Al Gore Says GW Causes More Snow

[ExiledInIllinois]

I didn't even watch it. I hear he's easily distracted though.

 

Hey EII!! Look a carp!!

 

I can say the same thing: "Hey Chef!! Look money, now grovel for it!!"

Don't play dumb... You are smarter than what you are showing.

 

Whatever floats your boat. What you said about being distracted is far from the truth... But if you want to kid yourself, keep kidding yourself... It hasn't stopped you from what I have seen these few years we have been on the board. Hide your head in the sand and whistle out your ass... Whatever gets you through the day dude! That strategy seems to be working out well for you.

 

Watch it (the video)... I made it easy and inserted the media right into the post... You like "jams"... I posted an all-time classic... Even if it is by a cross-dressing hippie... Criminy! Worse than Canadians in Crayonz eyes!

[OCinBuffalo]

Bottom line it hurts no one to make changes.

Ok, I have some ideas for some "changes" that "won't hurt anyone" either.

 

Let's pass a sweeping overhaul of the legal system.

1. A new Federal bureaucracy that handles all reimbursement of legal fees, to include an 35 page instrument that attempts to control cost and ensure quality. All attorneys must complete this form and send it to the government, every quarter, for every client, or they don't get paid.....Why not? That's what Medicare does, and since Medicare is not only awesome, but only has 4% administrative costs, this would be a great way to lower legal costs, for everyone.

2. This new Federal Bureaucracy will also require 20,000 regulators, since there are so many lawyers, which will be paid for by creating a "by-the-hour" tax on legal fees. These regulators will routinely enter law offices of lawyers, prosecutors, and judges to inspect their work. If they find deficiencies in the work being done for clients, or on behalf of the government, they are empowered to fine, suspend work, remove legal licenses, shut down practices and prosecute lawyers with impunity. The Kicker? None of these regulators will be government employees. Instead, they will be contractors that get paid by % of fines they impose/reimbursement they take away.

 

Need I go on? I surely can. Funny how if we applied the same exact rules/regulations to the legal profession that we apply elsewhere...and call them..."Changes"...they hurt, don't they?

I propose an international system of magnet offset credits. For example, somebody may want to move the magnets on their refrigerator. What will that do to the Earth's magnetic field? Well we don't really know, but it's better to do something than nothing. So for a nominal fee I will move the magnets on my refrigerator to match the movement on yours, thus making us both magnet neutral.

 

Be part of the solution!

You forgot parts B-D of the plan:

 

B. Demagogue anyone who calls the magnetic moving plan patently retarded as someone who "doesn't want clean water, air, or food, and is 100% a pawn of the corporations".

C. Don't forget to include brand spanking new regulations, and, of course, legions of new regulators, which will have to be paid for by a new magnet moving tax, and a tax on magnets in general, in an effort to wean us off of magnets. Have these regulators ensure that you are moving the magnets properly in your house, and everyone's house, from DC, using "technology".

D. Create a new exchange of those offset credits, and make sure your cronies in Chicago get control of that exchange.

I'm not well-versed in this topic, but there it was on google news, and it's apparently being published in a few respected journals and has actual scientific measurements of the creeping fields....

 

You're saying it's a bunch of bunk? That'd be cool with me.

I said: the found iron laid out in the wrong direction, which cold indicated that poles weren't always where they were. There are also other geological indicators.

 

But, just like with global warming, there's other feasible explanations for all of them. The only difference is: there's no way to force the socialist agenda down our throats using the magnetic shift theory.........

 

 

 

....YET!

[ExiledInIllinois]

OC... I am not going to quote your post systematically... I generally agree with you.

 

Yet... How do we get millions, if not billions of people to "do the right thing." Get people to do their best, even if it isn't in their immediate best interest (many different interest including monetary).

 

You socialist comment makes sense on the face. How do we manage an individual society and not have it come unraveld because people (even if just a few) are making poor choices? I believe in the power of choice... But given too many choices, people will almost always make the wrong choice.

 

See what I am getting at?

Edited February 13, 2011 by ExiledInIllinois

[Jim in Anchorage]

Magnetic Field shift is a known, proven phenomena and is measurable in less than the length of a human lifetime. Example: Airport runways are designated by their magnetic heading. Sitting on 24 your compass heading will be 240 degrees. Come back later, and 24 may be 25 because of field shift. 20 years from now it may be 26-or go back to 24.

We just don't know what it's going to do. but it is a fact it shifts.

[OCinBuffalo]

OC... I am not going to quote your post systematically... I generally agree with you.

 

Yet... How do we get millions, if not billions of people to "do the right thing." Get people to do their best, even if it isn't in their immediate best interest (many different interest including monetary).

 

You socialist comment makes sense on the face. How do we manage an individual society and not have it come unraveld because people (even if just a few) are making poor choices? I believe in the power of choice... But given too many choices, people will almost always make the wrong choice.

 

See what I am getting at?

1. Define the "right thing" PROPERLY.

This requires objectivity. The ALGORE cult is a religion, so no chance of objectivity there. Same thing with the energy companies. There was a time when I would have said get some scientists to do an objective study. But, as we have seen, we can't trust those b-tards either.

 

2. Separate the socialism from honest to God conservation and clean air/water.

Hell, separate the politics from it in general. F environmentalists. When I was a Boy Scout, I got my Conservation Merit Badge. There was no Environmentalist Merit Badge. There's a simple, yet profound, wisdom in that. -ists = politics. Conservation is a verb. We need people who want to define themselves by verbs, not nouns.

 

3. Publicly challenge, and therefore, humiliate the assclown "environmentalists"(approx. 85%)

We need people who place more value on doing the small things themselves, quietly, with humility, who lead by example, and less people who want to talk about other people, spread ignorance, and scream at everybody and/or personify smugness. The latter group doesn't give a schit about the environment in reality. They do care about finding something that makes them: different, cool, alternative , etc. because they can't hang with the rest of us. It's the same reason why ugly girls do the goth thing, and then start acting like badasses. You will pay attention to them, if for no other reason than the overwhelming curiosity as to if they went to a dentist, plumber or a welder to get that bolt "installed".

 

4. Encourage people to enjoy nature in their own way

Believe me, if you get enough people to spend a single day out in the woods, at the lake, stream, whatever, you won't have to then spend 20 million on PSAs that throw "You're ruining nature, you bastards!" messages in their faces.

 

5. DO NOT let the far-left be in charge

This may seem like I'm contradicting #2. But, we cannot ignore the performance record of the far-left. Want something like getting gay people the same rights wrt marriage, etc. done reasonably? Don't let the far-left do it. The far left's premise is: "Americans are either too stupid or too evil to do the right things right, so we have to force them to do them".

 

As we have seen, that = FAIL. And usually results in getting the exact opposite of what you want.

 

6. Wacky idea, and I am still buzzing, so whatever

I think it would be great if a new Republican President created a partisan, NOT bi-partisan, panel of all Republicans, gave them 3 reasonable Conservation goals, and told them they were responsible for not only providing the solutions to them, but also implementing them by the end of his current term. IF Republicans are in charge, then be in charge.

 

Why dick around with the politics of a bi-partisan commission, whose results will end up in 3 ring binder, never to be heard from again? Why not instead hit the problem head on, and prove that your ideas not only work, but work better?

 

The problem is: that would require balls, and most DC types don't have any.

[ExiledInIllinois]

1. Define the "right thing" PROPERLY.

This requires objectivity. The ALGORE cult is a religion, so no chance of objectivity there. Same thing with the energy companies. There was a time when I would have said get some scientists to do an objective study. But, as we have seen, we can't trust those b-tards either.

 

2. Separate the socialism from honest to God conservation and clean air/water.

Hell, separate the politics from it in general. F environmentalists. When I was a Boy Scout, I got my Conservation Merit Badge. There was no Environmentalist Merit Badge. There's a simple, yet profound, wisdom in that. -ists = politics. Conservation is a verb. We need people who want to define themselves by verbs, not nouns.

 

3. Publicly challenge, and therefore, humiliate the assclown "environmentalists"(approx. 85%)

We need people who place more value on doing the small things themselves, quietly, with humility, who lead by example, and less people who want to talk about other people, spread ignorance, and scream at everybody and/or personify smugness. The latter group doesn't give a schit about the environment in reality. They do care about finding something that makes them: different, cool, alternative , etc. because they can't hang with the rest of us. It's the same reason why ugly girls do the goth thing, and then start acting like badasses. You will pay attention to them, if for no other reason than the overwhelming curiosity as to if they went to a dentist, plumber or a welder to get that bolt "installed".

 

4. Encourage people to enjoy nature in their own way

Believe me, if you get enough people to spend a single day out in the woods, at the lake, stream, whatever, you won't have to then spend 20 million on PSAs that throw "You're ruining nature, you bastards!" messages in their faces.

 

5. DO NOT let the far-left be in charge

This may seem like I'm contradicting #2. But, we cannot ignore the performance record of the far-left. Want something like getting gay people the same rights wrt marriage, etc. done reasonably? Don't let the far-left do it. The far left's premise is: "Americans are either too stupid or too evil to do the right things right, so we have to force them to do them".

 

As we have seen, that = FAIL. And usually results in getting the exact opposite of what you want.

 

6. Wacky idea, and I am still buzzing, so whatever

I think it would be great if a new Republican President created a partisan, NOT bi-partisan, panel of all Republicans, gave them 3 reasonable Conservation goals, and told them they were responsible for not only providing the solutions to them, but also implementing them by the end of his current term. IF Republicans are in charge, then be in charge.

 

Why dick around with the politics of a bi-partisan commission, whose results will end up in 3 ring binder, never to be heard from again? Why not instead hit the problem head on, and prove that your ideas not only work, but work better?

 

The problem is: that would require balls, and most DC types don't have any.

 

Good post. Yet, number 5 is not true. What we are seeing is NOT the performance record of the far-left. The far left has not been in control of anyting for quite a while now. What we are seeing in the last 30 years is the performance record of the middle to far conservative philosophy. When has the far left controlled anything?

[Chef Jim]

The system. There are winners and losers. Not saying that you can win all the time either. There are times when you are going to lose money and possibily hurt your clients. Even you can't insulate against loss. There are times when you are going win off the back of others that lose money in the game. The system is parasitic.

 

Losing money does not always hurt. It's part of the process for long term investing. They key is to lose less than what they would have lost had they not been with me. It's all about asset allocation, diversification and dollar cost averaging. My clients that are dollar cost averaging (most of them) actually come out winners when the market goes down. But I don't expect you to understand that seeing you think I'm evil. Oh and you do understand that getting people invested actually helps most others that are invested. But whatever happens I have one goal and one goal only and that is helping people. And if you don't believe that I really don't give a **** what you think. It's what my clients whose money I manage and my staff whose careers I manage think that matters to me.

[OCinBuffalo]

Good post. Yet, number 5 is not true. What we are seeing is NOT the performance record of the far-left. The far left has not been in control of anyting for quite a while now. What we are seeing in the last 30 years is the performance record of the middle to far conservative philosophy. When has the far left controlled anything?

Apparently you missed the the fact that Obama's entire team of economic advisers - the ones who were in charge of fixing the economy - were far-left college professors from Harvard and Berkley. Not a single person who has owned a business, or worked at a reasonably high level in a corporation made the Obama team.

 

When they failed, because, let's face it, far-left people fail before they even start because their thinking is always premised in failure, they tippy-toed back to Harvard and Berkley, where it's perfectly fine to be a far-left schit talker who can't prove that his/her ideas work in the real world. They are all gone, and are all right back home at college.

 

The best part is: that was their big chance to prove, unhindered, that they are right, and that their ideology is not just a political self-delusion predicated on false premises. They failed miserably.

 

This is 1(one) example. There are plenty more.