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Arnold, you big green bastard, don’t ever again talk to me about the environment:

As the Los Angeles Times reported last week, the governor has been spending nearly every night in his Brentwood mansion, shuttling between Sacramento and Southern California in his private jet.

The governor uses his own money to pay for his Gulfstream flights, which price out at about $10,000 an hour, the Times reports.

And what about the cost to the environment?

Yeah, Arnold, what about the cost to the environment?

The governor’s staff says he purchases “carbon credits.”

Carbon Credits are just bullshit, right? No one actually sucks a corresponding amount of greenhouses gases out of the atmosphere on your behalf, do they?

Such credits are aimed at offsetting the greenhouse gases generated by his flights but do nothing about the particulates and smog-forming compounds they spew into the air.

But the carbon credits don’t really offset anything do they? Carbon Credits are just an idea. You send money to Comrade Al Gore labeled as a carbon credit and you get a pass on consuming 1 gajillion times the energy as the ordinary person.

So Arnold, how do you justify such an extreme, selfish consumption of energy that is destroying the world?

“The question is how can I be with my family, because that is extremely important, to be with my kids. They are all growing up. They are in their teens. They need their father around. … I felt it took a toll on my family not being at home every day. So what I am trying to do is find that balance between the family and running the state.”

Oh, well, so long as it’s for the children. As long as Arnold, or any rich person, has good reasons then I guess the planet doesn’t matter. Newsflash to Arnold: All the little people have the same kind of concerns with balancing family and work. How many non-rich people, aka the little people, do you think could come up with any satisfactory reason for destroying the world? If Arnold’s excuse is good enough for Arnold, it’s good enough for all the little people too. If Arnold can fly a private jet to and from work for his children then anyone with kids can drive a big honking, gas guzzling SUV.

Arnold is no different than all the other Hollywood elitists and their political hack friends. Saving the planet is about making all the little people sacrifice so the the rich and powerful can continue to enjoy their extravagant way of life.

Well, to heck with that. Everybody should light a wood fire every night whether they need it or not in protest of these stupid carbon credits. The little people should not be concerned whatsoever over their carbon footprint since it wont even register next to the footprint of nearly any movie star or politician chosen at random.

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Talk about Poetic Justice. Spitzer was already expected to testify in front of the Public Integrity Commission — a commission that Spitzer himself had created to look in to issues relating to Public Integrity — for some dubious activities relating to a smear campaign Spitzer was allegedly orchestrating against Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno. Now I guess Spitzer will need to make a new appointment with the commission to explain his extracurricular swordsmanship. The locals are talking impeachment if Spitzer doesn’t resign.

I have no love loss for Elliot Spitzer. As a matter of fact I’ll take some vicarious pleasure watching his career get flushed down a toilet of his own plumbing. However, it is probably not good to approve of public persecutions of people for simply having expensive tastes in whores. Now if Sptizer misappropriated money to buy the whores, that’s another issue altogether. But If you don’t want to be persecuted, shamed, and ruined for your own sexual peccadilloes, then it is probably not a good idea to do the same to others. He who protests too much should allow his own closet to be inspected.

I think Spitzer’s biggest mistake was to fuck with a guy named Bruno.

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I have no idea what Bernie Ward is up to but he sure acts suspicious at times. Seems he violated his electronic monitoring and then lied about his whereabouts.

investigators recently received an alert that he had violated his “electronic monitoring schedule.

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During a subsequent court hearing, Ward admitted the monitoring violation and acknowledged giving “false information to Pretrial Services regarding his whereabouts” when first confronted by federal agents.

So where the fuck was he? “The Document” (at the link) doesn’t say. Ward was strongly admonished. I guess if you don’t get caught, it’s no big deal. I think he should have to pay for everyone’s time and expense. Someone besides me should have to pay.

I’m still not clear. Did Bernie Ward actually do anything to hurt someone one? Maybe he should have been “strongly admonished” about the photos and sent on his way? No? Of course not.

I wonder if this is just some kind of a publicity case or something?

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What’s the world coming to? I f John Denver is the excuse for a killing spree, we are in big trouble:

A gunman in Thailand shot-dead eight neighbours, including his brother-in-law, after tiring of their karaoke versions of popular songs, including John Denver’s Country Roads.

Or maybe it was a John Denver super fanboy and the singers were just killing Country Roads.

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