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Friday, November 27, 2009

GLOBAL WARMING WAS ALWAYS A HOAX


The recent release of hacked data from the main supplier of atmospheric research to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has clearly demonstrated how fraudulent the hysteria over global warming is.


Before the release of the hacked data, I was among many who already knew that global warming was an invented phenomenon and that it was not backed by science. The release of the falsified data and e-mails of snarky scheming to suppress actual research was just a sad end to a pathetic effort to profit from grant money being handed out by the metric ton. This was exactly as I had suspected.

I studied the issue for a while and was long ago convinced that there was simply no way that a trace gas like carbon dioxide could build up to the point to altering the Earth's climate. Knowing that carbon dioxide represents 0.038% by molar weight of the Earth's atmosphere, I was fairly certain that a "barely-there" gas could not trap heat in any significant way as we were being dragooned into accepting.

We were shrilly told by many "experts" that humans were adding too much carbon dioxide into the air and that the increase would cause the oceans to fizz like a freshly opened can of Coca-cola.


We were told that the increase in carbon dioxide would trap more heat from the sun and that this would lead to the wholesale melting of the globe's ice caps and the subsequent rise of the oceans by 2 meters.

We were frequently told by earnest scientists that the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would cause diseases like the West Nile Virus to traverse the continents because warmer climates would increase the range of virus-bearing mosquitoes.


We were also told that massive hurricanes would tear the skin off the faces of our children owing due to carbon dioxide-induced fury. Not only would these hurricanes be stronger, they would strike so frequently that traffic lights would still be swinging on their posts from hurricanes as the next ones blew into town.

I decided to look into some mathematics to give me a sense of the magnitude of the crisis and what I found surprised me.

Here are the steps that I followed to get to the conclusion that climate change was a giant money-grubbing scam.

Note: I will only use data published on websites that are generally trusted by everyone e.g. NASA and Wikipedia. I don't want to be accused of restricting my data-mining to servers owned by Fox News and Dick Cheney.

Current weight of Co2 in the atmosphere: 750 gigatons. (This information is taken from

this simple chart published on a NASA site).







Use this chart to add up all the carbon reserves on the earth's surface like this:


610 Gigatons: All vegetation on Earth


1,580 Gigatons: All carbon in soils


1,020 Gigatons: All carbon in surface ocean water


38,100 Gigatons: All carbon in the deep ocean


150 Gigatons: All carbon locked in sediments


700 Gigatons: All dissolved organics


3 Gigatons: All Marine biota


4,000 Gigatons: Fossil fuels and cement production




The total comes to 45,514 gigatons of carbon. (I am excluding the carbon locked in the mantle and other places that will not likely release the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in the next million or so years.)


Of that total, only a portion can be deliberately released by humans into the atmosphere by burning. For example, it is not possible for humans to release carbon that is held in the deep oceans in any significant way. The only carbon pools that could conceivably be put into the atmosphere as CO2 by humans are: 1) Fossil Fuels 2) Vegetation and 3) Marine life (if brought to the surface and burned).

If all vegetation were to be cut down and put in a huge bonfire and if all fossil fuels were to be tapped and pumped in massive open pits and if all of the living things in the ocean were trawled up and pulled on land into massive stinking heaps, the three collections of carbon-rich material would add up to 4064 gigatons of carbon.

Now take that amount and multiply it by 1 billion to get the number of tons. This will give you the amount of 4,064,000,000,000 tons.

Now, take the tonnage and multiply it by 1 million to get the number of grams. You get 4,064,000,000,000,000,000 grams. That is a staggering number (Four thousand and sixty four quadrillion grams) but it will make sense soon.

A mole of carbon weighs 12 grams. To get the number of moles of carbon on earth that humans can burn, divide the total number of grams by 12. You get the number 338,666,666,666,667,000.

OK...do you remember this simple formulae for the combustion of carbon with abundant oxygen? C + O2 = CO2.

That means that burning one mole of carbon in an oxygen-rich environment produces 1 mole of carbon dioxide.

This means that if you burn every combustible shred of carbon on the face of the earth, you will end up with 338,666,666,666,667,000 moles of carbon dioxide. Now, let's work backwards to see how much carbon dioxide is produced in gigatons.

We know that 1 mole of carbon dioxide is 44.01 grams. Check out wiki if you doubt it but the math is easy. 1 mole of carbon, weighing 12 grams per mole plus the 16 x 2 for the oxygen gives you roughly 44.01.

Multiply the number of moles by 44.01 to get the number of grams of carbon dioxide that would be obtained from the epic burning. The number is 14,904,720,000,000,000,000 grams. Divide this by 1,000,000 to get the number of tons and then divide that result by 1,000,000,000 to get the number of gigatons of CO2 that would be released into the atmosphere if we burned everything in the mother of all bonfires.

Here is the number: 14904.72 gigatons of CO2.

From here, the math is simple. If 750 gigatons represents 0.038% of the atmosphere, what does 14904.72 gigatons represent? The answer: 0.83%.

WOW...burning all fossil fuels, all trees and all marine life would result in the CO2 levels reaching 0.83% and then just below 0.9% if you then add the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

Breathing-wise, 0.9 percent is quite livable.
Here is a chart for carbon dioxide toxicity just so you get a sense of what 0.9% CO2 in the atmosphere means.

0.038% - Current percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere by molar weight

1% - CO2 can reach this level in a stuffy crowded room. Prolonged exposure to this environment causes drowsiness.


2% - CO2 is a mild narcotic and causes increased heart rate along with (oddly enough) reduced hearing.


5% - CO2 causes dizziness, confusion and difficulty breathing.

8% - CO2 causes headache, sweating, tremors and loss of consciousness after exposure for between 5 - 10 minutes.

So there we have it folks. If you burn all burnable carbon, you get a harmless 0.9%.

To get some perspective on what this means, I made a graph based on the numbers that I found on this website and I added the levels that would be attained if my carbon burning program were enforced. For clarity, I showed my burning program taking a few years to complete.

Click on the image to expand it. I left it long to give the right perspective on CO2 and its place in the atmosphere.




The last remaining question is this: Can a rise in concentration of carbon dioxide from 0.038% to 0.9% actually cause the atmosphere to retain heat significantly more than it did to begin with?

Is CO2 such a good retainer of heat that a trace increase in the atmosphere can cause the atmosphere to heat up drastically?

Water vapour is far and away the strongest green house gas. Looking at the spectral charts of each element's ability to absorb and scatter radiation, just eyeballing it, it looks like CO2 is only about 5% as effective as water vapour in retaining radiated energy. This is expecially significant when you take into account the fact that Water vapour averages about 2% - 4% of the atmosphere by weight. If you compare CO2 at 0.038% absorbing a fraction of radiated energy from the sun with water vapour at almost 100 time the weight of Co2 and over 20 times the energy absorption, you can only conclude that if any one should get hot and sweaty about atmospheric gasses, they should be concerned about water vapour and not about CO2.


I suspect that the role that CO2 plays in retaining heat on earth has been wildly overstated. Some comparisons have been to Venus which is an extreme greenhouse planet and the 96.5% CO2 in Venus' atmosphere is credited with making the planet's surface a smoldering 465 degrees Celsius.

There is no doubt that this dense CO2 atmosphere is responsible for holding onto that heat but CO2 comprises 96.5% of the atmosphere and there are no geologic or biological carbon sinks to reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Also, it must be remembered, Venus is closer to the sun than the earth is.

The minuscule quantity of CO2 in earth's atmosphere is not likely to be the devastating cause of the greenhouse effect we were being warned about.

Anyway, I hope this revelation of climate scientist fraud will make us all more likely to be skeptical of the claims that the expert make.




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Monday, August 10, 2009
The Fortress

Tall grass brushes by my woollen coat
I push through the dripping leaves
Morning dew falling on my sodden boots


The sun warms the edge of the sky
With a mist of orange light
Touching the curls of blackened clouds

A pause to listen for the sound of trackers

Though the chilling air tells of none
I hasten still toward the East



Toward the long forgotten keep
The citadel at Charmenquay




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Friday, January 02, 2009
ALL THE BEST IN THE NEW YEAR

....and so it begins.

2009 starts off and I have high hopes that it will be a better year than 2008.

2008 was the annus horribilis for me. It was compoundedly the toughest year I have been through.

I have been humbled and chastened.

May the coming year be a year of recovery and renewal.


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Saturday, October 25, 2008
THE ONLY ARGUMENT LEFT

I have been very quiet the last few months watching the US campaign with interest. I have been fairly uninspired by the candidates John McCain and Barrack Obama. As the election season draws to a close, Obama's campaign staff have been pulling ahead with talk of a landslide.

In response to this surge, the McCain campaign has launched a volley of charges related to Obama's associations with known terrorists and other unseemly characters.

In my humble view, even though this aspect of Obama's life is disturbing, it is a waste of time, money and energy to make these associations the main focus of the campaign.
The problem with this tactic is that it is fairly easily deflected with semantic devises (e.g. Obama was only 8 years old when the bombings took place) and McCain's campaign will be hard pressed to keep everyone's attention on the labyrinthine subject as it meanders through the arcane details complete with time charts and faded group photographs. In a short time, the subject will run dry because the parties in the story are in league with the Obama. All they have to do is stonewall any attempts to investigate the matter.

The following is the simple analysis that I have conducted as a hypothetical strategist for the McCain campaign.

1) Obama has run as the candidate of Hope and Change.
2) The voting public, early in the campaign, bought into the idea that Obama can deliver on these two nebulous promises.

McCain's campaign should therefore do everything that it can to demonstrate that Obama cannot in fact deliver on either of these promises.

The way to make this case in the remaining three weeks is to deploy the "2 steps up and 3 steps down" rhetorical device.

Here is how it works:

Obama is promising hope and change BUT:

2) Obama did NOT deliver hope or change in his own city of Chicago.

a) Corruption is ongoing there (Rezko)
b) The education system is still rotten after Obama distributed grant money there. His children do not even attend the education system that he supposedly improved.
c) Chicago leads the nation in violent crime.

3) Obama did NOT deliver hope or change in the state of Illinois.

a) Illinois running record deficits during a time when Obama was a senator there.
b) Illinois has had among the highest unemployment rates in the USA. As Senator, Obama did not improve Illinois's economy nor did he fight against those who he thought should have been improving the economy in the state of Illinois.

The big question is:

How can Obama claim to be able to bring hope and change to the great nation of the United States when he can't even do small things in his own backyard?

3) He did NOT EVEN bring change to his home state of Illinois.
2) He did NOT EVEN bring change to his home town of Chicago.
1) He did NOT EVEN bring hope or change to the small neighbourhood where he worked as a community organizer.

Those who are trusted with little will be trusted with much.

Obama has NOT been trustworthy with even the small things. How can we trust him with our great country?

McCain and Palin need to start hammering this message and holding it against their own records of changing the small things such as the town of Wasilla and the state of Alaska and even Campaign Finance Reform.

With only three weeks left, the message had better sharpen up.

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Thursday, August 14, 2008


In the distance, you can see the ancient volcano called Mt. Kenya. Peaking at 17, 027 feet, she is the 2nd highest mountain in Africa after Mt. Kilimanjaro.

I took this picture on a journey I made to Kenya back in 2001 to attend my grandmother's funeral.

My grandmother had lived all her 104 years with this view of the mountain and we buried her in the deep red volcanic soil she had cultivated to feed her family.

Through famine, war and oppression, she single-handedly raised 12 children because my grandfather had been a casualty of the Mau Mau uprising that raged in the forests visible in the picture. In the dense underbrush, the famous Mau Mau warriors conducted a deadly guerrilla war against the British settlers and against African civilians who had not show adequate loyalty to their cause.

My grandfather was the first African teacher in the province and he was a christian man. His teaching was seen as cooperation with the British colonialists and he disappeared one night never to be seen again. He was probably tortured before he was killed as was customary for the Mau Mau.

By the time I came around as her 14th grandchild, the turbulence had faded away and my grandmother would come to look after me from time to time when my parents were away. She was gracious, patient, tough, gentle and wise. She loved to sit in our yard and look through the pile of National Geographic magazines we accumulated. Even though she could not read, she was thrilled by the pictures that showed her the lives of people from around the earth.

I remember her marveling over the images of elderly Europeans, South Americans and Asians in the magazines when they were pictured tending to their gardens growing potatoes and cabbage just like she did. She was delighted to discover that her life of stooping in her small farm eeking a living from the soil was practiced by all kinds of people of all colors and types.

Over the entire span of the 20th century, she tended her garden with unceasing toil and she was glad to discover that she had not been the only one.



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Saturday, July 12, 2008
THE PASSING AGE

We separated from barbarity hesitantly
For it had been our trusted law
The lifting of the primitive club to assert our will
Fighting tooth and claw

We laid our stone implements at our feet
A watchful eye on those around lest our lives they sought
Until a civil creed began its course through history
To build a life fit for those who thought

A new law held out hope as we found the footholds
To hold dominion over the earth as transcendent ones
But transcend we did not for our hands grew weak
Our eyes grew weary as did our guns

The lamps are lowered
The flags they fall
The barbarians rage
At the passing age





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Saturday, May 24, 2008
THE AX FELL LONG AGO

I was young.

In the tidy backyard surrounded by a tall prickly hedge I played quietly under the shimmering sun and sky.

From time to time I would look up from my games in the black soil and stare at the stone house where I lived and then at the old dead lemon tree that stood near the front door.

High in the leafless branches was a dry lemon that had died with the tree.

As far back as my mind could go, the lemon swayed on bare twigs against the cirrus clouds that hung in silence far above our yard and our stone house and the row of houses down our street.

My father held the ax by his side as he decided how he wanted the tree to fall.

I asked my mother who was near why the tree needed to be cut down. She explained that the tree was dead and that it needed to be cut down before it fell on someone.

As the ax began to fly, I felt a pang of regret.....I was losing a piece of the permanence I was trying to anchor my young mind to. The world was changing from something that I thought was unalterable to something that was temporal and fungible.

The tree now lay on the grass beside the stump of freshly cut wood. A strong earthy citrus smell filled the air as I pushed my way through the branches to pick the small lemon I had gazed at for so long. It came off easily in my grasp.

I stood with the rusty brown lemon in my hand surrounded by the tangle of brittle sticks looking up into the empty piece of sky my old lemon tree once filled.



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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
MY EXISTENTIAL JOURNEY WITH MARLEY

Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit

But my hand was made strong by the hand of the Almighty
We forward (flowered?) in this generation, triumphantly

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs, Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look
Some say its just a part of it...we've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom

-
Redemption Song Bob Marley



Bob Marley's albums formed much of the musical backdrop as I grew up. His songs were anthems to us African kids trying to forge an identity in the midst of the rapidly deteriorating continent we happened to be born on. The idealism he represented seemed so attainable and yet so far from reality in the increasingly despotic world we saw around us.

Bob Marley 1945 - 1981

Bob Marley was of course a Rastafarian and because of him, everything related to Rastafarianism was stamped with an undefinable coolness we were all desperate to imitate.

Restafarian cultural markers like wearing one's hair in dreadlocks was considered extremely enlightened. When I was around 16 years old, I had a single dreadlock growing out the side of my head as a tribute to Bob Marley. This long prong of hair jutting perpendicularly to my right gave me the appearance of an injured wildebeest but I was none-the-less thrilled to be part of a subversive subculture even if only within the confines of my boarding school.

Once, while on an official school trip to a musical event, we ran into a group of genuine Rastafarians who towered above us with their massive tangle of hair. We stopped in our tracks in wonder and admiration. We were envious of their stylish looks, their lofty thoughts and their palpable coolness.

For their part, the Rastafarians stared at us quietly and for a moment, time stood awkwardly still.

Years later, I suddenly came to understand that particular moment when the Rastafarians stood silently looking at us. We, being in strict school uniform, were dressed in sharply creased pants , splendid maroon blazers and in place of dreadlocks, closely cropped hair. They (as I now understand from experience having come across a hoard of smartly dressed boarding school youth and feeling ungainly and unkempt), were struck with envy at the discipline and order that we represented from our elite boarding school. In their minds, they saw us inhabiting a world that they would never be part of and that we would emerge from the ivy-laced halls as the nation's powerful princes when our scholarly pursuits were done.

We were of course both mistaken.

The Rastafarians were not the angelic free creatures they appeared to be. They were probably stoned out of their skulls and held no lofty thoughts in their heads beyond the rolling of the next fat reefer. For all we knew, those guys may not have even memorized both the studio and live concert versions of Buffalo Soldier...tsk-tsk.

As for us, we were not the grand marquis that we appeared to be either. Rather, we were lower-to-middle class kids whose parents scrapped their fingers to the bone to send us to the school that promised to form us into princely analogs.


Back to Bob Marley...

He was brilliant as a song writer. The first four lines of his masterpiece "Redemption Song" are sublime; probably as lyrically transcendent as the American anthem, Star Spangled Banner.

Look how the third and forth lines fold back over the second line by having the events of the latter lines chronologically occur before the line that precedes them.

Old pirates, yes, they rob I.
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
from the bottomless pit.

An artless writer would have put it thusly:

Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Minutes after they took I
from the bottomless pit,
Sold I to the Merchant ships

You are probably asking yourself why I compared it to the "Star Spangled Banner".

Look at that same structural device being used here:

O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

The last five lines describe events that are chronologically before the first line giving us the same poetic effect that Bob Marley does in "Redemption Song".

Bob Marley's song introduces us to the character who speaks of himself in the pidgin form of first person, "I". Marley packs an entire biography into these four lines in a way that could leave you muttering to yourself for weeks.

Marley's character tells the story of being stolen from his home by pirates and thrown into a holding pit. Some point later (probably feeling like an eternity), he is brought out of the cell and within minutes of emerging squinting from the darkness, finds himself sold to the slave ships headed for unknown shores and an unknown fate.

Wow...

Why am I in an existential meltdown that is sending me back to Bob Marley searching for a state of innocence and realism?

I think this is the answer to that question.

The country of my youth (Kenya) recently had the massacre of about 1000 people over a vote that went sideways. Apparently, the most expedient way to resolve the miscounting of votes is to hack men, women and children into bone-flecked slabs of flesh.

The country of my middle-age (Canada) seems unable to resolve whether it is committed to fundamental freedoms like the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. The other day, a new freedom was discovered in Canada that gave a kitchen worker the right to work with public food without washing his hands.

Oddly enough, even though Canada has the perspicuity to discern the subtle human rights that would release citizens from the inconvenience of sanitary hand washing, the country is ambivalent about the freedom of speech even though this freedom is one of the main bulwarks against the true inconvenience of being hacked into bone-flecked slabs.

Does Bob Marley have any answers?

Not really...he is just a lot of fun to listen to while reminiscing about the innocent days gone by.

I know that the image and spirit of Bob Marley have been co-opted by leftist groups along with pot-legalization groups and every group of crackpots and tin pot dictators that have ever assembled under the sun but when I listen to Bob Marley, I hear him calling people to take responsibility for their own lives and that, to me, separates him from the crazies who huddle under his umbrella trying to gain legitimacy from his legacy.

Listen to another of his classic songs "No Woman No Cry" and enjoy a few moments of pleasure with me.

Click the image below to go the Youtube version of the song.

Every little thing is going to be alright.


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Monday, April 14, 2008
Some Truths

Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.

Reading when you're drunk is horrible.

Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.

You're never quite sure whether it's against the law or not to have a fire in your back garden.

Nobody ever dares make cup-a-soup in a bowl.

You never know where to look when eating a banana.

Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.

Prodding a fire with a stick makes you feel manly.

Rummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.

You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.

Everyone always remembers the day the janitor got up on the school roof and threw down all the long lost balls.

The most embarrassing thing you can do as schoolchild is to call your teacher mum or dad.

Every man has at some stage while taking a pee flushed half way through and then raced against the flush.

Old women with mobile phones look wrong!

Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.

Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.

Old ladies can eat more than you think.

You can't respect a man who carries a dog.

There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you've got your hand or head stuck in something.

No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned electricity plug.

People who don't drive slam car doors too hard

You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with.

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.


From
Wicked Thoughts.

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Thursday, January 10, 2008
KENYA IN THE NEWS

Many people have wondered why I have not commented on the current crisis in Kenya. I have often blogged about my experiences there and yet, the one time that Kenya is on international news, I have been silent.

Allow me to write a little about the country and its woes.

I was born in Kenya in the late sixties into the majority tribal group. At that time, Kenya was at the apex of its post-independence idealism. The economy was soaring, civility and traditional hospitality were deep cultural traits and tribal divisiveness was being discouraged by the government and leaders in most of the tribes.

Unlike many African countries, Kenya handled the transition from British colonial rule to African rule fairly well and the institutions like the court system and the parliamentary system continued under Kenyan leadership with hardly any seams.

The expectations of the population were high. Everyone anticipated a gradual climb out of third world status and into modernity. Education was insisted on for all children as a national priority and a well-educated Kenyan youth emerged.

To be sure, there were problems like are to be found in all countries but there was a component that was not found in all countries and that is the component of hope. Each farmer or welder or factory worker who sent his or her children to school believed that the future was going to supersede the past with opportunities, peace and freedom.

After all, during the campaigns to kick out the colonial masters, it was often said that the British were the real hindrance to Kenya's liberty and prosperity and now that
they were gone, was it not logical that their lives would get better?

Well.....maybe not.

In a country like Kenya where multiple tribes found themselves ensconced within artificially drawn borders, there was one simple question that was not adequately answered before the British were thrown out.

Here is the question: Is there any difference between being ruled by a white foreigner and being ruled by a black man of a different tribe?

In the idealistic frenzy of seeking independence, the argument against colonialism was that black Africans should be ruled by black leaders. The question of the tolerability of being ruled by black men from various tribes did not feature strongly in the pre-independence debate.

After winning independence from the Brits, a leader from the majority tribe (Jomo Kenyatta who died in 1978) led the country and things were relatively settled.

When Kenyatta died, his vice president, Daniel Moi, a man from a minority tribe called the Kalenjin ascended to the presidency and for a time, the country continued its peaceful course. The majority tribe accepted the leadership of a man from the minority tribe when he started out his terms with skill and tack.

After a few years, storm clouds began to gather over the small country as corruption began to burgeon and economic disasters began striking.

As the population became restless and started blaming the politicians, political insecurity set in and the president expanded a suppressive campaign to silence opposition. The real test as to whether a majority tribe would accept the oppression of a minority ruler was underway.

In much the same way that Saddam Hussein who hailed from a minority tribe in Iraq (Sunnis) managed to suppress the Shiite majority tribe through economic and violent measures, Daniel Moi held onto power using fear and fanning the flames of inter-tribal loathing. The once healthy economy weakened into almost complete collapse leaving the country desperate and free of the opportunities that the large educated youth population needed. A massive number of Kenyans left the country to find better lives in the US, Britain and other places.

Anecdotally, when I contact my classmates from high school, I usually reach them in Texas, England and California where they serve as architects, doctors and teachers. They could not find reasons to stay in the land they were born in.

These are of course the very people needed to build the well being of a country but were forced to flee due to the suppressive and ruinous actions of a black leader in their own country.

This is where the irony rests: The fervent fight against white rule was successful in ushering black rule which then resulted in a generation fleeing to live under the white rule in Britain and the US.

Under President Bush's policy of issuing foreign aid only when democratic reform was demonstrated by recipient countries, Daniel Moi was finally forced to step down (this is why I love Prez. Bush). Circa 2002, a historic election was held that put the current president into power. One of the first actions undertaken was to give the departing president a large pension rather than to prosecute him for crimes against humanity.

The reasoning was that in the future, leaders would know that it was safe to relinquish power and so would have no fear in calling fair and free elections.

It turns out that the current president may have violated the very ideal he was trying to establish when he first set foot in office.

I guess power is an addictive potion.

From the Kikuyu side, I think I understand why they would be less than enthusiastic in efforts to fight against the election irregularities that their tribal comrade is being accused of and probably committed.

When Jomo Kenyatta died, there were some Kikuyus who did not want a Kalenjin in power and some shenanigans were being conducted behind the scenes to keep Daniel Moi out of power even though, as the sitting vice president of the deceased president, he was constitutionally required to take over the office of the president. Most Kikuyus did not support the subversive effort but instead supported the legal handover of power to a president who was not of their tribe.

When they supported the handover of power to a minority tribe, they were rewarded by being crushed and economically destroyed by Moi. Government efforts were directed to making the Kalenjin tribe the most favored tribe in the country. Kikuyus may have some trepidation in going to bat for a minority tribe again. They last time they did so, they came to regret it deeply.

In Kenya, as a rule, no good deed goes unpunished.

Where is the country to go from here?

Maybe the Kikuyus will rally once again against a man from their own tribe who tried to hold power illegally and hand power to a minority tribe again.

With the violence that erupted quickly after the vote was called, that is unlikely.


An old friend of mine from the Luo tribe sent me note saying that he was grieved deeply by the election mess in Kenya. He wrote that what happened "may signal a slide back to darkness".

Indeed it might.


Africa always seems to slide back to darkness.




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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
NEW HAMSHIRE FALLS FOR CLINTON

They must have been moved by the tears.


















On the Republican side, McCain wins which is relatively OK I guess.

















The game seems wide open.


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Thursday, January 03, 2008
IOWA GOES HUCKABEE / OBAMA

























Interesting.....very interesting.

Republicans:

The vote ended up being a referendum on Mormonism versus Evangelicalism.

As soon as Fred Thompson wilted, evangelicals focused on Huckabee and found him to be charismatic and genuinely witty.

When I heard Huckabee talk about his experience with fighting democrats in Arkansas, I was quickly interested in him. I knew many Republicans would have a similar response. The boom that followed was predictable.


Democrats:

Hillary tried to look like she won but she is facing a tough battle. Obama did well and should be proud. I think his speech at the end of the Iowa round was a little too lofty and by making the campaign about history was a little much. People were saying that it was soaring but I did not see that.

To be truly historic, history should not even have been on anyone`s mind.

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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

BHUTTO DEAD

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Sunday, December 02, 2007
ZIMBABWE BURNS TO THE GROUND

I saw an article written up in a UK paper (The Times) regarding the deterioration of Zimbabwe since the dictator Robert Mugabe began a campaign of terror on citizens of his country.

Robert Mugabe, as a democratically elected leader of Zimbabwe, undertook to restructure the country's economy by confiscating farmland from the white sector of the population in order to
transfer property to blacks. By taking land from white farmers and giving it to blacks, he claimed that injustice of inequality of ownership would be resolved.

Many of the productive farmers of Zimbabwe were killed and most fled the country. The agricultural economy of the country collapsed. To add to this, Mugabe began using food distribution as a tool of political manipulation and soon people began starving and dying of malnutrition.

For a country that was exporting food up to the time of Mugabe's restructuring, it is a bitter irony to see the re-emergence of Marasmus and other diseases caused by deficiencies in basic nutrition.

For its part, the European Union, instead of calling Mugabe to the mat for the wholesale destruction of his own country, welcomed him to the European / African summit where his brutality has been downplayed and his policies legitimized. He used his platform there to call for Africans to become more unified in order to give Africa more pull on the international scene.

Hah...with a population starving to death, the dictator worries about his voice on the international scene. Wow.

The compelling story of the destruction of Zimbabwe should be a warning to the rest of us as to how swift the total annihilation of our societies can be at the hands of those promising us a secure future through governmental policy of taking what rightfully belongs to other people.

Zimbabweans voted for Mugabe who promised them a secure future through the confiscation of other people's property.

Their lives are now in shambles.....the future barely a thought in the daily struggle for survival.

(I saw this link through JudeoPundit)

Here is the link to article titled "The horror of a stricken nation waiting to die".


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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Logic is merely the most accurate translation of reality into language and vice versa.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
THE END OF AMERICA?

Patrick Buchanan, former Presidential Candidate, writer and commentator has written a book titled: "The End of America".


Such a title would seem hyperbolic if it were not for the credentials held by the writer.



A few years ago, Buchanan wrote an article detailing the population collapse in Russia and the political effects that this collapse would have in relation to Russia's democratic development and the relationship that Russia had with China.

The article gained prominence when it was picked up by Pravda (Russia's state newspaper) and since that time, political shifting in that country seems to have followed the patterns described by Buchanan well over four years ago. A good example of this is the state-mandated procreation campaign that has been championed by President Putin. In response to Russia's imploding population, the country has resorted to fascist rhetoric and methodology to try reverse the trends that are pointing to the dissolution of the motherland.

The prescience of Mr. Buchanan's look at Russia makes his examination of the United States worth looking into.

In excerpts from his book posted by Drudge, Buchanan suggests that America is decomposing in an existential meltdown leaving global forces like China and Islam to scramble for control over regions of the earth that the weakening US is unable to influence.

The US is indeed suffering from an existential crisis. Much of what passes for political debate in the US is no longer about the interests of Americans as a citizen block but rather the interests of sub-groups inside (and increasingly
outside) the United States. Having conducted its political discourse in this tone for nearly 40 years, it is not entirely surprising that a single unified narrative of America and the promise that she represents no longer exists.

Without a single national narrative, the country has balkanized into competing interest groups with evidence of this discernible in legislation (from the bench and otherwise) that increasingly pits seniors against youth, women against men, civilians against soldiers, race against race and class against class.

Whereas the American political system was designed to operate on a competitive model, players in the political system, in efforts to gain advantage, began converting what should have been the competition of ideas into the competition of grievance. Each grievance having a constituency, the political competition became that of encapsulating as many grievance labels into a party platform in order to command the greatest number of votes.

It is wrong to suggest that there was a time in American history that such political machinations did not exist and that only recently have grievance politics come into play. There has always been a place of grievance politics in America but in my opinion, only in the last 40 years has the discourse surrounding sub-group politics been loud enough to almost entirely drown out the American story.

With a generation emerging within the US that has no direct contact with the singular American idea (think of the people emerging from colleges where courses are offered by the names of Womyn Studies, African-American studies, Queer Studies and others that directly oppose the existence or desirability of a single American people) it is possible that the America of 2015 will not be able to define itself and its reason for existence the way that the America of 1861 and the America of 1939 was able to.

In 1939, German Americans did not represent a voting block impeding America's decision to go to war with Germany. Why? Because American Germans were not cultivated to be a voting block with interests that opposed the interests of the rest of America. There did exist a single American narrative at the time that most Americans including Germans could identify with.

This is sharply in contrast to the current American inability to show a united face to the world due to obstreperous political entities countering the self interest of the US in its fight against Islamic terrorism.

So what will become of America?

Is Buchanan right when he prognosticates America's fall from preeminence?

There are two prongs to this question.

The first is: Can America maintain its dominance as a global power?

The second is: Can America maintain its economic strength and the attendant high standard of living?

Addressing the first is the emergence of political realism that has taken root in American politics. More and more people are resisting their classification within subgroups and identifying with the larger American political body. It is now common to see women fighting the establishment on behalf of men, blacks fighting the establishment on behalf of whites and a general push towards justice.

This trend may set a course on which America may be able to unify its story. If people are able to trust that their interests are the same as the interests of all other Americans, reasoned pursuit of the country's interests may reestablish itself and the parties that represent the grievance groups will decline in influence. With a single sense of national purpose, America could retain global dominance simply by being the voice that holds to the strongest and most compelling standard of justice backed up by a population that
itself holds to a high standard of justice.

Regarding the second prong to Buchanan's query, I believe that America's increasing productivity is the key. People outside America have been struggling to understand this counter-intuitive trend.

With industrial manufacturing growing in China and elsewhere at the expense of American manufacturing, it was thought that productivity would be seen to decline alongside an increase in unemployment numbers. This has proven to be wrong over and over again.

This indicator suggests that the American population still believes in work, risk and innovation even though political forces have been working hard to erase incentives to do so. This bodes well for America's future. Productivity is everything when it comes to sustaining a standard of living.

If the US sees a true reduction in political balkanization, the resultant reduction in special-interest liabilities may result in the reduction of disincentives to productivity in the US.

Americans have the privilege of choosing what their futures will look like through the electoral process. If enough people overcome identity politics and vote for America-First politicians, the country might retain its strength for many years. If identity politics plays a major part of the upcoming election, the one of last few remaining chances for America to reclaim a unified voice for America's promise will slip by.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

RIDERS WIN




SASKATCHEWAN ROUGH RIDERS WIN THE GREY CUP.




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Friday, November 23, 2007
SAVING THE PLANET ONE CHILD AT A TIME

I was glancing at Drudge this morning and saw an article describing a woman who had herself sterilized to avoid any chance having children.

Of course it is not uncommon to have this done in the modern world but what is unusual about this particular case is that the woman announced to the world that the reason she decided to preclude the possibility of having children was that she did not wish to burden the earth's resources with yet another human/consumer.

The young woman named Toni Vernelli, an eco-warrior of the first order, represents the beginnings of a phenomenon that will likely burgeon in the next 20 years. More and more young people are emerging from education systems that have bent every educational discipline to include a hyper-sensitization to the ecological impact that humans have. This bombardment on the impressionable minds of the young will likely cause an increasing number of people to discard the idea of having children for the sake of preserving the resources of the Earth.

After a large enough sector of the population decides to sacrifice their own procreation for the sake of the planet, it is likely that an atmosphere of taboo will surround any decision to have children and offspring will be viewed as an evil to be stamped out.

It is not certain that the present examples of eco-sterilizations represent a true change in humanity's view of procreation but here is my reasoning that suggests that it does:

  • One of the women in question is 27 years old which means that she started grade one in 1986 and emerged from high school in 1998
  • Going through high school in the 90's meant that one had to ingest the first wave of hyper-environmentalism that was being propagated. The 27 year old sterilized woman is a product of the environmentalism of the 90's
  • Hyper-environmentalism has only become more stringent and pervasive since that time and so the youth emerging from high school now will have ingested the 2005-2006-Al-Gore eco-religion
This progression leads me conclude that we are going to see a large wave of sterilizations of 25-27 year old women and men as they emerge from the modern enviro-sensitizing high schools.

One could extrapolate from experience what political action would follow the sterility revolution in our society. It is possible to imagine the government power being used to mandate and provide sterilization. I can imagine a land where nearly everyone is sterilized and only a worthy few are licensed to have children.

Prior experience with the eco-movement has shown us this tendency.

Here is an example: Recycling plastic was something done by the Volvo-driving, granola-eating, nature-walking people who wanted to enrich their lives with activities that made them feel like they were giving back to the earth. In some jurisdictions, this niche activity found its way into the halls of power and it quickly became a government-mandated imposition on all people with in that jurisdiction whether they believed it was a beneficial activity or not.

Back to the subject at hand, this would not be the first time that human societies have rejected procreation whole scale.

History is littered with the remnant of societies that abandoned child bearing and rearing which resulted in the weakening and even extinction of those societies. Rome, the epicenter of the Roman empire is but one example of a society that abandoned child bearing and rearing as a standard human activity. The resulting hollowing out of their population (along with other factors no doubt) ended up in the ruination and collapse of the empire.

The only difference between circumstances in the past and this current looming wholesale sterility is that in the modern age, technology makes it possible to completely sterilize every human being within society whereas in the past, crude or non-existent birth control methods always allowed for some children to get through the gates.

Our modern trend to sterility may result in a strong downward spiral of the human population already markedly visible in parts of Europe and North America.

Who knows? Maybe I have hyped the whole thing.

Here is a link to the article.


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Thursday, November 22, 2007
AM I BACK?

A few days ago, I walked into my office to put in another day when I noticed something had changed.

Something unusual had occurred between the time I left the day before and the time I got in that morning.

What had changed was that ideas were spontaneously flowing through my mind. They were not necessarily good ideas but they were definitely creative ideas.

I was taken aback by the familiar but long missing sense of mental activity of a particular kind that allows blogging to happen.

Some of you who know this blog may remember a time when I had postings almost daily covering all manner of curious things. You may also remember when all the posting petered off as the fountain of ambition and creativity dried up. As desperately as I wanted to blog, I simply could not bring myself to publish the vile drivel that I was struggling to compose.

I had several false starts when I thought the ability to post had returned but these start-ups fizzled away.

Now, I feel a distinct change. The thought of posting an article is not causing me to feel nauseated nor does what I write seem terribly vulgar and revolting. I feel new again....like I could perhaps write a couple of good posts each a week.

Well..... here goes nothing...

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
THE END OF SKEPTICISM

David Hume was an 18th century philosopher considered to be among the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy.

He was the penultimate examiner of the limitations of the human mind. His great question was whether it was possible for the human mind to really know anything for sure.


His main line of inquiry was aimed at our capacity to know religious truth but his scalpel tore out the connective tissue of all human knowledge. David Hume's work led to a fundamental skepticism that marks most western minds to this day.

The human mind is indeed a limited thing whether singularly pitted against difficult puzzles of our universe or collectively carrying accumulated knowledge.

To start, it is best to describe the human mind to be a device that employs an array of transducers to experience the universe in a way that is particular to the needs of the human being. Because of the nature of man, the universe is necessarily going to be a particular thing to man. The universe may be more than we can perceive and it may in fact be less than we perceive but its expression to our human minds is reasonable in as far we measure 'reasonableness'. We do indeed have the faculties to fathom our place in the world because the information we gather through our senses uniformly follows understandable laws as does the phenomena that we perceive only through instruments and inference.

While it is true that the human mind cannot fully know all that there is in reality, it is not true that the human mind cannot know more about reality than the information our five senses can provide. It is plain to see that much of what we do know (and feel confident is true) is the accumulation of knowledge held in minds of other human beings as experiential information but delivered to our own minds as conferred knowledge.

To suggest otherwise (as Hume does) is to suggest that any suspicion or thought formed within the mind of a man has absolutely no chance of bearing confirmation in reality. Our own daily experience shows us that notions formed in our minds very often can be counted on to match what reality delivers. This is a strange argument but please bear with me.

A scientist for example may directly observe the effects of an atom-smashing experiment and thus hold experiential information in his mind. The scientist's paper that is released for study by the rest of us would merely represent conferred knowledge but is reasonably accepted as actual knowledge. Counting on this information very often will bear out our own examination of reality.

This suggests that there is a reasonably dependable continuity between the uptake of information from reality, the holding of the information in the form of human thoughts and then the measuring of those human thoughts against the reality from whence it came. Similarly (in the example given before the last one), proposals of reality formed exclusively within the human mind (excluding what is deliberately designed to be fantasy) can be measured against reality and found to match quite well. There is a continuity between the substance of reality and the corresponding thought form in the human mind whether it is gathered from reality or whether is formed exclusively within the human mind.

David Hume was (and is) famous for attacking the basis on which much of religious thought was formed. He proposed that any claims that Christianity in particular made regarding ultimate reality were simply fiction because the human mind could not cross the bounds of experiential knowledge to understand questions such as of origins, purposes and God.

In my humble view, what David Hume supposed (and wrongly so) was that there was a separation between the universe and the information about the universe.

David Hume's limited supposition may have been due to the limitations of the time in which he lived.

We who live beyond the space age, beyond the atomic age, and beyond the human genome mapping age know that our universe is not primarily composed of matter but rather that it is composed of information. In other words, what appears to be matter and everything else in our universe is nothing but the imposition of information on nothing. (I suspect that even energy itself, properly understood, will reveal itself to be nothing but information but this is the subject for a blogger living far into the future to comment on).

The basis of generic skepticism is that there is an unbridgeable gap between the human mind and reality due to the disparate nature of reality and information.

David Hume's skepticism (along with the skepticism of most other thinkers who followed in his tracks) is going to be unable to travel along with us into the age of the Universe-as-Information.

Reality and information are turning out not be separate after all.

This suggests that when you know something, it is very likely that you can really know it.

(Wikipedia was an important source of information for this post)

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DON'T TAZE ME BRO

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Thursday, June 14, 2007
THIS IS REALLY COOL

Nessun Dorma

Via Wicked Thoughts Blog

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
MORE POETRY

Tensions add to tensions
Anguish springs from anguish
Sorrow rests on sorrow
Cravings feed on all

Terrors rise in terrors
Regrets float on regrets
Fear gathers fear
Envy curses all

Confusion sows confusion
Ignorance enthrones ignorance
Weakness causes weakness
Pride shatters all

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Monday, April 09, 2007
Some Poetry

The laws of life are frantic and savage
They move like storms along a shore
To shake the man walking on sand
To make him stagger
To make him fall upon the weeds and shells

The laws of life are large and heavy
They lean on minds of men and roar
To make him strain and sweat to pour
To make him gasp and make him groan
To make him claw for breath and for a whisper in the dark

The laws of life are cold and damp
They clatter like silver knives in the hearts of men
To make him shiver and make him faint
To make him lay upon the sand
To make him still and deathly so for fear of shards of suns and stars

The laws of life are thin and weak
They drift across the grassy lands
They whip around the ears of men
To make him laugh and make him sway
To make him dance on ponds of icy foam and creaking floes of gray

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Thursday, March 22, 2007
YOU GIVE ME FEVER


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Saturday, March 17, 2007
The Morning of the Yellow Sun

I opened my eyes and looked around the room.

The morning sun lit the windows and walls with a pale yellow sheen. I pulled away my sheets and swung my feet to the floor. My ankles felt stiff from the rough season of rugby that had just ended.

I looked over at my brother who slept in the bed across the room. He didn't stir.

I stood up and started towards the window when a loud knock rattled the front door of the house.

I froze.

My brother sat up with a jolt. "What was that?" he asked.

"Someone is at the door", I whispered.

I opened the bedroom door as my mother came down the hall. "Who could that be?" , she asked with a worried tone in her voice. "It is 6.00 am".

We rushed
to a room that overlooked the front of the house.

Peering through the blinds we could see a military truck in the driveway with five or six uniformed soldiers taking positions around our yard with rifles aimed at our doorway.

The heavy knock was repeated and a harsh voice instructed us to open the door.

We all looked at each other in surprise.

Stumbling down the flight of stairs, we crowded into the foyer and opened the door.

That rising sun which lit our highland home had ushered in the last day of our innocence.

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Friday, March 02, 2007
INTERESTING

THE AMAZING Kurt Goedel

Can you imagine a mathematical theorem that makes people consider jumping out of a window? Some mathematicians did (although none is known to have actually jumped!) when in 1931 Kurt Goedel showed that every formal logical system must contain propositions not provable in that system. A particular cause of consternation among some mathematicians was that Goedel's incompleteness theorem implies that not all mathematical questions are computable.


Kurt Goedel was born in what is now Brno, Czech Republic. As a child Kurt was known as Der Herr Warum ("Mr. Why") because of his insatiable curiosity. He excelled not only in math but also in languages, history, philosophy, and physics. After having studied and taught in Vienna, he emigrated to the United States and joined the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1940.

The basic idea behind Goedel's incompleteness theorem is rather simple: A formula claims that it is unprovable. If it were provable, it would be false, contradicting the fact that provable statements are always true. So there will always be at least one true but unprovable statement. Goedel had a deep friendship with Albert Einstein, who was also at Princeton. Towards the end of his life Einstein confided that "his own work no longer meant much, that he came to the Institute merely to have the privilege of walking home with Goedel."

It is rare that one person - a mathematician or otherwise - could be an inspiration to someone as iconic as Einstein. Goedel was such a person.

(Via
Wicked Thoughts)

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Thursday, March 01, 2007
THE FINAL SOLUTION

Even right-wingers who know that "global warming" is a crock do not seem to grasp what the tree-huggers are demanding. Liberals want mass starvation and human devastation.Forget the lunacy of people claiming to tell us the precise temperature of planet Earth in 1918 based on tree rings. Or the fact that in the '70s liberals were issuing similarly dire warnings about "global cooling."Simply consider what noted climatologists Al Gore and Melissa Etheridge are demanding that we do to combat their nutty conjectures about "global warming." They want us to starve the productive sector of fossil fuel and allow the world's factories to grind to a halt. This means an end to material growth and a cataclysmic reduction in wealth.

There are more reputable scientists defending astrology than defending "global warming," but liberals simply announce that the debate has been resolved in their favor and demand that we shut down all production.They think they can live in a world of only Malibu and East Hampton -- with no Trentons or Detroits. It does not occur to them that someone has to manufacture the tiles and steel and glass and solar panels that go into those "eco-friendly" mansions, and someone has to truck it all to their beachfront properties, and someone else has to transport all the workers there to build it. (And then someone has to drive the fleets of trucks delivering the pachysandra and bottled water every day.)Liberals are already comfortably ensconced in their beachfront estates, which they expect to be unaffected by their negative growth prescriptions for the rest of us.

There was more energy consumed in the manufacture, construction and maintenance of Leonardo DiCaprio's Malibu home than is needed to light the entire city of Albuquerque, where there are surely several men who can actually act. But he has solar panels to warm his house six degrees on chilly Malibu nights.

Liberals haven't the foggiest idea how the industrial world works. They act as if America could reduce its vast energy consumption by using fluorescent bulbs and driving hybrid cars rather than SUVs. They have no idea how light miraculously appears when they flick a switch or what allows them to go to the bathroom indoors in winter -- luxuries Americans are not likely to abandon because Leo DiCaprio had solar panels trucked into his Malibu estate.

Our lives depend on fossil fuel. Steel plants, chemical plants, rubber plants, pharmaceutical plants, glass plants, paper plants -- those run on energy. There are no Mother Earth nursery designs in stylish organic cotton without gas-belching factories, ships and trucks, and temperature-controlled, well-lighted stores. Windmills can't even produce enough energy to manufacture a windmill.

Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?"Global warming" is the left's pagan rage against mankind. If we can't produce industrial waste, then we can't produce. Some of us -- not the ones with mansions in Malibu and Nashville is my guess -- are going to have to die. To say we need to reduce our energy consumption is like saying we need to reduce our oxygen consumption.

Liberals have always had a thing about eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to eliminate the kulaks and Ukranians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate poor blacks, DDT opponent Rachel Carson wanted to eliminate Africans (introduction to her book "Silent Spring" written by ... Al Gore!), and population-control guru Paul Ehrlich wants to eliminate all humans.

But global warming is the most insane, psychotic idea liberals have ever concocted to kill off "useless eaters." If we have to live in a pure "natural" environment like the Indians, then our entire transcontinental nation can only support about 1 million human beings. Sorry, fellas -- 299 million of you are going to have to go.

Proving that the "global warming" campaign is nothing but hatred of humanity, these are the exact same people who destroyed the nuclear power industry in this country 30 years ago. If we accept for purposes of argument their claim that the only way the human race can survive is with clean energy that doesn't emit carbon dioxide, environmentalists waited until they had safely destroyed the nuclear power industry to tell us that. This proves they never intended for us to survive."

Global warming" is the liberal's stalking horse for their ultimate fantasy: The whole U.S. will look like Amagansett, with no one living in it except their even-tempered maids (for "diversity"), themselves and their coterie (all, presumably, living in solar-heated mansions, except the maids who will do without electricity altogether). The entire fuel-guzzling, tacky, beer-drinking, NASCAR-watching middle class with their over-large families will simply have to die.

It seems not to have occurred to the jet set that when California is as poor as Mexico, they might have trouble finding a maid. Without trucking, packaging, manufacturing, shipping and refrigeration in their Bel-Air fantasy world, they'll be chasing the rear-end of an animal every time their stomachs growl and killing small animals for pelts to keep their genitals warm.

- By Ann Coulter (
Via Small Dead Animals Blog)

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Sunday, December 31, 2006
ALL THE BEST IN THE NEW YEAR

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