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LISTEN LIKE NOAH

It’s boat time, says Democrat congressional candidate Robin Weirauch:

The first time humans were warned about a big flood, the message came directly from God, and Noah listened, even though everyone surely told him he was crazy.

This time, mere mortals of science and reason are the messengers, but God is still speaking to many of us when He tells us to take care of His creation. Will we listen like Noah? Or will we continue to doubt until it is finally too late?

Better start pairing up the spy squirrels and monster ducks. Biology professor - and self-confessed Presbyterian - Carl N. McDaniel also invokes the great mariner:

I think being spiritual is a deep part of human nature. It’s a blessing and a curse. Take the great story of Noah, the first real biodiversity specialist. We as humans need to learn from that biblical tradition, because we’re in the early stages of what you call a mass extinction and we can’t build an ark big enough for all 6 billion of us. We need to treat the Earth as our ark now, before it’s too late.

Sometimes it almost seems as though this “global warming” caper is developing, I don’t know, a slightly religious aspect.

UPDATE. In other boating news, a London Times reader is annoyed by inaccurate weather predictions:

I bought a yacht earlier in the year and consequently I’ve been paying very careful attention to weather forecasts from the Met office - basically, they’re bunk!

Check the forecast for tomorrow in the morning and it will be one thing, check in the afternoon and it will be something else, and when tomorrow arrives, the weather is a third unpredicted thing entirely. This has been a consistent pattern about 2/3rds of the time since April. They just make it up! Sack the lot of them and just guess that tomorrow’s weather will be like today’s and you’ll more than likely be right.

As for this winter’s weather; it will be a surprise, won’t it? There’s certainly no way the muppets at the Met office could predict it.

- Michael, Brighton, England

Posted by Tim B. on 07/15/2007 at 08:18 AM
  1. The Algoracle and his Profits of Doooom!

    So he says it to be, so it shall be written, so we can laugh at his dumb arse tomorrow.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 15 at 08:30 AM • permalink

  2. First thing we do is, see, we build a big spaceship.  And we name it The Ark, see?  And we round up all the people who are convinced we’re all about to die of climate apocalypse, and we shoot them off into space, so they can be saved.

    Works for me.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 15 at 08:35 AM • permalink

  3. The first time humans were warned about a big flood, the message came directly from God, and Noah listened, even though everyone surely told him he was crazy.

    And after that big flood, God put a rainbow in the sky as a sign that there would never again be a flood like that.

    I’m not even a Christian, but I know the Bible better than this idiot does. Who is he trying to fool?

    Posted by Evil Pundit on 2007 07 15 at 08:41 AM • permalink

  4. First thing we do is, see, we build a big spaceship.  And we name it The Ark, see?  And we round up all the people who are convinced we’re all about to die of climate apocalypse, and we shoot them off into space, so they can be saved.

    Oooo! And it would be totally cool if, at the end, when they’re coming up on their new planet, they say something like, “There it is…our new beginning now that our world is dying. Our new home - Earth!

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 07 15 at 08:45 AM • permalink

  5. Funny, when we say that Goebbel’s Warning is bullshit, the warm-mongers call us “flat-earthers” and “Creationists.” But when they talk about Noah’s Ark and biblical apocalypse as if it was fact, that’s hunky-dory.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 07 15 at 08:48 AM • permalink

  6. When God turns Tipper Gore into a pillar of salt, do you suppose Al will ask Him for some fries to go with it?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 08:52 AM • permalink

  7. #2 Include the telephone sanitisers.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 15 at 08:53 AM • permalink

  8. #3 “And after that big flood, God put a rainbow in the sky as a sign that there would never again be a flood like that.”

    Evil Pundit, a lot of the Christian clergy are no longer in the business of teaching God’s word but Al Gore’s word.

    “[W]e can’t build an ark big enough for all 6 billion of us.”  Why would it be necessary to take all six billion?  Even Noah took only three breeding pairs.  And anyway the Human Genome Project has been completed.

    Posted by Crossie on 2007 07 15 at 08:56 AM • permalink

  9. #8, Crossie:

    And anyway the Human Genome Project has been completed.

    Umm..maybe not. There was something recently about all that “junk” material in genes or DNA or whatever it is. They’re now thinking that stuff that was thought to be all just junk is actually the codes for where to build and how much to build.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 15 at 09:01 AM • permalink

  10. How many could we get aboard if we excluded Al and Micheal Moore? At least 65K or so, right?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 09:02 AM • permalink

  11. #10:

    Depends on how hungry they (the AG and MM) are when you load them in. You’re probably close to dead on with the 65k for a final number. But, if you count in a double feeding frenzy by the monsters, then you could count an additional 2 or 3k as having been loaded. Final count closer to 68k.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 15 at 09:08 AM • permalink

  12. #11 Along with the tens of hundreds who could potentially be saved by clinging to the bouyant carcasses of Gore and Moore.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 09:12 AM • permalink

  13. They’re now thinking that stuff that was thought to be all just junk is actually the codes for where to build and how much to build.

    ‘Cause God don’t make no junk.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 15 at 09:12 AM • permalink

  14. #12, TB:

    Wouldn’t anyone getting that close to either of them be sucked into one or the other’s event horizon?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 15 at 09:17 AM • permalink

  15. Sometimes it almost seems as though this “global warming” caper is developing, I don’t know, a slightly religious aspect.

    I can’t say I’ve ever noticed.

    Posted by John A on 2007 07 15 at 09:27 AM • permalink

  16. RebeccaH:

    Maybe they meant “as in the times of Noah”?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 15 at 09:27 AM • permalink

  17. #14 And be crushed by the immense gravitational forces? Gosh, I hadn’t thought about that.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 09:36 AM • permalink

  18. #16 Or perhaps in the biblical tradition...

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 09:40 AM • permalink

  19. #17, TB:

    This does beg the question: Can we risk putting two such moral black holes in such close proximity as required by a single ship transport system?

    What forces could potentially be unleashed if these gravity wells of non-comprehension actually came into physical contact?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 15 at 09:41 AM • permalink

  20. #18, TB:

    ...as in the time of Noah. That’s a reference to a particular end time prophecy.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 15 at 09:43 AM • permalink

  21. #20 Ah, so. I get it.

    #19 They could potentially negate one another, but on the other hand, they could exponentially amplify the effect, catapulting the thought-vacuum to near Rosie dimensions. Horrific!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 09:54 AM • permalink

  22. All this talk about building a huge spaceship to save humanity from the destruction is hardly a new idea

    OTOH, since we are discussing Michael The Moor and Gorezilla, this means a HUGE spaceship…...unless we just tow them behind the ship.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 15 at 09:55 AM • permalink

  23. #9 “Umm..maybe not. There was something recently about all that “junk” material in genes or DNA or whatever it is.”

    Oh well, Grimmy, then it’s back to the breeding pairs.  Didn’t a James Bond film have in the plot beautiful and youthful pairs being blasted off into space on space shuttles while the Earth was being ‘reorganised’?

    Posted by Crossie on 2007 07 15 at 09:57 AM • permalink

  24. Their ranting reminds me of the great scene from Ghostbusters:

    Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
    Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
    Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
    Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes…
    Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2007 07 15 at 10:00 AM • permalink

  25. #22, TRJ:

    That just gave me an idea…

    What if, we could set these two universal suckers into a slightly offset orbit of each other?

    It should be, for all intents and purposes, a perpetual (if moronic) motion mechanism. The energy produced would be gianormous. Would it be enough to power a device that sucked all the excess flood water and icky carbon stuffs and spit them out into space?

    Why should we leave when we can just get rid of the stuff that’s bugging us?

    The moving parts of the device could be oiled by application of greasy hippies, win win.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 15 at 10:03 AM • permalink

  26. TRJS, Ha! I remember The Starlost. I was just a kid, but I remember thinking how they’d ruined a perfectly good storyline with an absolute crap show.
    The Amish pod, that was rich.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 10:11 AM • permalink

  27. Record cold snaps all over Australia and the heaviest snow falls in decades continue.  Don’t you just love it?  The Oz: global coldening is upon us.

    Posted by Ubique on 2007 07 15 at 10:18 AM • permalink

  28. If the problem is Global Warming, it makes sense to me that we keep Gore somewhere on the planet. After all, no one can create global cooling like he can.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 15 at 10:24 AM • permalink

  29. Enjoyed the letter from “Michael, Brighton, England”. Has a sort of “Henry Root” quality about it.

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 15 at 10:56 AM • permalink

  30. Vegemite, banana and honey Saladas for all!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 15 at 11:03 AM • permalink

  31. Standard British weather forecast:

    Sunny periods with scattered showers.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 15 at 11:06 AM • permalink

  32. #29 Yeah, but the comments from the ushers of the Goreacle Temple and Holy Global Warmeth suggest they got a little touchy about the skeptical heresy.  It appears that blasphemy will be dealt with swiftly and harshly.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 11:07 AM • permalink

  33. I wish Al Gore would come to Orlando. It’s supposed to go up into the mid-90s* today.

    *All temperature measurements in Fahrenheit, the REAL MAN’S temperature measurement system.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 15 at 11:08 AM • permalink

  34. All temperature measurements in Fahrenheit, the REAL MAN’S temperature measurement system

    Amen.

    Preach it sister, preach it!

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 07 15 at 11:16 AM • permalink

  35. #33 Yeah, we’ll be having none of that sissified euroweenie metric mumbo-jumbo round these parts.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 11:17 AM • permalink

  36. So “Waterworld” was fantasy after all. I always suspected it.

    BTW, the only thing missing from Michael’s letter is the wonderfully precise word, “rubbish”.

    Posted by Merlin on 2007 07 15 at 12:10 PM • permalink

  37. What’s a cubit?

    Posted by the wolf on 2007 07 15 at 12:47 PM • permalink

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    Posted by paco on 2007 07 15 at 12:50 PM • permalink

  39. #37. Right.


    LOL, the wolf.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 15 at 01:05 PM • permalink

  40. Re #37, the wolf: Behold, the cubit!

    /pendant

    I was just a kid, but I remember thinking how they’d ruined a perfectly good storyline with an absolute crap show.

    Yeah, TB, my brother and I would watch every episode, hoping they’d get their act together.  Eventually, we realized they wouldn’t, and we stopped watching that craptastic show.

    But there’s something of a parallel between “The Starlost” and MM/Gorezilla.  Not the storyline, but that all three are losers.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 15 at 01:23 PM • permalink

  41. #37 What’s a cubit?
    I dunno.
    What’s a henway?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 01:24 PM • permalink

  42. But there’s something of a parallel between “The Starlost” and MM/Gorezilla. Not the storyline, but that all three are losers.

    And lost in space.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 07 15 at 01:27 PM • permalink

  43. Oh, a couple pounds.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2007 07 15 at 01:33 PM • permalink

  44. First thing we do is, see, we build a big spaceship.  And we name it The Ark, see?  And we round up all the people who are convinced we’re all about to die of climate apocalypse, and we shoot them off into space, so they can be saved.

    Make sure we keep the telephone santizers…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 15 at 02:37 PM • permalink

  45. The real JeffS—You’re missing an opportunity here.

    We launch Moore, Gorebles and Rosie.  When their mutual attractions collapses them together to form a naked singularity, we launch the ship, which of course then begins to fall towards the black hole.  But we generate a repulsion field by coating the hull of the ship with a combination of soap, deodorant and carbon. We can vary the intensity by adjusting the amounts of soap and deodorant, giving us maneuverability and a genuine reactionaless drive…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 15 at 03:05 PM • permalink

  46. #40 & #41 Bill Cosby’s Noah standup bit.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 15 at 04:23 PM • permalink

  47. #46: Classic. Highly recommended.

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 15 at 05:29 PM • permalink

  48. #45, richard mcenroe,

    If we mix everybody together, will it act like a matter/anti-matter thingy and just blow up?

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 07 15 at 09:03 PM • permalink

  49. #48, saltydog:

    It’s fairly well established, to a scientific certainty, that non of them, as ingredients, matter in a positive sense. That means they are all negative aligned in terms of matter.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 16 at 02:49 AM • permalink

  50. There were Green allegations, and Tilt-necked Geese,
    Some humping the Camels and the Goats, if you please! 
    Some Badgers, Ducks and Squirrels,
    But sure as you’re born,
    They just couldn’t find no UN-icorn!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 07 16 at 07:45 AM • permalink

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