Frankly, I'm not sure who's more stoooopid:
Exhibit A: Politicians
They couldn't wait to shell out $4 Trillion to MAKE SURE that we wouldn't go into a recession.
Well, it didn't work.
That, and while I SUCK at math, the way I see it, 300M Americans and $1T equals more than $3K for every man, woman, and child in this country that will eventually have to be paid back. For my family of 6, that amounts to a paltry $72,000 ($4T/300M x 6).
Exhibit B: Environmentalists
While my idea of a good time isn't burning styrofoam or acres of tires, I'm SICK TO DEATH of environmentalists pushing their religion off on me.
That, and how stupid do they think I am?
Once again, we see another group of hand-wringing, "let's save the POLAR BEARS", self-righteous, knuckle-dragging, numbskull, environmentalists trying to equate human calamity and misery with Global Warming.
And, once again - they're trying to equate EARTHQUAKES as proof of global warming:
Natural disasters killed over 220,000 people in 2008, making it one of the most devastating years on record and underlining the need for a global climate deal, the world's number two reinsurer said Monday.
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Just days later an earthquake shook China's Sichuan province, leaving 70,000 dead, 18,000 missing and almost five million homeless, according to official figures, Munich Re said.
Uh... yeah. The way I see it, nearly 1/3rd of those deaths were tragically caused by human negligence. But not of the sinful carbon-emissions kind. (Unless those corrupt Chinese builders wasted the money they should have spent on building strong buildings on gleeful and wanton tire, coal, and jet-fuel burning. Bastards!)
A Fitting Solution
My guess though is that there's probably some way we can get American Tax Payers to bail out German Re-Insurers - given the HELL that volcanoes, earthquakes, and meteor-strikes are going to cause with humanity's refusal to pay attention to global warming ...
Yeah, that top quality press around global warming and earthquakes is just amazing.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/19/cbs-news-sinks-to-new-low-publishes-crackpot-global-warming-story-attributes-it-to-associated-press/
Wish I could find the letter I read in either the NYT or WSJ a while back by a scientist who developed one of the major climate computer models. He said the predictions are hooey as the models aren't good enough. He also quoted a gung-ho manmade global warming scientist he talked with who admitted as much but also said look at the great things we can make happen pushing his hooey. Straight out of Crichton's State of Fear.
Posted by: Ralph Day | January 06, 2009 at 09:19 PM