Monday
08Feb2010

Too Scary, Too True

DateMonday, February 8, 2010 at 1:57PM

This will be our future if the liberal-progressive-socialist-environmentalists get their way. That said, it’s also wildly funny. This is the kind of send-up that infuriates the enviro-lefties: it drives them crazy that we aren’t smart enough to realize that they’re simply right about everything, how dare we question the Church of Global Warming Arisen! Feel free to jump on the blog page and leave a comment about Audi!

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Monday
08Feb2010

There Ought to be a Law

DateMonday, February 8, 2010 at 10:27AM

Californian's get what they vote for, unfortunately. Propsition 2, placing restrictions on how producers treat egg laying chickens, passed almost 2 to 1. Even the University of California before the 2008 election predicted the result would be the departure of the entire egg industry from California, just as we entered the worst economic decline since the Great Depression. Now there are reports that other states are licking their chops in hopes of providing a safe haven for our chicken industry.

This highlights the regularly reported lies regarding the exodus from California. We are exporting productive classes while retaining and growing the dependent classes. This cannot continue indefinitely. The wailing of the liberal-progressive-socialists about the income gap or growing class divide is only exacerbated by their policies. Unless you work in government, you should be preparing to seek opportunity elsewhere if the liberal-progressive-socialist-environmentalist agenda is passed. This is not extremist screed, it is a prediction based on ample experiences from elsewhere. 

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Friday
05Feb2010

Whistling Isn’t Going to Help!

DateFriday, February 5, 2010 at 12:05PM

Even as Algore, liberal-progressive-socialists, and the scientific consensus crowd continue their “whistling past the graveyard” routine, climate gate is not going away but starting to snowball. Those really interested in following the threads of deceit and obfuscation are going to be kept busy. Have no doubt, courts worldwide are eventually going to get involved: the evidentiary process will be the only way to get to the truth. But for now, a few recent updates:

  • The BBC reports that the IPCC has just admitted that the IPCC’s terrifying prediction that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 is a lie.
  • London’s TIMES reports that IPCC claims that global warming would wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest are fully bogus.
  • The polar bear, poster child for the Church of Global Warming Arisen, is not endangered, but thriving (not that recent, but poorly reported in the US).
  • The Mirror reports that the monolithic scientific consensus is starting to erode.
  • The Guardian reports that IPCC scientists knew critical temperature data from a 1990 Chinese study were faled, but used them anyway and tried to cover it up.

The global warming movement has died, and this has some important political and cultural consequences here in California. The global warming meltdown confirms the populist suspicions about arrogantly clueless politicians invoking faked ’science’ to impose self-defeating cockamamie mandates on long-suffering Californians supported by a mainstream media blinded by faith. The most obvious is their Love Child, AB 32.

CFCR does not refute the reality of climate change, just the overheated rhetoric of Chicken Little alarmists with hidden agendas. Keep in mind that Algore is poised to become the first green billionaire. It’s always fun to see the hypocrisy of the liberal-progressive-socialists: evil Republicans are the only pols with secret money scams, liberal-progressive-socialists are in it for the common good, man.

We all need to keep in mind that opportunities to change the rules of a debate are rare, really rare. We’d darn well better make hay while the sun shines!!

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Wednesday
03Feb2010

Science Lied, Children Died

DateWednesday, February 3, 2010 at 12:10PM

How do we explain the irrationality of parents continuing to forego immunization of their kids in the belief that it causes autism? The British medical journal The Lancet today retracted the original 1998 paper that first made this unsupported claim. The original study was never reproduced by subsequent research, but many parents continue to put children at risk by not immunizing. In 2000 the CDC declared the United States cleared of measles, but insufficient immunization rates brought the disease back for an encore 2008 outbreak. Britain saw measles deaths in children at the same time.

The belief that humanity should be informed and organized around science became popular amongst intellectuals in the first half of the 19th Century. The now defunct Religion of Humanity traced its roots to the fervid mind of French social philosopher August Comte (1798-1857). He not only suggested that science must be applied to the social realm, but that it could only work if people believed in science like a secular religion. Think “Yes, We Can” chants.

We can now see the broad outlines of a New Religion of Humanity standing on the shifting sands of science. And like any religion in which there is no definitive text, it can be pointed in any direction, for any purpose, for any cause. Parents’ belief in immunization induced autism has all the religious fervor of radical Islam, including rallies, rhythmic chanting, and demonization of the unfaithful. It’s ironic that in the New Religion of Humanity, faith again trumps actual science.

The Church of Global Warming Arisen is a branch of the New Religion of Humanity. Like the autism scam above, the “science” of global warming has fallen apart. Just because we’re not seeing it in the daily news, don’t think that last Fall’s revelations are not having an effect. The courts are eventually going to get involved, and the perfidy of the global warming consensus will come to light.

Moral of the Story: “Look to the skies!” (uh, nope, that’s The Thing, 1951)

REAL Moral of the Story: “Be skeptical, be very skeptical.”

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Wednesday
03Feb2010

Monkey Finally Types Poem

DateWednesday, February 3, 2010 at 10:28AM

Many thinking people must have stared in wonder at Sunday’s New York Times column by Paul Krugman. Krugman is an economist, but in print is an apologist for every tax and spend, statist, or extremist environmental program proposed by liberal-progressive-socialists. He became increasingly shrill as the country started to figure out the realities of the Obama agenda.

So what was different with Sundays’ column? Well, he managed to get something mostly right.

Only a bipartisan effort could possibly craft banking regulations like those that permitted our banking-housing debacle. Krugman makes clear that Canada did not permit the kind of risky lending and securitization of mortgages permitted in the US. No, they chose slow and sure and safe.

Don’t assume Krugman has suddenly seen the light; he has unwavering faith that the way to respond to the current crazy quilt of banking regulation is a new federal bureaucracy. He seems to have forgotten Albert Einstein”s immortal:

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

The banks and their buds in Wall Street (Timothy Geithner et al.) and housing activists (Barney Frank et al.) will squeal, but it’s time to return to the slow, sure, and safe.

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