For around a decade now  since around the time, coincidentally, that the warming stopped  the alarmists have had things pretty much their own way, dominating the debate with ever more dramatic predictions of impending doom as man-made CO2 emissions heat up the planet, and managing for the best part to keep a lid on dissent, thanks to an unlikely, and decidedly unholy, alliance of organizations and individuals with a vested interest in upping the fear factor.
This alliance includes politicians who see climate change as a new way of persuading citizens to give them more power; corporations who play on our concern and guilt to sell us anything from eco-friendly washing powder to flex-fuel SUVs; scientists keen to get their hands on a share of the $5 billion handed out by governments and NGOs each year for climate change research; and the legions of bureaucrats employed to draw up regulations and run the globe-trotting climate conference circus.
Then there’s the lavishly funded environmental lobby; socialists who see climate change as their last, best hope of undermining free-market democracies and cutting the United States down to size; and a media which understands that “World Ends Tomorrow†stories get more viewers than “Everything Likely to Be Just Fine†stories, and whose members tend to side with the leftist, anti-American crowd.
Mona: You fill me with so much hatred that you make me laugh
let’s call them GW fascists ….
Here you go, sasha.
Thank you, Dan
Watermelons, sashal.
Why’s a girl gotts to be a hater, Mona?
I’m not clicking, but I’m guessing from the URL that by “election results,” she doesn’t mean West Virginia.
Maybe she does need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Yeah well… the Interior department just declared Polar bears an endangered species in the face of all logic and scientific evidence. Apparently “endangered” now means “more than ever in history”
– Never fear. When this three ring circus of the Left goes up in global warming flames, we’ll see a rebirth of “Global cooling”, ala 1992. Count on it. If I recall near the end of that little “movement” we were all in danger of freezing to death in a mass increase of glacial flow. The doom sayers know very well which side of the bread their butter is on, and can always count on a sensationalism pandering Left-wing press to carry their water. Anything to shake up the status quo, which is the kiss of death for the Left.
– In the mean time O!‘s camp has missed the racial tide train, the reason they were trying so hard to push Hill-Rod into quiting before WV. Now he can’t hide, or subdue the polarization, or explain how he expects to win the general based on something between 15% and 30% of the electorate, the combination of most of the black vote, the portion of the hard Left he shares with Hillery, and the rest a gaggle of America haters. Good luck. It will be interesting watching his agog believers come up with a viable story. Looks like Hillery isn’t going anywhere, and if the Dem party tries to go without seating Mich and Florida they might as well stay home. That would be oure political suicide.
Thanks for the link, Dan. But that wasn’t much of a response on your part, now was it?
You don’t really rate much of a response, Mona. You should be removed from the conversation. You have no place in the public discourse. There is no point in engaging you. Remember where you saw that first, k?
Oh, and how are Gleen(s) these days?
By my standards it was.
By my standards, responding to Mona with a yawn is an overreaction.
There was a sign in my uncle’s bar that went like this.
“Meteorologist: A man who looks in his secretary’s eyes and wonders whether.”
There really isn’t a response to bat-guano crazy, Mona, other than link and laugh.
BTW – most men who know what ‘wether’ means start running.
Dan, you had said you would fairly review Greenwald’s latest book. I told you it was beyond my ability to acquire a free review copy for you, but that he could, and gave you his email address. You indicated gratitude and that you would follow through.
Did you? If you did, and he would not send you a copy, do let me know.
Ok, Comment #10 is making me admit that I have an internets crush on Pablo.
Mona – mockery and scorn is all you rate. Sad, huh?
Dan – Please, please, please for the love of all that is holy, would you please take Mona up on that offer. Maybe Jeff, you, and Karl could compile a joint review. I ask for very little in my life. An extra large super sized portabella for all of the gleeeeens and his minions is simply not too much to ask for. Maybe a progressive review, with a different blogger taking on the next chapter. Start here, then Patterico, Hot Air, Thompson, Darleen, RWS, etc …with the conclusion and wrap-up back here. Please.
– Damn Mona. Theres absolutely no blogosphere group of commenter’s more open minded and willing to listen and debate honestly than the average PW’er. To rate all this animus you must have really jumped the shark.
– “Privatize health care….because not just anyone can bisect a spleen”
Yes, I did email him and ask for a copy, Mona. No reply.
He did acknowledge me as a friend on Facebook, though. So there’s that.
– Just how in the world do you email a banjo playing Sock Puppet? (must be some tricky way you use a “thread”)
Dan – If I buy copies for Jeff G, Karl, and you, would you try to talk them into reviewing it?
I would, but I think that might be something negotiated beforehand, JD.
The Interior Department is gay.
“The Interior Department is gay.”
Like a gay furry convention.
#21 Copies!
Isn’t, er, that what the work copier/scanner is for?
Sarah, that’s funny but also as endtimesy as raining frogs ever thought about being. Dirk Kempthorne. Jeebus.
Dan writes: Yes, I did email him and ask for a copy, Mona. No reply.
Please forward me that email at monaho at peoplepc dot com. I will chastise him and ask that you receive a copy, and advise that you have offered a fair review.
Yes, I have… And I wanna apologize to you gentlemen for referring to
you as homosexuals. I also want to thank you fellas, you’ve taught me a valuable lesson in life.
Don’t turn away
from love.
Oh, chastise him most severely! And castigate him, even!
Oh, chastise him most severely! And castigate him, even!
Castigating is a bit much, since GG’s public email is now receiving in the hundreds each day, including from DoD reps, Joe Klein and other journos etc. But Dan made a fair offer and I will make sure GG follows up on it if Dan did his part; Dan should forward to me the email to GG asking for a review copy, and I will see to it that if Dan was somehow ignored, he does get one.
That’s gold. I cannot imagine how Mona knows all about the contents of GG’s e-mailbox.
Chastise. Not the chastisement. Anything but chastising. Oh, the horror.
Karl – It is a gift that just keeps on giving and giving. it is precious.
Mona – since you have access to his inbox, you should already have seen Dan’s email.
Oh, the whole resume thing? Awesome.
Folks, if you have not yet figured it out, Greenwald and I are friends,so am in a position to know when he is very busy, and how overwhelmed he sometimes is with email. (Like when it takes days for him to get back to me on a project we are both involved with.)
What, you think that is some sort of nefarious, in-sider knowledge? Ok, here it is: We Are The Illuminati. [eyes rolling]
In any event, and I repeat: Dan, forward to me your email requesting a review copy of Greenwald’s last book. I will take it from there.
Friends forever, sharing everything together.
Always understanding just how much the other cares.
We’re friends forever. You know that’s how I feel.
We’ll stick together. Please say we’ve got a deal.
We’re friends forever, and when the rest have gone,
it’s you who wil be there for me.
My friend.
If anyone knows what tv show that was the theme song for, that’s very sad.
Hi, Mona
Don’t worry.
The GOP has their heads so far up their asses that they will probably never see the light of day again in our lifetimes. The GOP members of congress are going to get steamrolled for being such flying assholes. Any GOPer who wasn’t woken up by the last election (and very few were), is too stupid to be in congress anyway. Greedy fuckheads is what they actually are, joiningt their Democratic bretheren in the big “Fuck You, America”.
As of this moment, our choices for president are: Jimmuh Carter, Jimmuh Carter, and Jimmuh Carter, so you have nothing to worry about.
We conservatives have no dog in this fight, and as much as we want to hold our noses and vote for McCain, he keeps kicking us in the balls – almost daily. Anyone who sodomizes Ted Kennedy on a regular basis, and has proudly taken a huge bite out of the first amendment, is probably not going to rouse about half of the votes he needs to win.
So,,,
Here we are. The GOP is going to get steamrolled for being the bunch of greedy assholes that they are, and we are all about to enter your dreamworld of socialism.
Congrats.
Just wait until the government takes over health care, and the people at the DMV with the most semiority are transferred to desks where they make life and death medical decisions for you. I don’t know. But it sounds pretty exciting to me! Union protected idiots becoming your doctor.
“France West” is coming. Your fondest dream oh “hopey changitude” is about to come true.
And we will all be fucked because of it. But equal misery for all is much “fairer” than equal opportunity for all, isn’t it?
You are about to get what you want so badly. Better strap on your seatbelt. What we are facing will make the Carter years look like a picnic, and will probably make you wish that you had paid some attention to the lessons of history..
oh, but he’s got plenty o’ time to vanity search.
Folks, if you have not yet figured it out, Greenwald and I are friends,so am in a position to know when he is very busy, and how overwhelmed he sometimes is with email.
You are so lucky.
Do you sometimes just have to pinch yourself?
@The Lost Dog
I do not entirely disagree with you. There just is no such thing is a politician who is honest and reliable — or many human beings who fit that description, for that matter.
My support for Obama is quite real, but also tepid. God knows I’m not an Obamamaniac. And, I am not even remotely a socialist.
That said, the electorate simply is demanding a solution to the healthcare problem. And you know, even Hayek did not rule out absolutely all safety net programs, depending on how they were structured and to what extent they empowered the state.
Anyway, I’m not the far-left-winger I think you perceive me to be. Lifelong libertarian; just not married to the GOP.
Mona said;
My support for Obama is quite real,
Why? For gods sake?
Castigating is a bit much, since GG’s public email is now receiving in the hundreds each day, including from DoD reps, Joe Klein and other journos etc.
You forgot to mention that his book has been read on the Senate floor.
From: Dan Collins
To: ggreenwald@salon.com
Subject: Your Book/Mona
Date: Apr 16, 2008 9:01 PM
Mona’s telling me that I ought to read your book before I express any view,
and I suppose she’s right. Would you be so kind as to have forwarded to me
a review copy? I promise to review you as even-handedly as I’m able at Protein
Wisdom and on Amazon.
Thanks,
Dan Collins
[address redacted]
Thanks, Mona, but where do I send this? I tried mona@theartofthepossible.net, but it bounced back.
“Ok, Comment #10 is making me admit that I have an internets crush on Pablo.”
If this is true, would that mean that your handle is now “Carin-BOINK”?
Mona –
I hate to say it, but thank you for being more civil than I am.
Perhaps I aimed my barb in the wrong direction, but it doesn’t make my comment any less true.
I was in my twenties when Carter was president, and I get the feeling that you might not be old enough to remember what a total asshole and complete fuck-up that he (and his administration)was/were. (I could be wrong about your age).
Utopia is a wonderful concept, but in the REAL world, REALITY rules, no matter how hard we try to ignore human (and sub-human) nature.
Unless Obama is lying through his teeth even more than is evident, he is not really smart enough to be president. But to be fair, neither are the other two Jimmuh wanna-bes.
I wouldn’t care so much if I didn’t have an eight year old boy who is having his head stuffed with Utopian socialisdt bullshit, brought to him by the government. There is no gain without pain, and pain is how we learn. The real world is chock full of pain, and to mislead our children into thinking otherwise is criminal, in my opinion. And no government action can ever change that reality, or shield them from the fact that Utopia is nothing more than a pie-in-the-sky load of horse patootie.
Why do we insist on raising our children to be clueless? Because the morons like Reid and Pelosi (and, yes, McCain) think they have the intellectual power to tell us when to take a dump? And that is about where we are headed. When I screw up, I know it and try to deal with it. But what our kids are learning is that when THEY screw up, it is ALWAYS someone else’s fault.
National healthcare? Be careful what you wish for. One of my best friends is a doctor (and a briulliant one, at that), and even now, before we even have “national healthcare”, the government is dicking him around beyond belief. If you are a doctor these days, government “rules” are squashing you like a bug. Have you noticed how many doctors are from foriegn countries? That’s because any thinking American doesn’t want anything to do with being a doctor anymore. It’s just not worth the hassle to be in a profession that takes so much time and money to join, and then having to deal with the equivalent of the people who give out traffic tickets in NYC (Brownies, I believe they are called). These people are barely intelligent enough to tie their own shoes, and yet are given veto powers over someone who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and at LEAST ten years of their life to become doctors. My friend is pretty unique in that he cares enough about people to treat them, even when he knows that the existing “government health care” will pay him about twenty cents on the dollar, IF they even bother to pay him at all. And his “decisions” are made for him by people too stupid to even run a lawn mower.
Remember this. We have to live with the laws that congress passes. Congressmen – for the most part – don’t. I grew up betwen the fifies and the seventies, and am all too aware that we now live on a different planet, thanks to moronic government “feel good, buy some votes” meddling.
Obama is the pick of the government litter. and is suspect just for that, even before we peer into his $1,000 suit and find it to be unoccupied by any intelligent being. He is an out and out fraud.
We really shouldn’t even say “free society” anymore, ’cause it just ain’t, and it gets worse every day. A big “Thank you” to the gaggle of morons who think their job is to strip us of our liberties, one at a time, for their own profit.
Not to be mean, but I get the feeling that nobody ever says hey let’s call Mona cause she’s fun and it would be fun if Mona came cause damn she’s fun remember that time when we were out with Mona? Man that was fun. Good times. No. This doesn’t happen ever I don’t think.
If it did, it would be the right Mona.
The one in this thread is the wrong one.
This Mona…. She’s dumb.
She yanked the page this page linked to ‘cuz the thread made her look dumb; which she is.
What happened to my comment from yesterday? I posted some links here that I tried to post over there, and they didn’t show here, either….
I don’t know, two ns. Send me an email, and I can post it for you. croolwurld-at-earthlink.net