News: March 2009 Archives
"Earth Hour" and "Earth Day" are modern day pagan rituals performed in worship of the giant ball of dirt beneath our feet.
If we're "running out" of energy (or it's just more expensive than you'd like) then the solution is to create cheaper, cleaner energy sources, not to knock ourselves back into some watery-eyed idealized Stone Age.
As my wife pointed out on a Facebook note that I apparently can't link to, prostrating yourself before Gaia is an idiotic waste of time, especially considering all the hurting humans out there. Instead of flagellating ourselves over our prosperity, we should dedicate some time and energy to spreading our blessings to the less fortunate around the world.
Instead of turning off our lights for an hour, why not work towards providing 24-hour electricity to the majority of people in the world who don't have it? Or clean water? Or cell phone service?
It's pathetic how eager the Left is to erase millennia of progress and throw civilization back into the pagan dark ages. Let's worship the earth, the air, the rocks, the ocean, and the animals!
Another day, another Presidential gaffe.
But then came the foot-in-mouth moment: "It's like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.
That's no way to talk about the Treasury! You're going to hurt Timmy's feelings!
Or maybe the President is referring to the State Department? Or his own gag gifts to the UK?
It began with the president joking about how bad a bowler he is.Toward the end of his approximately 40-minute taping on the "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," Obama talked about how he'd gotten better at bowling and had been practicing in the White House bowling alley.
"I bowled a 129," he told Leno.
"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.
But then came the foot-in-mouth moment: "It's like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.
Oh, bowling. Well gosh, he should apologize ASAP.
"He expressed his disappointment and he apologized, I think in a way that was very moving," Tim Shriver, the chairman of the Special Olympics board, told "Good Morning America" today. ..."He was very sincere, expressed an interest and an openness in being more engaged in the movement and said he was a fan of the movement and I think importantly he said he was ready to have some of our athletes over to the White House to bowl or play basketball or help him improve his score."
I look forward to President Obama's televised basketball and bowling match-ups against the Special Olympians.
Despite the fact that stamping currency is entirely legal -- which PayPal does not dispute! -- I've been forced to stop using their payment service to sell Tim Geithner "Tax Cheat!" stamps. There's no doubt in my mind that they shut me down for political reasons, because nothing I'm doing violates PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy in any way.
They're a private company that can do what they want, but I think that whatever low-level employee made this call is way out of line and is acting disgracefully.
So there have been dozens of tea parties all around the country, but I've yet to read about any of our elected "leaders" making an appearance at any of them. If there are any conservatives left in our government at any level they need to start showing their faces and speaking out in support of this nascent movement.
