Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Greatest Interview Ever (Follow up on Global Warming)

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Lord Christopher Monckton interviews a poor Greenpeace activist. I honestly feel sorry for her, but Lord Monckton handles the situation as nicely as he can. Anyway Lord Monckton might be my new hero… When is the last time you’ve heard an interviewer with so many facts and possessed the ability to lead their guest as logically?

Climate Change?

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Millions of people all over the world are devastated about the future of Earth. They believe we are systematically destroying our planet one car at a time. Can I just ask a simple question:

From whose authority did this idea come from that man is causing climate change? More importantly from whose authority came the belief that the current climate change is anymore drastic than the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age?

Before you equate me to something along the lines of a Holocaust denier please try to understand how my brain works: when presented with a new theory or idea I first try to logically deduce whether the presented theory is rational. In order to accomplish this I must understand the logic and any observations which were used to build the theory and to determine if the theory contains contradictions or lacks the ability to explain certain occurrences. In my school years many theories were presented to me, including many that were presented as fact. One such theory was the Big Bang. This is a theory that describes how our universe started. It’s an interesting concept, but it requires more faith than logic to take it as truth. Current observations of the accelerating galaxies and the idea of singularity (or zero) containing all matter in the universe are just a few wrenches in that theories gears.

The reason I ask “from whose authority” is because the man induced climate change theory is more faith than science. When I was first presented with this theory I did not dismiss it, as I give all theories a chance no matter how odd they are. The problem with this one seems to be the fact that I can’t even start my logical processes of deduction as there is no evidence or proof presented to support it. Any decent programmer can create a computer model based on linear regression and have it produce the output to support your goal. Hell I just did that last summer to predict the futures market. Now if you believe that a computer model can predict something as complex as the market that’s one thing, but climate? Do you have any idea how many variables would be necessary for that multiple linear regression formula to even come close to predicting next weeks climate? I’ll answer that for you: no you don’t. No one does. Back to my point: this theory must be one based on authority and not truth. There is one thing that is certain: the majority of people (not all) do not have a mind of their own, thus most willfully submit to authority.

“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein

By the way, if anyone has the “lost” temperature/CO2 data used in the IPCC models, please send it my way as I’ll gladly write a computer model which can be used to prove or disprove the IPCC’s findings.

One last thing: if you really believe in man made climate change I want you to know that I don’t have bad feelings towards you. I really don’t mind making money in the new trillion dollar carbon market.

Update
I just found this article which was also published today from the Daily Express out of the UK that I thought fit nicely with this post: CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL: 100 REASONS WHY. To start the list off:

1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.

2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.

3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.

4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.

5) Throughout the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.

6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time.

7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends.

8) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited.

9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists – in a scandal known as “Climate-gate” – suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming

10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.

11) Politicians and activiists claim rising sea levels are a direct cause of global warming but sea levels rates have been increasing steadily since the last ice age 10,000 ago

… It goes on and on.

Michigan Smoking Ban

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

I just received news from one of my coworkers. Michigan passed a public smoking ban. Thank you career politicians for deciding the Michigan public is too stupid to make decisions for themselves. Its not enough to let private business owners decide whether they will allow smoking in their establishment or to allow their customers choose to support such places. Instead the political swine must make that decision by pissing their greater good of society on all of us.

Let the Market Do its Thing
Lets say I own a restaurant called Spit In Your Face. Our motto is that every time you sit down to enjoy your meal, a waitress comes up to you and spits in your face. By the way, Spit In Your Face restaurants make no guarantee about the gender or appearance of your waitress/waiter. Do you imagine Spit In Your Face will have many customers after the first week of business? Perhaps there will be a few that get a kick out of that, but I’ll assume the majority will disapprove and choose other restaurants to frequent. As astute readers will gather there is no need for a law prohibiting restaurant workers from spitting in customer’s faces. People made the choice and my restaurant went out of business. Take this one step further. If people severely disprove of smoking sections in restaurants or bars, why is it that these places are still in business? Let’s say that 50% or even 70% of the Michigan public dislike smoking. Then is it not their right to avoid smoking establishments and frequent the many 100% smoke free restaurants and bars (here’s a list of thousands that have made that choice on their own)? Yes those places might not be very popular, as I can’t even name a popular smoke free bar in Michigan, but the point still stands. No one is putting a gun to anyone’s head forcing them to goto places that allow smoking. If you want restaurants and bars to ban smoking simply remove their economic incentive.

Flight of Michigan’s Youth
Until today I was under the impression that the Michigan moochers in office were working hard to prevent the flight of it’s youth. By hard, I mean pushing some papers around and spewing do-gooder rhetoric. Not only is it impossible for youth out of college to get a decent job around here, they’ve now added a huge restriction on their freedoms. Banning smoking might not seem like a like a vast encroachment on our freedoms, yet it sets the precedence for a nanny state.

The Outcome
I am one of Michigan’s youth. My goal was to create a successful technology company that would excite our youth into staying in Michigan. Well government you just killed that dream. I for one will not live or even think about starting a family in a state that declares war on my freedoms. As soon as I am economically viable I will leave along with my company.

Michigan I will do what liberty loving citizens should do: remove your taxable income and watch you drown in your debt.

Watch this South Park clip that hit’s the nail on the head. You’ll get a kick out of it: