Yesterday Alison Redford spoke to the Brookings Institute on the Keystone XL pipeline. You can watch the whole thing here and the text is here.
I'm going to cut the wildly unpopular Premier of Alberta some slack on this one. She did good. I think that somebody initially opposed to the pipeline might change their mind on Keystone if they were listening and reasonable. Canada needs that and so does Obama.
Of course that doesn't excuse her lousy government's dismal record on the purposefully obscured budget deficit and broken promises. It's just that the Oil Sands and its vital arteries like Keystone are central to Canada's economy and our National Interest. Partisanship is not appropriate on this key issue.
Thomas Mulcair, being a foreign citizen and leader of a communist/separatist NDP unsurprisingly doesn't see it this way. When his MPs aren't bashing Canada's victorious dead, they are defecting to the Bloc. In his spare time Mulcair is himself bashing the Oil Sands in the east with phony Dutch Disease and bashing it in the South with similar tales. The NDP is the party of division and disaster.
The NDP segment of society; the self styled "progressives" showed up to Alison's discussion too. Out of the 2 hours they spoke for, these morons disrupted only about a minutes and a half of it. I've compiled the interruptions into this short video. Let's take a look. It's always fun.
Idiot #1: "They want to sell out the future of life on our planet! Lets get more creative! Create Green Jobs! It's easy. We just need a little more subsidies and we create green jobs!"
Who's a sell out? A little more subsidies to create green jobs and "the future of life on our planet," isn't so important anymore. Nobody but the eco-nuts think Keystone threatens the future of life on earth. Well. I don't even think they believe it. They just say it, and then they get their money. Sell outs.
Idiot #2: "You all are responsible for all these pipelines in the United States and for oil proliferation throughout our country." (Idiot#2 then runs in the wrong direction, towards the stage, where he is tackled and led away)
Where to begin with this one. First. Plaid shirt. Trucker Hat. Obviously he's trying to look like a regular Joe. What did they think this guy came for? Perhaps Washington has a new form of parasite akin to squeegee kids. One that drifts through Washington from think tank event to think tank event to keep warm and scavenge food.
Kid, those people on the stage did not build any pipelines nor will they. Real people who actually like to wear plaid shirts and trucker hats built all those pipelines. These are pipelines that you happen to use on a daily basis and have done since the day you were born. Also Google oil history to find out why you sound so incredibly stupid.
Idiot # 3: "Climate Change means mass casualty flooding, mass casualty famines, mass casualty droughts."
Is that what Climate Change means this week? A couple of weeks ago we learned Climate Change causes gun crimes in Chicago. Yesterday I read Climate Change will cause turbulence on your flight. Climate change is a new God. It causes all things that people don't like. It might even have caused itself to go away for the last 20 years and also caused all the progressives not to notice.
Idiot # 4: "That's why were doing something about it," said Alison Redford. One thing you can't do it is talk sense into these idiots. Look at his face. He practices that look in the mirror I bet. You've also just pleaded guilty multiple mass manslaughter. All in a days work for a prog politician. Guess who caused the next flood, drought and famine? Alison Redford. Good thing she is doing something about it.
If that is what it takes to get this thing built, then plead away.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Redford's Keystone messaging could lead to failure for Alberta
Tom Harris has a message for Alberta Premiere Allison Redford in his article: Smart messaging needed to avoid pipeline lobbying failure. Harris laments Alberta's Keystone pipeline messaging saying "a supposedly conservative government feeds the fire that threatens to destroy the province’s, and indeed the country’s, main source of wealth, their vast hydrocarbon resources" and of Allison Redford that "her approach is doomed to failure."
The article identifies Harris as the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, and an advisor to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. He's put together an excellent well reasoned video you can watch below.
(h/t WUWT)
What's wrong with preaching nonsense to the nonsensical? Why not serve gobbleygook to the gook gobblers? Well because its a waste of time.
Pandering to the ridiculous only reinforces it. It's better to appeal to higher reasoning than to stoop to the level of sloganeering battles. They sloganeer to appeal to the ignorant in the first place. The antidote to ignorance is clarity on reality, not learning to speak the mongrel noises of the irrational eco-nut.
By trying to appease climate alarmists and using their own nonsensical and incorrect language in a vain effort to win them over Redford is conceding victory. They don't have a rational reason to oppose Keystone. Its pure symbolism. Keystone is a proxy for their larger war. They don't care if Keystone is better for the environment. They care about scoring a victory against "big oil." There is no circumstance where the success of the pipeline will include the symbolic victory they seek.
Eco-nuts are the enemy.
I make a distinction against Eco-nuts and people like us who love the environment. You can't call yourself Canadian and not be in love with this beautiful land. We are people who respect the land and work hard in our responsible and bountiful economy. We are the target audience and we share these values with Americans.
Eco-nuts are lost. There is nothing we can say to sway them. Perhaps losing their illogical Keystone battle is the first step to their rediscovery of reason but that is a path they have to walk themselves. Approving Keystone will help the average person and that is who we need to be speaking to.
Allison Redford will be speaking to the anti-Keystone Brookings Institute in Washington next week. It will be live streamed but you have to register.
Whatever happens to Keystone will have major political and economic repercussions in Alberta, Canada and the United States.
The article identifies Harris as the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, and an advisor to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. He's put together an excellent well reasoned video you can watch below.
(h/t WUWT)
What's wrong with preaching nonsense to the nonsensical? Why not serve gobbleygook to the gook gobblers? Well because its a waste of time.
Pandering to the ridiculous only reinforces it. It's better to appeal to higher reasoning than to stoop to the level of sloganeering battles. They sloganeer to appeal to the ignorant in the first place. The antidote to ignorance is clarity on reality, not learning to speak the mongrel noises of the irrational eco-nut.
By trying to appease climate alarmists and using their own nonsensical and incorrect language in a vain effort to win them over Redford is conceding victory. They don't have a rational reason to oppose Keystone. Its pure symbolism. Keystone is a proxy for their larger war. They don't care if Keystone is better for the environment. They care about scoring a victory against "big oil." There is no circumstance where the success of the pipeline will include the symbolic victory they seek.
Eco-nuts are the enemy.
I make a distinction against Eco-nuts and people like us who love the environment. You can't call yourself Canadian and not be in love with this beautiful land. We are people who respect the land and work hard in our responsible and bountiful economy. We are the target audience and we share these values with Americans.
Eco-nuts are lost. There is nothing we can say to sway them. Perhaps losing their illogical Keystone battle is the first step to their rediscovery of reason but that is a path they have to walk themselves. Approving Keystone will help the average person and that is who we need to be speaking to.
Allison Redford will be speaking to the anti-Keystone Brookings Institute in Washington next week. It will be live streamed but you have to register.
Whatever happens to Keystone will have major political and economic repercussions in Alberta, Canada and the United States.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Progressively Deeper in Debt
Nobody can keep track of the Progressive Party lies. None of their election promises were true. They couldn't even be bothered to follow the law in the last election as far as funding was concerned. I don't trust these guys as far as I can smell them. This bloated nightmare of a government is way past due.
The white hats of this provincial western, the Wildrose Party, did the math and it doesn't look good.
BACK IN DEBT: Budget 2013-14 by the numbers:
National Post - Alberta budget 2013 marked by billions in deficit spending, service cuts
Calgary Sun - Budget a trifecta of debt, deficit and cuts
Edmonton Journal - ‘Painful’ cuts, billions in borrowing in Alberta budget
Calgary Herald - Painful cuts, deficit and borrowing mark Alberta’s budget
Globe and Mail - Canada's wealthiest province cuts deep as Alberta embraces austerity
Sun News - Debt and borrowing mark Alberta's austerity budget
The only way they can spin it is that its all because of the price of oil. Its all because of Keystone and Gateway and has nothing to do with gross mismanagement in government. This is a galling lie.
Lets say Iran closes the Strait or Hormuz. Yay war, (sarc) and now that makes Allison Redford an economic Einstein? No. The PCs will still suck but we won't be able to see how bad very clearly. Wasted money is still a waste even if you can afford it.
Conversely, lets say Chavez bequeaths all of Venezuala's oil wealth to the world absolutely free. Yay we all drive to the Yukon for a picnic because we are out of work and gas is almost free. The PC government still spends too much and now they lost 28% of their revenue on top of that.
Its lose-lose with them. The Progressives are bad for Alberta. They can't manage money. Redford herself says she's got a "spending problem." So stop with the spending!
Would you look at these morons. Did you launch a man to the moon and bring him safely to the earth or something? Oh right, you just spent the equivalent on our behalf and have nothing at all to show for it. Yes I see very clearly why you're are so happy. You lied your way into office and played Albertans for fools. Congratulations!
Remember all the talk last year about Zero Based Budgeting? Zero based budgeting is a fiscal philosophy where no sacred cows are grandfathered into budget spending year after year. Each and every program must justify its existence. Not a peep. Was it just last year's buzz word?
They fund anti-Alberta movies with taxpayer money but when it comes to teachers they cry poor. Here we go again. Why is it always the teachers and the firemen? Cut something else you idiot bozo's! You can start with your own damned paychecks. You'll need it for the moral authority to start letting all these useless and expensive government consultants off the payroll. You know the ones that recommend Agenda 21, shutting down zoo's, confiscating licenses where no laws were broken, and grabbing property? They go first.
These big fat piggys in government are going to need a lot of advise with their spending problems. We have empirical evidence they can't handle it all in red ink. Wildrose, veritable media, Think Tanks at large: please help our dear government with solutions to their problems.
The white hats of this provincial western, the Wildrose Party, did the math and it doesn't look good.
BACK IN DEBT: Budget 2013-14 by the numbers:
- $3.5 billion – New debt this year, doubling the amount to over $8 billion next year
- $16.9 billion – New debt before the next election, the original amount of the Sustainability Fund
- $5.5 billion – Budget 2013-14 cash deficit.
- $2 billion – Amount taken from the Sustainability Fund in 2013-14
- $691 million – What will remain in the Sustainability Fund after Budget 2013-14
- $1.4 billion – Operational deficit for the current budget year, 2012-13
- $451 million – Operational deficit for Budget 2013-14
- $238 million in debt servicing in 2013, $404 million in 2014, $593 million in 2015
National Post - Alberta budget 2013 marked by billions in deficit spending, service cuts
Calgary Sun - Budget a trifecta of debt, deficit and cuts
Edmonton Journal - ‘Painful’ cuts, billions in borrowing in Alberta budget
Calgary Herald - Painful cuts, deficit and borrowing mark Alberta’s budget
Globe and Mail - Canada's wealthiest province cuts deep as Alberta embraces austerity
Sun News - Debt and borrowing mark Alberta's austerity budget
The only way they can spin it is that its all because of the price of oil. Its all because of Keystone and Gateway and has nothing to do with gross mismanagement in government. This is a galling lie.
Lets say Iran closes the Strait or Hormuz. Yay war, (sarc) and now that makes Allison Redford an economic Einstein? No. The PCs will still suck but we won't be able to see how bad very clearly. Wasted money is still a waste even if you can afford it.
Conversely, lets say Chavez bequeaths all of Venezuala's oil wealth to the world absolutely free. Yay we all drive to the Yukon for a picnic because we are out of work and gas is almost free. The PC government still spends too much and now they lost 28% of their revenue on top of that.
Its lose-lose with them. The Progressives are bad for Alberta. They can't manage money. Redford herself says she's got a "spending problem." So stop with the spending!
They fund anti-Alberta movies with taxpayer money but when it comes to teachers they cry poor. Here we go again. Why is it always the teachers and the firemen? Cut something else you idiot bozo's! You can start with your own damned paychecks. You'll need it for the moral authority to start letting all these useless and expensive government consultants off the payroll. You know the ones that recommend Agenda 21, shutting down zoo's, confiscating licenses where no laws were broken, and grabbing property? They go first.
These big fat piggys in government are going to need a lot of advise with their spending problems. We have empirical evidence they can't handle it all in red ink. Wildrose, veritable media, Think Tanks at large: please help our dear government with solutions to their problems.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
FRACKNATION
Finally! My Fracknation documentary came in the mail and that was easily the best money I've ever spent. I was one of the 3000+ Kickstarter producers and I am absolutely pleased with the results.
Phelim McAleer, Anne McElhinney, Magdalena Segieda: thank you so much. Thank you for honestly telling the story of fracking. Thank you for exposing Josh Fox and the duplicitous sham that has become the environmental movement in general.
The Kickstarter idea is really amazing too. There is my name in the credits above. It makes me happy. I'm part of this movie. A little tiny part, but still a part. I recently bought Atlas Shrugged II on Bluray for $25 and don't have nearly the same feeling at all.
I'm so happy my $20 dollars wasn't wasted! It doesn't come easy. You guys are first rate journalists. Really very good excellent people.
I cried.
I'll blame it on my Fiance. She's a teacher. When you showed the little kids learning to read by the lights of civilization she couldn't help it. Then I couldn't. I had tears welling up already but seeing her so moved made me realize just how important and powerful this film's message really is.
We in the energy business go to work every day to make a better world. Sure we make our own world better for us individually and we have every right ot be proud of that. I can also be glad that my effort improves every life it touches down the line. It's what most of us do. Its what free markets for energy and everything else help us all do for each other. We voluntarily help each other live in a better world.
I have nothing but pity for those who want to pit the Earth against the World. Wealthy, well fed, well educated, and free people are better stewards of the Earth than any others. Lies and censorship do not help us do that. Josh Fox and those like him are parasitic snake oil salesmen. I think they actually know better, but want to ride the ignorant for all they are worth.
You won't regret owning your copy. Buy it! Show your freinds and family. Ontario and Quebec have shale gas fields too. They need to know the truth.
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| Fracknation producers. I'm in there. |
Phelim McAleer, Anne McElhinney, Magdalena Segieda: thank you so much. Thank you for honestly telling the story of fracking. Thank you for exposing Josh Fox and the duplicitous sham that has become the environmental movement in general.
The Kickstarter idea is really amazing too. There is my name in the credits above. It makes me happy. I'm part of this movie. A little tiny part, but still a part. I recently bought Atlas Shrugged II on Bluray for $25 and don't have nearly the same feeling at all.
I'm so happy my $20 dollars wasn't wasted! It doesn't come easy. You guys are first rate journalists. Really very good excellent people.
I cried.
I'll blame it on my Fiance. She's a teacher. When you showed the little kids learning to read by the lights of civilization she couldn't help it. Then I couldn't. I had tears welling up already but seeing her so moved made me realize just how important and powerful this film's message really is.
We in the energy business go to work every day to make a better world. Sure we make our own world better for us individually and we have every right ot be proud of that. I can also be glad that my effort improves every life it touches down the line. It's what most of us do. Its what free markets for energy and everything else help us all do for each other. We voluntarily help each other live in a better world.
I have nothing but pity for those who want to pit the Earth against the World. Wealthy, well fed, well educated, and free people are better stewards of the Earth than any others. Lies and censorship do not help us do that. Josh Fox and those like him are parasitic snake oil salesmen. I think they actually know better, but want to ride the ignorant for all they are worth.
You won't regret owning your copy. Buy it! Show your freinds and family. Ontario and Quebec have shale gas fields too. They need to know the truth.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Put Aside Partizanship for the Pipeline
Canada is united in the quest to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Alberta is also united. All of us wish the best of luck and success to Premier Redford in getting KXL approved. I'd like to see all parties and all levels of government doing their utmost to get it done.
Now is not the time to be Liberal or Conservative, Wild Rose or Progressive. We are all Canadians and we all have a stake in getting this pipeline built. Billions are lost annually in government revenue alone and that is just a percentage of the actual output of the economic engine of the country.
The Avro Arrow debacle coloured the perception of Canadians toward Americans for a generation. The KXL question makes the whole Avro Arrow legend look like an overblown pipsqueak of a dirty trick in comparison.
Back then we understood American motivations. Now? You can deal with a stable adversary but an unstable ally is dangerous even to himself. The KXL is so obviously in America's own interest that their hesitation boggles the mind. If national borders were continental plates then a third rejection of KXL will be a tectonic shift in our relationship.
Each and every objection from the eco-nut movement is groundless. Each objection is based on ignorant pejorative exaggerations towards a purely symbolic and ineffective end. They shall not contain The Oilsands nor does our Ethical Oilsands need to be contained at all.
Even now the Obama administration struggles not with their dismal economy or international relations, but with which set of client special-interests, the unions or the eco-nuts, will have to take the medicine. It's appalling and pitiful.
Luckily I'm not on CAPP's diplomatic mission.
Allison Redford went to Washington Sunday with CAPP to try help and get KXL approved. She also wrote an op-ed in USA Today. I applaud her efforts.
During the Alberta election debate there was an infamous moment where a question about climate change was asked. Danielle Smith fell into the trap saying "the science isn't settled." Oops. Dog whistle. While the science is far from settled, politicians need to realize that this is a religious question and should be treated as one. You don't go and say there is no Santa just because there isn't one. You say: "Climate Change is absolutely real and we should do everything we can to deal with it" or something like that. Not a single lie in that statement but most leftards won't catch on and the ones who do will only sound silly trying to warn the others. Baby steps my friends.
Getting back to the point: as a result of the question Redford implied that a Progressive is best suited to talk to the leftish people blocking the KXL pipeline. I was hoping KXL would be approved on day one of a Romney presidency and enjoy a glorious return to prosperity for the world.
That however was not in the cards and so here we are with plan B. Its showtime Redford. Lay that progressive newspeak on thick. Peter Kent is doing an excellent job as well and so is John Baird. All of you keep the pressure on, opposition politicians included. Everybody heave together. We'll remember who doesn't. There is going to be hell to pay if this deal fails.
Now is not the time to be Liberal or Conservative, Wild Rose or Progressive. We are all Canadians and we all have a stake in getting this pipeline built. Billions are lost annually in government revenue alone and that is just a percentage of the actual output of the economic engine of the country.
The Avro Arrow debacle coloured the perception of Canadians toward Americans for a generation. The KXL question makes the whole Avro Arrow legend look like an overblown pipsqueak of a dirty trick in comparison.
Back then we understood American motivations. Now? You can deal with a stable adversary but an unstable ally is dangerous even to himself. The KXL is so obviously in America's own interest that their hesitation boggles the mind. If national borders were continental plates then a third rejection of KXL will be a tectonic shift in our relationship.
Each and every objection from the eco-nut movement is groundless. Each objection is based on ignorant pejorative exaggerations towards a purely symbolic and ineffective end. They shall not contain The Oilsands nor does our Ethical Oilsands need to be contained at all.
Even now the Obama administration struggles not with their dismal economy or international relations, but with which set of client special-interests, the unions or the eco-nuts, will have to take the medicine. It's appalling and pitiful.
Luckily I'm not on CAPP's diplomatic mission.
Allison Redford went to Washington Sunday with CAPP to try help and get KXL approved. She also wrote an op-ed in USA Today. I applaud her efforts.
During the Alberta election debate there was an infamous moment where a question about climate change was asked. Danielle Smith fell into the trap saying "the science isn't settled." Oops. Dog whistle. While the science is far from settled, politicians need to realize that this is a religious question and should be treated as one. You don't go and say there is no Santa just because there isn't one. You say: "Climate Change is absolutely real and we should do everything we can to deal with it" or something like that. Not a single lie in that statement but most leftards won't catch on and the ones who do will only sound silly trying to warn the others. Baby steps my friends.
Getting back to the point: as a result of the question Redford implied that a Progressive is best suited to talk to the leftish people blocking the KXL pipeline. I was hoping KXL would be approved on day one of a Romney presidency and enjoy a glorious return to prosperity for the world.
That however was not in the cards and so here we are with plan B. Its showtime Redford. Lay that progressive newspeak on thick. Peter Kent is doing an excellent job as well and so is John Baird. All of you keep the pressure on, opposition politicians included. Everybody heave together. We'll remember who doesn't. There is going to be hell to pay if this deal fails.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Misanthropy in Environmentalism
Misanthropy: a hatred of the human race.
Try that word out. Its here. Its inside the environmental movement and its dangerous to our health.
Last weekend the misanthropic eco-nut cult held a Blackout Rally in Washington. Only 5,000 people showed up. One of them was honest enough to speak his mind to the Light Brigade.
This man wants blackouts. He wants to get rid of all the roads and all the cars because he thinks they are an existential threat to the planet. The planet and our civilization cannot co-exist in the minds of many environmentalists.
Not all of them are like that. The groupies who haven't really thought it through are in there too. A great many have picked up the misanthropic ques from the leaders and are actively against the human race.
The guy in the video above is not some freak that just showed up. He is typical. I've met people like him and debated them.
Usually it starts when someone you just met says something silly like "they should just ban combustion altogether." An ridiculously untenable statement like that is easily destroyed. That is when you start getting truth. They will tell you that the benefit of mankind is not their interest and therefore their argument stands.
"But millions would die of disease and starvation," is a common response to an eco-nut statement. The misanthrope will invariably respond with: "good. Mankind is a blight and a scourge on the earth and there are too many of us to begin with."
Bang. Eco-fascist. Think about what they actually mean by that. This is the goal and moral underpinning of the misanthropic eco-nut. They won't be committing suicide as a member of the human race because they have a dual purpose:
Misanthropes are antagonistic to the human race. They are everyone's enemy including themselves. They are the enemy of all of your ancestors, all of the descendants of your ancestors, and all of your descendants yet to be born.
There can be no greater cause than the defence of mankind. There is no moral authority higher than the safety and benefit of mankind. The continued existence of the human species negates any other considerations. Mankind's dominance over nature must be upheld by all means we possess else we cannot guarantee our species imperative: to exist.
The only way to accept a misanthropic viewpoint into society would be for the misanthropes to sterilize themselves. What followers they convert can also choose to voluntarily become sterile. No one can be involuntarily sterilized or killed to reduce the population.
People think that evolution has stopped. Instead of evolving better eyes because only people with perfect eyes are left to reproduce, we simply make eye glasses. Everyone survives thanks to our industrial society. Hooray!
Evolution doesn't stop in times of plenty. It begins to experiment with all kinds of plentiful variations. Some dance and sing. Others unlock the secrets of the universe. Each individual is a unique expression of the human genome. Each one may hold the key to survival when or if the times of plenty come to an end. Whatever variation of human makes it through the next bottleneck becomes the new human archetype.
Look at David "Dr. Fruit fly" Suzuki talk about overpopulation here (yes those are really his hands).
Videos like that are how progressives become misanthropes. What is a progressive but a paternalistic self-appointed manager of society.
Presented with the false problem Suzuki gives, progressives and environmentalists take it upon themselves to be the next bottleneck. A bottleneck is a calamity for a species. They see it as inevitable and so what else is there for them to do but manage and enforce a decline.
Even if they succeed its totally irresposible to purposefully reduce the population. Nobody knows what the next real bottleneck is. If we end up with nothing but metrosexuals can we be sure humanity will survive the next challenge at all?
It's hard to say whether our current downward trajectory is the result of purposeful social engineering taken by progressives to reduce the population and its attendant economy. It would be nice if Suzuki and people like him would stop thinking about humans as if they were maggots or bacteria. Do progressives have a hand in making kids more trouble than they are worth to a lot of people? I think they do.
Either way they hate humanity. Excommunicated Greenpeace Founder and Doctor of Ecology Patrick Moore coined the the phrase "Anti-human" to describe misanthropy in environmentalism. I conclude with a clip of Dr. Moore explaining anti-human environmentalism. Its real and its working against your own life.
Try that word out. Its here. Its inside the environmental movement and its dangerous to our health.
Last weekend the misanthropic eco-nut cult held a Blackout Rally in Washington. Only 5,000 people showed up. One of them was honest enough to speak his mind to the Light Brigade.
This man wants blackouts. He wants to get rid of all the roads and all the cars because he thinks they are an existential threat to the planet. The planet and our civilization cannot co-exist in the minds of many environmentalists.
Not all of them are like that. The groupies who haven't really thought it through are in there too. A great many have picked up the misanthropic ques from the leaders and are actively against the human race.
The guy in the video above is not some freak that just showed up. He is typical. I've met people like him and debated them.
Usually it starts when someone you just met says something silly like "they should just ban combustion altogether." An ridiculously untenable statement like that is easily destroyed. That is when you start getting truth. They will tell you that the benefit of mankind is not their interest and therefore their argument stands.
"But millions would die of disease and starvation," is a common response to an eco-nut statement. The misanthrope will invariably respond with: "good. Mankind is a blight and a scourge on the earth and there are too many of us to begin with."
Bang. Eco-fascist. Think about what they actually mean by that. This is the goal and moral underpinning of the misanthropic eco-nut. They won't be committing suicide as a member of the human race because they have a dual purpose:
- spread misanthropy and
- end the human species.
Misanthropes are antagonistic to the human race. They are everyone's enemy including themselves. They are the enemy of all of your ancestors, all of the descendants of your ancestors, and all of your descendants yet to be born.
There can be no greater cause than the defence of mankind. There is no moral authority higher than the safety and benefit of mankind. The continued existence of the human species negates any other considerations. Mankind's dominance over nature must be upheld by all means we possess else we cannot guarantee our species imperative: to exist.
The only way to accept a misanthropic viewpoint into society would be for the misanthropes to sterilize themselves. What followers they convert can also choose to voluntarily become sterile. No one can be involuntarily sterilized or killed to reduce the population.
People think that evolution has stopped. Instead of evolving better eyes because only people with perfect eyes are left to reproduce, we simply make eye glasses. Everyone survives thanks to our industrial society. Hooray!
Evolution doesn't stop in times of plenty. It begins to experiment with all kinds of plentiful variations. Some dance and sing. Others unlock the secrets of the universe. Each individual is a unique expression of the human genome. Each one may hold the key to survival when or if the times of plenty come to an end. Whatever variation of human makes it through the next bottleneck becomes the new human archetype.
Look at David "Dr. Fruit fly" Suzuki talk about overpopulation here (yes those are really his hands).
Videos like that are how progressives become misanthropes. What is a progressive but a paternalistic self-appointed manager of society.
Presented with the false problem Suzuki gives, progressives and environmentalists take it upon themselves to be the next bottleneck. A bottleneck is a calamity for a species. They see it as inevitable and so what else is there for them to do but manage and enforce a decline.
Even if they succeed its totally irresposible to purposefully reduce the population. Nobody knows what the next real bottleneck is. If we end up with nothing but metrosexuals can we be sure humanity will survive the next challenge at all?
It's hard to say whether our current downward trajectory is the result of purposeful social engineering taken by progressives to reduce the population and its attendant economy. It would be nice if Suzuki and people like him would stop thinking about humans as if they were maggots or bacteria. Do progressives have a hand in making kids more trouble than they are worth to a lot of people? I think they do.
Either way they hate humanity. Excommunicated Greenpeace Founder and Doctor of Ecology Patrick Moore coined the the phrase "Anti-human" to describe misanthropy in environmentalism. I conclude with a clip of Dr. Moore explaining anti-human environmentalism. Its real and its working against your own life.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Of Pipelines and Trains
One of the most glaring examples of environmental foolishness comes from the Keystone XL question. Because the pipeline is stalled for political reasons, oil from the Oil Sands has had to be shipped by train.
I do not consider myself a genius yet people who don't intuitively understand that pipelines are more reliable than cars on a rail make me feel like one. I say 'intuitive' because many people just take one look at a pipeline and know that its better than a train without any need to comment on it or explain it. Too often the mistake of reasonably intelligent people is to assume that other people are also reasonably intelligent.
It should be obvious to any but the severely miseducated among the left that pipelines are:
The simplest way to put it is that there are fewer moving parts and therefore fewer things that can go wrong. The pipe is installed, tested, inspected on a regular basis and thats it you've got a pipeline. Anything that can go wrong with a pipeline can also go wrong with a rail line. Mud slides, Earthquakes, sabotage, the risks are all the same.
Tanker cars add another level of complexity to the system. Now you have to worry about mechanical failure of the car at a number of points. The wheels, the axles, brakes, taps, hatches, battens, the scheduling that keeps rails cars from colliding, all of that adds to the risk of potential failure of the system as a whole.
Plenty of people ride trains every single day. Its hard to drive this message home since people have complete trust in trains just as they should. People spills are much worse than oil spills yet they do happen. Since people are discreet units they simply can't be transported by pipe. (duh -but if you could move people by pipe you know it would be superior to rail)
Forgive me if this is a "no brainer" to you but some people really need it spelled out for them. People who can understand the world at a glance just don't become eco-nuts. Let me try to put it differently for their sake.
Most people live in a house with plumbing. You are probably surrounded by pipelines right now. You have pipes for hot water, cold water, rain water, gas, sewage, central air, central vac, even the cables for your electricity are bundled into conduit pipes. Now try to imagine that instead of hot water running through pipes to your shower head in the morning you have a model train in your walls bringing you hot water by the tank.
How well do you suppose that would work? Think it can be done cheaper and as hassle free as your existing network of plumbing? How about your little poop train running under the floors? Are you going to clean it and inspect it constantly, because one mishap means you've got a load of poop where you don't want it.
Pipelines don't require high maintenance for the cars and the tracks and the locomotives. Not to mention the people needed to drive the locomotives, run the rail system and load and unload the liquid cargo. They all need large paychecks and benefits or they will shut the system down on us. Tank cars also crowd the rail system adding even more to the cost of all goods moved by rail.
Don't kid yourself. They will charge what they have to charge and you are the one who ends up paying.
Fuel costs money and locomotives burn much more fuel than a pump houses. Pump houses are static structures so they can be connected right into the grid.
Along with the cost of fuel mentioned above come the "environmental costs." Its all bullcrap of course. Carbon is not pollution. There is much more rock solid evidence that CO2 is plant food than there is this about this cult of carbon doom that consistently misses its own doomsday predictions. I include this only to show that eco-nuts are internally inconsistent in their eco-nuttery.
The opposition to Keystone is supposed to be about the evil carbon intensity of the Oil Sands. Why would eco-nuts force the necessary transport of oil through a mode of transportation that is more carbon intensive? I haven't even spoken about the increased risk of a spill from all those extra points of contact. It makes no sense.
These people don't know anything about anything. They are easily duped walking talking bags of pure emotion. Reason is a dirty word to these people. They dimly understand that Reason leads to losing the argument so they instinctively will shout, scream, wave silly signs and do anything to avoid discussion.
The other day Obama gave his SOTU speech. He spoke about attracting investments in infrastructure, in a so-called "Partnership to Rebuild America." (so what happened to the last push for infrastructure? Didn't get it done?) The Keystone XL pipeline defiantly falls into the infrastructure category. He also claimed to support "modern pipelines to withstand a storm." One hopes this includes storms of eco-bullcrap that have twice wrecked the KXL pipeline already.
Even today Eco-nuts are holding a Blackout Rally in Washington. 5,000 mindless blades of astro-turf were bused in completely unaware of the miracle of affordable internal combustion that made it possible.
Encouragingly media coverage of the event seems sparse. We've seen this movie already. The "legitimate" media as Biden calls it, is firmly in the tank for Obama. The President who can do no wrong shall not be criticized from the right or the left or anywhere. It sets the stage for an approval of KXL because the leftist media complex excels at nothing more than political theater. Even they sorely need the economic good news that approving KXL will bring for the news itself rather than the economic good for its own sake.
UPDATE: Reliable sources on the ground dispute the size of the astro-turf. Huffpo pegged it at 40,000 but the actuall number is 5,000 shivering morons. Post has been updated to reflect reality.
I do not consider myself a genius yet people who don't intuitively understand that pipelines are more reliable than cars on a rail make me feel like one. I say 'intuitive' because many people just take one look at a pipeline and know that its better than a train without any need to comment on it or explain it. Too often the mistake of reasonably intelligent people is to assume that other people are also reasonably intelligent.
It should be obvious to any but the severely miseducated among the left that pipelines are:
- safer
- cheaper
- cleaner
Pipelines are Safer
The simplest way to put it is that there are fewer moving parts and therefore fewer things that can go wrong. The pipe is installed, tested, inspected on a regular basis and thats it you've got a pipeline. Anything that can go wrong with a pipeline can also go wrong with a rail line. Mud slides, Earthquakes, sabotage, the risks are all the same.
Tanker cars add another level of complexity to the system. Now you have to worry about mechanical failure of the car at a number of points. The wheels, the axles, brakes, taps, hatches, battens, the scheduling that keeps rails cars from colliding, all of that adds to the risk of potential failure of the system as a whole.
Plenty of people ride trains every single day. Its hard to drive this message home since people have complete trust in trains just as they should. People spills are much worse than oil spills yet they do happen. Since people are discreet units they simply can't be transported by pipe. (duh -but if you could move people by pipe you know it would be superior to rail)
Forgive me if this is a "no brainer" to you but some people really need it spelled out for them. People who can understand the world at a glance just don't become eco-nuts. Let me try to put it differently for their sake.
Most people live in a house with plumbing. You are probably surrounded by pipelines right now. You have pipes for hot water, cold water, rain water, gas, sewage, central air, central vac, even the cables for your electricity are bundled into conduit pipes. Now try to imagine that instead of hot water running through pipes to your shower head in the morning you have a model train in your walls bringing you hot water by the tank.
How well do you suppose that would work? Think it can be done cheaper and as hassle free as your existing network of plumbing? How about your little poop train running under the floors? Are you going to clean it and inspect it constantly, because one mishap means you've got a load of poop where you don't want it.
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| The Model Railroad Toilet |
Pipelines are Cheaper
Pipelines don't require high maintenance for the cars and the tracks and the locomotives. Not to mention the people needed to drive the locomotives, run the rail system and load and unload the liquid cargo. They all need large paychecks and benefits or they will shut the system down on us. Tank cars also crowd the rail system adding even more to the cost of all goods moved by rail.
Don't kid yourself. They will charge what they have to charge and you are the one who ends up paying.
Fuel costs money and locomotives burn much more fuel than a pump houses. Pump houses are static structures so they can be connected right into the grid.
Pipelines are Cleaner
Along with the cost of fuel mentioned above come the "environmental costs." Its all bullcrap of course. Carbon is not pollution. There is much more rock solid evidence that CO2 is plant food than there is this about this cult of carbon doom that consistently misses its own doomsday predictions. I include this only to show that eco-nuts are internally inconsistent in their eco-nuttery.
The opposition to Keystone is supposed to be about the evil carbon intensity of the Oil Sands. Why would eco-nuts force the necessary transport of oil through a mode of transportation that is more carbon intensive? I haven't even spoken about the increased risk of a spill from all those extra points of contact. It makes no sense.
These people don't know anything about anything. They are easily duped walking talking bags of pure emotion. Reason is a dirty word to these people. They dimly understand that Reason leads to losing the argument so they instinctively will shout, scream, wave silly signs and do anything to avoid discussion.
Approving Keystone
The other day Obama gave his SOTU speech. He spoke about attracting investments in infrastructure, in a so-called "Partnership to Rebuild America." (so what happened to the last push for infrastructure? Didn't get it done?) The Keystone XL pipeline defiantly falls into the infrastructure category. He also claimed to support "modern pipelines to withstand a storm." One hopes this includes storms of eco-bullcrap that have twice wrecked the KXL pipeline already.
Even today Eco-nuts are holding a Blackout Rally in Washington. 5,000 mindless blades of astro-turf were bused in completely unaware of the miracle of affordable internal combustion that made it possible.
Encouragingly media coverage of the event seems sparse. We've seen this movie already. The "legitimate" media as Biden calls it, is firmly in the tank for Obama. The President who can do no wrong shall not be criticized from the right or the left or anywhere. It sets the stage for an approval of KXL because the leftist media complex excels at nothing more than political theater. Even they sorely need the economic good news that approving KXL will bring for the news itself rather than the economic good for its own sake.
UPDATE: Reliable sources on the ground dispute the size of the astro-turf. Huffpo pegged it at 40,000 but the actuall number is 5,000 shivering morons. Post has been updated to reflect reality.
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