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Last updated on August 5th, 2017 at 03:52 pm
The New York Times reports the latest evidence of green child abuse, following several recent cases:
The children are all too familiar with the apocalyptic warnings of climate change. “A lot of people are going to die” from global warming, a 9-year-old girl from Harlem announced at one point. And a 7-year-old boy from Park Slope said with a quiet lisp, “When you use too much electricity, it kills animals.”
Well, it does if you hook up the electrodes right. The rest of the Times piece focuses on some warming-afeared chap who’s been eating Central Park plants for 25 years:
Mr. Brill found the premature blooming of Central Park’s flowers a cause for alarm.
“The violets have been coming up early,” he said, charging through the park’s back alleys and byways. “The wild raisins are already budding. And the dandelions were flowering in February. They wouldn’t have dared to do that back in the ’70s.”
Because Mr. Brill would’ve eaten them, presumably. He must be on a diet these days.
- Hamsters? hamsters?! What do you think Democrats oppose immigration reform for? Those treadmills will be officially titled Pelosi’s American Citizenship Option…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 06 at 12:50 PM • permalink
- Wild raisins? There wouldn’t by any chance be rabbits in this park?Posted by lumberjack on 2007 05 06 at 12:51 PM • permalink
- These scared youngsters will grow into cynical adults when the Environmental Apocalypse fails to appear.Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 05 06 at 12:52 PM • permalink
These scared youngsters will grow into cynical adults when the Environmental Apocalypse fails to appear.
We can only hope.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 05 06 at 01:32 PM • permalink
Bald, bespectacled, bearded and pale, and decked out this day in cargo pants, sneakers and a pith helmet, Mr. Brill is as quick and spry as a bird, hopping about, diving into underbrush, tugging roots and nibbling leaves.
Quite the safarai leader, aren’t we, Mr. Brill?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 06 at 03:23 PM • permalink
- But will it kill them fast enough to save Our Plucky Tim?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 06 at 04:41 PM • permalink
- Due to a milder February than normal, our trees budded early this year. After the new leaves appeared, we had a two-day hail/sleet/snow storm (I think Agore passed over in his planet-rescuing private jet or something). We all seem to have emerged unscathed. Frankly, I think the delicacy of Mother Gaia is vastly overstated. Of course, my betters tell me otherwise.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 05 06 at 04:56 PM • permalink
- I spent Sunday in Central park two weeks ago, me and about a zillion other people and, so far as I saw, one squirrel. If everybody used the park like Brill does, it would look like the Kalahari Desert.Posted by Harry Eagar on 2007 05 06 at 05:17 PM • permalink
- Harry, if you ever come across Mr. Brill, buy him a hot dog, would you? He sounds awfully hungry, if he has to graze in a park for sustenance.
I’ll slip you $5 by Paypal.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 06 at 05:42 PM • permalink
- According to Art Bell, (I think that is name) on one Radio Station in America, the drought here is so serious, because of Global Warming, he believes our Government has entered into ‘secret talks’ with USA, the Kremlin and the rest of the Commonwealth, about evacuating half the population due to the drought/global warming. Well, I know things are a bit dry, but I don’t see half of Australia becoming ‘Goebbels Warming Refugees’. Are any of our American friends familiar with Mr Art Bell?
- BJM,
Prior to his interest in Global Warming, Art Bell was best known for his conspiracy theories featuring, inter alia, black helicopters, jet contrails, UFOs, and Masons. He announced in October of 1998 that he was “going off the air and will not return.” I guess the Masonic space aliens decided to return him.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 05 06 at 06:38 PM • permalink
- Art Bell is such a crazy he can only get air time after midnight. He can be entertaining, though, especially when circumstances have you driving lonely stretches of road in the wee hours of the morning. I like him because he seems willing to believe almost anything.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 05 06 at 07:15 PM • permalink
- #19 Bruce Rheinstein. #21 Grimmy. Thankyou for the heads-up and links. I just thought it was a rather bizarre story to put on the air. I was not sure whether this guy was serious, or just doing parody. We in Australia have our share of ‘conspiracy nuts’ as well. At the very least he makes for interesting listening and Area 51, is always good value, although not as warped and sick as the 9/11 conspiracy people. They aren’t entertainment, just straight out bloody dangerous.
- Kyda:
Not that I ever listened to Art’s show, but did you happen to catch the one about backward masking in all our normal, day to day speaking?
He had some yahoo on claiming that he had a special tape player that would play tapes backwards and it would give up hidden secrets in what the recorded person was really thinking but trying to hide.
At least, that’s what I was told by this guy I know that knows a guy that has a buddy that works with some guy that listens to Art’s show… not that I ever have, cause I’m not a kook, ya know?
- #26 Grimmy. Oh I don’t know about that. In population size, percentage/comparison wise that is, I would say we are even. Except, some of our ‘weirdos’ actually get elected to office and also some serious media coverage, thus giving them legitimacy unfortunately. Still, we could blame Al Gore and a few other notables for the increase in the world wide ‘Weirdo’ explosion phenomenon.
- BJM:
No offense meant, good sir, but please do remember who it is we’re talking about.
You really think you can muster up a looser like our own Jimmah Cartah? And don’t forget where the Al Gorebecile comes from 🙂
And, can you boast a President that had his campaign financed by a hostile foreign government which later reaped huge rewards in super duper special top even more secret than secret new nuke weapon designs?
And seriously, how many of your leftobots would even make it into the same realm as our own Chomsky and Zinn?
I don’t want to be all braggy, but really… we do produce the best of the best in degenerate morons.
It’s natures way of counter balancing our usual stunning brilliance in so many other areas.
- #32 Grimmy. No offense taken sir. I also concede to your fine examples. So therefore, I offer for you consideration, Mr Bob Brown: Greens Member, total idiot and an elected embarrassment to his nation.
Ms Kerry Nettles: ‘Show Pony’ of the Middle East, darling of the more insidious organisations within that region and ironically another Greens member.
Phillip Adams: ‘HowardBushnoria’ sufferer. Paranoid fear of Mr John Howard and Mr George Bush. I may also point out, that this disease tends to infect most of the leftoid community.
As to Jimmy Carter, well, we have two equivalents, I think that are appropriate, others may of course disagree. They would be Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser. Mind you, I don’t think Jimmy Carter would be as ‘fickle’ and bitter to some extent as half of the above duo.
As to scribes, well we have Margot Kingston, Wilfred Burchett, Manning Clark, Traceee Hutchinson et el. Although, apart from the traitor Burchett and the ‘historyartist’ writer Clark, these others are just propandists for the ‘collective physc’, but a strange bunch, that even, I think Mr Samual Clements would find most amusing.
- Has anyone pointed out to Mr. Brill that he’s eating things grown with chemical fertilizers and air pollution?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 06 at 09:10 PM • permalink
- I’m trying to figure out where “wild raisins” grow. Wild grapes, sure, but wild raisins? Do the gnomes living in the fields helpfully spread them out to dry? Inquiring minds want to know.Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 05 06 at 10:33 PM • permalink
“When you use too much electricity, it kills animals.”
Someone should tell this kids that global warming doesn’t kill animals, dumb leftists do:
Rescue birds die when let free
#17, Bolt has a great post on the expected mass evacuations of climate refugees from Australia:
Warming madness: Australia evacuated
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 05 06 at 10:43 PM • permalink
- I wonder if he’s related to the developer of the building at 1619 Broadway, NYC. I liked the Brill Building Sound when I was in my teens and 20s. Considered passe these days.Posted by walterplinge on 2007 05 06 at 11:03 PM • permalink
- OT but an amusing headline in the Age.
Islamic head to go to court over imam
Sounds like sharia law is here already…
- OT: France democratically elects Sarkozy, and Australian reporter Emma-Kate Symons is not happy:
… the triumph of the candidate whose slogan was “together everything becomes possible” was forecast to divide the French.
By whom? The weather bureau? No – by Segolene Royal:
The Socialist candidate warned on election eve that a Sarkozy win could “trigger violence and brutality across the country”.
Evil right-wing Sarkozy ‘ … won via a Reaganesque “culture war” and by appealing to the “silent majority”, who once voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen – those who yearn for a monocultural France.’
No, Emma-Kate, those who yearn for an end to suburbs being burned down.
‘(Sarkozy’s) hard line on immigration and identity questions has been popular, but he has taken the rhetoric too far.’
How far would you have liked him to take it, Emma-Kate? Let us know.
- BJM
Are you casting aspersions on “Sylvanic”?FYI: “The word ‘sasquatch’ comes from the Coast Salish word ‘sasqac’, which is the name of a mythical creature that is half-man half-beast and believed to possess an evil spirit and should be avoided.”
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 05 06 at 11:44 PM • permalink
- #45 Divisive: adj. Any popular conservative policy that is put to the public during an electionPosted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 07 at 12:01 AM • permalink
- Fairness Doctrine for Art Bell Time:
Ok, ok, ok… It’s true that Art Bell has a neverending parade of loonies on his show.
However. Those learning only that much will not have a complete “picture”. First, the man and his show are iconic– he’s been on for a bazillion years, and yes, while his show is on very late at night, it’s also true that he is heard all across this country and indeed, he takes many calls from around the world. All told, I wouldn’t be surprised if his show is one of the “most popular” in radio history, at least by some weird metric.
Second thing, while alot, (almost all?), of his guests and topics are completely wack, he does sometimes have on what appear to be completely legitimate scientists who just happen to have something fairly bizarre to report.
I’m not recommending the show, exactly. Except insofar as it can be highly entertaining for all the wrong reasons, but…
I just thought he deserves a fair shake. If you’ve read Dean Koontz’ _By the Light of the Moon_, the radio host is very obviously based on Art Bell.
And our weirdos are better than yours.
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2007 05 07 at 12:05 AM • permalink
- Wild Raisins are edible and reportedly taste like a combination of prune butter and bananas. (Blech) They can be found in Strawberry Fields, which is part of Central Park.
Given the high-quality vegetables and fruit in mid-town Korean groceries, why anyone who isn’t homeless would forage for food in Central Park is beyond me. But then the guy wears a pith helmet, so he’s clearly a few cards short of a full deck.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 05 07 at 12:09 AM • permalink
- #37 BJM, The Canadian MP had better jack the welfare rate up by half again because if Sasquatch comes down here we have a professor of anthropology who wants to shoot him and have him stuffed for study. Well he did in 1989. Either that or the prof. figured out a cheap way to get grant money for vacations.
- #46 J. M. Heinrichs. I just find it strange that a mythical creature would need legislative protection.
#48 zeppenwolf. I am not casting aspersions on the man himself, I just thought it was a rather strange story. I have no doubt that he is probably an ‘interesting personality’.
#51 Mike H. If the ‘grant’ situation is anything like in Australia, I am betting it is the latter.
- I think Art Bell is just a businessman. He found a niche, the midnight UFO and every other loony thing market, and is raking in the bucks. And good for him.Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 07 at 01:50 AM • permalink
And a 7-year-old boy from Park Slope said with a quiet lisp, “When you use too much electricity, it kills animals.”
Actually, what he said was:
“When you uth too much electrithity, it killth animalth”.
Screw you, hippie kid.
Oh, and Vive M. Sarkozy!
Posted by Apparatchik on 2007 05 07 at 01:51 AM • permalink
- I say good for him because, IIRC, he drew the line at the 9/11 truthercrap. I remember two of his guests. A woman from the planet Atlantis with a message of hope for us earthlings, and a guy who made himself a bubblesuit and was going to run into a tornado and see how far he could fly.Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 07 at 02:04 AM • permalink
- The violets are charging through the park’s back alleys and byways! Run for your lives!Posted by Tai Chi Wawa on 2007 05 07 at 10:34 AM • permalink
- #4 Bruce Rheinstein, as am I.
Back in the 60’s when I was 6-7 I had a box filled with baloons because the TV kept saying we were going to run out of air because of pollution, Thus I wanted to stock up on air.
I was one of those kids now I can shoot way more holes in the warming theories than the schools can patch.
They can only fear monger so long til even the lefties will be forced to admit that warming is a scam and call it climate change every time it does or does not rain. The climate is changing.
It always changes! Where I live used to be under a mile of ice. I’m guessing we’ve warmed since then.
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 05 07 at 12:06 PM • permalink
…the Government of Australia has entered into secret negotiations with the United States and their Commonwealth allies for the ‘proposed’ evacuation of upwards of 11 million of its 20 million citizens …
Oh, I’m sorry, but I understand Ted Kennedy is arranging for us to take the millions of Bangladeshi who are scheduled to drown. How about Swaziland? Or Guyana?
I think Paul Watson, who for some reason didn’t share his “radical and invasive approach” to “curing the biosphere of the human virus”, should give Art Bell a call.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 05 08 at 01:28 PM • permalink
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Well, it certainly will in the brave new world of Al Gore, when they replace all of the nuclear and coal-fired power plants with millions of hamsters running endlessly on those little wheels.