This is too good...

"Liars Lie."
The Rev. Al Sharpton

Climategate continues to unfold and as it does are revealed many truths about the methods and motives of those worried about what used to be called "Global Warming," (Obese Americans destroying the planet by driving around in SUV's) but which is now termed "Climate Change," (the immediate and unquestioned necessity for Global Government and income redistribution).

It turns out that the original raw data on which the famous "Hammer" chart have been based no longer exists. That's right, it is not possible for the basic assumptions upon which this 25 year anti-American pogrom are based ever to be checked via the famous "peer review. Not only do we know that "scientists" have conspired to manipulate data and public perception of data but that the basic theory, as presented at the now infamous U.N. conference are completely unverifiable.

This is a lot to take in but, knowing how hateful and arrogant the green left really is, not at all surprising, at least to me.

So, what will become of this? I would guess the following:

1-The Greens will Stonewall and deny deny deny... and will have just as much luck as Nixon did with this strategy.
2-This is the beginning of the end for the U.N., now exposed as not only corrupt but thoroughly incompetent and a creature of the least competent on the planet.
3-Europe and Europeans fall to stygian depths in American opinion. Indeed, if it is as I have long thought that part of this was Europe's need to hobble and then leash the U.S., it may lead to a permanent end to the alliance.
4-Under a resurgent American right, the U.S. may be even more unilateral than ever before.

In short, this is why you should not lie...


This is either the most incompetent act in the history of science or the most arrogant.

An America that can say no.

"There is no anti-Americanism."/>Archbishop Desmond Tutu, NPR, December 2008

Sometimes, relationships can become dys-functional. Approximately 65 years ago America emerged as the dominant force on the planet. This dominance has reached such comprehensive proportions that the relationship between those 4.5% who are U.S. citizens and the remainder has become unhealthy for both sides. Americans have become arrogant and victims of a kind of sugar induced stupor that causes them to believe normal rules of cause and effect do not apply to the.

The rest of the planet has been reduced to the role of malicious spoiled brats constantly demanding special treatment even as they refuse responsibility instead responding to all American actions with malice, abuse and denial. Americans are the new Nazi's. And so, this unhealthy and ultimately unfruitful relationship grips the planet.

I propose the following...
That the U.S. eliminate its dependence on imported fossil fuels ASAP. This is actually will be relatively easy to do owing to the enormous inefficiency of the U.S. in it's use of these fuels. Having done so, the U.S., trade deficit will become a huge surplus and a very few precious metals not withstanding, the U.S. would be entirely self-sufficient.

The U.S. withdraw from all mutual defense treaties and were appropriate other supra-national agreements. These cost the U.S. lives and money and earn us only malice while allowing trade competitors and enormous advantage due to their not having to provide for their own defense in any meaningful way.

The U.S. should refuse, on a consistent basis, to "bailout" others in places like Bosnia. 
, Africa, etc.. Time to let the rest take care of themselves, it will raise their self-esteem and help end imperial tendencies within the U.S. The U.S. to stay in the U.N., but to use its veto to prevent this absurd organization from creating more trouble than it has already.<br /><br />Of course, America would still trade and have cultural exchange with others, only as a normal nation insisting on our rights while not allowing others to rip us off but at the same time refusing to interfere unless our legal national interests were at stake.
Over time, this program will right the ma.         
lice filled present state of affairs and allow the planet to find its natural on-going stasis.

Towards a more perfect Union or dealing with the intellectually incompetent and hysterical while still enacting universal health care in the U.S.

"The greatest triumph of reason is to live well with those who have none."
Voltaire
Listening to the pure irrational hysteria coming from much of the American right regarding universal health care, one is tempted to go kick the couch or take a hammer to a recently retired gas guzzler. Why, you ask yourself, is it so difficult to understand that the French spend 6% of their lower GDP per capita and cover all their citizens obtaining arguably better results than the U.S. which spends almost 18% of GDP and does not, so very difficult to grok.

Then, one remembers that about 40% of the citizenry is incapable of critical reasoning.
The planet is beginning a change the equal of that experienced between the middle ages and the renaissance or the pre-industrial and industrial ages. The U.S., is as usual, in the vanguard. Rapid change can be fearsome, profound change more so.
But, the law of Entropy demands the destruction of the old so that the new can reorganize on a higher plane. All this is obvious. The problem, as old Voltaire so well knew, is that a large part of society is incapable of understanding, they just are that is all.
Who are these people? Easy. They are those who believe Ex-Governor Palin should be President of the United States. This is an idea so devoid of reason, so absurd, that only someone who's cognitive abilities are as efficient as a Chevy Tahoe is efficient in its use of fuel, could subscribe to this intellectual infantilism. Like the Tahoe, they will simply cease to be produced and end up being scrapped. This is certain and is simply a function of time.

So here's to old Voltaire, as wise in the 21st century as he was in the 18th. As he guided the founders, quintessential men of reason then, let him guide us now.

THOUGHT OR LACK THEREOF

The pontification after MJ's death is interesting juxtaposed with the "debates" over Universal health care in the U.S. and "Global Warming."

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MJ was, I hear, a creative genius. He was also at the very least, someone who paid hush money to the parents of children who had "slept" at his home. The refusal by most of those commenting on his passing to mention both in their observations is a superb example lying by omission.

The same can be observed in the debate of Universal Healthcare in the U.S., in which those opposing simply refuse to acknowledge the obvious easily verified fact that the current system in the U.S, is cruel, stupid and spiraling towards melt down.

This is also true of the much redefined "Global Warming" crisis. It is obvious that the planet is heating up. What is also obvious is that a very small part of this is due to human caused carbon emissions. The failure to address this 25 year lie and then to bury the lie under a mound of propaganda is signal for the increasingly twisted and compromised state of "discussion" the world finds itself burdened with.

Openning Observations

Another Sunday, being spent mostly on Second Life (SL). This "world" fascinates me, the pretensions, long surpressed self-expression. The lies the unspoken but obvious truths are at once hilarious and heart rending.

I am at a Canadian run goth club listening to to an Italian DJ who's voice and demeanor don't match. Dancing avatars and a Duce like speaker impressed on furious American English lyrics.

But that is what is so much fun about SL, despite the pretense and the carefully constructed avatars, truth is obvious and undeniable. These avatars represent those who's heart and head is only briefly united when on SL. The embarrassed silences to my quips about Mussolini are not because they disagree but because they do not know. The facade belies the truth, that most here are as clueless in this electronic world as they are in RL but without the camouflage provided by physical interaction they are exposed as never before.

And, so, SL telescopes truth.... IT is life to the 10th power without the ability to hide.