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		<title>Sort Of True But Stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite it being based upon a postulate that has been deprecated as largely false and entirely unproven, I could almost respect the people who made this video. It shows a firm commitment by its creators to a cause and refusal to turn a blind eye to unpopular or politically incorrect solutions.

If both everything and only that which the Warmists claim were true, then this video would be, by and large, true. Halting or greatly reducing and restricting immigration to America from the Third World would slow the rate of Anthropogenic Climate Change.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite it being based upon a postulate that has been deprecated as <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/environment/an-inaccurate-postulate/">largely false and entirely unproven</a>, I could almost respect the people who made this video. It shows a firm commitment by its creators to a cause and refusal to turn a blind eye to unpopular or politically incorrect solutions.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="445" height="364" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eDFFbiIbm2c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="445" height="364" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eDFFbiIbm2c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br />
<strong class="highlight">Want To Slow Global Warming? Stop Immigration!</strong></p>
<p>If both everything and only that which the Warmists claim were true, then this video would be, by and large, true. Halting or greatly reducing and restricting immigration to America from the Third World would slow the rate of Anthropogenic Climate Change.</p>
<h3>The Truth</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s <a title="Audubon Society - U.S. Population Growth" href="http://www.audubonpopulation.org/uspop.html" target="_blank">grim and scary fact</a> that the US Census Bureau&#8217;s middle and most likely projection is that the US will add 120 million people to the population of the U.S. by 2050 and that 67% of this population explosion will be due to immigration and the progeny of immigrants.</p>
<p>Each and every one of those immigrants and their broods are going to expect to live somewhat akin as to how Americans live, an admittedly wildly resource consuming lifestyle. The slightly over 80 million immigrants and children of immigrants will require America to produce, expend, and/or consume:</p>
<ul>
<li>28 million more housing units</li>
<li>37 million more passenger automobiles</li>
<li>1.9 <em>billion</em> more barrels of oil per year</li>
<li>4.4 <strong><em>quadrillion</em></strong> <a title="Data360 - Average Water Use - US" href="http://www.data360.org/dataset.aspx?Data_Set_Id=2676" target="_blank">gallons of water</a> per year</li>
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<p>Even to the majority of people, those who haven&#8217;t bought into Al Gore&#8217;s doomsday cult of AGW, have to see that these numbers are not sustainable. If the US Census Bureau&#8217;s projections are close to accurate, America  has a future measured in years and not very many of those.</p>
<h3>The Stupidity</h3>
<p>Whether true or not, this video and the intent behind it is stupid. It&#8217;s farcical to think for a moment that Greens, Liberals, and Progressives who make up the Warmists would ever entertain any thought that was not expressly and  actively pro-immigration and/or pro-minority. Those sorts would <em>never</em> consider advocating such things as limiting immigration from Third World areas.</p>
<p>Irrespective of whatever they&#8217;ve ever stated about the problem of Global Warming, their chosen solutions have always had far more to do with wealth distribution than with combating Climate Change.</p>
<p>At the most fundamental level, if that wasn&#8217;t the case, then they wouldn&#8217;t have mono-focused on CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. They would have also looked at CO2 emission levels from <a title="Mongabay - Cooking oil, palm oil biodiesel can reduce emissions relative to diesel mongabay.com" href="http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1128-biodiesel.html" target="_blank">biofuel / biomass production</a> and that of charcoal, which is a primary fuel for much of the Third World. They also might have &#8211; still adhering to their postulate of Anthropogenic Global Warming  of course &#8211; done some serious research into the climatic effects of the levels of deforestation both these processes cause.</p>
<p>But such things are not and never will be part of any Green&#8217;s, Liberal&#8217;s, or Progressives&#8217; agenda. No matter what their current <em>cause célèbre</em> is, their &#8220;solutions&#8221; are all the same and do not include anything resembling the ideas in this video.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s stupid to believe that the Green&#8217;s, Liberal&#8217;s, or Progressives&#8217; have the capability or will to understand or to change their ways.</p>

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		<title>In BP&#8217;s Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing tragic disaster of British Petroleum's (BP) Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill  is horrendous and it's potential environmental and economic effects are so vast as to be nigh on incalculable.

In BP's defense, however, and to put things in perspective, far worse and more disgusting things than a few million barrels of crude oil have polluted the world's oceans.

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="&#60;a href="><img class="aligncenter" title="Amy Winehouse polluting the ocean" src="http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129195047869257978.jpg" alt="Amy Winehouse polluting the ocean - We’ll NEVER get that taste outta the water now" width="450" /></a>
<strong class="highlight">No! We'll Never Get The Taste Outta The Water Now!</strong></p>

Of course, in Amy Winehouse's case, while she would probably be as detrimental to the Gulf's shrimp population as the oil spill, she'd probably add to the crabs population. ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ongoing tragic disaster of British Petroleum&#8217;s (BP) Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill  is horrendous and it&#8217;s potential environmental and economic effects are so vast as to be nigh on incalculable.</p>
<p>In BP&#8217;s defense, however, there have been far worse, more damaging, and just plain more disgusting things to pollute the world&#8217;s oceans than a mere few million barrels of crude oil.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="&lt;a href="><img class="aligncenter" title="Amy Winehouse polluting the ocean" src="http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129195047869257978.jpg" alt="Amy Winehouse polluting the ocean - We’ll NEVER get that taste outta the water now" width="450" /></a><br />
<strong class="highlight">No! We&#8217;ll Never Get The Taste Outta The Water Now!</strong></p>
<p>Of course, in Amy Winehouse&#8217;s case, while she would probably be as detrimental to the Gulf&#8217;s shrimp population as the oil spill, she&#8217;d probably add to the crabs population. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Only Ideology Matters</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="Professor Jonathon I. Katz Ph.D" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/jonathon-i-katz.jpg" alt="Professor Jonathon I. Katz Ph.D - The Left positively loaths him" width="150" height="176" />It seems many of the Liberals are outraged that President Obama included Professor Jonathon I. Katz in his "<a title="TPM - TPMMuckraker - Mission Impossible: Obama Taps Crack Team Of Scientists To Do The Job BP Can't " href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/mission_impossible_obama_taps_crack_team_of_scient.php?ref=fpblg" target="_blank">dream team</a>" of scientists, mostly leading physicists and engineers, who've been charged with going  to the Gulf of Mexico to work with BP to stop the oil leak that's contaminating the Gulf waters.

What is most telling is not that the Left is outraged but what specifically they're outraged over in this matter.

What should be able to be considered strangely, the issue isn't with Prof. Katz's admitted lack of usefulness in dealing with the spill or its cleanup.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="Professor Jonathon I. Katz Ph.D" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/jonathon-i-katz.jpg" alt="Professor Jonathon I. Katz Ph.D - The Left positively loaths him" width="150" height="176" />It seems many of the Liberals are outraged that President Obama included Professor Jonathon I. Katz in his &#8220;<a title="TPM - TPMMuckraker - Mission Impossible: Obama Taps Crack Team Of Scientists To Do The Job BP Can't " href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/mission_impossible_obama_taps_crack_team_of_scient.php?ref=fpblg" target="_blank">dream team</a>&#8221; of scientists, mostly leading physicists and engineers, who&#8217;ve been charged with going  to the Gulf of Mexico to work with BP to stop the oil leak that&#8217;s contaminating the Gulf waters.</p>
<p>What is most telling is not that the Left is outraged but what specifically they&#8217;re outraged over in this matter.</p>
<p>What should be able to be considered strangely, the issue isn&#8217;t with Prof. Katz&#8217;s admitted lack of usefulness in dealing with the spill or its cleanup.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I was honored to be invited and enjoyed the experience. Did I have anything much to contribute? I think I have some ideas for how to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, but I don&#8217;t have anything very specific to offer on the present problems. It is very much in the hands of the real pros. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; Professor Jonathan I. Katz<br />
<a title="St. Louis Beacon - Conversation with Jonathan Katz, Wash U scientist consulting with engineers on oil spill" href="http://www.stlbeacon.org/content/view/102406/107/" target="_blank">St. Louis Beacon Interview</a></p>
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<p>If Prof. Katz&#8217; lack of qualifications to deal with British Petroleum&#8217;s catastrophic failure was the reason for the Liberal&#8217;s outrage I would take no issue with it. From the above quote I would guess that Prof. Katz himself would not gainsay their opinions. But the Liberals&#8217; wrath and condemnation is not about Katz&#8217;s credentials or skills; it&#8217;s about his ideology and the fact that it doesn&#8217;t match their own.</p>
<p><span id="more-20138"></span>Firstly, Prof. Katz doesn&#8217;t believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) &#8211; desperately re-branded as &#8216;Climate Change&#8221; &#8211; any more than the <a title="Pew Research Center - Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming" href="http://people-press.org/report/556/global-warming" target="_blank">majority of American</a> people do. Nor is he overly fond of self-aggrandizing opportunists like Al Gore and his cult-like followers.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Who is stoking the alarm about global warming? There is Al Gore, an over-the-hill politician who wants to remain in the public eye. His house uses 20 times as much electricity as the average American house and he flies private jets. Obviously, he does not believe what he preaches; it must be an act. Conservation is for the little people. I&#8217;ll think about reducing my emissions after he reduces his by 95%. Then there is Jim Hansen, would-be dictator who wants to throw in jail anyone who disagrees with him or burns coal. He may wish himself another Mussolini (or worse), but people just laugh at him. And finally John Holdren, who in his younger days was prophesying disaster from the ice age then just beginning (so he said). Fictitious crises are a demagogue&#8217;s route to power.</em></p>
<p><em>Some of the more apocalyptic fears about global warming resemble a secular doomsday cult. Rather than God dooming mankind for its traditional sins (robbery, lust, murder, disbelief, etc.), Nature is said to doom mankind for the secular sin of carbon emission. Some (Greenpeace, and even more radical groups) think any human effect on nature to be sinful, and regard &#8220;Mother Earth&#8221; as a deity that is violated by any use of its resources for the sustenance, comfort or betterment of Mankind. Needless to say, this is opposite to the Biblical grant of the natural world to Man for his benefit. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; Professor Jonathan I. Katz<br />
September 11, 2009<br />
<a title="Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis - Cold Thoughts on Global Warming" href="http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/climate.html" target="_blank">Cold Thoughts on Global Warming</a></p>
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<p>Secondly, more irrelevantly to rationally minded people, but apparently <em>much</em> more importantly to the Liberals Prof. Katz does not in any way approve of homosexuality. He is, in fact, a self professed homophobe and seemingly proud of that fact.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>In America attitudes towards homosexuality changed in the 1970&#8242;s. It went from a private, furtively practiced, vice to an open and accepted subculture. In many circles, &#8220;sodomite&#8221; ceased to be an insult. This acceptance led to the toleration, and wide practice, of gross homosexual promiscuity. HIV, falling onto that fertile soil, made the AIDS epidemic. Even before AIDS was recognized, practicing homosexuals were notorious for a high rate of venereal diseases.</em></p>
<p><em>The religious believer may see the hand of God, but both he and the rationalist must see a fact of Nature. The human body was not designed to share hypodermic needles, it was not designed to be promiscuous, and it was not designed to engage in homosexual acts. Engaging in such behavior is like riding a motorcycle on an icy road without a helmet. It may be possible to get away with it for a while, and a few misguided souls may get a thrill out of doing so, but sooner or later (probably sooner) the consequences will be catastrophic. Lethal diseases spread rapidly among people who do such things.</em></p>
<p><em>Unfortunately, the victims are not only those whose reckless behavior brought death on themselves. There are many completely innocent victims, too: hemophiliacs (a substantial fraction died as a result of contaminated clotting factor), recipients of contaminated transfusions, and their spouses and children, for AIDS can be transmitted heterosexually (in America, only infrequently) and congenitally. The icy road was lined with unsuspecting innocents, who never chose to ride a motorcycle. Guilt for their deaths is on the hands of the homosexuals and intravenous drug abusers who poisoned the blood supply. These people died so the sodomites could feel good about themselves. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; Professor Jonathan I. Katz<br />
May 13, 1999<br />
<a title="Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis - In Defense Of Homophobia" href="http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/defense.html" target="_blank">In Defense of Homophobia</a></p>
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<p>The Liberals absolutely couldn&#8217;t stand that Prof. Katz was included in President Obama&#8217;s scientific team sent to the Gulf solely because he isn&#8217;t a Warmist but is a homophobe. It is beyond their limited rationality to see that these two facts about Prof. Katz are utterly irrelevant to whether or not he could help solve a complex applied engineering problem such as we currently face in the wake of the oil rig explosion.</p>
<p>All these raving and ranting fools could see was that Prof. Katz wasn&#8217;t someone who agreed with their ideology and who &#8220;<em>should not be elevated by the President of the United States as a representative of the best minds in America</em>&#8221; according to the queers at <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6006/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1801">AmericaBlog</a>.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s truly sickening is that they won.  President Obama&#8217;s administration kowtowed before the stridency of the Warmists and queers.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Some of Professor Katz’s controversial writings have become a distraction from the critical work of addressing the oil spill. Professor Katz will no longer be involved in the Department’s efforts.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; DOE Spokesman Stephanie Mueller<br />
May 17, 2010<br />
<a title="Sirius OutQ News - " href="http://outqnews.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/self-proclaimed-homophobe-out-of-energy-dept-gulf-spill-team/" target="_blank">Sirius OutQ News</a></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I don&#8217;t believe that Prof. Katz is any great loss to President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;dream team&#8221; of scientists. Neither he nor I think he could have added much benefit to the enterprise. But what if he could have?</p>
<p>Little, if any, of the complaints from the Left have mentioned Katz&#8217;s usefulness or lack of it  in the efforts to stem the flood of crude oil pouring into the Gulf from the remains of BP&#8217;s oil platform. Liberals, especially the Warmists and queers, don&#8217;t sound like they&#8217;d care if Katz was critical to the mission at hand; they&#8217;d still do their best to have him removed based upon ideology and ideology alone.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><img class="left-image" style="margin-top:5px;" title="jonolan" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dark.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="36" height="36" /><em>I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re a vegan, cross-dressing, queer, communist, warmist who blames the US for 9/11; in an emergency unrelated to your beliefs,  if you have skills I need, I&#8217;ll gladly work with you.</em></p>
<p>To Liberals, only ideology matters and they have shown that they&#8217;ll take this to dangerously destructive lengths. This is why Americans must break them and destroy them as a political and social force.</p>
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		<title>A Filthy Problem In AZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Arizona's Governor, Jan Brewer taking the much needed <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/denying-atzlan-nsfw/">defensive measure</a> of signing <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/synopsis-of-sb-1070/">SB 1070</a> into law the bulk of America now knows that Arizona has a critical and lethal problem with illegal immigration and illegal aliens; the Liberals and their minority tenants have made sure of that with their vitriol, their hate, and their protests which predictably devolve into race riots. What most people still do not know is how <em>filthy</em> of a problem these illegal immigrants are.

Estimates on the number of illegal immigrants who sneak into America from Mexico across Arizona's border vary wildly. A conservative-to-moderate range would be 100,000 - 250,000 illegals enter the US through Arizona's southern border per year. Each and every one of these invaders wreaks environmental damage upon our lands during its treks.

Extrapolating from <a title="Informaworld - Environmental Impacts of Illegal Immigration on the Cleveland National Forest in California" href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a788931334&#38;db=all" target="_blank">San Diego State University's study</a> of the environmental damage cause by illegal passing through the Cleveland National Forest, in eastern San Diego County, California we can quantify this damage in the following ways based upon the estimate of 100K - 250K illegal immigrants per annum:
<ul>
	<li>Illegal immigrants blaze 48 - 72 miles of new trails</li>
	<li>Illegal immigrants disturb 16 - 24 acres of wildness habitat</li>
	<li>Illegal immigrants leave 5.5 - 8.25 tons of trash</li>
	<li>Illegal immigrants light 1,100 - 1,650 illegal campfires</li>
	<li>Illegal immigrants burn 420 - 630 acres of land by starting wildfires</li>
</ul>
That's a significantly horrendous level of ecological damage and would normally have the Liberals outraged at the perpetrators, especially since the more arid regions of the planet have more delicate biospheres and a very vulnerable to such depredations.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the wake of Arizona&#8217;s Governor, Jan Brewer taking the much needed <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/denying-atzlan-nsfw/">defensive measure</a> of signing <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/synopsis-of-sb-1070/">SB 1070</a> into law the bulk of America now knows that Arizona has a critical and lethal problem with illegal immigration and illegal aliens; the Liberals and their minority tenants have made sure of that with their vitriol, their hate, and their protests which predictably devolve into race riots. What most people still do not know is how <em>filthy</em> of a problem these illegal immigrants are.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">The Trail of Filth &#8211; What Illegal Aliens Leave In Their Wake</strong></div>
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<p>Estimates on the number of illegal immigrants who sneak into America from Mexico across Arizona&#8217;s border vary wildly. A conservative-to-moderate range would be 100,000 &#8211; 250,000 illegals enter the US through Arizona&#8217;s southern border per year. Each and every one of these invaders wreaks environmental damage upon our lands during its treks.</p>
<p>Extrapolating from <a title="Informaworld - Environmental Impacts of Illegal Immigration on the Cleveland National Forest in California" href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a788931334&amp;db=all" target="_blank">San Diego State University&#8217;s study</a> of the environmental damage cause by illegal passing through the Cleveland National Forest, in eastern San Diego County, California we can quantify this damage in the following ways based upon the estimate of 100K &#8211; 250K illegal immigrants per annum:</p>
<ul>
<li>Illegal immigrants blaze 48 &#8211; 72 miles of new trails</li>
<li>Illegal immigrants disturb 16 &#8211; 24 acres of wildness habitat</li>
<li>Illegal immigrants leave 5.5 &#8211; 8.25 tons of trash</li>
<li>Illegal immigrants light 1,100 &#8211; 1,650 illegal campfires</li>
<li>Illegal immigrants burn 420 &#8211; 630 acres of land by starting wildfires</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s a significantly horrendous level of ecological damage and would normally have the Liberals outraged at the perpetrators, especially since the more arid regions of the planet have more delicate biospheres and a very vulnerable to such depredations. It&#8217;s not one, however, that is going to receive much attention unless the Liberals, always and often laudably at the forefront of environmental causes, get involved.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for Americans and the ecosystems of southern Arizona &#8211; frankly the ecosystems of our border states <em>et al</em> &#8211; the Liberals, by and large but presumably with a <em>few</em> exceptions, are not outraged at foreigners &#8211; especially non-Whites &#8211; who commit environmental crimes.  Those sorts of polluters do not seem to bother the Liberals.</p>
<p>The Liberals, whenever vaguely possible,  instead prefer to either turn an blind eye to the problem or make excuses for the non-White invaders and attempt, as always, to shift both blame and responsibility to Americans, primarily White Americans.</p>
<p>So we are left with a mess. Arizona has a dangerous and filthy problem &#8211; illegal immigrants, and the best source of action and awareness against the problem, the Liberals,  has conflicting priorities based upon racial politics.</p>

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		<title>Do You Have A Permit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is the point of their exercise and to be expected; you can't <em>"<a title="The Classic Liberal -  Fundamentally Change America - President Barack Obama wasn't kidding when he said he was planning to &#34;fundamentally change America.&#34; Not even a little." href="http://the-classic-liberal.com/fundamentally-change-america/" target="_blank">fundamentally change</a>"</em> America without first destroying all that it <em>is</em>.

But President Obama's and his Liberals' Cap &#38; Trade scheme, like almost all <a title="NewsBusters - Obama-Speak: Homeland Security Secretary Replaces 'Terrorism' With the Term 'Man-Caused Disaster'" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/19/obama-speak-homeland-security-secretary-replaces-terrorism-term-man-caus" target="_blank">man-caused disasters</a>, would not be without its humorous side.
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B5c976445-8c68-4cdf-9446-01e8d2a2e9bd%7D.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18962" title="Do You Have A Permit For Those Emissions?" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/volcano-emissions-permit.jpg" alt="I can just picture some goon  from the government trying to regulate a volcano" width="450" height="305" /></a>
<strong class="highlight">Do You Have A Permit For Those Emissions, Buster?</strong></p>
Can't you just picture this happening? The insectile mindlessness and regimen of the average bureaucrat and their enforcers combined with the <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/philosophy/a-little-perspective/">hubris</a> and <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/i-see-rush-everywhere/">narcissism</a> of Obama's regime makes such a ludicrous scenario almost assured. ;-) ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With ObamaCare being imposed upon the American people by President Obama and cabal of Liberals in Congress be assured that they will soon turn their destructive eyes back to <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/the-maggots-rejoice/">Cap &amp; Trade</a> and punitive regulation of the energy sector of the American economy.</p>
<p>If they manage to pass some variant of the traitors, Rep. Henry Waxman&#8217;s (D-CA) and Rep. Edward Markey&#8217;s <a title="Open Congress -  American Clean Energy And Security Act of  2009 To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce  global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. How  to legally destroy America." href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/show" target="_blank">American  Clean Energy Security Act</a>, America&#8217;s economy &#8211; especially at the average consumer level &#8211; is going to be horribly harmed, possibly beyond the point of recovery.</p>
<p>That is the point of their exercise and to be expected; you can&#8217;t <em>&#8220;<a title="The Classic Liberal -  Fundamentally Change America - President Barack Obama wasn't kidding when he said he was planning to &quot;fundamentally change America.&quot; Not even a little." href="http://the-classic-liberal.com/fundamentally-change-america/" target="_blank">fundamentally change</a>&#8220;</em> America without first destroying all that it <em>is</em>.</p>
<p>But President Obama&#8217;s and his Liberals&#8217; Cap &amp; Trade scheme, like almost all <a title="NewsBusters - Obama-Speak: Homeland Security Secretary Replaces 'Terrorism' With the Term 'Man-Caused Disaster'" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/19/obama-speak-homeland-security-secretary-replaces-terrorism-term-man-caus" target="_blank">man-caused disasters</a>, would not be without its humorous side.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B5c976445-8c68-4cdf-9446-01e8d2a2e9bd%7D.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18962" title="Do You Have A Permit For Those Emissions?" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/volcano-emissions-permit.jpg" alt="I can just picture some goon  from the government trying to regulate a volcano" width="450" height="305" /></a><br />
<strong class="highlight">Do You Have A Permit For Those Emissions, Buster?</strong></p>
<p>Can&#8217;t you just picture this happening? The insectile mindlessness and regimen of the average bureaucrat and their enforcers combined with the <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/philosophy/a-little-perspective/">hubris</a> and <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/i-see-rush-everywhere/">narcissism</a> of Obama&#8217;s regime makes such a ludicrous scenario almost assured.</p>
<p>After all, if one is beset by such arrogance that one believes that he can fundamentally change the very planet Earth, it&#8217;s a small step to deciding to <em>regulate</em> it. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>A Little Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's World Earth Day 2010 and, as such, it's a good day to truly think about the beauty, power, and majesty of our planet. This is a good time to cultivate a little perspective.

Let us all for a moment put aside our pride and hubris and look at the Earth and the stark, raw power She can bring to bear at any given moment.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s <a title="Earth Day - THE OFFICIAL EARTH DAY 2010 CAMPAIGN - April 22, 2010" href="http://www.earthday.org/earthday2010" target="_blank">World Earth Day 2010</a> and, as such, it&#8217;s a good day to truly think about the beauty, power, and majesty of our planet. This is a good time to cultivate a little perspective.</p>
<p>Let us all for a moment put aside our pride and hubris and look at the Earth and the stark, raw power She can bring to bear at any given moment.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/gallery/miscellaneous/icevolcano_fulle.jpg" title="April 19, 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Erupting" class="thickbox" rel="singlepic330" >
	<img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-center" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/gallery/cache/330__450x_icevolcano_fulle.jpg" alt="Eyjafjallajökull Erupting" title="Eyjafjallajökull Erupting" />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">April 19, 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Erupting</strong></div>
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<p>Nothing short of our profligate use of our arsenal of nuclear weapons could hope to match the power and destructive force of the recent eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, which was a small and relatively mild volcanic eruption.</p>
<p>So when you hear people ranting or whining about Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) or how the Civilized World has caused massive and apocalyptic Climate Change via our CO2 emissions over the last handful of <em>decades</em> think about this picture and recognize that all of this hype is predicated upon people&#8217;s pride and hubris.</p>
<p>Love the Earth for she is fair and perilous beyond all of our means to measure. Just don&#8217;t delude yourself &#8211; or be deluded by other&#8217;s vanity or cynical manipulations &#8211; into being so confident that mankind can so easily fundamentally change Her so easily.</p>

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		<title>The New Green War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American military, and the respective military forces of much of the Civilized World,  is making strides to "upgrade" their arsenal of ordnance, weaponry and delivery platforms to meet society's new "Green" agenda.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18731" title="Green Napalm? " src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/green-napalm.jpg" alt="Green Napalm - Mustafa Smells Like French Fries" width="450" height="315" />
<strong class="highlight">I Love The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning; 
It Smells Like ... French Fries?</strong></p>

This will, of course, have some largely unexpected and probably disturbing consequences. ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The American military, and the respective military forces of much of the Civilized World,  is making strides to &#8220;upgrade&#8221; their arsenal of ordnance, weaponry and delivery platforms to meet society&#8217;s new &#8220;Green&#8221; agenda.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18731" title="Green Napalm? " src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/green-napalm.jpg" alt="Green Napalm - Mustafa Smells Like French Fries" width="450" height="315" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">I Love The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning;<br />
It Smells Like &#8230; French Fries?</strong></p>
<p>This will, of course, have some largely unexpected and probably disturbing consequences. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="highlight" style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p>H/T to <a title="Attack Cartoons - Insensitive Comics and Dead-on-Target Humor" href="http://attackcartoons.com/" target="_blank">Attack Cartoons</a> from whence I shamelessly stole this cartoon.</p>

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		<title>Sleeping Jewels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the strife, pain, and rage inducing events of the world there are also small wonders to behold - if one is wise or lucky enough to find them. 

<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">Sleeping Insects Bejeweled With Dew</strong></div>
Macro photography Miroslaw Swietek was wise enough to find these sleeping jewels and capture their beauty and we're lucky enough that he shared the images with the world.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amid the strife, pain, and rage inducing events of the world there are also small wonders to behold &#8211; if one is wise or lucky enough to find them.<br />

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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">Sleeping Insects Bejeweled With Dew</strong></div>
<p>Macro photographer <a title="Photos by Miroslaw Swietek" href="http://photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=5928980" target="_blank">Miroslaw Swietek</a> was wise enough to find these sleeping jewels and capture their beauty and we&#8217;re lucky enough that he shared the images with the world.</p>

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		<title>Al Gore&#8217;s New Clothes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Gore and his cult of Warmists may be in denial, but that doesn't change the fact their day has largely ended and they are well on the way along the downward spiral of relevancy that will either leave them as footnotes in history, like the 1970s Global Cooling believers, or as something akin to PETA, a mockery and an embarrassment. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Al Gore and his cult of Warmists may be in denial, but that doesn&#8217;t change the fact their day has largely ended and they are well on the way along the <a title="The Weekly Standard - In Denial The meltdown of the climate campaign." href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/denial" target="_blank">downward spiral of relevancy</a> that will either leave them as footnotes in history, like the 1970s Global Cooling believers, or as something akin to PETA, a mockery and an embarrassment.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">Al Gore &amp; His Warmists &#8211; Exposed!</strong></div>
<p>Of course, as the above image displays, Al Gore <em>hopefully</em> wouldn&#8217;t be the first choice by the Warmists for a PETA style AGW poster or billboard. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Planning COP 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reality President Obama would never publicly makes such a recommendation as this; he's always been far too proud to think that his words can't overcome facts. He or his attack dog, Rahm Emanuel, probably should have though. ;)
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://punditkitchen.com/2010/01/04/political-pictures-barack-obama-earth-hotter/"><img class="mine_2976227072" title="political-pictures-barack-obama-earth-hotter" src="http://punditkitchen.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/political-pictures-barack-obama-earth-hotter.jpg" alt="barack obama" width="450" /></a>
<strong class="highlight">Obama - Planning The Next Warmist Gathering</strong></p>
Yeah, having some of the coldest weather in recorded history and a <a title="Bloomberg - Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming " href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&#38;sid=a5wStc0K6jhY" target="_blank"><em>blizzard</em></a> hamper the Warmists' Conference of the Parties (COP 15) didn't bode well for public acceptance of their agenda.

That probably has something to do with why the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) under the <a title="United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  - Warmists, Alarmists, Global Socialists, and filthy extortionists looking for yet another hand-out" href="http://unfccc.int/2860.php" target="_blank">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</a> (UNFCCC) is to b held in balmy <a title="Source Watch - COP16" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=COP16" target="_blank">Mexico</a> this year. ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reality President Obama would never publicly makes such a recommendation as this; he&#8217;s always been far too proud to think that his words can&#8217;t overcome facts. He or his attack dog, Rahm Emanuel, probably should have though. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<strong class="highlight">Obama &#8211; Planning The Next Warmist Gathering</strong></p>
<p>Yeah, having some of the coldest weather in recorded history and a <a title="Bloomberg - Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming " href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&amp;sid=a5wStc0K6jhY" target="_blank"><em>blizzard</em></a> hamper the Warmists&#8217; Conference of the Parties (COP 15) didn&#8217;t bode well for public acceptance of their agenda.</p>
<p>That probably has something to do with why the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) under the <a title="United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  - Warmists, Alarmists, Global Socialists, and filthy extortionists looking for yet another hand-out" href="http://unfccc.int/2860.php" target="_blank">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</a> (UNFCCC) is to b held in balmy <a title="Source Watch - COP16" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=COP16" target="_blank">Mexico</a> this year. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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