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The coming Ass Age [Ann Coulter]
World Net Daily ^ | 21 March 2007 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 03/21/2007 3:52:21 PM PDT by Rummyfan

No matter how much liberals try to dress up their nutty superstitions about global warming as "science," which only six-fingered lunatics could doubt, scratch a global warming "scientist" and you get a religious fanatic.

These days, new religions are barely up and running before they seize upon the worst aspects of the God-based religions.

First, there's the hypocrisy and corruption. At the 1992 Democratic Convention in New York, Al Gore said: "The central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment." The environment would not, however, be the central organizing principle of Gore's own life.

The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me – we have to do something about saving the polar bears."

Never mind his carbon footprint – have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's.

But I digress. As has been widely reported, Gore's Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the energy of the average home in that state. But it's OK, according to the priests of global warming. Gore has purchased "carbon offsets."

It took the Catholic Church hundreds of years to develop corrupt practices such as papal indulgences. The global warming religion has barely been around for 20 years, and yet its devotees are allowed to pollute by the simple expedient of paying for papal indulgences called "carbon offsets."

Americans spend an extra $2.2 billion on gas a year because they're overweight, requiring more fuel in cars to carry the extra pounds. So even with all those papal indulgences, Gore may have a small carbon footprint, but he has a huge carbon butt-print.

Further proving that liberalism is a religion, its practitioners respond with the zeal of Torquemada to any dissent from the faith in global warming.

A few years ago, Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg wrote a book titled "The Skeptical Environmentalist," disputing the hysteria surrounding global warming and other environmentalist scares. Lomborg is a Greenpeace anti-war protester – or, as he is described on liberal websites, he is a "young, gay vegetarian Dane with tight T-shirts." His book was cited favorably in the New York Times.

But for questioning the "science" behind global warming, Lomborg was brought up on charges of "scientific misconduct" by Denmark's Inquisition Court, called the "Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation." I take it Denmark's Ministry of Truth was booked solid that day.

The moment anyone diverges from official church doctrine on global warming, he is threatened with destruction. Heretics would be burned at the stake if liberals could figure out how to do it in a "carbon neutral" way.

Climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball is featured in the new documentary debunking global warming, titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." For this heresy, Ball has received hate mail with such messages as, "If you continue to speak out, you won't live to see further global warming."

I'm against political writers whining about their hate mail because it makes them sound like Paul Krugman. But that's political writers arguing about ideology.

Global warming is supposed to be "science." It's hard to imagine Niels Bohr responding to Albert Einstein's letter questioning quantum mechanics with a statement like: "If you continue to speak out, you won't live to see further quantum mechanics."

Come to think of it, one can't imagine the pope writing a letter to Jerry Falwell saying, "If you continue to speak out, you won't live to see further infallibility."

If this is how global warming devotees defend their scientific theory, it may be a few tweaks short of a scientific theory. Scientific facts are not subject to liberal bullying – which, by the way, is precisely why liberals hate science.

A few years ago, the New York Times ran an article about the continuing furious debates among physicists about quantum mechanics, which differs from global warming in the sense that it is supported by physical evidence and it doesn't make you feel good inside to "do something" about quantum mechanics. It is, in short, science.

Though he helped develop the theory of quantum mechanics, Einstein immediately set to work attacking it. MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark called the constant testing and arguing about quantum mechanics "a 75-year war."

That's how a real scientific theory operates. That's even how a real religion operates. Only a false religion needs hate mail, threats, courts of inquisition and Hollywood movies to sustain it.


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To: Billthedrill
"some academic schmuck hitting the freshmen with a feminist critique of mathematics"

Probably something like the phallic symbol i, used to represent the square root of negative one, is, in fact, representative of man's desire to "conquer" nature and "penetrate" her secrets. Nature's rape is consummated with greater missiles to blow things up with.
81 posted on 03/22/2007 10:27:12 AM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: Enduring Freedom

OK, but Tattoos are a TOTAL TURNOFF outside of the trailer park. ;-)


82 posted on 03/22/2007 10:28:00 AM PDT by Clemenza (NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values!)
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To: Rummyfan
Only a false religion needs hate mail, threats, courts of inquisition and Hollywood movies to sustain it.

My favorite quote of the year.

83 posted on 03/22/2007 10:45:45 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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To: tacticalogic
As I recall, Ent's are old and wise.

Here's a better pic. Gore will henceforth be Ducky Lucky because I couldn't find a pic of Quackie Lackie


84 posted on 03/22/2007 11:59:51 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P.)
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To: bert
As I recall, Ent's are old and wise.

That's true. They are also slow, stiff, and wooden, but no analogy is perfect.

85 posted on 03/22/2007 12:07:42 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: GQuagmire

86 posted on 03/22/2007 4:15:07 PM PDT by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: omnivore; Candor7
Another example is Malthusianism, the belief that the world is about to experience a global famine accompanied by a massive die-off of most of the human race. The end of world predicted by Malthus is centuries overdue, the end predicted by Ehrlich is now decades overdue. The UN has thrown in the towel and admitted global population will stabilize by 2050.

But most of the liberals I know, well educated people, by the way, still cling to the belief that we are in imminent danger due to overpopulation, with religious fervor.

87 posted on 03/22/2007 4:27:25 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Clemenza
try to focus!


88 posted on 03/23/2007 12:22:24 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (what does al qaeda and bush have in common? caves)
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To: stm

inspiring


89 posted on 03/23/2007 12:25:35 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (what does al qaeda and bush have in common? caves)
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To: reagan_fanatic

There was a generator? Hogwash, I say!


90 posted on 03/24/2007 5:49:04 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: philman_36

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91 posted on 03/24/2007 5:53:23 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody; ColdSteelTalon

I believe ColdSteelTalon would be the one to send that reply to. I merely helped in answering his question as to who the woman was.


92 posted on 03/24/2007 11:32:08 PM PDT by philman_36
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