Please take a moment of silence to remember those who can form an intelligent argument.
Scumbag News: I’m not sure how I missed this yesterday when I was talking about James Cameron’s Avatar. Wow, Cameron is a jackass. After calling the theory of Global Warming the greatest threat to the United States since World War II he challenged deniers to a “debate.” At the very last minute Cameron backed out. You have to love cowards like Cameron. The day he avoids debate he calls climate change skeptics swine.
James Cameron doesn’t mince words when talking about people who are skeptical that humans are causing global warming. “I think they’re swine,” the renowned filmmaker told an audience member Sunday on the final day of the American Renewable Energy Day summit in Aspen.
Just before saying that, Cameron received a standing ovation for a short documentary he screened about a coalition of people he joined who are opposed to a massive hydropower project in Brazil that would displace a large tribal community there. It was during a series of talks Sunday about the strong effect the right-wing punditry — Cameron named the regulars: Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, who are known for their sharp attacks on environmentalists — has on Americans.
It’s obvious all these brain-dead liberals read from the same playbook. Avoid debate, call the opposition names, and then cite Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh. This might work in the bizzaro world of MSNBCland, but it makes people like James Cameron appear to be out-of-touch wackos. As talk-show host Dennis Prager puts it: “Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years’ time, one of us will be proved right and the other will look like an idiot.”
The Alternative: The Democrats are facing a bloodbath at the polls in November and the strong possibility that the next Speaker of the House will be John Boehner. Boehner gave a speech today demanding that President Obama fire his economic advisers. Yay… that will surely change the direction of the current economy. I’m sorry; this type of purely political drivel doesn’t do anything to reassure me that Republicans have a clue.
What ideas does Boehner have to offer? The short answer is nothing. Supposedly the House Republicans will release some kind of agenda in late September. Instead of Speaker Boehner I like the sound of Speaker Ryan. You know, someone with some good ideas.
Florida Primary: Today is primary day here in the Sunshine State. Governor Crist isn’t on the ballot today, but it appears Democratic Senatorial candidate Kendrick B. Meek is going to win the nomination. This should kill Crist’s chances. Crist can only win the election if he siphons tons of votes from the Democratic candidate. That’s not likely to happen with Meek. I was going to skip this election, but there are a couple of local ballot initiatives that I need to vote against.
What Handouts to Cut: Economist Walter Williams wrote an article a couple of weeks ago that I failed to mention. He offers a sobering look at our current entitlement mess. The only way we can get out from under the enormous debt burden is to change social security.
We can start getting the federal spending under control by ending subsidies to people with high net worth that can be ready turned into cash such as a home or business. While seniors might say that they support reduced government spending, they, like other handout recipients, believe they have a right, through government, to live at the expense of others. What’s more, they have considerable clout — they vote in large numbers. Only 50 percent of young people vote, but up to 70 percent of seniors vote.
Recently I ran into this “entitlement mentality” in my own family. A person who probably votes Republican had no problem telling everyone who would listen, “Obama is going raise my retirement age.” Oh, whoa is me! People just can’t wait to ride the gravy train. Social Security is the biggest ponzi scheme ever perpetrated on the American public. Man it sucks to be on the bottom of the pyramid.
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