Al Gore genius or drooling idiot?

Global warming, oh no I am sorry Global Climate change as it is now called.
Back when I was in school the textbooks and news stories were talking of an impending Ice Age. Yea that is right an Ice Age, Carl Sagan was on the local channels advocating that we release more greenhouse gases to prevent it. Pick a side greenies you can’t have it both ways.

So exactly how is global warming affecting us?

Well Al Gore shows us pictures of Polar Bears dying and slipping into the ice. Really…what is the scientific name of that species…Ursa Maritimus. Hey Al! They fucking swim! Really well as a mater of fact and what he is not saying is that parts of the Arctic are cooling as well.

This isn’t about the environment people this is about greed and political gain and hysteria. If our society had grown up in an ice age and we started seeing the glaciers retreating from Ohio would we yell and scream and say something most be done!

We live on a planet that has changed wildly over millions of years and it will continue. CO2 is not the cause of Global Warming it is the result of changing temperatures over periods of time.

Holy crap people they want to label our exhalations as chemically dangerous. It is insanity. We have been fighting the environment for thousands of years. Countries that are wealthy and have a solid infrastructure fare far better than developing nations. The Kyoto protocol is a nightmare of legislation and government oversight it would give the left something they have always wanted an end to a capitalist state and one where the government grows unchecked.

But Al Gore won a Nobel Prize, right? Yea he did but not for science he won it for peace there is no science to it. Just for the record book, ol’ Yasser Arafat won one as well in retrospect maybe not such a good idea.

Here are quotes from two REAL scientists:

In May 2007, Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin dismissed fears of increased man-made CO2 in the atmosphere. He called the “global warming” argument “absurd.” As to any increase in the Earth’s temperature, he said, “Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting carbon dioxide in the air.”

On August 15, 2007, meteorologist Joseph D’Aleo, the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, said, “If the atmosphere was a 100 story building, our annual anthropogenic (man-made) CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor.”


So why does the media refuse to believe real science and pander to Al?
Millions of dollars people actually 100’s of millions of dollars.

So Al Gore genius or drooling idiot, the answer is he is a genius because he has taken something with no basis in fact and turned it into a worldwide hysteria. He is making millions from all these suckers and has them lining up drooling hanging on every word.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Lincoln

Not me Al…not me

I Love the Smell of Books Burning In the Morning

It’s not something I thought I would ever see in my lifetime. The picture of rabid, religious zealots circling a bonfire chanting biblical verses as they burn works of literature they deemed “inappropriate” for public view. The sight of books fueling the fire, and their flames fueling the mob’s fury was something I thought was lost to history, or maybe “hoped” is the better term. But there is a book burning brewing in Wisconsin, not in 1952, but right now, in 2009, and it’s as frightening now as ever.
Religious groups have burned books for centuries. It seems every rival sect or religion has burned something of the other religions at one time or another. Muslims burned Jewish works, the Jewish burned Christian books, and Christians burned books that are simply non-Christian. Christians don’t have the monopoly of this practice, although they seemed to perfect it in the 20th century.
In this example of “Christians Gone Wild”, Jim and Ginny Maziarka objected to some of the content in the West Bend public library. They believed that there were books in the young-adult section that were sexually explicit (I think we can all agree that the term “sexually-explicit” is up to interpretation). The books evidently dealt with homosexual content and some inappropriate heterosexual content. They not only asked that the books be moved out of that section, but also asked the library to obtain books that affirmed heterosexuality from authors who consider themselves ex-gays. Yep, you read that right…”ex-gays”. They claimed that it’s the library’s obligation to strike a balance between homosexuality and heterosexuality in its content. I wonder if she would demand such balance if the library offered NO examples of homosexuality. Is it really balance she is seeking? I have my doubts.
It didn’t take long however for the real crazies to get involved. Some group from Milwaukee (called the Christian Civil Liberties Union) came down and began to demand they burn the books. They even suggested that the librarian be “tarred and feathered”. They also filed a lawsuit against the library asking for not only the books to be burned, but are also suing for financial damages because their “mental and emotional well-being was damaged by [the] books at the library”. Actually, I claim that the only book that could have screwed up their mental well-being like that has to be the Bible. That is where it all started to go wrong for these “Huckabees”.
It’s just another example of right-wing Christians that think they are doing you a favor by helping make decisions for you. They don’t think you have the mental capacity (or the proper moral fiber) to make the decisions for yourself, so they are going to make them for you. Are you going to sit back and let them? Tell me….what would you do if this was happening in your local library? How would you react?

Miscellaneous Meanderings from the Spaz

Has anyone noticed the political headlines these days? Pelosi bashing Republicans, McCain bashing Democrats, etc, etc, etc. I'm sick and tired of all of them. We need to throw them all overboard and let the two or three that don't drown back on board. There's nothing like actually having to worry about survival to create a real sense of perspective.

Take healthcare as an example. Rulers around the world come to America to receive there treatment. Why? Because we have the best. I said the best, NOT the cheapest. Our system has created a climate where innovation and research have flourished (relative to other countries) at the expense of cost. Yes, it would be have been nice to have the minor surgical procedure I had last year for something south of $10,000. But at least I was able to get it when I wanted to, not when some bureaucrat said I could have it.

However, here in America where even our poorest segment is frequently obese we can worry about carbon emissions, spotted owls and baby seals. Heck, a couple of hundred years ago our forefathers probably dined on stewed spotted owl and used their feathers as quills. Let's face it Americans have become a bunch of namby pambies more concerned about how other countries feel about us than we are about protecting our actual interests. You don't see China or India worried about carbon emissions, as Hillary found out this week.

I think this all comes back to way our elected leaders now value their position in government more highly than what is right for the country. After all if the reformed healthcare system will be so great, shouldn't they have to use it as well? I say kick them all out!!! Both sides of the aisle!!! When have any of our elected officials actually suffered through job loss, or healthcare bills so crushing they just want to walk away from everything? Never, that's when!!!

So how do we cure it? Well for starters, how about incentive pay. When times are good they are paid well. When times are bad, they don't get paid at all. Also, no pension plans at all. Our system of government was designed so that actual people from main street would serve and then go back to main street. If they want to work in government all their life, fine, but they have to find their own retirement. I'm sure most reading this would agree that neither the Bush's or Clinton's have a f*****g clue about what life is like for the average Joe.

Anyway, those are my thoughts, take them or leave them.

When Did Jesus Become a Republican?

“Blessed are the poor in spirit; for the kingdom of Heaven belongs to them”. What if I told you that quote belongs to former Vice-President Dick Cheney? You don’t believe me? You shouldn’t. The only blessed poor people Cheney knows are the ones who get to cut his lawn, or wash his Rolls Royce. The quote of course is from Matthew 5:3 of the New Testament and it is credited to Jesus Christ.

How ridiculous was the notion that the quote was Cheney’s? Could you even imagine those words coming out of the mouth of the de facto leader of the Republican Party? Of course not! You are as likely to see Cheney walk down the street hand in hand with another man, than hear him mutter those words. So why is it that the Christian Right, the folks who currently own and operate the GOP, gravitate to politicians like Cheney? Are the Republicans the party you associate with helping the poor and less fortunate? No, and that’s because the original messages of Christ don’t apply to these Evangelicals when it comes to politics. It’s about two things now; homosexuality, and abortion.

If you are a Christian Evangelical, homosexuality and abortion don’t even affect you. You aren’t going to be gay, and you won’t ever choose to have an abortion. So it really goes back to the fact they want the power to tell other people they can’t be gay, and they can’t have abortions. They are imposing their beliefs on those who don’t share their beliefs. Folks, that’s not democracy, that’s fascism.

Maybe what bothers me the most is the extraordinary effort and resources they commit to persecute such a minority of people. They are concerned about gays, which make up approximately 2.5% of the U.S population, and abortions which happen in about 13 of 1000 pregnancies in the U.S. You mean to tell me that out of all of these Evangelicals, not one person stepped up and said, “Uh, you guys do realize we are only talking about a handful of people here right?” We now have a party in this country that cares more about impeding the rights of 3% of the population than they do about tending to the needs and rights of the remaining 97% of the population. Well, when I put it that way; that does actually sound like something Dick Cheney would do.

I'll leave you with a quote from Thomas Jefferson:

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

Holy crap you mean he gets to vote!

Well….I had intended to write about the eco babble coming from the left but I had an interesting conversation with a very misguided friend yesterday and being that the victors write history in their favor, I simply can’t resist.

Now my friend pretends not to be communist but his thoughts on how society SHOULD run and I emphasize should as whenever you hear that…you should be wary. We SHOULD give everyone universal health care…awesome how are we going to pay for it?
We SHOULD go towards a greener economy…great so that will be cheaper right?
We SHOULD get rid of nuclear weapons…ok so once we do everyone else will follow suit right? Si vis pacem para bellum my friends. The left…no that is not fair…the FAR left lives in a utopian dream world and they are not thinking of how things really are and they have no concept of how other people act or think. They are elitist in the purest sense of the word. They know what is best and will help you live a happy and productive life. Don’t worry your pretty head about that child everything will be alright. Bullshit! No it won’t and stop feeding me that nonsense. But I digress..

Now my friend let us call him Travis “Pol Pot” Gillespie or PP for short. He started talking about our economy and how capitalism has failed. So I thought really? It has failed? So what countries have the highest GNP I asked him. PP stated, “I don’t know”. A quick look at wiki or cia.gov shows all the top economies follow a capitalist model and btw China is now following Hong Kong’s example and is rapidly growing where once they had been stagnant for 40 years. Why is that I asked? PP not to be outdone nimbly changes topic about what our government is not doing for us. Like health care for all and free college education. So I ask who is paying for that? PP stated, “Tax big business to death.” Really? If you do that they will simply leave and take their business overseas. “Right” PP said, “Don’t let them and if they do we simply do not buy goods from them!” The crazed expression on his face and the froth coming from his mouth let me know, Holy sheep shit he is serious! He was so far removed from reality that there was no sense arguing with him. I mean if we were in the same forest we might find a middle ground but he wasn’t on the same planet. Holy crap, I mean what do you say?

I call him Pol Pot because lets face it that is some of the crazy shit. I mean that is the kind of stuff the Khmer Rouge believed in, move all of the people out of the cities and make them dirt farmers. Really, how is what PP states different? The boy isn’t just fucking nuts he is bouncing off the walls crazy and he votes! BTW everyone, he is otherwise an intelligent individual with multiple college degrees but he lives in a fairy land of happy dreams and butterflies and puppies tickling your nose.

That is the far left people they are not living in our reality. They dwell on how things should work and what we should do not thinking about long term consequences or as my poor misguided friend Pol Pot trying to remake society from the ground up. So we tax big business to death they leave and foreign investment ends I mean why would Honda build a plant over here if they can get a better deal in Canada? So we force them to stay, investors pull money from the stock market since corporate profits drop and start investing in foreign stock markets. The dollar goes into free fall we can’t pay our debts inflation goes through the roof and unemployment soars. Yea that is a great idea Pelosi ah I mean Pol Pot, sign me up.

Wallstreet Executives Derail Obama Poll Numbers!!!

Yep, you read it correctly....according to our intellectual friends at the Daily Kos, the most recent poll numbers for Obama have fallen 13 points. The poll taken by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute between June 26th and July 7th, shows a voter approval rating of 49% versus a voter disapproval rating of 44%. While the spread is still positive (+5), it is down from the May poll numbers of an approval rating of 62% and a disapproval rating of 31% (+31).

Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, attributed the new poll numbers to the economic climate, stating "The economy in Ohio is as bad as anywhere in America. These numbers indicate that for the first time voters have decided that President Barack Obama bears some responsibility for their problems." Until now, he said, voters largely have been "blaming former President George W. Bush." But now, voters "might be taking out their frustration on President Obama, possibly deciding that the change he promised has not come as quickly as they expected."

Of course this explanation cannot possibly be reality. The mighty three headed hydra (Obama, Pelosi and Reid) are protecting us all from the evils of the now destroyed Republican Party and any drop in poll numbers must be caused by the next right wing conspiracy. So to get to the bottom of this a poll was taken by the Daily Kos. And by more than 2 to 1, THE POLL SAYS:

DING: "Because he appointed wallstreet execs to run the economy"

Seriously, you guys must be delusional. No mention of the HUGE increase in debt. No mention of controversial policies such as universal health care or cap and trade. Regardless of where you fall on these issues, they are VERY controversial. Controversy leads to polarization, which in turn leads to tightening poll numbers. Or is it really that simple?

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