Quote of the Day

"I encourage all people on the Environmental Left, who protest endlessly, to get a half-life!"

Dennis Miller - June 4, 2009

The Goode Family

This is a new animated comedy on ABC. But be aware, it continuously mocks the totalitarian world that the environmental zealots want to drag us into.

But since such Rabid Leftists of the Environmental Cult have NO sense of humour, watch for it to be solidly panned. Here's an example.

Dennis Miller Interviews Lawrence Solomon

The Arrogance of Environmentalists Redux

Here's an interesting article from NYC about the cost of owning a car.

Here's the comment I left:

I live in Vancouver, BC and haven't owned a car - by choice - for nearly 7 years. But my situation is quite extra-ordinary. I work for myself at my home office and so my commute is about 15 seconds. Pretty good transit is just a few blocks away. I don't have a family and am not dating at the moment.

If ANY of those factors were to change then my need for a car would as well. Immediately!

That's why I commend the author for taking the time to bring a little common sense to the Age of Lack of Intellect.

Here on Canada's Left Coast (in more ways than one) we have some of the most arrogant (& vacuous) Kumbaya Latte Drinking Limousine Liberal environmentalists anywhere in the world. They have tried to stop the building of bridges & improvement of roads and have encouraged dramatic tax increases to gasoline to prevent working class people from driving. In a nutshell they are open to virtually anything that will force people to adhere to their world view ... without a microsecond of thought to the consequences.

I have some good friends who live in a suburb called Langley, that's about an hour's drive southeast of Vancouver. They have a daughter who's very busy in many activities. Both parents work, in different directions, one half an hour away from home and the other an hour or more away.

When the Kumbaya crowd started suggesting that people like them should get rid of their cars and start taking transit (which would mean upwards of 2 - 3 hours each way) I definitively knew I was fighting the good fight against them!

Heads up: Our Far Left City Council, in their infinite [lack of] wisdom, has decided to waste $1 Million on this experiment.

In late June, go to YouTube and search for these words: Burrard Bridge bicycle. There you will find a time-lapse video shot by yours truly which will accurately show 3 packed lanes of traffic going one way, two fairly full lanes of traffic coming the other way, and one almost empty line of bicycles. Tied in with this video will be a "special" message for all potential Olympic visitors next February!

The Arrogance of Environmentalists

I came across this editorial in the Calgary Sun. It is both half-baked and extremely disingenuous. I couldn't resist sending the newspaper this letter:

Michael Den Tandt states that Canada must follow Barack Obama's disastrous Cap and Trade policy because "the politics and the math are unavoidable".

Really? An obvious alternative is to just offer our precious oil for sale to other countries. There will immediately be instant takers the world over.

Last year Canadians were given the opportunity to cast their vote on the political views espoused by Stephane Dion and Michael Den Tandt. They were rejected. Vehemently!

The will of the people seems to mean little to their ilk. Neither do they have any real concern for the prosperity and health & welfare of Western Canadians. For without a doubt, should such suicidal economic policies be followed, there will be major negative consequences abound.

Cap and Trade vs. Carbon Taxes

Lorrie Goldstein shares his thoughts on the political nonsense going on here in B.C.

Inconvenient Truths ... for Global Warming Alarmists

Al Gore is about to feature in a new movie, but he’s not going to like it very much. Titled Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria, the film presents a devastating account of the shaky foundations and hefty price of Mr. Gore’s brand of self-interested and hypocritical alarmism.

Created by the Irish film making duo of Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney — who made another excellent documentary about the “dark side of environmentalism” called Mine Your Own Business — Not Evil provides the perfect rebuttal to Mr. Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

So starts a superb new article from Peter Foster about a new movie which will be released later this year. Do read it and then do watch the film! Sadly, many on the Left will refuse to watch and just prefer to follow this mantra.

Rex Murphy: The Greens are Ecstatic about the World's Financial Troubles

Are you worried about the current financial crisis? If your name is Al Gore or David Suzuki or Elizabeth May then you're not worried whatsoever. In fact, you're jumping for joy ... but can't express your happiness because you're smart enough to know that some might take it the wrong way.

So goes the recent brilliant treatise from Rex Murphy. Here's a snippet:

Markets are drying up, private wealth is shrinking, the engines of industry are slowing. Layoff notices are going out all over the world. Governments everywhere are leaping into urgent deficit financing on the premise that a stalled or stopped world economy must be buttressed by massive intervention. Such is the emergency that almost every government, of every political stripe, has abandoned the great dogmas that warned of the evils of public debt, and embraced with an almost frantic abandon the opposite mantra: They must spend their way out of the recession.

Is there no light amid all this gloom?

Well, if you are among the great tribe of global warming catastrophists, surely there is. If the industrial economies of the world are in a forced slowdown, if auto companies - the manufacturers of those demonic gas-guzzling SUVs - are facing ruin, if long-standing business are cutting their work forces by 20 per cent and 30 per cent and 40 per cent, if people are buying less and, consequently, business is making less, then surely the entire world's carbon emissions are, per necessitatem, going down. The world is burning less oil, because the world is doing less.

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Charles Adler and Lorrie Goldstein discuss the same here @ 7:00.

Rex Murphy: The Hypocrisy of National Geographic

Thanks to commenter Mary T, I learned of this video editorial from Rex Murphy. He points out an obvious fact, which is seemingly beyond the grasp of understanding of many on the Left: In order to enjoy the benefits of the modern society, some parts of the Earth need to be damaged, even if just temporarily. Failure to do this means no energy, no materials, and ultimately no modern lifestyle.

An Unhinged Environmentalist

Hmmm, I wonder who the caller is voting for?!? :-)

Dennis Miller on the E-Hypocrite, Al Gore

David Suzuki: Liberal Fascist

I've long been skeptical of David Suzuki's sanctimonious rhetoric but he has now crossed the line into a whole new territory that is much more frightening. He wants politicians thrown into jail who don't act on what he is saying. You can read the full column here.

400 New Climate Change Deniers

And lo and behold, each of them is a prominent scientist! You've got to read this. Here's an excerpt:

Even some in the establishment media now appear to be taking notice of the growing number of skeptical scientists. In October, the Washington Post Staff Writer Juliet Eilperin conceded the obvious, writing that climate skeptics "appear to be expanding rather than shrinking." Many scientists from around the world have dubbed 2007 as the year man-made global warming fears “bite the dust.” (LINK) In addition, many scientists who are also progressive environmentalists believe climate fear promotion has "co-opted" the green movement. (LINK)

Where Environmentalists Are Taking Us

Are We The Problem?

In this interesting article, Mark Steyn illustrates how a growing number of Al Gore's disciples are working to shape public opinion to believe that those who have children are the greatest destroyers of the environment.

I hope I'm around in 50 years to witness historians comment on what utter and complete foolishness the thinking of the early years of the new millennium was!

'Tis The Season ... To Take Offence

December has arrived and the vast snowfall in Vancouver has provided a vivid reminder to us all that Christmas isn't too far away. In Australia, where they're several time zones ahead and thus much closer to that special day, the annual season of ... people taking offence to most everything you can possibly imagine has begun.

As this article outlines, an HR staffing firm Down Under has told its Santa trainees not to use the traditional "Ho, Ho, Ho" because it might offend women. Why? They fear that some women may associate the term with the American gangsta' rap meaning of the word "Ho".

In Britain, some feel that Santa is setting a bad example for obesity and slimmer Santas are being requested by some shopping malls.

Elsewhere, some environmental groups are informing us that Santa's sleigh, pulled by 9 reindeer, will emit the equivalent of 40,600 tonnes of greenhouse gases, thus making Santa an affront to Mother Earth.

Have you ever wondered what propels such people to take offence to everything? Long ago I coined the phrase "Permanent Victim Syndrome" (PVS). I'd now like to release a new one into the Zeitgeist.

The new millennium has seen our society dramatically shaped by globalization, computerization, and an endless number of conveniences. The end result? Most people have very little to truly worry about in their daily lives. As such, they have much more free time on their hands. While some spend their time thinking about the deeper issues of our existence, others have instead turned in the opposite direction and instead focus on, and often invent, issues that heretofore were never that important to anyone.

With a wide spectrum of individuals, you'll always have a wide spectrum of views. Some of these are just wacky. But in our 24/7 news culture such voices get a much wider audience than ever before. Combine this with the propensity of many 1st world liberals to not want to offend and it has become clear that we've entered a new period that I will now forever call the PCS Era, short for "Post Common Sense".

Walter Schultz was the first I've read to take note of the fact that PCS disciples have joined together to Protest Everything, Be Against Everything, and Say No To Everything. While his focus has been on local issues, such folks exist everywhere.

I've come to realize that such folks don't really base their protests on a cohesive set of principles, so much as a reason to be against something. Take the ongoing environmental debate as an example. The same sort of groups are against: getting energy from oil, from coal, from nuclear power, and even from new hydroelectric projects. They instead say that we should get all of our energy from solar and wind power projects. But rest assured that if the necessary installations were actually ever implemented, they'd be against them too. Here's one of many examples.

Understanding the deeper psychological motivations of these protesters, it's not too much of a stretch to realize that if these same people were in Sudan, they would be joining the mob to call for the death of British teacher, Gillian Gibbons. If you think that this assertion is outrageous or an exaggeration then you clearly do not understand the PCS mindset and the "emotions, not facts" mindset that so deeply grips its advocates.

Our Addiction to Oil isn't so simple to stop

A geophysicist friend in Calgary directed me to this recent talk by business analyst, Peter Tertzakian. He's also the author of 1,000 Barrels A Second, a fascinating book that further delves into our deep dependence on oil.

The talk is lengthy - about an hour - but if you can listen to the first 15 minutes, you will gain a much better understanding of the facts behind our predicament and why much of the talk by environmentalists and politicians is nothing more than hot air.

Al Gore's "Crockumentary"

Here's an hilarious article by Mark Steyn about Al Gore.

The New Religion

This afternoon, CKNW's Sean Leslie had a guest named Ian Bruce on his show (8:40). Bruce comes with the title of "climate change specialist" within David Suzuki's Foundation. He probably throws around that title to impress women at all the Commercial Street coffee shops! Makes you wonder if that title and 2 loonies buys him more than a cup of coffee?!

I was so outraged by this elitist hack that I wrote Sean a letter which he read on the air (57:15) :

Sean,

Your interview with Ian Bruce of the Suzuki Foundation was telling; not surprising, but telling.

He's yet another blind disciple of the new religion called "Environmentalism", headed by their high priest, Al Gore. His smug, belittling contempt for anyone who dares question his religion would be insulting if it weren't so laughable. No legitimate scientist would ever avoid questions and debate. Yet Bruce wouldn't directly answer one of the criticisms you cited of Al Gore's film.

Does it make me a member of the Flat Earth Society to ask the following questions:

1. If the alleged increase in temperature on Earth is primarily due to man then how come the temperature on Mars is also going up?
2. It has now been proven that if current iceberg melt rates continue that Greenland will under water in 500 to 1000 years. So why did Gore say that it would be in his lifetime? Is he the new Moses?

What's sad about all of this is that people like me would generally be onboard with reducing energy consumption if it wasn't for all of the clearly false rhetoric espoused by the Ian Bruces of the world. His insistence that Canada so quickly destroy its own economy is downright scary. If he'd like to see the opposite of peace then he better be hoping that his dreams for a bankrupt Canada, full of unemployment come true!

Robert W.


Incidentally, my last paragraph isn't empty rhetoric. I gave up my car by choice 5 years ago. Just didn't feel I needed one and still don't. BUT I'm fortunate enough to have a lifestyle where I don't need one! I work for myself at my home office so my commute is only about 15 seconds. If any environmentalist wants to compare "energy footprints" with me, they'll lose; well, except for those who have moved into a cave.

I would never tell anyone in Surrey or Langley or Maple Ridge or White Rock that they must give up their vehicle and take public transportation in ... or else they're a "bad person". What nonsense! I already feel bad for those people who have to commute 60+ minutes to work everyday. To me, there's nothing more aggravating than being stuck in traffic. Why the likes of Ian Bruce and Carole James and Stephane Dion want to make it even harder for them is absolutely beyond my wildest comprehension. Frankly, it's just cruel.

Is it possible that these environmental zealots have ever stopped for a second to consider that the rhetoric they're espousing closely resembles that used by overzealous Christian missionaries toward Natives in early Canada? True, the subjects they preach about are quite different but the "you are ignorant, we know best" mentality is strikingly identical. And sickening!

Has Hell Frozen Over?

The worst kept secret this week has finally been revealed. Though no one can provide a good answer as to why, Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing it with a UN Climate Panel.

The meaningfulness of this award has been in doubt for some time now, as the process has clearly been biased by a severe left-wing political agenda. How else to explain Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter winning it in years past. For what? The former was a corrupt terrorist and the latter was an inept, ineffectual president.

So what precisely did Gore do to win this award? He made a political propaganda film, proven to be full of errors. But as the High Priest of the New Religion of Environmentalism, a lack of facts coming out of his mouth doesn't seem to bother the true believers.

It's more than a little ironic though that the same week he won this award, a High Court Judge in Britain declared that the film "violated laws barring the promotion of partisan political views in the classroom", only allowing the film to be shown "on the condition that it is accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore's 'one-sided' views".

All of this leads me to postulate that had the average person been asked 6 months ago whether Al Gore would win the Nobel Peace Prize, a common response would have been, "sure, when hell freezes over!" I wonder if the devil is busy shoveling this very minute?!?