The proposal was rejected 57-42 on a party-line vote because, as Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) explained, “….passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to only those who can afford it.”
Update: That’s the problem with satire thse days. It all sounds plausible.
Unless they’re gay.
Related: Culturally-Driven Violence Against Women: A growing problem in Canada’s immigrant communities
Rising consumption today is a far bigger threat to the environment than a rising head count. And most of that extra consumption is still happening in rich countries that have long since given up growing their populations.
Virtually all of the remaining population growth is in the poor world, and the poor half of the planet is only responsible for 7 percent of carbon emissions.
The carbon emissions of one American today are equivalent to those of around four Chinese, 20 Indians, 40 Nigerians, or 250 Ethiopians. How dare rich-world greens blame the poor world for the planet’s perils?
Some greens need to take a long, hard look at themselves. They should remember where some of their ideas came from.
And where they lead. According to this source, repatriating just 14,000 of our Ethiopians could offset the C02 footprint of 4.54 million. If we tossed in the Sri Lankans, we could have our light bulbs back.
So, that population bomb stuff turned out to be a bust, after all. It’s not that you are, but what you are. But, never you mind – they’re right about everything else!
Via.
A anti-statist website is demanding a state inquiry into police actions at the G20, and they’re hosting a poll to that effect – but something seems to have gone horribly wrong. The total votes cast seem to have hung at around 60.
Maybe it’s a server malfunction, maybe it’s because the story over two weeks old and most people outside media don’t give a rats ass. But if you have a few moments, head on over and push some buttons. Let’s see if we can get it working again.
(And as SDA commentors – contrary to popular myth – are pretty much split down the middle on this, it might be interesting to see how an actual “vote” rattles out.)
Britain’s Green MP today declared her support for seven acquitted campaigners who caused £180,000 damage to an arms factory, backing their direct action.
Caroline Lucas, the MP for Brighton Pavilion, said she was “absolutely delighted” that the activists had been cleared, after successfully arguing they were seeking to stop Israeli war crimes.
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Outside the courthouse, Lucas said :”I am absolutely delighted the jury has recognised that the actions of the decommissioners were a legitimate response to the atrocities being committed in Gaza. I do not advocate non-violent direct action lightly. However, in this situation it is clear the decommissioners had exhausted all democratic avenues and, crucially, that their actions were driven by the responsibility to prevent further suffering in Gaza.”
It’s not as though the “disarming of Jews” has any historical precedent, or anything.
Each Monday for the rest of the summer the featured amusement will be a song about a particular city. Songs that merely mention a city, like By The Time I Get To Phoenix, won’t make the cut; the songs will in each case be paeans to the titled city itself. Tonight’s selection is exemplary in that regard, and a good place to start: from 1969, here’s Perry Como making the city of Seattle sound like it’s the greatest place on earth – in other words, like it’s not Seattle.
You are invited to provide your Reader Tips in the comments.
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Taken 10 minutes ago west of Delisle.
Via Foxnews: the new containment cap appears to have stemmed oil flow from BP Horizon leak. Keep your fingers crossed….
Or, noted uterine content provider continues downhill slide.
Alternate: This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Ahmed Muhammed Khali
via Calculated Risk.
In the interest of keeping things light for the summer, tonight’s amusement en route to the tips thread comes from German-born Ria Bartok, who achieved minor success in 60’s France as one of many so-called “yé-yé” girls – yé-yé being a light, la-la-la sort of bubblegum pop. Here she is dancing and lip-syncing her way around Riviera cafes in her remake of French pop star Johnny Hallyday’s hit Because I Saw Linda, called Parce Que J’ai Revu Francois.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
For that environmentalist who has everything on this, World Population Day!
And if that don’t convince ya…
Because nothing says ‘love to love ya, baby’ like a beetle on your pecker.
(And if that fails, well there’s always population offsets.)
60 billion reasons to save the planet:
Last week, after six months of evasions, obfuscation, denials and retractions, a story which has preoccupied this column on and off since January came to a startling conclusion. It turns out that one of the most widely publicised statements in the 2007 report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a claim on which tens of billions of dollars could hang – was not based on peer-reviewed science, as repeatedly claimed, but originated solely from anonymous propaganda published on the website of a small Brazilian environmental advocacy group.
The ramifications of this discovery stretch in many directions. First, it seems to show that the IPCC – whose reports governments rely on to justify presenting mankind with the largest bill in history – has been in serious breach of its own rules.
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And third, it focuses attention once more on a bizarre scheme, backed by the UN and promoted by the World Bank, whereby the WWF has been hoping to share in profits estimated at $60 billion, paid for by firms all over the developed world.
“It’s almost as if he is repeating Donolo’s private conversation with him: “Look Mike, you’ve got to get out there and shake every hand, kiss every baby, put everything you’ve got into this – or we’re dead.”
Except he screwed up the last part.”
The “sheeple” respond. More from today’s pithy comments file – “Michael,your eight seconds were up a long time ago.”
Plus: “Really? Did he really quote Chavez referring to PMSH? “
Uh oh….
June, 2008…
July, 2010…
h/t R. Black
