It’s hard to maintain a soft spot for crazy ol’ Ted, though most Atlantans do. Now the father of five and apologist for despots everywhere is advocating the rest of the world adopt China’s one-child mandate.
I think Glenn Beck’s head just exploded.
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As long as they feel better about themselves
Smugness kills
It certainly doesn’t help your cause.
Alex Massie writes, “Watch it and see if you don’t feel like starting your own oil company or burning anything you can just because you can.”
Oil and water
I’ll never understand why anyone listens to this arrogant, ignorant blowhard. His latest:
“I want to get back to the timing of the blowing up, the explosion out there in the Gulf of Mexico of this oil rig. Since they’re sending SWAT teams down there now this changes the whole perspective of this. Now, lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, the carbon tax bill, cap and trade that was scheduled to be announced on Earth Day. I remember that. And then it was postponed for a couple of days later after Earth Day, and then of course immigration has now moved in front of it.
But this bill, the cap-and-trade bill, was strongly criticized by hardcore environmentalist wackos because it supposedly allowed more offshore drilling and nuclear plants, nuclear plant investment. So, since they’re sending SWAT teams down there, folks, since they’re sending SWAT teams to inspect the other rigs, what better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I’m just noting the timing here.”
Overall, no biggie.
“You do survive these things. I’m not advocating don’t care about it hitting the shore or coast and whatever you can do to keep it out of there is fine and dandy, but the ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and was left out there,” Limbaugh said. “It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is.”
A question for my conservative friends
What’s the difference between windbag Al Gore getting rich off the green movement and J.R. Cheney making millions from Halliburton? To suggest that Gore is running some sort of carbon-neutral Ponzi scheme is to believe in elaborate conspiracy theories, so please don’t waste our time.
noted and quoted, ecologically sound edition
“This is exactly what those environmentalists should be spending their time on. Finding ways to use nature against other forms of nature that are inconvenient to man.”
–Hank Hill
the planet’s in worse trouble than i thought
son of gore-al
(via The Onion)
hyperbole never helps
Talk about the politics of fear — Al Gore’s Armageddon speech yesterday served no purpose but to remind people what they don’t like about Al Gore.
Suddenly we have only five years until we’re swallowed by the oceans. While I’m no flat-earther when it comes to global warming, now is not the time to get hysterical. Gore’s “solutions” — or at least his time frames — are impractical and counterproductive.
Let’s stick to reality. And let’s hear from the scientists, not their self-appointed spokesman.
**To be clear, which I wasn’t, I support Gore’s call to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels. Climate change is a serious problem. Eh … never mind.
Honestly, I don’t know enough about global warming to opine. Most scientists say it’s occurring, and I believe them. Al Gore, on the other hand, is a politician, and while his crusade is admirable, he still gets on my nerves.
As P.J. O’Rourke once observed, if Gore had not been the son of a senator, he’d be working for some local government agency conducting sting operations on residents who mix paper and plastic in their recycling bins. Bush, meanwhile, would be the VP of the Crawford Kiwanis Club in charge of pancake breakfasts.
Obnoxious Celebrity Environmentalist Du Jour
It’s been another typical day in the world of Heather Mills.
She started her day by storming out of a radio interview with London’s LBC station, and then turned up at Speaker’s Corner, in a gas-guzzling black 4×4 Mercedes, to lecture the assembled crowds on ways of saving the planet.
As part of her extraordinary tirade at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, Heather exhorted people to try drinking rat’s milk instead of cow milk to help reduce global warming.
Once again, “The Simpsons” did it first. Sorry, Heather Mills, but Fat Tony was milking rats years ago.
Obnoxious Celebrity Environmentalist Du Jour
It’s been another typical day in the world of Heather Mills.
She started her day by storming out of a radio interview with London’s LBC station, and then turned up at Speaker’s Corner, in a gas-guzzling black 4×4 Mercedes, to lecture the assembled crowds on ways of saving the planet.
As part of her extraordinary tirade at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, Heather exhorted people to try drinking rat’s milk instead of cow milk to help reduce global warming.
Once again, "The Simpsons" did it first. Sorry, Heather Mills, but Fat Tony was milking rats years ago.
Lectures from the allegedly informed
If you’re a partisan Republican, odds are you mock the very idea of global warming. If you’re on the other side, chances are you’ve built a shrine to Al Gore, made out of compost, natch.
I’m not a scientist. I have no real interest in science. I’m aware of the issue, and I read a few articles here and there, but frankly I don’t know whether man is destroying the planet. I tend to side with the majority of experts who say we are, but it appears there hasn’t been enough serious debate to consider the matter closed.
Still, like most people, I’m inclined to do my share for the environment. Then I read about No Impact Man and I want to spend the rest of the day throwing shredded Styrofoam cups out my 8th floor window.
Isn’t that strange? You click off family’s electricity and make them go to bed at nine every night because it’s too dark to do anything else. You ban them from the elevator so they have to walk up and down nine flights of stairs. You take away their fridge so they can’t keep more than a day or two of food around the house.
Even more obnoxious are afffluent Hollywood liberals turned eco-lobbyists. I can see why they’re attracted to the cause; unlike, say, working with the poor, environmental activism requires no personal contact with the grubby masses. Instead, you get to hang out with Leo DiCaprio and talk about how satisfying it is to be fully evolved. Oh yeah, and there’s lecturing. Lots and lots of lecturing.
“We represent the entertainment community,” said Kelly Chapman Meyer, whose husband, Ron, is the president of Universal Studios Group. “We use our resources and our connections to push for environmental issues.”
“We want a climate bill that’s not going to die,” said Colleen Bell, a philanthropist and writer whose husband, Bradley, is the executive producer and head writer of the soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
Because they have rich, connected husbands, Meyer and Bell got a face-to-face with Barbara Boxer, who shares their concern.
“We can see it happening, we can feel it happening,” she said. “The fashion industry is so upset because they can’t sell their cashmere sweaters.”
Well now I’m really worried.
Lectures from the allegedly informed
If you’re a partisan Republican, odds are you mock the very idea of global warming. If you’re on the other side, chances are you’ve built a shrine to Al Gore, made out of compost, natch.
I’m not a scientist. I have no real interest in science. I’m aware of the issue, and I read a few articles here and there, but frankly I don’t know whether man is destroying the planet. I tend to side with the majority of experts who say we are, but it appears there hasn’t been enough serious debate to consider the matter closed.
Still, like most people, I’m inclined to do my share for the environment. Then I read about No Impact Man and I want to spend the rest of the day throwing shredded Styrofoam cups out my 8th floor window.
Isn’t that strange? You click off family’s electricity and make them go to bed at nine every night because it’s too dark to do anything else. You ban them from the elevator so they have to walk up and down nine flights of stairs. You take away their fridge so they can’t keep more than a day or two of food around the house.
Even more obnoxious are afffluent Hollywood liberals turned eco-lobbyists. I can see why they’re attracted to the cause; unlike, say, working with the poor, environmental activism requires no personal contact with the grubby masses. Instead, you get to hang out with Leo DiCaprio and talk about how satisfying it is to be fully evolved. Oh yeah, and there’s lecturing. Lots and lots of lecturing.
“We represent the entertainment community,” said Kelly Chapman Meyer, whose husband, Ron, is the president of Universal Studios Group. “We use our resources and our connections to push for environmental issues.”
“We want a climate bill that’s not going to die,” said Colleen Bell, a philanthropist and writer whose husband, Bradley, is the executive producer and head writer of the soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
Because they have rich, connected husbands, Meyer and Bell got a face-to-face with Barbara Boxer, who shares their concern.
“We can see it happening, we can feel it happening,” she said. “The fashion industry is so upset because they can’t sell their cashmere sweaters.”
Well now I’m really worried.
