system would just commit suicide, we’d reduce the population at least a little, but most of them would be huge producers of CO2 (all that jetting about, you know). If they really cared about Gaia they’d kill themselves now to preserve her.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 05 30 at 12:02 PM • permalinkThe Michigan Daily is a college paper. Are college journalists really fair game, maybe except for that Brown undergrad who likened Al-Qaida to the Marc sisters in LIttle Women?
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 30 at 12:09 PM • permalinkSo, the Guardian’s Richard Smith has “no confidence that our species will survive”. He needn’t worry, reverse cycle air conditioning will ensure survival. Cool in summer, warm in winter, no mess no fuss. And for all those squeamish about coal-fired power stations needed to run the air conditioners there’s always nuclear power. Now can I have my Nobel Prize?
The March Sisters. And thanks Richard Smith of the Guardian for taking the foreign “holiday” position of 81% of the American public. And I don’t drive either.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 30 at 12:13 PM • permalink... only if the federal government steps in to combat rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions will we maintain an ample supply of fresh air for everyone to breathe.”
I can’t tell if she thinks greenhouse gases are a pollutant, or if she thinks that they reduce the available oxygen in the air. Either way, that’s quite possibly the most stunning piece of eco-idiocy I’ve ever read.
She’s hot though, going by the picture that accompanies the article, but I’m not sure I’d be ready for a relationship (of whatever kind) with a houseplant.
But casanova, they were cheated, cheated out of their due rewards! Even the 1980 election was a fraud: Gary Sick proved, proved mind you, that George H W Bush flew an SR-71 to a secret meeting with the Iranians and convinced them to hold on to the hostages they desperately wanted to release until after the election (how flying a piston-engined torpedo bomber in 1944 made him qualified to fly a hypersonic spy plane is a bit of a pickle, but never mind that inconvenient question…) and we ALL know how the reactionary US Supreme Court usurped Gore’s rightful throne (never mind that Al filed the lawsuit in the first place…)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 05 30 at 12:48 PM • permalinkSo the only solution, according to the al-Gorists, is to collapse civilization back to the pre-industrialization era. With its 40-year life span and 50% infant mortality, its untreated water supplies, lack of modern medicine, poor nutrition for most, and an inward-looking, uneducated, small-village-type mentality. This is the conclusion I have to make, considering that their suggestions only involve what we must no longer do, not what we can do using technology and simple common sense.
* The NYT’s Paul Krugman: “Al Gore and others who hope to turn global warming into a real political issue are going to have to get tougher, because the other side doesn’t play by any known rules.”
Absolutely correct. Just because you don’t read any stories in the paper about climate-change moderates cruising around in dark limousines and blasting global-warmists with machine guns as they step out of the health food store doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen every single day.
“Go See ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ when it comes to your town! Gore is funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our ‘planetary emergency’ out to ordinary citizens (sic) before it’s too late.”
Haw! Ordinary citizens! That must mean me, and Rebecca and Stoop Davy and Dave S. Whaddaya say, team? Do we stand by and let the world perish, or do we give up that cruise on the dude whaling ship this year?
I just read that article by Theresa Kennelly. It is one of the most mind numbingly unoriginal articles I’ve ever read about
global warmingglobal coolingclimate change. It’s virtually a checklist of Mother Gaia™ worshipper talking points. The article is also a classic example of leftoid history revising:The Kyoto Protocol was developed by the United Nations in 1997 and signed by 165 nations, committing them to reducing harmful gas emissions and participating in emission trading. The protocol has been projected to cut gas emissions by 29 percent by the year 2010. While then-Vice President Gore signed the protocol, it was only a symbolic gesture of dedication to work on creating safer air in our country. Only when the protocol is ratified by the individual nations does it come into effect - and America and Australia are the only nations who have not joined in ratifying the agreement. The reason Bush has given for refusing to accept this protocol is that it is not economically efficient and the lack of participation from developing nations could put economic strain on America. However, the government has taken no alternative steps and remains unresponsive to growing environmental threats.
Theresa misses one key point in her narrative: The Senate flat out refused (by overwhelming majority) to ratify the Kyoto Treaty. That’s why Bush never bothered to submit it, and indeed withdrew it. She wants someone to blame? Better start writing her Congression delegation.
Instead, she paints Gorezilla as a freakin’ hero for his symbolic gesture. Which is yet another manifestation of lefties: poseurs posing for posterity is what really counts.
Honestly, Theresa sounds like a wannabe Algore groupie, denied her just rewards simply due to time and space.
PW, I think that you insult houseplants. I’d rather root poison ivy myself. One can only hope that Theresa does not plan on having children.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 30 at 01:18 PM • permalinkThat’s why Bush never bothered to submit it, and indeed withdrew it.
Whoops! PIMF! Those are secondary reasons…...Bush never agreed with the stupid treaty in the first place. And for good reason.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 30 at 01:20 PM • permalinkPW 13
that’s quite possibly the most stunning piece of eco-idiocy I’ve ever read.
Oh come on now! Stoopy predicts you’ll see something equally or more stupid in the next 48 hours, and if I weren’t too lazy to check, there’ll probably be half a dozen greater stupiditems in the past week.
Not that it wudn’t a DAMN dumb comment. But you get the idea.16 Paco
If you and I (“the meek”) are going to inherit the earth, we’d better hurry up and get clear title to it…
Oh you go on ahead. I’ll just wait here. I don’t want to make a fuss.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 30 at 01:21 PM • permalink19 Mr Ordinary
Ordinary citizens! That must mean me, and Rebecca and Stoop Davy and Dave S.
Don’t forget Wronwright! Why he’s probably more ordinary than the rest of us put together! Indeed, it would be fair to describe him as “extra-ordinary.”
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 30 at 01:22 PM • permalink20 The Real
The Senate flat out refused (by overwhelming majority) to ratify the Kyoto Treaty.
That’s odd ... weren’t Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and Chuck Schumer all IN the same Senate, that year? Hmp! What could have happened?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 30 at 01:25 PM • permalinkInteresting quote…..“Will there come a time decades from now when our children or their children will ask of us, ‘What were they thinking? Why didn’t they react? Didn’t they see the evidence? Were they too distracted or too busy? Didn’t they care?’”
As the Islamist inroads into Eurabia continue, and as the two creators of Europe’s own film “An Inconvenient Truth” see one dead with a knife in his chest, the other driven out of Europe (deja vu) for her despicable thought crimes….
I wonder some things about European society today, such things as….Will there come a time decades from now when our children or their children will ask of us, ‘What were they thinking? Why didn’t they react? Didn’t they see the evidence? Were they too distracted or too busy? Didn’t they care?’”
and… “for God’s sake, they even went THROUGH all this in the 30’s, and KNEW where it leads”....
And I see that final plaintive cry from adult children to parents: “What did you DO to us??”
Funny thing, irony.
“Selfishness means we cannot make the changes we need to make: people will not give up their cars, their foreign holidays, their central heating, their meat-eating and all the other pursuits that guzzle energy and poison the planet ... these are the defects that will destroy us.”
This is the gist of it for leftists: they want us to return to a subsistence lifestyle. You know, that wonderful way of life where most people lived in abject poverty and were dead by the age of forty. But Gaia will be saved!
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2006 05 30 at 01:28 PM • permalinkHmp! What could have happened?
I dunno, SDD, but it’s one of those things where the details are best left undiscussed. Especially so close to lunch.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 30 at 01:29 PM • permalinkThe NYT’s Paul Krugman: “Al Gore and others who hope to turn global warming into a real political issue are going to have to get tougher, because the other side doesn’t play by any known rules.”
Rule #1 - do not disagree with a lefty.
Rule #2 - do not bring up facts or point out errors of fact or logic.
Rule #3 - shut the fuck up.Thank you,
Paul K.The Guardian’s Richard Smith: “...people will not give up their ... foreign holidays…”
OK, I’m confused. For years the Euroleftards at The Guardian have been sneering at us Americans for our provincialism and the fact that so few of us hold passports. Now they’re saying we travel too much. Sheesh. The biggest problem with the hectoring Left is that they hector us with conflicting hects. They make it impossible to oblige them.
Andrew X beat me to it.
‘What were they thinking? Why didn’t they react? Didn’t they see the evidence? Were they too distracted or too busy? Didn’t they care?’
Certainly applies to nearly three decades of failure on the part of our political and leadership classes—Gore prominently included—to deal with the rise of Islamo-fascism.
Haw! Ordinary citizens! That must mean me, and Rebecca and Stoop Davy and Dave S. Whaddaya say, team? Do we stand by and let the world perish, or do we give up that cruise on the dude whaling ship this year?
Sorry, Paco, but I just got done converting my home heating system to whale oil, my car to whalodiesel, and my diet to whale meat and whale-meat by-products.
Dave, that sounds like a whale of a project…..
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 30 at 01:50 PM • permalinkDave S.
Rule #4 - Never, ever ask a question that cannot be answered with a well-worn talking point.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 05 30 at 01:52 PM • permalinkThe_Real_JeffS (#20) hits the nail on the head. The ever-retarded Gary Younge seems to be wholly ignorant (quelle surprise) of Article II, Section 2, ¶ 2 of the Constitution: ” He [the President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur…” (my emphasis). Byrd-Hagel (S.R. 98) was passed unanimously, 97–0:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that—
(1) the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter, which would—
(A) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex I Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period, or
(B) would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States; and
(2) any such protocol or other agreement which would require the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification should be accompanied by a detailed explanation of any legislation or regulatory actions that may be required to implement the protocol or other agreement and should also be accompanied by an analysis of the detailed financial costs and other impacts on the economy of the United States which would be incurred by the implementation of the protocol or other agreement.
Trying to do an end-run around this is unconstitutional to the point of impeachability, and Gore knows it. The US cannot and could not sign up to Kyoto. Now, it is true that a future president might try to revisit this issue, but it’s highly unlikely that he’d be willing to expend the political capital on an issue most Americans (rightly) regard as of vestigial importance.
Posted by David Gillies on 2006 05 30 at 02:02 PM • permalinkYep, every time I consider the carnage of the American Civil War I ask myself what was the Union and General McDowell thinking by not outflanking Beuregard at the Battle of Bull Run? Why couldn’t he have been as smart as Mr. Gore and avoided the catastrophe to come?
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 05 30 at 02:07 PM • permalinkI have a pet peeve with this nth year stuff. Al Gore was born March 31, 1948 (it would be fun to start a rumor that it was really a few hours later, on a more appropriate date) and so commencing in late June he spent his first summer while zero years old. His fifteenth summer would be fourteen years thereafter, when he was fourteen years old. Perhaps he plowed (tobacco fields?) before he parlezed; I care not.
What disturbs me to no end is this practice of writers to misuse derivatives of the Biblical “eleventh hour” idiom to mean 11:00 to 11:59. The master of the vineyard of Matthew 20 went out to seek more workers “about” or “at” the eleventh hour of a twelve-hour workday, resulting in those workers laboring for an hour. The work they did would have been done during the twelfth hour, until the twelfth hour in the sense of the end of twelve hours. The end of the eleventh hour is not midnight, but 11.
The end of the fifteenth year likewise results in one turning 15 years old. If you say that a 15-year-old is in his fifteeth year, what about 14 years before—was he a one-year-old in his first year (by Western reckoning)? Did anyone call the time between his birth and its first anniversary* his zeroth year? Of course not.
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* Often this would be called his “first birthday.” But of course it is the first anniversary of his birth, most of us being born in the physiological sense only once, not every year. This vernacular usage I can accept, reluctantly, but I cannot abide the frequent n years old equals “in his nth year” mistake.
#15 Rebeccah,
So the only solution, according to the al-Gorists, is to collapse civilization back to the pre-industrialization era. With its 40-year life span and 50% infant mortality, its untreated water supplies, lack of modern medicine, poor nutrition for most, and an inward-looking, uneducated, small-village-type mentality.”
Exactly. It is much harder to rule people who are fat and sassy and pursuing life. They need victims in order to practice their power.
Don’t ever let them tell you it is for your own good. Your good is exactly what they are out to destroy.
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Oh! That sounds very competitive, doesn’t it? I’ll just sit that out, if it’s okay with you.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 30 at 02:51 PM • permalink“Will there come a time decades from now when our children or their children will ask of us, ‘What were they thinking? Why didn’t they react? Didn’t they see the evidence? Were they too distracted or too busy? Didn’t they care?’”
Oh, I guarantee they’re going to do that anyway, no matter what we do.
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2006 05 30 at 03:30 PM • permalink#19 & 41, paco, count me in. I’ve been dying to take another cruise. Um… can we hit golf balls off the upper decks, and throw cigarette butts into the sea, all the while spewing our sewage behind us? Because, y’know, whale harpooning is fun and all, but I need variety, and my previous cruises have been distressingly enviro-sensitive.
“Gore has served as a senior adviser to Google since 2001”
That explains a lot….
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 05 30 at 03:51 PM • permalinkEx-commenters welcome!
Screw THAT! If Dandrew’s cruising, I’m not. I ain’t spending my vacation arguing about whether “instamatic” is a word or not!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 30 at 04:58 PM • permalinkSpeaking of DEFECTS WILL DESTROY US
How ‘bout this
Dutch Pedophiles To Launch New Political Party
May 30, 2006 4:26 p.m. EST
Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer
Amsterdam, Netherlands (AHN)Sparking widespread outrage, Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations from 16 to 12 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals.
If these people are NOT defective, then nothing is.
I’d like to see someone make a list of all the things that Gore, his family and his household could personally be doing to cut down on the greenhouse effect. I’d be willing to wager that there are more than a few luxuries that he and his family could and would do without *if* he is genuinely convinced that we are so close to a global catastrophe.
Maybe it could be taken a step further and a list made up of things that could be given up by *anyone* who professes to believe as Gore does. It would be interesting to see just how committed they really are.Jeez, what a boring thread (it may be a result of the topic, one Mr Al Gore).
Where are our trolls when we need them to spice it up a bit?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 05 30 at 06:34 PM • permalinkSaid trolls are probably lamenting our
disagreeing with their opinionscrushing their dissent with our knee high jackboots (quite spiffy looking, I might add) and our world dominating, Mother Gaia™ destroying, fascist regime.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 30 at 06:41 PM • permalink#33
Dave, that sounds like a whale of a project…..
Whale, you know what they say…
Posted by mythusmage on 2006 05 30 at 07:20 PM • permalinkTheresa Kennelly
Comassionate head tilt alert. Not to mention the smell of freshly scrubbed brains oozing from her photo.
Maybe whale strandings can be explained by the fact they watched the manbearpigs’ movie?
Apparently whales are smart, sensitive creatures, so obviously they are just attempting to lessen their environmental footprint by commiting suicide.
I await my grant to investigate this futher.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 30 at 07:31 PM • permalinkBush lied….erm….Whales died!. How’s that?.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 30 at 07:39 PM • permalinkCan’t these wood ducks lead by example? How about they renounce the use of modern devices like the computer, cars, jets, the electronic typesetting and production of publications, electricity, GM food, pesticides, modern medicines etc. Then we wouldn’t have to listen to their drivel, as they would be huddling around campfires (no, wait, that destroys trees and pollutes the air) rabbiting on to each other with no worldwide audience. And with a bit of luck, they will kark it at an early age (like their noble savages) and remove themselves permanently from our faces.
I like to play a game with my environmental friends who want to save the Brazilian rainforest or somesuch. I ask them if they are willing to go and select the peasants who exist only by slash and burn subsistence farming who are going to starve to death while awaiting tourism to save them, and tell them face to face that they have to die to make some luxury car-driving, air-conditioned, high-priced organic food eating (due to the reduced productivity of “natural” farming) twit feel like he is doing something for the betterment of mankind. Pah!
Thanks in no little part to Gore and his Boss Billy, in a decade our children won’t ask ” ‘What were they thinking? Why didn’t they react? Didn’t they see the evidence? Were they too distracted or too busy? Didn’t they care?’”
But someone elses children will ask, “¿` cuáles eran ellos que pensaban? ¿Por qué no reaccionaron? ¿No vieron la evidencia? ¿Los distrajeron también o busy también? No cuidan?’ ”Posted by papertiger on 2006 05 30 at 07:46 PM • permalink“Will there come a time decades from now when our children or their children will ask of us, ‘What were they thinking? Why didn’t they react? Didn’t they see the evidence? Were they too distracted or too busy? Didn’t they care?’”
Dude, decades from now, my children, who you already told me would be extinct in the year 2000, will either be drowned, frozen or have spontaneously combusted. So who cares what they think? Make up your mind, lumpy.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 30 at 08:09 PM • permalink#47 rhh; Nice try, but to rhyme ‘Camus’ your second line needs to be
In France they would be ‘true’.South Australia has just had its *lowest* night time average temperatures for May since 1898 -106 years.
We’re obviously doing our bit against global warming, even though our political boss Rann says we can export the world’s uranium from its largest mine [Roxby Downs] but still burn our fossil fuel for power.
“It’s a shame that environmental action is a partisan issue,” writes the Michigan Daily’s Theresa Kennelly. “Democrats and Republicans both breathe the same air, and only if the federal government steps in to combat rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions will we maintain an ample supply of fresh air for everyone to breathe.”
[mocky mimic voice] “It’s a shame that {my favorite issue} is {subject to partisan disagreement},” writes the Tim Blair Blog’s Huck Foley, about whose opinion nobody properly gives a squat. “Only if everyone agreed with me, or failing that, if a more powerful version of myself steps in to combat {my personal boogeyman} can everybody hope to be allowed to continue to breathe.”
[/mocky mimic voice]Posted by Huck Foley on 2006 05 30 at 08:27 PM • permalink#69 Sezageoff,
Excellent rant, I may have to borrow it. I too have a friend that believes in all that bollocks, can’t help but notice he’s still driving his gas guzzling Gaia raping automobile and still using electricity. When will people learn, the only way to live nobly is to live as a subsistence troglodyte, a slave to the plough, dying at thirty five without a tooth in your head, all for the glory of the Earth Mother.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 30 at 08:40 PM • permalinkTioedong / 70
Clinton might have signed it, but it was never ratified by the People’s representatives…funny but that’s how democracy works…
No, that’s how a properly-constituted republic works. (see Article # all of them).
Democracy is a powerful force.
A republic is a system for managing democracy.
Either without the other is worse than useless.Posted by Huck Foley on 2006 05 30 at 08:41 PM • permalink“It’s a shame that environmental action is a partisan issue,” writes the Michigan Daily’s Theresa Kennelly. “Democrats and Republicans both breathe the same air…”
OK, we have got to do something about those breathing Democrats. The ones who vote from the graveyard and post at Daily Kos are bad enough…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 30 at 08:41 PM • permalinkIf Al Gore is wooden and Leonardo DeCaprio has set him on fire, isn’t that adding to gobal warming, and destroying an item of old-growth heritage?
For shame- these Hollywood bigshots are all talk; I’ll bet Leo wears CLEAN undercrackers every day, thus filling the ocean with detergent residue and dissolved dingleberries, the hypocrite.
Everyone knows you can get at leat four days out of a pair of fart-catchers if you’re an enviromentally aware, whiffy activist- normal, reverse, inside out, reverse inside out.
Or better still, don’t wear any- they’re made by starving orphans in 3rd world sweatshops run by Nike, Coca Cola and Halliburton. I can reccomend some organic hemp hessian, which makes a lairy loincloth and can be aired between wearings; the resultant rashes, sores and wildlife are a real talking point with like minded world wimmin, I can tell you, but rest assured there’s no sexist/phallocentric intent in the interaction that results either.
(I’m thinking of patenting a cigar store Gore- waddya think?)
For shame- these Hollywood bigshots are all talk; I’ll bet Leo wears CLEAN undercrackers every day, thus filling the ocean with detergent residue and dissolved dingleberries, the hypocrite.
And I’m sure the only car in his garage is that stupid Prius. Because his supermodel girlfriends would be quite happy tooling around in that rather than some supercar.
A whaling trip? Oh lord, please don’t tell me.
Paco! Did you get authorization for this? Will there be any supervisising henchman coming along, or is this another
Voyage of the Damnedminion manned journey to the Ends of the Earth?(sounds like they’re trying to get some narwhal ivory for Andrea’s handle for her paddle—oh I am so sick and tired of everyone buttering up to Andrea, as if that would save them from the fists of fury of that she monster)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 30 at 09:39 PM • permalinkMy minions watch you everywhere, wronwright. That’s all I’m going to say. (Resumes applying neat’s-foot oil to the ivory—elephant ivory—handle of Bertha.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 05 30 at 09:45 PM • permalinkRe #35, Dave, thanks for the quote. I didn’t realize that you can comment on Teresa’s opinion column, and I used it in my reply to point out how her hero (Gorezilla) isn’t the consummate ecologically minded politician that she paints him to be.
If it isn’t deleted by some irate leftie on the staff, I mean. But I saved a copy, just in case.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 30 at 09:48 PM • permalink#81: Easy, there, big fellah! The dude whaling ship is completely jake with Karl. And don’t be so paranoid about the narwhal horns; just a wall decoration. Now, just have a tot of this grog and relax. We wouldn’t want to see you sitting in the dock rolling those little steel balls in your hand, muttering about stolen strawberries, now, would we?
Dave S — Supermodels are too tall to fit in a Toyota Prissy.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 30 at 10:34 PM • permalink#61 Salty: Spoken like an honest tar! Come aboard! Live the dream!
It’ll be fun. Richard’s the ship master, Stoop Davy’s the first mate, I’m the chaplain and cabin boy (out humble that Mr. Davy Dave), El Cid’s the chief gunner, Andrea’s the, er, social director, and Wronwright’s in charge of sewing up canvas sacks with eight-pound shot (in the unfortunate, but probably unlikely, event of fatalities). Tell you what, Salty: you can be in charge of the rum.
Ha! Elephant ivory for Bertha. That’s so old hat. The really fine paddle has narwhal ivory. Which apparently Bertha doesn’t have.
(actually, hasn’t a clue which ivory is in vogue or not, really couldn’t tell one from another, but nods with a smug feeling of satisfaction anyway)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 30 at 10:43 PM • permalinkThe Guardian’s Richard Smith: “As I write, Al Gore is doing his pitch on global warming at the Hay Festival ... I have no confidence that our species will survive. Selfishness means we cannot make the changes we need to make: people will not give up their cars, their foreign holidays, their central heating, their meat-eating and all the other pursuits that guzzle energy and poison the planet ... these are the defects that will destroy us.”
By “species”, does Smith mean left-wing journos? Shoddy, spelling-challenged, rags like the Grauniad? Clarification please!
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 05 30 at 11:08 PM • permalinkThis typically European shit really burns me, and, yes, I’m about to defend President Clinton:
Where was he when Clinton signed Kyoto but would not honour it?
Listen up, you dumbass. We here in America live under a document called the “United States Constitution.” It sets forth the basic rules of our government. Under these basic rules, only a legislative body called the “United States Senate” can ratify treaties; unless they are so ratified, they have no binding or legal effect on the U.S.
In our system, which is different from yours (and, yes, the whole world does not work like it does in the U.K., try learning something about the world outside of Oxbridge and London), the President has no choice in the matter when it comes to “honoring” treaties he has signed. If the Senate ratifies it, he must “honor” it; if not, he must not. He has no discretion in the matter.
Now, the thing that really burns me up is that educated Brits like this asshole know all this perfectly well, but use a situation not readily understandable by their readership at large to impugn the motives or actions of American presidents. They did the same thing in 2000 when all over the Western world well-educated Euros and Australians suddenly pretended that the Electoral College system in the U.S. was unknown to them.
Really, there is no excuse for this sort of thing as is is either the product of small-minded ignorance or willful dishonesty.
This asshat being from the Guardian, I’d go with the latter.
Posted by NewSisyphus on 2006 05 30 at 11:11 PM • permalinkYou know, I actually do live on a sailing vessel - a beautiful little ketch. I’m in charge of rum on this vessel as well, so I’m perfect for the job (are you psychic, paco, or what?). I allow no watered down barrels in my ships stores! I’m also very generous with the daily portion alloted to each swab.
And, of course, Scrimshaw Andrea is welcome to hit the barrel anytime. She schedules the keel-hauling, right?
Slightly OT, there’s a nice article in today’s Australian about debunking leftie tenets:
Fact-based antidote to the garbage
Let’s puncture myths about plastic bags, casual workers and higher immigration, says Alan Wood
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 05 30 at 11:30 PM • permalinksaltydog — I’m envious. Best I managed was living a winter in New York on a 27-foot cabin cruiser in my salad days. Downside, freaking freezing. Upside, the salad kept really well…
Right now I’m staring at the plans for a gorgeous little 20-foot canoe yawl with absolutely no place to build it, dammit.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 30 at 11:52 PM • permalink#97, Richard,
I thank Hillary for my living on my boat. She scared the medical profession into socializing itself, thereby ruining a lifetime’s worth of planning and saving. I have some medical problems that has put me in the rack for more time than I care for. I went from being able to pay for my insurance and medical care to not being able to afford insurance or medical care. This is what I’m talking about when I say that the do-gooders need victims and work hard at making them.
On the up side, I live on the water; I live in a place that inspires people to save for the whole year just to come for a week. And I live where I can watch my Navy come and go. Everything disappears when I watch a battle group come home safely, with its ship’s company standing in their dress uniforms along the rails. I always see them off and wish them godspeed, but I love it best when they enter the harbor after a long deployment.
And then I read something that says that Algore thinks that
global coolingwarmingclimate change is the most important thing on the list right now and I think about keel-hauling. Then there’s hanging from the yardarm. We haven’t talked about hanging from the yardarm yet.P.S. Richard: Just make sure that wherever you build it, you can get it out of the door after you’re finished. Seriously, you’d be surprised at how many normally intelligent people don’t think about that (starting small, with finishing too far down the path to consider). I’m not saying you, necessarily, I’m just saying.
Am enjoying the merriment and mirth on this site occasioned by the release of the Al Gore propaganda film. But I have to interrupt the levity. As an insider in the educational sector let me confirm what you already know: the rampant political correctness, social engineering and doom and gloom hand-wringing that passes for education in many of our schools.
For several generations of students education has meant serious amounts of time spent, from primary school up to high school (maybe excluding private Christian schools?), not on the three “r"s but in “investigating” every political, social and environmental “issue” on the left/liberal platform – whether it be global warming, the greenhouse effect, multiculturalism, peace studies, poverty, hunger, homelessness, AIDS, refugees, “new” family structures, women’s rights, aboriginal rights, the evils of capitalism, even postmodernism, and deconstructionalism in senior English classes etc. And yes, may of the students can’t string a coherent sentence together…
In high school students regularly watch films like Fahrenheit 9/11or Supersize Me, or The Corporation, and alarmist documentaries put out by SBS, The ABC, PBS or the BBC are staple fare. Very rarely are they exposed to opposing viewpoints that deviate from the party line. Even more lamentable they are virtually never exposed tor positive viewpoints of Western culture or the achievements of Western civilisation. This occurs despite whatever the leanings of the political party in Government - Conservative or Leftist. So generations of young people have been exposed to only one viewpoint and denied alternative takes, except in a most cursory and dismissive way.Fortunately(sic) a lot of kids don’t listen to what their teachers say so they don’t always voice the political correct line, but many of the more sensitive and studious students do assimilate these ideas and carry them on into university and the eager waiting arms of tenured sixties radicals.
Let me say that many teachers do grumble under their breath about the rampant political correctness and revisionism in the curriculum, and many do a sterling job of trying to present all sides of various issues, but the education culture as a whole is firmly in the hands of bureaucrats and academics who often have no hesitation in attacking traditional education, conservative positions and the conservative governments that employ them.
So Al Gore and the liberal Big Media have already won the high ground, they are now really only preaching to the converted… and keeping dissidents under the thumb. So mirth is tinged with dismay.#99 Tertius,
Well said. This reminds me of a college teacher I had around the time of the Gulf War, he was supposed to be teaching a course on fantasy literature (his idea of fantasy, by the way, was James Joyce!) but spent all his time pontificating on the evils of America and Western society(he also had frequent sobbing episodes, I,ve yet to see anything more pathetic). After two months of this, I quietly walked out and never went back. It gets worse, his pride and joy was a large picture of himself standing next to a bust of Lenin.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 31 at 04:21 AM • permalinkThe same Daily issue has a piece on the virtues of carpooling and mass transit.
To Democrats, “bipartisan” always means agreeing with them.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2006 05 31 at 07:27 AM • permalinkFrom flying around the world to hawk global-warming books, to sentencing others’ children to inferior public schools, liberals know no limits of hypocrisy.
If today’s leftists had been around 200 years ago, they’d have conscripted Africans to free American slaves.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2006 05 31 at 07:53 AM • permalinkHey forget dull Al-newest Dem sensation is much more stimulating.Bill Clinton has a new blonde attachment -a Canadian m.p I think and the excitement is over his birthday bash and whether she will surface.
The venue is -wait for it -Madison Square Garden and the question is -will she sing Happy Birthday Mr President?saltydog — I wish you’d stop bringing up that trimaran…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 31 at 09:36 AM • permalinkSaltydog—I mean, the pointy bit in the middle got out the door fine…
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