Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Sun 10/29/2006 View Sat 10/28/2006 View Fri 10/27/2006 View Thu 10/26/2006 View Wed 10/25/2006 View Tue 10/24/2006 View Mon 10/23/2006
1
2006-10-29 Home Front: Culture Wars
The End of the World As We Know It, And Moonbats Whine
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by Mike 2006-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 lol!

a report by the Global Policy Forum, which, I gather, is a UN watchdog organization

um, shouldn't that be lap dog?
Posted by Clkethel OHlkdj 2006-10-29 00:11||   2006-10-29 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Great! I can put the parka and hiking boots into storage and break out the T-shirts and shorts this January. Unless of course this guy and his Gaia worshiping pals are completely full of sh*t.
Posted by DMFD 2006-10-29 01:24||   2006-10-29 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Gaia's my b*tch!
Posted by badanov 2006-10-29 01:25|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2006-10-29 01:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Shit, we blew it again. We shudda listened to ol' Jimmah. Wonder how we got led astray ? Oh yeah, there was that little debacle in Tehran in '79.
Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-29 01:51||   2006-10-29 01:51|| Front Page Top

#5 "the Earth's temperature is about to rise five to eight degrees..."

So, um, when d00d?

Someday the sun will evolve into a red dwarf, swelling and swallowing most or all of the inner solar system.

Someday the magnetic poles will flip, again, and the "down time" until the magnetic fields regain strength will be very interesting... stock up on sunblock...

Someday the ice age we are currently in, the last 12,000 years is a just tiny warm spell within it, will reassert itself. Chill City.

Near Earth asteroids, Super Volcanoes, Mega Tsunamis, flesh-eating bacteria, the coming viral plague, eating at MacDonald's, etc, etc, etc. There are gazillions of ways to die, and most of them have a chance of occurring. Maybe a much better chance than the loonies ascribe to Lovelock's eagerly expected babble.

It will be interesting to see how he documents the involved natural mechanisms and their cascading failures. Somehow, I'm thinking it will be as simple-minded as The Day After Tomorrow, but that's just most of mankind. The Dummies part. His minions and sycophants are The Brilliant part, of course.

Someday. Yup, we're gonna be fucked, sooner or later. I'm thinking Lovelock is getting along in years, now, and will predict a fuzzy time beyond his lifespan. He can be lionized, feted, rewarded for his "courage", yadda³ - and won't be around when this giant egg he's laying doesn't hatch.

Meanwhile, as their money pots sit half-empty, the screeching of the Gaian death cult grows in volume...
Posted by .com 2006-10-29 01:06||   2006-10-29 01:06|| Front Page Top

#6 .com, you *know* it's wrong to mock the Prophets (pbut).
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-10-29 01:31||   2006-10-29 01:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Gee, now I don't feel bad about cashing in my 401K to buy a hummer!
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2006-10-29 02:22||   2006-10-29 02:22|| Front Page Top

#8 A while back, I played around with a website I was intending to put up called Apocalypse. Amongst other things it had an estimate of the chances of a person born today dying in various apocalytic events. Megavolcano, Tsunami, Asteroid impact, etc.

Essentially it multiplied the likelyhood of the event in a human lifetime by the probability it would kill any given person.

Abrupt climate cooling as occured at the start of the Younger Dryas circa 10,000 years ago came out way in front of any other risk, by a factor of close to a thousand (from memory).
Posted by phil_b 2006-10-29 04:54||   2006-10-29 04:54|| Front Page Top

#9 I guess ol' Jane still hasn't mellowed out from her little rant after the elections in 2004. Geez.

But considering how humans are the problem, you would think she'd be happy that global warming on that scale would cull the herd....
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-10-29 06:57|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]  2006-10-29 06:57|| Front Page Top

#10 So, Civilization is gonna end, yeah, yeah, yeah, big deal, but what will happen to my pr0n stash? I think people should start focusing on the real issues. Should I burn it on dvds?... But I fear they might melt, that could happen, couldn't it? Oh, I'm so confused.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-29 07:07||   2006-10-29 07:07|| Front Page Top

#11 I didn't think of this last night when I posted, but this essay reminds me of a scene in The Incredibles:

Dash: We're dead! We're dead! We survived but we're dead!

Helen: Stop it, both of you! We are not going to die! Now, you will both get a grip or so help me, I'll ground you for a month. Understand?
Posted by Mike 2006-10-29 07:53||   2006-10-29 07:53|| Front Page Top

#12 So, Civilization is gonna end, yeah, yeah, yeah, big deal, but what will happen to my pr0n stash? I think people should start focusing on the real issues. Should I burn it on dvds?... But I fear they might melt, that could happen, couldn't it? Oh, I'm so confused.
Posted by anonymous5089


clearly, the only safe storage medium is in space....like the Pioneer plaque but with Ron Jeremy. Burn to DVD's and hermetically seal in the craft. Don't thank me, I'm just doing my part for pr0n
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-29 08:39||   2006-10-29 08:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Yeah, I'm thinking time capsule. Just think at the amazement and wonder of future archeologists, when they will imagine our civilization based on that!
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-29 08:46||   2006-10-29 08:46|| Front Page Top

#14 .com

Goes along with the concept that if you live long enough you'll eventually die of something. :)
Posted by Procopius2k 2006-10-29 08:59||   2006-10-29 08:59|| Front Page Top

#15 People like her should not wish for the collapse of civilization. Their kind would be the fist to go, I guanantee it. My kind would rise to rule the desolate waste in a post civilization Mad Max type drunken orgy of violence and myrth. I can hardly wait. I'm gonna go start my F-150 and let it idle in the driveway, just to speed things along.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-10-29 10:28||   2006-10-29 10:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Damn, only one thing to do. Only question is Kools or Raleighs? I guess Kools, since those Raleigh stamps are going to be heavily discounted come the end times.
Posted by Shipman 2006-10-29 10:42||   2006-10-29 10:42|| Front Page Top

#17 My kind would rise to rule the desolate waste in a post civilization Mad Max type drunken orgy of violence and myrth.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-29 10:43||   2006-10-29 10:43|| Front Page Top

#18 Where is the Scrappleface? This is Scrapleface? You mean I have been eating bean sprouts and driving that junk heap toyota for nothing? Man I'm pissed and on my way to buy a 1 ton truck for commuting to work and to soccer games.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-10-29 11:02||   2006-10-29 11:02|| Front Page Top

#19 Lol, bigjim-ky!

Lol, 49pan. HuffyPuffy, the completely unintentional Scrappleface, lol.
Posted by .com 2006-10-29 11:10||   2006-10-29 11:10|| Front Page Top

#20 Global warming is taking too long. The SEQUOIA I planted (1997) here in the ChiBurbs just died this year from the awful cold weather.

I mean .. I mean .. like if you can't trust in Global Warming than man... what can you belive in?

Posted by 3dc 2006-10-29 11:18||   2006-10-29 11:18|| Front Page Top

#21 So, how come they're not thanking Bush for the mild hurricane season this year? After all, they were blaming him for it last year.
Posted by DMFD 2006-10-29 14:38||   2006-10-29 14:38|| Front Page Top

#22 I guess Kools, since those Raleigh stamps are going to be heavily discounted come the end times.

LOL!!

My secret end times stash includes several books of green stamps. Never know when they might become negotiable again. ;-)
Posted by lotp 2006-10-29 15:26||   2006-10-29 15:26|| Front Page Top

#23 Saw a bumper sticker today:

"Gaia is not my mother, but Earth's creator is my father."
Posted by SR-71 2006-10-29 15:32||   2006-10-29 15:32|| Front Page Top

#24 Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Chaos.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-29 17:11||   2006-10-29 17:11|| Front Page Top

19:58 Shomogum Shineling8027
23:59 Zenster
23:55 Zenster
23:37 Zenster
23:30 Oztralian
23:28 Oztralian
23:17 Mike
23:15 Kalle (kafir forever)
23:13 Zenster
23:10 Richard Aubrey
23:07 twobyfour
23:07 Monica Lewinsky
23:05 Eric Jablow
22:59 tu3031
22:53 CrazyFool
22:47 3dc
22:47 Mike
22:40 Barbara Skolaut
22:39 Clkethel OHlkdj
22:37 Classer
22:34 tu3031
22:30 Mike
22:28 Mike
22:23 Brett









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com