Determined in debate yesternight: Global Warming best referred to as a “notion”.
Shooter says he mistook cow for coyote
I can see that: they both start with “co”.
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Too bad this “notion” will end up costing us trillions of dollars with no expected outcome or tangible results, but it is all for the children so thats ok. One of these days I want to just see someone take a picture of the most desperate and pathetic looking kids in the world so then I can look at them and visualize who I am harming by my selfish, evil, capitalistic ways. It would make me feel better as I went about my day. I could even carry it with me in my wallet so I could look at it every once in a while for a quick pick me up.
It’s time to invest in one of those “carbon offsets” firms. How do I get ahold of the Goricle?
Why don’t you just shoot a cow, Carin?
If Goricle (and the rest of the AGW acolytes) was sincere then he’d be putting his not unconsiderable girth and voice behind getting nuclear power plants built post-haste.
It would make me feel better as I went about my day. I could even carry it with me in my wallet so I could look at it every once in a while for a quick pick me up.
will these do?
No, I don’t want to “buy” a carbon offset. I want to own a piece of the “carbon offset” business. Do you think I can get people to pay me to plant trees on my property?
I’m just saying, maybe you could get people to pay you to shoot cows.
NOW you’re thinking. And, there is a cow farm w/in walking distance of my house. It’s amazing how cold it is here (in the 20’s) with all those Global Warming machines w/o a quarter mile of me.
w/o= with in
Yeah, it’s been a cold weekend here, too, Carin.
Personally, I want to know how algore sells carbon offsets to himself.
BTW – That blue idiot from Texas and the rest of the twoothers, I am looking at you RMN, were freaking hysterical this weekend. I have been catching up, and saw 200+ comments driven totally by their insanity. Wow, just wow.
JD
I got such a good giggle from RMN lamenting s/he isn’t still a kid in the 60’s.
Maybe Jeff could turn it into a regular thing. Twoofer Tuesdays.
And here I am just trying to be helpful to commenter #1.
Darleen – You guys were awfully nice to these mental midgets. My head would have exploded.
Dan – You can never go wrong with a twoother thread. You got the moonbats to leave their belfry, and expose themselves to daylight. However, RMN, we would appreciate it if you quit exposing yourself anytime now. Shrinkage is not pretty on a flowerchild.
You should try finding some kids that aren’t old enough to be your grandparents.
The notion of global warming is a perfect expression. Even I would be willing to use that phrase.
I would try to explain to RMN how industrialization is the reason we no longer need child labor, but I think I would rather go play Halo 3 today.
The sepia toned photos don’t satisfy you? Ok, let’s go for a more modern take on child labor.
wait, wait, the only photos I see at that link are of Kasparov and oooooooh, Natalie Hollaway. okay.
oh, and a Ford Expedition.
RMN–
Sure, that’d be great. Where do I send you pix of successful al-Qaeda mass murders in Iraq in exchange, you putz?
You people are very strange. If you want to stand with commenter #1, that is fine. Count me out.
Carbon offsets for the children.
RMN
I realize your irony and sarcasm detection genes are missing so I’ll translate a bit (with apologies to LiveFrom)
The hysterics over AGW with the attendant demands for Big Mommy Government to take over and make all decisions on how we are to live will do a great deal more harm then all the “evils” that are atributed to capitalism.
And only small children (which the Left is dominated by) believes that a risk free world is a desirable goal …and throws a tantrum when any adult disagrees.
Sorry, you’re appeasing him. You are one and the same as the child hating evil capitalist bastard.
I would try to explain to you what commenter #1 meant, but suddenly I’m having flashbacks of last night and trying to convey the Clinton/Bush/Memo dealo … so instead I’ll just say:
Flapjack jellbeans pogo sunshine.
MikeC
HA!!! Priceless.
and predictable
The foolish, well-fed, sheltered, enviro-wackos are reminiscent of those nutjobs who obsess about how great it would be to live in the Middle Ages “when life was simpler and I know I would have been in the nobility”
They find “charm” in the poverty of other cultures they don’t have to live in.
I was also refering to how every act by the left is couched in terms of for the “children” there by implying that anyone who disagrees is against the “children”. Due to the fact that I seem to be against the “children” so much I just wanted pictures of these supposed “children” who I am oppressing so I can carry them around and thus feel like the evil bastard I supposedly am.
Please don’t use reality on the trolls, Mike C. You’ll get us all branded very strange.
FOR THE APPEARANCES! AND THE GUILT!
Speaking of strange, RMN, who’dya figure killed more kids, totalitarianism or capitalism?
Conversely, which saved more. Medically, socially, culturally, you-name-it. You know, on balance.
Oh. Just broke my own rule…
RMN did you know Starbucks coffee is produced by child laborers in Columbia that listen to Rush Limbaugh and are evangelical gay bashing Christians?
Hmmm.
You picks your battles I guess.
I wonder if it includes using global warming as an excuse to advocate for child labor and condemn the next generation of farmers in the developing world to a life of abject poverty and back-breaking labor.
The campaign for ratification of the Child Labor Amendment was stalled in the 1920s by an effective campaign to discredit it. Opponents’ charges ranged from traditional states’ rights arguments against increases in the power of the Federal Government to accusations that the amendment was a communist-inspired plot to subvert the Constitution. Federal protection of children would not be obtained until passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which was also challenged before the Supreme Court. This time, the movement to end child labor was victorious. In February of 1941, the Supreme Court reversed its opinion in Hammer v. Dagenhart and, in U. S. v. Darby (1941), upheld the constitutionality of the Fair Labor Standards Act. It is still in force today.
What a wonderful history you cretins carry forth. The wingnuts of the 1920’s opposed the Child Labor Amendment out of spite for socialists.
I take it that’s a firm “capitalism” then, RMN?
Socialists deserve all the spite we can give them. If they genuinely want anything worthwhile to happen, they should refrain from supporting it.
After all, isn’t that how it is for you proggs when us neocons endorse something?
I take it that’s a firm “capitalism†then, RMN?
Not at all. It’s a firm cretin then, cretin now. Margaret C. Robinson lives on…
Darleen ,
The foolish, well-fed, sheltered, enviro-wackos are reminiscent of those nutjobs who obsess about how great it would be to live in the Middle Ages “when life was simpler and I know I would have been in the nobilityâ€Â
If you need a title for this up-coming epic , I suggest PROGRESSIVISM FOR DUMMIES .
They find “charm†in the poverty of other cultures they don’t have to live in.
Yes, RMN, you caught us. We have grown tired of exploiting the brown people. We have turned our sites on our children now, and will be exploiting our own kids now. Those damn 6 year olds are getting tougher to count on, but after a couple good whippins, the 7 year olds provide the most work for the lowest cost.
Where do people like you live?
Where is BJ? Nobody is a bigger capitalistic cretinous pig than BJ. He can exploit him some brown people. And womyn. And especially children.
RMN, has anyone ever told you that you’re a moron?
And it is just a given that the notion of global warming will disproportionately effect womyn, children, and most importantly, minority female children.
It is likely a best practice to ignore the likes of steve, andy, blueballz from TX, and RMN, but I am of the school of thought that painful stupidity should be aggressively confronted. As another once noted, stupidity of their magnitude should be physically painful, so as to discourage it. Their level of stupidity, their mere existence, is proof of the failure of our school system, and is a zit on the hairy ass of humanity.
I guess it’s right back to Wikipedia for me then.
#35 RMN
Nice recitation of the history of the legislation … but did it precede or follow what was happening in society at large?
The idea that it was ONLY the law that got those greedy, unloving uncaring parents to stop exploiting their children by sending them to work in dangerous places is … well … similar to thinking The Law(tm) stopped American slavery, allowed women in the workforce and provided for the poor.
And again, bullshit.
Throughout history, children have worked — see any photo of African agricultural practices, for instance. When the first parts of the Industrial Revolution came in, having children work the machines was — and was seen as — a natural extension of that practice.
As machines got better the need for child labor was reduced. Nowadays we don’t need child labor — we have robotic machines instead — but if we cancel the Industrial Revolution on the grounds that we’re all gonna die from CO2 emissions, the inevitable result is that more hands will be needed to do what machines do now. Where will that labor come from? Children, among others.
Slaves were, basically, industrial and agricultural robots. When you don’t have industry, you have a much smaller economy, and somebody has to be disenfranchised in order for anybody to have “leisure” or an opportunity to think and/or invent. If you took the entire output of a pre-industrial society and divided it up evenly, nobody would have enough to eat. If we can’t have industry, what we will have is child labor, subservient women, and slavery.
Regards,
Ric
Just out of curiosity: RMN, can you explain which party was in power (in 1921-1925, and in years following) to pass those Laws? And which parties and groups were actually opposed to those policies?
Or is it going to be left to me to point out that Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge and Warren G. Harding (who actually signed the legislation) were all Republicans, with a GOP majority in both Chambers of Congress?
Once again, the liberation of oppressed groups happens not because of the Democrats, but despite their best efforts.
drumwaster – Don’t go getting all facty on RMN. The whole political perspective of that kind of person relies on their ability to just make shit up, their ability to make up their own version of historical facts as they go along, subject to change when it is pointed out how catastrophically wrong they are.
Sorry, I don’t know what came over me. I must remember never to let the facts or the accuracy of a quote get in the way of Teh Narrative. Please accept my humblest apologies. Now it’s off to sensitivity training for me.
Got anything current, there, milhouse. I thought not.
I think we should codify our Best Practices. We should have a formal name for andy, for instance. Tool? Actus?
RMN –
Uh, I don’t think it was “spite for socialists.”
I think a closer approximation would be a “healthy disdain for Socialism”.
Socialists don’t bother me, they kind of remind me of being in the eighth grade again.
Now Socialism…that’s a whole different field of coyotes.
Deleting comments now, eh? There was no profanity, no threat, no stalking of an ex…
Did it cut a little too close for comfort?
The Margaret C. Robinson Brigade of Whining Fear Mongers.
You couldn’t handle that?
RMN – some comments were lost when they switched hosts … check the front page.
happyfeet – Don’t go getting all facty on RMN. He/she/it has established that he/she/it is impervious to facts.
His comment that got deleted was very hurtful in intent. He said we were vile and cowardly and other stuff. And not Republican. I know for sure that one’s false though, least for me.
happyfeet – Did the twoofers ever give a straight answer to what they would have done with the “Osama determined to strike United States” warning in the PDB?
RMN, I didn’t see the comment that got deleted. I’m sure it went even farther to establish what’s already evident, viz., that you are
1) Humor challenged;
2) Making bigoted assumptions; and
3) Stone ignorant on the subject, and defiant about it.
Tossing it probably saved you some embarrassment.
BTW, interesting set of initials you’ve got there. Can we call you “Dick”, or do you prefer “Milhouse”?
Regards,
Ric
“The Margaret C. Robinson Brigade of Whining Fear Mongers.”
Damned witty, Wilde!
my comment got disappeared too! you bastards! couldn’t handle it Dan!? huh? HUH!? coyotes ate my comment?
really, it’s okay, I wasn’t very proud of it anyhow. not my best work.
Gavin Newsom named his favorite butt plug RMN.
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Deleting comments now, eh? There was no profanity, no threat, no stalking of an ex…
Did it cut a little too close for comfort?
Yeah. Milhouse. It’s all about you.
Twit.
“Gavin Newsom named his favorite butt plug RMN.”
Classic
Mark – I am sooooooo going to steal that one.