Global Warming Chat

My good friend (MGF) and his "little friend" shared an interesting email exchange today regarding a article about the U.N. hysteria over global warming.

First a little excerpt from the article:

Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Scientists Offer Climate Plan to U.N.
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
UNITED NATIONS -- To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.

The U.N. itself must better prepare to help tens of millions of "environmental refugees," the group said, and authorities everywhere should discourage new building on land less than one meter _ 39 inches _ above sea level.

The 166-page report, two years in the making, forecasts a turbulent 21st century of rising seas, spreading drought and disease, weather extremes, and damage to farming, forests, fisheries and other economic areas.

"The challenge of halting climate change is one to which civilization must rise," said the panel of 18 scientists from 11 nations, whose work was conducted at U.N. request and sponsored by the private United Nations Foundation and the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.

The sky is falling!!!!!!!

And here's the exchange between MGF and his little friend:

She: "Call me crazy, but wouldn't the body heat alone from all the extra population we have now account for the 'skyrocketing' 1.3 degree increase in the last 100 YEARS??..then factor in all those tanning beds! Also, is this in the original Mission Statement of the UN? Confused (but 1.3 degrees warmer) in Atlanta."

He: "It's the cows, Squeek, producing all that methane gas (damned cows...).....oh, and China, too, the worst carbon polluter on the planet, burning all that coal.....(I can just picture the Chinese bowing to the alarmists in the UN, can't you ?) The UN is a hopeless organization - unable to impose its will on anyone (thank goodness).... An "Inconvenient Truth": "global warming" is a political initiative - not a scientific one.

"Body heat could be better controlled - it really could....let's begin by banning Latin dancing. If we're unable to stop 'global warming', let's profit from it ! I'm buyin' tanning lotion stock !

"Warming and cooling of the planet is a cyclical phenomenon. Where'd the Ice Age come from ? And, more importantly, where did it's end come from ? There weren't any SUVs running around then - nor any Corporate jets, either..... If there had been, maybe the Ice Age could've been prevented - - an, an, our ancestors wouldn't have had to battle for survival with all those pesky wooly mastadons and long-haired sabre-toothed tigers....

"I can't wait to see you.....it'll be warm......"

Banes Rants is Off My Favorites

Never to be read again. A post today forced me to wonder why I would appreciate anything this guy has to say. I have truly enjoyed him in the past and gave him a pass on many of his racist/nativist comments as only idiosyncrasies of his. But his true colors are undeniable. He is a bitter racist and hater and that's enough for me. Bye-bye Bane.

Ted Haggard, Future Therapist

Update:

"We are both planning on getting our masters in Psychology so we can work together serving others the rest of our lives."

and

"they sent Gayle and me to Phoenix for a three-week psychological intensive that gave us three years worth of analysis and treatment."

I have 5 words for them: Cured!

All the details of Ted's and Gayle's Excellent Adventure here.

Posted on this guy prior, here and here.

British "Officials" Threaten to Take Fat Kid From His Mother

I voted "No." There was no option to send mum to remedial parenting class while she does what she needs to do to help her son get a grip.
Article here.
How's this sound for a daily diet:


"A typical daily menu is chocolate cereal; toast and meat; either a pizza or a burger, fries and sausages; and a fast-food dinner -- plus snacks every 20 minutes."

Look how many people thought taking the kid away for his own good was the thing to do. A "socialised" medicine model makes things like this possible, I would think.
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Not here! (Are you listening Hilbilly?)

This...

would make a wonderful addition to my simian figurine collection. I love it. Monkey god?

Found on Flickr.

Be Kind To One Person II

Execupundit had an excellent post touching on self-esteem, self-acceptance, self-forgiveness. It made me think of this from Carl Jung. Good reminders to go easy on ourselves. Life is hard enough.

"Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ – these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself – that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness – that I myself am the enemy who must be loved – what then?"

Carl Jung, CW11, Psychotherapists or the Clergy, paragraph 520- - Modern Man in Search of a Soul, page 235.

Two Wolves

THE TWO WOLVES

"One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that wasgoing on inside himself.

"He said, "My son, it is between 2 wolves. One is evil: Anger, envy,sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego... The other is good: Joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith...

"The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one I feed."

Author Unknown

Steve Jobs on Teachers Unions

This is huge!



The video is just for fun.

Ballsy boy, that Jobs. A California CEO? An international CEO. A superstar in his own right. In the liberal Bay Area? He may just be at the point of thinking, "What the hell, I'm rich, I can say what I think without nuance."

What other things should Steveo start talking truth about... ? Article here.

Would Billygate speak such heresy?

Santana - Give Me Love

From their 1976 Festival album. I hear a disinctive similarity to Earth Wind and Fire's "That's The Way of the World" song from 1975. Same time zone anyway. Santana was definitely out of it's latin groove on this song, but I really liked it way back when. My college roommate (freshman year) bought the Santana album and this song became my favorite from it.

Give Me Love - Santana

Peggy Noonan On Hil Today

"Ouch"

Well said. As always with Ms. Noonan.

"What Mrs. Clinton is trying to establish is this: to criticize her--to speak of her critically as a human being, as a person with a record and a history and a style and attitudes--is, ipso facto, to be dirty, and low, and destructive. To air and raise questions about who she is, how she operates, and what can be inferred from her past actions is by definition an unjust act."

I just came up with a term in my head for the Clintons. It probably in nowhere near original, but at least it is for me... HilBilly. Yuck Yuck.

Seth Godin on Blogging

Finally, the first sentence explains it all! I might, just might change the name of my blog to "Virtually Unread." HT to Seth. Seth Godin is one of my favorites to the right.


"What do most people get out of blogging? After all, most blogs are virtually unread by outsiders...

"The act of writing a blog changes people, especially business people. The first thing it does is change posture. Once you realize that no has HAS to read your blog, that you can't MAKE them read your blog, you approach writing with humility and view readers with gratitude. The second thing it does is force you to be clear. If you write something that's confusing or in shorthand, you fail.

"Respectful and clear. That's a lot to get out of something that doesn't take much time."

"Hello President!"

Are you tuning in?

Come On Joe...

What to drive, what to drive?

shake things up! Lieberman catches elephantisis?

Not because of the parties, but because of all the fun that will be had watching!

France Talking Tough?

I thought so, then it turns out... From this article:

France urges firm, unified response to Iran's nuclear activities

PARIS: France's Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged a firm, unified response to the U.N. nuclear watchdog's findings that Iran defied international demands — again — to suspend uranium enrichment.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's report Thursday on Iran's nuclear activities said that Iran expanded enrichment efforts instead of freezing them — which could trigger tougher U.N. sanctions.

"Unity and firmness are, I repeat, the only effective instruments we have to get Iran to turn toward the international community, and away from isolation," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy told reporters Thursday. "We support a SECOND RESOLUTION, to be passed unanimously by the Security Council, to continue sanctions."

And another, and another and another... until Iran is nuked-up. That's the problem. The U.S. cannot be "united" with France or anyone else who seem to be willing to give Iran, chance after chance after chance to arm-up.

France firmness is an oxymoron.

My American Idol Toss 'Em Out Score

A dismal 25% - There is no accounting for some people's taste.

My homeboy Paul Kim (from San Jose, CA) got bounced. Anti-Asian bias, no doubt.

But Sanjaya made it? Sweet little child. Go figure. Teen age girls want him on the cover of their Tiger Beat.

Queen Diva Scary Awesome

I gave LaKisha Jones a 12 out of a 10 scale. I've heard it said that Beyonce believes that she takes on a completely different personality when she performs. She says someone else appears to "take over" on stage. That appears to be true for LaKisha. I saw the phenomenon in Melinda Dolittle too. Women way outshined the men last night. Now I get to go watch the results, now that I've chimed in.

Total Hottie of the Bunch

Haley

Dark Horse /Sleeper

Gina

They Brought Game - Made My Top 5

Melinda (Straight Hair, Humble - Former backup singer ready for prime time)

Jordin (Curly Hair - Great Personality - 17)

Stephanie (Tight Hair)

AI Results in My Opinion - Pack It Up

These girls need to go home: Antonella and Alina.

See The Signs

From Story People. They are one of my favorites to the right.

"I used to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, you can start any time now, & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up. Now, I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there's no laughter, I know they're not for me."

The Global Warming Bomb

A bit of an explanation for my previous post. We all know that A-Gore now has rock-star status due to his movie on global warming and his prophetic voice of total doom and destruction of the globe, unless something be done NOW!

I'm not holding my breath. The entire global warming thing reminds me of the population bomb scare that Paul Ehrlich brought about in the 60's. We were doomed!

"Ehrlich predicted that, by the end of the 20th century, human want would outstrip available resources; whole areas of human endeavor would screech to a halt due to resource scarcity; England would, in all likelihood, cease to exist; India would collapse due to its inability to feed itself; and "inevitable" mass starvation would sweep the globe (including the US). We were on the brink of disaster in 1968, and the future looked very, very dark. In fact, he asserts, "it is now too late to take action to save many of those people." And yet none of these things have come to pass."

(From an Amazon.com customer review of the Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich)

Global warming is a popular cause that can raise a world's anxiety to the point of stupidity.

The dire predictions will not come to pass. You heard it here (and elsewhere of course.) We're all gonna be here for a long time, weather permitting! (Just kidding!)

What is more worrisome to me is the Islamo-terrorist threat that, unless acknowledged and confronted, will damage our country (and the world) in the short and medium term much more seriously than greenhouse gases.

Agitating for the "popular" cause of global warming, takes the West's eye off the ball, when it comes to what the most serious threat is to our and our children's futures.

20-some Islamo-extremists brought down the Twin Towers and killed thousands in one attack. Think of the lives lost and the lives affected? These middle-class, educated men had a righteous reason, of course, from their world-view. If there are even 100 others like them, with the same willingness to do harm to this country and it's people, and there are many more than that, why don't we as a nation make it job #1 to focus on and to protect ourselves from further attack? If you are not familiar with the work of and web content of the MEMRI, you should probably get up to speed on the threat.

Most other issues including global warming, IMHO, are merely rabbit trails in comparison to this known and experienced threat. The bird is in the hand here.

Pop Quiz

What is the common denominator with these people?

Paris

K-Fed

A-Gore

Britney

I trust that all my readers will score a solid "A" on this one!

Inspired by El Rushbo today.

NBA Gangland Comes To Vegas

A frightening account of what the NBA All-Star "fans" brought to Las Vegas. Another reason for me to die never having visited that desert wasteland.

It will be interesting to watch, from a good long distance, how bad things will have to get with this "sport" before some reformation is called for. Or maybe it will never get better.

Jason Whitlock appears to be one level headed sports writer.

Sleeper/Dark Horse

Blake

They Brought Game

Scores:

Phil (hat): 10

AJ (Asian): 9

Chris S. (Hair) :9

My Men's Idol Picks - To Pack It Up

And go home: Sanjaya and Rudy

MGF - Published Today

(And a couple more senatorial puffins for your viewing pleasure today.)

In the Augusta Chronicle.

Letter to the Editor
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Senate: Cowardice In time Of War

Principles? I think not. Politics? Oh, yeah.

Imagine it's May 1944. Everyone knows a buildup of men and materiel has been under way in England in preparation for what is to become the D-Day invasion of mainland Europe and the hoped-for defeat of Nazi Germany.

But a coterie of political opponents, doves and opportunists in the U.S. Senate sees fit to issue a "nonbinding resolution" declaring that they do not believe this strategy is sound or "in the national interest" - blatantly intruding upon the role and responsibilities of our commander in chief, President Roosevelt.

Would such an astounding display of craven and irresponsible political posturing have been tolerated in time of that war? I suspect the authors and signers would have been run out of Washington on a rail, if not charged with providing aid and comfort to our enemy.

Now it's 2007. Just imagine:
The transparent political pandering that such "nonbinding resolutions" represent is unmistakable. The pompous puffins in the U.S. Senate lack the political courage to do what is within their power to do under the Constitution: That is, if they are so at odds with the war in Iraq, they have the constitutional power to end it - by voting to reduce or eliminate its funding. But oh, no, they don't dare do that! How ever could they square such a move with their "heartfelt" declarations that they "support our troops"?

If you ever wanted to witness an example of flat-out political cowardice in time of war, this is it.

I used to have a great deal of respect for Sen. Joe Biden. Used to.

Half-Assed

You are 55% Scripture literate!

You are a lay bible instructor. Some room for improvement but not too bad. At least we know you're not sleeping during church.

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Kenny Loggins - Whenever I Call You Friend

From his 1978 Nightwatch album. Features Stevie Nicks. College days memories.

This Girl Is Clever

Indexed is one of my favorites to the right.

Jesus Is Alive and Well

And still living in Miami. And wearing the mark of the beast, no less!

I blogged about this modern-day Jesus-fellah back in October here. Today there is an update from CNN. Here.

Reminder From a Tradition Past

Necessary nonetheless.

"Remember, man, that you are dust and to dust you will return" [Genesis 3:19]

"Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel. " [Mark 1:15]

"Father in heaven, the light of Your truth bestows sight

to the darkness of sinful eyes.

May this season of repentance

bring us the blessing of Your forgiveness

and the gift of your light. +Amen."

From the Roman Catholic Ash Wednesday liturgy.

Two Excellent Articles by Frank Pastore

These two articles articulate very well for me one of the main issues of the day regarding America's relationship with the religion of Islam. It's only one man's opinion, coming from what seems to be a pretty reasonable Christian perspective. Please give them a read:

Islam is Not the Enemy!

Islam is Not the Enemy, Part II

The Frank Pastore Show is heard in Los Angeles weekday afternoons on 99.5 KKLA and on the web at kkla.com, and is the winner of the 2006 National Religious Broadcasters Talk Show of the Year. Frank is a former major league pitcher with graduate degrees in both philosophy of religion and political philosophy.

Happy Fat Tuesday

"It is hereby decreed that melancholy be put to route, and joy unconfined seize our subjects, young and old of all genders and degrees...that the spirit of make-believe descend upon the realm and banish from the land the dull and the humdrum and the commonplace of daily existence."
public proclamation, Morgan L. Whitney, King of Carnival (Rex),1967

"Mardi Gras is a controlled riot. It's a million people walking out on the street, drinkin'. Ten days of everybody coming out here gettin' drunk and havin' fun. Ten days of us working 16, 18 hours a day.... Basically everybody's just having a good time, tryin' to enjoy themselves, and they don't mean any harm to anybody else. It's just the world's largest free party, and people like everything free........."People come out here on Mardi Gras day in $800 suits. Just for a doubloon worth maybe 3 cents, they'll sort of dive on the ground and rip up an $800 suit. Grandmas with walking canes you'll see diving, pushing people out the way to get a pair of beads. People just go totally berserk when they come here—loose all their their inhibitions, they forget everything they ever been taught in their life."

Sgt. Billy Roth, New Orleans Police Department, Cops (March 20, 1996)

Class Project Gone Awry

An elementary school class started a class project to make planters to take home to their parents. They wanted to have a plant in it that was easy to take care of, so they decided to use cactus plants. The students were given green-ware pottery planters in the shape of clowns which they painted with glaze. The clown planters were professionally fired at a class outing so they could see the process.

It was great fun!

They planted cactus seeds in the finished planters and they grew nicely, but unfortunately, the children were not allowed to take them home. The cactus plants were removed and small ivy replaced them and the children were then allowed to take them home instead. The teacher said cactus seemed like a good idea at the time!