Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Recycling
This is a screech. Remember, everything you think is nonsense. We're not running out of resources, farmland, landfill space, lobster, or whatever. And Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant. Stop feeling guilty about using things.
Warning:It's a 1/2 hour long, but very funny.
Warning:It's a 1/2 hour long, but very funny.
Life Goes On
Cousin/nephew Michael sent along this 8 minute photostory of the transition of a marginal old-time farm into a housing development. It is SO well done, and devoid of the usual crap about how great life used to be.
In many places, people like the new residents of the development have parts of their paychecks confiscated so that the government or some other "benevolent" organization can use their money to buy and "preserve" farmland, thereby reducing the supply of building lots and driving up the price of other lots. Just another government scam.
The markets are perfectly capable of preserving all the farmland we'll need.
In many places, people like the new residents of the development have parts of their paychecks confiscated so that the government or some other "benevolent" organization can use their money to buy and "preserve" farmland, thereby reducing the supply of building lots and driving up the price of other lots. Just another government scam.
The markets are perfectly capable of preserving all the farmland we'll need.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
This is Not a Joke. I Repeat. This is Not a Joke!
From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and obviously targeted at children:
How long until you use up your share of CO2?
If anybody ever sent me one of these, I would kill them. Seriously, just try it.
It actually used to be even worse. The CO2 quiz used to say something more like, "Find out when you should die!" instead of "See when you'll have used up your share of CO2." The true face of the green movement, the "Death Cult of Zero Worship," as Paul McKeever puts it, is becoming more and more mainstream, replacing the false front of, "Let's all hold hands and love each other!" Make no mistake about it: the Greenos think you are pigs, all of you. They even think that THEY'RE pigs. They want you to either sit in your basement and suck your thumb like a cute little piggie does! Or get so pumped full of CO2 that you explode. All in the name of "science." Interesting that the scientist in this one is portrayed by a puppy. He's actually probably about as useful as the quacks from the IPCC. What about Greena, the hippie girl that they've got though? It's funny that even with a cartoon hippie, you can tell that she doesn't shower, wash her clothes, or wear a bra (or think of course). She's the greatest cartoon projection of self-hatred I've ever seen, that's for sure!
But there you have it, that's selflessness for ya!
By the way I have 4.2 years to live.
How long until you use up your share of CO2?
If anybody ever sent me one of these, I would kill them. Seriously, just try it.
It actually used to be even worse. The CO2 quiz used to say something more like, "Find out when you should die!" instead of "See when you'll have used up your share of CO2." The true face of the green movement, the "Death Cult of Zero Worship," as Paul McKeever puts it, is becoming more and more mainstream, replacing the false front of, "Let's all hold hands and love each other!" Make no mistake about it: the Greenos think you are pigs, all of you. They even think that THEY'RE pigs. They want you to either sit in your basement and suck your thumb like a cute little piggie does! Or get so pumped full of CO2 that you explode. All in the name of "science." Interesting that the scientist in this one is portrayed by a puppy. He's actually probably about as useful as the quacks from the IPCC. What about Greena, the hippie girl that they've got though? It's funny that even with a cartoon hippie, you can tell that she doesn't shower, wash her clothes, or wear a bra (or think of course). She's the greatest cartoon projection of self-hatred I've ever seen, that's for sure!
But there you have it, that's selflessness for ya!
By the way I have 4.2 years to live.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Frank Miller
After seeing The Dark Knight, I spent some time looking up Frank Miller (an Ayn Rand influencee), the man who wrote the 1980s Batman graphic novels upon which DK and Batman Begins were based. He also wrote 300, which had some very heavy West vs. East, reason vs. mysticism, freedom vs. slavery themes. Anyway, he apparently has another comic coming out called "Holy Terror, Batman!" in which Batman defends Gotham City from Al-Qaeda. Miller said the book will be, "a piece of propaganda," where "Batman kicks Al Qaeda's ass." He also said this gem:
"It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe that knows exactly what it wants... and we're behaving like a collapsing empire. Mighty cultures are almost never conquered, they crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats."
About those being fought against, Miller said "For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we’re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people’s heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters , they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I’m living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built."
Good stuff. All the quotes are from here.
"It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe that knows exactly what it wants... and we're behaving like a collapsing empire. Mighty cultures are almost never conquered, they crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats."
About those being fought against, Miller said "For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we’re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people’s heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters , they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I’m living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built."
Good stuff. All the quotes are from here.
Frank Miller
After seeing The Dark Knight, I spent some time looking up Frank Miller (an Ayn Rand influencee), the man who wrote the 1980s Batman graphic novels upon which DK and Batman Begins were based. He also wrote 300, which had some very heavy West vs. East, reason vs. mysticism, freedom vs. slavery themes. Anyway, he apparently has another comic coming out called "Holy Terror, Batman!" in which Batman defends Gotham City from Al-Qaeda. Miller said the book will be, "a piece of propaganda," where "Batman kicks Al Qaeda's ass." He also said this gem:
"It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe that knows exactly what it wants... and we're behaving like a collapsing empire. Mighty cultures are almost never conquered, they crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats."
About those being fought against, Miller said "For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we’re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people’s heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters , they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I’m living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built."
Good stuff. All the quotes are from here.
"It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe that knows exactly what it wants... and we're behaving like a collapsing empire. Mighty cultures are almost never conquered, they crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats."
About those being fought against, Miller said "For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we’re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people’s heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters , they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I’m living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built."
Good stuff. All the quotes are from here.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
If you build it, they will complain
Some teenagers in Greenwich, Connecticut, got together and built a wiffleball field in a town-owned vacant lot. They spent three weeks clearing brush and poison ivy, built a replica of the Green Monster with plywood discarded by a neighborhood gas station, and hung up an American flag. Naturally, the neighbors have called in lawyers to force them to tear it down.
Jeff Currivan, 17, said, “They think we're a cult. People think we should be home playing ‘Grand Theft Auto.’ ” One of the complaining neighbors, on the other hand, said, “If I come home at 6 at night after working all day, I want peace and quiet. I can’t have that. I have dozens of people behind my house playing Wiffle ball. If their parents think this is so great, let them play at their house.”
It does sound as if most of the town is on the kids' side. However, Readers, be glad that you grew up in the country, and not in an affluent suburb where kids are frowned upon for taking some initiative, building something, and playing outside.
Jeff Currivan, 17, said, “They think we're a cult. People think we should be home playing ‘Grand Theft Auto.’ ” One of the complaining neighbors, on the other hand, said, “If I come home at 6 at night after working all day, I want peace and quiet. I can’t have that. I have dozens of people behind my house playing Wiffle ball. If their parents think this is so great, let them play at their house.”
It does sound as if most of the town is on the kids' side. However, Readers, be glad that you grew up in the country, and not in an affluent suburb where kids are frowned upon for taking some initiative, building something, and playing outside.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
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