10.17.09
A sovereign nation for a few more weeks
Lord Monckton addresses the Minnesota Free Market Institute and warns about the quantum leap in damage the climate-change movement is about to wreak upon our national sovereignty, our national economy, the world economy, common sense, science and freedom. In Copenhagen in December, participants at the United Nations Climate Change Conference will sign sign an agreement more fatal to liberty than the Kyoto Accords Signatories will include, unless Providence intervenes, the United States.
Doesn’t our Constitution require the Senate to ratify international treaties, you ask? Well, you see, one of this document’s main features is that it supercedes the constitutions of signatory nations. TCM puts his ink on the dotted line, that’s it.
Mr. Dings said,
October 18, 2009 at 11:33 am
I googled kyoto accords fatal liberty. First link is this link. Next up, though, is a review of Czech President Vaclav Haval’s “Blue Planet in Shackles” by Peter Gordon is a Professor in the University of California’s School of Policy, Planning and Development.
“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century is no longer socialism,” writes Klaus. “It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.” — The publication of Blue Planet in Green Shackles – What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? continues the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s history of fighting alarmist climate policies. CEI has long argued that whatever challenges future climate changes might bring, the worst possible response is to restrict human freedom and slow economic growth and innovation. — “Today, the global warming debate raging in both the United States and Europe has become extremely contentious. On both sides of the Atlantic, the debate has metastasized into cultural warfare against economic liberty,” writes CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. in the book’s foreword. “For that reason, pro-freedom voices are needed to reframe the debate to show how a free people can better address the challenges facing Western civilization. To that end, we are proud to publish Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”
Another point Klaus makes is that we should not stymie scientific and technological development because that is where the mind-bgggling progress made at hitherto unheard of speed and a breakthrough solution might be just around the bend. There are a slew of “mights” and “could bes” in all this. Yet it appears that a global democracy of sorts is getting in the way of global freedom, just as it is here on our shores. Complicated issues, for sure. Yet, we certainlyt don’t want Central Planning either. Our mistrust of eachother is so evident. What does the Pope say? (Insert smiley emoticon here)
Mr. Dings said,
October 18, 2009 at 11:39 am
Ahh, the perils of googling:
Carl Pope is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, an American environmental organization founded by conservationist John Muir in 1892. Pope was appointed to his position as Executive Director in 1992.
Mr. Dings said,
October 18, 2009 at 11:49 am
But, hey, it’s good to blog, it’s great to argue:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html
Brain-imaging studies of people evaluating anomalies, or working out unsettling dilemmas, show that activity in an area called the anterior cingulate cortex spikes significantly. The more activation is recorded, the greater the motivation or ability to seek and correct errors in the real world, a recent study suggests. “The idea that we may be able to increase that motivation,” said Dr. Inzlicht, a co-author, “is very much worth investigating.”
http://www.jpb.com/creative/creative.php
Exercise your brain. Brains, like bodies, need exercise to keep fit. If you don’t exercise your brain, it will get flabby and useless. Exercise your brain by reading a lot (see above), talking to clever people and disagreeing with people – arguing can be a terrific way to give your brain cells a workout. But note, arguing about politics or film directors is good for you; bickering over who should clean the dishes is not.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
October 18, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Exercise our brains, and dump this global-warming hooey.
Mr. Dings said,
October 18, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Hey, like with the bail-outs/packagi stimularus, somebody’s gonna get the dough, ain’t they?
Mr. Dings said,
October 18, 2009 at 8:17 pm
But thanks anyway to the bloggie for the opportunity to spike my anterior cingulate cortex. Dad always told me not to discuss religion or politics, but this is safe a forum to do so as any, and, though we’ve never hated eachother or anything, it remains to be seen whether we will attend eachother’s funerals, hopefully some day long in the distant peaceful, loving and happy future. That great free market invention may be just around the corner. Something like cold fusion or perpetual motion that will eliminate need from the equation and allow us all to stop sniping at eachother because what one or the other did to cause the sky to fall or make us all fear that it’s gonna, may come along and negate a need for all this fussing and fighting. Or the 2012 thing will affirm Al Gore’s dark vision and we’re all doomed anyway, hopefully holding eachother lovingly as we go. Better yet, 2012 is the shift the Aquarians have been saying’s coming, and we’ll all finally see the light and all that is left is pure delight. Or the lion will lay down with the lamb or some such thing. 200,000 Mormons make the final cut?
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
October 18, 2009 at 10:48 pm
As you know, most of the people who populate my actual social life are sorely in need of straightening out. Nice folks on a personal level. Some are really creative musicians and painters and dancers and writers and such. Some are even successful businesspeople, even corporate muckety-mucks.
Us righties do a lot of tongue-biting. It’s a real bring-down at a cocktail party or cookout when somebody screams, “How can you believe that shit?”
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
October 18, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Re: one of us attending the other’s funeral: stay healthy. I’m planning on triple digits.