“When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin … Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.” ~ Clarence Thomas
A few posts ago I said I was a global food-shortage denier. I stand by my denial, in that I don’t believe that global warming, or “climate change” as the left loves to call it now (because it is harder to define and therefore easier to defend), is the cause of any global food shortage. However, I do find this interesting. It seems that global warming may have caused food shortages - if by global warming you mean the overreaction to the alleged threat of global warming has caused food shortages.
Unlike “global warming,” food rioting is a planet-wide phenomenon, from Indonesia to Pakistan to Ivory Coast to the tortilla rampages in Mexico and even pasta protests in Italy.
So what happened?
Well, Western governments listened to the eco-warriors, and introduced some of the “wartime measures” they’ve been urging. The EU decreed that 5.75 percent of petrol and diesel must come from “biofuels” by 2010, rising to 10 percent by 2020. The U.S. added to its 51 cents-per-gallon ethanol subsidy by mandating a five-fold increase in “biofuels” production by 2022.
The result is that big government accomplished at a stroke what the free market could never have done: They turned the food supply into a subsidiary of the energy industry. When you divert 28 percent of U.S. grain into fuel production, and when you artificially make its value as fuel higher than its value as food, why be surprised that you’ve suddenly got less to eat? Or, to be more precise, it’s not “you” who’s got less to eat but those starving peasants in distant lands you claim to care so much about.
Heigh-ho. In the greater scheme of things, a few dead natives keeled over with distended bellies is a small price to pay for saving the planet, right? Except that turning food into fuel does nothing for the planet in the first place. That tree the U.S. Marines are raising on Iwo Jima was most likely cut down to make way for an ethanol-producing corn field: Researchers at Princeton calculate that to date the “carbon debt” created by the biofuels arboricide will take 167 years to reverse.
The biofuels debacle is global warm-mongering in a nutshell: The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. On April 15, the Independent, the impeccably progressive British newspaper, editorialized: “The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world’s environment. So why on earth is the Government forcing us to use more of it?”
Eh, my conscience is clear, I drive a big-ass gasoline-guzzling SUV.
What’s that old saying? “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Gen. David H. Petraeus may be as impressive a military professional as the United States has developed in recent years, but he could use some strategic advice on how to manage his sartorial PR. Witness his congressional testimony on the state of the war in Iraq. There he sits in elaborate Army regalia, four stars glistening on each shoulder, nine rows of colorful ribbons on his left breast, and various other medallions, brooches and patches scattered across the rest of the available real estate on his uniform. He even wears his name tag, a lone and incongruous hunk of cheap plastic in a region of pristine gilt, just in case the politicians aren’t sure who he is.
That’s a lot of martial bling, especially for an officer who hadn’t seen combat until five years ago. Unfortunately, brazen preening and “ribbon creep” among the Army’s modern-day upper crust have trumped the time-honored military virtues of humility, duty and personal reserve.
Matthew Debord, a gnat of a man whose only apparent contribution to society is in the form of that manliest of professions, the wine critic, has removed all doubt.
He’s an ignorant fool too, since he has no knowledge of the rules governing the wear of decorations, medals, badges and insignia on military uniforms. At least none that he communicated in his silly Boone’s Farm-qualityopinion piece.
Envy is more than just a perfume, Matthew. You really should pick a fight with someone in a similarly meaningful profession . . . say a movie critic or Project Runway judge.
You better support Obama or we won’t be your friends anymore. (NOTE: They pulled the post from the Obama’O8 site. Predictable and typical. And what I quoted down below was just a quarter of the ranting that was there. A link to screenshots of what was posted in total down below in the update.)
Enough is enough.
America has suffered enough of Clintonitis.
Americans have spoken loud and clear: they do not want political business as usual that Clintonitis represent.
They want change and they want it fast.
They have chosen and anointed Obama as the agent of change.
He is the new political Messiah who shall continue where JFK stopped.
Americans seem to be in slumber and in complete denial of the present dangerous and volatile world situation.
This is where Jews can help.
By supporting Obama to win, they would cure America of Clintonitis and thereby be able to find a permanent solution to the Arab-Jewish problem in the Middle East.
Jews must support Obama or face grave consequences. You cannot afford not to.
Africans have been nice and helped Jews for more than 2000 yrs.
Now, I say to Jews all over the world, it is time to show your gratitude.
Well, now, if I were Jewish that would certainly sway me. I just love friends who threaten me if I don’t do what they say. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
This is posted on the official Obama’08 website, which I assume means he approved it. If so, how sad. If not, does he have any control over anyone in his own campaign?
I’m not sure how long it will be up, though, once people start hammering him on it. So check it out now. There’s lots more.
They pulled it from the site. What did I tell you? However, if you want to see screenshots of what this anti-semitic screed looked like check em out over here. (Click the link and then scroll down some to see links to the screenshots.)
** BTW, I don’t like this title. It grates on me for some reason. But it conveys the attitude of the moron who wrote this now “disappeared” post over at Obama08.
Only a man who has a profound ignorance of and, dare I say it, a deep-seated contempt for our military would say something like this.
“McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.”
Senator Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, West Virginia, and Barack Hussen Obama supporter, appears to be that man.
Keep it up Dems. I simply cannot see attacking McCain, a man who served his country honorably and spent five fricken years in a hell-hole of a prison camp, in this way as a winning strategy in the general election.
2. If Obama is the nominee 28% of Hillary-supporting Dems will vote for McCain. That’s good news - for McCain. To be fair, 19% of Obama supporters would vote for McCain if Hillary is the nominee. Either way, McCain benefits which is a good thing.
3. Oops, Hillary’s pants are on fire. Those nasty videos get you every time. And speaking of videos, here’s a great one.
4. Just another funny video I found over at Groovy Vic’s place. The funny part starts at about the o.42 second point.
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. A New York Times and Amazon best seller and, if the first chapter is any indication, even better than I expected it to be.
I would like to say I purchased it, but the truth is my very liberal son who works at a bookstore, got it for me for free (employees can check out books and return them). My apologies to Mr. Goldberg, but he shouldn’t worry too much because chances are I will like it so much I will just have to buy it for my bookshelf.
It took some doing to get him to borrow it for me. He was reluctant to put it mildly, but after loaning him some of my Haz-Mat gear he agreed and it was here when I woke-up this morning.
No wonder he took two showers last night. Poor kid.
