Sunday, November 04, 2007

Cracks Begin To Appear

Is the Global Warming Hype starting to crumble? A leading British paper writes a devastating article on the “Deceit Behind Global Warming”.

I’ve noticed more critical stories have been coming on out GW, especially since Al Gore and the IPCC scientists won a Nobel Peace Prize. When anything gets built up as high as GW has, it’s inevitable people will tear it down. And this is one instance where I won’t feel sorry for it.

Oh, yeah, and here’s another propaganda film. This one talking about the evils of corn. Watch how they try to make corn the next tobacco/global warming.

UPDATE: Climate skepticism sweeps Europe. The climate frauds are about to find themselves in hot water. I think this skepticism is going to grow exponentially to the hysterics actions.

Cat Attorney Needed

He doesn’t look too happy with his owners. 

It’s a Reasonable Argument

Drew Carey has a series of videos on Reason TV (a libertarian site) which deals with public policies regarding various stupid laws. In this one he talks about Medical Marijuana. If you’re wondering why I have been championing legalization lately it’s because I know someone with a serious illness who uses medical marijuana, and he tells me its the best thing he uses to stop the paid. He has crippling pain that makes it almost impossible to walk or sleep well. But marijuana makes his legs feel loose and somehow it makes it possible to get a good night’s sleep.

Everyone knows someone who smokes pot at some level. It’s no more dangerous than alcohol. It’s probably safer. Yet its treated as this major drug by the feds.

For a long time I was against legalization because I felt we didn’t need more drugs in our society. But the fact is, humans need some kind of way to deal with things. Legal drugs are a huge industry. When you realize how huge it is, you can see why they wouldn’t want something like cannabis legalized. People could home grow it. It’s a weed and easy to do. This drug probably cuts into potential business for the pham companies. If it were legal, it would probably really cut into their trade.

But the fact is, many states have made medical marijuana legal. And the Feds (starting with Clinton who was president when many of these laws passed) have ignored the laws and have persecuted businesses that sprang up to supply the drug to people. In other words, the feds have ignored the will of the people. And they have trampled on states rights.

Now a lot of conservatives like to make fun of medical marijuana users as a bunch of stoners, but that’s not really true. You have to get a prescription to get it in these states. Sure, there are probably fakers. But the same thing happens with other prescription drugs.

If someone is really a conservative and believes in liberty, they have to be concerned about the way the feds are trampling on people’s rights. They should also be concerned about the huge waste of tax payer money prosecuting these easy targets when there are more serious drugs out there they should be worries about.

UPDATE: Britain decriminalized pot and lo and behold, use of the drug dropped 20 percent. Take away the rebellion aspect and it stops being so cool.