31 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: The Nobel Peace Prize”

  1. On a dark abandoned street a lone figure wearing new glasses is calling, “Here Kyoto. Come here boy. Here Kyoto”.

  2. In times of economic or national security concerns the environment (as an issue) gets the priority it deserves. Happens every time.
    The environment becomes a big issue when people have nothing else to bitch about.

  3. On the Ontario front – Flaherty’s attacks have the goal of pinning the blame of the economic decline of Ontario on the spendthrift ways of the provincial government. He has the facts on his side.
    When will the MSM start questioning Ontario’s reckless investments in solar energy – paying something like an order of magnitude more than the market for the power?

  4. Good to see terrorism at 2%… it is not a big issue for 98% of people yet Bush has spend billions on that issue for almost nothing.
    Time to move on. 9/11 is history now… Let’s look toward the future.

  5. Not “almost” nothing. Absolutely nothing.
    An amazing accomplishment for the Bush administration, yes? In the wake of 9/11, and despite fighting a war with two extremist fronts, over 6 years have passed without a successful attack on home soil.
    That’s what you meant, isn’t it?

  6. AQS:
    I would lump the situation in iraq/war (i.e. the war on terror) in with terrorism+national security. Most americans do. When you do that the issue is easily the second most important.
    Perhaps more interesting is that immigration is as low as it is – 6%.

  7. Let’s hope what you say is true. Although after listening to Republican John McCain’s speech today (March 26, 200, he fully endorses the big lie of “global warming” and he intends to, as president if elected, to implement a cap and trade system on the federal level in the United States. I wouldn’t be counting on the shrills in the media to go away so quietly. They will be encouraged by McCain’s position on “global warming” to beat the hell out of our politicians and to preach to us hard working Canadians that we need to get with the program. We are in trouble indeed. But I agree that since McCreepy is a Liberal he got a free pass today. The slow road to socialism and tyranny in North America continues….

  8. The same goes for the economy, oil prices, and healthcare. In the US they all pivot on the same thing – financial hardship worry (health care isn’t about quality in the US, it’s about cost).
    John McCain has GOT to get out in front of this and start naming financial experts that he will have in his cabinet. (IMO)

  9. Like it says up in the corner(was gonna say the left, but there is no left side on a SDA webpage)
    “what media and polititians alike have told me “what we think”
    But they never ask.
    Or, maybe, they just report what they want, and say what is politically correct.
    Keep shouting back Kate

  11. Anybody notice that the press is on about the US “recession” in the same way that they were on about AGW a while back.
    Guess what, the press has never predicted a recession before and you can bet that they are wrong this time too.
    The numbers in the US have not confirmed a recession yet, and you can bet with the press bleating away about it there won’t be one either. Yes, there have been pockets of economic destruction in the US, but its regional. Or specific like the long overdue correction in housing bull market. If you take a peak at the HGX (index of 20 large US housing companies) it has bottomed and is rising. Fed liquidity has turned the tide there too.
    Nope, the MSM will be just as wrong about a US recession as they have been about AGW. The printing presses are flying worldwide. Inflation is going to become a huge problem, and if anyone was smart in the MSM they would be writing about that.
    Don’t hold your breath.

  13. The lefties will try to kid themselves that these polls aren’t representative.
    But deep down, this just burns them!! Don’t take it too hard though lefties, just because your superior intellect is being ignored by the masses doesn’t mean they don’t like you!!
    Really, a lefty is everyone’s best friend and everyone really likes it when lefties go slumming in the real world once and a while!
    Just don’t overstay your welcome…

  14. atheist, 911 is history? yes. unfortunately history repeats itself. you also can be damn sure the socialists will continue to push the agw scam no matter what the reality is.

  15. “”””””Good to see terrorism at 2%… it is not a big issue for 98% of people yet Bush has spend billions on that issue for almost nothing.””””
    yer rite, bush spent billions, and NOW the terroists ( or is that a too politicaly incorrect term fer ya?)have done nothing since 9/11

  16. Please don’t give Mcguinty credit for ‘figuring it out’!
    He just knows he’ll get a free ride from the MSM…just like he was off the hook during the election for his lies and ‘health care’ mess.
    And if he was going to do anything about the ‘environment’ it would be more $$$ for the teachers to ‘educate’ our little darlins’ about global warming by spreading Gore/Suzuki propaganda.
    It’s probably in the education budget if we look closely.Connect the dots: the teachers fund is highly invested in Globemedia.It’s a circle of love.

  17. aww, c’mon now GYM, you know it wasn’t Bush’s Billions that stopped the nutties.
    If was Nancy Pelosi who went over and explained everything to the nutties, patted them on the head, and put a chocolate in their pocket that calmed it all down.
    Sheesh, where do you get your news???

  19. I’m guessing the ranking of “concerns” in this poll exactly parallels the amount of coverage these issues are getting in the MSM.
    The Media have been harping on the economy/recession theme for months now dropping the War in Iraq coverage to second place etc….
    As commenter RCGZ so accurately noted … The media have NEVER yet had any foresight in any matters of import.
    So what kind of fool basses their decisions or make plans based on the sensation of the moment that the MSM has fixated upon??

  20. McSquinty will make all the Dion Kyoto targets by having all the car plants shut in.
    oh right the “whats the Buzz” Hargrove got the car plants exempted from Kyoto. the dark satanic mills looks werent good enough photo ops compared to a oilsands plant.

  21. I’m flabbergasted that concern for the environment is as small as it is.
    I have this image of someone living in a 4,000 sq ft home, with three vehicles including an SUV and a pickup truck which they use to commute to and from work for 2 hours a day, and who fly off to exotic vacation paradises a couple of times per year.
    And when asked what their biggest worry is, they reply “the environment”.
    Maybe people are more honest with themselves than I thought.

  22. “I have this image of someone living in a 4,000 sq ft home, with three vehicles including an SUV and a pickup truck which they use to commute to and from work for 2 hours a day, and who fly off to exotic vacation paradises a couple of times per year.”
    Right now in the US hundreds of thousands of such homes are being foreclosed, and the repo man is very busy hauling off those SUVs.
    The US is in a full-blown recession, only a massive devaluation of the currency make it look like there is still ‘growth’ there. Everybody took a big pay cut and they see it when they fill up their tanks and do their groceries. Now the big job losses are just beginning, with 30,000 being let go by Delta Airlines alone. Construction has been dead for a while, but since it employed mostly illegals from Mexico and central America that doesn’t show in the stats.
    I am surprised anyone answered anything besides the economy as their main concern. Must be the remaining rich folks.
    It will get worse before it gets better, the writing has been on the wall for a long time.

  23. Free markets have a way of correction occasionally.
    Happened in the 30’s.
    After 52 months on unbroken employment gains in the US, a bit of declining employment cannot be viewed as a disaster.
    If nothing else, it may stem the tide of illegal immigration from Mexico, thereby putting that down the list from the 6% it’s currently ranked at.

  24. “Free markets have a way of correction occasionally.”
    True enough. The keyword here is ‘free’.
    In a truly free market bad debts would be liquidated, insolvent banks would go down, poorly run businesses would go belly up, phony wealth would evaporate, and sound money and credit would carry on.
    Politicians don’t want to own up to dealing with a recession, so they play those games with bailing out losers and tanking the currency. What should have been a run-of-the-mill correction will most probably become a major meltdown.

  25. I don’t even know why they claim McCain is Republican. He is for Global Warming, Amnesty for Illegals, voted against Bush’s Tax Cuts, McCain/Fiengold, McCain/Kennedy.
    We only agree on two issues, no Bail-Out for Home Lenders and the War, other than that, he is a stark raving lunatic that probably won’t make it to November and I will have to vote for him by proxy.
    Good Grief !

  26. Gimmy-knee-crickets, the first thing out of my mouth would have been gas prices.
    Where do they poll these people ? Obviously they ain’t polling no Republicans they work for a living.
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  27. mcdinks enviro-vision, buro slave-voters, shmart edjimcashin, union-bots and his mclies are all belong to it. The cold winter froze up the mcplan.

  28. Kate: Not “almost” nothing. Absolutely nothing.
    GYM: yer rite, bush spent billions, and NOW the terroists ( or is that a too politicaly incorrect term fer ya?)have done nothing since 9/11
    Actually, the terrorists have managed to kill another 4,000+ Americans since 9/11 (~5,000+ if you include private security contractors too) and maim tens of thousands more. And that’s just the American military. I don’t imagine Iraqi civilian casualities–easily over the 100,000 mark–counts for much in your books.

  29. Governments always do the right thing, but only after they have tried everything else.

  31. As commenter RCGZ so accurately noted … The media have NEVER yet had any foresight in any matters of import.
    From: http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-whyspeculate.html
    “My topic for today is the prevalence of speculation in media. What does it mean? Why has it become so ubiquitous? Should we do something about it? If so, what should we do? And why? Should we care at all? Isn’t speculation valuable? Isn’t it natural?”
    “I will join this speculative bandwagon and speculate about why there is so much speculation. In keeping with the trend, I will try express my views without any factual support, simply providing you with a series of bald assertions.”
    Read the rest if you have the time.

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