That Egypt uprising? A product of global climate change.
No, really. A Nobel laureate and New York Times’ columnist told me so.
— Just before he dressed himself in lederhosen and bib suspenders, donned a feathered Bavarian cap, and spent a half-hour yodeling himself into a frenzy on 5th Avenue in advance of eating an entire tabby cat.
And even that wasn’t as crazy as his Egypt column.
If he’s linking the uprising to hunger that results from famine that results from AGW, then he’s almost on the same page as Glenn Beck.
Who says that high unemployment and rising food prices were the catalyst, but also warns that the international Left is in cahoots with some radical Islamists who are now preaching “Islamic socialism” as The Solution To All Problems. And who have been putting all kinds of infrastructure in place, just waiting until the masses could be provoked into widespread unrest.
Me, I love cats, I just can’t eat a whole one by myself.
It’s funny how the stupid crazy people never blame stupid-craziness for the world’s ills. In Ohio, we just had a guy who got hit by a train because he was walking with his ear buds in. Now we’re all waiting for the legislature to outlaw the ear buds thereby protecting people like our stupid guy from his own stupidity. Thus, allowing him a chance to procreate. And viola! Another Obama.
Stupid should have consequences. It does when you’re running a chainsaw.
See? See? Just as the freezing crotches of platypus are the result of global warming so are the political religious thoughts of radical Islamists. Global warming has been pushing them down for years!! YEARS!!! They live their daily lives being backed by created heat by industries thousands of miles away! THOUSANDS!! Those greenhouse gasses aggressively reflecting off of pyramids bring stone locked horrible AYEE! warming in the Middle East. FOR CENTURIES!!!!
You wingnut non proliferation fairy conservative lock step right wing hoo- hahs just don’t get Global Warming and Middle East Dis-history. JESUS HATED GLOBAL WARMERS!!!!!
(burp)
Can’t get nothing past old Paul.
..a solar chainsaw that is.
clearly we need safety chainsaws
and chainsaw operator certification
and certified chainsaw operator certification instructors
and a gov’t appointed panel to create guidelines for chainsaw operator certification programs
and probably another panel to decide if all these new regulations are going to be under the purview of the BMA or the NEA: those bears ain’t gonna carve themselves y’know
Were Sam Kinison still around, he’d helpfully remind Mr Krugman that the Egyptians live in a fucking desert!
At the moment it’s the extreme lows that have my attention.
Which is why I typed BMA instead of BLM
There simply nothing more intellectually amazing on the burning planet than how educated and prized Paul Krugman has been … and how essentially and ridiculously ignorant and stupid are his dubious brain farts for the NYT.
I need alppuccino’s solar powered chain saw to cut a tree down on his house.
Oh, and I blame his wife.
Oh, Jeff, one of my favorites, ever.
“We have deserts in America … NOBODY LIVES THERE!!!”
Still kills me.
On Saturday, Rich Lowry posted a short little thing over at The Corner to say:
I’ve been watching that space all weekend and was surprised to see that it had garnered 65+ comments this morning, though judging by the most recent comments (they annoyingly put the most recent up top and you can’t change it), some Lefty site linked to it, so they’re getting the jeering from the “I love watching you guys eat your own” crowd. Nonetheless, joseffrank summed it up pretty well:
What’s worst, though, is that Krugman is horribly behind the times. The latest eco-palyptic prediction is that the earth’s magnetic pole will invert suddenly, causing superstorms and the like. Also, the inversion has begun and that’s where we got Yasi.
Which, they’ve been ranting about the magnetic pole inverting on Coast-to-Coast AM since before Art Bell retired.
*, at about 3:55.
Is the magnetic pole inversion our fault, too? Is it Bush’s fault? Who is to blame?
Ok, it’s actually a bit further into it than that. But I hate to chop off the preamble to a good joke.
Of course, diverting grain resources to ethanol production have nothing to do with wheat prices going up. But fuck it, as Krugman’s heroes used to say, if you are going to lie, lie big.
Apparently the purpose of liberalism is to repeal the laws of natural selection.
Just for fun, some one ought to tell Krugman that global warming causes halitosis.
Hey, come on now. It was an accident.
Scotty and Geordi always reverse the polarity and it works! How was I supposed to know it wouldn’t work in real life?
Apparently the purpose of liberalism is to repeal the laws of natural selection.
The funny thing is, if liberalism finally gets its way, they will be selected out unnaturally.
Perfectly naturally unnatural, al.
AMPI – anthropogenic magnetic pole inversion – will be found to have been caused by human’s electric generation and the grid that distributes the same.
Despite the fact that the poles have reversed long before mankind existed. In much the same way that anthropologists know that climate varied pretty significantly prior to human civilization.
When the caldera blows under Yellowstone – you know that bad boy’s due, right? – that will be the fault of all of those park visitors and their footsteps causing seismic harmonics. Or something.
Krugman is a midget, and midgets are known to be demonic dishonest creepy things.
Let’s hope he stays away from vacuum cleaners, then, JD.
Boy, all those farmers in Florida are going to be pissed at us when they find out that the freezes that keep decimating their crops are due to global warming. I wonder if they read Krugman.
Wait, he’s in the New York Times and nobody reads that anymore. They’ll probably never figure it out.
I am pitching a new television show for Egypt: Two And A Half Donkeyphiles. Charlie Sheen, Hosni Mumbarak, and a midget member of the Muslim Brotherhood living together in a Cairo apartment and getting into adventures!
Here is a Pashton guy who is trying for the Muslim Brotherhood guy part. He does have the moves. Then again, maybe Krugman (even though he is a little shorter) can play the Muslim Brotherhood guy.
When the caldera blows under Yellowstone – you know that bad boy’s due, right?
Yup. And I’m right in its path. That dude goes off, only the Rapture can save anyone in the Mountain time zone.
You never know. You might get lucky and it’ll go off during one of those low pressure systems like we just had w/ the jet stream trough way down around the Gulf. Kansas and Oklahoma will get buried instead.
Wasn’t it Indiana that was buried the last time it went off? Least I thought it was.
Do I need to move?
Heh, if that sucker blows hard, we all may need to move.
I have seen more of the various forms of algore than I care to, in the last week alone. Snow. Ice. Sleet. And every combination thereof. Maybe moving south or west would be good.
here is a helpful map for to avoid death by yellowstone
here is a helpful map for if the “Long Valley Caldera” blows
Tambora x 6 to 10 JD. Gets damn cold in the northerlies thereafter. For years, probably.
From the link at #33.
I’m getting a really special tingle from this one.
Boooosh blows up the world, women, children and minorities hardest hit.
OT: Just for JD. Wed. 10pm Season 2.
How did little children become important enough to be “voices” for America? global warming is responsible for the unrest in egypt?
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA…I’m sorry, but I think the general attitude in the Mid-East is responsible. But beware. The Jihadists are on their way here. Sharia law is “Allah’s” answer to moderation. (The Stoning Of Shayara M is an excellent movie (and book), and will give a good approximation of what these Islamist extremists want – and what they want is Neanderthalism. Jerks who are more stupid than Paul Krugfman will tell you exactly just what human outrage you must perform – Hmmm…much like Barak Obama…Are you listening Obama peekers? I bet you are. How hard is it to change “Jihadist” to “obama” on the NSA’s database? Just in case someone hurts your socialist feelings?
Not only are these brazen, egotistical children columnists and commentators, they are actually IN CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT!
I am buying freeze dried food like it is going out of style, and looking for a place in the wilds of Idaho. The dollar is going to crash so loudly that it will break your eardrums – and leave us all with hyper-inflation, and a dollar worth somewhere between %40 an %50 of it’s current worth.
When our country’s bills come due (which I believe will be sometime later this year), Egypt is going to look like a garden party. We are being run off the cliff by a bunch of egotistical, self-serving, stupid, immature little greedy assholes who believe that the “bills will NEVER come due”, and, if the bills do come due, they expect to move to Switzerland and live in a castle ON OUR STOLEN FUCKING MONEY!. Obama? Can you hear me? I expect not…Stupid question for the future king of the World.
I, for one, will follow them there.
Absolute little piggies. Huh?
Disclaimer: I own no guns, believe in God, and wish no one any harm. I just can’t believe that this country has come to the point it has.
We are toast. And it’s not just Obama, it’s everyone since Eisenhower (except Reagan) who has run us into the ditch.
Natch. How did we get to the place that people who can’t do the most basic math in public – Krugman, Romm, Gladwell and the like – have a rather unchallenged influence?
Though, maybe it’s true – just from a different perspective – what if the dollars spent on the global warming pseudo-science infrastructure had been used to, you know, grow food and distribute it, or to teach indigenous 3rd world people to grow their own food and help them to do it (like a large number of NGOs do successfully), perhaps food prices would be lower. So, global warming is the cause… it’s just that teh well funded science lobby generated hot air instead of something useful.
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We are so far beyond the dollars that these assholes are printing like candle smoke, that it is insane. Our government spends more dollars in one day than we are even able to comprehend. But the assholes that spend it don’t give a shit, and think that running over the cliff like lemmings is what we want. After ALL, THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT AND IT’S THEIR FUCKING MONEY! YOU ONLY BUST YOUR ASS TO MAKE IT FOR THEM TO THROW AWAY. I have no problem with erasing bullshit pensions. I don’t have a pension, so why should I care that your pension will be lowered? Ain’t it great that you can have unlimitedf overtime in your last year to pad your pension? Ain’t it great that %97 of New Jersey Transit workers retire on disability? Can I buy your stupid fucking vote? I have a problem with the ones who say: FUCK YOU, AMERICA! YOU OWE ME!!!! I used to think this was funny, but now know that our national debt is as serious as a heart attack. I resent the fact that I appear to be a curmudgeon, but I HAVE BECOME H. L. mENCKEN.
Our “representatives” are assholes and think that we are too stupid to see that they are driving our currency down the drain.
Maybe you are still believing, but I’m not. Our currency is going to collapse soon, and you, and all your investor friends are going to take a hit you won ‘t believe. I have investments, too, but am just waiting for the day that I regret not buying more gold.
It can, and WILL happen here. Use your own smarts – if you really have any…
This ain’t the country that I grew up in, and it ain’t funny anymore…
This is a scary circle of death Happy. That Yellowstone zone of death would likely be less to the west and more to the east. Prevailing winds for ash will carry it east. The Rockies and Cascades would likely shield the west slightly more. There is very little geography to shield the midwest, however.
I would move to Bali but they get wacked by volcanos too.
I imagine there’s just no telling… the thing about supervolcanoes is they’re very arbitrary … it’s up to you to prepared with anti-volcano ointment and canned goods
to *be* prepared I mean
“clearly we need safety chainsaws…”
And don’t forget the permits, Ernst.
The judge says we should get them so I’m thinking the delay is just a clerical thing.
“This is a scary circle of death Happy…”
Unless of course you’re in Texas, Joe.
Even volcano’s dont mess with dem boys. If Feets was smart he’d be heading there before it’s too late;^)
Unless of course you’re in Texas, Joe.
True until hurricane season comes. But the steaks are good in the meantime.
The part of Texas I would like to live in climate-wise has the unfortunate side-effect of being Tornado Alley. I’m thinking of digging a bit pit for my house and garage (with the garage being the larger structure because of cars and motorcycles and stuff) and then burying the structures, with the entrance being a ramp going down. That way the Tornadoes can’t get me. Sure, there will only be windows on the front side, and rain could be problematic, but those are the breaks.
Otherwise I would need a hill I could dig into.
New Gerecht piece, “How Democracy Became Halal”. New Ajami piece, “The Demise of the Dictators”. Both good.
It concedes that the appointed Sec HHS can tell the elected governors of sovereign states to operate insurance exchanges that they would not otherwise be inclined to operate under an understanding of the commerce clause that makes a mock of the reserved powers guaranteed by the X Amendment (albeit “with conditions”).
It’s a strong argument weakened by the author’s evident unease with appearing strenuous.
Don’t ask me what the hell just happened. Because I don’t know how I ended commenting on this thread when I was on the previous thread just a second ago.
…Funny, My watch isn’t working anymore. And what’s this weird lump in my arm? Why is my ass so sore?
oh noes!
Build the house, and then build the hill over it. If your hill is properly designed and built the tornado can go right over it like a supermarket speedbump and its springs won’t even squeak.
Also, not every part of Tornado Alley is flat.
Shield the west? Lack of geography to shield the mid-west?
If the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupts the thinking is it will wipe out all life in on the planet.
I thought about that as well, but I wasn’t sure what the roof weight loading would be. I guess since I’d be burying it anyway I would be building with concrete and steel. Otherwise I’d need pillars all over the place for roof support.
Note the delicious irony.
Today, you eat healthy, quite smoking, and jog your tired gasping ass around the block.
I eat bacon, smoke a pack, and use my car to drag the trash cans to the curb.
Tommmorow, we all die in a supervolcano erruption.
I die laughing.
If the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupts the thinking is it will wipe out all life in on the planet
It’s gone off what, two or three times in the last two million years? Life is still all around us.
Not saying it would be good for our kind of life, but life in general will get by just fine –at least until the glowing fusion reactor in the sky runs out of hydrogen.
Well, ok, true, it probably won’t wipe out all life on the planet.
Now all mammals living on the surface, that’s a different story.
That’s not laughter –it’s a convulsive reflex as the superheated atmosphere sears your esophagus shut.
Kinky.
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Two words cranky. Pre-stressed concrete panels.
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Joe,
They get whacked by Angry Muslim, Inc. as well…
I can’t think of anywhere worth living that isn’t subject to natural disaster or disastrous government.
The average mope will believe just about anything, but to really believe in something ridiculously stupid requires quite a bit of ingenuity. In that sense, Krugman is ingenious.
Krugman deserves his Nobel in Economics in the same way that Obama deserves his in Peace.
motionview,
Or, some ideas are so stupid only intellectuals would believe them.
Krugman fits that old cliché as well.
Better yet, as Orwell actually wrote:
According to the very nice new geology interpretive center in YNP, before Yellowstone blew the last time it raised a volcanic dome 70,000 feet high. I think we’ll notice. Of course, I suppose all the warning will do is give us time to kiss our asses goodbye.