It reads like every Democratic global social-justice anti-cop warming speech all neatly tied together. It's eerie how much it sounds like a liberal Professor at any Ivy-League school.
It scares the living crap out of me. The author could have made a mint writing books with this thing.
Could it be Democrats and their ever-faithful attack dogs, the "environmental movement"? Could they be the reason electric cars emit more CO2 than internal combustion? That they were the ones who scuttled a promising 0-carbon-emitting technology over their paranoid worries that it might cause problems, thereby leaving a vast number of carbon-producing power plants "known" to be killing people in place? Not to mention augmenting all those plants with high power solar bird-blasters and wind-power eagle-shredders? No! Say it isn't so! Say they really had their hearts in the right place even while the rest of us told them to stop with lawyer attacks driving nuclear power into a financial hell they didn't deserve. Say...or maybe this was their plot all along! Maybe they knew they'd have more clout by swinging the CO2 club than if they kept quiet and let the engineers finish developing nukes. Maybe they really never did give a damn about the environment and were only using it as a stalking horse to implement Nazi-style socialism with repression of free speech, the right to bear arms, and all those other pesky little "rights" thingies those miserable Libertarians do go on about. Maybe that was all they really cared about the whole God-damn time. 'Cause, looking at their raging success in nearly 50 years of doing things their way, we seem to be a lot closer to WWII than we do a peaceful, clean, modern, or safe environment.
"Once again, we have massaged the data to prove the dubious claim that we have a new winner for 'hottest month' by a statistically insignificant amount in a swamp of data loaded with noise, and we're so proud of ourselves. The 'pause' never happened either, you know, we fixed that, too."
...and no one has the right to say, "We didn't know it was coming." When you knuckle under to a bully, you get more bullying, it's that simple. You show a spine, then and only then do they respect you. How many times do we have to learn this lesson before our "leaders" grow spines? My guess is, "thousands" since our "leaders" seem incapable of understanding that all their appeasement does is beg for more abuse.
...but consider that a good thing. Given how those people have been fighting each other over every square inch of that land while indulging in their religious hobby of murdering people who have nothing to do with their problems nor any power to affect them, we may finally hope to see peace when the entire, bloodthirsty, lot of them die of heat stroke.
Coming on top of Obama's huge "success" with Iran and nuclear weapons we can expect the following good things to come out of this:
- Iran will be excepted from conditions of the treaty - China's compliance will be self-monitored and voluntary - Russia's compliance will be mandatory and supervised by the UN, but they'll ignore the damn thing and do as they please while Obama takes all the credit, and the UN won't give a damn unless they can use global warming to shut down capitalism..
"...Oops they caught us in another out and out lie, so we have to pretend that was never what we meant. We will return to our regularly scheduled lying as soon as practical."
And notice once again another political arm of the UN, the IPCC, once again treated as if they were really "scientists" and not just socialist activists with retreaded 'community organizing' degrees trying to use the global warming agenda to torpedo capitalism...
...now takes a political left turn. Let's see - men accused of rape are guilty by definition. If some nebulous "entity" takes exception to something you write under your own open name they, too, will be able to bring down the lightning without any accountability on their part. Yup. Same mentality.
All of you, say it with me now: "Down with groupthink!"
A regular "who's who" of the most Liberal and Progressive groups in the country are part of this new "coalition".
When I was in college, "Liberal" meant, among other things, "to believe in personal rights of individuals" with free speech first and foremost among them. Now people ask what happened to my "Liberalness". Bullshit. It's what happened to their "Liberalness" that makes me sound right-wing today.
The fact is, the sensationalism and sheer, unadulterated emotion invested in global warming has completely obscured the fact that we don't know how much of the current warming trend is human-caused. All we know is people are desperate to doctor the data to support their conclusions, and write computer models that invariably reflect their own biases, not one of which has ever produced results that have in any way matched reality over the last 25 years. Even true believers like Hockey-stick graph guy Michael Mann and dyed-in-the-wool liberal icons like Freeman Dyson are finally admitting this. We could very easily spend tens of trillions of dollars (or even more, if the UN actually has any influence), impoverishing ourselves and our posterity, only to discover that man actually accounts for 5%, or 10% of warming, meaning the net result of all that money spent will be measured in hundredths of a degree.
Quite frankly, that money would buy plenty of sandbags. It was the height of stupidity to rebuild New Orleans right where it was after Katrina so cheaply razed it for us. No matter who is right, it clearly remains in harm's way, as does most other low-lying property in the world. Democrats talk the talk very well but not one of them stood up after Katrina and said "Hey, this is just going to keep happening, we should use this money to relocate the city..." - but no, that made too much sense.
Of course, I suppose it's just too reasonable to point out that government does not solve problems, never has, never will, but it can certainly make them worse, and that the free market and non-profits not founded to lobby government but instead actually do something about the effects of warming, might well be able to handle all this and more if government would get the hell out of the way!
Obama is a hopeless wimp and a god-awful "negotiator," and we've no more reason to suppose China will live up to bargains with him than Russia or Iran will. They are laughing their asses off at this putz. Spare us the bewildered tone of surprise, this is exactly what we all wanted when we elected this idiot.
Democrats just looooooove Obama when he's making up new laws and forcing them down people's throats, but this is the kind of shit that sort of government attitude leads to. "We get to do whatever we want because we're the Government - and you are not." He's created a culture of secrecy and stonewalling unprecedented in American government, he got away with it thanks to Democrats and the compliant media - and now you're surprised the government thinks it can do whatever it can get away with and lie about?
Obama created this bed but we've all got to lie in it.
When will we learn that governments cannot be allowed to conspire about anything in secret? You let the government do anything out of public sight and they will fuck the living hell out of voters in order to make every special-interest group ecstatic and fill their campaign coffers.
...to see how much progress the cost-effectiveness of alternate power can make when it is national policy to drive the costs of fossil fuel into the stratosphere with every anti-free-market, crony-capitalist-greasing trick in the political book.
...something else that will need to be made illegal posthaste lest it upset the existing package-delivery services unused to the idea of gasp! - competition... I give it a year before the crap begins to fly and governments and business demand shutting it down.
> "Racial bias has to be operating, inequities are rampant. Discrimination does exist whether intentional or unintentional,"
Asserting doesn't make it so. If she had proof she wouldn't have needed the mealy-mouth phrase "has to be operating".
> she told the school board in May of this year. Ford found that both Hispanic and black students are underrepresented in gifted programs > She also found that about half the seats in those programs go to higher-income students, even though the majority of the district is poor.
Because a program truly oriented toward "gifted" children should be color-blind, and because white and/or higher-income households have a greater emphasis on school and success, especially compared with blacks and latinos, who are, by policy in most schools, advanced far beyond their competence by the myth that all outcomes must be equal, even when they aren't. What will happen is this program will be gutted, the money diverted in the name of "fairness", the gifted children will continue to be bored out of their minds at school, the blacks and latinos will still be told the system is rigged against them, and most of the diverted money will be donated to Democrats, 'cause, that's the way these things work..
How many times do we have to see this movie?
Tell me, people, when was the last time a white neighborhood erupted in violence, attacking and robbing local, white-owned businesses, because some black cop gunned down an unarmed white kid? The shootings happen, why not the violence? Why not the outrage? Why aren't Democrats defending the poor, downtrodden, white people being systematically murdered by "da man?"
Give me a break. In the same time frame there were articles and scares about the coming ice age that were every bit as credible. If we had listened to them with the same attitude we would now we'd have government-required carbon dioxide emitters by the thousands across the entire country, and we'd have spent hundreds of billions to do it - and the evidence of warming would be touted as evidence that "government works." You know what the right thing to do most of the time is? NOTHING! The vast majority of the time the right solution to any problem you care to name is "ignore it" because it will either solve itself or prove it was never a problem in the first place. Not every damn activist venting his spleen is a legitimate call to mobilize the entire world to spend trillions. The money wasted is real, it has to be paid back and it will be sooner or later, one way or another. And nor is money the only cost to reacting like this all the time, it is also costing our freedom, huge chunks of it at a time now. Christ, will everyone just take a damn Prozac and shut up for a while?!
If you can't produce the evidence you have to shut up the people who want to see it. That's the Democratic SOP. They are no longer capable of even attempting a rational argument, all they want to do it drown them out, shut them off, close them down, do whatever they have to do to "win" - whether they are right or not is something they never think about, or care about.
The evidence FOR warming has been years in the custody of true believers, most of whom have been caught fudging the data, all of whom have other agendas besides saving the planet from heat - these range from destroying capitalism, as the UN has admitted is its real target for GW alarmism, to just plain power and favors, like Obama doling out money to his backers, who then shutter their bogus solar power companies, take the money, and run - and they don't have to run far because Obama never allows them to be followed.
I'm tired of it. I'm tired of all the lying, I'm tired of the endless invective, the endless, aggressive pushing of "solutions" that will eat up trillions of dollars but which will budge the thermometer literally only HUNDRETHS of a degree IF THE GLOBAL WARMERS ARE RIGHT. Never mind the net effect if they aren't.
You want to find the culprit you follow the money, and the money is huge, it is vast, it is not being monitored and it's being spent like they can print it for free on paper. Which is just what they are doing. It's a shell game, played by liars, to rob the suckers - which is you, folks. All you. Oh, me, too. Maybe I should become a bundler for some socialist moron and get myself on the gravy train, too. Then I could join the choir and shout "the global warming is coming!" knowing the money we milk out of the idiot voters will end up in MY accounts.
But then I couldn't sleep at night. And I wonder how Democrats manage to do so, and do so in spite of the fact they apparently also sleep right through the daytime, too...
IF GOD HAD NOT MEANT VOTERS TO BE SHEARED HE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE THEM SHEEP. Calvera said something like that to Chris in the "Magnificent 7" and you know what? He was right. It didn't make him a nicer person.
To make things just a little clearer, Libertarians do believe in a strong central government. Where they disagree with Democrats and Republicans is their fixed notion that government only has three jobs it is supposed to do: 1) Provide for the common defense, 2) Protect Individuals Rights from trespass and 3) Enforce contracts. These are the only reasons why anyone is morally permitted to initiate force against another person. Beyond that, we have endless cultural mechanisms to deal with every other problem. Libertarians simply do not want to see the government out of its' pen, let alone seeing it setting up FEMA barbed-wire prison camps for the day the government announces that, "really, the Constitution is shit and We can do whatever We want to to your asses."
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...about "global war..." - sorry - "climate change"???
It reads like every Democratic global social-justice anti-cop warming speech all neatly tied together. It's eerie how much it sounds like a liberal Professor at any Ivy-League school.
It scares the living crap out of me. The author could have made a mint writing books with this thing.
Could it be Democrats and their ever-faithful attack dogs, the "environmental movement"? Could they be the reason electric cars emit more CO2 than internal combustion? That they were the ones who scuttled a promising 0-carbon-emitting technology over their paranoid worries that it might cause problems, thereby leaving a vast number of carbon-producing power plants "known" to be killing people in place? Not to mention augmenting all those plants with high power solar bird-blasters and wind-power eagle-shredders? No! Say it isn't so! Say they really had their hearts in the right place even while the rest of us told them to stop with lawyer attacks driving nuclear power into a financial hell they didn't deserve. Say...or maybe this was their plot all along! Maybe they knew they'd have more clout by swinging the CO2 club than if they kept quiet and let the engineers finish developing nukes. Maybe they really never did give a damn about the environment and were only using it as a stalking horse to implement Nazi-style socialism with repression of free speech, the right to bear arms, and all those other pesky little "rights" thingies those miserable Libertarians do go on about. Maybe that was all they really cared about the whole God-damn time. 'Cause, looking at their raging success in nearly 50 years of doing things their way, we seem to be a lot closer to WWII than we do a peaceful, clean, modern, or safe environment.
...that's not suspicious at all. No hidden agenda there, no sir-ee-bob...
"Once again, we have massaged the data to prove the dubious claim that we have a new winner for 'hottest month' by a statistically insignificant amount in a swamp of data loaded with noise, and we're so proud of ourselves. The 'pause' never happened either, you know, we fixed that, too."
...and no one has the right to say, "We didn't know it was coming." When you knuckle under to a bully, you get more bullying, it's that simple. You show a spine, then and only then do they respect you. How many times do we have to learn this lesson before our "leaders" grow spines? My guess is, "thousands" since our "leaders" seem incapable of understanding that all their appeasement does is beg for more abuse.
Maybe now someone can fix Obamacare and write a backend for it that works the way it's supposed to.
...but consider that a good thing. Given how those people have been fighting each other over every square inch of that land while indulging in their religious hobby of murdering people who have nothing to do with their problems nor any power to affect them, we may finally hope to see peace when the entire, bloodthirsty, lot of them die of heat stroke.
Coming on top of Obama's huge "success" with Iran and nuclear weapons we can expect the following good things to come out of this:
- Iran will be excepted from conditions of the treaty
- China's compliance will be self-monitored and voluntary
- Russia's compliance will be mandatory and supervised by the UN, but they'll ignore the damn thing and do as they please while Obama takes all the credit, and the UN won't give a damn unless they can use global warming to shut down capitalism..
"...Oops they caught us in another out and out lie, so we have to pretend that was never what we meant. We will return to our regularly scheduled lying as soon as practical."
And notice once again another political arm of the UN, the IPCC, once again treated as if they were really "scientists" and not just socialist activists with retreaded 'community organizing' degrees trying to use the global warming agenda to torpedo capitalism...
...now takes a political left turn. Let's see - men accused of rape are guilty by definition. If some nebulous "entity" takes exception to something you write under your own open name they, too, will be able to bring down the lightning without any accountability on their part. Yup. Same mentality.
All of you, say it with me now: "Down with groupthink!"
A regular "who's who" of the most Liberal and Progressive groups in the country are part of this new "coalition".
When I was in college, "Liberal" meant, among other things, "to believe in personal rights of individuals" with free speech first and foremost among them. Now people ask what happened to my "Liberalness". Bullshit. It's what happened to their "Liberalness" that makes me sound right-wing today.
...for a train that no one will ever ride in numbers significant enough to justify it at 1/100 the cost.
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
The fact is, the sensationalism and sheer, unadulterated emotion invested in global warming has completely obscured the fact that we don't know how much of the current warming trend is human-caused. All we know is people are desperate to doctor the data to support their conclusions, and write computer models that invariably reflect their own biases, not one of which has ever produced results that have in any way matched reality over the last 25 years. Even true believers like Hockey-stick graph guy Michael Mann and dyed-in-the-wool liberal icons like Freeman Dyson are finally admitting this. We could very easily spend tens of trillions of dollars (or even more, if the UN actually has any influence), impoverishing ourselves and our posterity, only to discover that man actually accounts for 5%, or 10% of warming, meaning the net result of all that money spent will be measured in hundredths of a degree.
Quite frankly, that money would buy plenty of sandbags. It was the height of stupidity to rebuild New Orleans right where it was after Katrina so cheaply razed it for us. No matter who is right, it clearly remains in harm's way, as does most other low-lying property in the world. Democrats talk the talk very well but not one of them stood up after Katrina and said "Hey, this is just going to keep happening, we should use this money to relocate the city..." - but no, that made too much sense.
Of course, I suppose it's just too reasonable to point out that government does not solve problems, never has, never will, but it can certainly make them worse, and that the free market and non-profits not founded to lobby government but instead actually do something about the effects of warming, might well be able to handle all this and more if government would get the hell out of the way!
Obama is a hopeless wimp and a god-awful "negotiator," and we've no more reason to suppose China will live up to bargains with him than Russia or Iran will. They are laughing their asses off at this putz. Spare us the bewildered tone of surprise, this is exactly what we all wanted when we elected this idiot.
Democrats just looooooove Obama when he's making up new laws and forcing them down people's throats, but this is the kind of shit that sort of government attitude leads to. "We get to do whatever we want because we're the Government - and you are not." He's created a culture of secrecy and stonewalling unprecedented in American government, he got away with it thanks to Democrats and the compliant media - and now you're surprised the government thinks it can do whatever it can get away with and lie about?
Obama created this bed but we've all got to lie in it.
When will we learn that governments cannot be allowed to conspire about anything in secret? You let the government do anything out of public sight and they will fuck the living hell out of voters in order to make every special-interest group ecstatic and fill their campaign coffers.
...to see how much progress the cost-effectiveness of alternate power can make when it is national policy to drive the costs of fossil fuel into the stratosphere with every anti-free-market, crony-capitalist-greasing trick in the political book.
...something else that will need to be made illegal posthaste lest it upset the existing package-delivery services unused to the idea of gasp! - competition... I give it a year before the crap begins to fly and governments and business demand shutting it down.
> "Racial bias has to be operating, inequities are rampant. Discrimination does exist whether intentional or unintentional,"
Asserting doesn't make it so. If she had proof she wouldn't have needed the mealy-mouth phrase "has to be operating".
> she told the school board in May of this year. Ford found that both Hispanic and black students are underrepresented in gifted programs
> She also found that about half the seats in those programs go to higher-income students, even though the majority of the district is poor.
Because a program truly oriented toward "gifted" children should be color-blind, and because white and/or higher-income households have a greater emphasis on school and success, especially compared with blacks and latinos, who are, by policy in most schools, advanced far beyond their competence by the myth that all outcomes must be equal, even when they aren't. What will happen is this program will be gutted, the money diverted in the name of "fairness", the gifted children will continue to be bored out of their minds at school, the blacks and latinos will still be told the system is rigged against them, and most of the diverted money will be donated to Democrats, 'cause, that's the way these things work..
How many times do we have to see this movie?
Tell me, people, when was the last time a white neighborhood erupted in violence, attacking and robbing local, white-owned businesses, because some black cop gunned down an unarmed white kid? The shootings happen, why not the violence? Why not the outrage? Why aren't Democrats defending the poor, downtrodden, white people being systematically murdered by "da man?"
To take just the first few results from Google:
http://mrconservative.com/2014...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/06/...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.westernjournalism.c...
Give me a break. In the same time frame there were articles and scares about the coming ice age that were every bit as credible. If we had listened to them with the same attitude we would now we'd have government-required carbon dioxide emitters by the thousands across the entire country, and we'd have spent hundreds of billions to do it - and the evidence of warming would be touted as evidence that "government works." You know what the right thing to do most of the time is? NOTHING! The vast majority of the time the right solution to any problem you care to name is "ignore it" because it will either solve itself or prove it was never a problem in the first place. Not every damn activist venting his spleen is a legitimate call to mobilize the entire world to spend trillions. The money wasted is real, it has to be paid back and it will be sooner or later, one way or another. And nor is money the only cost to reacting like this all the time, it is also costing our freedom, huge chunks of it at a time now. Christ, will everyone just take a damn Prozac and shut up for a while?!
If you can't produce the evidence you have to shut up the people who want to see it. That's the Democratic SOP. They are no longer capable of even attempting a rational argument, all they want to do it drown them out, shut them off, close them down, do whatever they have to do to "win" - whether they are right or not is something they never think about, or care about.
The evidence FOR warming has been years in the custody of true believers, most of whom have been caught fudging the data, all of whom have other agendas besides saving the planet from heat - these range from destroying capitalism, as the UN has admitted is its real target for GW alarmism, to just plain power and favors, like Obama doling out money to his backers, who then shutter their bogus solar power companies, take the money, and run - and they don't have to run far because Obama never allows them to be followed.
I'm tired of it. I'm tired of all the lying, I'm tired of the endless invective, the endless, aggressive pushing of "solutions" that will eat up trillions of dollars but which will budge the thermometer literally only HUNDRETHS of a degree IF THE GLOBAL WARMERS ARE RIGHT. Never mind the net effect if they aren't.
You want to find the culprit you follow the money, and the money is huge, it is vast, it is not being monitored and it's being spent like they can print it for free on paper. Which is just what they are doing. It's a shell game, played by liars, to rob the suckers - which is you, folks. All you. Oh, me, too. Maybe I should become a bundler for some socialist moron and get myself on the gravy train, too. Then I could join the choir and shout "the global warming is coming!" knowing the money we milk out of the idiot voters will end up in MY accounts.
But then I couldn't sleep at night. And I wonder how Democrats manage to do so, and do so in spite of the fact they apparently also sleep right through the daytime, too...
IF GOD HAD NOT MEANT VOTERS TO BE SHEARED HE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE THEM SHEEP. Calvera said something like that to Chris in the "Magnificent 7" and you know what? He was right. It didn't make him a nicer person.
...we are certainly proof of THAT.
To make things just a little clearer, Libertarians do believe in a strong central government. Where they disagree with Democrats and Republicans is their fixed notion that government only has three jobs it is supposed to do: 1) Provide for the common defense, 2) Protect Individuals Rights from trespass and 3) Enforce contracts. These are the only reasons why anyone is morally permitted to initiate force against another person. Beyond that, we have endless cultural mechanisms to deal with every other problem. Libertarians simply do not want to see the government out of its' pen, let alone seeing it setting up FEMA barbed-wire prison camps for the day the government announces that, "really, the Constitution is shit and We can do whatever We want to to your asses."