Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Aw isn’t that cute, the Ninth Circus just discovered Thing I Know #1: Very few people who have four-wheel drive have any reason to expect they’ll need it. Ever.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration failed to address why the so-called light trucks are allowed to pollute more than passenger cars and didn’t properly assess greenhouse gas emissions when it set new minimum miles-per-gallon requirements for models in 2008 to 2011.
The court also said the administration failed to include in the new rules heavier trucks driven as commuter vehicles, among several other deficiencies found.
Judge Betty Fletcher wrote that the administration “cannot put a thumb on the scale by undervaluing the benefits and overvaluing the costs of more stringent standards.”
I have very little sympathy for people who drive these big cars just because they “like to sit up high,” and I’m the first to ring the alarm bell that it’s become a growing problem. I do not sit up high, and sometimes I have to sweep, sweep, and sweep again just to find my car, simply because other people do like to sit up high.
And I want a clean environment. I’m the first to bitch and moan here in the Sacramento valley, when the sun sets on it and you see this ugly brown pea soup crap from the El Dorado foothills to the Yolo causeway. It’s GROSS.
But come on. This is crap.
All the other curmudgeons who gripe and grouse away about not enough people riding bicycles, should join me in denouncing this. It’s CRAP. And I’ll tell you why it’s crap: Because…it’s not…about…cleaning the environment. Can everybody just get that through their thick heads? It’s not.
Everybody whose words say it’s about that, with apparently no exceptions, has some actions to PROVE this isn’t so. More often than not, documented actions. Arnie the Governator is a great example. Running up and down the state, winning all those lefty votes from deranged left-wing weirdo freaks, babbling his nonsense about carbon emissions and global warming. Hey, Arnie used to like to brag about his Hummer. Does he still have it? Dang’d if I know. But it wasn’t that long ago. When did Arnie wake up and figure out carbon emissions were a problem? And if he does still have it, why? Nobody will ask.
And then there’s Al Gore. He gets a pass too. He was our Vice President for eight years. He spouted his nonsense about glowbubble wormening before those eight years…and during them, what’d he do? Huh? Did he beg and plead with Bill Clinton to make the Clinton administration the “global warming” presidency, to no avail? Because what I remember about the eight years and Al Gore’s contributions to it, are things like…reinventing government. Iced tea defense. Economic stimulus package. Lock box. Education bills. Not an awful lot of environmental activism. Did the cat catch his tongue? Surely he had to have known about the term limits. His movie paints a picture of a weary, desperate old man anguishing about the future of our planet and the lives and welfare of his grandchildren, and ours. This slipped his mind during the eight years? Or he thought it would all work itself out?
Actually, to the best my memory serves…Al Gore wrote that book of his and then he became the Vice President. Didn’t say butkus about it. Ran for President, debated George W. Bush about “Dingall Norwood” and a zillion other not-global-warming things. Got his ass kicked, went away for awhile, came back thirty pounds heavier and guess what? The planet was in danger!
Again. Nobody will ask about this stuff.
And don’t even get me started on what the judges at the Ninth Circus are driving. I’m not going to bet my next meal they’re riding skateboards or driving old AMC Pacers. No, my money says they like to “sit up high” just like anybody else.
Isn’t it interesting? Before the global warming thing, even our most enthusiastic proponents of “judicial activism” would never have been able to come up with a way for Ninth Circus judges to tell us what to drive. Not without us, as individuals, doing something to end up in front of them. But now with global warming, they can.
There ya go. That’s the real global warming right there; that’s what it’s all about. Power.
You aren’t surprised, are you?
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