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Comment on: Gray Ghost Country

"Global Warming" Democrats Are "Chicken"

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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 1:29 PM buck writes:

Poor Al!

He lost the race in '00. He was relegated to the "Aso Rans". He desperately needed a cause to put him once again in the limelight. Global Warming. Al discovered Global Warming and FOUND HIS CRUSADE!!. He played all in on this hand. And now Global Warming has been shown to be nonexistant.
Poor Al!
If he abandons his stance on Global Warming he will look like a Fool.
If he remains adamant on a non existant phenomena...he will look like a Fool.
And this was going to propel him back into the presidential strata of politics.
Poor Al.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 1:32 PM buck writes:

Albert Gore

First graduate of the

Wyle E Coyote School of Political Science and Dirty Tricks
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 1:37 PM BrianR writes:

Yeah, Ghost


Goebbels' "Big Lie" strategy, to a T.

Also, note how they now try to avoid the term "global warming" and now use the catch-all phrase "climate change". That's a sure-fire winner! Along the lines of "taxes" becoming "investments", and "terrorist acts" becoming "man-made disasters".

"Climate change" is totally effective, because the climate is ALWAYS changing! That's the nature of dynamic random systems.

These guys just love their word games. Clinton on the definition of the word "is".



Looks like we've both been busy today; new one at the Island, too.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 4:07 PM Gar Swaffar writes:

Two Types

Of AGW (anthropogeninc global warming)idjits
1] Fools who are trying to slay the nation and world economy for a grab at power.

2] Those who follow mindlessly along with the crowd because it feels good to be in a crowd and requires no thought.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 4:45 PM Mrs. AL (Always Learning) writes:

Well ...

guess the Demos are right. We now have green everything (getting to the point I am about to upchuck -- sorry to be gross) and the number of corporations, comanies and individuals hopping on this bandwagon appears to be growing. There has been an leap from the illogic of 'global warming' to 'going green.' Gotta give the Demos and liberal leftists this, they know how to manipulate language.

Great post and analysis, Gray Ghost. Thanx.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 4:52 PM Gray Ghost writes:

buck

Al Bore also lost the "hearts" of the people of Tennessee (I have a brother-in-law in Franklin who keeps me informed of the general consensus of thought in the Nashville area).

Most Tennesseans consider him the "Village Idiot". Nothing but "Hot" air.

However, the "Wyle E Coyote School of Political Science and Dirty Tricks" sounds interesting. Do you think they get their text books from Acme?
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 4:56 PM Gray Ghost writes:

BrianR

"Goebbels' "Big Lie" strategy, to a T."

For sure! You would think that they would want all of those opposed to "Global Warming" or, as you so correctly put it, "Climate Change" to argue their "false" theories.

As an engineer, if I am sure I am correct I welcome dissent so I can prove the dissenters wrong. It makes me look better.

I'll be by shortly.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 4:59 PM Gray Ghost writes:

boaz

In regards to your #1, this would include both Waxman and Al Bore (plus 90% of the Liberal elites).

In regards to your #2, this would include the Liberal "sheep".

And I pity and despise both.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 5:06 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Mrs. AL

And the worst of it is that we (both sides in this debate) could have worked together to save energy (by being more efficient), helped the environment (by the use of sensible recycling and looking for "green" products that reduce the cost of manufacture while doing a better job), and the increased use of renewable energy in an engineeringly sound manner.

But idiots like Al Bore have made engineers like myself increasingly on the other side of the debate. Which is a pity.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 5:58 PM Eric writes:

Gray Ghost

I think I may make up a new climate theory to top Al Gore and prove he is nothing but a media whore.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 6:11 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Eric

"I think I may make up a new climate theory to top Al Gore and prove he is nothing but a media whore."

That should take about an hour, what are you going to do with the rest of your day?

Seriously Eric, the "technical world" already knows that Al Bore is a "media whore". We need the "man on the street" to realize it.

We need the average man to ask, "Why don't you debate the other side?", and to demand debate.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 7:18 PM Bobbie writes:

How incredibly petty.

The Globull warming mob is scared to death of the truth. They are allergic to it. Hope they at least had the decency to pay his airfare. What a bunch of jerks!!!
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 7:39 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Bobbie

I don't know for certain, but I believe that Lord Christopher Monckton paid his own fare for his plane ride. He has always struck me as a "prime and proper" British royal. A man that plays his "own card game" and no "bribes" from anyone.

Note that Al Bore has never, (and I repeat) never been able to say anything bad about Lord Monckton's personal affairs and dealings. I believe that Lord Monckton keeps it that way on purpose.

As for Waxman and Al Bore being jerks....Look at their photos. I would trust neither with a burnt out match.
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Sunday, April, 26, 2009 11:21 PM Garnet92 writes:

Glad you posted that Gray

The dems were just flat afraid of Lord Monckton upstaging the Goreacle with facts. Even the maajority of the citizens polled now believe that Global Warming is NOT man-made. And the word play on replacing the Global Warming term with "Climate Change" is just so democratesque. It is one of their "three-card monte" moves, the whole concept is one of money-grabbin' pure and simple.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 12:45 AM BrianR writes:

Exactly, Ghost


As a fellow engineer, if my thesis or calcs are wrong, I want to know about it as early in the process as possible so I can MAKE CORRECTIONS!

I want my projects to be SUCCESSFUL.



"Oh, no, Mr. Project Manager... The discussion is over!... 2+2 DOES = 3.5, and many grade schoolers agree.....

"What?... You say mathematicians DISAGREE?....

"We have to get this bridge up as quickly as possible, before the mathematical basis for my calculations changes.....

"We have to do this NOW!!!!!.....

"We can no longer waste precious time on silly debates about established math equations in which *I* believe.....

"If you disagree with my equations, you're just OBSTRUCTIONIST!...."



Not a conversation I'VE ever had on a job site.

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Monday, April, 27, 2009 2:22 AM sgt.stryker writes:

GG

To your comment about how they could have had everyone chipping in with energy conservation/efficiency and other green initiatives, you are spot on. I've been recycling for years, but I'm about ready to stop. And my next vehicle will be at least 6 cylinders and a gas guzzler (relatively speaking). AC will be set at 71 etc etc...why?? Because it is the opposite of what the idjit Gore says, and he says the debate is over. I say not. I'm with Mrs.AL, I'm gonna hurl next time I hear green anything.
Monckton would have exposed Albore for the hack he is. I would've paid good money to see that.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 6:42 AM INTHENOW writes:

It seems global warming

is getting about the same congressional consideration for debate as the “stimulus” bill did. I think another “bipartisan” vote in favor of Cap and Trade is a fair assumption.


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Monday, April, 27, 2009 7:37 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Garnet92

"Even the majority of the citizens polled now believe that Global Warming is NOT man-made. And the word play on replacing the Global Warming term with "Climate Change" is just so democratesque."

You and BrianR are always impressive in your use of words like "democratesque". I guess it proves that I am a "country engineer", from a "dirtwater" part of our nation. However, I hope you are correct in your assessment that the majority of the citizens NOW believe that climate change is not man-made.

The costs from making the changes Al Bore and his "cast of idiots" are proposing will be astronomical.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 8:02 AM Gray Ghost writes:

BrianR

Ha!Ha!Ha! Nor have I had such a conversation at a job site or with a client or with some state regulatory agency!

However, Al Bore seems to have them all the time.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 8:03 AM Mrs. AL (Always Learning) writes:

Gray Ghost

Exactly. When one politicizes issues such as conservation, they become polarizing and the correct solutions are never brought forward. Those of you with engineering brains must really go nuts.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 8:08 AM Gray Ghost writes:

sgt. stryker

Agreed!

Engineers like myself (and BrianR) could have been the "Greenies" greatest allies. But instead of using the "mantra" of "let's do it better"; the Greenies put us on the other side of the debate by their constant harping that "everyone" is destroying the environmemnt.

Engineers, by virtue of our training, believe in "good stewardship".
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 8:10 AM Gray Ghost writes:

INTHENOW

Thanks for stopping by.

The Left's lack of debate reveals their true reasons for pushing this cr*p: CONTROL and POWER.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 8:22 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Mrs. AL

"Those of you with engineering brains must really go nuts."

Especially when you consider that from 1978 thru 1981, I worked for TVA in Alabama. I was hired with one mission: REDUCE ELECTRICAL ENERGY USE AND DEMAND BUT IMPROVE TVA'S CLIENTS EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTION RATES.

By 1981, our group reduced electrical use and demand by 23%; but we also improved our customers' efficiency by over 31%. We recommended and helped install new and better lighting, new and better heating/cooling equipment, new and more efficient industrial "production" equipment, etc.

All of these recommendations had "paybacks" of no more than 3 years for industries, 5 years for commercial establishments, and 8 years for schools.

In this case, Greenies like S. David Freeman worked with engineers like myself to do it right.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 8:58 AM Georgetwin writes:

GrayGhost

Al Bore went off the deep end when he lost in 2001. Henry Waxman is SO STUPID that he has to study for a Blood Test.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 9:05 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Georgetwin

And Waxman is so ugly he could knock a buzzard off a garbage truck at 100 yards. I mean this idiot is so ugly he could be a "poster child" for plastic surgery.

Al Bore just looks "old and abused", like he is drinking too much or using drugs.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 9:32 AM Jim writes:

Funny, Isn't It

The libs are always Talking about logic and reason, and then never use it. The last thing AlGore wants is someone to debate him. If he's found out, he may have to return his Nobel Peace for fraud.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 11:21 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Jim

Liberal's Logic: Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up.

Liberal's Reason: If it feels good do it.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 11:47 AM dawndawn writes:

Chickens

Al Gore is a whiny, sleezy snakeoil salesman, Gray Ghost. He lies with ease and is a spoiled brat. His hypocrasy knows no bounds. I cannot believe the ill treatment Lord Monckton received by Congress, not allowing his testamony alongside the goreacle.

Every day little children are being indoctrinated to feel guilty that because they breathe and exhale carbon dioxide, the planet will die! It makes my blood boil and my teeth gnash just to think about what Al Gore has done with this hogwash.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 12:36 PM Gray Ghost writes:

dawndawn

At least until 2010, I expect it to get worse. The LibTurds will give Al Bore anything he wants.

It wll take 10 years to correct the damages that Bore and Dumbocraps can do in this short amount of time.

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Monday, April, 27, 2009 12:36 PM BrianR writes:

MrsAL, you don't know the half of it


When I look at gross misstatements of facts, conclusions drawn from inaccurate or incomplete or misstated data, wild leaps of logic, complete lack of analytical thought, the ignoring of scientific and/or mathematical laws and phenomenae, computer modeling based on less than minimal data using archaic formulae, on and on and on......


it makes me CRAAAAAAZY!

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Monday, April, 27, 2009 12:48 PM Reaganite - Glenn D'Abreo writes:

Find Me Racket Like This....

I need someone to find me a racket like this one Gore has. It made him $100,000,000 last year.I'll be passionate and cry before Congress. I used to perform on stage. I can read talking points off a teleprompter almost as well as Obama can. I the income...I'll do anything...just like Al will....

Glenn D'Abreo
http://WWW.HANGRIGHT.ORG
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 1:25 PM BrianR writes:

Hey!


Good thought, Reaganite!


I have 13 trees in my yard. How much can I rake in on carbon credits?

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Monday, April, 27, 2009 2:40 PM Gray Ghost writes:

BrianR and Your Comment for Mrs. AL

Crazy is not the half of it.

I played this game with "Greenies" who wanted to do it right. And we proved, with TVA's blessings, that it could be done right with everybody winning.

It is truly sad what we are losing by wasting time like this. It is the same from the early 1970's when over 200 nuclear units were scheduled to be on line by 1985. Due to the Greenies screaming, only 3 made it.

If those units would have been built, our importation of foreign oil would be a fraction of what it is.
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 2:45 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Reaganite-Glenn D'Abreo

If you get the "gig" for only 1/2 half as much as Al Bore is making, give me a call. My fees are only $150.00/hour and I do not charge meals and mileage. (I was also the "lead" in my high school senior play, "Cheaper By the Dozen". I can "cry" with the best of them. I also do not use a teleprompter.)
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Monday, April, 27, 2009 6:01 PM BrianR writes:

Yeah, Ghost


Absolutely. I used to get up in arms about the fact that we weren't getting a drop of oil from shale. NOW it's even become a clean process, thanks to Shell's newly developed steam extraction system.

The blocking of the nuke plants is another great example. The Greennazis want clean energy, but DON'T want nukes, about the cleanest source around.

These things aren't either/or proposals. We should be developing everything possible; let the market sort out usage allocation.

And hell! The idea that we're going to magically change away from fossil fuels in a decade or two... what have those people been smoking?

What's going to happen to the tens of millions of cars, trucks, buses, ships, aircraft and everything else that run on fossil fuels? They going to just disappear? Or magically convert themselves to... what? Steam? Phantasy electric cells? We all going to have roof-mounted solar panels?

Not only does such technology NOT exist in any form that's useful on a practical level -- other than driving some shoebox-sized car about 100 miles -- but it's going to cost TRILLIONS to convert a fossil-fuel based fleet and infrastructure to an alternate method.... IF AND WHEN that method becomes a practical alternative.

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Monday, April, 27, 2009 11:43 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Wind and Solar together

provide less than 1 percent of US energy needs. Obama wants to double it. THAT WOULD BE 2%!!! Whoopee!!
What the greenies want is NO ENERGY, NO INDUSTRY, NO CAPITALISM!!!
You might say, "They want U.S. to FAIL!!"
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Tuesday, April, 28, 2009 11:01 AM BrianR writes:

Even funnier, Bob'sUnc


How much power do they generate on cloudy, windless days?

How much on a calm NIGHT?

Hahahahahaha!

Which means you STILL need other power generation capabilities.

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Tuesday, April, 28, 2009 12:00 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Bob's Nephew & BrianR

I have no problems with solar and wind power, IF they are treated the same way as coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear, and hydro power.

That is the rules of economics apply!

If a particular location and set of existing conditions indicate that solar is the most cost effective solution; fine, install solar power.

If the federal government wants to help "solar" research in an "R&D" manner; fine, install a solar generating facility at a military base and keep track of the results. But DON'T CHEAT!

To arbitrarily "force" the installation of solar power without any regard to economic considerations is not only poor engineering but it will also hurt the economy.
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Tuesday, April, 28, 2009 2:27 PM skep41 writes:

They're In Touch

You see, Ghost, getting in touch with your inner chicken makes you more New Age and Groovy! After all, Global Warming is Settled Science and cannot be questioned by anyone except the insane and the Right-Wing Terrorists. You wouldnt expect our Nobel-winning Goon-Boy to be confronted with empirical data do you? The Dems are chicken in so many ways. They should replace that stupid eagle on our currency and the presidential seal with a plump fat fryer. It would represent our foreign policy and the state of the nation's political courage.
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Wednesday, April, 29, 2009 8:39 AM Sgt Relic writes:

GG

That was a travesty the other day. All great comments here, I'm sorry that I'm late to the party.

We should all understand by now that this issue is not about climate change but rather about government control and taxation. "Green" is just the vehicle.

A good point was made here about the "green" hysteria getting in the way of commonsense environmental issues. The war on CO2 won't do any more than cause massive misery and derail real progress.

People will, if they haven't already, be sickened by the constant drumbeat and the oppressive regulation and ultimately, IMO, reject the whole notion of "green" resulting in the baby be thrown out with the bath water.

We do a good job in this country of keeping air and water and land clean and productive. It's important that we clean up after ourselves but it takes a highly productive society to be able to afford this kind of stewardship. Point me at a socialist country that maintains the same high levels of environmental excellence.

As Brian pointed out, alternative energies must have time to develop and prove themselves as economically viable without government support or coercion. The politicization of the "green" movement stands in the way of progress in science.

The question of the environment and energy is best dealt with in the private sector where good ideas prosper and bad ideas go the way of the dinosaur.

Rigging the game doesn't make you right. As the old margarine commercial used to state, "You can't fool Mother Nature."
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Wednesday, April, 29, 2009 10:28 AM crossbow writes:

Ghost

Is'nt it funny that the "glo-BULL "warming crowd wants to taxe cow emissions?
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Wednesday, April, 29, 2009 12:31 PM BrianR writes:

Yeah, Sarge, think about it


A tax on CO2.


They've finally found a way to tax the air we breath, at least on the exhalation cycle.
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Wednesday, April, 29, 2009 12:38 PM BrianR writes:

Last night, on a show on Science channel


It was mentioned that there are about 550 million cars on the road in the world.

There are about 250 million in this country.

SO... if this country tries to switch cars to "alternative" power.... where does that place us in the world market?

We'll be making cars that no one else in the world will buy, because their infrastructures are fossil based.

Is every country in the WORLD going to switch over? That idea is stupid and foolish beyond belief.

So, our cars won't be marketable elsewhere.

Further, will foreign manufacturers want to switch their production just for the American market, and pass up the other half of the world market?

Particularly as the other half's share of the market is GROWING?

These idiots who propose this stuff act like our country exists in a vacuum.

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Wednesday, April, 29, 2009 2:46 PM Ray writes:

Ghost, simply because they don't...

...want to allow dissenting opinions presented is far from being 'chicken'. Oh, to the contrary, they are performing a service.

This whole global cooling/warming/changing thing is so very complcated as it stands, to insert another option into the mix simply confuses the masses.

You saw how things got all mixed up at the outset when we went into Global Cooling in the 70's, they let people get involved and next thing you know, the people start noticing there's no ice caps developing in Phenoix. So they had to switch the name to Warming, then after people noticed a couple of the 'Warming' confrences getting snowed in the had to switch again and call it Climate Change, (which I thought was a ringer cause there's generally some kind of change every day).

So you see the more people are involved the more complicated the issue is, better this way.
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Wednesday, April, 29, 2009 11:50 PM Sue writes:

Gray Ghost

Well, at least this guy did not have to sit next to Dracula, I mean Gore, Bore, whatever. I am not a scientist, I just pretend!
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Thursday, April, 30, 2009 9:14 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Skep41, As a Known Terrorist...

(at least by the DHS), I guess I am not in touch with my "inner chicken", therefore I am not "New Age and Groovy".

As an engineer, I was trained to deal with facts, and "Global Warming" is lacking in that category.

However, I like your idea of replacing the eagle on our currency and the presidential seal with a plump fat fryer. We could even make it a "Tyson" chicken to give it a proper historical context with Bill Clinton.
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Thursday, April, 30, 2009 9:19 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Sgt Relic

You make two excellent remarks:

"People will, if they haven't already, be sickened by the constant drumbeat and the oppressive regulation and ultimately, IMO, reject the whole notion of "green" resulting in the baby be thrown out with the bath water.

We do a good job in this country of keeping air and water and land clean and productive."

Backlash!

This constant "green" being shoved down people's throats will be non-productive in the long run. Engineers like myself could have been the "Greenies" greatest allies. But instead of using the "mantra" of "let's do it better"; the Greenies put us on the other side of the debate by their constant harping that "everyone" is destroying the environmemnt.

Engineers, by virtue of our training, believe in "good stewardship".
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Thursday, April, 30, 2009 9:22 AM Gray Ghost writes:

crossbow

Thanks for stopping by.

Taxing cow emissions, but not taxing horse emissions? What about sheep and pig emissions?

This is the Greenies main problem: They don't make sense.
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Thursday, April, 30, 2009 9:27 AM Gray Ghost writes:

BrianR: The Air Is No Longer "Free"

Al Bore can become the next "Bill Gates" with all these taxes and penalties he is proposing.

What a maroon!

It just proves, "There is a sucker born every minute, and a man born to take him."

Power and money. This is all that Al Bore (and the Democrats) understand. And Al is using this knowledge to make himself rich and powerful.

Revenge for losing in 2000.
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Thursday, April, 30, 2009 9:31 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Ray

Thanks for stopping by.

Yes, the constant name changing is a dead give away. As study and research show that "climate change" is bogus, Al Bore's "scheme" will metamorphose into a new name.

With Al, it is all about money and power.
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Thursday, April, 30, 2009 9:35 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Sue

"Well, at least this guy did not have to sit next to Dracula, I mean Gore, Bore, whatever."

Gee, I always thought that vampire types were either "sexy" or monsters.

Al Bore definitely isn't "sexy". However, you are correct, his actions are "monsterous".

But Lord Christopher Monckton probably wears a silver cross. I know that he doesn't wear a necklace of garlic.
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Thursday, April, 30, 2009 1:20 PM Nee writes:

Gray

It goes along with the new term for being a liberal....Post-modern! They live in a world of contradiction and emotion. Persuade people to accept their ideas, but confuse them;distort the truth, propagate lies and smears; and to use whatever rhetoric is necessary to accomplish their purposes and then pretty soon, what they distort and repeat long enough BECOMES their truth, too!!

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Friday, May, 01, 2009 11:19 AM Neotrotsky writes:

Truth does not matter

The green movement has become a religion to some on the left and a means to an end for others (more gov't control)
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Friday, May, 01, 2009 11:50 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Nee

"then pretty soon, what they distort and repeat long enough BECOMES their truth, too!!"

As BrianR is so fond of saying: "Goebbels' BIG LIE" strategy.

The problem with the "BIG LIE" is eventually it comes back to "bite your b*tt". The NAZIs found this out in WW2. The Battle of Stalingrad, the 8th Air Force's daylight precision bombing of Germany, and the Normandy Invasion are prime examples of this occuring (there are many others).
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Friday, May, 01, 2009 11:53 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Comrade Neotrotsky!

"The green movement has become a religion to some on the left and a means to an end for others (more gov't control)"

So true. The "Green Movement" has become an "opiate" for the Liberal masses. And Al Bore has become the "High Priest".
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Saturday, May, 02, 2009 8:14 AM Sgt Relic writes:

GG

"This is the Greenies main problem: They don't make sense."

There you have the crux of the whole problem. Climate change, AGW, global cooling, It doesn't matter what it is called, it doesn't stand up to the basic scientific method which should be familiar to anyone who was even vaguely paying attention in Middle School.

Government is ill suited to dealing with issues such as this. They are like surgeons with ten thumbs.

You won't be buying a new Edsel this year because it was a bad idea but as Ronald Reagan told us, "Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!", even when they are terrible ideas.

Far from being over, this debate is just getting started.

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Saturday, May, 02, 2009 8:14 AM davecatbone writes:

cynicism

says the Democrats really don't believe this, they're looking purely for means to generate tax money and accumulate power. But I think some of them are actually THAT dumb to buy into the kool aid stand. After all, they supported hope and change®.
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Saturday, May, 02, 2009 3:21 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Sgt Relic

"You won't be buying a new Edsel this year because it was a bad idea but as Ronald Reagan told us, "Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!", even when they are terrible ideas.

Far from being over, this debate is just getting started."

If Al Bore and his fellow conspirators are "backed" into a corner, the movement could explode. I assume that this is why Big Al DOES NOT WANT TO debate. (You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.)

Problem is, will Big Al ever get forced into that corner? There are "forces" in the world that will eventually mandate a debate. But when?
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Saturday, May, 02, 2009 3:27 PM Gray Ghost writes:

davecat

"cynicism
says the Democrats really don't believe this, they're looking purely for means to generate tax money and accumulate power. But I think some of them are actually THAT dumb to buy into the kool aid stand. After all, they supported hope and change®."

The "masses" are THAT dumb. Of that there is no doubt. On the other hand, the "leaders" are smart, very smart.

To stop the "leaders" would require the elimination of their ability to obtain and retain power. Short of revolution, how can that be done?
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Saturday, May, 02, 2009 3:58 PM BrianR writes:

Ghost


New one up at my place; shameless plug.

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Sunday, May, 03, 2009 7:38 AM davecatbone writes:

Ghost

there are different kinds of revolution, pick the one appropriate to the situation. A media revolution is sinking the New York Times. Long live the New Media. A cultural revolution is bringing middle aged people out of their houses to Tea Partys. A political revolution is killing the GOP (it doesn't get it, still). There are a lot of cards to play. What say you?
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Sunday, May, 03, 2009 11:18 AM Gray Ghost writes:

davecat

As a "hot blooded Southerner" it is easy to say, "Let's start the dance" and go to open revolt. But as a historian of the War Between the States, I know that ANYTHING we can do short of open rebellion (and a civil war) is the correct way to play this game. (H*ll, there are still parts of Mississippi that haven't been rebuilt since THE WAR. I hate "false" bravado and starting a war at this point just because you are "mad" is "false" bravado.)

That is why I have constantly argued to my relatives, friends, and acquaintances that open revolt is the LAST thing we need to do. If "open revolt" becomes necessary, then we have another "ballgame".

The "media revolution" is destroying the Liberal newspapers. The "cultural revolution" and TEA Parties are scaring the Left. The "political revolution" NEEDS TO and is killing the GOP, because the GOP still doesn't get it.

You are "dead-on" accurate, there are a lot of cards to play.
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Sunday, May, 03, 2009 1:40 PM MJSJR writes:

GrayGhost

The big lie theory lives.

The truth is the weather is getting more severe.

The truth is mankind cannot do a damn thing about it, positive or negative.

We could not change the weather for the good or the bad by our actions.

God has the final say on that one.

They did the same to a bunch of people in 50's by trying to convince them, liberals love the little guy and the conservatives love the rich and hate the poor people.

It took me years to convince some baby boomers around here that that was the biggest lie ever told.

New Post up, Stop by when you can.

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Sunday, May, 03, 2009 2:34 PM buck writes:

G-Ghost

No place but Acme.

It's a shame.

The powers that be decided Warner Bros cartoons do be too violent for little minds and took them off the air...after a couple of years of severely censoring them. Look what they replaced them with. A bunch of Japanese animation 3-times as violent.

But..

In just a few years more Wyle E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn and Daffy Duck will be known to but just a fer.
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Monday, May, 04, 2009 9:38 AM Georgetwin writes:

GGhost

I don't know what to tell you about the comment or the books?!?!?! Here in Blue State Hell, I was a able to replace NEARLY ALL of my Lamour titles.
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Monday, May, 04, 2009 10:10 AM Gray Ghost writes:

MJSJR

"The truth is the weather is getting more severe.
The truth is mankind cannot do a damn thing about it, positive or negative.
We could not change the weather for the good or the bad by our actions.
God has the final say on that one."

As an engineer, and a Christian, I can totally agree. The "dynamics" of planet earth (and the solar system) are so immense as to be totally beyond our abilities to change. The Laws of Thermodynamics and Physics are quite clear on this.

To have a chance of changing the weather of earth, we would have to use energies of a reasonable proportion to the energy of the sun. Even the so-called "nuclear winter" after a nuclear exchange would probably not be as dramatic as we have been lead to believe. (On the other hand, if the earth were struck by a meteor the size of Mt. Everest, then we would see climate change. But look at the energy involved with such a hit. It would be far more than a "nuclear exchange" by many factors.)
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Monday, May, 04, 2009 10:12 AM Gray Ghost writes:

buck

"In just a few years more Wyle E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn and Daffy Duck will be known to but just a few."

Not if I have anything to do or say about it!
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Monday, May, 04, 2009 10:14 AM Gray Ghost writes:

Georgetwin

So far I have to get my "Lamour" fix at book stores. (Have you read "The Haunted Mesa"? It is one of my favorites.)
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Monday, May, 04, 2009 11:17 AM Sgt Relic writes:

GG

"there are a lot of cards to play"

That is exactly the case. Socialists of both political persuasion have created a gigantic vulnerability in the form of the nanny state.

Civil disobedience doesn't have to come in the form of open rebellion, we can just flood the system and crash the whole thing in much the same way that the anti-amnesty forces crashed the senate phone system.

For example, what if everyone filed for social security disability at the same time?

Any system stuffed with so many entitlements and trying to control so many aspects of people's private lives is begging for overload.
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Monday, May, 04, 2009 2:04 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Sgt Relic: Great Idea!!!!!!

"For example, what if everyone filed for social security disability at the same time?

Any system stuffed with so many entitlements and trying to control so many aspects of people's private lives is begging for overload."

Sarge, you have come up with a wonderful, passive "attack" technique! The vulnerability of the nanny state is extremely large. And using this technique, I don't have to load up my FN49!

I am going to think about this and write an article about it.
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Saturday, May, 16, 2009 11:49 PM VerneStrickland writes:

GrayGhost --- Wacky Waxman

Reprehensible Representative Waxman is a goofball turkey. You have popped some criticism on him that won't wash off. Good job, GG. Verne Strickland.
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