Kill your family to save the planet – the global warming nuts reach a new low.

He's just crazy enough to do it!

There are stories that you simply can’t make up because no one would believe you. They also require little comment. This reporter wonders if taking out his whole family might be the best way to deal with a potential water shortage…

Depressed? Well, it’s a sign of the grim times for our planet when pre-schoolers are worrying about something as basic as water, a commodity which my generation never even thought about at his age.

When I look at my kids like my son and wonder what kind of place the world will be when they are my age – about 2050 – I find myself wondering if me and my family shouldn’t just open the balcony doors of my 16th floor apartment and do the planet a favour by jumping out.

Cap and Trade : “Electricity Rates will necessarily skyrocket” – Barack Obama

The stock market crashes while Nero, er, President Obama fiddles and conga lines are formed in his honor.  Shouldn’t the President care that people’s 401k’s are tanking?  He should, but he doesn’t.  Could the reason be that he wants the government to take over the whole personal retirement industry as well?  Probably.  But another reason could be that he has no “skin in the game” since he’s not much of an investor either.

You will find that Barack Obama doesn’t care much about things that do not directly impact him or his friends.  What does he care if energy costs skyrocket?  He doesn’t pay his electric bill.  Besides, when he leaves office he’s going to get a payday from his tax-sheltered billionaire buddies that will make any payday in human history look like chump change.

That’s why he has no qualms about implementing a cap and trade system on the United States to fight the myth that is global warming.  What will that mean to you?  While he probably won’t admit it now, he did at one point.  See below, and start saving now you can afford lights in your house in the future.

In case you didn’t know, in Washington, DC yesterday there was a global warming protest put on by a bunch of hippies and moronic college students bused in by their professors.  Also, in case you didn’t know this, it snowed like crazy the night before.  The protest went on without even a hint of a sense of irony.  The picture below, from our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, captures the moment and their movement perfectly.

Douchebag of the Week – Robert Kennedy Jr.

Our winner this week could have easily been House Democrats for their taxpayer funded retreat to a luxury spa in Williamsburg, Virgina, but the fact that liberals look at tax dollars as their own money to spend how they like comes as a shock to no one.  So, while totally douchey, not really DBoTW level of doucheyness.

Our winner this week is rabid environmentalist (and at least should be Katherine Hepburn impersonator) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.   When we say rabid environmentalist we don’t mean he wants to live by those standards, but we aren’t going to talk about his hypocrisy here.  His offense is claiming that the pork industry is a greater threat to the United States than Osams bin Laden.

There are a million ways this is just plain stupid, just check the “Global Warming Myth” category on this blog for enough evidence to disprove that garbage.  But to claim a food production industry is a greater threat to the United States than the leader of a terrorist network hell-bent on the destruction of the country is borderline “special,” if you catch our drift.

This really requires no comment, so we’re going to stop and just post the video below.  The audio quality isn’t the best, but in the first 2 minutes you hear all you need to.

RFK, Jr., you may well be a nice guy, but you are a total douchebag.  And this week, you are king.  You are our Douchebag of the Week.

One last question, how did you offset the carbon footprint of the massive amount of K0ol Aid you’ve clearly consumed?

Obama’s global warming czar a socialist – no one surprised.

When news broke that President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for “climate czar” was a hard-core socialist no one was shocked. Why not? Because that’s what the whole movement has been about since day one.

When you can used “global warming,” or now “climate change” since the Earth is cooling, as justification for imposing control over everyone’s lives, the government grows and liberty dies. Then you end up being told what size TV you can have and you get small towns asking for, and expecting to get, more than $1.9 million per person from the federal government to “go green.” Wake up, people!

The AP and Global Warming – They haven’t just jumped the shark, they had sex with it.

Bow before Pope Goreus the IV (and don't forget to buy his Carbon Credits!)

The once-credible Associated Press has officially jumped the shark. While in recent years they have exposed their lack of journalistic integrity (a phrase fast becoming an oxymoron), they have gone even further. Not content to simply slant towards liberal candidates and politicians, they are have now become a full-service left-wing site that advocates for liberal causes as well.

This articleabout how Barack Obama has to move quickly on the issue of global warming because, and you’re going to love this, the cooling that the Earth is going through “actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.”

Drink that in for a second.  Read the article for yourself to see the fact that that quote is not taken out of context.

The article starts out with the objective paragraph:

When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid.

Can you hear it?  Tick, tick, tick, boom! 

Only there’s no boom.  Not even a fizzle. 

The AP writer Seth Borenstein (we dare not call him a reporter, it has a definition that doesn’t apply to what he does) could have, with a simple Google search, found countless facts and figures about how his dire statements are, just like the religion of global warming, not based in fact.

Take this onefrom Jennifer Marohasy, Australian scientist:

…there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.

Or, this douchebag could have simply read this story, ignored by most of the media because it doesn’t fit with their dogma, that shows the oceans have been cooling.  Hard to imagine how a planet warming could have 2/3rds of it cooling at the same time.  (By the way, for you true believers, there is nothing that cools the ocean, the whole ocean, naturally.)

The fact that the Earth has been cooling since 1998 is roundly ignored, even though it was announced by NASA, where all the true believers get their data.  The year 1998 was NOT the warmest on record, it was 1934.  You remember 1934, right?  The year the Hummer came out and people were awash in cash to buy them and drive for fun?  Oh wait, that was the Great Depression.  Seems odd the planet could have been warming then, doesn’t it?

These religious zealots want control, period.  Control over you, your life and, most importantly, your money.  And they will try to scare the hell out of you and lie to you to get it.  And now they have a President who wants the same thing.

We swear to Earth.

The Semantics of “climate change.”

Remember global warming? The environmentalist wackos hope you don’t, because if you do their whole case falls apart.

Pope Goreus the IV, Al Gore, has led the fight in the new semantic argument, changing the term “global warming” to the new catch-all “climate change.”

Why the change? Well, the earth is cooling, which really throws a monkey wrench into the gears of the global warming. If the opposite of what you claim is happening people might start to question your motives. God forbid the people discover this is nothing more than a government power grab.

The truth is they changed the name to “climate change” because it doesn’t matter what happens now, it can all be blamed on humans. If the threat of an ice age returns, like it was “pressing” in the 1970’s, they’ve got it covered. Doesn’t matter what happens, storms, drought, floods, tsunami, earthquake, doesn’t matter, they’ve got it covered and government needs to do something – i.e. tax the hell out of you and steal your liberty.

Keep one eye on them and the other on your wallet.

Thou shall not speak against global warming in a free society.

Thank God for the First Amendment.  Sure, it’s allows jackasses to spew from the mouth conspiracy theories about 9/11, or liberals to spread their lies, but that’s the price you pay for the same courtesy being extended to you.  We would defend their right to be wrong or jerks because we love our right to say what we want.  (Though given their love of censorship of people on our side, we know they wouldn’t stand with us if the attack on liberty were against someone they disagreed with.  The cost of actually having principles.)  In England they have no right to free speech, hell, they don’t even have a Constitution.  So when someone dare to deviate from the liberal orthodoxy they are shunned like a hooker in church.

Meet David Bellamy, the hooker who tried to take communion.  Bellamy was a well-known TV host on the BBC, but he has since fallen out of favor and been effectively banned from the airwaves.  Why?  He reads scientific journals rather than headlines, looks at the evidence and realized the Holy Church of Global Warming was eerily similar to the Heaven’s Gate cult.

When I first stuck my head above the parapet to say I didn’t believe what we were being told about global warming I had no idea what the consequences would be.

I am a scientist and I have to ­follow the directions of science but when I see that the truth is being covered up I have to voice my ­opinions.

According to official data, in every year since 1998 world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, do we not hear about that?

The sad fact is that since I said I didn’t believe human beings caused global warming I’ve not been allowed to make a TV programme.

What kind of a scientist looks at the data?  What a buffoon!

At least voters in this country are catching on to rouse and rejecting ballot initiatives designed as a government power-grab and tax scheme.

But as long at there are government grants to be gotten for advancing bogus arguments designed to steal more of our liberty for things that will have zero impact on the natural cycle of things, don’t expect to see David Ballamy on the BBC.  Pope Goreus the IV will be on there any time he has a new sham company to front for, but not a scientist with a track record of professionalism and ethical standards.

These Global Warming nuts do not recognize the truth when it frost bites their asses.

While Pope Goreus the IV, spiritual leader of the Holy Church of Global Warming, was giving a speech at Harvard about the perils of what doesn’t exist, new data is showing that the earth’s temperature is cooling…dramatically.  Since there is no money in that fact, Al Gore just ignored it and stuck with his prepared remarks.  The rumor we’ve heard, that we’re starting, is that he’s waiting up till he can find something to sell to “stop the coming ice age” but is waiting until someone comes up with something man made to blame for it first, since pointing out that it’s actually that big ball of fire in the sky that controls our temperature wouldn’t make for big profits.

In the meantime, a group of college kids, aka: gullible morons, have swallowed not only the worm, but the hook from Gore and are on a bike tour across New York State to promote awareness of the myth.  The funniest part is that the article states that they “braved freezing cold temperatures” to promote awareness of global warming.

These people don’t have the facts on their side, they don’t have the science (though they do have the scientists since they’re funded by our tax dollars, and no problem means no money), but you’d think they’d have the common sense to say, “Maybe late October isn’t the best time to do this bike thing for global warming since it may be cold.”  But nope…

In context: Joe Biden on “clean coal”

Since he claims that his comments in a rope line were taken out of context, let’s look at both of this comments in the context they were made.

Surely Barack Obama agrees with Joe Biden on clean coal, but which Joe Biden?

Douchebag of the Week – Any Member of Congress who votes for the bailout.

The funny think about markets is that they work only when allowed to.  The crappy thing about politics is politicians rarely let markets work.  President Reagan put it best when he said:

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

The government is like a fat guy at a morning meeting sitting at the end of the conference table near the box of donuts and the free-market is the box of donuts.  He can’t control himself, he has to keep reaching into the box.  Politicians can’t help but meddle in the market in an idiotic attempt to spare us from its cyclical nature.  But their efforts end up making things much worse in the future.

We didn’t get to this point from too much deregulation, as many in the media and on the left (as if there’s a difference) would have you believe, we got here because of regulation, threats of more regulation if bad loans weren’t made and threats of more government intervention through civil action.

Also to blame are the people who were specifically exempted from guilt in last night’s VP debate, the people that took the loans.  “Predatory lenders” gives the impression of some sort of land-shark roaming the countryside looking for dupes to give money to, but these people have offices.  Just because someone got a flier in the mail promising them loans doesn’t mean the idiot who thumbed through the Val-Pac had to take one.  Joe Biden said last night that he and Barack OBama want to lower the principle for people who bought more house than they could afford.  Don’t you feel like an idiot for having lived within your means these last few years, especially since you’re going to have to pay someone else’s mortgage now.

Back to the bailout.  The need to do something is common in politics.  Just watch any politician at a townhall meeting.  Someone will stand up and tell their sad tale of woe, lost their job, no education, can’t afford this, that or the other thing and they want to know what the government is going to do for them.  Never will you see an elected official say, “Nothing, you’ll have to help yourself.”  That’s what the Constitution demands, but it’s looked upon simply as a piece of animal skin with quaint scribbles from old dead, white guys on it now.  Its bastardization led us not only to this crisis but to every “crisis” in the last 100 years.  It was written to limit the power of the government, on that there is no debate, but has been reinterpreted to allow whatever the whimsy of the moment is, especially meddling in the market.

So we find ourselves picking up the $700 billion check on meal we were force-fed, and while we’re getting screwed, it’s not the type you might actively seek.  Wall Street wants our money, but they want our money because the sun rose, everyone wants money.  But this bailout is not needed, mostly because no one knows what will happen next.  As an anchor on CNBC put it the other day:

“if we’re not careful this mini rally in the dow is going to talk us out of any bailout, is that a good thing?“

Let’s not be careful, let’s ride this out, not kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with.  Let’s not make it worse.  Right now a small portion of taxpayers are caught up in this, don’t involve everyone.

Anyone who votes for this bailout is a douchebag of epic proportion.  All this will do is cloud any investigation into how we got here, if one is even launched.  Right now there are millions of documents sitting in Fannie and Freddie’s offices that could be destroyed legally because they are not under subpoena.  The longer it takes to launch an investigation into the largest scam in the history of the Earth the fewer of those documents will survive.

For voting for a bailout rather than to launch an investigation, every single Member of Congress who votes in favor of the Frank-Dodd-Bush-Bernake plan is our Douchebag of the Week.

PS – A funny thing happened on the way to the bailout…a carbon tax provision found its way into the bill.

PPS – Now California wants a piece of the action.  We need another Gerald Ford to tell him to drop dead.

Big Brother will soon be hugging your tree.

Ever wonder what your carbon footprint was?  Us neither, but that’s not the point.  There is now a cellphone that will track it for you so you can do whatever it is that people that care that they have large carbon footprints do.

Now that this has been invented you have to wonder how long until it become standard on phones, from there mandatory, and from there required that people not only use them but report their findings.  Be prepared to be taxed according to what your carbon footprint is not that there is an effective method for measuring it.  Not tomorrow, not next week, not even this winter (which is predicted to be colder than the last few years, thank you very much, global warming), but someday.  Where there’s a way to tax someone there will always be someone ready to tax you.

Washington Post slams liberal environments wackos!

Today’s Washington Post just slams the left-wing Natural Resources Defense Council for their misleading ad on offshore oil drilling.

Check it out.

Nancy Pelosi’s idea of drilling for oil.

Since Nancy Pelosi is running around the country complaining that oil companies can already drill 68 million acres, or whatever it is, offshore and aren’t drilling (because there isn’t oil everywhere they’re allowed to explore, hence the word explore), we have finally found video footage of what she thinks drilling for oil is like.  See, it’s not setting up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment that can’t be moved (so you don’t build where there isn’t oil), it’s just this simple. 

It’s just that simple, who knew?

Most “on the nose” Drudge headlines ever: “Paris Supporst Drilling”

In an attempt to make fun of John McCain, noted, um, (insert your own adjective here), Paris Hilton (left, looking for oil and ”supporting drilling”) inadvertently expressed support for his energy plan, basically everything now and later. No one expects Paris to be a genius, or even of average intelligence, but the theory that even a stopped clock is right twice a day applies to her, too. While trying to make a joke she actually makes a point: Obama’s “energy plan” is the real joke.

Sure, he has sort of flip-flopped on offshore drilling, but not really, he still opposes nuclear power and just about anything with a realistic chance of lowering energy prices in our lifetimes. But he does want to tax oil companies to give money to everyone, which will cause oil prices to go higher. The complete stupidity of his “plan” is amazing, but typical of Democrats. Tax people through the nose, then when that slows the economy, give them rebates through what they call “stimulus packages.” If giving people back some of the money the government took from them is a good way to stimulate the economy, logic dictates that not taking so much of it in the first place would also be good for the economy. It would also make people less dependent upon government, which liberals can’t have, so it’s a non-starter.

If this logic ever occurs to the masses it will be the end of the “progressive movement” in the United States and their socialist agenda will go the way it is everywhere else it is being tried, the ash heap of history.

She has come forth to save us from ourselves: Nancy Pelosi’s God complex.

The fact that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi thinks a lot of herself should come as no surprise, but did you realize she’s trying to save the world?  Very noble on her part considering the problem in her mind is we pesky humans.

Al Gore: $4 gas is “an opportunity” (to make him even more money).

Former Vice-President Al Gore wants the United States to be free of oil use in 10 years when it comes to production of electricity.  That’s an ambitious goal, and unlikely since he opposes nuclear power and only supports wind and solar power, neither of which are capable of pull off the job since wind doesn’t always blow, the sun sets and there is no way to store energy, but that doesn’t stop him from making these ridiculous statements or the media from reporting them.

The laws of physics prove you cannot store energy without massive losses in output, something Gore should have learned in high school.  But having hundreds of millions of dollars invested in companies that would profit wildly from a massive government influx of cash seems to have cost Gore much of his memory.

Of current energy prices, Gore said, “I have never seen an opportunity for the country like the one that’s emerging now.”  Yay!  Since he called for massive tax increases in his book, Earth in the Balance, to force people to use less, one can understand why he’s as happy as he is about the current situation.   Since the earth has been cooling since 1998 while CO2 output has increased, thanks to China and India, one can only wonder why anyone still listens to Al Gore on the issue.

Approval Ratings: Congress 9 percent, plague 12 percent.

Democrats sure know how to run a ship…straight into the ground.  After years of wishing for higher gas prices (see Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance) to fend off doomsday scenarios that are slowly being exposed as fraudulent, engaging in trade battles with our allies that cost us manufacturing jobs and countless over “feel good” measures that damage our economy and country, they’ve finally set the United States on the path towards their Utopia – total government dependence by enough voters to sustain their majority.  But a funny thing happened on the way…people didn’t like it.

Aside from their claim to want to rid the US of foreign oil by somehow creating energy from sources that don’t exist or can’t produce enough energy charge a battery while refusing to do the one thing we know for sure will do that: drill for the oil we have here, their government managed everything else is falling apart elsewhere.

Medicare and Medicaid are often held out as wonderful examples of how health care should be, “free” to everyone of a certain age or income.  That’s all well and good on paper but, just like communism and socialism, they don’t even come close to working in the real world.  More and more doctors are opting out of Medicare and Medicaid because of the price control scheme they employ to shave money off the bottom line.  But they don’t call it price controls because Americans inherently know those scams don’t work, so they call it “reimbursement.”  This is how government, especially big government, works; they can’t all it what it is so they cook up a nice sounding name that makes it seem as though they’re paying the doctors back for some cash they borrowed or something they expensed.  It’s price controls, plain and simple. 

Bureaucrats set the “reimbursement” rates for damn near every service Medicare and Medicaid agree to cover (and that is just a fraction of the services available, by the way) to whatever they think it’s worth.  Not what it costs, what they think it’s worth.  Doctors are having enough and refusing to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.  Who would operate at a loss simply because some faceless person you’ve never met before decides the value of a service you provide? 

But fear not, people, this wonderful system is what liberals propose for all of us!  See, it’s not unfair if everyone suffers equally. 

It could be argued that liberals are simply ignorant of the facts on health care, but the facts are out there in every person from Canada sent to the United States for cancer treatment because the wait time in Canada is too long, or person in Great Briton who cooks up a batch of fake blood to get a simple hernia operation, so there’s no way they don’t know.  The real truth is they don’t care.  It’s an opportunity to seize more power and more of our money for whatever unconstitutional social program they want to fund.  Besides, socialize medicine is great for when you have a headache or broken arm, it really only screws you over when you’re actually sick with something life-threatening, and those people die, therefore they can’t vote against you. 

It’s as big of a scam as global warming, but this one will actually effect each and every one of us if they’re allowed to get their way.

Liberals have been luck so far, people’s anger has been directed towards the President as well as Congress, so they haven’t gotten the full credit for their agenda, yet.  But if Obama wins in the fall there will be no one left to blame once enough time passes and the “it was really screwed up when we got here” mantra starts to wear thin.

In the meantime, hopefully, a true small government, pro individual, free-market leader will emerge to lead the country back from the brink of the great mistake before it’s too late.

The global warming myth continues to hit home.

Oh global warming, is there nothing you’re not responsible for?  You’re blamed for hot days, cold days, rainy days, drought, fires, pretty much everything that has caused problems for humans since the dawn of time, only this time we have a scapegoat, you.  And, by extension, capitalism. 

Now global warming is being blamed for the rising cost of hurricane insurance because it may cause more and stronger hurricanes, even though there is no evidence and the last 2 years have been really slow for them.  But the environuts can’t complain about it without undercutting their own religion – that global warming is going to kill us all if we don’t ruin our economy, or something close to that.  So the hurricane insurance industry is taking advantage of what these lefties put in front of them.  Look for other industries to take advantage of these sorts of opportunities in the future.  It’s hilarious when liberal’s plans backfire.

Also, dear, sweet global warming, you are responsible for the floods in the Midwest, or so it would seem.  But it is highly doubtful a jury would or could convict you for this one since, well, rivers flood, and they tend to flood areas in the flood plain.  strange how that works out. 

You have to love this quote from Amanda Staudt, a “climate scientist.” 

“Although no single weather event can be attributed to global warming, it’s critical to understand that a warming climate is supplying the very conditions that fuel these kinds of weather events.”

Allow us to translate:  Since these things have happened since the beginning of time and we have no actual proof of man-made global warming, we’ll just say it seems like this is global warming’s fault and leave it at that safe in the knowledge that the media is fully in the tank for us.  PS, please give me a government grant so I can study something we’ve claimed is settled science even longer.

What a scam.  Why this is a news story is anyone’s guess.

What a coincidence, Harry Reid makes us sick.

If you’re looking for energy independence, don’t look to the Democrat controlled Congress because they don’t want to help you.  Sure, we could drill here, build more refineries and become much more self-sufficient while we develop and deploy the next generation of energy (when it is discovered), but not this this ass-clown running the Senate.

Worthy Reads.

Will Obama Turn America into Argentina? One hundred years ago, Argentina was one of the world’s most prosperous nations. But politicians then dramatically expanded the size and scope of government intervention and the South American nation has paid a heavy price. Mary Anastasia O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal looks at Argentina’s decline and is troubled by the similarities between Barack Obama and the collectivists that ruined Argentina…

Should America Be More Like Europe? As Thomas Sowell explains in Investor’s Business Daily, America should only copy Europe’s collectivist policies if the goal is lower living standards and higher unemployment…

NASA’s Climate Totalitarianism. The First Amendment does not apply to the debate over global warming, at least according to one of the bureaucrats at NASA who thinks skeptics should be put on trial. Investor’s Business Daily correctly condemns this jackboot mentality, but one also wonders why taxpayers should be paying for bureaucrats who seek to push an ideological agenda…

Another Case Study of How Government Intervention Backfires. One of the less-publicized subplots of the housing crisis is the way credit-rating agencies did a bad job. But nobody can fire them because their roles are protected by government favoritism. The Wall Street Journal explains…

Senator Obama’s Awful Social Security Tax Scheme. Larry Lindsey already has explained why Senator Obama’s proposed Social Security tax hike is misguided. Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Donald Luskin now weighs in and explains that the scheme may be even worse that previously thought…

The New Republic displays the can’t do spirit that made this country great!

The collective brainpower of the left turned on a light bulb that you can see if you squint. Or it might just be sunspots. This thinking also demonstrates why the right has been winning the battle of ideas for a long time now.

The editors at The New Republic have come together to tell us why we should not develop 800 billion barrels of oil in the continental U.S via oil shale – because we cannot do it efficiently yet. There’s the spirit that made America great.

What if we apply that logic to anything and everything else? What we cannot do efficiently, we should just stop doing, shrug, pack our bags, and go home. Tell the Wright Brothers they’re clowns because man had been trying to fly for over 100 years (ask DaVinci). We should have stopped treating diseases long ago, and told all the sick and dying to tough it out because we cannot treat them efficiently. Humanity should lie down and submit to despots, because there is no perfect and efficient way to rid the world of despots.

TNR’s second argument is that oil shale will emit more greenhouse gases than conventional oil. The same greenhouse gases that have caused the IPCC chair to admit that there has been no significant cooling since 1998? The same greenhouse gasses that promise 15 more years of cooling before they magically heat up again?

And that’s it. That’s all they have. Those are the rock solid reasons per the left that we should leave oil shale in the ground, and continue to starve the world while we burn their corn for trips to the shopping mall.

As almost anyone can see by reading the article, there’s no reason not to drill for oil shale.

We have yet to check and see if the words are original or simply pasted from the latest Al Gore speech…

Mars Attacks! Global warming and the next planet.

IF you thought opera was borning before, wait till they sing about Al Gore.

As if opera wasn’t naturally difficult for most people to take when the topics covered by it are love and war, just imagine how tough it will be to sit through when the plot is an Al Gore PowerPoint presentation!

That’s what is on the way thanks to the Italians…

They should just stick to pasta and switching sides in wars once it’s clear they’re going to lose.

Global Warming, the biggest scam in human history, keeps getting bigger: UK considers personal carbon ration cards.

The hysteria whipped up by the global warming/climate change crowd never ceases to amaze, and the public’s willingness, at least in Europe, to go along with the scams cooked up to “address” it elicits the same reaction. Never mind the fact that the earth has been cooling since 1998, making all the data showing doom and gloom suspect, at best, and a flat-out money/power/liberty grab at worst (where we fall), there’s no money in everything being the way it’s been forever, no money in the earth’s temperature being controlled by the giant fire ball in the sky that gives us all our heat, no money in the truth in this area of “science.” Where there’s no money there’s no power, and no power grab by the government, so it must be ignored.

The latest example put forth to save us from ourselves is an idea in England to issue each person a personal carbon ration card. Each person would be given a set amount of carbon they are allowed to release through heating their home, buying gasoline, plane tickets, pretty much everything but breathing, though a tax on that can’t be too far off. Once they reach the government allowed limit through that pesky polluting activity called living, individuals would have to purchase more credits from people who were home-bound, carless and/or simply always comfortable as far as temperature goes for whatever price the market sets. Until, naturally, someone complains they can’t afford the market price, then the government will set it.

Barely mentioned in the article is the “specialist company” that would be set up to handle the sale of credits between those who have them to spare and those who need them. It would be as simple as a gift card transaction or a PayPal deal on eBay, and really wouldn’t need a 3rd party butting in and taking a cut. But that’s not how the “environmental” movement works, there’s too damn much money in it. Even Pope Goreus the VI, commonly called Al Gore, has seen his personal wealth rise exponentially thanks to the hysterics he’s helped whip up. Al, if we’re all going to die and it’s so important, why not invest your money, then give the profits away to organizations seeking to make a difference? You can’t take it with you. Could it be that all the little carbon offset companies, etc., you pluck your cash into are simply ways to get even more rich? It would explain why you don’t fly commercial over private jets, after all, being asked to sign a few autographs can’t be such a big inconvenience that you need to increase your carbon footprint by a Statue of Liberty every time you want to go somewhere. Who knows, maybe he’s collecting enough cash to build a giant raft? Does a billion float if all tied together by, undoubtedly, hemp rope?

It’s only a matter of time before scams like this become law somewhere, and even a shorter period of time after that they will make their way over here and be assimilated by the Left as a way to save us from the evils of Capitalism.

You’ve been warned, now warn others.

Massachusetts town seeks to ban the bag, the plastic grocery bag.

Plymouth, Massachusetts, the settlement founded by the Pilgrims to escape religious persecution is now seeking to impose some religious persecution of their own…on people who use don’t worship at the Holy Church of Global Warming.

The town is considering a flat-out ban on plastic bags for grocery stores and drug stores.  Why?  Because they’re petroleum-based.  (And possibly because they have a hand in making money from garbage like this.)

The bags being targeted are petroleum-based, lightweight, low-cost and water-resistant. They are widely used by businesses and popular with the public. Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based global research organization with environmental concerns, has long opposed the bags. Americans throw out more than 100 billion plastic shopping bags a year. They end up in landfills, even though they take centuries to decompose, according to a Worldwatch report, and less than 1 percent are recycled. They also clog storm drains, pollute the ocean, harm marine life, and blight the landscape, the report stated.

Who would’ve ever thought that an environmentalist group would release a report that was favorable to their goals?  What a strange coincidence.  Seems you have to give up liberty and choice for the planet, read: the greater good. 

Isn’t is amazing how liberals can run around complaining about and fear-mongering about the government listening in on conversations between two people, neither of whom is in the United States, yet while screaming about a loss of rights that isn’t will actually make small, baby-step moves like this one to literally rob us of our liberty.  Death by a thousand paper cuts, and all for the greater good…just like Fascism.

Hat tip to reader Kurt for the story.

Damn you, fattie, stop causing global warming!

Global warming is the cause of, or caused by everything, depending upon who is pushing their particular agenda at any given moment.  Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (no, we aren’t making that up) now blame the obese for contributing to global warming AND high food prices.  That’s quite a lot of damage done to the planet by people who generally lead a sedentary lifestyle.

How are they contributing to global warming?  Well, it’s not methane, which was our first thought, it’s that they’re do fat that it takes more energy to transport them around.  A bus full of fat people will burn more fuel than a bus full of left-wing Hollywood actors.  Of course left-wing Hollywood types aren’t exactly going to be picked up by a bus after arriving at their destination on their private jet, but that doesn’t seem to matter.  (By the way, you can replace left-wing Hollywood actors with Al Gore anywhere in this post.)

Aside from needing extra gas to haul them around, the chunky set also eats too much of the world’s limited food supply, thus causing the price of food to rise.  No mention was given to the fact that the United States, thanks to the likes of Al Gore and other alarmists, is now burning up about 28 percent of the corn crop, just to use one example, to make ethanol, limiting the corn supply for humans and animal feed and driving up prices.  No, no, it’s the fat guy’s fault.  Well, consider this: Odds are the obese aren’t getting that way because of a diet high in vegetables and fruits.  If donut prices spike you can probably point the finger at them, healthy foods, not so much.

The mere fact that anyone would “study” this is a joke.  That Reuters would report it is, well, typical. 

Your tax dollars hard at being completely wasted. The TSA and Earth Day.

How many federal employees does it take to waste our tax dollars and push an agenda?

The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, is familiar to anyone who flies.  They’re the people that make you take off your shoes, your belt, conduct body cavity searches and make grandma get out of the wheel chair because she might be a terrorist.  Aside from being worthless and unionized (so they can’t be fired easily, thanks Dems), they are also pushing a PC agenda, at least in Atlanta.

One of our contributors flew to Atlanta today and sent back the pictures below of an Earth Day booth set up and manned by TSA employees, in uniform and presumably on the clock (meaning we’re paying them) promoting the global warming agenda and ways to “fight it and save the earth.”

We haven’t read the TSA manual, though we suspect these employees haven’t either because there is no way this is listed as part of their duties.  Being rude, arrogant and all-around uncooperative to passengers probably is, but pushing a left-wing agenda…not so much.

Irrational rationing: rice, starvation and Al Gore.

There is story after story after story about food shortages, rationing and people hoarding food, and it’s all thanks to Pope Goreus the VI, Nobel Laureate, Al Gore.  How?  Two words: alternative fuels.

With governments mandating more and more ethanol usage, and ever increasing amount of food that would have been consumed by humans and animals is being turned into fuel, even though it is more polluting than regular gasoline.  Just like global warming itself, this is about feeling good, not science.

Farmers grow more of what the government subsidizes because there’s more money it, what means less crops for food.  And we wonder why people are starving. 

This is an obscene joke that has gone on for too long.  It’s time for the media to take a serious look at the “science” behind climate change before it’s too late and millions of people starve to death for myth that will make Al Gore into the ultimate Jim Jones.

People die because of global warming alarmism, NOT global warming.

Every 30 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies of malaria, according to the World Health Organization. The disease claims more than one million lives each year, although it is both preventable and treatable But the erroneous claims about the toxicity of DDT in Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring prompted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1972 to ban the pesticide, precipitating the suspension of spraying in dozens of countries – and the deaths of tens of millions
of people.Tens of thousands of drivers and passengers have perished in crashes because of fuel economy standards. But a 500-pound reduction in vehicle weight increases crash fatalities between 14 percent and 27 percent annually, according to Harvard University and the Brookings Institution, among others. Moreover, cars weighing less than 2,500 pounds account for two-and-a-half times as many crash fatalities as SUVs weighing 5,000 pounds or more, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Read on at National Review about how Gore’s “cause” has caused food to go to waste, and how Greenpeace prevented the treatment of basic drinking water .

The End of the Beginning for the global warming myth?

National Review has cited a Gallup survey in which they found the number of people who are “alarmed” by global warming alarmism has declined, from 41 to 37 percent. While not a massive leap in numbers, it is a step in the right direction. Perhaps one of the greatest indicators that the great global warming scare may be over is that the fanatics are really upset that no one cares. The alarmism causing the rush to shoot ourselves in the foot may soon be over.

Just like peak oil, population threats, Y2K, and all of the other famous scam-scares of the world, global warming seems to be falling in its rightful place.

Sit back and grab the popcorn as the world watches Europe and the UN try to pry their feet out of their mouths over this one.

As Winston Churchill once said, “It is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Let’s hope that applies here.