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From yesterday's governors' conference on climate change at Yale:
Stay tuned more more, including Arnold Schwarzenegger getting a massive auditorium of Yalie environmentalists to cheer at the prospect of killing endangered squirrels in the Mojave desert.
|4.19.08 @ 2:19PM|#
Stay tuned more more, including Arnold Schwarzenegger
getting a massive auditorium of Yalie environmentalists to cheer at
the prospect of killing endangered squirrels in the Mojave
desert.
Huh? SWAG, some sort of proposed solar energy system?
|4.19.08 @ 2:30PM|#
I don't know what that guy on the left is trying to say. Condi's a nice piece of elephant for one.
|4.19.08 @ 2:39PM|#
I don't know what that guy on the left is trying to say.
Condi's a nice piece of elephant for one.
I think it's a reference to all of the choice cuts of donkey that
all the the four star restaurants offer.
|4.19.08 @ 2:59PM|#
The shirt is stupid, but the snowman is adorable. I've been cured of my global warming skepticism by him and his sign.
Barack Obama|4.19.08 @ 3:03PM|#
I think it's a reference to all of the choice cuts of donkey
that all the the four star restaurants offer.
A nice Donkey cutlet at the Four Seasons is the only thing that can
take my mind off of the gay-bashing, gun-toting,
Christ-worshipping, elephant-eating hicks.
GG|4.19.08 @ 3:15PM|#
The shirt is stupid, but the snowman is adorable.
I'm partial to this week's
Phoenix New Times cover myself.
|4.19.08 @ 3:18PM|#
These conferences have a long track record of success. After all
back circa 1980, a similar conference was held to develop
strategies based on the unquestioned scientific consensus of the
day that the earth was out of petroleum and other "natural"
resources. The governors all declared we would have to learn to
live without oil.
Today, of course, no one worries about running out of oil or other
forms of energy, so I guess the governors fixed the problem. Based
on this track record, I feel confident that 20 years from now, no
one will be worried about global warming either.
|4.19.08 @ 3:23PM|#
I'm just curious as to why a snowman would be wearing earmuffs. He's not helping himself stay cool with those on. :)
|4.19.08 @ 3:43PM|#
Snow men wouldn't be going extinct if they weren't using so much birth control. Let that be a lesson to you.
|4.19.08 @ 3:47PM|#
Snow men wouldn't be going extinct if they weren't using so
much birth control. Let that be a lesson to you.
I've heard from reliable sources that cause of snow people
population decline is the well documented fact that snow women are
all frigid.*
* I know, too easy.
|4.19.08 @ 5:22PM|#
The Wine Commonsewer | April 19, 2008, 4:56pm | #
The shirt is funnier and makes more sense in this context.
Thread winner!!
|4.19.08 @ 7:13PM|#
I have had about enough of goddamn snowmen ... I always wished that Frosty had remained a puddle.
ed|4.19.08 @ 7:21PM|#
"Elephant" is a typo.
It was supposed to say "eggplant."
It makes much more sense that way.
Brandybuck|4.19.08 @ 8:02PM|#
Is that guy suggesting that Democrats are asses? I can go along with that!
|4.19.08 @ 8:19PM|#
The guy on the right reminds me - I could go for a sourdough jack and and an ice cream shake.
BlueBook|4.19.08 @ 8:23PM|#
That snowman bears an eerie resemblance to an old eyewitness sketch of an alien encounter. Notice the blank, soulless expression, indicative perhaps of cybernetic hive-mind control.
|4.19.08 @ 8:23PM|#
Yeah, I've never heard anyone complain that a place smells like elephant, either. So it cuts both ways.
|4.19.08 @ 8:38PM|#
I've been cured of my global warming skepticism by him and
his sign.
All the screeching from the lefties who equate skepticism with
holocaust denial didn't change your mind already?
-jcr
Guy Montag|4.19.08 @ 8:44PM|#
I missed another costume event! Will have to go to DC tomorrow and see if there is anything being protested by clown-suited lesbians on stilts.
Mad Max|4.19.08 @ 8:54PM|#
The thing is, I find the idea of human-caused global warming
quite plausible (not that I assume it's the worst threat facing
humanity or anything).
If people are skeptical of global warming, maybe it's not because
they have been duped by an oil-company-financed conspiracy of
denail. Maybe it's because the environmentalists have been
poisoning the atmosphere (so to speak) with so many doomsday
forecasts since the 1960s that it's hard for serious people to be
taken seriously when they talk about global warming.
The boy in Aesop's fable was always making false warnings about
wolves attacking the sheep. Finally, the people just tuned him out.
There were still wolves out there, but that smart-ass kid ruined
things for everybody by discrediting the whole idea of vulpine
predation.
Even serious scientists with buttloads of degrees after their
names, who had no personal involvement in any of the prior panics,
will have to deal with this skepticism, especially since *some*
scientists are on record about the need to exaggerate in order to
draw popular support.
"This time we *really* mean it - this time we're not cranks trying
to fulfill our psychological need for a secular sin-and-redemption
scenario - please believe us!"
It's like the "anti-communists" who accused Eisenhower and George
C. Marshall of being part of the Communist conspiracy - that sort
of thing turned some people off from anti-communism so badly that
they become hesitant to acknowledge *real* communism, for fear of
encouraging "McCarthyism and Red-Baiting." So we have NYT
obituaries of open, notorious Communists which never mention their
Party affiliation - just allude to their "controversial
politics."
|4.19.08 @ 8:56PM|#
All the screeching from the lefties who equate skepticism
with holocaust denial didn't change your mind already?
No, no, you misunderstand. We equate it with stupidity.
The Wine Commonsewer|4.19.08 @ 9:27PM|#
No, no, you misunderstand. We equate it with
stupidity.
Yes, yes, [lights pipe} and you guys were spot on about, let's see,
a billion people starving to death by 1980, three mile island, the
known petroleum reserves (five or six times), and Che's humanity,
God Bless him.
The Wine Commonsewer|4.19.08 @ 9:41PM|#
Thanks KD, I've not won very many threads, so I shall place the statue on the glass mantle next to gleam jar of sand from the black sand beach, the lava blackened driftwood, and the 12 inch black marble obelisk.
I took a thermodynamics class |4.19.08 @ 9:49PM|#
I'm just curious as to why a snowman would be wearing
earmuffs. He's not helping himself stay cool with those on.
:)
As long there is no Q dot, h is lowered in both
directions.
Whether the ε for blue and red makes the earmuffs and gloves
thermally wise or just a fashion faux pas (two primary colors! and
don't get me started on that scarf!) is left as an exercise to the
reader.
M|4.19.08 @ 10:07PM|#
TWC - On a libertarian thread, the first person to vote appoints
the thread-winner.
I suppose on an anarchist thread you can win without even that
vote.
Kinda cool.
And people wonder how we took over the world from the statists.
|4.19.08 @ 10:07PM|#
Earmuffs aren't primarily intended as thermal insulation. All that's needed is a physical barrier to keep the most energetic air molecules in the ear canal from escaping.
Deceased Equine Pugilism Squad|4.19.08 @ 10:15PM|#
Earmuffs are also to prevent frostbite from wind blowing over pretty much the most exposed and non-insulated piece of skin on the human body.
|4.19.08 @ 10:28PM|#
Earmuffs also help drown out troublesome questions about the continuing controversy over the extent and immediacy of climate change, and which if any potential solutions are technologically possible, economically feasible, and not just greener-than-thou rhetoric.
TallDave|4.20.08 @ 12:46AM|#
Nooooooooo Frosty noooooooooooo!
That's it, Global Warming. Now it's personal.
|4.20.08 @ 2:12AM|#
It's like the "anti-communists" who accused Eisenhower and
George C. Marshall of being part of the Communist
conspiracy...
Whatever happened to those wingnut types, anyway? Oh yeah, that's
right: they all got into talk radio. (Oh well, anything that keeps
them off the streets...)
|4.20.08 @ 6:00AM|#
We equate it with stupidity.
Ah, there we go: standard lefty technique for winning friends and
influencing people.
So, if you believe that we're in mortal peril from global warming,
do you also believe that you can prevent this disaster by mustering
all the snotty condescension you can manage?
-jcr
|4.20.08 @ 6:11AM|#
which if any potential solutions are technologically
possible, economically feasible, and not just greener-than-thou
rhetoric.
But our planet has a fever! If your baby has a fever, you have to
do something! If we have to roll back greenhouse emissions to where
they were in 1850, even though the global population is six times
bigger now, well, we just have to roll up our sleeves and get it
done!
|4.20.08 @ 9:20AM|#
Was there a massive crash while she was stalled in the pits, or
something?
Don't tell me- I'm still trying to figure out when they're going to
show the replay.
Episiarch|4.20.08 @ 9:26AM|#
Thanks KD, I've not won very many threads
You haven't won anything. Note this and
despair: I win all.
The Wine Commonsewer|4.20.08 @ 9:54AM|#
Epi,that doesn't make you any more specialier than anyone else. So there.
The Wine Commonsewer|4.20.08 @ 10:39AM|#
And would you feel the same way if Kerry looked like forty miles of bad road?
|4.20.08 @ 10:49AM|#
And would you feel the same way if Kerry looked like forty
miles of bad road?
Well, he looks like 80 miles to me.
...oh...THAT Kerry.
|4.20.08 @ 10:50AM|#
When I saw the T-shirt, I thought instantly of the 4/21/08
cartoon from the IBD:
http://www.investors.com/editorial/cartoon.asp
|4.20.08 @ 10:52AM|#
Also, it's interesting that that thread contains Edwards'
reaction to Hillary's bawling,
I think what we need in a commander-in-chief is strength and
resolve, and presidential campaigns are tough business, but being
president of the United States is also tough business.
which is basically the same thing Hillary's saying this week about
Obama's complaints about debate question. Full circle indeed.
Episiarch|4.20.08 @ 11:06AM|#
And would you feel the same way if Kerry looked like forty
miles of bad road?
That's entirely the point, dude. To reiterate: I win.
Heff|4.20.08 @ 11:21AM|#
Earmuffs also help drown out troublesome questions about the
continuing controversy over the extent and immediacy of climate
change
Earmuffs are also a fun thing to do with large breasts.
Heinrick|4.20.08 @ 11:58AM|#
'It was supposed to say "eggplant."'
Actually I have had a nice peice of egg plant.
Guy Montag|4.20.08 @ 12:28PM|#
Wow, was expecting more action here while I was out "changing the environment" and picking up a sammich at The Italian Store in Arlington.
|4.20.08 @ 12:36PM|#
Looks like Kyle guessed right for a change- he pulled Danica in at the end of the yellow to top off, and she's saving fuel already.
The Wine Commonsewer|4.20.08 @ 12:54PM|#
What? Danica had her top off? Shit, I only get the no-pay ESPN.
Guy Montag|4.20.08 @ 1:16PM|#
Experts suspect that the declining snowperson population is a result of higher levels of DHMO in modern snow than before the out-of-control weapons building programs of the Bush administration began.
Guy Montag|4.20.08 @ 1:34PM|#
Six Mexican drivers are starting in today's Nationwide Cup
NASCAR race.
Odd thing, Kenny Wallace's regular sponsor is not popular in Mexico
for some reason, so he is wearing a Boston red Stockings racing
suit instead. Forgot if I mentioned that yesterday, but worth
mentioning again.
|4.20.08 @ 6:02PM|#
I'm sure there's a furries group in dc, and who knows who you
might meet!
Guy Montag | April 19, 2008, 8:44pm | #
I missed another costume event! Will have to go to DC tomorrow and
see if there is anything being protested by clown-suited lesbians
on stilts.
|4.21.08 @ 10:07AM|#
LOL, the Snowman was pretty funny... He marched past my office window with a bunch of other people, before they all got in line to go watch the conference. Most people were only there to see Arnold though.
Paul|4.21.08 @ 1:43PM|#
Speaking personally, we could sure use a little more global warming where I live.
|4.21.08 @ 2:03PM|#
"You have to ask what would it take to set off the alarm bells
to make this a top-of-mind priority in the body politic. If you had
told me a few years ago that we would be facing a situation where
the entire North Polar ice cap was going to imminently disappear, I
might have thought we'd certainly get people's attention, and yet
only to a limited degree."
Al Gore
wow, the ice caps are dissappearing any day now, but the sea leel
hasn't risen any yet? I'm not sure what to do.
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