That was one of my colleagues’ reaction when he saw this “No Pressure” video put out by British environmentalists, which is… hideous. As in, ‘they started by blowing up two children in a crowded classroom for not wanting to bike to school’ hideous. As in, ‘they splattered the other children with blood and viscera’ hideous. As in, ‘the Greenies themselves are reportedly hunting down and erasing all examples of this video on Youtube’ hideous.
None of the above is figurative, by the way. Put another way: DO NOT WATCH THIS ACTUAL, REAL, NON-SATIRICAL COMMERCIAL AT WORK.
H/T: Hot Air Headlines, but I don’t know if they want the credit for that. This was some pretty vile… stuff.
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Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 1:03PM EDT (link)Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
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I'm all for free speech, but doesn't this video cross the line
minister_of_war Friday, October 1st at 1:15PM EDT (link)Whoever the environmental nuts are that made this video should be prosecuted for making death threats against everybody else – and they included children!
No, they actually STARTED by threatening to murder children if they didn’t go along with this 10/10 crap.
This is disgusting!
You just don't understand.
mbecker908 (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 1:18PM EDT (link)10-10 is FOR the children. Don’t forget that. No pressure or anything, but don’t forget it.
My apologies. I had completely forgotten that it was for the children
minister_of_war Friday, October 1st at 1:38PM EDT (link)At least for the remaining non-exploded children that is.
No pressure indeed.
I categorize this
aesthete (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 1:27PM EDT (link)as well as Alan Grayson’s little contributions, as being useful for the public in the “open your mouth and remove all doubt” sense.
(Also, no, it does not cross the line. It’s just hilariously stupid in a way that’s blindingly obvious to everyone not involved in the production of the ad.)
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke
Hilariously stupid
amren Monday, October 4th at 11:27AM EDT (link)is just the term I would use for someone that doesn’t believe these people would actually do this if they could get away with it. These are the same type of people that advocate population control, but won’t be the first to volunteer to terminate their own existence for the good af the planet. It’s a good idea as long as “all those other people” do it and we don’t have to.
It’s “blindingly obvious” that the attempt at humor is so that those who were “involved in the production of the ad” would have plausible denyability that they were only being silly. They would never advocate the killing of children. Yeah. Scare the living crap out of them, sure!
Excuse me
First amendment?
Son, the first amendment protects you from the government
Not from me
You can say whatever you want to out there
You come within reach of me
I’ll exercise my right to give you a good ol’ country ass whoopin’
Is what I’ll do for you, by God” -
Trace Adkins
Green hypocrisy
kenchely Monday, October 4th at 3:01PM EDT (link)Yes, it’s all just as well-intentioned and sincere as Al Gore flying into town in his private jet and proceeding from the airfield to the lecture hall in a motorcade to speak on reducing emissions.
The obvious insularity
aesthete (Diary) Wednesday, October 6th at 9:16PM EDT (link)is what made it hilariously stupid, not the commercial itself. And yes, there are some out there who’d definitely take these beliefs to their logical conclusions.
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke
Cross WHICH Line?
GreyCloak (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 7:19AM EDT (link)Get a grip. The advert is in a fine British tradition.
Humans being a great source of CO2 (we breath it out) and Methane (from the other end), a 10% reduction in the number of humans would not only reduce their contribution to global warming, but also eliminate their associated contributions in terms of heating homes, driving cars, and using electricity.
Selective imposition of this programme could reduce US unemployment (currently at 9.7%) to ZERO, overnight. This would be similar to Jonathan Swift’s logic.
Otherwise, of course, we could somehow BUY our way out of “carbon pollution” under Cap and Trade, much as one could buy their way out of The Draft during the Civil War. Unfortunately, avoiding the draft just got some other person drafted. Cap and Trade makes EVERYBODY pay. And Al Gore reaps the profits.
Spoken just like
amren Monday, October 4th at 11:34AM EDT (link)a true British sheeple.
Why don’t you take yourself out of the equation?
Because people like you want to tell everyone else what to do, but won’t do it yourself. If you were to expire, you would cut your carbon footprint by 100%! And, if all your greenie friends would do the same, then you would make room for people with a brain in their head.
Again, this ad was cloaked in a Pythonesque style so those involved would be able to say just what you said GreyCloak. “It’s just that wonderfully complex British humor that you idiotic Yanks can’t understand because you’re so involved in your freedom and your guns and your blah, blah, blah.”
You keep believing it GC; all the way to the ovens.
Excuse me
First amendment?
Son, the first amendment protects you from the government
Not from me
You can say whatever you want to out there
You come within reach of me
I’ll exercise my right to give you a good ol’ country ass whoopin’
Is what I’ll do for you, by God” -
Trace Adkins
Get a grip? Are you serious?
minister_of_war Monday, October 4th at 4:42PM EDT (link)GreyCloak-
Based upon your moronic point of view, how can you possibly live with yourself? Your “carbon footprint” & your apparent “methane buttprint” can be reduced completely if you would just save the planet by ridding the planet of yourself. Now, I wouldn’t advocate for such a thing, but morons like you need to put your actions where your words are or maybe you could just shut up instead.
The one line that not even Hollywood seems willing to cross in its race toward the bottom in making films that show every type of immoral behavior is the murder of children. And how would showing the graphic dismemberment and explosion of a child be funny once again?
Oh, it’s the “fine British tradition” of murdering children on TV & then laughing about it? You need to be the one who gets a grip if you believe that is a “fine tradition” for any culture or people. Children are sacred in many respects & are off limits.
Why do you think that the makers of Grand Theft Auto in their quest to show the “humor” in killing random people in a video game purposely left children out of the game completely? It’s because it is outrageous. And anybody who doesn’t see the outrage in using murdered children as a prop in a “comedy video” has a serious mental deficiency.
You guys missed the sarcasm tags, I take it
civil truth (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 6:49PM EDT (link)If you know Jonathan Swift “Modest Proposal” that’s a good tip-off that GreyCloak has his tongue planted firmly in his cheek. He’s just choosing a different way to wack at the piñata.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
Environmentalists are crazy
irishfreedomfighter (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 1:19PM EDT (link)at my college class, my is advocating giving birth control to ten year olds to sterilize them. A man said another bubonic plague would be a good idea to “thin us out, as we are a disease” as he put it, and another man supports the one child policy of China for here in the US. They are completely out of their minds.
Can you get the names, addresses & telephone numbers
minister_of_war Friday, October 1st at 1:34PM EDT (link)of those people in your class & give them to the police a a precaution. Those people in your class sound exactly like that dude who took hostages & then killed himself or was killed over at the Discovery Channel.
I don’t remember everything about what happened to him since I tried not to pay too much attention to the matter.
Liberal worldview
nateleyswhore Monday, October 4th at 11:34AM EDT (link)The logical extension of the extreme left worldview ends at the utter terror and hatred of Reality. They also hate Consciousness which allows them to grasp said Reality, including their own Consciousness. It is a kind of mass-self-loathing that can only be cured through a cleansing from the Earth of all sentient and conscious creatures. And we wonder why these people are so angry all the time?
“Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.” –Catch 22
*my teacher is advocating
irishfreedomfighter (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 1:19PM EDT (link)grammatical error.
This doesn't shock me.
indyjohn Friday, October 1st at 1:23PM EDT (link)After all, Pol Pot had several million people killed because they were a hindrance to his utopian revolution. This commercial is simply an expression of the Left’s hysterical rage at the heretics who reject their version of reality. In their heart of hearts they really do wish their adversaries dead.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Actually, it is more than just wishing their adversaries dead;
davesinsanantonio (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 7:17AM EDT (link)they wish to take part in killing them. If you listen to their anger that anyone could disagree with them, they want to hurt the heretics, to kill them in some vile, painful manner. They would be the torturers of the New Inquisition, dedicated to the true worship of Gaia, and her saints–Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc., etc., inflicting maiming, crippling, and fatal injuries on those who have doubts, or who would not do their bidding. This video is “more truth than poetry”!
Good thing for us
indyjohn Monday, October 4th at 12:48PM EDT (link)that most of these Lefties also claim to be anti-gun pacifists. So, if they are not lying, their violent fantasies will never become more than that. They have been content, thus far, with trying to use the political process to bully us into politically-correct, urban-progressive metrosexualism. Going outside of the political process to exact revenge would put them at risk of physical harm. Accepting such a risk is not in the nature of feminized narcissists.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
What's next...
pamela1631 (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 1:25PM EDT (link)On the Greenies agenda to “save the planet”
A total lack respect for anyone with a different opinion on how to lead their life. *shakes head*
They’ve fallen into the “willing to eat our young” category.
Big Guy, now would be a good time to teach a life lesson to that lot.
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What's Next?
edintexas Monday, October 4th at 10:41AM EDT (link)It surely isn’t “A total lack respect for anyone with a different opinion on how to lead their life.”
For the “Greens” that has been their position at least since the late 60s (when the Reds decided being “watermelons” would conceal their true agenda and fool more dupes and useful idiots).
Clearly, if we don't support 10:10
aesthete (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 1:30PM EDT (link)children, businessmen, and football players everywhere will suffer the wrath of the button and explode in hilarious CGI fashion. This is a totally credible threat, and I for one am glad that this commercial is letting us all know about this imminent peril.
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke
Carbon Anti-Credits
Iblis (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 2:00PM EDT (link)Thinking of starting a Carbon Anti-Credit site. People make donations and we release CO2 into the atmosphere. So, no matter what the greenies do we just offset their offsets.
Maybe we could offer a subscription service too. Pick an individual, organization or company to offset. Every quarter when they report their CO2 savings we offset it for you automatically. There could be different subscription levels too, so instead of just a 1:1 offset you could choose double or triple.
Just a thought.
Good idea.
minister_of_war Friday, October 1st at 2:03PM EDT (link)Just make sure that when you actually put your idea into practice, you do it in places like San Francisco & not in Republican states like my Arizona.
I get the first 10; what's the second 10 for
GregInFla (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 11:56PM EDT (link)10 percent for 10 what?
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
This is even worse than I imagined from reading the reviews
civil truth (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 2:13PM EDT (link)This is a direct threat to the viewer who won’t conform. Not even a veiled threat. Kim Jon-il should be most thrilled to have found some soulmates here.
Not to mention poisoning the well for the expression “No Pressure”. The next time anyone says “no pressure”, you’ve have to wonder whether they’re got the Red Button.
Homicidal maniacs!
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
The Thought Struck Me
edintexas Monday, October 4th at 10:44AM EDT (link)It occurred to me that the voice-over actress should have caught the implication when she was told “No pressure”. But, of course, she’s a good Progressive and hasn’t ever had a real independent thought in what passes for her mind.
We should take this video
PowerToThePeople (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 2:24PM EDT (link)very seriously. I know no one is going to push a button and blow us up, but calls for imprisonment and death for those who “destroy” the planet have been going on for years and rising in tempo lately. This may have been their way of trying to be funny, but do not ever be fooled into believing a large portion of the radical greenies would love to kill you, your kids, and anyone else who does not bow to their demands.
I have always wondered why, if the Green nuts truly believe
davesinsanantonio (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 7:25AM EDT (link)that humans are a disease on the planet, why they do not kill themselves in honor of that belief. I am not advocating that they do, but how hypocritical of them not to.
It s becasue they beleive that everyone else is the problem.
ihateliberals Monday, October 4th at 11:25AM EDT (link)They do advocate tha the best solution to making the world greener would be to eradicate the human race. These are scary people we are dealing with here. The ad loses it right to free speech in this country when it advocates the killing of people. That becomes a death threat now. The Brits view it a little differently than we do.
The guy who took the Discovery Channel hostage did that
civil truth (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 6:55PM EDT (link)It’s called Suicide by Proxy (or colloquially Suicide by Cop).
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
I hope this gets LOTS and LOTS of play on Fox and other outlets
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 2:31PM EDT (link)Every now and then the left puts down the mask and we see them for what they really are, in all their ugliness.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
what's next? banning football?
dsmurf (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 2:46PM EDT (link)20 fit footballers would exceed thousands of fans combined with all the running they do.
Must not be a footballer in any of the British Greenie crowd.
The Greeniban
kilowattradio Friday, October 1st at 2:49PM EDT (link)And you thought the Taliban was bad!
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I saw this yesterday and was horrified.
Mississippi Conservative Friday, October 1st at 3:06PM EDT (link)I shouldn’t be surprised that the MSM overlooks this kind of stuff, but I am. How does anyone think that blowing up children (not to mention the adults) like that is a good thing?
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right - imagine the 24/7 non-stop MSM outrage...
spim Friday, October 1st at 3:30PM EDT (link)… if the Tea Party, Beck (or heck, any conservative) had done anything like this
This is profoundly disturbing on many levels
johnCV (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 3:11PM EDT (link)The Left (green, red or in their natural brown color) have made an overt threat to the lives of anyone who will not willingly participate in the devolution of Western society. This is no different than the ‘submit or die’ meme the muslims use in the border states of the ME, Indonesia or major European cities to compel obedience of their hosts/enemies.
Limbaugh calls energy ‘the engine of prosperity’, and it is. The Greens wish to roll back the world to a time when agrarian life with small cities was the norm. Unfortunately to do that, we will need to shed several billion people (BTW, you’re volunteered, not them). Energy is the pillar that modern life and society are built upon. They are using the demonstrably false precept of global cooling/warming/change/disturbance as their Trojan Horse to trick people into doing what they would never do knowingly.
I would like to see a large media campaign appealing to the Lefty Greens to unselfishly off themselves for the greater good of the Polar bear and the wilting Sycamore tree. I mean, if it matters that much to them, it’s really a small price to pay – think of the example they would set! Since Gaia is their god, only beautiful fields await them beyond this mortal plane.
But leftists being leftists, it’s only your sacrifice and obedience they crave. I call on all Leftists and Greens – Stand UP! Show us how its done! Lead by example and surely we all will follow….
I would donate to such a worthy cause.
"you can't save the planet without making other people sacrifice" - Dogbert
Next93 (Diary) Saturday, October 2nd at 8:29AM EDT (link)N/T
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
Why stop at 10?
pittsburghenigma Friday, October 1st at 3:40PM EDT (link)I’ve been saying for years that if these eco-alarmists truly believe in their cause, shouldn’t they be cutting their carbon emissions by 50, 75, 100%? I’ve challenged liberals to vow never to take another flight for the rest of their lives. Why would they need to, right? If saving the planet is that important, then it should be no big deal to never fly to Europe again, right? Umm, not so much. Somehow, when they are faced with the reality of severely limiting the quality of their own lives, they suddenly really don’t want to do what they tell the rest of us we should be doing. Liberalism == Hypocrisy.
Oh, but Al Gore explains that he buys carbon "credits"
renny (Diary) Saturday, October 2nd at 11:14AM EDT (link)so that one of his MANY houses can use as much energy in a month as I use in a year.
And from whom does he buy carbon credits? Why, himself.
We shouldn’t forget that one reason the Left and Europe cannot give up global warming is that in Brussels they have set up an enormous carbon exchange which is supposed to make gadzillions.
After all, John Adler’s claim in voting for krap and trade was that NJ would benefit from carbon credits because we would sell them. I think he meant we would have to BUY them, as NJ has oil refineries and natural gas storage and more cars per capita than any other state and the most concentration of population of any other state. So, how could we be SELLING carbon credits?
And, isn’t Chicago the site of our carbon credit exchange? No wonder Rahm the needs to go home to run things there. The thug quotient must have been running low since Daley decided to step down or got an offer he couldn’t refuse.
I can see Nov. 2 from my doorway.
So...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Saturday, October 2nd at 11:46AM EDT (link)a “carbon credit” is defined as: Making a profit by transferring money from one hand to the other.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
NO ... it's taxing thin air
GreyCloak (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 8:14AM EDT (link)… or is it “making money out of nothing?”
People have been slowely conditioned to accept
grandma Friday, October 1st at 4:06PM EDT (link)this type of commercial and thought. Some people accepted abortion for how many generations now? Some people accept and promote killing the old and/or the infirm. All discernment has been erased from many people. I’m not surprised at all by this commercial.
The Destroyer’s web has many, many spirals and radials. When a part of his web is no longer sticky, he creates more. He also eats/destroys his prey. Morbid environmentalism is just a relatively newer radial of the web. Human life is “evil.”
"morbid environmentalism"--
davesinsanantonio (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 7:33AM EDT (link)catchy phrase. I like it. The phrase, not the ideology.
I love 10:10's fippant remark...
bass_man (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 4:18PM EDT (link)…about (trying to) take down the video:
“At 10:10 we’re all about trying new and creative ways of getting people to take action on climate change. Unfortunately in this instance we missed the mark. Oh well, we live and learn.”
Oh really!!!
minister_of_war Friday, October 1st at 6:47PM EDT (link)So, they “live and learn” but in the process explode children for gratification purposes?
Environmentalists are really sick. I’m sure that many people (myself included) like the idea of clean air & clean water & soil without too much contamination. But this fringe out there, the Earth First nut jobs & other whacko tree huggers do not even want to coexist with nature.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OVERPOPULATION! The only exception to this rule would be that even one whacko leftie is too many, but even then I wouldn’t advocate killing them, I just hope that if they reproduce their children don’t inherit the same stupidity genes as their parents. More than once I’ve heard of good conservatives (a.k.a. people with brains) who had lib parents.
Overpopulation
ss396 Friday, October 1st at 8:23PM EDT (link)Whenever I come across someone who believes in overpopulation, I always ask them “How do you know that you are not one of the excess people? And if you are, what do you intend to do about it?”
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OMFG!
khiri Friday, October 1st at 4:19PM EDT (link)I have a pretty twisted sense of humor, but these people are f’ing sick!!!
I'm a tree-hugging, endangered species-cuddling environmentalist
jsanzone (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 4:19PM EDT (link)And this is absolutely disgusting.
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You wanna know what the strange thing is?
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 6:39PM EDT (link)I’m a tree-hugging, endangered species-cuddling environmentalist also. Really, it’s true, I am. I love animals, Dogs and cats, chipmunks, little goats, all kinds of things. I have a deep respect for biodiversity, and the last thing I would do is hurt or endanger any species of animal. I might shoot and eat a few of them, but I wouldn’t endanger them as a species. If one is really endangered I’d be very happy to make sure nobody further endangers it. But people don’t understand that if you want to eat a fish you have to catch the fish, kill the fish, and chop the head off the fish.
Then you have to gut the fish and fillet the fish, then you wash it, (after washing it first) and then you prepare it and eat it. I’ve done that many times. My grandfather here in Massachusetts used to take me out on his boat and we’d catch flounders. Weird looking creatures, but probably not to them. Both eyes on the same side of their “heads.” You bring them out of the boat still flipping around and then you cut them open, sometimes while they’re still alive, and you prepare them. It’s not a fun thing to do but it is instructive to see it. You toss the guts in a bucket and throw it out behind the bushes. I was never overjoyed by it, but I did like the sandwiches.
Ever really cook a lobster or a crab? I mean really? One that you fished for, not one you bought at Whole Foods? I have. The little bastards scramble all over the place when you toss them in the boiling water.
Most people who hunt are not out there for exotic trophies. They’re not running around looking to shoot the last supergreen blue tree frog. For the most part they hunt to cull animals like they do in Massachusetts – wild turkeys, and deer, which are really overrunning their habitat.
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By the way, that is approximately
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 7:17PM EDT (link)That is approximately Chirstopher Hitchens’ real idea of what happens to us all. Mother nature is not this mercifully benevolent Earth Mother sitting around waiting to nurture us. He also doesn’t believe in an Afterlife controlled by an Omnipotent Father, to him, it’s just an accident of spacetime that we’re here. There really is no omnipotence in Hitchens’ worldview, it’s just as dessicated as anyone who poaches a creature to use it to grind up the horn. Mother Nature and our Lord the Father are both figments of our collective Imagination.
It could be true. And it’s a very dangerous thought.
And when you really look at “Mother Nature” you really start to think Schopenhauer was correct, but still withhold some doubt, at least the way it was phrased: sure there’s a lot of devastation that happens and life is full of pain, but for the most part most of the beings in this world live their lives fully without knowing it — until the end. Then something bigger comes along and they get eaten, or they drive their cars off the road or have a massive heart attacke, or eventually their time runs out and they just quietly expire. And really who knows what happens after that?
It could be that “mother nature” just recycles us all, endlessly. I call that the Hindullman Theory of Insanity, and I name it after a woman I really do admire, because she’s a very strange person indeed, Tracy Ullman. Now there is a person who really understands what it’s like (along with Robin Williams) to have a lot of voices in their heads that they have to sort out and make something productive into.
But let’s not mince words, nature certainly does kill everything alive right now on this planet: it kills trillions of individual animals every single day, most of them are eaten by other animals. There was a philosopher from Rutgers University the other day who opined in the New York Times that carnivorous species should be selectively made extinct by human beings. Presumably also human carnivores would also then be made extinct but why? For some abstract human moral he invented? Mother nature is going to kill them all anyway.
If push comes to shove, whether human beings are here on the Earth is not going to matter any more than it did when the dinosaurs got wiped out by an asteroid, an unthinking, unfeeling piece of cosmic rock that entered our atmosphere and impacted the Earth and obliterated millions of species at once. Nature did that, humans didn’t.
The benevolent side of nature is a story we tell ourselves when we need to. We like to repeat it to ourselves when we are in comfort, and we repuidate it when we need to be “rugged”, and it holds as long as we control both sides of the narrative. Otherwise, the Earth will do just fine without us, and yes, life will go on. Eventually the sun will go nova and it will wipe this place out too, unless there is something we can do about it, and all of that will be well-understood fusion and fission reactions.
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In terms of less enormous things
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 8:28PM EDT (link)In terms of less enormous things, people are shocked by the sucide of the kid in the Rutgers dorm who was live-streamed by his roommates whether he was “making out with a dude, Yay” or not was one of the most interesting things that’s happened in my recent memory of New Jersey.
It’s so typical. The roommate who photographed him surreptitiously is at least a part-time stoner who liked all the lobster, shrimp and crab Rutgers had to give him in a “6 foot wall” and in his immortal wisdom, thought that college is about watching pandas sneeze while he’s stoned out of his mind. Those people go on to run companies in New Jersey, unless someone jumps off the George Washington Bridge in the meantime, for one reason or another.
For anyone who hasn’t lived in New Jersey but wants to know where all their money goes, now the world is no longer a mystery. That describes 90% of the students at Rutgers, who are meticulously cared for and incredibly catered to, except when one of them does something like this.
This is where the money in New Jersey goes: stoned people eating lobster, crab and shrimp who don’t give a damn about other people at all and photograph them surreptitiously. They’re happy enough eating the lobster, shrimp and crab, and that’s one of the reasons their State University education costs as much as it does. Then they complain. Yay.
Really, who can blame their professors for wanting them all just to disappear eventually? They’re almost as bad as the kids who go to Princeton.
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jsanzone (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 11:51PM EDT (link)And the thoughtful, albeit wandering insight
http://www.2010blog.net
20/10 Blog
Not exactly
renny (Diary) Saturday, October 2nd at 11:31AM EDT (link)My son and daughter-in-law went to RU and a nephew and his son, but it is true that RU has a certain permanent element that exists as parasites on the college politic.
If you have ever seen video of the perpetual RU protests on tuition raises or bus fare pass increases or any other outrage, you’ll notice that the same front line (the ones’ holding the banner[s]) has been the same since 1970.
And when they have a “hunger strike” on lawn in front of the president’s house, you see they are ensconced in LL Bean tents with their iPods and cell phones tuned to the latest orders from comrade Lenin. Like trench dwellers during WW I who started to build brick houses into the walls and set up a barbershop business, some of these chronic protesters practically erect satellite antenna so they can monitor the space station or any ET communication giving directions to their lives.
The fools. who video’d and then broadcast (or narrowcasted) the roommate who committed suicide, their problem is they have grown up on a diet of Jack*ss and Punked and gross out “humor” and sexting in jr. hi so that they think humiliating someone for their own narcisstic gratification is just part of the norm of life.
I don’t believe in hate crime legislation, You’re just as dead whether someone who killed you hated you or not, but in this instance, if any more crimes can be enumerated against this pair, I would say Go for it.
A message needs to be sent and a young man’s life should see justice.
George Carlin had a good rant about that in a similar vein
Finrod (Diary) Saturday, October 2nd at 12:51AM EDT (link)He viciously mocked the whole ‘Save The Earth’ idea; as he put it, the Earth will shake us off like a bad cold.
PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.
Deliberately blowing up children to score a political point
DaMav Friday, October 1st at 5:05PM EDT (link)The Taliban and 2010
oops, 1010 not 2010
DaMav Friday, October 1st at 5:07PM EDT (link)can’t keep these wackjobs sorted out
The real message here is not to reduce carbon
throwback59 Friday, October 1st at 5:15PM EDT (link)emissions, the real message is to reduce people. After all, these extremists view humans as the greatest threat to the environment.
With a few tweaks this could be a Planned Parenthood ad.
What?
minister_of_war Friday, October 1st at 6:54PM EDT (link)I thought this was a Planned Parenthood ad.
Either way, I’m sure this video will come as a DVD with their annual Christmas Cards that they send out to their murderous supporters.
I see the Planned Parenthood message for this video
civil truth (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 7:16PM EDT (link)“If you’re pregnant, you have a choice whether to keep
your childthat collection of cells or not.” But if you’re committed to saving this planet, we know what decision you must make. No pressure…”The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
Well, they can't make the disclaimer "no children were harmed in this ad." -nt-
ladyimpactohio (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 5:29PM EDT (link)We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech
Exploding kids
texasgalt (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 7:21PM EDT (link)This is what the Global warming crowd has come to. It’s a good ways past “hide the decline” or torching SUVs or driving spikes in trees to injure lumber jacks
Can’t wait for a comment from Al Gore, as soon as his Gulfstream lands.
This video is funny
ss396 Friday, October 1st at 8:31PM EDT (link)Follow the links all the way back to the 10:10 website and you will find this little gem:
Sorry about posting the whole d__n paragraph, and I regret having given their site traffic, but this needs to be known. They, and their fellow travelers thought that this was funny, How sick can they get?
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A Comparison of Newspapers
josephusmyer (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 9:02PM EDT (link)In the UK, both the Telegraph (right-wing, nicknamed Torygraph) and the Guardian (gentry liberal, nicknamed Grauniad for its spelling mistakes) covered this on their blogs.
Guess which one had largely positive comments?
To paraphrase one of the Telegraph bloggers, imagine this: a Christian group releases a short film, which opens with a load of kids (probably about High School age). Teacher comes in, and asks them if they are straight. 95% put their hands up. Teacher then blows up the gay kids. I wonder how many lefties would be calling it a humorous way to make a serious point in that case…
(similarly, imagine a similar ad in 2004 or so about whether the kids support the Iraq war, and blowing up opponents. Again, I think that that might just have made the front page. Even in the UK, this is only really being covered on blogs)
If I didn't know differently, I would have thought this was an anti-Greenie ad. -nt-
littlehouse18 (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 10:40PM EDT (link)Me too, little house. Sort'of like the Green Police.
SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 11:11PM EDT (link)www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
Kowalski - Weren't the environmentalists outraged at the Green Police commercial? [nt]
SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, October 1st at 11:13PM EDT (link)www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
A good opportunity to warn everyone to beware of Peter Singer nt
mikerazar (Diary) Saturday, October 2nd at 11:28AM EDT (link)We have a nation to save, people.
Reduce population save the planet
tex41lb Monday, October 4th at 5:28AM EDT (link)http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
Bill Gates advocates using health care and vacinations to reduce population of earth by 10%. See speech, clear justification to prevent children becoming adults. All simple reasoning by an environmental nut and just as dangereous as video only not as graphic.
Communists find refuge in the Green movement
southernpatriots (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 6:22AM EDT (link)Each time, Greenies are allowed to communicate what they truly feel, something like this will transpire. Give them enough rope… And the news media often tries to paint the Tea Party groups as the extremists? ‘The lunatic fringe is here, in Britain and just about everywhere, in industrialized nations.
Just like the communists in the Soviet Union removed their boots and holstered guns at their waits and renamed themselves Socialists to avoid a violent overthrow, so the Communists in the Green movement advocate violence which they justify as a remedy for their perceived offences against Mother Earth.
I expect the crazies will emote even more in the months ahead, especially after mid-terms, then after 2012. Conservatives wake up!
Here's something over the line!
d4114j Monday, October 4th at 8:58AM EDT (link)They really did not explode those two kids.
They really do kill little babies every day.
The liberal media would scream if a genocidal
mad man was dealt with in the same manner.
My dad’s a fireman. My dad builds airplanes.
My dad is an abortionist.
The left fantasizes about total power and dictators. why?
Common_Cents (Diary) Monday, October 4th at 10:29AM EDT (link)Because they cannot logically explain and prove why their ideas are superior. They get frustrated and will want to resort to force. Through government mandates and eventually violence.
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government
that requires every citizen to prove
they are insured…. but not everyone
must prove they are a citizen.” -Ben Stein
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”[especially in DC] – Friedrich Nietzsche
...and now for the good news... [Retread, disregard - NS]
markmeckler Wednesday, October 6th at 4:44PM EDT (link)I was terrified at the idea of being vaporized, blown up or whatever after seeing this silly, disgusting ad.
But then I realized my fears were groundless. I can drive my SUV every day and turn up the air conditioning full blast and nobody will push a button that sends me to the hereafter.
Of course, a few sub-Saharan Africans might snuff it as global warming dries up their wells, a handful of Bangladeshi’s will sink beneath the waves as sea levels rise, Indonesian fishermen will go hungry when their coral reefs bleach and die but so what? That’s the great thing about the US of A – we can do what the hell we like and someone else foots the bill. In other words, we are the ones wielding the remote control so just keep pressing that little button to your heart’s content! No pressure!
Wow - the trolls are getting worse all the time (clean up)
Jack_Savage (Diary) Wednesday, October 6th at 4:53PM EDT (link)In honor of you, I will now turn my car on and let it idle in the driveway for 30 minutes.
I find it funny that you guys can’t cut spending, but you think you can change the temperature of the earth. Perfect.
Are there supposed to be sarcasm tags here
civil truth (Diary) Wednesday, October 6th at 5:20PM EDT (link)…or is this what passes for logic with you.?
Or do you fantasize about blowing up SUVs with families inside?
Since this is a first comment, it’s hard to tell.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
O Ye Wise Ones of RS, Help Me Understand...
cactusjack Wednesday, October 6th at 7:16PM EDT (link)is MMeckler’s post more an example of a Moby, or a Troll? (I know it’s clearly too direct to be a Concern Troll). Be patient I am learning. Thank you,
run-of-the-mill troll
randy streu (Diary) Wednesday, October 6th at 7:40PM EDT (link)afflicted with the same malady that plagues most trolls:
He believes himself to be far more clever than his words and actions prove.
In other words, what he lacks in wit, he makes up in arrogance.
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thirdparty2012 Wednesday, October 6th at 7:19PM EDT (link)Do you walk, ride a bike, and turn the AC off?
Didn’t think so.
So, are you a climate history denier, or are you just ignorant?
Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, October 6th at 8:19PM EDT (link)Too bad I’m not a moderator, or else I’d assign you a 500-word essay on the Medieval Warm Period as a condition of keeping your account here. Where were the SUVs 1000 years ago, back when the global temperature was warmer than it is now? There wasn’t a United States to blame then. Evidence you say? Go read this, this is actual science:
http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm
He has 14 independent different temperature reconstructions that all show the existence of the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warm Period, or both.
PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.
Leftists would kill every one of us if they could
thirdparty2012 Wednesday, October 6th at 7:30PM EDT (link)That climate change video proves it.
It’s message is simple.
Go along or die.
Trolls, trolls, trolls on the brain. [Retread, disregard - NS]
markmeckler Thursday, October 7th at 5:59PM EDT (link)Heck, make an intelligent comment and some bozo comes out with “troll” or “pale pinko” or “Judeo-Bolshevik Socialist-Liberal Conspiracy” or some such rubbish. The point I made is simple – if there is Man-made global warming (industrialization = CO2 in spades, get it?), the guys responsible are not the ones who are going to get hurt. That’s just the way the world works. I mean, take the banking crisis – how many Wall Street multi-millionaires do you see begging on the streets? Second question, how many “Mac” workers (or Mid-West farmers, if you prefer) stand a good chance of having their homes repossessed and ending up on the bread line? Call me a Social Darwinist if you like, but that’s how it pans out.
But that’s actually good news for us Americans. If we can turn up the heat (We Can…), there will be a lot fewer Muslims, Third Worlders, Asians and so in the not-too-distant future (and by the same token, proportionately more Americans). As I said, we push the buttons and people die half a world away. If you thought that only worked for patriots in Nevada who fly drones in Afghanistan, now you know better.