Surprising? Shocking? Or is it incredibly plausible that Al Gore fits the description of what most of us would consider as the "Anti-Christ"
Now, I'm not particularly religious myself, however I can't seem to shake this image of Gore being at best a false prophet, and at worst the pet of Old Scratch himself.
You may think I'm overreacting, or just nuts (both are probably true). But let me explain myself.
Al Gore is the de-facto mouthpiece of the newest religious craze to hit the masses, Eco-Fundamentalism, or as Nigel Lawson calls it, "the quasi religion of green alarmism" In this new faith either you are "green" or you are the cause of the end of life as we know it. Pretty substantial charges to be leveraging based on shady science and celebrity causes of the moment. Just like other religions, this new movements has public goal, and more obscure actual goals. The public goal is to quite simply get everyone to believe the hype about global warming. This isn't a new tactic, they tried the same thing in the 70's with, believe it or not, Global Cooling, illustrated in Newsweek with this http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm article. Though Newsweek has very quickly boarded the bandwagon to stop the warming of the planet in order to save the bears which, if you listened to them in '75 should by now be picking seals out of ice holes in Oklahoma instead though we get something like this http://www.newsweek.com/id/139537 .
Their private and true goals however, are much less idealistic. Global warming is a business, no doubt about it. Al Gore himself has made millions of dollars "trading carbon credits" which is a fancy way of saying that he extorts people and corporations by saying that they have too large a carbon footprint, but, by paying him (via his company) he'll work to offset your "sin" (or, carbon footprint) by helping his movement. Or taking pictures of trees he never planted saying this is what your money is buying you. (Besides a simple good nights sleep for the weak minded who do pay) Mr. Gore himself has a large carbon footprint, however he pays himself (handsomely) to take care of that.
The cap and trade legislation being pushed by Sens. Lieberman, McCain, and others is just another piece in Al's master plan to take over the world as a whole. You see, using this cap and trade scheme, otherwise known as a tax, though this one has many more middle men to pay off on its route, the government will essentially pick which of these new "Carbon Trading Companies" will receive massive profits from Corporations, and in turn, the consumer. The consumer will be mandated by the government to reduce their carbon footprint, they would do this, by buying carbon credits from the trading companies, or in the rare case of a very low impact company ( by whose standards I wonder?) selling these credits back to the trading companies who then dole them out to the highest bidder for the right to continue to do business as normal. Now I'm not a crime expert, but that sounds to me like something the mafia would do, not what the government of the United States of America should do.
The other thing new religion aims to do is get it's people in high ranking offices. Or convert those already in positions of power to do their bidding. They convert people using two things, the first and obviously foremost is the same thing in all walks of life, money. In addition to creating massive amounts of it for Gore and his fanatic followers, it will infuse the K Street lobbyists with huge amounts of cash, cash used to buy already elected politicians, who will then be getting their marching orders from Gore in return for the generosity in campaign donations and fancy perks.
So by doing all this Al Gore is positioning himself to control the government from off stage. While he maintains his public persona of fighting the so called good fight on Global warming, he will have untold influence on American and International policies simply by further corrupting already morally bankrupt politicians. This is very much what most western religions believe the Anti-Christ will do.
So are we ushering in the end of times? Who knows, but I'm going to turn on my stereo, AC, TV, and any other things I can do increase my footprint since no matter what we do we'll be lining somebody's pockets. I may as well do it in comfort.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The not so slow Decline of Personal Freedom
Minnesota has now has the distinction of being the 20th State in this once great Union to succumb to the anti-smoker demagogues and erode our personal freedoms to an even further degree than they already have.
Now I'm not even a smoker, but it seems to me that we are well on the way to becoming a society where every single action we take must be reviewed, processed and deemed safe or unsafe by Doctors who are paid to say that by whatever special interest groups have purchased them for the day. In that regard Doctors are now politicians by default, serving the good of the public indeed! But that's another topic for another time. When I have a group of angry mini van mothers telling me what I can and cannot do with my life, I will have some very serious issues to deal with. Like how many guns will I need to have at my compound to keep the crazy health nuts out.
Another issue with this horrible regression of our freedom is the fact that it takes away the choice bar and restaurant owners have in whether or not they choose to allow smoking in their particular establishment. Say I was the one bar owner in the Twin Cities who didn't allow smoking. I would be pissed off that the state was monopolizing my idea and effectively taking away my uniqueness so as to please the lovers of all things government controlled and inefficient.
It also behooves me to mention that our fine government is now paying bars to build "smoking rooms". So our tax money is going to fund things that were completely unnecessary until the government decided that people couldn't be left to make their own decisions.
I could write a lot more on this subject but it would all amount to the same thing. The regulation of personal freedoms and business owners choice is completely and utterly moronic not to mention against everything this great nation stands for. People can, and always have, freely made up their own minds on whether or not they wanted to go to a smoky bar or one that was smoke free. Or to work in a business or place of business where they would not be exposed to that. What changed recently that has caused us to lose the right of thinking for ourselves?
Now I'm not even a smoker, but it seems to me that we are well on the way to becoming a society where every single action we take must be reviewed, processed and deemed safe or unsafe by Doctors who are paid to say that by whatever special interest groups have purchased them for the day. In that regard Doctors are now politicians by default, serving the good of the public indeed! But that's another topic for another time. When I have a group of angry mini van mothers telling me what I can and cannot do with my life, I will have some very serious issues to deal with. Like how many guns will I need to have at my compound to keep the crazy health nuts out.
Another issue with this horrible regression of our freedom is the fact that it takes away the choice bar and restaurant owners have in whether or not they choose to allow smoking in their particular establishment. Say I was the one bar owner in the Twin Cities who didn't allow smoking. I would be pissed off that the state was monopolizing my idea and effectively taking away my uniqueness so as to please the lovers of all things government controlled and inefficient.
It also behooves me to mention that our fine government is now paying bars to build "smoking rooms". So our tax money is going to fund things that were completely unnecessary until the government decided that people couldn't be left to make their own decisions.
I could write a lot more on this subject but it would all amount to the same thing. The regulation of personal freedoms and business owners choice is completely and utterly moronic not to mention against everything this great nation stands for. People can, and always have, freely made up their own minds on whether or not they wanted to go to a smoky bar or one that was smoke free. Or to work in a business or place of business where they would not be exposed to that. What changed recently that has caused us to lose the right of thinking for ourselves?
Sunday, June 10, 2007
People and Cable
Ok, so people in general make me angry, now that we have that out in the open, there has been one thing lately which is absolutely driving me up the wall, to the point of obsession actually. That issue believe it or not, is cable T.V. don't get me wrong here I love my cable T.V. not enough however to jeopordize my financial future or endure endless collection calls because I refuse to pay other bills just so I can watch my beloved cable T.V.
Now maybe you think I'm making this up, let me assure you I am not. I am fortunate enough to get to talk to these wonderful people every day. Lately I've been in a shitty mood, so I've been asking them difficult questions. Like what their monthly income is, then what the must pay expenses are in their lifes, thinking that this would prompt things like, rent/mortgage, gas, electric, food. That sort of thing, but you know what the only thing people can't really get by without... CABLE T.V.
That to me is so blatantly irresponsible and pathetic it's borderline retarded. How can you justify paying 40 dollars a month so you can watch CSI reruns 900 times weekly when you can't even make an attempt at a payment on your credit card, which loaned you thousands of dollars. It's theft for Christ's sake!
And heaven forbid you mention that maybe a way they could cut down on expenses would be to get rid of the cable T.V. for a couple of weeks and go with the old fashioned regular channels. Or heaven forbid get a library card FOR FREE and get books from the library to read, which also happen to be FREE. If you so much as imply that they could do without cable, these kindly old souls will rip your head off and chew on the bloody stump that is your neck. It's unreal, I can compare it very literally to seeing someone with turrets. You can make the most innocent of comments, like "wow, you can pay your cable bill but not the credit cards" and they suddenly start spewing obscenities that would make the most avid fan of cursing cringe.
The other genuinely sad part of this is that these people who are most upset about the prospect of not having cable T.V. are part of the fabled greatest generation. The responsible builders of todays society have in there old age taken to running up credit debt and not paying any of it. I think that we do owe these folks a fair share of thanks. Which we give them in SSI and other programs that certaintly won't be available for my generation due to horrid mess we have made out of Social Security and medicare/aid. So one would think, that this greatest generation would have no problem sacrificing the cable T.V. so they could pay actual debts.
Now maybe you think I'm making this up, let me assure you I am not. I am fortunate enough to get to talk to these wonderful people every day. Lately I've been in a shitty mood, so I've been asking them difficult questions. Like what their monthly income is, then what the must pay expenses are in their lifes, thinking that this would prompt things like, rent/mortgage, gas, electric, food. That sort of thing, but you know what the only thing people can't really get by without... CABLE T.V.
That to me is so blatantly irresponsible and pathetic it's borderline retarded. How can you justify paying 40 dollars a month so you can watch CSI reruns 900 times weekly when you can't even make an attempt at a payment on your credit card, which loaned you thousands of dollars. It's theft for Christ's sake!
And heaven forbid you mention that maybe a way they could cut down on expenses would be to get rid of the cable T.V. for a couple of weeks and go with the old fashioned regular channels. Or heaven forbid get a library card FOR FREE and get books from the library to read, which also happen to be FREE. If you so much as imply that they could do without cable, these kindly old souls will rip your head off and chew on the bloody stump that is your neck. It's unreal, I can compare it very literally to seeing someone with turrets. You can make the most innocent of comments, like "wow, you can pay your cable bill but not the credit cards" and they suddenly start spewing obscenities that would make the most avid fan of cursing cringe.
The other genuinely sad part of this is that these people who are most upset about the prospect of not having cable T.V. are part of the fabled greatest generation. The responsible builders of todays society have in there old age taken to running up credit debt and not paying any of it. I think that we do owe these folks a fair share of thanks. Which we give them in SSI and other programs that certaintly won't be available for my generation due to horrid mess we have made out of Social Security and medicare/aid. So one would think, that this greatest generation would have no problem sacrificing the cable T.V. so they could pay actual debts.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Updates are coming.
Too much work not enough drinking has made for slow updates, I plan to remedy that problem this weekend though.
Impatient pricks.
Impatient pricks.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Why I hate High Life
Miller High Life has to be the single worst beer in existence. I know this because after years of rigorous testing and lots and lots of research into all manners of beers it's what I think, and we all know I'm right. High Life is the only beer that can taste like it's gone bad the day after it's made. I recall at one point during my formative college years several of the fellows and I went to the local bar to pick up a keg of beer to enjoy over the next couple of hours. This proved to be a mistake of monumental proportions as the only type of beer available in keg size at that moment was High Life. Now, normally I would have said screw you guys, I'm staying at the bar, but for some reason that particular day I felt like being inclusive and hanging out with people instead of sitting at the bar solving all the worlds problems by myself. So I reluctantly agreed that we would indeed take the keg of the piss smelling liquid known as High Life, thinking that after a few beers I wouldn't be able to taste it anyways, I was mistaken.
So as we returned home and started filling our mugs with the piss that is High Life, I thought to myself, this particular keg of High Life is even worse than your average keg of High Life which was usually consumed in a dark basement or a garage full of puking 18 year olds. The beer was not having the affect I had anticipated of killing my taste buds, instead they we're begging for something to put them out of their misery after having to taste the High Life over and over again ( I contemplated returning to the bar by myself to kill them properly with whiskey, but deciding to be social won out once again, too bad really) After putting up with this mystery for too long I asked my semi neanderthal drinking buddies if they thought it tasted a bit off also. For the most part they agreed that yes, it was disgusting, but then they quickly reminded me that it was two things: 1) Alcholic, it was in fact a Saturday, and our goal was not to sit around and discuss things while sober. 2) That it was cheap, being seniors at an overly expensive four year university we were, in fact, broke as shit. So I once again resigned myself too drinking.
At this point we had been drinking pretty constantly for a good hour but the beer was not tasting any better, or more to the point, I could still taste it this was a problem. I noticed even the most jaded of those drinking the beer was getting the bitter beer face made famous by some beer commercial whose name I can't recall, probably something great like Milwaukee's Best or Keystone Light. Anyways, at this turn of events we had to call in the expert on shitty beer a friend who reveled in the fact that he in fact loves shitty beer. We figured he would simply mock and ridicule us for being snobs and not enjoying the lack of quality inherent in a High Life. Yet again, we were sorely mistaken.
It turns out there was a reason the High Life was worse than usual, it's because it had gone skunky, while in the bar cooler, probably for less than a week. Now I don't know how you would have reacted, but I was upset to say the least. To make matters worse, that was all we had to drink in the house. It was horrible, we ended up having half a keg of shitty beer in our backyard for the rest of the school year (more than half) because no one could stomach that shit the rest of that day.
Anyways, that has befouled High Life more than it's shitty taste ever could in my mind, hence why I now absolutely refuse to drink it.
So as we returned home and started filling our mugs with the piss that is High Life, I thought to myself, this particular keg of High Life is even worse than your average keg of High Life which was usually consumed in a dark basement or a garage full of puking 18 year olds. The beer was not having the affect I had anticipated of killing my taste buds, instead they we're begging for something to put them out of their misery after having to taste the High Life over and over again ( I contemplated returning to the bar by myself to kill them properly with whiskey, but deciding to be social won out once again, too bad really) After putting up with this mystery for too long I asked my semi neanderthal drinking buddies if they thought it tasted a bit off also. For the most part they agreed that yes, it was disgusting, but then they quickly reminded me that it was two things: 1) Alcholic, it was in fact a Saturday, and our goal was not to sit around and discuss things while sober. 2) That it was cheap, being seniors at an overly expensive four year university we were, in fact, broke as shit. So I once again resigned myself too drinking.
At this point we had been drinking pretty constantly for a good hour but the beer was not tasting any better, or more to the point, I could still taste it this was a problem. I noticed even the most jaded of those drinking the beer was getting the bitter beer face made famous by some beer commercial whose name I can't recall, probably something great like Milwaukee's Best or Keystone Light. Anyways, at this turn of events we had to call in the expert on shitty beer a friend who reveled in the fact that he in fact loves shitty beer. We figured he would simply mock and ridicule us for being snobs and not enjoying the lack of quality inherent in a High Life. Yet again, we were sorely mistaken.
It turns out there was a reason the High Life was worse than usual, it's because it had gone skunky, while in the bar cooler, probably for less than a week. Now I don't know how you would have reacted, but I was upset to say the least. To make matters worse, that was all we had to drink in the house. It was horrible, we ended up having half a keg of shitty beer in our backyard for the rest of the school year (more than half) because no one could stomach that shit the rest of that day.
Anyways, that has befouled High Life more than it's shitty taste ever could in my mind, hence why I now absolutely refuse to drink it.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Our Society is Coming to an End
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3119381&page=1
When I first saw this articles headline I thought it was a joke, sadly I was mistaken. To sum it up for those of you too lazy to read 4 pages (another reason our society is ending by the way, it's all your fault) basically in 2005 a pair of pants was lost at a dry cleaners in Washington D.C. this "travesty" has now ballooned into a $67 million dollar lawsuit. Yes, $67,000,000. The kicker is the guy doing the suing, IS A FREAKING JUDGE, he is charged with fairly administering justice in our society, making sure shit like this doesn't happen.
It is things like this that have convinced me that civilized society is coming to end. When assholes like this guy think that it's ok to sue 3 Korean immigrants for enough money more money than they will EVER make, are appointed to higher office so that they may decide on important issues that can affect other peoples lives, well you just know the whole place is going to hell in a handbasket.
You have to admit this guy has balls though. To have the guts to bring a civil suit of this magnitude to this level in impressive, and shows a lot of dedication, I bet if he wasn't a raving lunatic he would make a good Judge, too bad. I have to think that if wins this case he will run for political office, though he might fit in more with the other crazies in that profession. I wonder what his co-workers think of him, if this is something that lawyers can look at and say, wow that guy is good, I wonder if I could get away with something like that. I assume they all do because though there are good lawyers, all I hear about are dirty ambulance chasers and lawyers like John Edwards who make millions of dollars on frivolous lawsuits that cost our society mountains of money and contribute to the general downfall of responsibility in society.
Anyways, I hope that when this society crumbles this guy has to work for the people he's suing, and that they withhold his wages until all their fee's are paid off and he has made up the millions of dollars he's caused them in "mental and emotional distress and discomfort" to use his words. What a prick.
When I first saw this articles headline I thought it was a joke, sadly I was mistaken. To sum it up for those of you too lazy to read 4 pages (another reason our society is ending by the way, it's all your fault) basically in 2005 a pair of pants was lost at a dry cleaners in Washington D.C. this "travesty" has now ballooned into a $67 million dollar lawsuit. Yes, $67,000,000. The kicker is the guy doing the suing, IS A FREAKING JUDGE, he is charged with fairly administering justice in our society, making sure shit like this doesn't happen.
It is things like this that have convinced me that civilized society is coming to end. When assholes like this guy think that it's ok to sue 3 Korean immigrants for enough money more money than they will EVER make, are appointed to higher office so that they may decide on important issues that can affect other peoples lives, well you just know the whole place is going to hell in a handbasket.
You have to admit this guy has balls though. To have the guts to bring a civil suit of this magnitude to this level in impressive, and shows a lot of dedication, I bet if he wasn't a raving lunatic he would make a good Judge, too bad. I have to think that if wins this case he will run for political office, though he might fit in more with the other crazies in that profession. I wonder what his co-workers think of him, if this is something that lawyers can look at and say, wow that guy is good, I wonder if I could get away with something like that. I assume they all do because though there are good lawyers, all I hear about are dirty ambulance chasers and lawyers like John Edwards who make millions of dollars on frivolous lawsuits that cost our society mountains of money and contribute to the general downfall of responsibility in society.
Anyways, I hope that when this society crumbles this guy has to work for the people he's suing, and that they withhold his wages until all their fee's are paid off and he has made up the millions of dollars he's caused them in "mental and emotional distress and discomfort" to use his words. What a prick.
Rioting is Stupid
Why is it that whenever people gather in large groups they feel compelled to do stupid shit like rioting at an immigration rally. Peaceful rallies are one thing altogether, and though I think they are a collosal waste of time and energy, I don't mind them happening. But for christ sakes people, why always turn it into something you know is going to end badly for you. If you move into the streets, the police will ask you to move, because your BLOCKING TRAFFIC, I don't want to have to wait on my drive to the bar because your super political ass couldn't be bothered to move off the street to have your rally.
Also, if you throw shit at the police doing there job to protect you from me running your ass over because you are laying down in the street, you deserve to be shot with rubber bullets, beanbags, and get beaten with batons. Talk about the wrong people to pick a fight with, you don't mess with the LAPD. Also if you really feel your rights are being violated ( which in 99.9% of the cases they aren't) throwing rocks at the police is not the appropriate way to express your dissatisfaction with the situation.
These people must lose all grasp of reality and common sense when they get together. Their common lack of common sense, and idiotic behavior does nothing more than undermine whatever cause they might be getting together this time for. Also, why the hell do they always have rallies when normal people are working, don't you have jobs you have to go to? If I were lucky enough to employ any of these fine individuals not only should I lose my business for hiring idiots, I would fire said idiots for not showing up for work on a Tuesday to attend a rally, talk about a rally have the exact opposite of it's intended effect. Of course then I'd probably be sued for discrimination and lose my business and the opportunity to employ anyone at all. This country is getting more and more French like daily, and it's a damn shame.
In closing rallies that turn into riots and the people that cause such things to happen are a waste of our time and resources and should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Or shot repeatedly with beanbags.
Also, if you throw shit at the police doing there job to protect you from me running your ass over because you are laying down in the street, you deserve to be shot with rubber bullets, beanbags, and get beaten with batons. Talk about the wrong people to pick a fight with, you don't mess with the LAPD. Also if you really feel your rights are being violated ( which in 99.9% of the cases they aren't) throwing rocks at the police is not the appropriate way to express your dissatisfaction with the situation.
These people must lose all grasp of reality and common sense when they get together. Their common lack of common sense, and idiotic behavior does nothing more than undermine whatever cause they might be getting together this time for. Also, why the hell do they always have rallies when normal people are working, don't you have jobs you have to go to? If I were lucky enough to employ any of these fine individuals not only should I lose my business for hiring idiots, I would fire said idiots for not showing up for work on a Tuesday to attend a rally, talk about a rally have the exact opposite of it's intended effect. Of course then I'd probably be sued for discrimination and lose my business and the opportunity to employ anyone at all. This country is getting more and more French like daily, and it's a damn shame.
In closing rallies that turn into riots and the people that cause such things to happen are a waste of our time and resources and should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Or shot repeatedly with beanbags.
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