Water Water everywhere and not a thought to think

Lorne Gunter is a skeptic. Here he uses an elaborate analogy to point out that the amount of CO2 in the air is very tiny and therefore CO2 doesn't contribute to greenhouse gasses. As he writes:

"Out of our model atmosphere of 2,400 litres of water, just about a shot glassful is carbon dioxide put their by humans. And of that miniscule amount, Canada's contribution is just 2% --about 1 ml."

K. For once I'm going to do the global warming believers a favor. Just to show you how fair I am, I'm gonna tell you how to handle this one. Everyone go and buy some really poisonous snake. No really. And I don't care which one. Buyers choice. You like Indian food, buy a cobra. Kill Bill fan? Black mamba is the way to go. Hell, it doesnt even have to be a snake. Lots of scorpions and spiders will do the job just fine.

The next time someone makes this argument I want you to reach into the cage that you have conveniently been carrying with you and carefully brandish your new pet at the skeptic. Ask the skeptic if he would like to pet the pet. Thrust it menacingly in his face. When they object look at them incredulously and say,

"don't be absurd! Your bloodsteam is equivalent to 3 two litre bottles of coke! And this snake's venom is just a teeny tiny teensy weensy droplet of liquid. How could it ever cause your heart to stop, your nervous system to shake, your throat to constrict and make your last moments of life on this planet a veritable buffet of agonising sensations before it sucks you down down down into the inky inky darkness of the beyond? Don't be so gullible. PET MY SNAKE YOU COWARD!!!"

Maybe then he'll get the idea that even if he turns out to be right, It was hardly a self-evident truism.

Point-Counterpoint on Global Warming continues

This is called "How to Speak to a Global Warming Skeptic", which I, admittedly, am. I'm going to be reading this top to bottom.  In the meantime I post it here.

and a bit more climate change heresy

What could it hurt  to follow the links in this link?  hmmm... ;-)

Those of you who read Paul Wells (which is to say most of you) have already seen this..

... but anyway. I was going to blog about this at some point but Joan Tintor beat me to it and did it better. Check it out. (Hint: Its called "The Apology-Lawsuit Party"... and its about the current state of the Federal Liberals.)

The question no one is allowed to ask about the 15 British sailors...

... Why were they such WIMPS?

 

Now, I'm not saying I'm any better. However!

 

I watched British soldiers on the news admitting to being in Iranian waters and calmly pointing it out on a map on the wall. When they had been told they were being released, one of them actually said "thank you for your foregiveness".

 

What ever happened to "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!!  I WON'T TELL YOU ANYTHING!!! I DIE FOR MY QUEEN AND COUNTRY, AAAAAIEEEEEE!!!!"  You'd think that, as a soldier, before he did a powerpoint presentation, that soldier would be gallant enough to at least get himself a black eye, eh. But nooo.... and the word from the official sources is that they behaved exactly as they should have from beginning to end."

 

Ah well. If you ever needed a demonstration of the difference between real life and the movies, you just got it.  Also, I don't care what official sources say - among the troops, I am fairly certain that her Majesty's Royal Navy is about to experience some intense mockery by her Majesty's Land and Air Forces.

 

 

What's so bad about a chocolate Jesus?

There's been a bit of a kafuffle recently about the sculpture, "My Sweet Lord". It is a piece of art that depicts Jesus naked in crucifiction pose - made of chocolate .

This morning as I was channel surfing some religious folks were decrying this. On the news, CNN asked the artist if he would do the same thing about Mohammed. His answer was No. Because Islam isn't his religion and he doesn't feel the need to explore that relationship in his heart. But we all know that answer is incomplete. We know that neither you nor I nor he would want to make a chocolate Mohammed sculpture. Or a Mohammed anything. Why? Because fundamentalist muslims have a bad habit of committing arbitrary murders when offended. I don't want to die for my art. It ain't important enough to me.

BUT That doesn't make them RIGHT. That makes them disgusting savages. The lesson the Catholics seem to be taking on this is - you won't offend muslims don't dare offend us - is a shameful one. An easy moral lesson is - two wrongs don't make a right.

(Besides dudes that ship has sailed. I can get a Jesus Bobblehead doll at the mall. and this isn't exactly Piss Christ)

This is thoroughly innocuous. A guy made a Jesus out of Chocolate in time for Easter. Hmm...what could he possibly be saying? This isn't even necessarily an anti-Christian art piece. We eat the body of Christ. We eat chocolate at easter. The thing is actually a pretty neat statement as art statements go.

Quit looking for reasons to get offended where there aren't any. Enough.

Stick a fork in Trotsky. He's Done.

Slate rejects the romanticized version of Leon Trotsky and exposes him as the actual totalitarian mass murderer he was. They call him the Bin Laden of Communism. Refreshingly honest - and from a New York lefty rag like Slate!!!

 

Hopefully next month they can put Che Guevera up against the wall and shoot him.

 

Err...was that last comment in bad taste? ;-)