A growing number of Americans are beginning to think that global warming alarmism is little more than some sort of hippie plot to drag us back to the Stone Age. Or, failing that, at least drag us back to the Hippie Age. And what with the abject failure of the international community to reach any kind of binding agreement at the recent Copenhagen climate conference, and the growing unlikelihood that the U.S. Senate will pass any bill to combat that chimerical foe Anthropogenic Global Warming, coupled with the scandal-a-minute collapse of any scientific “consensus” that we’re even changing the climate after all, the alarmists are now looking at a bleak future of their grand scheme devolving into nothing more than a passing fad along the lines of Hula Hoops or the Macarena.
The same thing happened in the 1960s. The early anti-war protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam were fervent, sincere, and convinced of their eventual efficacy. But as months turned to years and the Johnson administration not only ignored the protests but escalated the war at every opportunity, it became painfully obvious that the anti-war movement of the mid-’60s had failed. It may have gotten a lot of protesters laid, but it did nothing to actually stop the war. By the time the late ’60s rolled around — i.e., the Hippie Age — most protesters had little or no expectation that their antics would influence Nixon to stop bombing Indochina (or whatever other shenanigans he was up to that week); rather, protests had become mostly an excuse to party. Or, seen from the reverse angle, most public musical events for the younger generation by then acquired a political overtone, so that you were no longer just dancing for the fun of it, but were now “dancing for peace.”
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| Dancing for peace, 1969. |
My thesis is that once any movement begins to engage in hollow, ridiculous and futile gestures (such as “dancing for” anything), it’s an indicator that the movement has run out of steam and will soon go extinct. It is therefore with great interest that I’ve been noticing not just the strange new outbreak and continuous barrage of climate change dances but more significantly an upcoming lecture being given at U.C. Berkeley entitled Mitigating Global Warming Through Art — Exploring the Importance of Music for the Change of Lifestyles. The listing for the talk (given by visiting lecturer Maximilian Mayer at U.C. Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies) notes that “Music in general and art in particular seems to be a promising Archimedean point for multiple new life styles. Performing music and dancing combine the advantages of those three alternative approaches. Additionally, they may be powerful enough to substitute the culture of consumerism since they enable a creativity-based self-autonomy as well as cultural self-sufficiency.” In other words, not only have the global warming alarmists started dancing in a last-ditch attempt to save the planet, but they have now even developed an academic pseudo-scientific theory as to why dancing is a necessary and perhaps the only remaining way to prevent the climate from changing.
So, I just want to get this straight…it’s ok when conservatives send us socially back to the stone age, but not when liberals want to do it to improve the environment?!? I am one of those who tend to agree that global warming is probably overblown, but I also think the reaction to that is ridiculous, particularly from the conservatives. Let’s say those evil liberals manage to get their CO2 reductions and greenhouse gas regulations passed, reducing the number of each in our air. If global warming is a big sham like you are trying to pretend it is, then at worst, all we have to show for these reductions is a better quality of air to breath. For a bunch of guys who seem to enjoy pretending they’re pro-life, you think the opportunity to improve the air we breath, if nothing else, would be one they would at least pretend to be enthused about. Then again, it’s not like conservatives are known for their consistency on most issues.
My guess is that it has more to do with getting grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts. You can get taxpayer money for anything if you give it a “green” angle.
The hippies had no idea how costly love could be until it was free.
They have no idea how expensive energy can become until it is renewable.
They don’t want us to know how dangerous ideas are when they are recycled.
Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. We aren’t getting laid any more but it seems we’re still getting screwed.
Will there be a Diversity initiative? Some of us are music-challenged and dancing-challenged. Will we still be able to get laid? In the Sixties and Seventies, we were able to get laid without dancing or music. Maybe we could be artistic photographers of dancing and playing?
It does seem to be true that if the whole world embraced (artistic) creativity-based self-autonomy then its carbon footprint would drop to a size 4, if we did not smoke dope or burn wood to make alcohol. Our lives would be much happier, shorter, and we would not have to worry about global warming. Let’s do it!
Look more closely and you’ll see that a lot of leaders of these movements WERE the hippies and anti-war protesters of the ’60s.
BTW, contrary to your history, the anti-war movement was unfortunately successful in causing the enslavement of South Vietnam, as a consequence of their destruction of the US will to fight.
The 1974 congress, elected after we were no longer fighting in Vietnam, was full of the anti-war folks. That Congress betrayed South Vietnam by forbidding US troops from combat in the whole theater (the air-power backup that was, by threat, keeping the North from acting up), and by cutting supplies and ammunition to the South.
The current Democrats may act the same way. The science may have been revealed to be faulty, but the destructive policies may still be enacted.
@Bill: You’re an idiot. First off, conservatives’ social values are much more upstanding than liberals, the latter of whom would like to see NAMBLA and other deviant behaviors legitimized. Second, CO2 is not a pollutant and more of it is a good thing for plants.
As for the dancing, I figured the next craze would be that rhythmic gyrating sitting around a tree like in Avatar.
Bill #2: Stop spewing the liberal talking points. Our air and water is cleaner now than in the 60′s & 70′s. I competed in a swim race in the Hudson River in 2005. What do you think the chances are I could have survived that if I had done it in the 70′s?
Conservatives love clean air and water, and we plant tons of trees, and have our own gardens. We just don’t want our economy and companies destroyed. Quick quiz: where is it cleaner, the mid-west where conservatives dominate, or LA, SF, NY, Boston, etc. where the Liberals dominate? All major liberal cities are filthy, yet they still continue to preach to us about how we are destroying the planet. Who cares more about nature, hunters who spend hundreds of hours in the woods, or big city liberals, who wouldn’t know a forest (no, Central Park does not qualify) if they got lost in one.
#2 Bill, you need to educate yourself. CO2 is not an air pollutant it is one of the building blocks of life whithout which we would all die. The only greenhouse effect happens in a greenhouse because the heated air cannot escape. Globally it escapes to the vast cold space of the Universe, there is no global greenhouse effect, ergo no such thing as a greenhouse gas. Finally, capitalism works to bring folks OUT of the stone age better than any other system yet devised by mankind. Please catch up on your reading and get back to us.
Outstanding, Z!
How soon before Obama starts spending billions of porkulus money on midnight dances?
Think Haitian voodoo rituals, on a heroic scale …
… waitaminute, zombie, ZOMBIE – that’s just what you WANT us to think!
:LOL:
If not for this article I would never know what this quote, “Music in general and art in particular seems to be a promising Archimedean point for multiple new life styles. Performing music and dancing combine the advantages of those three alternative approaches. Additionally, they may be powerful enough to substitute the culture of consumerism since they enable a creativity-based self-autonomy as well as cultural self-sufficiency.” was supposed to mean.
Thanks a lot.
Yeah, and for more confirming social indicators we should see recycled versions of 70s EST and Life Spring, only around CO2 sensitivity deprivation seminars in Asilomar given by Al Gorewinkle. Or, perhaps, the Joy Of Sex while being carbon neutral using sheep gut instead of latex while grooving to acid rock in Big Sur. Or, maybe new clothing styles to reduce your carbon foot print wearing platform shoes, bellbottoms and pachouili oil for that unwashed gamey smell when living off the grid: or recycled Hari Krishna attire, the robe look. A definite indicator would be the return of tune in, turn on, drop out, the hippie way to knowledge for living on modest means. Another indicator of irrelevance is the obligatory rock concert against global warming–oh my, didn’t they just have one several years ago, in London, during the genocide in Sudan?
If global warming is a big sham like you are trying to pretend it is, then at worst, all we have to show for these reductions is a better quality of air to breath.
Straw men and beggars of the question abound. First, conservatives have no desire to regress to any primitive society. We are no fans of Rousseau. That you claim we are is either a deep misunderstanding of conservatism or a lame attempt at ad hominem.
Second, the state of climate science is so poor that there is no basis for anyone to believe that a successful regime of regulations to reduce CO2 would show any benefit. CO2 is not a pollutant so a slight reduction would not improve the ‘quality of air.’ Begging the question.
What it would do is to throw our economy into a permanent depression, much more than just a mere inconvenience. It would mean millions of people without the opportunity to provide for their families, lives wasted, and little progress. It would not make for a better world because a group of misguided bureaucrats, politicians, and lying scientists believe it would. It would make for another Dark Age.
Prosperity is dependent upon industry despite any wish to the contrary. Any scheme, regime, or autocracy that seeks to interrupt it is asking us to bear misery and a lesser existence. Would that you and your fellow travelers be this honest, I’d have more respect for your position.
I think there may be a step beyond dance — some kooky form of magic or New Age spiritualism, like the marchers who tried to levitate the Pentagon in 1967 or Richard Gere at the Oscars, channeling the love of a billion people at the Chicoms so they’d lay off the Dalai Lama.
Think Marianne Williamson, collective mind-waves radiated at evil industrialists, curious symbols appearing on doorways and cars.
2 writes:
“If global warming is a big sham like you are trying to pretend it is, then at worst, all we have to show for these reductions is a better quality of air to breath.”
What you get is an army, a large army, of Al Gores. Happy yet?
Bill, you seem to be implying that there’s some rational thought process involved here. So I assume that you haven’t read the authors work previously.
You lost me at “If.”
I doubt, given your writing, that you can even understand how to check your voicemail, much less understand even the basic ideas behind the science. What makes me laugh about all this is that now every illiterate hillbilly is now a climatologist, who can debunk peer reviewed work in their off hours. Its in keeping with the current mode of right wing bull, that every thing is simple, but only horrible leftists making it complicated. That laws governing billions of dollars in resources and affecting the lives of a hundred million people should be written a double sided sheet of paper. That a woman who needs to write answers on her hand for a question and answer session with a friendly crowd can do a better job than a man who took on a legion of hostile legislators without notes or aids. You may not understand this, but you look completely asinine outside of the 5% of Americans who are inclined for reasons of tribal loyalty and vestigial frontal lobes to believe you.
Post 1, Bill, you don’t even have the most basic grasp on the terms conservative or liberal. It’s very simple, conservative=pro personal freedom, constitutional conservation liberal=theft of liberty through government control socialism. EVERY liberal agenda involves stealing liberty.
I think I’ll pile on with Theo. Where to begin?
Firstly, Bill, let me set you straight on something. Somehow you think reducing Carbon Dioxide levels in the air equates to reducing air pollution: CO2 is a harmless gas. Burning Coal, Oil and Natural gas is perfectly acceptable environmentally as long as allowances are made for the impact to land during their extraction and for proper combustion and filtration of their effluent so that harmful particulate matter and inorganic elements such as mercury and unburned organic chemicals aren’t released into the atmosphere. The most carbon neutral countries in the world also have the lowest life expectancies due in part because of the crude forms of fuel they use to cook and heat their homes, namely wood and animal dung. They are inhaling large amounts of particulates and complex hydrocarbons such as creosote from the smoke which are truly harmful and do pollute the air we used to breathe and impoverished third worlders still do.
Secondly, those stupid conservatives who are trying to send us socially back to the stone age are doing it on their own dime. The idiots of the world get a two-fer, money is wasted and something stupid is taught to their children. This guy is probably tenured, pulling in 6 figures and is so stupid he thinks art is a subset of music.
Thirdly, Its sad to see this from a once great institution of letters. What has happened? Why is crap like this being passed off as legit research? It’s because the foolish, uneducated and pseudo-intelligent find a measure of merit in it. From them you hear a bunch of “at least he’s” or “he’s just trying to highlight” or, most importantly, “its for the environment”. You might even read someone write the following: “For a bunch of guys who seem to enjoy pretending they’re pro-life, you think the opportunity to improve the air we breath, if nothing else, would be one they would at least pretend to be enthused about.”
Fourthly, thirty years ago this was a skit on Monty Python; now someone is getting a grant for it, teaching it to my kid and sending me the bill.
O C Bomb: Ad hominem attacks don’t work any more. Oh, and by the way, if you’d bother to check, it turns out that many of the scientific papers you appear to rely upon were never really “peer reviewed” at all, at least, not as that process has historically been applied to guarantee the integrity of the scientific method. Further, while I’m not aware that any “illiterate hillbill[ies]” actually ever became climatologists, events of late make it seem rather more likely that some might have slipped into the field. In addition, please note that some rather bright persons, albeit not”climatologists,” but nonetheless, statisticians and mathematicians, were finally allowed to see the data underlying some of those papers, upon which they were able to convincingly de-bunk them. And, while I’m at it, you ought to know that that “man who took on legions of hostile legislators” only did so in a forum where they were not allowed to ask follow-up questions.
In short, sir, it seems that those who cling to myths and fail to recognize that the facade of “global warming” is crumbling all around them have become the real “deniers.”
“That a woman who needs to write answers on her hand for a question and answer session with a friendly crowd can do a better job than a man who took on a legion of hostile legislators without notes or aids.”
Spot on — I can’t believe Dianne Feinstein tried that when she was debating Pete Wilson back in 1990!
14. Original Child Bomb: “much less understand even the basic ideas behind the science”
The basic ideas behind the “science” of global warming and climate change are unscientific on their face, i.e. destruction of primary data-sets, manipulation of primary data to arrive at a pre-determined conclusion, attempts to intimidate scientists who offer other viewpoints, the position that consensus proves the theory. The scientific method was never any of those things.
Regarding your condescension about the author of the article having not even the intellectual capacity to check his voice-mail loses it’s effectiveness when your own post here is so full of grammatical errors.
To claim that those who were never fooled by this attempt to consolidate even more power in a central government through the vehicle of climate legislation took their positions only for “reasons of tribal loyalty and vestigial frontal lobes” is definitely a non-scientific conclusion. You should really go back to school, take a few science classes, brush up on your writing skills and then come back to try to convince people of your position. Your post here is a failure.
Original Child Bomb, I admit I don’t really understand how to check voicemail, but it’s a choice I’ve made to help my simple mind cope with an ever increasing technology demands. However, can you help out this knuckle dragging conservitive? In your post #13, what should have Bill been doing previously before reading the blog? Pardon my presumption if I’m putting words in your mouth, but did you mean to say “…haven’t read the author’s previous work.”
A comment on post #14 You may not understand this, but you look completely asinine to the majority of Americans who believe, “Sticks, stones and union goons may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” As an example, what laws affecting the lives of a hundred million people are being referenced in your post? The current population of the USA is over 300 million. Are you, perhaps, refering to laws that affect the lives of people living on the left (east) coast and the extreme left (west) coast? Please pardon any typos, new bifocals.
10. There most certainly is a global greenhouse effect, and it’s a good thing, too, for we’d freeze to death without it. Without the heat trapping effect of water vapor, the planet would be sub-freezing year round. But that’s just it- water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas on the planet, with CO2 having a concentration two orders of magnitude smaller.
Why does “dancing for climate change” bring to mind masturbateforpeace [dot] com?
Futile gestures that satisfy only those performing them.
This one hits it out of the park. Great post!
PS: for some reason trackback didn’t go through. It’s on my handle!
I have no use for hippies, but this article is nonsense. Not only did the hippies – and 58,000 dead American soldiers – end the war in Vietnam, these same hippies are now running the United States. And they are as stupid now as they were then, a good example being the SOS believing that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship and that if this were true it would be more of a concern than Iran being an Islamic theocracy .
Thank goodness we have Zombies pictures/writings as a buffer between the rest of the country and Berkly Cal.
If those nuts ever escape,
I imagine hippies carrying signs up and down the interstates saying:
I WILL DANCE FOR GLOBAL WARMING
———and a Bagel———-
#2 Bill
Quit using my name, you hack.
OCB: I think you might be mistaken. The 5% you speak of are those who actually believe that dancing will change anything.We have some of the same kind of people in Asheville, NC , except they think drum circles will do the trick. My kids get a big kick out of it. . they like to watch the poor fools make even bigger fools of themselves. . . Besides, what are we worried about? The “o” has declared AGW settled science,so soon a government program will take care of everything.We are sooo laid, I mean screwed. . . .
@Original Child Bomb
Science doesn’t care if you’re liberal or conservative, a bumpkin or a sophisticate. Science only cares about facts and data. And the Phil Jones of the CRU admitted he doesn’t have the data that was used to make the IPCC Reports. When asked about his reasons for still believing in AGW, he replied that solar and volcanic forcings did not adequately explain recent warming, so it must be man’s activity. That is a religious statement, not a scientific one. He has discounted every other unknown possibility. (ID advocates have the same problem – “We don’t know how some part evolved, so it must be God.”)
Without the underlying data, there is no science. There are only unfounded assertions. The whole point of science is that it can be proven and findings can be repeated. Peer review is not a substitute for data nor does it make scientific findings true. It is a mechanism to legitimize scientific methodology, but the reviewers sometimes make their decisions based solely on a scientist’s reputation. And the process is both political and corruptible, as was revealed in the leaked CRU files.
Since you obviously don’t have even the slightest grasp of how science works, kindly stop lecturing us about it.
You’d think all those climate dancers might be concerned about all the extra CO2 they are exhaling into the atmosphere with all that huffing and puffing…
That’s right! Let’s regulate THAT human activity…
Great post!
18. Original Child Bomb moho
Hey Bomb. Get you’re new underwear yet?
“You lost me at ‘If”"
No kidding. The Pee Wee moho – Original Child Bomb – kochevnik – Javelin – skeeziks – Blovis – American Muslim -Alice Nolin – Whatever Twilight Zone Dummy Wannabe Jihadist liar has such high Courage and Intelligence! Help me please! The Night of the Living Hillbillies is upon us!
The Kyber Original Child Bomb barks out some racist jive used during Modern Liberal moments of Cesspool drainage crisis time. Notice the racist “hillbilly”. Can’t resist that “choice” morsel of Modern Liberal bigotry, can you moho.
“What makes me laugh about all this is that now every illiterate hillbilly is now a climatologist, who can debunk peer reviewed work in their off hours.”
“Its in keeping with the current mode of right wing bull…”
Of course. Much like the Modern Liberal Multiple Lying Personality Option. What about this “bull”?
“252. Moho:
“Malingering hillbillies…”
” that you are, your traditional dishonest manipulation of turning the event into a four day holiday fails with people who don’t share your enthusiasm for the celebration of the triumph of holocaust. Back to work, you shiftless cousin-f%^^%ers.”
Nov 27, 2009 – 10:28 am
56. Lou Floospin.
” Far be it for one of you toothless hillbillies to actually educate yourself before sacrificing your children…”
69. skeeziks
You people are children. You remind me of my granddaughter who yesterday got caught feeding chocolate to Kyber our dog. She knows she’s not supposed to do that. She said, “You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
Jan 29, 2010 – 9:05 am
Oh well. Just another day in the Low Life Lying Cesspool Universe of the chocolate dog “You People” are “hillbillies” moho consortium.
moho gotta be moho. It knows nothing else.
Come on, bring on an LOL. I saw ” What makes me laugh…” used again. Running low on brilliance?
Hey Javvv – eeee – linnnn. Van Jones come by today?
Barking? Barking? Barking?
“You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
You don’t know what Javelin likes, only Original Child Bomb does.”
Hey Bomb. Got you’re new underwear yet?
Whatever.
I think you’re being too generous. After all, these are the people who believe in such childish fairy tales as crystal healing, the harmonic convergence, and socialism.
Just how, if I may ask, are conservatives sending us “socially back to the stone age?” What “stone age” is that, and how are “they” even attempting to accomplish this?
The global-warming/climate-change fanatics are attempting to send us societally back to the genuine Stone Age, or at least as close to it as they can get, by demanding the repeal of the Industrial Revolution.
Robomonkey, @40: Now, now. Don’t dis “crystal healing.” I have it on good authority that it works, if it is practiced in the form of gifting large-carat diamonds.
Another great commentary. I came to know you through your great photo essays. It is nice to see that your talents spread far beyond that. Keep up the good work!
p.s. If anybody actually has such a thing as “creativity-based self-autonomy as well as cultural self-sufficiency”, it is you, not the “dancing zombies”
) But I guess ” ..self-autonomy and …self-sufficiency” are essential survival skills in wacky Berkeley!
ROTFHSL
Writing from Helsinki,Finland, Scandinavia where there has been snowing for a month I got my best laugh for this year so far believing this was a joke – BUT IT WAS NOT! So I will go out into the 3 meters high snow piles outside my window and start dancing the warming away!
When you can’t think, you can always gesticulate with St. Vitus disease. Totentanz, anyone?
Actually Bill, the worst that happens is that, thanks to idiots like you who buy into that stupid man made global warming crap, we lose millions of manufacturing jobs. To China. Which worked out so well before, right?
Original Child Bomb must be referring to our esteemed Commander in Chief who calls a corpsman “corpseman”.
Hey Bill #2 (not bill #33, he’s the cool bill)
Zombie is a Libertarian. She opposes social conservatives probably as much as you. Same can probably be said for alot of people on PJ, myself included.
So instead of making broad based and inaccurate assumptions of tu quoque, try contributing something of worth.
Original Child Bomb:
Ad hominem, name calling, fallacy after fallacy. Can you actually refute anything Zombie has ever written, or are you just a shit talking troll?
Frank. You can’t be serious. Zombie’s argument is that the fact that some people want to make global warming dances is a sure sign that global warming is bad science. That’s not an argument, that is a retard speaking their ignorant mind. Heaven forbid that in this politically correct age, someone call a spade a spade.
Steele:
YOu don’t know what you’re talking about, not surprisingly and you don’t know [or seem to care what Phil Jones actually said]. Here he is in his own words since its so important to you.
Central to the Russell investigation is the issue of whether he or his CRU colleagues ever published data that they knew was potentially flawed, in order to bolster the evidence for man-made global warming. The claim specifically relates to one of Jones’s research papers on whether the urban heat island effect — in which cities tend to be warmer than the surrounding countryside — could be responsible for the apparent rise in temperature readings from thermometers in the late twentieth century. Jones’s paper found that the local effect was negligible, and that the dominant effect was global climate change.
But in 2007, amateur climate-data analyst Doug Keenan alleged that the results could be biased by the fact that the weather stations used in the analysis had been moved during the period of the study. As Jones’s co-author Wei-Chyung Wang of the University at Albany in New York had subsequently lost records of where the stations were located, there was no way of verifying or refuting Keenan’s claim.
The authors had claimed in the paper, published in Nature in 1990, that the Chinese data were selected on the basis of station history. “We chose those with few, if any, changes in instrumentation, location or observation times”, wrote Jones and colleagues.
Jones now admits that the stations probably did move during the period of analysis, and as such, the paper may in fact need a correction. “I will give that some thought. It’s worthy of consideration,” says Jones.
But Jones is adamant that this doesn’t actually change the conclusion of the analysis. In a subsequent paper, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in 2008, Jones verified the original conclusions for the Chinese data for the period 1954–1983, showing that the precise location of weather stations was unimportant to the outcome.
So what does all of this mean? Well, for the sake of clarity, it would seem that the 1990 paper should be corrected to clear up the claim about the station positions, in light of the fact that it can no longer be verified. A correction could also point readers to the subsequent paper that is based on a more substantive analysis.
This error isn’t evidence of research misconduct or fraud, however, as has been suggested elsewhere. As lead author on the paper, Jones should have been confident of the quality of the data sets. But twenty years ago, standards for collecting and archiving data simply weren’t what they are now and these sorts of data were hard to come by. At worst, the current evidence seems to point to sloppy record-keeping, something that I suspect more than a handful of scientists are guilty of.
But this just one of the allegations against Jones. In the interview, he also defends himself against accusations that he – together with collaborators – has tried to underplay the importance of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), and that he has tried to interfere with the peer review process.
If the MWP, a warm phase roughly around AD 1000, was greater in severity and extent than current evidence suggests it could undermine the claim that current warming is unprecedented in the past 1,000 years.
Its your analysis which is faith based. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You repeat talking points and pretend that you understand science and that mistakes are the same as deception.
OCB:
I quote you:
“Bill, you seem to be implying that there’s some rational thought process involved here. So I assume that you haven’t read the authors work previously.”
I’d like to see you refute this:
http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/
Or Zombies numerous exposes on Obama’s shady connections.
Seems to be the work of a stupid hillbilly, alright
I didn’t know there were hillbillys in South Cali
I had never thought of the Ghost Dance the way you use it, but it’s very apt. Once your physical options are gone, you start with the metaphysical. I also notice that when problems near solutions the true believers get more shrill and hateful. And that’s what’s happening here. The problem now approaches solution–there was no problem. You’d think after all the tearful terrified shrieks and sober prophecies they’d be overjoyed. But this was never about the environment or global warming. They’re sad because they lost their chance at making the rest of us slaves. The intellectual class has been trying to turn everyone else into slaves since they came into being during the enlightenment. They long to live in the Roman Empire where they be patricians and the rest be nought but slaves. Just look at how many shows on the History Channel and others have been devoted to the wonders of Rome in the last few years. And after all, every wanna-be or real tyrant from Napoleon to Mussolini to Hitler used Roman symbols and trappings, and even communists opted for the two-class system, party and non-party. What the intellectuals hate is the middle class, constantly hanging out as a bad example for the ignorant masses–giving them uppity ideas and hopes and dreams and other useless things when their proper place is as chattels for their betters. Inside every intellectual is a tyrant yearning to abuse somebody as brutally as possible.
I often see them dancing and singing and following the other little animals into the woods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-d8zVtJOEo&feature=related
50. Original Child Bomb wrote:
“Frank. You can’t be serious. Zombie’s argument is that the fact that some people want to make global warming dances is a sure sign that global warming is bad science. That’s not an argument, that is a retard speaking their ignorant mind. Heaven forbid that in this politically correct age, someone call a spade a spade.”
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Wow.
You definitely showed us all who the “retard speaking their ignorant mind” was with that comment.
(Hint: It wasn’t Frank.)
#2 Bill: The worst you could hope for is not cleaner air but actually the further destruction of our economy, as well as that of the developing world- all in the name of a specious theory. And in case you haven’t noticed air and water quality has been vastly improved, at least in the USA, over the past several decades.
All of the above commentors who disagree with Bill #2 or O.C. Bomb are wrong, wrong, wrong and incorrect as well as being misguided along with the author. The idea of dancing to effect social change in general and save us from AGW in particular is inspired indeed brilliant. I recommend that Bill and O.C. as well as those who agree with them should start dancing immediately and don’t stop until all their goals are realized. Don’t go to work dance don’t go to college dance don’t type on your computer dance. If this strategy proves unsuccessful there is another alternative. “Move forward not backwards, upwards not forwards and always twirling, TWIRLING TOWARDS FREEDOM”.
50. Original Child Bomb sleazits Javvv – eeee – linnnn moho.
And using developmentally disabled people so Cesspool Life looks intellegent.
“That’s not an argument, that is a retard speaking their ignorant mind. Heaven forbid that in this politically correct age, someone call a spade a spade.”
How could Original Child Bomb sleazits moho Kyber the Barking Dog understand anything? It does not “speak retard”, lives in the Modern Liberal Cesspool, has a funhouse mirror as it’s best friend, advocates being the first Wannabe Jihadist “Child Bomb” to have it’s underwear go 4th of July, knows Van Jones from his communists days, has 55 personalities and counting, and has a fear that it might not be viewed as “politically correct”?
“… call a spade a spade.” My gosh, how brave can you get! Well some muggers felt the moho wrath a while back, and guess what moho disappeared, only to be reincarnated several times since.
“…someone call a spade a spade.” Ok. Liar.
Reincarnated as an honest upstanding citizen? Again? Really? No fooling?
There is a common theme. Mr. President, ass kicking and teleprompters. Yes, teleprompters.
Oh yes, children, bitchslapping, mind reading, a need for faux dominance, Mr. President handing hats (racist?) and love as well.
47. skeeziks.
“He kicked your asses in Baltimore without a teleprompter. You know it.”
“Children all of them – bullies who got bitch slapped and now whimper in the corner.”
“Love it.”
Feb 11, 2010 – 8:04 am
Then as Original Child Vomit –
98. Original Child Bomb.
“What’s funny about this is that he handed every Republican contender who faced him at the retreat his hat and a##, one after the other, with no teleprompter.”
Feb 15, 2010 – 8:11 pm
“…with no teleprompter.”
Note that the most important aspect is that no teleprompters were present.
No teleprompter was present.
No teleprompter was present. . “You know it.” “Love it.”
Pee Wee moho – kochevnik – Javelin – skeeziks – Blovis – American Muslim -Alice Nolin – Original Child Bomb – Whatever Twilight Zone Dummy, does the teleprompter love Mr. President? Or does Mr. President love the teleprompter? Somewhat like a funhouse mirror?
“…with no teleprompter.”
Where is Javvv – eeee – linnnn? What’s the problem with that one? Did last long. The was a good name. Like Kyber. Much better than the really really really demeaning Original Child Bomb. Original? Child? Bomb?
How’s Van Jones today? Barking? Barking? Barking?
“…with no teleprompter.”
“You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
You don’t know what Javelin likes, only Original Child Bomb does.” Boom. Gone. Done.
“…with no teleprompter.”
Whatever.
What a glorious world it would be if you were literate.
59. Original Child Bomb moho sleazits.
“What a glorious world it would be if you were literate.”
Thanks for the proofing Original Child Vomit. Can you be used again? And again? And again?
69. skeeziks
“…feeding chocolate to Kyber our dog…”
Jan 29, 2010 – 9:05 am
I’ll send payment by the Modern Liberal Cesspool Banking Service. In lieu of gold bars, there’s a chocolate covered Kyber offering that will be flushed down to the Modern Liberal Cesspool.
Don’t eat it all at once! One of your 55 stomachs might ache!
Hey Vomit –
38. moho:
“I don’t speak retard.”
Jan 8, 2010 – 5:35 pm
Abusive vocabulary getting a bit short? Ah, the advantages of using one I.D. while commenting on PJM… All that “glorious” ” literate” hate speech useless. Too late! Made your bed!
Such a nice lame Modern Liberal. Who doesn’t “speak retard”. How cheap.
Does Van Jones accept gold? Did the muggers dance with you? Are you dancing for cold weather? Or Rosie O’Donnell? Can you dance? Do you have rhythm? “…with no teleprompter.”
Barking? Barking? Barking?
“You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
You don’t know what Javelin likes, only Original Child Bomb does.
Time for a new I.D? Run, hide, be mysterious. Have “Courage and Intelligence!” Be abusive.
It’s all you have.
Whatever.
I don’t speak retard.
I’m sorry Moho used that kind of language with you, Mr. Lucky. We all know that we should call you “intellectually handicapped” from now on. I thank Sarah Palin for that one. Imagine how embarrassed I was thinking that you were retarded, when you are only intellectually handicapped. Cheers. Soldier on, little bugger.
It’s a lot more fun dancing to brain deadening music than to study physics, logic, the scientific method….