Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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Really? Does anyone take these clowns seriously anymore? I remember growing up, all the chicken little sky is falling crap going all the way back to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which for the most part, turned out to be junk science and opinions (now shown to be over-reaching, if not false)
She and the other greenie-weenies have allowed the progress made against insect borne vectors (think mosquitoes) to come back with a vengeance, bringing back heretofore mostly eradicated disease.
Then there is the world-renowned scientist, Ted Danson, with his claim, oh about 15-20 years ago, about how the world would end in 10 years because of pollution and the U.S.
"The science is settled"- the only thing that is settled that a bunch of researchers and second-rate scientists with ulterior motives and agendas have been rigging studies, cooking date and outright lying to promote the leftist green weenie agenda and bring more cash to themselves and their cause.
Name any natural disaster and it can be attributed to global warming, global cooling, climate change or any other catch-all phrase of the week.
Disregard the fact that these occurrences have been happening since before we were here. It is arrogance and foolishness to think we are greater than nature, and if you believe, as I do, that nature was created by God.
Laugh if you want, but I laugh at the trendy, chicken little crowd of small-minded simpletons who drink from the kool aid glass of the geek of the week with yet another unproven theory or revelation.
Unfortunately, our ever-vigilant government has bought into this pile of fertilizer, allowing it to create more bureaucracy, oversight, over-reach, and of course, needing more money from the worker bees to stave off disaster.
Behold, ethanol fuel, light bulb bans, CAFE standards for automobiles, etc.
Working out great, right? Only for the Federal bureaucracy and the likes of Al Gore, the fraud of a lifetime. Oh and the out-of-control unregulated, unaccountable, mismanaged, corrupt and unnecessary EPA.
Idaho, I'm glad you mentioned ethanol. That is one of the biggest farces perpetrated on us. They told us we need to use ethanol because it would reduce harmful emissions by 10%, but what they don't want you to know is that ethanol gives you 15% fewer MPG than regular gasoline. Therefore, you actually have a 5% increase in harmful emissions per mile driven.
Then, there's the increased cost of fuel. Even if we were getting the same mileage, we are paying much more for the fuel, but we're getting 15% less mileage, with an increased cost per gallon. So we're getting raped by the government regulations that are making pollution worse and doing more damage to our engines because they're running hotter because of the alcohol in the gas.
Ted Danson thinks Whoopi Goldberg is hot stuff. Does that tell you anything about him? Deaf AND blind?
I am going to do what I can in this time of crisis, I have begun eating nothing but Chili and milkshakes. I am hoping to add a large amount of CO2 to help bring on the next ice age.
Such a display of selfless altruism warms the cockles of my heart. For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of my country. :)
P.S. "The Cockles" would be an awesome name for a band.
P.P.S. So would "Chili & Milkshakes".
The Cockless? Oh, I see... Just the one 's'.
One lil' 's' can make allll the difference in the world. Lmao.
HA, your carbon footprint from cleaning costs for everything from shorts to upholstered furniture will speed it up to about next spring.
p.s. shorts = underwears
LOL!
Do we have to worry about becoming human popcicles? Excuse me but I don't believe a word they say. Just another scare tactic to swindle millions$$ out of everyone.
So... as far as I understand it, this seems to be a "cover your ass!" ploy aimed at those of us who remember how the next ice age was coming when we were in school, only to have that change 15 years later into "we're all gonna drown in melting ice". Thank goodness that it turns out that they were right all along on BOTH counts. We were causing an ice age, which was only stalled due to the fact that we were causing the earth to warm! Phew! Did we dodge a bullet or what?
Speaking of, what the heck ever happened to that big ol' hole in the ozone layer? If memory serves (and it's record is only about 50/50) we should have all burst into horrible, UV-Ray induced flaming blisters of cancer-ridden death at least 10 years ago.....
Yep, we heard all the same nonsense 40 years ago for exactly the same reasons. In the 1960's we were going to freeze to death by 2000 if we did not change our ways so lets go back to what we were doing in the 60's and start cooling things back down.
Sorry whiskey, I forgot to put my "Libtard moment has passed" statement at the end of my post. I guess I sounded convincing!
Don't forget that the US on it's own was responsible for the hole, and therefore responsible on it's own for fixing the problem! Nobody in any other country, let alone China, India, Pakistan, and any of the other industrialized world, had any hand in the destroying of the ozone, just like we alone are responsible for global warming! ;-)
We alone must suffer to save the world from the next big enviromental disaster that everyone is responsible for the creation of. Gore wants our green tribute, Obama wants to skyrocket energy costs, and the UN wants us to pay for everything!
BTW, my electric cost has doubled since they had to institute the energy cost surcharge. Since the cost of generating electric has doubled because of the increase in petroleum, everything else has doubled as well. But Obama told us there was no inflation!
This whole thing is a load of crap designed by scientists to make themselves feel relevant, and politicians to line their pockets!
Where is the hole in the ozone poppajoe? Over the antarctic, the southern part of the world. What is the name of the hole located at the southern part of your body and what does it do?
It opens once in a while to let the crap out then closes up again, just like the ozone layer is doing now.
I feel kinda put upon, frankly. I'm a 30-something white guy... I don't know if I can take being responsible for all that racism, war, slavery, global warming, global cooling AND the hole in the ozone. Too much pressure, man!
And everything else you said = Truth.
You are completely responsible, just as you and I are responsible for slavery. It doesn't matter that none of my ancestors were in this country before 1903, I still bear responsibility for displacing Indians, enslaving Blacks, and killing off the buffalo.
Its the cracker way! We cannot heppit!
Both sides of my family came to this country before it was a country, some from England through the Carolinas, the others through Mexico from Spain, and we a guilty as charged. We put Indians on reservations, some owned slaves, and we killed a bunch of buffalo.
Now that I am about 200 years old, never hurt an Indian, never owned a slave nor killed a buffalo, I am still responsible for my inactions. Just ask a liberal and they will tell you so.
poppajoe, would you be offended if i just translated your term "scientists" to "alchemists" for the contextual definition you've provided?
Be my guest.
much obliged.
But how could this be? Did not Al the Goracle say that unless we send him Carbon Credit Tribute, the land will bake, the seas will rise, and the earth will quake within the firmament? But alas, another voice comes from the wilderness, one that says that repent sinners for the Ice Age is near.
I’m thinking somebody lying!!!!
We have a winner! AL Gore Environmental Whore is the top Liar of dem all.
A. Gore, the false prophet, or a false prophet?
discern (not judge) for yourself.
The Ancient of Days Himself, will Judge (judge.)
You spelled profit wrong.
a. gore: falsely profiting from false prophecy.
profiting prophetically from falsity? falsely prophesying for profit?
View Comments (32)
Really? Does anyone take these clowns seriously anymore? I remember growing up, all the chicken little sky is falling crap going all the way back to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which for the most part, turned out to be junk science and opinions (now shown to be over-reaching, if not false)
She and the other greenie-weenies have allowed the progress made against insect borne vectors (think mosquitoes) to come back with a vengeance, bringing back heretofore mostly eradicated disease.
Then there is the world-renowned scientist, Ted Danson, with his claim, oh about 15-20 years ago, about how the world would end in 10 years because of pollution and the U.S.
"The science is settled"- the only thing that is settled that a bunch of researchers and second-rate scientists with ulterior motives and agendas have been rigging studies, cooking date and outright lying to promote the leftist green weenie agenda and bring more cash to themselves and their cause.
Name any natural disaster and it can be attributed to global warming, global cooling, climate change or any other catch-all phrase of the week.
Disregard the fact that these occurrences have been happening since before we were here. It is arrogance and foolishness to think we are greater than nature, and if you believe, as I do, that nature was created by God.
Laugh if you want, but I laugh at the trendy, chicken little crowd of small-minded simpletons who drink from the kool aid glass of the geek of the week with yet another unproven theory or revelation.
Unfortunately, our ever-vigilant government has bought into this pile of fertilizer, allowing it to create more bureaucracy, oversight, over-reach, and of course, needing more money from the worker bees to stave off disaster.
Behold, ethanol fuel, light bulb bans, CAFE standards for automobiles, etc.
Working out great, right? Only for the Federal bureaucracy and the likes of Al Gore, the fraud of a lifetime. Oh and the out-of-control unregulated, unaccountable, mismanaged, corrupt and unnecessary EPA.
Idaho, I'm glad you mentioned ethanol. That is one of the biggest farces perpetrated on us. They told us we need to use ethanol because it would reduce harmful emissions by 10%, but what they don't want you to know is that ethanol gives you 15% fewer MPG than regular gasoline. Therefore, you actually have a 5% increase in harmful emissions per mile driven.
Then, there's the increased cost of fuel. Even if we were getting the same mileage, we are paying much more for the fuel, but we're getting 15% less mileage, with an increased cost per gallon. So we're getting raped by the government regulations that are making pollution worse and doing more damage to our engines because they're running hotter because of the alcohol in the gas.
Ted Danson thinks Whoopi Goldberg is hot stuff. Does that tell you anything about him? Deaf AND blind?
I am going to do what I can in this time of crisis, I have begun eating nothing but Chili and milkshakes. I am hoping to add a large amount of CO2 to help bring on the next ice age.
Such a display of selfless altruism warms the cockles of my heart. For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of my country. :)
P.S. "The Cockles" would be an awesome name for a band.
P.P.S. So would "Chili & Milkshakes".
The Cockless? Oh, I see... Just the one 's'.
One lil' 's' can make allll the difference in the world. Lmao.
I like it how about "Chili and the Milkshakes"?
Jenny Talia and Master Battery.
still open i think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpwQoRcrPoU
HA, your carbon footprint from cleaning costs for everything from shorts to upholstered furniture will speed it up to about next spring.
p.s. shorts = underwears
LOL!
Do we have to worry about becoming human popcicles? Excuse me but I don't believe a word they say. Just another scare tactic to swindle millions$$ out of everyone.
So... as far as I understand it, this seems to be a "cover your ass!" ploy aimed at those of us who remember how the next ice age was coming when we were in school, only to have that change 15 years later into "we're all gonna drown in melting ice". Thank goodness that it turns out that they were right all along on BOTH counts. We were causing an ice age, which was only stalled due to the fact that we were causing the earth to warm! Phew! Did we dodge a bullet or what?
Speaking of, what the heck ever happened to that big ol' hole in the ozone layer? If memory serves (and it's record is only about 50/50) we should have all burst into horrible, UV-Ray induced flaming blisters of cancer-ridden death at least 10 years ago.....
Yep, we heard all the same nonsense 40 years ago for exactly the same reasons. In the 1960's we were going to freeze to death by 2000 if we did not change our ways so lets go back to what we were doing in the 60's and start cooling things back down.
Sorry whiskey, I forgot to put my "Libtard moment has passed" statement at the end of my post. I guess I sounded convincing!
Don't forget that the US on it's own was responsible for the hole, and therefore responsible on it's own for fixing the problem! Nobody in any other country, let alone China, India, Pakistan, and any of the other industrialized world, had any hand in the destroying of the ozone, just like we alone are responsible for global warming! ;-)
We alone must suffer to save the world from the next big enviromental disaster that everyone is responsible for the creation of. Gore wants our green tribute, Obama wants to skyrocket energy costs, and the UN wants us to pay for everything!
BTW, my electric cost has doubled since they had to institute the energy cost surcharge. Since the cost of generating electric has doubled because of the increase in petroleum, everything else has doubled as well. But Obama told us there was no inflation!
This whole thing is a load of crap designed by scientists to make themselves feel relevant, and politicians to line their pockets!
Where is the hole in the ozone poppajoe? Over the antarctic, the southern part of the world. What is the name of the hole located at the southern part of your body and what does it do?
It opens once in a while to let the crap out then closes up again, just like the ozone layer is doing now.
I feel kinda put upon, frankly. I'm a 30-something white guy... I don't know if I can take being responsible for all that racism, war, slavery, global warming, global cooling AND the hole in the ozone. Too much pressure, man!
And everything else you said = Truth.
You are completely responsible, just as you and I are responsible for slavery. It doesn't matter that none of my ancestors were in this country before 1903, I still bear responsibility for displacing Indians, enslaving Blacks, and killing off the buffalo.
Its the cracker way! We cannot heppit!
Both sides of my family came to this country before it was a country, some from England through the Carolinas, the others through Mexico from Spain, and we a guilty as charged. We put Indians on reservations, some owned slaves, and we killed a bunch of buffalo.
Now that I am about 200 years old, never hurt an Indian, never owned a slave nor killed a buffalo, I am still responsible for my inactions. Just ask a liberal and they will tell you so.
poppajoe, would you be offended if i just translated your term "scientists" to "alchemists" for the contextual definition you've provided?
Be my guest.
much obliged.
But how could this be? Did not Al the Goracle say that unless we send him Carbon Credit Tribute, the land will bake, the seas will rise, and the earth will quake within the firmament? But alas, another voice comes from the wilderness, one that says that repent sinners for the Ice Age is near.
I’m thinking somebody lying!!!!
We have a winner! AL Gore Environmental Whore is the top Liar of dem all.
A. Gore, the false prophet, or a false prophet?
discern (not judge) for yourself.
The Ancient of Days Himself, will Judge (judge.)
You spelled profit wrong.
a. gore: falsely profiting from false prophecy.
profiting prophetically from falsity? falsely prophesying for profit?
Better!