ECOCRIME

Just read that Carbon dioxide has now been changed to a form of pollution by U.S. courts. Now every breath you take makes you an eco-criminal. Of course, on the downside, trees need CO2 to live. I wonder if anyone bothered to ask the trees how they felt about it.
Speaking of eco-criminals: If i rob a bank and steal $100,000 and you rob a bank and only get $5,000, does that make you any less of a bank robber than me?
Lets continue the thought:
Environmentalists claim that they are better than us because they drive cars that use less gas. They are still using gas though, still waisting precious fuel, still polluting mother earth. Isn't that an eco-crime?
Could they take public transportation? Still polluting, still an eco-crime.
Should they ride bicycles? Wait, Bikes are made from metal that is ripped from precious mother earth. eco-rape, hence eco-crime.
They could walk everywhere? Wait again, the material made from shoes are ripped from plants that are grown from mother earth and I am sure the plants were never consulted on this. In fact, all plants that produce food and fiber were, thousands of years ago, selectively bred to produce these things, genetic modification, yuk. Once again eco-rape equals eco-crime.
So the next time you see an environmentalists who isn't walking barefoot, and bare naked for that matter, ask them why they hate the precious mother earth gia so much.

Sympathy for the Devil

I just read how the RIAA has sent out more warrants (subpoenas, whatever they call them today) to a bunch of college students demanding money for downloading music. They are demanding $5000 for copyright infringement. I thought extortion was illegal? Sounds like extortion to me, pay up or else. Probably isn't though, big companies don't seem to have to play by the sames rules as the rest of us.
I must say that on legal and probably ethical grounds the Entertainment industry ( I am including the movie and music industry as entertainment) is probably right, but I have the hardest time sympathizing with an industry whose main belief seems to be that once you have their money, never ever give it back.
Consider this: how many people out their have ever gone to a movie based on the commercials that have played? I can't count the times i have done that, i can't count the number of times I have gone to see a comedy and the funniest part of the movie was already in the commercial. Or how many times a movie has been represented as a comedy then I've watched and found nothing funny in it. lord of war is a great example, the commercials portrayed it as a comedy, I didn't laugh once. Or how about Striptease? I saw four different commercials that portrayed the movie as a comedy, a family story, an action movie, and as a drama. It was none of them. In fact, the only reason most people I know went to see that movie was the chance to see Demi Moore naked. The title was the only honest thing I saw, because it was a tease to get you to fork over your hard earned dollars. True, diffident people like different things but there is a universal commonality. You can't trust the movie critics, they watch movies as a profession, they analyze, study the formula, pay attention to allot of things that are irrelevant to me. I just want to set back and relax for a couple of hours and get lost in a story. Go see a bad movie and try to get your money back. Try it. I am still kicking myself for going to see the Village. I lost my money and two hours of my life that I can never get back.
the music industry is just as bad. Ever heard a song on the radio and bought the CD based on that song and then find out that what you liked about that song is the only one like it on the whole CD. Theatre of Pain by Motley Crue is a great example. I knew a good many people (who hadn't heard of Motley Crue) who heard home sweet home and ran out to buy the CD only to find that that was the only slow song on the CD.
Granted, ethically they are right, but I think I am also right in wanting to see what I am getting for my money before that money vanishes into the dark pit of the industry. The entertainment industry as a whole will say and do anything to separate you from your money, so I am not sure if I can have any sympathy for the Devil.

Global warming? Dont sweat it.

Put aside for one minute that global warming is supported by those who have a stake in their theories being accepted. From scientists whose grant money depends on global warming, to organizations that depend on funds from fearful donors, to government agencies that just want more power over your life.
Put all of that aside. Don't worry, don't sweat it. Below is a list of all the global earth shattering disasters that I have survived since my birth.

Born: 1969
Survived:
1. Two worldwide famines (1975 and 1980, predicted by big daddy Paul Erlich)
2. Global Ice Age ( late 70's to early 80's)
3. Acid rain's destruction of our topsoil and water supply (80's)
4. Ozone holes ripping open in the sky and frying all life ( 80's and 90's)
5. The world oceans dieing (90's)
6. I am sure a few have slipped my mind, if you remember any i forgot please leave a comment.

So if your worried about the end of the world. Don't sweat it (pun intended), I survived all the other massively destructive events, so you can certainly survive a little extra heat.

Brief note on Big Daddy Paul R. Erlich is currently the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. This guy has been making doom and gloom predictions since the late 1960's. He has never been right once, NOT ONCE. Does anyone realize how amazing that is? Think about it, anyone of us could sit down and apply a little bit of common sense and a slight knowledge of history and make thirty predictions about what may happen in the next thirty years. By shear dumb luck we would at least get a few right. Yet this guy has never, ever, ever, gotten anything right. Yet he is hailed as a environmentalist guru by that ilk of people

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)

Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World