Posted by
Keys to the Right on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:56:15 PM
Ok, I'm at my whit's end when it comes to posting web links. So to get to the Ralph Wiggum music video follow these instructions.
1. Go to Youtube.com
2. Type in the following phrase "bloodhound gang ralph wiggum"
3. Click on the video at the very top
4. Enjoy!
If you like that, you might also enjoy (or not enjoy) a clip of three kids completely butchering on of the greatest grunge songs of all time.
1. Go to Youtube
2. Type in "nirvana cover gone wrong"
3. Click on the video at the top of the page
4. Laugh, stare in shock, scream, curse, throw rocks at your computer, toss your cookies, whatever feels appropriate to you.
WARNING! This video is a complete train wreck! You won't want to stare but you can't look away. (At least the drummer gets it right)
This past spring I took a feature writing course and one of the assignments was to write a review. Being the nonconformist that I am, I decided to review the graphic novel series "Liberality for All" instead of doing a movie or a CD like the rest of my classmates. (OK it's out, I'm a total nerd!)
Of course when I submitted my work to one of the local papers, they didn't take it. However the opinion page editor did give me the opportunity to submit a commentary so I did that. You'll see it at the bottom of this post and as you can probably guess, It wasn't published either. The editor of the paper said I need a paragraph explaining why Al Gore is an alarmist. (That's like explaining why butterflies fly, they just do and Gore just is an alarmist!)
Anyway please enjoy.
Keys to the Right ^.^
Carbon offsets the indulgences of our day
In 1517 a Dominican monk by the name of John Tetzel began selling indulgences in Germany with the promise that they would remiss the purchasers’ sins and even those of their families, living or dead. As we all know a short time later another monk by the name of Martin Luther came along, posted his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg church and dispelled the myths about Tetzel’s indulgences, thus putting the Vatican con man out of business.
Fast forward to 2007 and there is a similar thing happening today. Former Vice President and global warming alarmist Al Gore is urging the rest of us unwashed masses to buy so-called “carbon offsets” in order to somehow repent of the sins we’ve committed against Mother Earth. I use the term “alarmist” because how else can you describe the guy who interprets a one degree increase in temperature as the apocalypse and goes in front of Congress declaring “the Earth has a fever” and ask for the United States to sign onto an international treaty that’s designed to hinder international business? (I’m speaking of the Kyoto protocol).
According to Carbonfriendly.com and the San Francisco Chronicle, people can buy carbon offsets (or credits as they’re sometimes called) for a small fee from various “eco-friendly” companies such as TerraPass located in California. The company tells the buyer that the money will be spent on such projects as planting new trees, building windmills and other such projects, thus giving the buyer hope that his contribution will help save the world from global warming and that his sin of not being “carbon neutral” enough has somehow been absolved.
First off, this is nothing more than a big scam to cheat people out of their money and quite possibly a new excuse to raise taxes again. The idea that tiny, insignificant humans can somehow destroy an entire planet just by driving a certain type of car or using a certain kind of light bulb, and then be able to reverse that damage just by buying a certain kind of credit is no more absurd than people thinking that buying a certain piece of paper from a priest will get them and their entire family into heaven. I suppose the old adage “the more things change, the more the more they stay the same” rings true in this case.
Plus our little prophet of doom-and-gloom Gore is certainly one to talk about living a “carbon neutral” lifestyle. According to a report from The Associated Press on RushLimbaugh.com, Gore’s Tennessee mansion consumed about 191,000 kilowatts of electricity last year and that the average monthly bill was over $1,000. Not to mention the private jets he parades around in across the country in order to show his apocalyptic film “An Inconvenient Truth” to his buddies at the Academy Awards and the hip-hop masses at MTV’s Music Video Awards. Before our self-righteous Tetzel of the 21st century goes around chastising us for destroying the environment, he should probably do as Jesus said and “remove the beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
People are certainly free to do what they want with their money, you can buy all the Priuses and florescent light bulbs you want if you think it’s ecologically and politically correct but believe me I’m neither of those.
I honestly don’t see how driving a certain kind of car or using a certain kind of light bulb or using a certain number of toilet paper squares will help stop climate change. We have to remember that we’re just tiny little humans existing on a planet that‘s been around for millions of years, it’s held up well so far and I don’t see how we could possibly destroy it in just a few years.
As for me I will not waste my money on carbon offsets, I will not give money to Gore and the rest of his ilk, I will not pay attention to global warming propaganda, I will drive whatever kind of car I wish, I will buy incandescent rather than compact florescent light bulbs, I will advocate for oil drilling on our own shores and I will continue to vote Republican because I choose to. And if any of the following condemns me to that hell reserved for those who chose to ignore the global warming prophets, then I will burn proudly there knowing that I didn’t buy into such garbage. Plus Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity will probably be there too, sweet!