Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/03/2010 6:45:06 AM PST by Hojczyk
Scams die hard, but eventually they die, and when they do, nobody wants to get close to the corpse. You can get all the hotel rooms you want this week in Cancun.
The global-warming caravan has moved on, bound for a destination in oblivion. The United Nations is hanging the usual lamb chop in the window this week in Mexico for the U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, but the Washington guests are staying home. Nobody wants to get the smell of the corpse on their clothes.
Everybody who imagined himself anybody raced to Copenhagen last year for the global-warming summit, renamed "climate change" when the globe began to cool, as it does from time to time. Some 45,000 delegates, "activists," business representatives and the usual retinue of journalists registered for the party in Copenhagen. This year, only 1,234 journalists registered for the Cancun beach party. The only story there is that there's no story there. The U.N. organizers glumly concede that Cancun won't amount to anything, even by U.N. standards.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, who wrote and sponsored the cap-and-trade legislation last year, says he'll be too busy with congressional business (buying stamps for the Christmas cards and getting a haircut and a shoeshine) even to think about going to Cancun. Last year, he joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi and dozens of other congressmen in taking staffers and spouses to the party in Copenhagen. The junket cost taxpayers $400,000, but Copenhagen is a friendly town and a good time was had by all. This year, they're all staying home, learning to live like lame ducks.
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Haha! Good analogy!
” Waxman -says he’ll be too busy with congressional business (buying stamps for the Christmas cards and getting a haircut and a shoeshine) and having his nose hairs woven in to braids, or corn rows!
and they will continue to do so until abolished.
Close.
The "new" worry is that we're running out of fresh water. I've surfed through a couple of TV shows, also seen some commercials mentioning it. My prediction? That'll be the new worry in 5 years or less.
Climate Change needs to flop around in its death throes for a little while longer. Then, as soon as the idiots promoting it figure that there's just as much money to be made in scaring the population with something else, then they'll all pile on.
Problem is that Global Warming, erm, Climate Change, models don't support a lack of fresh water globally. They'll need to be adjusted (or better yet, forgotten about) in order for the meme to really take hold, I think.
Call me a cynic.
*Call me a cynic.*
Call you Nostradamus!
That’s a pretty good prediction.
It appears that there’s a real water shortage in the West.
people moving to Nevada and California where there isn’t that much water to begin with, illegals adding to the population in huge amounts, etc.
I can easily see water as a phony crisis, because the Californians will actually be experiencing a shortage.
The gullible all around the country believe whatever comes out of California...especially if it comes out of the mouths of the Hollywood Celebridunces.
We actually had a shortage here in the Southeast a few years back. It was due to a drought that ran a little longer than usual, combined with a heatwave that was a little hotter than usual, combined with *mostly* the utter mismanagement by the gov't of the water resources that we have here locally.
During the "crisis", there were all sorts of dire predictions. "Never going to rain again". "We'll all go thirsty". "End of the world as we know it". But, as always, time passed and amazingly, it started to rain again. Last year we had probs with flooding - which, interestingly enough, didn't lead to end-times predictions. Go figure, I guess that "flooding" just didn't meet the "we're going to die of thirst" stories that the media had been running for the previous couple of years.
People are stupid.
I've since moved, but read not too long ago that water rates were going up because of "rises in administrative overhead". Go figure.
All of it is just another avenue to expand government and encroach upon freedom. This dynamic has been at work since the beginning of mankind. It’s all part of the convergence towards a one-world global government. When one thing has outlived its usefulness another is found, and there are always many different approaches being taken at any given time.
The next two scams are clean water, and environmental mercury.
They’re already underway.
The next two scams are clean water, and environmental mercury.
They’re already underway.
But then maybe everyone is staying home because they haven’t allowed time on their schedule to be kidnapped. It takes a real chunk out of the work-week.
What a shame.
Just when they are about to be needed most.
The all-electric plug-in $43k plug in cars, I now understand, witll require a monthly electrical expense of two normal single-family residences.
One Antoinette-wanna-be was seen exclaiming on-camera, "We will never have to stop at a gas station ever again!" ----While riding in a $130k all-electric convertible...
As long as they are rich stupid people or "entertainers," I don't mind at all.
Nixon’s gift to the world...
That, and Henry Blackmun.
I just adore Wesley Pruden and his writing style.
[As long as they are rich stupid people or “entertainers,” I don’t mind at all. ]
That’s not a smart attitude to have. Those are the people that influence political thought and public opinion. It is much safer when poor people are are the stupid ones.
It kind of amazes me that 80 years after the Great Dust Bowl drought, America still has massive floods every year in some places and water shortages in others.
Wouldn’t the savings in Federal flood insurance pay for aqueducts and pipelines to carry water away from some of those Northeastern rivers and let it restore the underground aquifers in the MidWest and West ?
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