enormous iNCoNgrUiTieS|A Beacon of Intermittence

Even in the face of mass human extinction, these asshats like Oliver Tickell want to tax energy globally at 25% and give more tax money to the poor. How does that reconcile with the truth of things if we are at “the end of living and the beginning of survival”? In short, it doesn’t.

And one other thing. We will let Tickell be personally in charge of making Putin comply with his plan to save humanity. He can just run on over to Russia right now and tell him that he owes 25% of their energy production to some environmental world oligarchy. And while he’s there he can tell Putin to get the hell out of Georgia too.

If it comes down to survival of the fittest, pansies like Tickell and his enviro whacko buddies better forget about the poor and run find a good hidey hole — which I am sure is exactly what they would do — because there will be a changing of the guards in which I will have a prominent position, if not the supreme leader. The first order of business will to be to kill all the lawyers, then the environmentalists and their enablers.

For some reason, in the event of global catastrophe I don’t think we would see many episodes of liberals like Tickell actually helping the poor. They would run around screaming I told you so until some bad motherfucker chops their head off.

Share This

Sir Richard Branson: ”It is quite clear from every astronaut that I’ve ever spoken to that seeing the planet from out there, surrounded by the incredibly thin protective layer of atmosphere, helps one to wake up to the fragility of the small portion of the planet’s mass that we inhabit, and to the importance of protecting the Earth.”

I call bullshit. To me, it would have just the opposite effect. I would marvel at the insignificance of our microscopic existence upon this big blue rock and wonder how people could be so arrogant to think we could destroy it when in fact if we marshaled every ounce of resources that could be mustered from every corner of the world we could maybe put a dent in it. We might destroy ourselves, but we can’t destroy the Earth if we tried because the Earth is not fragile. The Earth will destroy mankind long before we can destroy the Earth.

But just in case, if the Earth and it’s thin protective layer of atmosphere is so freakin fragile, we better not be firing rockets through it, should we?

The way the elite like Branson and the Hollywood crowd think, the Earth is so very fragile but it is okay to shoot exorbitantly rich people into orbit, destroying some small but significant portion of the fragile atmosphere just so they can appreciate how fragile it is.

More “Saving the Planet” BS from Nancy Pelosi: “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.” I guess that is her excuse for doing absolute nothing else constructive since gaining power.

Share This

John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel: “My mission, in what is left of a long and exciting lifetime, is to stamp out this Global Warming silliness and let all of us get on with enjoying our lives and loving our planet, Earth.”

Share This

What is the Cannes Film Festival? In his article about the upcoming Cannes debut of Indiana Jones: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Timothy Gray describes the festival thus:

Aside from being a film festival and a global market, Cannes has become the world’s biggest press junket

Wow, that doesn’t sound very ecologically friendly to me.

Oh but don’t you all see? The Hollywood elite need these big expensive events. It’s part of doing business. Even though it appears as a big soirée, where thousands of A-listers arrive in private jets it’s actually an important part of their business and culture. It’s how they make their money without which they wont have the necessary resources to educate all us little people as to how we are destroying the environment and causing Global Warming by living our paltry little lives, with all our infernal car-driving.

So really, it’s people with too much money that are destroying the world, ins’t it. The personal destruction is commiserate with how much extra money a person has. A guy with a boat heats up the world more than a guy with a motorcycle and a guy with a jet, well, lets just say a guy with a jet has no peer except for maybe some factory owner in China.

For a fact Al Gore has aggressively advocated dramatic increases in the price of gas in order to keep people from driving so much. It’s the only way to save the planet.

What use is it to have way more money than you need if you don’t get a pass to rape and pillage Mother Earth.

Share This

I like it now when the police beat a black guy, the media always wants to find out if there were any black cops taking part:

Ramsey said he did not know the race of all the officers on the scene — there were about 15 — but said that at least one sergeant involved is African-American. (Link)

What is the implication here? Is it that it is okay or not as bad if there is a black cop present? Or that the black cop is expected to stop the beating and his failure to do so indicates the suspects were probably guilty? If there were more black cops present this kind of thing wouldn’t happen?

Share This

Dems do the same things expecting different results

To help correct the mortgage industry problems, house Democrats are in favor of more of the same policy that is the primary cause of the problem in the first place:

The Democrats’ measure, aimed at preventing foreclosures, would have the government step in to insure up to $300 billion in new mortgages for distressed homeowners. A House vote is expected by Thursday.

You can not make it easier for a person who can not afford a house to nonetheless buy a house anyway and expect anything but foreclosures down the road. To expect anything different is naive and/or insane.

The American Dream has nothing to do with the government providing everyone a house. The American Dream is about people seizing opportunity, working hard, and buying a house they can afford. The government providing for everyone is the exact opposite of the American Dream as it is traditionally understood.

Dems want immediate fix or forgetaboutit

What is it about the Dems that make them consistently cut off their noses to spite their faces? The Democrats would rather immolate the nation rather than let any non-liberal, non-PC policy succeed. If we sit back and let the Dems do everything their way, America will be destroyed.

On gas prices, Bush again asserted that he understands the pinch on typical families. He pushed for steps that critics say would offer little help anytime in the short term, such as encouraging construction of oil refineries and allowing more oil drilling in areas where it is now precluded.

Critics fail to acknowledge that something which it took Democrats two generations to destroy can’t be fixed in a day. In a market that is being driven to astronomical levels fueled primarily by manipulation and speculation based on fear of the future, alleviating those fears is just as important, and maybe more important, than bringing more production on-line immediately. If the speculators know we are building new refineries and if they know we will soon be drilling everywhere we can set up a rig, and if they know we will be building 50 new nuclear reactors the price of energy will fall.

It’s like after destroying our domestic energy production infrastructure, suddenly the Dems want Bush to shit some green energy in sufficient quantities to bring energy prices back into normal atmosphere or he and the Republicans are failure.

Share This

Stephen Kink impugns the military but how dare anyone impugn King’s patriotism.

“That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt,”

King says he supports the troops but detests everything they do and stand for. But he supports them.

Mr King, blogs are inanimate and I am not a blog, I am a person and not only do I impugn your patriotism but I assert that you are no patriot at all. A patriot would not defend such stupid remarks.

————————-

Previous posts on Stephen King:

• Stephen King is shallow

Share This

Do as I say, green goody 200 shoes… I’d like to line ‘em up and slap the shit out of each and every one of ‘em.

Share This

Welcome to your world, asshat:

Senate candidate Al Franken says he will pay about $70,000 in back income taxes in 17 states going back to 2003.

The Minnesota Democrat has been under attack by Republicans for failing to file tax returns in California for several years when the comedian-turned-candidate earned money there. (Link)

No wonder it’s so easy for liberals to advocate tax and spend — they don’t plan on paying the taxes, just spending them.

Share This

This poor bastard, former Cumberland County commissioner Bruce Barclay, was allegedly being investigated for some kind of rape allegation that was never even discussed in the story. The story is about Barclay’s videotaping of his romantic encounters with both male and female prostitutes. Ironically, the videos prove there was no rape but the police are never ones to be deterred from their familiar modis operandi: We know the guy is guilty, all we have to do is make a case stick.

Barclay told Henneman that “at least” five additional males were filmed having sex “who were unaware that they were being filmed.” (Link)

So now male prostitutes are victims for plying their trade.

The only story here is sensationalism surrounding people being persecuted for having tawdry sex with whores. Evidently everyones doing it. But where are the facts about a crime being committed? Maybe there are no facts corroborating any crime except for lewd and lascivious behavior with a whore, which would explain the police advertising for victims:

Sigh.Trooper Karl Schmidhamer said the state police are asking anyone who “feels they may have been a victim” of illegal acts inside Barclay’s home to call 1-866-898-8477. No charges have been filed against Barclay, he stressed.

All I want to know is whether Barclay was pitching or catching.

Share This

Hillary Clinton is a big fat liar. What she believes — if anything other than that she should be president — has absolutely nothing to do with what Hillary says to convince people to give Hillary what Hillary wants.

Share This

Waterboarding OldPunk.

The blogosphere is not about free speech, initiating dialogue, speaking your mind, sharing your perverse views with others who may not have heard them before, or being the kind of dick who just pisses a whole bunch of people off to no purpose. It’s about climbing the ladder. The mainstream media is dying. The blogosphere is a tournament to determine who will replace them.

So, successful blogging is not about being a decent writer with original content and interesting, original takes on the events of the day?

You know the book, “Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned in Kindergarten”? Same principle applies here. Blogging is like coloring. You have to stay inside the lines. You can pick any outrageous color you want, and people will love you to death for your color choices (tits are the best colors, and PhotoShops of Hillary), but just remember to STAY INSIDE THE FUCKING LINES.

Okay, so it’s more of an echo chamber? That explains a lot.

Instapunk Update:

On the off chance that this post wasn’t servile enough, I want to take this opportunity to apologize personally to Ace of Spades, 2007 Conservative Blogger of the Year, for any implication or inference by OldPunk that Ace is somehow an ambitious, illiterate, sex-pandering, gay wannabe, one-joke practitioner of blogorrhea, meaning the nonstop posting of absolutely nothing just because the topic happens to be in the news and maybe we can dig up a mildly related old YouTube video that has tits and ass to boot.

I remember when Ace was just getting started it seemed he was forever humping Glenn’s leg like a little dog in hopes of a link. Coming from someone as sophomoric as Ace I was quite surprised that such a strategy would work with Glenn. So here we are four years later, Ace is conservative blogger of the year and has 21 million hits while I am hoping to reach 100K by the end of the year and have but a handful of people who link to my site (thank you all.) Thanks be to God for Google and the other search engines that apply a less personality and ego based objectivity when searching out relative content.

What really pisses me off is that so many of the blogs in “The Blogrolls” of almost every ‘A’ site are dead links. Anyone who knows anything about lists is that lists require management. The longer the list, the more list management required. The A-Listers would rather have a dead link than to color OUTSIDE THE FUCKING LINES.

I may be an idiot, but I am not an idiot like Ace. Until now I had no idea how an idiot like Ace could be so successful. My thanks to Instapunk for clearing it up for me.

More…

The subtext of the above brilliance is another piece of brilliance where InstaPunk had the balls to utter the word nigger.

Here’s the dirty secret all of us know and no one will admit to. There ARE niggers. Black people know it. White people know it. And only black people are allowed to notice and pronounce the truth of it. Which would be fine. Except that black people are not a community but a political party. They can squabble with each other in caucus but they absolutely refuse to speak the truth in public. And this is the single biggest obstacle to healing the racial divide in this country. The dammed-up flood of good will in this nation for black people who want to work for their own American Dream is absolutely enormous. The biggest impediment is the doubt created in each and every non-black American by the clannish, tribalist, irrational defense of every low act committed by any black person. If you’re offended when Republicans defend Richard Nixon or when Democrats defend Chuck Schumer, imagine what it’s like when black people swarm the streets to defend Jeremiah Wright.

Yep, you definitely colored outside the lines there, my friend. But that’s okay, my nigga, because I like to color outside the lines myself from time to time.

Share This

Not much I can add to this:

[Sydney Blumenthal,] A senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to plead guilty to drunken driving after the arresting officer was ordered to Iraq making a trial on a more serious charge impossible, police said Monday.

That’s funny. I thought Hillary wanted to bring the troops home. But until then, one more wont matter I guess. I don’t know about any of you all, but I would have chipped in to have the cop flown flown back to the states for the trial. Round trip first class.

I would like a hearing into how the officer came to be “ordered” to Iraq.

Share This

Often as not I find myself in disagreement with Megan McArdle but I think she nails this one:

Second of all, can we all concede that at least part of the reason that women do not want to be prostitutes is that there is a severe social stigma attached to women who are promiscuous, and particularly to women who rent their promiscuity to men–a stigma far, far greater than that which attaches to their clients? This makes any argument from my desires entirely circular. Kerry is arguing for eliminating that stigma. If I’d grown up in a culture that thought of “prostitute” as a job like “CPA” (another job I’d hate), I probably still wouldn’t want to be one. But the fact that I am repulsed by the idea of turning tricks, having grown up in a society that thinks there’s something deeply wrong with turning tricks, is not actually proof that there is something deeply wrong with turning tricks.

Morals are a luxury that some people can’t afford. Besides, what difference in the world could it possible make if some man who I don’t know even exists pays to have sex with some woman (or man) who I don’t know even exists? What other people choose to do amongst themselves totally doesn’t concern me unless I am intent on forcing my morals on others or unless I believe enforcing the majority’s moralality on the minority is a legitimate function of government, which I don’t.

The only problem I have with prostitution is that it could lead to dancing.

Share This

Talk about your double standard and double irony. Over the same tawdry incident Gov Spritzer falls from fame to ruination beyond repair and Ashley Alexandra Dupre — identified in court papers alleging that Spitzer paid thousands of dollars for her services as Kriste the high-dollar call girl — will likely rise to stardom and fame from her humble vagabond beginnings. She will get her fifteen minutes of fame and then some. She may even get a break in her music career if she plays it right. Heffner has probably already called Kriste.

No disrespect, beautiful though she is the only reason I’d pay Kriste $5,500 an hour for a night is if she could make me about $100,000 profit. Kinda like a pimp I guess but Ashley wouldn’t have to fuck any anal-retentive Jewish politician, or anyone else she didn’t want to. But then I am just a simple guy with not a lot of extra money (though she — Ashley or Kriste — could fuck me if she wanted to as long as she is “cleeean”.)

But I guess if I wasn’t paying the tab the fee wouldn’t be an issue. The escort service probably could have charged $10,000 an hour for all Spitzer cared, as long as he got what he wanted. Hell, for all we know the pussy was a throw in on some other deal.

Nobody would ever mistake me for being “Mister Clean” but it appears as if my criminal record will be much cleaner than Spitzer’s by the time “they” (like I said, Spitzer should have never fucked with a guy named Bruno) are finished with him.

Share This

I have been informed by an inside anonymous source that Elliot Spitzer, aka Elliot “Ness”, aka Mr Clean, aka Client #9, aka John, will not retire as planned over his whore dogging. My source is reporting that Spitzer was heard saying to his senior aides with a raised, determined voice, “So what? I am still Mister Clean, I just like to fuck a lot. Why do you think I spend $5,000 on a whore… To make sure she’s cleeeean.”

Reportedly, Spitzer was seen with his hands held out from his body in front of his chest, the tips of his forefingers touching his thumb and the remaining fingers out as if taking a sip from a dainty little tea cup. He was moving them in a widening, outward comma motion as he drew out the word “cleeean.”

Unnamed sources speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press have reported Spitzer is determined to prevail: Buying a whore from a prostitution ring is okay as long as the girls are “cleeeean.” Lo all these years he’s only been shutting down the dirty little whores, not the clean whores.

Share This

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.

Share This

…because I am not going to recycle unless it benefits me personally. I hate to be that way, but there ya go. Besides I didn’t realize the Vatican could just change the seven deadly sins on a whim.

The “sins of yesteryear” - sloth, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath and pride - have a “rather individualistic dimension”, he told the Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper.

The new seven deadly, or mortal, sins are designed to make worshippers realise that their vices have an effect on others as well.

“The sins of today have a social resonance as well as an individual one,” said Mgr Girotti. “In effect, it is more important than ever to pay attention to your sins.”

If the Church can willy-nilly make up mortal sins, how about this for a new deadly sin: “Thou Shalt Not Bugger Young Parishioners!”

Share This

This time from New York:

State [Democrat] Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, son of the legendary Harlem congressman, is in trouble with the law again after being busted on a DWI charge - with a mystery woman passed out drunk in the back seat. (Link)

They do seem to like their bimbos as well.

Share This

Everyone has to pay the piper. Instead of a ride home Art Madrid and Trisha Turner should have been treated to ride to the police station.

[La Mesa Mayor Art] Madrid was lying on the sidewalk near the passenger side of his Ford Explorer. [City finance department employee Trisha ] Turner was in the driver’s seat, her feet pointed out the open door. Vomit was observed around the SUV. (Link)

Most people don’t lose their jobs over a drunken indiscretion but almost no one gets a ride home either. It’s not that I’m in favor of incarcerating people over minor alcohol offenses (though who knows what these two were doing prior to pulling over and passing out in their puke,) but I am in favor of government officials being treated like everyone else.

If government officials want to drink without fear of being robbed and thrown in jail they have to let the regular citizenry enjoy the same privilege. On the flip, what’s good for me is good for thee.

Share This

In an historic and highly relative action, the deliberative body of federal legislature finally restores credibility to the Congress. From the ethics committee, no less:

The Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly in connection with a men’s room sex sting last year and had brought discredit on the Senate.

One has to wonder what business does the Senate ethics committee have in the bathroom stall just as one has to wonder what business the House has perpetrating the ridiculous tar and feather job being done to the institution of baseball with the steroids in baseball “controversy”?

Well we all know baseball is as American as apple pie and, well, baseball, so it makes sense the Congress is doing it’s best to destroy it. And I’m not even a big baseball fan.

Wonder why the gambling referees in basketball aren’t in front of a congressional committee. Maybe they’re on deck. And Larry Craig in in the hole.

With all the problems we face as a nation it’s hard to believe these guys could report back home without shame much less get re-elected.

———————-

Related: Waxman regrets steroid hearings. Yeah, in a pig’s eye.

Share This

(Originally posted on 7/31/2005 )

Over in the five hundred comments posted to the “This Notice is For Your Own Safety” post at Little Green Footballs, an interesting sub-dialog erupts which I found to be quite interesting, if not funny.

There is a commenter with the nick of “Murder”, which I thought was a wholly appropriate nick after visiting his site. Murder makes a salient comment (#61) and then some guy with the nick of “sedandelivery” pipes up and tells Murder, “Here’s whats not funny to me. Your nickname. “

It appears that sedandelivery must be the humor police over at LGF because it was a few comments previous to the above-mentioned one that he snidely rebuked another commenter for the lack of any sense of humor.

So the back and forth goes on between Murder and sedandelivery for a few rounds when sedandelivery says (#84):

I appreciate gallows humor and sarcasm as much as the next guy, but there is no way to laugh at that word alone. Its not a matter of lightening up. Help the rest of us. Add another word to it that will help us instantly refer to something else. I know that this is an open and anonymous forum, but c’mon. Work with us. How do you know whether or not someone who posts here or reads this blog’s friend or family member was a victim of murder and then all they see is that word. With no other way of referencing something else.

I continue reading down to about comment #118 or #120 and find they are still at it. Not that I blame Murder. I too like to kick the soapbox out from under people from time time.

Why do I point out a silly and typical exchange that is so common in the world of internet fora?

Well, for the irony, of course. I find it to be kinda ironic that on a post which, from one perspective, is about the dangers of politically correct speech and being overly sensitive to the feelings of people from other cultures, this guy resorts to political correctness and the invocation of sensitivity to other people’s feelings in an effort to restrict someone else’s speech so that it conforms to what he thinks is appropriate.

It is exactly this type of thinking, whether it comes from the moonbats on the left or from those who like to claim that they are conservative, that has us saddled with all the PC gobbledygook in the first place. And in all of his snide, self-righteous moral indignation, sedandelivery doesn’t get it. Go figure.

What an ignorant hypocrit. Enforcement of political correctness from the right is just as repugnant as it is from anywhere else.

more…

So I come back to the computer after getting sidetracked in the house. The kids are at their cousin’s house for a few hours and the wife and I took in a shitty movie on HBO called The Statement, after which we had a little almost-unheard-of afternoon delight. Then I took in the last part of Independance Day on American Movie Classics.

On my screen is still the 500 comment thread from which this story was born. In a new frame of mind, I asked my self, self, who would post a comment numbered five hundred?

To answer myself, I pull the scroll bar down about forty feet and find comments number #502 and #503:

sedandelivery: “Gettin’ the last word in is real important to you. Ain’t it. ”

Murder: “Hello? Am I alone?…
Good.

…Tea for two, two for tea, buh-badda-la-dah-de-duh, le-diddle-da-dum-dah-dee…

This Murder guy slays me.

Probably none save a few people knows what transpired in the middle of that 500+ epic. I think I will wait for the Cliff’s Notes

Share This

I am beginning to think that the government is holding back on some kind of performance enhancing super drugs. Of course everyone thinks these drugs are the devil thanks to all the never-ending negative press, but I am thinking maybe the proof is in the pudding. Barry Bonds, the forty-something Roger The Rocket Clemens, Schwarzenegger… the list of evil doers does seem to be star studded. I’m thinking maybe my nuts are big enough that they could shrink up a bit and still be pretty big. Maybe I might look into getting some dianabol or something. It would sure be nice to play like a twenty year old again.

Speaking of playing like a twenty year old: John Lynch, Senior Seau, Teddy Bruschi , Michael Strahan… another long list of folk pushing forty and still performing at stratospheric levels that sure makes one wonder.

MORE (via Instapundit)…

Radley Balko at The Agitator on THE OTHER STEROIDS PROBLEM:

[The Daily News story] is by no means the first such report. ABC News did its own cops-and-steroids expose a couple of months ago. The AP ran a similar story in 2005, and Men’s Health ran a feature in 2004. In fact, you can go all the way back to 1989, when 60 Minutes aired a package on several cops who blamed their own steroid use for a series of police brutality incidents. William Grigg notes that the FBI warned of pervasive steroid use in local police departments in 1991. In 1999, there were reports that Officer Justin Volpe’s use of the drug may have contributed to the police station beating and sodomizing of Abner Louima.

So it’s not just athletes benefiting from the super performance eenhancing drugs that the government wants to keep from everyone. Kinda makes one wonder if Congress is just doing a little grandstanding of it’s own when there seems to be a real problem with steriods at the police station. As Balko notes:

Given that police officers carry guns, night sticks, and tasers, and that they have the power to use lethal force when necessary, one would think our politicians would be more concerned about illegal use of a drug known to contribute to fits of rage and violence among law enforcement than use by a bunch of baseball players.

I am thinking maybe steroids should be legalized so that people who make the private decision to use life enhancing medicines are not forced underground and to back alleys to obtain the substance from shady characters. If women used steroids to cause an abortion I wonder if there would be such a stink?

Share This

Another indicator the Global Warming “crisis” is a hoax:

In 2002, the Paris-based International Energy Agency, through its Climate Technology Initiative, awarded Nunez its Climate Technology Leadership Award for his invention. He received U.S. Patent No. 6,651,645 B1 the following year. But financial success has eluded him.

Green groups aren’t lining up like he thought they would to fund his technology. He has won occasional grants to manufacture a few stoves for poor families such as the Erazos. A contractor makes them for him for $325. His own company can’t do it because he no longer has a company or employees. Nunez is broke.

Just like all the rest of the world’s so-called problems, nobody really wants to fix Global Warming, they just want to be in charge of fixing it. If you are in charge of fixing something, getting paid nicely for fixing something, the last thing you would want is for that something to actually get fixed. Besides, there is nothing we can do about global warming so why waste any money.

Al Gore, Clooney, Sarandan and all the rest of the eco-clowns don’t really care. It is much more glamorous to fly around on private jets and travel in motorcades spewing CO2 from their wind holes than actually contributing to a solution.

Share This

I guess the Edwards campaign got their way

more…

If someone gets tired of Google’s heavy-handedness and moves to one of the many other video streaming services and the YouTube service is a distant also ran in the arena, will the video still have a relevant showing in Google’s search pages? Could Google damage it’s integrity enough with YouTube censorship to do serious damage to it’s primary business of providing fast, accurate searches?

If I spend valuable time producing and publishing a story only to have my streaming video service provider, in the above case Google under the YouTube brand, only to find it’s been pulled by the provider for any reason other than clear copyright infringement, I will not be inclined to waste my time using their service in the future.

Google needs to start telling the constant complainers and whiners, like John Edwards and his sniveling campaign, who try to stifle the free-flow of information to take it to court.

Share This

According to this Reuter’s story some clever people in California have come up with a very cheap way to create energy:

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said that if all of its 1.4 million customers turned off their lights for an hour, enough energy could be saved to power 2,500 homes for an entire year.

I wonder how many total homes in LA are customers of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It is socialism out there right, so probably everyone has to be a customer of the state-run utility. At any rate, the above claim immediately made the math hackles on the back of my neck tingle. Someone at the water department has been doodling on their napkin and had an epiphany or something.

Let’s see now, if we do a little doodling of our own we can see:

So the math works if the average Los Angeles power customer consumes 15.6 times more energy than the average residential customer. If that’s the case the next time a family is asked to do without power they should want to find out if the government and big business are doing without at a rate that is at least 15.6 times greater than their sacrifice.

Would that when giving anecdotal evidence pointing to their good works, the bureaucrats/conservationists start using measurements of how long the government could go under the same circumstances.

The LA Power Department said that if all of its 1.4 million customers turned off their lights for an hour, enough energy could be saved to power 2,500 homes for an entire year and that all the government buildings in the service area could operate for 55 minutes.

If you need to work the math on that one you probably think Bush lied about WMD and we should surrender immediately in Iraq.

Share This

Speaking of Al Gore inventing the information age with his clever little Internet gadget, I was just bitching about AlGore in a recent follow up effort to the pithy “Creatures from outer space” post that never was finished.

I was getting short on time to get out the door so I kinda left the post short but I think my point was kinda obvious. These damn eco-freaks can’t get it through their thick skulls that humans are in fact a natural phenomenon that evolves, exists and survives on this planet just like every other thing, living or dead, organic or inorganic.

Global warming is a big scam that is run by a lot of wealthy people from around the world who are trying to marshal all the available resources they can swindle in a futile effort to protect their real property holdings in the event adverse conditions should, say, submerge New York City, or something. More likely is that New York City will still just be a sewer but a significantly warmer climate will render now fertile crop land into a more arid, less hospitable clime, resulting in a poor long-term business outlook for existing, bountiful agribusinesses.

Ordinary people like me don’t give a damn if other people besides the people now are making gobs and gobs of money. And I certainly don’t care that Al Gore will own a big dirt farm. If it were just a bunch of small farmers losing their ass global warming wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar.

Big corporations in the farming and real estate business don’t like the thought of their landholdings suddenly becoming worthless.

I’ve seen the data on this, so I know I’m right. I managed to get a copy of one of the key bits of intel:

Current climate conditions:

Any day now the world will look like this:

At least the Arabs have a bunch of oil to fall back on. In Tennessee dirty burning coal will suddenly become en vogue once again and Al Gore will be leading the charge.

UPDATE: “Rice vows USA committed to tackling global warming” …Whoa there, Nellie. Are we? I’m not. I reject the theory that we can “fix” “global warming”. I’m not even convinced that humans are, by simply existing and surviving, causing any significant amount of warming. Besides, I want the biggest fattest carbon footprint I can possibly achieve. “Hey, Buddy, my carbon footprint is bigger than yours, ha!”

UPDATE II: “DEM Plan Uses Taxes to Fight Climate Change”… Come on, everyone pitch in to save my jet.

UPDATE III: Gore calls for global Marshall Plan…

“This is an emergency,” Mr Gore told the opening session of the Clinton Global Initiative. “I think that the key to fighting global poverty is to have the wealthy nations and the developing nations join together to reduce global warming … I think what we need is a global Marshall plan to make the creation of jobs around the reduction of carbon the central principle for how we develop this.”

Does anyone else find this “global Marshall Plan”Ironic considering my turn of phrase above? But, hey, what about letting the free will of free people who decide what they want to be when they grow up form the basis of job creation? I know it’s a crazy idea.

Share This