Great leap backward…

postponed. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008, also known by its more descriptive name hereabouts as the American Impoverishment Act, has been frozen for the time being by a filibuster threat.

S.3036
Title: A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.

I shudder to think what those “other purposes” might be. As if kneecapping the American economy were not enough. If you’re looking for a few hours of amusement, you can read the entire text of the proposed legislation here.

Lieberman scolds, “While the Senate fiddles, the globe warms.”

Here’s to more fiddling. And to partisanship. Partisanship and fiddling might be all that stands now between us and tyranny. A thin line of defense, to be sure, but “never say die while there’s a shot in the locker.”

I can live forever!

All I have to do is:

1. Always bicycle or walk
2. Never use an automobile
3. Never fly in an airplane
4. Domicile in an apartment…
5. …with more than 4 other people
6. Have relatively low energy bills…
7. … for electricity generated by hydro or “green scheme” (whatever that is)
8. Always recycle and compost waste
9. Never eat meat
10. Spend less than $10,000 per year…
11. …and spend it entirely on so-called “ethical investments” to the exclusion of “planet-slaying” things like:

• eating
• drinking
• clothing
• transportation
• rent
• going out

By making this simple transition to a sub-third world subsistence existence, I will be permitted by Professor Schpinkee to live forever. I am somewhat unclear on how this will work, since eliminating eating and drinking would seem to have at least a bit of a deleterious effect on my longevity. But, no matter, this “green” lifestyle will suck about 15 tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere and that’s really all that counts for anything, isn’t it?

Have the greenaloons at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation finally jumped the shark? Or has the indoctrination of children become pervasive enough to prove the validity of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s statement, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

Not guilty

In spite of the constant attempts to make us all feel guilty for being alive and doing, well, just about anything, there are at least a couple of clear-minded folks with feel-good solutions that, unlike many proposed alternatives, need cost you nothing extra:

• Absolution for white guilt provided here.

Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon Granted to All Persons of European Descent

Thank you, Dr. Williams, for your generosity!

• Carbon footprint enlargement ideas found here. I might be able to work up a better belch by June 12, Carbon Belch Day, but as of now, this is it:

My Carbon Belch:

Your one-day Carbon Belch has been calculated at: 75 pounds of CO2.
Nice job! (The average American’s belch is 41 pounds.)

Thanks to you, we have calculated a cumulative total of 71,038,093 pounds of CO2 set to be released on Carbon Belch Day.

Take the pledge and belch. We’ll all feel better.

I’ve always wanted an oil well in my backyard

Now this is cool: capitalism at work. Drill your own oil well. Wonder what the envy ron mentalists are thinking about this, knowing how they detest capitalism.

It occurs to me that part of our problem is that the gub mint owns over 28% of the land in America. It owns even greater percentages of resource-rich states such as Alaska, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah but less than 2% of Texas, which is ranked at the top for number of oil and gas wells.

Faster than a speeding windmill

The green indoctrination of children proceeds apace with cloying doggerel such as Michael Recycle. No longer content, it would seem, simply to row his boat ashore.

This poster sounds like a potential self-terminator. The progression of altruism through self-sacrifice and finally to self-termination is logical, but people such as that poster never seem to want to follow their logic to its conclusion.

While not, strictly speaking, self-termination, this woman’s sterilization because “having children is selfish” comes pretty close.