Global Warming Hysteria Targets Fat People

Scientists in the UK are now saying obesity is accelerating global warming. What an impact it makes is still totally ambiguous, but if the root problem is CO2 emissions, then fat people would emit more just as it takes more energy to move them around.

It’s a no brainer, really. Sure, the obese are going to contribute more to AGW, if AGW is real. But peel away the veneer and what do you find?

Don’t forget– children are bad in the eyes of the AGW zealot. Have less kids, save the world, right? China’s got that down to a tee. Kill extra kids, less resources needed, and less emissions.

Now the fat are bad. The fat are destroying the planet. They eat more, which means they need more cows for their fast food burgers, which is more styofoam waste, which means— Gah! Hamburglars everywhere!

The key here is that the AGW zealots are using AGW to force people to change– forget about freedom, this is about saving the planet! (Of course, Global Warming has taken a hiatus, but that’s beyond the point.) Let’s make a list of what people need to do to save the world from the evils of AGW:

1. Stop driving CO2 producing vehicles. (That means almost all vehicles– cars, airplanes, trucks, trains, even that moped.)
2. Stop using coal for power. (Generates CO2) And oil or methane/ethane/propane/butane for that matter.
3. Stop consuming. The more we buy, the more we need industry, which means the more we harm the planet.
4. Stop eating meat. Meat comes from farm animals, which means that’s that many more animals stressing the biosphere and putting dangerous methane and CO2 into the atmosphere. Start eating pure vegetarian diets and stop the slaughter of animals for food. (Meat is murder, and you’re murdering 6.2 billion people, you selfish bacon-loving bastard!)
5. Stop having kids. The more people there are, the more stress there is on the biosphere and the greater demand for resources, such as food and energy, two of the biggest contributors to global warming. Therefore, don’t have kids. If you do have kids, abort!
6. Stop using electricity. We can’t use fossil fuels for energy because they’re obviously bad. We can’t use hydroelectric because that requires a dam and that hurts the environment. Solar and wind are your only alternatives, and that means a ten-fold increase in electricity costs due to unreliability of the resource. Nuclear power produces really bad waste, so that can’t be an alternative.
7. Don’t use any motors, even electric ones! The more power you tap to power your motorized devices, the more CO2 has to be released. So all that Led Zepplin you’ve been listening to? Destroying the earth. Selfish 70’s dropout!
8. Stop building. Wood & stone need fuel to transport their materials. That’s a no-no! Also, cutting down old-growth forests requires fuel and it prevents those trees from reaching out and absorbing our CO2.  So, get out the yurt and live simply.

So there’s the natural progression of the AGW zealot’s argument. Become an off-the-grid vegetarian or the world is going to die. Which are you going to choose, you selfish tool? I wish I was being funny, but the environmentalists of this movement have always been after these goals, and finally they have a movement which is convincing the gullible to shed their meat-eatin’, car-drivin’, ways.

NASA to Announce Big Find! UPDATE: Your Head Asplode!

NASA is reporting that they’ve found something they’ve been looking for for 50 years. Speculation is running rampant around the internet, anything from “Planet X” to alien life.

I’ll be interested to see what they’ve found– perhaps conclusive proof of dark matter or dark energy. As they were using the Chandra X-Ray telescope, they’re probably probing for black holes or some other X-ray spewing hypermass. We’ll see.

UPDATE: It’s true! We found space aliens! And they were mooning us!

In all seriousness, the scientists have revealed an expanding remnant from a supernova. This supernova is only 140 or so years old. It’s pretty exciting to find such a recent supernova– especially so close to Earth.

But, it has nothing to do with aliens, or Planet X, or Nemesis, or the “face” on Mars, or any other garbage.

Sometimes the answer is right in front of you, as I called it with the X-ray spewing hypermass.

God & Aliens

Seems the Vatican doesn’t have a problem with it.

Just illustrates the problem many Darwinists have.  They can’t handle a modern, mature look on God & Creation.

Also illustrates the problem many Creationists have with a limited view of the Creator.

Obama’s Tax Code

Baracka wants to make it easier for you to file taxes.  In fact, he’s proposing something that lets the Federal Government calculate your taxes for you!

Here’s the synopsis:

(1) Create a new “Making Work Pay” tax credit of up to $1,000 for America’s working families
(2) Create a new universal mortgage interest credit that will benefit low and middle-income
homeowners
(3) Honor America’s seniors by eliminating income taxes for those making less than $50,000 per year
(4) Simplify tax filings so millions of Americans can do their taxes in less than 5 minutes
(5) Eliminate special interest loopholes and tax breaks and crack down on international tax
havens

The “making work pay” idea is OK, but it rewards two-working parent families, and barely assists single-income families.  The $1000 isn’t going to cover much day care.
The “new, universal mortgage interest credit” is a boondoggle.  His policy states “The current mortgage interest deduction excludes nearly two-thirds of Americans who do not itemize their taxes.”  Who owns a home and doesn’t itemize their deductions? Effectively he wants to give a 10% mortgage credit to people who earn less than $50,000 a year.  People who earn that little aren’t typical homeowners, especially on the West and East Coasts.  And if you do own a home and itemize deductions, odds are you’ll be passing 10% if you earn $50,000 a year in deductions.  Bear in mind this is a tax deduction, so you don’t get any credit from the government.  This just bottoms out at 0 tax owed, and most families I know that earn under $50K hit that every tax cycle.

3)  Eliminating the need for seniors to pay income tax.  Fine.  That was Clinton’s idea anyway.  But we’ve had 3 tax credit programs.  Where is that money going to come from?  Notice how that magic number is always $50,000?  Well, guess what happens when you earn more than $50,000 a year?  That’s right.  You’ll be paying the difference, middle class.

4).  Simplify tax filings.  Let the government do it for you!  What a BRAINDEAD STUPID IDEA.  Seriously, I want the IRS determining how much I owe?  No thanks.

5)  Tax the rich!  Hey, someone’s got to pay for all these new tax incentives he’s throwing at voters.

Obama’s tax code proposal states, right near the top, this:

Barack Obama will stand up to the special interests and restore fairness to the tax code. Obama’s tax fairness plan will reward work and provided needed tax cuts to America’s workers. His five-part plan will provide a tax cut to over 150 million workers and their families.

Remember– when a politician starts asking for fairness, he/she realyl wants to be as unfair as possible.  150 million may get a break, but the other 150 million are going to have to cough up to balance this “cut”.

The Goracle Ties Myanmar Cyclone to AGW

Not a surprise, really.  He’s laying the blame of this horrible tragedy at the feet of industry, carbon dioxide, and the evil Internal Combustion Devil.

It’s an inconvenient truth– Al Gore doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.

The death toll of the Myanmar Cyclone Nargis is expected to climb to a staggering 100,000 from direct and indirect causes.  It’s an area that was similarly devastated by the New Years Tsunami that killed over 200,000 people.  This cyclone hit with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, putting it at a category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of Hurricane intensity.  Coincidentally, that’s the same wind speed that Katrina had when it hit New Orleans.

The reason both of these Hurricanes are such horrible tragedies has less to do with nature and more to do with incompetent governance.  New Orleans was evacuated during Katrina.  The people left behind were not evacuated due to various reasons, and their rescue was not affected due to poor management of emergency resources.  As I mentioned before, Florida was hit with 4 hurricanes in a row the year before Katrina, and they managed to come out OK.  One hurricane hits Louisiana and nobody can land supply helicopters at the Superdome.

Myanmar is far worse.  A secretive military junta (backed by China) that slaughters innocents in secret isn’t going to be willing to chum up to Western governments wanting to supply aid.  So as they drag their feet, thousands more will die of illnesses that could have been prevented with modern medicines blocked by a reactionary government.

The tragedy of both Katrina and the Myanmar Cyclone is that faith in government is wholly misplaced.  Instead of consolidating military power, perhaps the military junta in Myanmar could have evacuated the coastline as the cyclone approached.  But they didn’t, and as a result, hundreds of thousands are dead, dying, injured or homeless.

Don’t blame Global Warming for these deaths, Al.  The blame is on a government your feckless United Nations does nothing to stop.

Why the Democratic Candidates Are Terrible

Ok, here’s the problem.  Obama has no real platform.  He’s running on “Change”.  Well, I have some “change” in my pocket.  Don’t run for President.  He speaks of Change, but he’s an Illinois (read: Chicago) politician who’s best buddies with a nutso preacher.  He says he’s experienced, but he’s never run in a competitive campaign.  He says he’s a man of the people, but both he and his wife have proven themselves to be as elitist as any Democrat.  What’s worse is he can’t think well when challenged.  And his “rhetoric of change” now has Iran dictating policy to the US.  Does the US really want foreign dictatorships defining the conversation?  No.  And that’s what Baracka’s major problem is– he doesn’t think, he just says what he wants people to hear, and then backtracks.

What’s worse is Hillary.  She’s changed so many of her policies in the past 18 months that I don’t know what she’ll actually do in the White House.  Will she sit down with Iran, or bomb them?  Or sit down with them while bombing them?  And will she withdraw troops from Iraq to bomb Iran?  She’s been all over the board on this, so it’s hard to figure out what her actual policy is.  Same with renewable fuels.  Both she and Baracka wanted corn-to-ethanol plants built, and now that food prices have risen, she “just wants to use the corn husk”.

So we have a candidate without a platform, and a candidate with such a bipolar platform that it’s impossible to guess what she’ll really do as President.  Do you feel comfortable voting for either of these two?  I don’t.

So currently I’m with McCain.  Let’s just hope to God he picks a great VP.

It’s Finally Here!

Some may think I’m talking about GTA IV. I’m not. I’m talking about the end of the semester. I’ll be scarce this week as well, but will be back to normal posting next week.

I would like to extend prayers for those who have been killed as well as those families affected by the vicious cyclone that hit Myanmar. Estimates of over 10,000 dead. It’s an unthinkable tragedy and one that could have been avoided.

Either America Is Full of Fickle, Tone-Deaf Fools…

Or American Idol is rigged.

Michael Johns never makes an appearance in the bottom 3, then gets voted off.  Carly Smithson– no visits in the bottom 3 and love from Simon, and in the same week one idol forgets her lines, and Smithson gets voted off and the girl forgetting her lines?  Not even in the bottom 3!

That’s not fishy.  That’s 1000 pounds of grade A Halibut.

I’m glad I don’t watch this show, and only catch the highlights.  To everyone out there– get over it.  Idol is rigged.

The Politics of Identity, and How They Bite You in the Rear

We’ve all had people we identify with.  Sometimes it’s harmless.  When I was a child I’d always root for the guy on “Wheel of Fortune” or “Jeopardy” who’s name was Michael.  I identified with someone for no other reason than a superficial connection.  I’m sure we’ve done the same with athletes, or anyone we want to root for.

But now the Democratic party has been reduced to “voting for the black guy or voting for the woman.”  Personally, I’m not going to vote for the “old white guy” just because he’s an old white guy.  I don’t agree with McCain on some issues, like immigration, stem-cell research, and his pandering to Democrats and sabotaging judicial nominations for senatorial power.  But he’s good on foreign policy and he’s a fiscal conservative, so I can get behind him.

But over on the Democrat side, we’re hearing implications that people who don’t vote for Obama just don’t “understand”.  Those who are Obama supporters are considered “enlightened”, even though Obama has no political experience and he’s terrible at thinking on his feet.  Hillary’s camps hasn’t been much better.  Elton John says that if you don’t vote for Hillary, it’s because you hate women.

And now we have Nora Ephron crystallizing the votes down to racism or sexism.

So that’s wonderful.  If I don’t vote for Hillary because of her socialist views on health care, her lying about Tuzla and other things, and complete political weakness on losing a “sure thing” election, then I must be a misogynist.  As for Baracka, if I don’t vote for him because he doesn’t think well independently, his voting record is awful, he’s connected with Chicago political slime, and he’s a snob, then I must be a racist.

We knew it was coming.  And we can look forward to 7 more months of race and/or sex baiting.  In the meantime, the politics of identity have fractured the Democratic party because the black vote feels betrayed if Hillary wins or a politician endorses Hillary, and the women-vote feels betrayed if Barack wins.  We have two groups who have been waiting for one of “theirs” to be elected to the White House and if that group loses this election, the hard feelings will run deep because their identity has been betrayed by those they thought were on the same side.

The Republicans have a candidate the base isn’t happy with.  But with McCain, we’re not happy because of the issues McCain has embraced, not because of his race, age or sex.  And not-surprisingly, it’s the Republicans who are standing above the race/sex fray.

Baraka Backs Out

So, Baraka Obama backs out of the NC Debate, robbing Katie Couric of her much desired suck-fest that would have been the CBS debate.

Hillary, if she really wants the nomination, needs to skewer Baraka on this. (Her last ad seems to hint at it.) Everyone knows Baraka’s last debate was an absolute disaster, and he wants to avoid any more embarrassing reveals of his lack of knowledge about, well, everything. Now he’s avoiding the press and any public forum to avoid any more performances that display his lack of experience and plethora of horrible managing ideas.

Hillary’s really experience a withering assault lately, and the fact that Obama’s been complaining about some of the treatment he’s been receiving, it really emphasizes that she’s been battered from left and right, and she’s still in it. She’s a tough woman– a shameless liar– but a tough woman, and if she’s going to garner any respect with the voters, she needs to emphasize this rugged resistance to assault and longevity. Perseverance in the face of adversity is a hallmark of American tradition, and voters flock to it.

Baracka blew it by backing out. All he’s doing is proving his critics right– he’s not good in the face of criticism. Now he’s passing on a chance to connect with voters in a debate, but he’s popping up on WWE to deliver one awful, canned message. (Kudos to McCain, though, who seemed to get in the moment.)

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