Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Another Gore Lie Exposed

Remember when he was defending his jet use and electric bill by buying carbon offsets? No he isn’t.

The dude is pathological.

20 Must Have Extensions

Get Firefox, if you haven’t already. It’s free and way better than Explorer. Even the new one. 

If you got it, these 20 must have extensions will explain why it’s so great. I didn’t know about some of these. Very cool stuff.

UPDATE: Yikes. I forgot the link. It’s there now.

Quote of the Day

Meat eating is either the number one cause of GW or it is not. If it is the number one cause, then why are the GW people not talking about it? Even the skeptics are not focusing on meat as they should be. I think meat may be the Achilles Heel of GW, as it puts the lie to them. The skeptics should be pressing it. I think the logic is being blurred for several reasons. One is that lot of people think we should conserve (we should), and end our dependence on foreign oil (we should). This does not mean that CO2 is being released in sufficient quantities to cause climate change, though. People rationalize going along with the GW scare because we need to conserve, and they forget that conservation of oil is a different issue. (I think it’s right to conserve oil and reduce dependency, but I think fudging the issue is manipulative.)

Another reason is that even the believers have a natural resistance to giving up meat, and they fear it will damage their movement. They want to keep it quiet, and for some strange reason, their opponents go along with keeping it quiet, probably because they think the less said about it the better. Big mistake IMO, especially if meat is in fact the Achilles Heel of the environmentalists. The American people are used to being scolded about oil, but if they’re asked to give up meat, they’ll begin to wise up, and start asking basic questions. It’s this “leave well enough alone” mindset which prevents people from getting to the truth.

Classical Values

Yep. This is another reason we should consider GW a scam. But don’t be surprised if they start putting a carbon tax on meat at some point.

Greenhouse gas is just a theory, and CO² is the a minor component of it. Water vapor is the biggest component. So why don’t they mention that? Because they can’t blame water vapor on humans. Therefore, they can’t guilt people into paying money over it. And when it comes to food, a similar problem applies. Too many people eat meat to try to blame it on food. The attempts to go after food has not been as easy as cigarettes, and even that took 40 years before they got to where they are today.

The biggest problem with the argument that animals cause the most CO² gas is it gives lie to the whole argument that man’s use of fossil fuels are the major cause of it. CO² is a natural product of life on earth and the earth can handle it. It has for billions of years. Trying to regulate or control it is nothing short of insane. I repeat: IT’S CRAZY!

Few people deny we should get off of fossil fuels when we can. The pollution and the wars and terrorism it inspires are reasons enough.

But, you see, the GW shills are relying on people’s ignorance of science to sell them this nonsense, because it’s all a big money making scam. They use the boogie man of big oil as their faceless villain and they try to scare us with typical superstitious doomsday prophecies, based on pseudo-science. It’s all manipulation and fear mongering. Any recent warming trends are caused by the sun, but they try to obscure and deny that.

The bottom line is, if farm animals produce more CO² than humans, then the idea that we are the cause of too much CO² is entirely bogus. Animals exist inspite of us. There are many more animals free than in captivity by incalculable numbers. And they all create CO².

This whole debate is utterly absurd. 

Marvel Sucks

He fought and triumphed over Hitler, Tojo, international Communism and a host of super-villains, but he could not dodge a sniper’s bullet.

Comic book hero Captain America is dead.

After close to 60 years in print, Marvel Comics has killed off Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, one of its most famous and beloved superheroes amid an already controversial story line, “Civil War,” which is pitting the heroes of Marvel’s universe against one another.

In the comic series, Rogers was to stand trial for defying a superhero registration law passed after a hero’s tragic mistake causes a 9/11-like event.

Steve Rogers eventually surrenders to police. He is later mortally wounded as he climbs the courthouse steps

I realize that they can always bring him back to life. And Civil War is a maxi-series. But for Cap to die in such a prosaic manner after all he’s been through, is an insult. These comics publishers continue to do one stupid thing after another, dishonoring their traditions and characters all for cheap stunts that’ll get them press. If they actually produced comics worth a damn they wouldn’t need to do this kind of thing. 

Robocop vs Terminator

Nice editing!

Part 2