Where, oh where, oh where do I begin with this one? Let’s face it, boys and girls, we all knew damned well that it wasn’t going to be too long before the Librano$ got to the point where the itch to get their hands back on the national till and back to the business of buggering up the country got to be just too much not to scratch. Lo and behold, in the Commons yesterday, the Fiberals got that collective hind leg up behind their ears and went at it like a 70-year-old viagra addict in a $2 cathouse with a fistful of fifties.

On the off chance that you’ve been either spelunking or in a coma for the last few days, here’s what happened: Greener-than-thou Steffy took his stiffy a little too seriously yesterday and led the Kyoto Kook parade even further off to the Loopy Left when they passed Bill C-ThroughRoseyGlasses (AKA Bill C-288), demanding that the Conservative government under HMPM Harper come up with a plan to meet Kyoto’s “why yes, the moon really is made of green cheese” targets by 2012 . . . within 60 days. Yup, two months. Bibbitty-bobbitty-boo; just like that. Come to think of it, I do know exactly where to begin with this! Now why in the world didn’t I think of it in the first place?? It’s so obvious…

Dear Santa,

Thank you very much for heeding my letter that I sent you back in November. I know that I asked for a Rae Bomb and I should have trusted in your judgement (after all, you’ve been at this a lot longer than I’ve been around). The gift of Steffy “no relation” Dion as national UberGrit is clearly MUCH better and more fun than a Rae Bomb would ever have been. I’ll never doubt you again.

Your friend,
Dennis

This really is an early Christmas present for a guy like me. And it fits in so nicely, too, with the theme that I was going to work on before I got so rudely interrupted there…

Just who the hell does little M. “Do You Think It’s Easy To Make Priorities” think he is, anyway? This little arsehole — along with the Blocheads and Taliban Jack!’s YGBKMP — actually has the gall to demand that Harper do in two months what his party, and he himself as environment minister, utterly failed to do in more than a decade in power: come up with a plan to implement Kyoto by 2012.

And if that didn’t get your bullshitometer up to the redline, try this one on for size: li’l Steffy himself said, on the record to columnist John Ivison, that there was NO POSSIBLE WAY TO IMPLEMENT THE KYOTO TARGETS WITHIN THAT TIMEFRAME and that “energy will be the next crisis for the economy of the world.” See for yourself (emphasis mine, of course):

Dion admits Liberals’ Kyoto goal impossible

National Post 2006-07-01 John Ivison

OTTAWA – Former environment minister Stephane Dion has conceded that a future Liberal government would be unable to meet its Kyoto commitment of reducing greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels.

Mr. Dion, a candidate for the Liberal leadership, said that if he became prime minister after an election next year, he would try to reduce emissions, which are thought to contribute to global warming.

“In 2008, I will be part of Kyoto, but I will say to the world I don’t think I will make it. Everyone is saying target, target. But … it is to be more than to reach a target. It’s to change the economy. It’s to have resource productivity, energy efficiency when we know that energy will be the next crisis for the economy of the world.”

Canada signed up to reduce emissions to 6% below 1990 levels by 2012, but government statistics suggest they are currently around 35% above that level. The Conservative government has said it will not be able to meet Canada’s targets for the first-phase of the Kyoto accord — an admission that has led Liberal critics to charge that the Tories have abandoned Kyoto.

The Liberal party maintains its climate-change plans would meet the 2012 deadline. Mr. Dion is the first senior party figure to cast doubt on that claim.

A spokesman for Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said Mr. Dion’s comments were cause for concern. “It is concerning that the Liberals were prepared to mislead Canadians on the Kyoto targets even though the former Liberal environment minister now admits the targets were unachievable.”

Mr. Dion defended the Liberal record on Kyoto by saying Canada signed on for far-tougher targets than many other countries. “If France does nothing between 1990 and 2010, their emissions are likely to grow by 4%. If Canada does nothing, emissions grow by 44%.”

He said the election of George W. Bush, and the subsequent U.S. decision to pull out of Kyoto, left Canadian industry, and some Cabinet ministers, uneasy with the government’s climate-change plan. [of COURSE! It’s all Bush’s fault!! Gimme a fucking break 🙄 -D]

Mr. Dion advocates binding commitments for industry to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions through a domestic trading system. Companies able to cut their emissions below target levels could then sell credits to less energy efficient businesses. He said he is also working on environmental tax reform and would put the environment at the centre of government. “All my ministries will be green. Maybe I’ll make one department of industry and the environment — a department of sustainability. That’s not a commitment, but if you want to change the mind, you have to change structures.”

So, he does nothing, admits that nothing can be done, and then screeches like a shrill schoolmarm at the Tories for not waving the magic wand and making it all disappear. The Grits even try to accuse Harper of “act(ing) like an emperor” if he chooses to ignore their little parliamentary temper tantrum (which I think he should).

Hell, even Green Party Ubertreehugger Elizabeth May isn’t being fooled by this bullshit publicity stunt. I can’t help but wonder, though… Which do you think is going to get through the Fiberal-dominated Senate first, hmmm? The Federal Accountability Act (which would make the kind of corruption that is the Grits’ stick-in-trade one hell of a lot harder in the future), Bill S-24 (the Senate Tenure Bill), or this little Grit-spawned publicity stunt? Anybody feel like laying some money down on it?

All I can say is: Please, please, please let this trigger an election!! And let it happen BEFORE John Q. Canuck has the chance to doze back off again. Let it happen before the Canadian public can foget that Dion has flip-flopped on everything from Kyoto to Afghanistan to antiterror legislation. Real quick, in point form:

• Librano$ sign Kyoto (a pipe dream), do nothing, blame Tories
• Librano$ pass antiterror measures, now call them draconian
• Librano$ send troops to Afghanistan, now want to run away
• Librano$ to nominate candidates based on crotch plumbing, not merit
• Librano$ get to boot for Adscamâ„¢, Dion welcomes back scammer into the party fold

It’s one thing to be a populist; it’s another thing entirely to make a political career out of twisting in the wind of public opinion. I could go on, but why bother? The facts are that he’s out of touch with regular Canadians, he’s an elitist and he’s weak. The Grits picked everybody’s third choice to lead their party and, as the ads said, Stephane Dion is NOT a leader. Never has been and never will be. The little snot even mewled like a petulant child when someone pointed out that there really IS a problem with wanting to be the leader of one country while being a citizen of another!

Yup. Best Christmas present a little Rightwing nutjob like me ever got. Can we go to the polls now?

Holy crap, that was harder than I thought.  What should have taken only an hour or so ended up — thanks to some of the slowest throughput I’ve ever seen on a T1 connection — being an all-Goddamned-day undertaking.  On the bright side, though; it’s finally over.

The new software seems to be working fine and dandy so far and well… I’m keeping my fingers crossed.  So, now that all that happy horseshit’s out of the way, look for something a little more… normal from me tomorrow… 😀

Yeah, I know; I dread this crap too. But the current version of the software that I power this site with is getting a little clunky for my liking and so…

It’s upgrade time.

And before anybody even starts… yes, I know this has gone over craptastically before but I’m pretty sure I can avoid that this time. Pretty sure. This time.

The upgrade will occur sometime tomorrow afternoon after I’ve had the chance to back EVERYthing up first. If I can’t get it working right off the hop… well, then, screw it; I’ll just reload from backup and figure something out from there.

Wish me luck. 🙄

Um… I have NO idea WHAT the hell to make of this. I don’t even know how the hell this managed to happen, let alone what it means or what to say about it.

And I’m willing to bet my left nut that none of YOU out there saw this coming either. Nope. No way in hell.

Okay, alright; I suppose I should tell you just what the hell I’m going on about. It’s simple: SES reasearch had themselves a little poll in Ontario — yes, that Ontario. The one with all the liberals in it — that asked folks a simple little question:

Thinking about the federal party leaders – those being Stephen Harper for the Conservatives; Stephane Dion for the Liberals, Jack Layton for the NDP, Gilles Duceppe for the Bloc Quebecois and Elizabeth May for the Green Party – who do you trust the most to safeguard our environment?

I know; not exactly earth-shaking stuff, is it? What baffles me is the results. No, bonehead, Harper didn’t win by a mile. 🙄 What he did manage to do is tie. You’ll NEVER guess who.

According to Ontariens, Harper is equally trustworthy on matters of the environment as . . . Green Party leader ELIZABETH MAY! 😯

Don’t take my word for it. Click here and see for yourself.

. . . Unless we give ourselves over unquestioningly to the bloated bureaucracy of the environmentalists, which will lead us to the Promised Land of Kyoto; flowing with the milk and honey of granola-grindin’ Gaia-goodness.

So speaketh the High Priests of The Environment and all their apostles; with one voice, for apostasy against Kyotology will not be tolerated. And don’t fool yourselves, this shit really has become one hell of a lot like some loopy cult. As Pale, over at IAM(also)CANADIAN, put it a few days ago [links added]:

The Church of Kyotology reminds me of Scientology (without the cool alien thing!)

Kyotology attacks free speech. Any questioning of the god Kyoto results in cries of “Global Warming” denier!

Kyotology says that public statements against Kyotology such as writing anti-Kyotology letters to the papers and in blogs is a “Suppressive Act” – a high crime, according to “Introduction to Kyotology Ethics.”

In accordance with this policy (and others like it), Kyotology has tried to silence all criticism.

Kyotology betrays the trust of well-intentioned people by falsely claiming to have a scientifically-proven technology to save the world.

Couldn’t have said it better myself (which, of course, is why I plagiarized Pale). The maniacal, rabid reaction of the enviro-Left to anyone that doesn’t unquestioningly bow down before whatever the latest prophecy of doom happens to be is downright alarming. You don’t even need to outright argue with them to get yourself branded a heretic, either. Just asking for clarification or, Goddess forbid, proof 😯 of their wild claims is enough to earn you the kind of contempt usually reserved for twitchy loners parked near playgrounds with cars full of candy.

Before we go any further, let’s get a few things straight, shall we? I like the outdoors, Bambi’s mom is pretty damned tasty (especially as sausages) and when I go fishing, I have this funny habit of wanting to actually eat what I pull out of the water. Hell, I even used to work for Greenpeace, for cryin’ out loud.  So yes, I do give a shit about the environment, just not for the same reasons as the Cultists of Kyoto. So, you ask; if I’m such an environmentally-friendly guy, why do I have a problem with Kyoto?

Actually, I don’t have a problem with Kyoto, I have a lot of problems with Kyoto. AND with the whole “global warming” thing in general. Going into each and every damned one of them here and now would make for one hell of a bulky posting — and likely give me carpal tunnel syndrome in the process — so what I’m going to do, just for a start, is to list a few of the things about “global warming” that get on my nerves. I’ll get into each one in more detail in later rants but for now, here are the the beefs that just pop off the top of my head:

1. They’re bullshitting me.
   “Global warming,” as in the human-cause-only scenario that’s being shrieked about so much now, is only a theory and is NOT scientifically proven as a fact like we keep being told.
2. Ad Hominem cuts no ice with me.
   And that’s the method of choice for the EnviroNazis that come up against anyone that questions them. As Orwell once said: “Some things are true even if The Daily Telegraph says they are true.”
3. Environmental science has been hijacked by political agendas.
   This has been happening since the fall of the Soviet Union left an assortment of Marxists and other miscellaneous malcontents adrift in the sea of their failed ideas, looking for someplace to put in to port.
4. Their story keeps changing.
   Their mid-range prediction for temperature rise in the next 100 years has dropped by more than a third and they chopped the mean sea-level rise prediction by more than 50% — just since the last IPCC report in 2001. I have yet to find any number that isn’t constantly getting fudged. Who’s running these figures? The guys at Enron??
5. I’ve heard all this before.
   All the same different dire predictions, the same rhetoric against critics, all of it. Just with a different boogeyman. None of the predictions came true.
6. They are fanatics.
   As Churchill once observed, “a fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” And, like true fanatics, they adamantly refuse to listen to any explanation not approved for their consumption by the high priests of their “movement,” no matter how sound the reasoning may be.
7. They misrepresent themselves.
   They claim a “consensus” amongst experts even when those same experts — like Dr. Christopher Landsea, a leading expert in the field of hurricanes and tropical storms, who resigned as an author of the IPCC 2007 report because the IPCC was “motivated by pre-conceived agendas” and was “scientifically unsound” — have no such unanimity whatsoever.
8. Even if they DID have it, consensus does NOT equal truth.
   Once upon a time, consensus was that the earth was flat, the sun revolved around the earth and Milli Vanilli were singers. And we know how those turned out.
9. They attempt to silence those who disagree with them.
   This, more than anything else, is a sure indication that there’s something rotten in Denmark. You don’t need to read Nineteen Eighty Four to know that anybody that wants their side to be the only one heard has only their interests in mind. Truth is a funny thing; it doesn’t need to be the only voice heard in order for it to survive. It does just fine without any suppression of dissent being needed.

Not a bad list for stuff just off the top of my head. Keep an eye open for the next few days or so while I address each one separately.

And to think that I had made up my mind to steer clear of this particular turd typhoon. Not because I don’t have any opinion, mind you (anyone that’s ever spent any time on this site can easily tell you that I have an opinion on damned near everything), but rather because it just seemed — and still seems to me — to be so God damned overdone.

Everyone and their dog seems to be blathering one thing or another about the environment, global warming, Kyoto, etc, ad nauseum. One bozo even named his dog “Kyoto.” 🙄

So, after getting today what I reckon to be literally my one hundredth email asking just what the hell I think about all this mess, I’m going to start shooting my mouth off about it. But not today. This is the last day of my vacation and I’m damned well going to enjoy it.

So there.

Rest assured that I’ll be ranting away about it tomorrow. In the meantime, to give you some idea as to just how much this hysteria has consumed our collective braintime, check out what is being said across the MSM and in some blogs on the subject today. Bear in mind as well, that this is just one day’s worth of articles; and just the ones that I stumbled across without even looking. Talk about obsessive…

Licia Corbella, Calgary Sun
Whistleblowers get kiss-off

It’s too bad the world’s media doesn’t hold the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to the same standards that it holds large corporations.

When Enron cooked the books, there were — rightly — no end of indignant columns and talk shows condemning these high-paid fraudsters who massaged the numbers to fit their agenda and bolster their bank accounts.

The whistleblower who tried to get Enron to change its evil ways — Sherron Watkins — was named, along with two other whistleblowing women — TIME magazine’s Persons of the Year for 2002.

But when it comes to scientists who whistleblow about IPCC reports cooked by politicians to fit their politicized agendas, those whistleblowers are either ignored or dismissed as “skeptics” or quacks and are libelled as haters of this planet and nature, even though most of them have dedicated their lives to studying nature and protecting it.

TrustOnlyMulder, Officially Screwed
Suzuki Math Indicates 4 x 0.4 = 2 : No Wonder EnviroNazis Are Wrong

Today’s Ottawa Sun has a Q and A session with David Suzuki about his carbon spewing bus tour across Canada and this is one of the questions.

Q: What role should Canada play on the international scene?

A: Canada produces 2% of C02 emissions, but represents just 0.4% of the world’s population.

So we produce four times more pollution per capita than the global average, and because of that, we have an obligation.

My 10 year old does better math, Mr. Suzuki.

Lorrie Goldstein, TO Sun
Greens aren’t always good

Global warming and the Kyoto accord are the crack cocaine of trendy causes for opportunistic politicians and chic environmentalists.

Since fighting man-made global warming involves “saving the planet,” or so they tell us, it is the King Kong of all environmental crusades.

Of course, the fact we have been warned in the past by this crowd that life as we know it was about to end over everything from “the population bomb” to “global cooling,” and that we survived, is now ignored.

Sandy, Crux of the Matter
This Kyoto Type Hysteria Has Happened Before …

There have been a number of excellent posts today about the Kyoto hysteria and likening it to a new religion. Visit Officially Screwed, Damnation and Joanne’s Journey. In Joanne’s case, her discussion of the hysteria surrounding DDT made me think about how easily people can be swayed from one point of view to another, even when it’s not in their best interests.

Peter Worthington, TO Sun
Global warming is a theory, not scientific fact

Last week — the day the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its gloom and doom report on greenhouse gases — Larry King Live had a bunch of experts hashing over what it all means.

Of six panelists, the one who made the most sense (I’m tempted to say made the only sense) was Richard Lindzen, a professor of “atmospsheric science” at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joel Johannsen, PTBC
Globally warmed-over liberal-left political and media rhetoric is making me sick

I’d rather hear more about Anna Nichole Smith and see more of those butt-ugly photos of those hideously ugly breastmorphatons than listen to one more thing about the ridiculous Kyoto Accord or the less ridiculous but still utterly ridiculous nonetheless “man-made global warming” freak-out scare-a-thon currently being presented by liberals and their media and (political) “scientists” like the great zoologist The Prophet Suzuki.

Tom Broadbeck, Winterpeg Sun
Give global warming skeptics their say

Last week’s news coverage on the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was some of the worst journalism I’ve seen in a long time.

It was due largely to a disease that inflicts journalists from time to time — an illness known as pack journalism.

ALW, Wudrick Blog
Legislating The Impossible

Chris Edey exposes the fraud of Pablo Rodriguez’s Kyoto bill.

The bottom line is that C-288 is a political stunt, nothing more. Even if the government were to immediately collapse over it next week, and the Liberals were to win a huge majority in the subsequent election, the 2012 targets will still not be met. The Sierra Club knows this. The David Suzuki Foundation knows this. The Liberals know it. The Dippers know it. Yet everyone continue to peddle the fantasy anyway.

Like I said, this is just what I managed to stumble over today; without even trying!  What the hell is it with this monomaniacal fixation?  You’d damned near think that there suddenly were no other issues in the whole wide world.

More tomorrow…