Plunging Towards Gomorrah
Archive for February, 2010
Al Gore Has Become Irelevent
Feb 28th
It was only a matter of time before Al Gore climbed out of his hole. Gore has an op-ed today in the New York Times and he’s still beating the dead horse he’s been riding for decades. The Vice President who cried wolf has been warning us for decades about global warming. Nothing alarming has happened to the climate in that time except the coverage of the climate. Anyway, it appears Gore has changed his talking points on climategate since his last ill-informed statement back in December
Unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The careful scientific work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? The sheer fact that the IPCC exists is an example of “governmental bias.” Is it really shocking that an entire panel created to study climate change found climate change? When “big oil” funds a scientific study the results are ignored by the alarmists. Alarmists have kindly ignored the big bucks being made thanks to climate change. For the past decade the climage change business has been booming. Al Gore has a financial stake in climate change and the mastermind of the 2007 IPCC report Dr Rajendra Pachauri is making money as well.
It was in this newspaper that we first revealed how Pachauri has earned millions of pounds for his Delhi-based research institute Teri, and further details are still emerging of how he has parlayed his position into a worldwide business empire, including 17 lucrative contracts from the EU alone. But we should not expect the truth to break in too suddenly on this mass of vested interests. Too many people have too much at stake to allow the faith in man-made global warming, which has sustained them so long and which is today making so many of them rich, to be abandoned.
The truth is finally starting to come on this sad tale. Al Gore has always been a political opportunist. Gore’s name on the Nobel Peace Prize disgraced the award long before Obama made it official. Gore’s Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth may go down in history as one of Hollywood’s most ignorant moments of all time (that’s saying something). In a way this is the worst thing that ever could happen to Gore. Losing the election was painful, but Gore has always cared deeply about what others think of him. As the fraud and bad science add up on the theory of man-made global so does the ridicule for Al Gore.
Gore is now remembered for two things he invented. Everyone knows Al Gore didn’t event the internet, but for many Gore is the face of the Global Warming swindle. Maybe I’m wrong. I’ve been wrong about Al Gore before, but something tells me the gig is up.
Avatar vs. Pocahontas
Feb 27th
I saw the movie Avatar back in December. From a visual standpoint the movie was amazing. It was definitely worth seeing at the theater in 3D; however, over time I expect the film to be forgotten. Why is that? Well, the story is completely unoriginal. One could even say that Avatar is Pocahontas in space. Vimeo has taken the trailers from Pocahontas and Avatar and mashed them together. The end result is amazing.
Inevitably there’s going to be a sequel to Avatar and I’m looking forward to it. It should push James Cameron to come up with something memorable.
RE: Gerrymandered Census
Feb 26th
I mentioned House Rep. Mel Watt last week in my post about the Gerrymandered Census. As I stated before Watt is one of the most liberal members of the Congress and the only way he continues to get elected is because of gerrymandered districts.
The National Journal has posted the top 10 most liberal and conservative members of the Congress. It’s no surprise that Watt is tied for first. Is Watt really representing the average voter in the state of North Carolina?
The 10 Most Liberal House Dems 1. Rush Holt (D-NJ) 1. Gwen Moore (D-WI) 1. John Olver (D-MA) 1. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) 1. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) 1. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) 1. Mel Watt (D-NC) 1. Henry Waxman (D-CA) 9. Kathy Castor (D-FL) 10. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL)
Climate Change Program Manager
Feb 26th
The job market is difficult these days, but it’s not a bad time to look for government jobs. While companies lay off employees left and right the government only adds and keeps jobs. Great, right? Club Soda forwarded me this job for the National Park Service. The position is for a Climate Change Program Manager.
The Climate Change Program Manager provides overall leadership and management of National Park Service responsibilities, policies, and interests in climate change programs in within the National Park System. The Climate Change office coordinates acquisition and application of broad-based scientific and planning expertise and technologies to support climate change and associated programs.
This job pays between $103,000 to $155,000 per year. Does this sound like a position that is useful? I won’t even go into the whole tired climate change nonsense. The National Park Service has been one of the most poorly run departments in the United States. It’s a shame because 50 years ago it was one of the best departments. Thanks to a growing bureaucracy full of clueless do-gooders it has become a terrible waste of taxpayer dollars.
The Department of the Interior needs to be downsized and broken into smaller departments. Smaller groups are more effective at allocating resources. When a bloated bureaucracy gets involved useless positions like a Climate Change Program Manager are invented to push a political agenda. The amount of wasted money in these government departments is staggering.
Remove Clarence Thomas from History?
Feb 24th
The blog The Root, which is owned by The Washington Post, has an article entitled “Black Folks We’d Like To Remove From Black History.” The list includes Ugandan military dictator Idi Amin, the notorious “DC Sniper” John Allen Muhammad, and Zimbabwean totalitarian Robert Mugabe. Guess who else is on the list? That horrible man Clarence Thomas.
Although he’s only the second man of color to serve in the Supreme Court, the Backstreet Boys have more standing in the black community than Clarence Thomas. That’s because he looks to the Constitution as “colorblind,” says he’s a man who just happens to be black and opposes government programs intended to help minorities. I’m not sure if the late Thurgood Marshall would want to pop Clarence ‘side his head with his gavel, but there are plenty of blacks who would volunteer to do it for him.
Basically what Michael Arceneaux is saying is that Clarence Thomas’ responsibility isn’t to the Constitution, but to help minorities keep quotas that are unconstitutional. All citizens of the United States are supposed to be judged equally. This is why quotas are unconstitutional. Arceneaux should note that Thomas’ views on abortion and gay marriage actually are in line with most African Americans. However, if you’re an African American intellectual who disagrees with Arceneauex you’re in line with murderers. How’s that for derangement?
The true greatness of people like Clarence Thomas and the economist Thomas Sowell is that they are truly colorblind. Instead of grasping onto tired ideologies that are based on race they are able to think for themselves. Thomas Sowell is one of my favorite economists and he’s also someone who has changed the way I think about many issues. Should I care if he’s black, blue or purple? Apparently I should, at least according to Arceneaux. But I won’t.
MoveOn.org’s Bizzaro Reality
Feb 23rd
Remember the health care public option ad? I do, it basically turned the American people against ObamaCare. Club Soda wrote about this ad a few months ago. Well, the socialists at MoveOn.org haven’t moved on, they still believe Americans want the public option and they’ve updated the video.
Just so no one is confused the “evil insurance companies” have endorsed ObamaCare. They love the plan because it forces people to get insurance at higher premiums. If you’re an insurance company it doesn’t get any better than that.
While there’s still a possibility that the Senate bill can be passed through reconciliation there’s no way the public option is on the table. Time to take a reality pill MoveOn.org.
Men Without Jobs
Feb 23rd
Come January 2011 it’s increasingly likely that Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid will no longer be employed. That makes the video below all the more strange.
Is this a justification for the jobs bill or a cry for help? It’s a fairly strong indication that the bill being debated in Congress is worthless when abuse is used for justification. All this time I thought we could blame domestic abuse on the Jews living in Israel
