Stossel’s right, again.
Gore’s "documentary" is exhibit A. It is a horror film. But, instead of Freddy Kruger impaling copulating teenagers at a Summer camp while leering at the twitching gore from behind a hockey-mask, the antagonist is "modern Man" poisoning an idillyc Gaia, with "gasses."
In the Global-Warmers’ minds, we Americans are like Saddam Hussein "gassing" the Kurds, Gaia is the Kurds, and Al Gore is the USMC.
I guess this makes Gore’s brokerage of Enron-style "carbon credits" the equivalent of "smart-bombs." Jeez.
This scam is so transparent I can’t believe folks are buying into it. And maybe they’re not really. None of the college kids and civil servants that I know who believe in GW have put their money where their mouth is yet.
In Micheal Bay’s excellent film, The Island one of the "agnates" details his theory that the lottery is rigged, and that he believes he is scheduled to win it’s grand prize - relocation to the Island, that very day. To which, Lincoln 6-Echo asks if he’s packed his bags yet. The agnate says, "No."
So much for "belief."
In GW’s church, the sign of a true believer is one who contributes to the tithing-bowl. So far, the most folks are donating is a lot of talk. |
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From today’s Los Angeles Times:WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill is accustomed to famous visitors, but its guest today is an especially hot ticket: Al Gore, who left Washington as a defeated presidential candidate and returns as the celebrity spokesman on the world’s most crucial environmental issue.
The former vice president will be the star witness on hearings about global warming, a Gore passion that has moved center stage in the Democratic-controlled Congress and on the presidential campaign trail.
Interest in Gore’s televised hearings before House and Senate committees is so high that a bigger hearing room has been reserved, extra rooms have been set aside for the anticipated crowd and photo opportunities have been added to the calendars of top Democrats. Actually, turning this into a partisan issue is probably a mistake for the Global Warming movement, but it’s too late to stop that train. It’s already left the station. |
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None of the college kids and civil servants that I know who believe in GW have put their money where their mouth is yet. My sister is a prime example (esp since she believes everything Code Pink sends her.) She is so concerned with global warming, and no more wars for oil, that she is buying a condo farther away from where she works...
I debate whether I should point out the hypocrisy to her, but then it’s usually not worth arguing with her. She’s also absolutely convinced of a number of other ’scare’ topics that it really is a displeasure being around her. |
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Tell her to watch out for those sharks and child kidnappers Keith.
I still love the "City Wall" episode of South Park. Remember, the Mongolians are right. |
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The media has been the handmaiden of The Fear Industrial Complex since its formation with “Unsafe at any speed” Danger make for good copy. It sells newspapers and drives ratings. It also plays into the journalistic bias, “dog bites’ man” is not unusual so it’s not newsworthy, “man bites’ dog” is front page material because of its rarity.
Nader’s paranoia started a movement that has made billions for lawyers, bankrupted companies, deprived the public of useful items, and driven a movement toward more government control.
The “Big Lie” works best when driven by fear and the Fear Industrial Complex is unsafe at any speed. |
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Child Abduction is not Funny |
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child abduction is not funny From the description, on South park it is funny. why on this link tho? |
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James E. Fish
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Is your local news channel trying to scare you to death? We’ll tell you what YOU need to know to avoid being constantly afraid. Coming up right after Monk on our 10:00 pm show! |
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Need a recent example? The sad part is, it’s not even that recent an example. The NY Times published the first known climate change scare over a century ago, in 1895. Back then it was global cooling. When no catastrophes came to pass and people stopped worrying about it, they gradually changed to warming, from around the 1930s to the 50s. Again, nothing happened, they rode the wave as long as they could and then gradually switched to the cooling scare of the 1970s that I grew up with. So this is the fourth climate change scare they’ve pushed on us.
It’s ridiculous. |
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I debate whether I should point out the hypocrisy to her, but then it’s usually not worth arguing with her. The story of my family... sigh. While I argue with them constantly - in my mind - I know that what really drives them is a seething visceral hatred of Bush. And for that, there is no logical, no rational debate with which to engage. Allegations supplant facts; conspiracy theories gleefully mosh in the dance pit of Occum’s Razor.
The shared goal of defeating Kerry in 2004 proves that the Swift Boat Vets for Truth were actively working with the Bush Administration, yet there is no way that the shared goals of Saddam Hussein and Al Qeada could have ever put those two on the same project.
Evangelical Christians are the scourge of the earth, yet folks who put children in the back seats of bomb-laden vehicles need to be talked with and understood.
Part of me wishes for their dreams to unfold, and in fifty years, I could ask them if their hatred of Bush (and a non-socialistic America) was fruitful (while shoving their heads in the putrefying corpse that is me and all the other ’deviants’ they know). Liberty Indeed!
Alas, while theoretical martyrdom is intellectually pleasing, I could not do that to them. Yea, they think my positions place me within the "evil person" category; I can only find them merely sadly mistaken.
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Killer Bees.
Did they ever make it to the US?
As a kid, I was really scared of them. |
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Good point, Harun.
The "Killer=Bees" campaign scared me too.
I remember Alar was the big boogey monster at one time, too. In that production, Meryl Streep played Al Gore before Gore did.
Y2K was another. All of modernity was going to crumble on Jan. 1, 2000, or so the story went, and every "back-to-nature" outfit scrambled to profit from it. Distributors of heritage vegetable seeds like Seeds of Change rode that wave right onto the beach!
Slice it open and It’s always just rent-seeking in a slick new outfit. The media makes the wave, the politicians indulge the rent, and the public gets screwed. |
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"We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" TM
"We are fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here" TM
Global warming is not the worst use of scare tactics I have witnessed. |
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The Killer Bees did make it to the US, and they are more aggressive and swarm more than regular bees. But their honey tastes better than regular clove honey.
That killer bee movie just scared the crap out of me when I was a kid, especially because it was set in my hometown, and they made it all seem very real. |
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Where’s the Celtic (Bee) Cowboy when you need him....
Pogue?
Talk about a subject he’s gotta be an expert on! |
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I debate whether I should point out the hypocrisy to her, but then it’s usually not worth arguing with her. Sounds like my relationship with my sister. Unfortunately she’s the older one and has a doctorate, so I’m always the baby brother with a paltry Masters. |
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Remember when lawn darts were gonna kill everyone’s children?
Good thing those were banned because today no children ever get injured while playing. |
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It’s ALL fun and games until someone puts an eye out. |
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"We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" TM
"We are fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here" TM
Global warming is not the worst use of scare tactics I have witnessed. Yeah, what kinda damage could a few terrorists do, anyway? |
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