The quote of the day has to go to Matt Scharper, head of California’s Search and Rescue operation, who spoke of On-Star and other GPS devices: “With the Yuppie 911, you send a message to a satellite and the government pulls your butt out of something you shouldn’t have been in in the first place.”The least we can do is to let these people pay for their own rescues.
Rescuers are a tad peeved at people who take on the wilderness but still want someone to save them at the first sign of trouble.
Poor societies - like Bangladesh - produce very little C02 per capita; rich societies - like us - produce large amounts of C02 per capita. Therefore a cull of rich societies would be at least 60 times as productive (for Gaia) as one of poor societies.So Gaia is best served by a poverty-striken, disease-ridden , pollution-filled society, where life is brutal, hellish, and short? This is the progressive vision for Gaia?
The only thing to be said with certainty is that there has been an increase in studies. “In 2008 alone, there were some 4000-odd peer-reviewed papers published on the topic.”A lesson in systems engineering: “The law of unintended consequences puts their proposals in the realm of madness.”
Despite the vast self-importance of humans, changes in the Sun seem to have a substantially greater impact on the Earth’s climate than we do, and there is nothing much we can do about that.
[Global waming alarmists] seem to have taken to heart the old poem “When in danger and in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout” without knowing whether there is a danger.
Among the media, academia and within planning circles, there’s a generally standing answer to the question of what cities are the best, the most progressive and best role models for small and mid-sized cities. The standard list includes Portland, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, and Denver.It's so much easier to be progressive if you don't have to worry about diversity.
But look closely at these exemplars and a curious fact emerges. [These] “progressive” cities aren’t red or blue, but another color entirely: white.
Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of "blurring the lines" between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections.That’s a clear shot across the bow of the Republican ship of state. If the Republican Party doesn’t get its act together soon and start acting like a conservative party, it will soon go the way of the dodo – and deservedly so.
Journalists have been laid-off across the country, because of the media’s broken business model. Surely, the Key News can recruit a less-biased reporter.Except that in a nut house, the selection is limited.
The Poles are going to do just fine under the new missile defense plans, ... They were smart not to make a fuss and fight the Obama administration, but instead to try to figure out ways to enhance their security with the “new guys in charge."As the English idiom goes, “beggars can’t be choosers.” My sympathies to the Poles – they’re between a rock and a hard place.
