Category — environmentalism and animal rights

Well, this isn’t good. William Tucker at NRO explains why thermal energy probably won’t be able to cross the finish line as a viable source of “alternative energy”.  Fascinating article.

Now we’re having fun, though that’s what conservatives and libertarians do, since we all know leftists have no sense of humour. Not only is there a t-shirt, there’s this. Enjoy!

Brilliant! From Minnesotans for Global Warming, and they may count this native Michigander as one of their own if they like.

“Truly Nixonian in nature…”

“This could prove to be climate science’s Vietnam.”

“Al Gore Wishes He Never Invented The Internet”

Though you may have heard this already, there’s a chance you haven’t, since the MSM have completely ignored it (though one UK writer is advising you dump any shares in ‘green’ companies immediately), so…Here goes. It broke at the beginning of my battle with Whatever This Bug is, so I’m late, but it’s too big to ignore, particularly since I’ve thought “climate change” was a God-insulting hoax to begin with. Though still getting my arms around it, I’ll give you what I can. Let’s just say this is so darned big that even the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has said,

…this ought to be reason enough for Congress, and the poo-bahs at next month’s U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, to back off any dramatic new anti-carbon measures until we know whether the scandal goes deeper than this.

Just a few short days ago, thousands of emails apparently from the Climate Research Unit of England’s global-warming alarmist University of East Anglia magically appeared on the internet. These emails, if they’re genuine (to me, this is all to elaborate to be itself a hoax), prove that those perpetrating the massive scam that is “global climate change” have intentionally, erm, lost or destroyed or ignored altogether data suggesting that not only is there no global warming, that it’s not man-made or man-caused. Indeed, some emails specifically say things like, “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temperatures to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from the 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline [in temperature].” This one, by the way, has already inspired its own t-shirt.

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Update Passes, 219-212. DO NOT GIVE UP. Move on to your Senators.

Ohio’s John Boehner is, God bless him, filibustering on the floor right now. A Mr. Smith moment? Guess it’s better to take a stand late than not at all, particularly when the republic is on the altar of this fascist, scam-founded bill. Boehner is reading through the 300-page addendum Waxman, aka “Phantom of the Congress”, slammed into the HR 2454 bill at three o’clock in the morning. You can watch live on CSPAN.

CALL THE HOUSE NOW and tell them to VOTE NO on cap & trade!

EVERYONE needs to call their Congresscreature and tell them to vote NO, NO, NO on the cap & tax bill tomorrow. Those of you in states with agricultural or industrial interests and Democrat Congresscreature should be especially active, because I’m hearing reports that these Congresscreatures are wavering because of the effects of this nefarious, destructive bill. This is the most expensive tax in history, and it will crush this nation.

Cap and trade will destroy freedom, just like the healthcare bill. CALL NOW! Email, fax, visit! You can obtain all the necessary information from Legistalker.

Remember, if you CALL NOW!, you’ll win: Freedom! Liberty! Wealth! Freedom of movement! The right to turn on your heat or A/C when necessary! The right to choose which vehicle you drive! The ability to go on vacation where and when you please! Electric bills that aren’t $500 a month! Yes, if you CALL NOW!, these gifts and more will be YOURS!

Update
Economic Impact By Congressional District of Waxman-Markey

Cap & Trade’s Biggest Losers: Electrical Appliances & Equipment

Update II Y’all, when you write/call/visit your Congresscreature, do try and find something *nice*, something to compliment them about. I thanked Rep. Mollohan for voting to stand with the Iranian people in HR 560 (because let’s face it, I’m not sure I really appreciate anything else he’s voted on of late). Check Legistalker, check the voting records, and try to throw them a bone so you don’t just sound…enraged. Which you understandably are. Just an idea.

Also, to the President: You arrogant son of a pansy… You are going to “allow” me to keep my doctors? Excuse me? Who are you? YOU work for ME. [Read more →]

The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Its call for people to renounce energy and to rejoice at darkened skyscrapers makes its real meaning unmistakably clear: Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization.

The real meaning of “Earth Hour”, Keith Lockitch

Those wishing to celebrate Earth Hour…do not need to take part in Human Achievement Hour. “Earth Hour is a viable alternative to human achievement hour,” says CEI Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer. “Those who wish to celebrate Earth Hour should sit in the dark, turn off the heat, and breathe as little as possible.”

Around the world tomorrow night (unless you’re one of those feisty rebels in Nashville, from what I’ve heard, though students there are being encouraged to wear black or dark blue tomorrow to promote the ‘blackout’), people are supposed to be shutting out the lights for “earth hour“. Doing so is meant to “cast a vote for earth” and draw attention to the scam that is “global warming”.

We will not be participating.

In fact, my intention is to flip on every freaking light switch in our house in protest and as my way of casting a vote…for liberty. For progress. (Real progress, not Obama’s idea of it.)

This sort of thing is not just indicative of people’s wishing to care for the earth, but it is their demanding that mankind submit to it. Not only is this mindset remarkable hubris, but borderline (if not complete) derangement. Certainly we are to be good caretakers of the planet God has graciously blessed us with, but for one thing, we are to place no other gods before God. We are not to worship the creation instead of its (and our) Creator. Furthermore, God told us to subdue the earth, wisely utilizing its resources to glorify Himself and to provide for ourselves. He told us to have dominion over it, and explained that He had given it and all the living things within it for our own good. Indeed, it was to man and only man God said these things; to the other living things, He only commanded that they be fruitful and multiply. Man alone was given both the authority and the order to take advantage of all earth has to offer. *

Obviously, those participating in tomorrow’s absurd “earth hour” don’t care about this, and some might even revel in turning out their lights as a symbol not only of their solidarity with the planet but as symbolic of flatly (and childishly) rebelling against God the Creator.

There is another angle, though (it is, unfortunately, necessary for conservatives and Christians to point out all of the above as well as the asterisked bit when discussing environmental concerns, because folks tend to think we’re all for endangered whaleburgers and spicy condor wings dipped in cheetah-bald eagle sauce), and Meghan Cox Gurdon explains it perfectly.

On our kitchen bulletin board, we used to have a dog-eared Mercator-style photograph of the world…The image was shot from space at night, and at a glance, it showed where on Earth people could use artificial light when the sun goes down.

You could see the shape of the oceans by the glimmering of electric light along their edges. Large parts of Europe and the United States were lit up like, well, Los Angeles.

The entire length of Japan blazed in the darkness. Africa, partly because of poverty and partly because it’s just so big, had only pinpoints showing areas of concentrated population.

And it was obvious where the border lay between North Korea and South Korea, because north of the 38th parallel everything was pitch black.

As I enjoyed pointing out to the children, this wasn’t a map that showed electricity: It was a picture of progress, prosperity and freedom. For by their darkness, shall ye recognize poverty and tyranny!

But now, this coming Saturday, we’re all supposed to embrace the darkness.

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Visiting my kinesiologist a few weeks ago with an Acton Institute book in hand, I found myself being chastised by the good doctor for not utilizing winter more wisely—that is, reading every garden book I could get my little paws on. Dr. V is a master gardner (honestly, his gardens belong in a magazine), and he and I enjoy chatting about our yards and our fantasy yards. As a semi-beginner, though (planting things in the actual earth as opposed to a balcony full of pots and buckets are quite a ways apart), it’s true that I should be a little more proactive about educating myself in such things, particularly with my grand garden expansion plans. Since I’ve nothing else to do, of course.

(Hey, the book is about environmental stewardship, after all…just building a foundation…)

Anyhow, he’s right, I should spend these cold months reading up on the plant world, so I’m better prepared to properly care for the plants God allows me to put into our own little plot of dirt down here. Duly penitent, I started reading through my long-neglected “Gardening” folder in the RSS reader. Usually the stuff I find there isn’t exactly of general interest (and more often than not, every single garden blogger seems to believe all other garden bloggers, readers, and gardeners are hard-core environmentalists with the budget to put cisterns beneath their homes while being willing not to shoot the deer eating the roses and veggies).

But one of those more, ah, government-worshipping blogs (and truly, I can’t recall which or I’d credit them) pointed to a Minnesotan gent named the Renegade Gardner, who included the following wonderfulness in his version of year-end awards (love his gardening philosophy, by the way). Are you familiar with…Locavores?

Restaurants preparing locally grown food is a wonderful concept, and an even better reality, where enhanced flavors due to freshness coupled with reduced energy consumption from transport provide a real benefit to businesses and consumers. At the grocery store or farmer’s market, buying produce, dairy products and meats grown and raised nearby, while hardly a brand new opportunity, is also a simple choice that makes sense.

Of course, it wasn’t long before a small but vocal portion of Americans embraced the “locavore” movement and proclaimed it as the perfect solution to every food supply and energy consumption ill. Often entwined with other extremists from the organic food and animal rights brigades, they wonder how anyone could be so stupid as to not join them in envisioning a future society where each neighborhood diligently grows its own food and purchases what it can’t at nearby markets, supplied by small farmers who raise happy pigs and free-range chickens on the outskirts of town.

Well, humans tried that. It was called The Middle Ages, and if that had remained our food production modus operandi, there wouldn’t be any humans left on the planet to attempt it a second time (much to the pleasure, however ephemeral, of the animal rights extremists). [Read more →]

So the amusing folks over at PETA are beginning a campaign to re-name fish “Sea Kittens”* in order to make it more difficult, psychologically or vocally, to order fish. According to the rationality-impaired,

“If everyone started calling fish ’sea kittens,’ they’d be a lot less likely to violently kill them for food, painfully hook them for ’sport,’ or cruelly confine them to aquariums,” a spokeswoman said.

Note that last bit there? Remember, the goal of PETA and other animal-”rights” groups is not only compulsory veganism (don’t get me started), but the banning of pet ownership.

Well. Let PETA be PETA, I say.

Though one wonders: Will we now see a spike in fish sales thanks to the humungous numbers of cat-haters in the world?

Just curious. [Read more →]

Well, this is a marvellous little nature story, and y’all know how I love to share good news, too. It looks like America’s roadsides are becoming prime habitats for our native bees. When spruced up with native plants, roadsides attract nearly twice as many bees and 50% more bees than roadsides that haven’t been prettified. This revelation comes from University of Kansas grad Jennifer Hopwood.

Hopwood collected bees from several roadside sites in Kansas that had been restored to native plants, and compared them with nearby, unrestored roadsides. Not only did Hopwood find that native plants hosted more than twice as many bees and almost 30 more types than weedy sites, but she also found that this relationship held regardless of how many flowers were present.

“Even if there were a ton of exotic flowers, the roadsides that had native flowers in them still attracted more bees,” Hopwood said.

…The bees seemed to fare fine despite their proximity to speeding windshields: There were no fewer bees in plots next to heavily trafficked roads than in less-trafficked areas.

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This is fun, especially when you consider the fact that conservatives and Republicans are supposed to be closed-minded bigots who don’t want anything to do with those not sharing their perspective.

Our next Vice President is a lifelong hunter who fills her freezer and feeds her family with the flesh of hooved mammals that she proudly stalked, killed and field dressed herself.

…Yet her speechwriter is an animal-rightist and vegan activist whose book was hailed by PETA in 2003 as their “Book of the Year!” And for excellent reasons. In his book, Governor Palin’s speechwriter denounces hunters as: “assassins … miscreants… bullies and cowards taking out their problems on animals.” …Matthew Scully denounces the sport of hunting as “a debauchery..an abomination!” Hunting magazines are “the pornography of blood-lust. And like other obscenities today, a multi-million dollar industry…. Sport hunters operate in a subculture like pornographers.”

…”groups like Ducks Unlimited, Quail Unlimited and Pheasants Forever, far from demonstrating those timeless “rural values” that “urbanites” simply can’t understand–these organizations reflect some of the worst traits of modern society.”

Wow, strong words! Yet Palin and Scully aren’t at each other’s throats. Amazing!

Now, if you are a hunter, you’ll want to read the entire post from American Thinker’s Humberto Fontova. He does a fine job of pointing out that, unlike most Americans, hunters actually contribute more to the well-being of nature than your average citizen, including PETA peeps. To the tune of nearly $2 billion dollars in 2007, to be exact.

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When actress Jessica Simpson recently wore a T-shirt bearing the words “Real Girls Eat Meat,” the animal-rights zealots pounced. “Jessica Simpson might have a right to wear what she wants,” a PETA spokesperson said, “but she doesn’t have a right to eat what she wants — eating meat is about suffering and death.”

Oh my gosh. I cannot stand these PETA flakes. Go away. YOU PEOPLE are about suffering and death, because your are control-freaks and socialists…why not ask all of the animals your own organization has killed? Eh? What country are we in when we don’t have a “right to eat what we want”? Excuse me?

The argument made by animal-rights activists is that meat is murder, while veganism is supposedly cruelty-free.

Moreover, even if the relative number of animals killed were the morally decisive issue, veganism might not be the most ethical solution. In 2001, S. L. Davis of the Department of Animal Sciences at Oregon State University, Corvallis, wrote a paper claiming that the diet most likely to result in the deaths of the fewest animals would be beef, lamb, and dairy — not vegan. Davis found a study that measured mouse population density per hectare in grain fields both before and after harvest and estimated a harvest casualty rate of ten mice per hectare. Then, he multiplied that figure by 120 million hectares of farmland in the U.S.; meaning that 1.2 billion mice would die each year in food production if America became a wholly vegan country. Next, he estimated the number of animals that would be killed if half of our fields were dedicated to raising grass eating forage animals (cows, calves, sheep, lambs, etc.) from which to obtain meat. He found that there would Be 300,000 fewer animal deaths (.9 billion) annually from such an omnivorous diet than the number of deaths (1.2 billion mice) that would be caused from a universal vegan diet.

Contending that meat eating is somehow murder while veganism is morally pristine because it doesn’t result in intentional animal deaths is factually false and self-delusional. No matter your diet, animals surely died that you might live.

No comment necessary.

Michael Savage and Thomas Sowell have had a lot to say about autism in the past few weeks. Personally…I tend to agree with what they have to say. Yes, it’s a horrible thing, but with my knowledge of psychology and so forth, the numbers and the way they are skyrocketing is not making sense, other than for two reasons: increased monitoring or doctors and pharmaceutical companies wanting to make a killing on over-diagnosing.

Being a late talker or walker means the child is autistic, when…we’re all different! God has given us each different personalities and development cycles, but now doctors are cramming children into a very rigid definition of “normal”. Autism isn’t as easy to pinpoint as some want you to think; a child who is quiet, thoughtful, likes to read, and doesn’t like loud or chaotic environments can (and often will) be diagnosed as autistic. Lack of gregariousness or a dislike of sports might mean a child falls into “the autistic spectrum”.

Once upon a time, such a child would just be considered “quiet” or “bashful” or “a bookworm”, but no more; in a way, this is really similar to normally active kids being diagnosed as ADD or having a hyperactivity disorder. We’re medicating normal behaviour to fit it into our own idea of “normal”, when “normal” for me is sitting with a good book by myself all night while “normal” for PKs is more likely being the life of the party. We’re all different; God made us that way; just as the human body has many parts each with their own purpose, so does humanity as a whole. A world of nothing but chatty salespeople or, God forbid, politicians, would not be pleasant. [Read more →]

There is so much going on.  Tonight we’ve got food (aw yeah!), ObaMessiah news (whoooooo boy), “green” economics, fascinating news about happiness, a twice-born baby (really!) and more good stuff.   I will, of course, be covering tomorrow’s Belmont festivities live, as usual.  Unfortunately…I’m not really sure I am excited.  Big Brown’s trainer, Richard Dutrow, has quite the doping rap sheet, and that rap sheet includes giving the steroid Winstrol to Big Brown.   Winstrol is the same drug some baseball players and disgraced Olympian Ben Johnson have gotten into trouble for using, though a Pimlico veterinarian has told the WaPo it’s used “only” for promoting weight gain…and building muscle mass.  Sigh. Dutrow has told the press that BB hasn’t gotten his monthly shot of Winstrol since just before the Derby, and would not receive more prior to tomorrow’s Belmont, but…I don’t know.  The whole thing has just tainted Big Brown for me, big time.  I know, the horse can’t help what they’re pumping into him, but it seems dirty to me.  Larry Bramlage, who I really respect, generally has no problem with it, but even he says it isn’t necessary for top-level horses like Big Brown. New York magazine has a fun take on the controversy.   California is ready to ban steroids, New York state is moving to do so…a lot of racing professionals and fans are hoping for an across-the-board ban on the performance drugs.  They’re not good for the sport, but more importantly, they’re definitely not good for the animals. 

Just in time for the summer heat, I’m recycling something I posted last summer: 100 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less.  Lots of great, mostly healthy ideas there that don’t require a lot of prep, and best of all, don’t require that stove to be on for long, if at all.   Amazingly, though, they forgot the tastiest and simplest of all: a tomato salad.  Dice up your Romas, toss them with EVOO, balsamic, kosher salt, and a little freshly ground pepper.  While they soak in the yumminess, chiffonade a bunch of fresh basil and slice up some nice, soft mozzarella cheese.  Toss and enjoy!   If you like, serve with crusty bread to soak up the dressing.  This one is a classic.  

Good, old-fashioned scrambled eggs with Greek yogurt is another tasty, quick supper.  Or top crusty (or even stale) bread with goat cheese and roasted red peppers and mushrooms (toss those in when you’ve just 30 seconds or a minute left in cooking) that have been quickly sauteed in an olive oil-balsamic emulsion, kosher salt, garlic, a squirt of lemon juice, and capers.  It’s one of my favourites, and exceedingly satisfying for something meatless.

Any summer recipes you like?    

  Unsurprisingly, “going green” isn’t good for the economy. 

“This week…the Big Three idled light truck factories in Wisconsin and Ohio and cut shifts at others while ramping up production in its Lordstown, Ohio plant which makes the compact Chevy Cobalt.…local officials say they get little sleep because low-profit margin vehicles like the Cobalt mean the U.S. plants that manufacture them are always on the bubble to be outsourced to low-wage countries like Mexico. [Read more →]

First off…if anyone knows CSS, I need your help. Yes, I’m willing to pay. While HTML is old hat, I’ve not the time to learn this newfangled stuff. Email is on the left-hand side.

It’s my day today, so…just some fun stuff (har!). Though I had some great stuff lined up Friday, something strange happened and it all floated off into nothingness. Still, there are some things going on, and stuck here as I am with a month-long upper respiratory infection…all I want for my birthday this year is for this thing to go away. And perhaps some garden perennials money…My in-laws did send some lily of the valley, my very favourite flower. They’ll bloom here in the house and then be planted outdoors. I’m very excited, and it’s great fun watching them grow every day. They’re going into the memorial garden we’re planting for Remmy. [Read more →]

For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any defense or justification], because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks.

But instead they became futile and [a]godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made simpletons of themselves]. And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and birds and beasts and reptiles…they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator…

Romans 1:20-23, 25

According to all of my crafty friends and this website, today is “blog action day” for the environment, a day upon which every blogger needs to get his or her dander up and blog “for the environment”. Of course, this is all from a leftist, Goreacle-adoring, earth-worshipping corner, one that leaves God out by its very language “the environment” as opposed to “creation”, which is really what we’re dealing with here. No, “creation” suggests someone or something had something to do with all we see, whereas “environment” is just sort of…there. Nothing miraculous or amazing to see here, folks…just move right along. Look, there’s Al with his Peace Prize!*

Most of us, I believe, are all for good stewardship of the earth. The last thing I want when harvesting my veggies is to grab a tomato only to turn it around and see that it has little eyes blinking at me thanks to some bizarre tainting of the soil. Certainly, you feel the same.

Yet because being good stewards is natural and good, it’s easy for many who aren’t really paying attention to get sucked into the whole environmentalism movement, as has been proven by the leaders of several major churches within Christianity. After all, what can be wrong with caring about the earth? Nothing, really, of course, provided we keep things in their proper place. [Read more →]

Actual Drudge headline: “POLL: English believe environmental fears being used to raise taxes“.

Glad common sense and a healthy suspicion of government seems to be kicking in at last somewhere in the world.

Government’s goal is, too often, self-perpetuation, and in the hands of some it becomes a means of draconian control of the populace by one means or another (like making it illegal for people to smoke with children in the car). So it is with environmentalism.

Also, this is disturbing at least six ways from Sunday.

Why is anyone whipping up chimeras in order to harvest their said “miracle cells” before killing them? [Read more →]

The headline on Drudge today both surprised me and didn’t surprise me at the same time:

Of course, that this comes just days after Denver’s coldest June morning in over 50 years, and Drudge also dug up information about Denver that reveals 9 of Denver’s 12 warmest years took place before 1955. People were driving around in gigantic metal behemoths and having rip-roaring barbeques on a weekly basis in 1955.

It’s the details so far released regarding Denver’s “proposal” (hmmm, is it a five-year plan?) that should send chills up the spine of freedom- and capitalism-loving peoples nationwide, because while Denver is a granola-crunching, Birkenstocks-and-socks wearing haven for hippies and anarchists, this could easily be a trend resulting in either nationwide acts like this or big cities following suit.

Much of the city’s plan involves finding ways to encourage energy conservation by mandating efficiency standards for new construction and setting standards for older homes that would be enforced when the home is sold.

The city also would give incentives for car pooling and the use of hybrids and other low-polluting vehicles, possibly by giving them priority in parking.

To cut back on use of landfills – methane gas from landfills is a major contributor to global warming – the plan would encourage recycling and charge residents for the amount of trash they throw away.

Denver may ask voters to approve higher rates for “excessive” use of electricity and natural gas. The plan also floats the idea of using insurance premiums to penalize people who drive long distances.

…The plan suggests a $10-a-month fee per household that would fund the replacement of alley trash bins with garbage cans. That would allow the city to charge households for extra garbage pickup.

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Fun With Al; Hillary Tells The Truth

I can’t decide which is more apropos, can you? Hee hee…There are plenty more here. Wish I could remember where I found it, but…I can’t. Enjoy anyhow, all right?

Now, this I meant to bring up the other day, but then our President had to go and say some very ill-advised, poorly thought-out things and turn the beaten-down conservatives who’ve backed him with rolling eyes and flinching consciences into raging bulls. Still, it’s not any less important. Frankly, it should send a chill down your spine. Behold the true Hillary, a daughter of Marx (not that we were unaware):

In a policy address yesterday in New Hampshire, Mrs. Clinton laid out an economic vision that envisages an expanded role for government as part of an effort to foster a society of “shared prosperity.” She assailed the policies of the Bush administration, saying they have benefited the wealthy and large corporations, particularly oil companies, at the expense of the middle class. “For the past six years,” she told an audience of hundreds at the Manchester School of Technology, “it’s been like going back to the era of the robber barons.”

…”It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few,time to reject the idea of an ‘on your own’ society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity,” she said. “I prefer a ‘we’re all in it together’ society.”

(All emphasis for the rest of the day are added unless otherwise noted)

Yikes. In case you aren’t sure, another word for this kind of society is “socialism”, which is just a fancy-sounding euphemism for “hellish suffering and privation”. [Read more →]

This is the most ridiculous, masturbatory imbecility I’ve read in a while. And I read a lot. I became completely revolted on page two, the part about Jessica Usborne:

“Given the urgency of global warming, shouldn’t you not only educate people but also help implement the changes that will be necessary—by running for President?”

The place erupted, and Usborne dipped down onto one knee and bowed her head. Her dark hair fell across her eyes and her voice rose. “Please! I’ll vote for you!” she cried above the crowd’s roar…

Good heavens. All hail Messiah Gore! Please, Al! SAVE US! Save us from ourselves! You are the only one who can do it! Please fulfill us and our desires! We know if we vote for you all our wildest dreams will come true!

Oh. Sorry, Pedro.

I have had it up to here with this man-made climate change garbage. Up to HERE *holds hand high above head*. I’m watching some extremely intelligent people buy hook, line and sinker into something that, if they look into it, is built on a very loose foundation.

Al Gore is the world’s biggest and best revenge of the nerd story. [Read more →]

So, someone from church had a suggestion for me regarding the whole ‘Summer Nights’ BBQ thing the church does on Wednesdays – I had mentioned to him that since I know only about 3 people, and can never be sure that they’ll be around on Wednesdays (if I can even find them among the massive crowd) I feel sad and pathetic bringing swordfish or mahi mahi steaks and grilling them all by myself, then eating alone and not even being able to share my extra food (maybe people there just think I am with someone else or something and don’t need to be talked to? Who knows?).

I supposed to him via email that I could grill my fishies while dancing around the grill wearing strategically placed coconuts and a grass skirt in the hopes of getting some conversation started with the pre-podded congregants. Why not? It would be fun, right? And a better way of getting people to talk to me than, say, feigning death in the lobby (still not sure even that would work…) or bursting into an aria at an inappropriate moment during service.

He, however, had a far more amusing suggestion: [Read more →]

A fun little news flash about the inanity of the liberals from one of the very few men daring enough to don the sexy-as-heck fedora, Matt Drudge (anyone want to take a shot at who the other one is?):

FOX’s global warming thriller THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is turning into a political lightening rod.

A rally featuring former VP and environmental advocate Al Gore will be held a couple of blocks away from the pic’s May 24 preem in Gotham and hosted by MoveOn.org, DAILY VARIETY is reporting on Wednesday.

First problem. Al Gore, MoveOn.org, Gotham, and a FOX disaster movie. Or is that in and of itself the disaster? [Read more →]

You know, these animal rights people are very annoying. Seriously. And I’ve become so accustomed to their bullheadedness about most issues that I read about their escapades and, generally, ignore them. After all, a protest at Wendy’s can only annoy one so many times.

With that attitude, I began reading
this interview with Priscilla Feral, who is the president of “Friends of Animals.” Ms. Feral seems to have taken a special interest in Alaska, having visited the state about twice yearly over the past 25 years. (All of us should be so fortunate!)

Currently, she is challenging Alaska’s aerial wolf-kill program. Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve checked up on the status of wolves in Alaska, but if I recall, they are actually doing quite well thanks to tourism (don’t kill the geese laying the golden eggs, after all!) and plenty of game. Feral’s efforts to stop the wolf-kill program has, thus far, failed. [Read more →]

<B>EDIT:</B> Since I hate PETA so much, and <i>this information is important,</i> I’m bumping the post up from yesterday afternoon. PETA. Warm and fuzzy, animal-loving, friendly. Right? Um, wrong. Of course, unless you’ve been living in a cave or under a rock, you doubtless already know this. And comedians Penn & Teller, in their new show slamming the way Americans lap up silliness the way a dog laps up antifreeze, have made PETA target numero uno. [Read more →]