rock the vote 08

KEYNES

To the young voters in last years election (Addressed to no one in particular) Ok Cool-aid drinkers. I think the real symbolism here is the fact that many of you went to a theatre to experience the coronation event in a communal setting. (Oh we don't have a working TV antenna... blah blah blah) As many have already noted, and I'm only repeating, about herd of "independent" minds, and the need for collective Obama reveling - you know sermon on the mount - er capital hill. Think back in history - the mob is almost always wrong (a tenet of populism). What freedom loving independent minds congregate in mobs? Think French Revolution. Yeah they escorted out monarchy to bring in a dictator. Think post Wiemar Republic Germany and the National Socialist rallies (abbreviated Nazi or something to that effect). Think the May Day rallies on Red square in front of the Kremlin. Think present day Hugo Chavez promising all to hungry impoverished mobs, subsidizing fuel Oil in Massachusetts, making no real changes for the hungry impoverished mobs of Venezuela. Even Mob rousing greats like King and Gandhi, had overt Marxist (anti-individual) leanings. Yes they were pure in their ideological advocacy for nonviolence. In practice both were violent in a metaphorical sense. King with his extramarital affairs, Gandhi with his demeaning and sub human views of Native Africans while in South Africa. Well now we have Hope instead of Fear, yet Fear of consenting adults engaged in Capitalism is Fear No 1 of the day (Sodomy thats OK - but Capitalism - Surely no free person would choose that). Well now we have a president who "believes" (key word btw) in "science" - yet is dusting off the old Keynesian Bible long ago written off by these people who do real work in the economic sciences (people with unfamiliar names (to Krugman) like Hayek, Friedman, Von Mises, and of course Sowell). Change must mean forgoing common sense, and the very underpinnings of western civilization (Then again, the easiest way to make the world an egalitarian place, is to make all equally poor). Outlaw Farm machinery and we can return to full employment!!! Well its good to know at least someone is supporting an evil multi nation corporation - Kimberly Clarke (the maker of Kleenex). Thank you for your support. I'm sure when the house of cards inevitably comes down (Kennedy's accountability was transferred to Johnston - Camelots great escape) and Keyenes is discredited yet again (if only for one generation) Kimberly Clarke will be gainfully employed again by slightly wiser liberal mobsters, returning to reality, but with only the "vast right wing conspiracy" to blame - aka Providence (or for secular PC slaves to ill-liberalism - a loose concept to be called: the opposite of deconstructivism). PS you still have until 30 to use your brain in addition to your heart, as some drunken idiot (Churchill?) from England once said

UPDATE: The Tea Party is a mob of freedom loving individuals undercutting my main point.

algore tripple threat

AL GORE

We've always know Algore to be an eloquent rapper - the presidential debates featured some hard core dubs with the whole lockbox loop. He won the popular vote for American President by a half million (1/2%) in 2000 loosing Florida by a mere 500 votes (also 1/2%). So we know his rap sheet: 5-4 in the supreme court - just one vote short. We know Algore can act as evidenced by his Oscar win for Best Fictional Documentary. He really took it to the house and raised his game to the next level, inconveniently out truthing even ideological friend Micheal Moore. So how does a green hipster follow up that act? Its called the Algore dance aka Nobel Peace Prize. The legitimate triple threat is in a zone now turning out new hits and heating up the global beat-up-America agenda. He joins other luminary Peace Prize winners such as terrorist Yasser Arafat, club of dictators secretary Kofi Anaan, poverty enthusiast Jimmy Carter, and rogue state appeaser Mohamed El Baradei. We should all band together now and help the doomsday prophet (profit) win the civilian space flight X-prize, by sending him in a capsule to the source of solar energy. As Algore would say: "It's not a political imperative, but rather a moral imperative."

mccarthy cures autism

DISABILITY

Good news folks. Former playmate and MTV Singled Out host Jenny McCarthy has discovered the cure for Autism. All it takes is a detoxifying diet and some magic crystals and wammo: the magical cure. Of course the immunization/mercury link has long ben dispelled by serious researchers - but with autism rates multiplying ad infinitum the weekly newsines are getting restless. (My own hypothesis would be the silicon implants breast feeding angle - the silicon that is, being an indicator of a mother believing in whatever wiccan methodology is emanating from the popular occult of the era). Well the autism explosion has a lot to do with Rainman - no one wants an ordinary "retarded" child, when you can, with a little affluence and money, get a premium diagnosis as Autistic. Everyone assumes that means the savant variety - high math, memory and or music skills. Why is there a popular rejection of the continuum of human life? Some people are born with God given talents and others are lacking but that does not make anyone less human. Doctors often advise mothers of prenatal detected down syndrome that most mothers choose to abort - that to add comfort to a borderline defined genocidal action. The real traits that humans should judge others on are sincerity, integrity, and love, not physical nor cognitive disability. Rather than frantically searching for cures, it would be better to work on acceptance and reasonable accommodations.

research mercantilism

STEM CELLS

How is the nation responsible for a new research discovery assigned? Much research is done and credited as being discovered in the US, but often by foreign born persons - some US citizens, some with student visas. Half of all grad students are from over seas - largess of the US taxpayer to the university system. The brain drain from the rest of the world seems to benefit us well but should not be an end-all be-all. High threats are made that if stem cells are not funded (as though there were a federal ban) that research will go to other countries. These research mercantilists ignore the fact that invitro fertilization was developed without federal funding and that many countries do not allow profits on medical breakthroughs. The US will still benefit from any discoveries in the globalised system. If South Korea wants to take the lead in experiments with human stem cells - let them. Would it not be better to fall behind in humankinds destruction?

the sky is falling again

RECYCLING

Just because one time one trash barge could not get rid of its garbage from NYC does not mean that there is a lack of landfill space. Just because an area you remember as farmland as a kid now has houses does not mean that sprawl is overwhelming farmland. Whoever believes these things has never been on an airplane across the U.S. When you look down there is barely anything there - cities are quite rare - tons of room for landfills, plenty of farmland left. Ok now a primer for those who don't understand information: Prices are information (except to the centralized planning types). They say what/when/how to produce, what/when/how to buy, how much something is valued present and future. If farmland was scarce then food prices would increase and farmland would become more valuable and subdivisions would be bought up by farmers to make the way for new crops - problem solved. If landfills were scarce then it would cost a lot to have your garbage picked up. Just because recycling reduces the amount of solid waste a city outputs does not mean that it is resource or energy efficient. What if the cost and environmental harm were greater to pick up and sort all the recyclables from regular trash - both diesel truck emissions and human carbon dioxide emissions (and bureaucratic red tape)? When they pay me to pick up my glass/plastic/aluminum/paper then I'll sell it to them - until then its going in the trash.

religious fools

RELIGION

The chief characteristics of religion throughout history are (1)belief in a deity, (2)a doctrine of salvation, (3)a code of conduct (4)the use of sacred texts and (5)religious rituals. Also religion requires a leap of faith to explain some things that are not explained by science or are in contradiction to science. The Global Warming Religion fits this bill, a branch of the commi-enviro religions. Practitioners believe in the earth, pre-civilization, unmolested by humans as the supreme deity. Their doctrine of salvation is to take humanity back to the time before industrialisation. To do this, all sins against the earth must be recanted such as - so called -polluting CO2 greenhouse gasses (water vapor is also a greenhouse gas, btw). Recycling and energy reduction also weigh heavily in their code of conduct, as well as keeping developing nations undeveloped. Their sacred texts are many but the most authoritative would be the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. Their rituals include advocating policies of human sacrifice of technological progress, by abandoning hydro-carbons, and all human activities that change the earth. Followers of this religion may be know as Greens or EcoFreinds, and follow their prophet Al Gore. They label as heretics any Global Warming Religion deniers, and excommunicate scientist from the climate change community if they worship false idols or are skeptical of the computer models (enlightenment advances such as the scientific method have not caught on yet with the Debate is Over Crowd). The leap of faith they take is that man-made CO2 causes global warming and that global warming will make life on earth less habitable. With the great prophet predicting only ten years to act, it should not be too long before a giant pitcher of Kool-Aid is mixed up at Davos.

the cure at last

PUBLIC HEALTH

After millions of dollars were raised by walking millions of miles and passing out millions of ribbons and wrist bands, the cure was finally found. What a triumph of medical science, and proof positive that if a goal is set, no matter how lofty, if one follows their dreams, their dreams may just come true. Of course the government played a big role so the accolades were spread around plenty. Especially the employees at the official statistics of health were celebrating with much celebratory vigor. But after all the gala's and parties and self congratulation, something bazaar was discovered and quite counterintuitive. Micheal Knight, the supervisor of the programme that monitors death statistics noticed that after the cure was found less people died of that disease, but all other disease rates increased. He knew it probably had to do with global warming or McDonalds yet he was having trouble formulating a proper theory. Before testifying before the government legislative committee for health he rehearsed his talking points. "Yes we have found the cure but so much more needs to be done, other diseases are increasing. Government needs to raise taxes to provide more funding to find other cures. The overall death rate for humans still seems to be 100%!" Micheal Knight, with the help of a talking wrist watch, took great pride in his official duties insuring that government programs had a beginning a middle but never an end.

correlation causality casualty

CLIMATE CHANGE

Jethro awoke one morning to the crowing of a rooster, before the sun was up, but yet it was mildly light out. He popped out of bed and over to the window. The rooster crowed again, and just then the sun first crested over the horizon in Beverly Hills. He recollecting observing a similar phenomenon back in the hills where he grew up, so he knew it could not be a coincidence. He went running downstairs where Granny was wrestling up some breakfast. "Granny, Granny! That old rooster is what makes the sun come up!" Granny only glanced up for a second and said, "Boy I thought you had a sixth grade education?" Jethro retorted "I do Granny, I do!" So that evening Jethro decided since he was so smart he would go to the library to read some scientific books. He came across one book on climate change and found a graph with carbon dioxide and earths temperature plotted over the years. He noticed that when CO2 was high so was temperature. He shouted out in the middle of the library "Hot diggity dog! I got here a correlation!" He wrote it down so he would not forget: increasing CO2 concentration increases global temperature. He was so proud of himself and the correlation not realising that a correlation is not the same as causality - that concept was way beyond his sixth grade education, as it is today for many, even highly educated people. But so it is for a religious devotion sometimes

an inconvenient dogma

GLOBAL WARMING

What if it doesn't happen - what if the globe stays the same temperature? It seems pretty high and mighty of the new comi-enviros to assume that humans are powerful enough to alter climate on a permanent basis. Yes over a millenia but unlikely over a century. What, first the decree that we are no more than advanced chimpanzees then we are extra special earth wreckers. Can't they make up their mind? Are we or are we not part of earths natural system. Is or is not what we do natural or are we supra natural. The earth is always changing, sulfuric volcanoes atmosphere was replaced by bacteria, fungi, plant and later animal atmosphere. Are we Gods who have to maintain the present (statist) balance or can we rely on natures designer, who probably built in mechanisms that would counteract rapid climate change. Of all the greenhouse gasses CO2 is but one. Of all the systems that regulate earths climate, the greenhouse effect is but one. Yet Al Gore has determined that the debate is over and that earthlings have but ten years to act or else kaput.

internal combustion engine gore

AUTOMOBILES

There is no such thing as a zero emission vehicle. Electric cars get labeled that way by the government but its just propaganda. See electricity does not come out of the ether from outer space, and it doesn't come from magical rays of sun. Electricity has to be generated. Yes solar panels and wind/water turbines don't give off emissions. But they had to be made somehow so it would be interesting to know if they were made using fossil fuel power. Nuclear plants are clean but nuclear fuel materials are created with many emissions. Natural gas is a fossil fuel but also clean burning so it doesn't get lynched on as much as the others (dirty coal and big oil!) Better to fight liquefied natural gas port terminals in the U.S. and offshore exploration, and at the same time mandate its use - that is the progressive way! So these cars that get plugged in are actually remote emission vehicles because the electricity most likely was generated with emissions. And every time energy is transferred from one state to another, energy is lost - its inefficient. Hybrid cars are the best bet - but only cost effective at high oil prices. Flex fuel is a good innovation but ethanol needs to be subsidized to be cost effective and methanol will be black balled because it can be derived from coal (oh! the humanity!! - insert Hindenburg crash here:) Hydrogen cars are sci-fi or fantasy at this point - depending on your perspective. Most science fiction eventually comes true - whereas fantasy remains in the realm of ones imagination. Will the price of electricity go down when the incandescent light bulb is banned?

drunk on grain alcohol

RENEWABLE ENERGY

A lump of coal in ones stocking is a great gift and even more valuable lesson. It reminds us of how rotten we have been using non-renewable fossil fuels which will run out in ten years. Renewable energy such as wind, sun, hydro, and bio-fuels will provide progressive society with a sustainable clean energy source. Never-mind the naysayers who point out that it takes more energy to make ethanol, than the end product has, or that if all the corn in the U.S. were converted to fuel, the dent in fossil fuel use would be negligible. Critics mention increased demand for bio-energy will have negative consequences across many economic sectors. If feed for livestock goes up then the cost will rise and people will buy less - less consumption is good! People should be eating free-range meat if they have not yet converted to veganism. Also a fossil fuel tax could be assessed to help subsidize the poor of the world to purchase corn tortillas - and the tax could be ratcheted up until by law non-renewables were made illegal. A special committee of experts should be appointed to regulate energy and all human activities that involve energy. We need a Manhattan project for bio-fuels, and an Apollo program to reduce energy consumption by 1% a year - over the next 100 years - it could reach zero! Absolute poverty is very sustainable.

government our doctor

PUBLIC HEALTH

Mandatory vaccinations of children for public school is a governmental overreach. The rational most cited being a public health issue and getting vaccinations will protect students from contracting potentially serious diseases. But there is a missing logical step in this supposition. If one kid is not vaccinated and contracts measles, the other kids with the vaccination would not be affected. It should be the parents choice over all vaccinations, the family unit should be the decider of the risk reward/factor not government. A private school would be justified in requiring vaccinations because people would be free to attend somewhere else, but this is not the case with the government monopoly on public schools. This is yet another petty issue that could easily be resolved with school choice vouchers. The latest progressive feel good phenomenon, coming out of Rick Perry's office of all places, is the HPV vaccination requirement, which is no doubt supported by scientific rationally minded women's groups (an oxymoron?). If 400 people died of cervical cancer in the state of Texas last year, then with the new requirement, 500 lives will be saved in 2030. The fiat power of government that can perpetrate mandatory vaccinations, is the same fiat power that perpetrated Tuskegee. Yes one can sign a waiver to get out of the requirement on philosophical or religious grounds in some cases, but is this the real reason for existence of the state?

post from god

GLOBAL WARMING

Don't even attempt to enter the Richard Branson $25M carbon extraction sweepstakes prize, because I've already got it wrapped up. Al Gore should be certifying my idea shortly. See, my idea would involve these things to be called 'plants', that are different from animals who emit carbon dioxide. These 'plants' would be living organisms like animals, but not moving, drawing nutrients out of the dirt with 'roots'. They could draw carbon dioxide out of the air through an apparatus I'll call 'leaves'. These 'plants' will remove the carbon (C) from carbon dioxide (CO2) and release the oxygen (O2). They would use this carbon to grow. I can think of a few different varieties of 'plants' that would be neat. Short plants could be called 'grass' with tall ones called 'trees'. (See picture for what a hypothetical 'plant' may look like.) If my creation goes according to plan, they should be able to propagate all over the globe by using wind, water, and animals, to spread 'seeds'. These 'seeds' would be a potential 'plant' (like an egg is a potential chicken) but very tiny and durable, only needing to be placed in soil with moister to grow into a full sized plant. In fact, according to my theory (which is pretty solid), over time these 'plants' could remove a lot of carbon from the atmosphere. Enough that, over millions of years as the plants die and get covered by earth, they could form massive mineral deposits which could be know as 'fossil fuels', and be energy sources for Adam and Eves offspring to become prosperous.

evil coke

GLOBAL WARMING

Barney opened his bottle of coke and heard the fizz, but it was too late. The deputy sheriff could not believe what he had just done - warmed the globe. Yeah that was a carbon emission, but he knew what he had to do next - revealing his inner passions. "Andy! Andy! we've got to put a stop to capitalism!" Barney exclaimed having had always considered himself a sort of watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) "Now why would you want to do a stupid thing like that?" Andy replied. Barney proceeded on his rant that he had been practicing and rehearsing inspired by late night celebrity talk show guests. Big business is out to destroy the earth via fast food, discount retail chains and fossil fuels. A secret capitalist/jewish cabal controls all levels of government and they are hell bent on not letting the truth come out. The only thing preventing a massive populist uprising is the disenfranchisement of the downtrodden by theo-con politicians, using religiously based wedge issues, threatening the eternal fires of hell to all who don't obey their commandments. Barney than ran out of the police station to save the world from itself only to come peeling back in seconds later. He could hardly get the words out of his mouth he was nearly hyperventilating "Where's my bullet? I don't think people can be persuaded peacefully..."

canvasing islamic oil

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

From the sheiks comes oil into our republic from their kingdom. Which of these evil dictators is going to sit on it - their only source of income - their economies not being more diversified than whats buried under the sand. Through their racket they can try to manipulate prices but to limited effect, seems how they don't trust each other and not holding a corner on the market. If its cheaper to import oil than we should - the market already factors in uncertainty. Government should do nothing to limit consumption of oil but should rather try to increase demand by removing fuel economy standards. People will then be free to buy what they want and if demand increases, the price of oil will go up, and will lead to further development of alternatives or hybrids only if deemed cost effective by the market. Did not the world make the transition from wood to coal to oil without centralized planning? Energy Independence is not in the national interest but would rather make us poorer - just as the socialists wish.

idiots best elites

KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge is diffuse rather than acute - most knowledge is communal. One individual can master a particular sub specialty, but cannot know very much other than that. A lot is made about great discoverers in the past who mastered many subjects, but this is misleading because they knew so little back then. A college preparatory curriculum in high school will teach more less all the knowledge in the world into the beginning of the enlightenment. After just a few years in college one can know everything Newton knew and then some. Todays intellectuals know only a small sliver of technical knowledge, and it pays off in high productivity to specialize. On the other hand, one can still get by pretty reasonably without much knowledge, often being too smart will alienate one from the masses. It would be better to be governed by people randomly picked out of the phone book than by intellectual elites. Socialism failed because a mass of nitwits acting in self interest can out think a committee of high intellects acting altruistically.

sodomy or trans-fats

GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION

Which is more dangerous to society: sodomy or trans-fats? And should the government force individuals to abandon them? The human rectum did not evolve for the purpose of intercourse. This is not a value statement - it is a fact. Damaging disease transfer probability are much greater through anal sex than vaginal. HIV and trans-fats, which may cause heart problems, both lead to death. All humans eventually die (currently 100% deathrate in your lifetime!) - presumably governments only regulate to prevent unjust premature death. Heart disease affects older people, HIV the younger. Which is more important to society? If the government banned sodomy (which is a new constitutionally protected right...) it would have very little impact on HIV. The rest of us would still be subsidizing through taxes millions in research into the disease and millions for medical treatment. And the same is true of heart disease. Ban trans-fats and it will make minimal impact on overall death rates. So in a free society why should government ban either? Why not let people make their own choices and let their personal cost/benefit dictate their further behaviour in any particular practice. Its when their cost gets transferred to others that society ceases to be free.

second hand smoke screen

SMOKING BANS

Cigarette smoking has been linked to lung cancer and heart disease. It is being banned from cities and states across the nation. Cars also have second hand effects such as being linked to killing their occupants and other people. Thats why we should make cars illegal in public places. Thousands of Americans die each year in auto wrecks. The fact is they weigh two tons and go sixty five miles per hour - thats a lot of killing energy (m*v=kE). Seatbelts and airbags do not fully prevent death and don't protect people on the sidewalk. And most cars also poison the environment with cigarette lighters/ashtrays and occupants who exhale carbon dioxide. But the big auto industry have special interest lobbyist who petition congress of grievances. The state attorney generals should take up a class action suite and get an auto settlement out of them. They can use the money in anti-car campaigns and to educate young people not to even try driving. People would be better off walking their trans-fat asses around. If it saves one life it would be worth it.

brave new cell research

STEM CELLS

Now with these stem cells they can clone one person and repeat multiple times (how egalitarian). That way everyone would be equal (and identical). Don't worry multiculturalism won't go away. Everyone will be randomly assigned a culture (so poverty tourists can still travel the world to see other colorful cultures). Disease, disability, physical and mental diversity finally conquered by the new immortals! Now who do we pick as the archetypal human? To be fair and eliminate the (societal imposed) differences between the sexes we need a hermaphrodite, capable of reproducing with either sex organ (although reproduction would only be needed every thousand years or so with the immortal clones having a right to die with dignity). Preferably someone who is a cross in equal proportions of all the worlds ethnicitys (which are constructs anyways). A little genetic modification will insure that the offspring of the clones don't regress to the former mean. In case some of the clones and/or their offspring gain an unfair advantage and express differences from the others (other than assigned culture) the state would step in and naturally select the deviants to be neutralized.

more hot air

GLOBAL WARMING

There will be no refugee crisis even if the coastlines all flooded. Some think only of apocalypsical outcomes with the earth giving us a biblical icecap melting baptism. It would happen so slowly over hundreds of years and people would just move just like they moved to florida in the first place. I wonder if people would exhale less spurious claims if this would reduce CO2 emissions. How can the weather be hotter with more rain and more drought, more hurricanes and violent storms. Would the net average be the same? Could not climate change just make it more boring? More overcast days, less wind, gentle rain. But these do not make good headlines. Have not humans been altering the face of the earth since there have been humans? If overgrazing of domesticated animals by humans caused the sahara desert then the sierra club was formed 10,000 yrs too late.