10. Obama’s Birth Certificate – He was born in Hawaii, get over it.
9. JFK Assassination – Is it so hard to believe a guy trained as a marksman could do this alone?
8. Aliens/Area 51 – I can’t believe how many people think the US government did (let alone can or would) cover up alien contact.
7. Chlorinated Water – It’s not fluoride, people; this prevents water-borne disease.
6. Bigfoot – What can I say… never side with stoners in a field full of weed:
5. Climate Change – Argue about the cause and what we should do all you want. The science is in: it’s happening.
4. Evolution – Honestly, have you ever seen a chimpanzee?
3. 9/11 – It was a conspiracy, all right; an Arab one.
2. Vaccinations – Even if they caused every single case of autism in the US, it would be statistically better to vaccinate your children than to not do so.
1. Nothing – Nothing is above skepticism. Though chances are, unless something changes on the above issues, disagreeing with the current data probably means you are retarded.
Ahh, the wordless disapproval of ignorant cowards.
ReplyDelete10. Obama’s Birth Certificate – who cares, as if it would change a damned thing, he was picked by the oligarchy to promote just as Bush the retarded was - nothing to see, move along.
ReplyDelete9. JFK Assassination – Don’t care, would it surprise me one way or the other, no...
8. Aliens/Area 51 – Don’t care, would like to meet an alien from another planet (as long as I’m not lunch and if they exist, who would not want to meet a real “Spock").
7. Chlorinated Water – ??? A filter takes care of that, fluoride on the other hand serves little use and toothpaste alone is more than enough.
6. Bigfoot – I’d like to see one of them also, how cool would that be if they did exist? Monkeys are cool how about an 8 foot tall version...
5. Climate Change – Don’t care, far more concerned with pollution.
4. Evolution – Why is that on the list? only the religionists give too bits about that issue, so we evolved from a monkey - cool actually.
3. 9/11 – Something dirty, what it is I have no idea, don’t care. Would not be surprised if there was something dirty.
2. Vaccinations – no opinion, never researched the subject enough.
1. Nothing – Yep.
“Nothing is above skepticism. Though chances are, unless something changes on the above issues, disagreeing with the current data probably means you are retarded.”
Going good there until that last part...
Samsquanch.
ReplyDeleteCanada's gift to television, mafucka.
Who cares that global warming is killing off phytoplankton? It's only half our oxygen supply.
ReplyDeleteWho cares that we're finishing off the rain forests? It's only our entire medicine supply.
Who cares about coral reefs and honey bees becoming endangered? It's only a huge part oour food supply.
Who cares that we have an economic system based on infinite growth, despite the planet being finite (and already operating beyond its capacity)?
It's this kind of ecologically ignorant bullshit that made me drop so many of my former views. No offense to the other market libertarians blogging here--I'm speaking in generalities.
Sure there's climate change. It happens all the time and has happened in the past, even before humans.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't believe man-made climate change is happening and I think that it's all a bunch of bogus crap.
Why did I single that one out? Because the world leaders seem to want to constantly take away freedoms in the name of climate change. The rest of those things don't really matter because no world leader is oppressing us in the name of JFK conspiracies or Bigfoot's existence.
RB: You should make a list.
ReplyDeleteTC: I think TPB deserves its own post. I see it as the Canadian "The Office."
I think I should do a post on environmentalism and other externalities.
ReplyDeleteSFM2: Human influence is not necessarily the only factor in climate change, but our actions (as have the actions of many other living things before us) does play a role in it. The problem is, how does the entire planet act as one in fixing it? Or we could hope nuclear winter cancels it out, whatever.
The arguments against global warming are all bullshit, and always made by non-scientists and corporate ass-kissers. Every last one of them have been thoroughly debunked by people who actually know what they're talking about.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.planetthoughts.org/?pg=pt/Whole&qid=3238
They defy the "genre" label.
ReplyDeleteI mean, Randy for fuck sakes is one of the weirdest characters to ever hit tv.
The pants are coming off.
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming may well be a man made event - I am just more concerned with the Big Agriculture pollutants killing off half the Gulf (BP was working on the other half).
ReplyDeleteIt’s hard to let governments use global warming as a tool for more taxes when all the plans they have and promote are basically ideas on “licensed pollutants” and the Big Corporations and Big Ag will continue to pump crap into the water and into the air - nothing will get fixed and crap will get worse.
Is it not typical to see government let the crap continue and make everyone pay more for the privilege of helping big corporations make more money and kill off the planet with toxic ooze.
Climate Change happened hundreds of years ago. Around AD 1000 you were able to grow grapes in England and Greenland was actually green. This was a time of great prosperity in Europe and the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lot colder now and every year it is getting colder. Global warming isn't happening.
As for 'fixing' Climate Change: whatever happened to adapting to it? Instead of making us burn corn and buy more expensive light bulbs, why not find ways to work with it? Human beings have a natural tendency to adapt to their situations and overcome their environments, if they are allowed to do so.
Instead, we allow the government to mandate all these foolish policies that have nothing to do with fixing the climate and more to do keeping us all in our little holes of the world. You think Al Gore conserves energy? From what I hear, he has a bigger carbon footprint than a dinosaur.
They're all hypocrites and I don't trust any of them.
It's a lot colder now and every year it is getting colder. Global warming isn't happening.
ReplyDeleteOn the whole, simply not true. The fact that some winters are harsher in certain regions just supports the notion that climate change is occurring.
As for 'fixing' Climate Change: whatever happened to adapting to it? Instead of making us burn corn and buy more expensive light bulbs, why not find ways to work with it? Human beings have a natural tendency to adapt to their situations and overcome their environments, if they are allowed to do so.
Maybe if human beings were the only thing alive on Earth, this would be the solution. The problem is, we live in an ecosystem that relies on other species in order to provide us with food and curb disease.
So how are we going to “fix” it?
ReplyDeleteNote that I am not saying that global warming is not happening, it is just not my area of expertise, what I am pointing out is what looks like fraud in the “carbon laws."
Carbon Footprint is just a cog in the tax wheel, the carbon laws proposed all have loopholes for the biggest and nastiest pollution producers, Big Ag the worst among them.
Yes I want to breathe clean air and keep the north and south polar areas cold for the bears and birds, what I don’t want is a tax burden without results and despise the idea of “special cases” what will always end up as big corporate slave masters unaffected in the production of pollution.
China and India have every intention of continuing with the advancement into a strong middle class economy that will produce more individual polluters and of course the worst of the worst corporate polluters - how will that get fixed?
All of the typical “carbon laws” will take money from the average taxpayer, and will in effect do nothing or more likely make it worse.
What do you support and how do you propose to fix it - or even defend the carbon laws and show how that will actually help and how it will stop the toxic production from corporate polluters.
On the whole, simply not true. The fact that some winters are harsher in certain regions just supports the notion that climate change is occurring.
ReplyDeleteClearly, you don't know the difference between climate change and global warming.
Maybe if human beings were the only thing alive on Earth, this would be the solution. The problem is, we live in an ecosystem that relies on other species in order to provide us with food and curb disease.
Human beings are a mere spec when compared to the existence of pretty much all other species on this planet. Life tends to survive and find a way to change much better than we do. Considering that we've survived in just about every kind of hostile environment on the surface, I think that says a lot for the survivability of all other life on Earth.