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WORLD SO UNFAIR
Unpleasant weather creates terrorists, apparently:
Climate change was one of the biggest menaces facing humankind and threatened to breed terrorism, war and the collapse of civilisation, a global health expert said today.
Dr Colin Butler of Deakin University painted a grim picture of the catastrophic consequence of global warming as communities worldwide competed for scarce resources ...
“What’s to stop someone who’s desperate, who sees the world as so unfair (becoming a terrorist)?’’ Dr Butler asked.
What’s to stop a starving desperado from becoming a terrorist? Well, starvation, for one. Thus nature balances itself! Dr Butler continues:
“Not too many people read the literature or necessarily can visualise what’s happening to a polar bear in Alaska but if you start to see that it has a bigger impact; if you start to see it in your own family ... I think that will really motivate people,’’ Dr Butler said.
No argument there; as soon as polar Blairs resort to cannibalism or begin falling through icebergs while chasing fish, I’ll be righteously motivated to have them re-classified as bi-polar. Some background on Dr Butler:
Colin’s main research interest lies in trying to find ways to advance sustainable global health for All, including people who are marginalized and oppressed.
And who can’t afford a comb.
(Via Paul Bickford)
Beware the Polar Blair, my son!
The nails that type, the satire that bites!I’m not saying anything about his frumious Bandersnatch.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 10 13 at 03:48 PM • permalinkYAAF. (yet another academic fuckwit)
Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 13 at 04:00 PM • permalinkSupercat, “bring it on” is all I can say.
A nice polar bear rug would look good on my floor.Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 13 at 04:53 PM • permalinkLook what global warming did to these guys
The remains of what has been described as a huge lost city may force historians and archaeologists to radically reconsider their view of ancient human history.
Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 years old.
Lost city ‘could rewrite history’
It is believed that the area was submerged as ice caps melted at the end of the last ice age 9-10,000 years ago
Snarkiness aside, to think of a major civilization existing during an ice age is almost too much.
Yes its true. The SMH says it is!
The men of no appearance are now at the new Cronulla - Manly.
The fact a “Guilford” youth is arrested is the give away. How do they get from Guilford to Manly when there is no train line??
Posted by ozconservative on 2006 10 13 at 05:45 PM • permalinkSupercat, “bring it on” is all I can say. A nice polar bear rug would look good on my floor.
I’m an animal lover. I would prefer an angry-young-muslim-man rug on my floor. Or sew a bunch of them together to make wall to wall? Or think of the novel laugh-a-minute furniture you can make out of stuffed angry-young-muslim-men.
It’s not like we’ll run out for a while.
Top stories on the top banner of the Drudge Report right now:
Detroit sets record for its earliest snow, breaking mark set in 1909…
Chicago, too…
3 Dead in N.Y….
Chill Map…
‘Climate change’ inaction will cost trillions: study…Posted by tim maguire on 2006 10 13 at 06:26 PM • permalinktrainer, I’m an animal lover too and polar bears would have to be my favourite.
The comment was just greenietroll bait.
How about a jihadi quilt?Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 13 at 06:29 PM • permalinkSlightly O/T, but this act of courage should not go unheralded. God rest his soul.
Colin’s main research interest lies in trying to find ways to advance sustainable global health for All, including people who are marginalized and oppressed.
Sustainable global health? WTF? How can health be “sustainable”? It isn’t a crop or energy source. How does this man explain tumors, autoimmune diseases or other randomly occurring health problems, and how does he propose to prevent them?
And “global”... if by that you mean public health, then I think WHO is working on that, thank you very much. This guy is just throwing random buzzwords around and hoping they stick to something.
I hate idiots.
“Not too many people read the literature or necessarily can visualise what’s happening to a polar bear in Alaska but if you start to see that it has a bigger impact; if you start to see it in your own family ... I think that will really motivate people,’’
Hey, don’t laugh. The guy is right. My brother-in-law looks like a Polar Bear and he isn’t in Alaska.
Does anyone even remember that the terrorists in question are mostly from the upper middle classes to extremely wealthy—even by American standards—classes of their countries? And that of all the reasons spewed out by Bin Laden & his ilk for their assault against the West, “climate change” and “helping the poor” weren’t among them? I swear, millions of people die every day, but not enough of them idiots.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 13 at 07:26 PM • permalinkAnd who can’t afford a comb
Or a razor.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 10 13 at 07:27 PM • permalink#17 #20 I’m an animal lover too. I eat their flesh and wear their skin. mmm, yummy.
Eat vegetarian(s)
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 13 at 07:34 PM • permalinkIt would be good if the terrorist dies of starvation before he tries to kill anyone else.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 10 13 at 07:41 PM • permalinkNow global waring causes terrorism? Heck, what doesn’t apparently?
Why he’s just a kindly country doctor. Don’t know what all the fuss is about (other than he should’ve stuck to that and saved his apocryphal scare mongering for his next AA meeting).
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 13 at 08:32 PM • permalinkAw heck, that’s warming, though its wearing on me.
Good link paco. One of our best. More over on Blackfive.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 13 at 08:36 PM • permalinkWhat is it about Tasmanian country GP’s?
• Doctors for the Environment, Australia
• Medical Association for the Prevention of War
• Nature and Society Forum
• Public Health Association of Australia
• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• Sustainable Population AustraliaHe also works part time as a country doctor, in Tasmania.
And who can’t afford a comb.
A good thing too. One quick brushover and who knows what else he could be doing in his spare time?
33 Rebecca: Greater love hath no man than he who lays down his life for his friends, as the Good Book says. You know, I read things like this, and all the other stories of daily sacrifice by our troops (“ours” meaning all the allied forces), and reflect that so many of them are young people growing up in a hurry under conditions that most of us can not even imagine, and that they have to draw on reserves of courage and intelligence and love for their fellows, the depths of which I stand in awe of, and I can’t help but feel that people like Fisk and Lowenstein and Moulitsas and Sullivan aren’t fit to inhabit the same planet.
#36
He also works part time as a country doctor, in Tasmania.
I guarantee you that means half a day a week at a clinic somewhere and he pisses away the rest of his time on these committees.
Speaking as a full-timer myself, he should bag the damn committees and see more patients. He’d do more actual good that way.
The Burwood Campus, Deakin University, where this guy “works”, used to be Burwood Teachers’ College, churning out quick and dirty diplomas for people who didn’t have the marks to go to a real university.
Maybe it’s been improved by it’s association with Deakin, but prima facie, it’s not the sort of place one would normally boast about belonging to.
I also see he got the “Borrie” prize. A “borrie” in South Eastern Australian slang is a piece of human excrement.
Posted by Consuela Potez on 2006 10 13 at 09:20 PM • permalinkDr Colin Butler of Deakin University painted a grim picture of the catastrophic consequence of global warming as communities worldwide competed for scarce resources ...
Scarce resources? Why? Sure, the equator might dry up, but Canada would become the breadbasket of the world.
They’re not afraid of catastrophe; they’re afraid of change.
O/T, but I just read this in News.com. Does anyone have more info?
“Two men and a woman were taken to hospital last night after a group of 20 males assaulted them, smashed their cars and attempted to rob them at a Sydney beach.”Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 14 at 12:03 AM • permalink#31 rinardman
I swear, millions of people die every day, but not enough of them idiots.
Andrea, I think idiots are like what they say about drunks….you can’t kill a drunk.
Or an idiot.
Nah the idiots die in enough numbers, and so do drunks for that matter; difference is the idiots leave more idiots behind - they breed better, don’t have to think about how to do that.
The warmer weather is bringing out the men of no appearance again.
O/T but within the vien of World so Unfair and what to do about terrorists, regardless of their excuses, I offer this to help those who may be losing focus.
Villainous Company: The Gift of Freedom
About loss, dealing with loss and dignity.The comments are also worth the time to read, especially the one titled “War is Hell!”
A father speaking of his son and his son’s comrades.It is believed that the area was submerged as ice caps melted at the end of the last ice age 9-10,000 years ago
These idiots built beach side cities right in the middle of the freakin’ ICE AGE? C’mon, doesn’t take Algore to see how stupid that is.
Sorry archealogists ... no award for just uncovering more evidence of stupidity.
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 10 14 at 01:37 AM • permalinkThanks kae. Yup, sure looks like it.
Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 14 at 01:40 AM • permalinkGrimmy, that is just….I dunno. Few things have moved me so much. Thanks.
I’ll post a link to it on my blog.Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 14 at 01:46 AM • permalinkWow, grimmy. My heart is full and empty all at once.
How shall I deal with the next “crisis” in my life?
I think I know.
Thanks, mate.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 14 at 02:18 AM • permalinkHmm, what a load. This polar bear seems to be doing more than ok.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 14 at 02:50 AM • permalinkO/T, The SIEV X moonbats get another chance to plug their speil on the ABC.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1764846.htmA Quote from the head bat
“STEVE BIDDULPH: We were very shocked when, about a month out from the time coming up, we were told that it wouldn’t be allowed. We were really disappointed, especially because about 250 schools have made poles for the memorial, about 60 churches, and a lot of them are coming to the ACT.”They want to put up a memorial in front of parliment commemorating the deaths of illegal immigrants. One of the supporters of this is a crank who accuses the government of deliberately sinking the boat in question.
Check his website for creme de la moonbatdroppings.
http://www.tonykevin.com/This is from his page.
“An invitation to the launch of “The Sinking of the SIEV X: A case study for secondary school history students”, “Gee, just as well any talk of leftist teachers and agendas are incorrect eh?
The actual memorial crap is on tomorrow in canberra at Burley griffin. Is there an enterprising mini-Zombie that could attend and get the ferals in all their tie dyed, deadlocked glory?
This forum from the loon also has Mr mcenroes favourite loon M. Sheepherd making the following comments
“This boat was only the second boat with over 400 people on it and only the second boat where the people are known to have been loaded on at gunpoint by Indonesian police with the help of the AFP”That SIEV x attracts loons like flies to freshly laid dogs eggs.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 10 14 at 02:55 AM • permalinkPaco and Grimmy, thank you so much for those links.
I don’t often comment on such stories or posts, as I find that words often fail me.
Likewise when it comes to Paco’s son going off to bootcamp, and Texas Bob arising from the fear of the dead, I tend to keep my own counsel.
I want to join the chorus of condolences, cheers or congratulations, but words just seem inadequate.
When we are dealing with times new roman, there are only so many ways to string letter together, and the words feel cliched.
Not the feelings, the words.
I guess that the internet is both a blessing and a curse in that it opens us up to a wider human experience, yet condemns us to one-dimensional communication.
If I don’t say anything, it’s not that I don’t want to, just that I don’t know how to.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 10 14 at 04:44 AM • permalink#64 Frollicking
I heard it on the ABC news thismorning coming home from buying the newspaper.Why do we need a memorial to illegal immigrants who paid to come to Australia illegally and died in the attempt? I cannot believe that people hold the Australian Government responsible.
Pardon my french, but it’s like all those fucking crosses on the highway marking the stupidity of some idiot who lost their life doing something stupid (I know of two commemorating idiocy, one for a drunk who decided to play chicken with the cars on a country road and another who did a U turn while being chased on the Warrego Highway by highway patrol and was cleaned up by a semi travelling in the opposite direction).
OMG, I didn’t want to say anything earlier, but I think I saw Climate Change around the back of my house last week siphoning petrol out of my car! And then later, there was some money missing from my wallet! I’m seeing a pattern here. :-(
#23 Paco:
A brave man. Thanks for the link; you’re right, it shouldn’t go unnoticed.#58 Grimmy:
Lost for words. My admiration for people like this knows no bounds. It’s a shame how many people abuse the freedom that guys like this buy for them.
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 10 14 at 06:13 AM • permalinkThanks, Grimmy. Welcome back from beyond Texas Bob, and Paco, regarding your son, I missed both of these events, where should I look?
Meanwhile, wronwright, re moptop’s most interesting #11, 9,000-10,000 BC thereabouts, Bay of Cambay ... you wouldn’t happen to have anything you want to fess up to regarding any misplaced civilizations, neolithic warmups and where the heck you went with the Tardis last weekend?
Posted by crittenden on 2006 10 14 at 12:52 PM • permalinkA brave Navy SEAL who gave his life for his fellows…the brave men already serving like Texas Bob, and the brave men just joining up, like Paco’s son and one of the kids from work…demonstrate the goodness of humanity.
Dolts like Colin (why IS it lefties deliberately try to look frightful?) and Morford and the sad case of Andrew Sullivan wouldn’t know courage if it whacked them over their self-involved little heads.
I suppose we need this duality…
Good work, Paco, and best to your son when he surfaces. Some of my favorite people are Jarhead Americans.
Posted by crittenden on 2006 10 14 at 01:22 PM • permalinkSupercat, you’re making me want to dig out my t-shirt that says: “Support the Right to Keep and Arm Bears!” It’s got a great pic on the front of a Polar Bear with an AK-47. He does look fairly dangerous.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 14 at 02:11 PM • permalink#11
Very interesting, and a very important discovery even if it is not as old as the C14 date indicates. The C14 date would make it even older than Jericho. In that case there is also a gap of some thousands of years between the early city at Jericho and later cities in the Middle East.The BBC article mentions bringing up pottery fragments from the city. This makes me a bit suspicious of the age dating. In the Middle East pottery did not appear until about 6,000 BC IIRC from what I’ve read about the Neolithic there. The earliest farming villages did not use pottery. I don’t know when pottery came into use in India but I suspect it was no earlier that in the Middle East. If this site produces pottery sherds that indicates that it may be later than the C14 date says.
There should be other evidence of this culture in India and Pakistan. Giant cities do not appear out of nowhere. Even early Jericho is related to the Neolithic culture surrounding it. Some sites might have been found before that belong to the same culture. They need to da some careful analysis and more work to pin this down.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 10 14 at 08:24 PM • permalinkY’all:
No reason to be thanking me for anything. I didnt write it, aint living it. I did my service time back in the easy peasy peace time daze.
The only ones deserving of thanks and/or respect on such issues are those that are wearing the uniforms now with pride, strength and dignity and those stepping up to put the uniforms on even while knowing what it damn well might cost them.
That goes for all the good men and women from all our nations.
There may be less to that Gulf of Cambay city site than at first appears. Here’s the Wikipedia entry. Ruins in the Gulf of Cambay
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 10 14 at 09:07 PM • permalink#71 crittenden
Meanwhile, wronwright, re moptop’s most interesting #11, 9,000-10,000 BC thereabouts, Bay of Cambay ... you wouldn’t happen to have anything you want to fess up to regarding any misplaced civilizations, neolithic warmups and where the heck you went with the Tardis last weekend?
Er, no, not really. (walks quickly away from TARDIS)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 14 at 10:33 PM • permalink
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