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Tom Desrosier
Much of what we believe about ourselves, our world and our futures, we learned from someone else. And more often than not, we cling to these beliefs without even knowing why.
Go figure...
Tom
A bold new information world… Update
Since posting this Thursday, I noticed more of the same on digg.com. And then this, which I thought warranted an update.
Does Digg Have a Liberal Bias? Share Your Thoughts.
pbs.org — Though Digg offers dozens of sub-categories under which to submit stories, political items have often dominated the highly trafficked front page in recent months. But with that sharpened political focus has come accusations of bias, leaving some of the site ’s more conservative users frustrated. Does Digg have a liberal bias and is there a solution?
Pasted from <http://digg.com/tech_news/Does_Digg_Have_a_Liberal_Bias_Share_Your_Thoughts>
The above article was written by Mark Glaser; and he did a far more scholarly job than I. Well done Mark.
Tom
Its a bold new information world
Bold, vast, unexplored, largely misunderstood. Where the rules don’t apply, where marauding highwayman, lurk behind chance boulders and trees. 
A veritable Cowboy and Indian land!
And its here, that the hearts and minds of our young and technically savvy Americans are migrating for their news and information. It’s here, that they will form their opinions and decide on their votes
And so it is here, that politicians must blaze their most important trails.
But as I said, there doesn’t seem to be any rules.
Attend this possible scheme that I noticed on digg.com recently. it’s just a surmise mind you; I certainly have no facts or proof.
For those unfamiliar - digg.com is an aggregate information site. That is, articles are uploaded to it, and are voted on by visitors. An article that gets enough "yes" votes, automatically displays on digg.com and is consequently seen by millions of visitors.
Since the presidential campaign has become more prevalent in our lives, I’ve noticed a surge in anti-McCain and Pro-Obama stories making it to the front page of digg. Typically these stories originate from various left-wing or pro-Democrat sources
For instance these stories made it to the top of the heap today:
Jon Stewart Annihilates Sarah Palin’s Media Surrogates
Angry Amateurs - Swampland - TIME (this about how McCain is unfairly criticizing the press for being bias.)
Obama: Would send Attorney General to review Bush War Crimes.
Get the idea? This is just a snap shot this afternoon. Over the course of an entire day, upwards of 15 such top-rated stories will pass in review. All the while, not a single story in rebutal.
And so, I deeply suspect (again without proof) that one of two things is happening here:
1. Most of the web-reading world actually believes that the press is fair, and is showing no bias… Further, they are singularly liberal in their political ideology.
2. Organizations or individuals with a reasonably sized following (i.e., an organized gaggle of political activists or perhaps some type of union of journalists) is voting on aggregate sites like digg, to manipulate the vetting process, thus monopolizing one of the most popular and most viewed aggregate sites in the world.
But what do I know?
This.
Trust no one with your truth. Certainly not the web.
Tom
At the fringes of human idea and belief…
Shhh…
Conspiracy abounds!
Yes, conspiracies, weird stuff that makes no sense, big, big secrets about our government, about space aliens; you name it.
Hey look… Mysterious radio signals from Saturn!
And this…
New revelations about the Kennedy Assassination:
And what’s up with that Bermuda Triangle?
And hey! This guy claims to have killed two space aliens!
You can’t really blame the guy - these so called "Grays" have a rather sinister and nefarious agenda for us humans! What with all those abductions and anal probes.
Lo.
But of course, none of this really matters, given our scheduled demise on the 21st of December, 2012. Go here for survival ideas:
And so on.
And so on!
These are just a few of the perhaps thousands of well-made "youtubes" that I ran across by simply searching "conspiracy". Such a vast compost of human idea and belief; white bleached bones of human thought, abandoned along life’s highway.
I know many of these inspire little serious thought or consideration in the majority of us. They are so outlandish, so far fetched! Indeed, to believe such notions would require deep, fundamental changes in who believe ourselves to be!
I’ve been haunted by this for sometime now…
The idea that some of us know exactly, instinctively, the confines of our reality; and in so knowing, utterly rebuke anything which might challenge it. I too - as the drama unfolded on my computer screen about space aliens with ray guns in underground caverns; about world oblivion in the year 2012.; my mind reacted immediately with counter-proposals, mouthed quietly in familiar, authoritative tombs; convincing me how foolhardy accommodating these new beliefs would be! The disequilibrium was palpable!
No, far better that I continue being and believing what I’ve always been and always believed. Far better that I cling to a sensible, well orchestrated world view that holds me in good opinion and esteem with family and friends.
But alas.
An opportunity lost. An opportunity to expand how and what I think; an opportunity to grow; an opportunity to become better than what I survey.
Alas.
And last but not least, here’s a self-hypnosis video. You should watch this closely.
No, really.
And now that you are helplessly under my power: I shall plant this hypnotic suggestion:
"Log onto www.youtube.com and watch something bizarre and ridiculous! Do it now, before its too late; do it now before common sense once again clutches you in its inescapable death grip! Do it now - not to convince you, but to disquiet you!"
And, oh yeah - "Send me all your money."
Tom
Cold War 2.0 Update…
I hate to interrupt.
I know - most of us are busy being mesmerized by the sights and sounds of the Democratic Convention. Why not? Bad speeches, disingenuous people with their big artificial smiles pretending to like and admire each other, and yes of course, the undeniable undertones of petty power struggles by people who should never be trusted with it…
Actually, when I put it that way, it seems pretty interesting.
But attend…
This story was linked on drudgereport.com yesterday.
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"US reviewing entire relationship with Russia" |
And these two stories were linked to drudgereport.com today.
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"Russia threatens military response to US Missiles" |
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"Demitri Medvedev raises spectre of new cold war" |
And finally, linked to digg.com...
"Russian Cruiser to test Weapons in Crowded Black Sea"
Its this last article that adds to what we know… There are at least 7 NATO ships in the Black Sea, in the guise of offloading humanitarian supplies. Included in this mix is the US Command Ship, USS MOUNT WHITNEY, that will soon be on its way from Italy.
A Command Ship? To deliver cots and bedding?
The Sixth Fleet’s Flagship?
One of the Navy’s most sophisticated intelligence and communications platforms? Delivering cots and bedding?
![Russian_Navy_Moskva_And_NATO_Ships[1]](http://grootz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/russian-navy-moskva-and-nato-ships1.jpg)
And the Russian Cruiser, MOSKVA… The Russian Black Sea Fleet Flagship… Innocently out testing communications and weapons systems with all those other ships out and about?
Hmmm.
I think the standoff has begun. There’s obviously been no softening in either Russia’s or the US’s position; and even Europe is alert to the danger, having committed ships to the Black Sea.
The important thing now for the US, is to continue its presence in Georgia, accelerate arming Poland, which is an integral part of the missile treaty; and expedite Ukraine’s entry into NATO before Russia makes life hard for them.
Lots going on these days, but I think these opening salvos in this new Cold War are worth a close watch.
Ok, back to the political soap opera on TV. Hillary spoke last night at the convention. I’m sure the pundits will be talking their unmovable heads off all day about it!
Tom
Cold War 2.0… Colder, deadlier, much improved.
World events seem to be unfolding upon yet one more Cold War. That is, undeclared hostilities between two antagonists, each lurking in doorways and behind deserted cars for opportunities to undermine the other.
Picture from www.flatrock.org
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This story describes the degrading military cooperation between Nato and Russia. |
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While this story describes the ongoing diplomatic breakdown between USA and Russia. |
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And this story discusses how Russia is escalating tensions by blockading Georgian ports. |
What’s it all mean?
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This opinion piece by Andrew Bast provides good insight, but plays the usual, "Its all Bush’s fault", blame-game. |
| Dick Morris | And juxtaposed, is this great piece; Dick is a little more even handed and insightful about what happened in the White House. |
In my opinion, both pieces have merit and provide a valuable point of view.
But regardless of whose fault it is… Here we are. And other than the part where hostilities are undeclared, and we still have Nuclear Weapons and occupying armies, this Cold War is far different.
Attend:
In Cold War 1.0, Russia had little financial leverage over the world. This time she and her allies, such as Iran, Syria and Venezuela have vast oil reserves.
In Cold War 1.0, forces were poised along the borders between Europe and the Eastern Soviet Block. In 2.0, it will be less about armies and more about oil and its inevitable leverage plied with deft skill against the European Union.
In Cold War 1.0 America and her allies were able to financially isolate the Soviet Union and outspend her in a military build-up that would later see America as the preeminent military force in the world.
This time, the Russians and her allies might attempt to do the same with us be denying, or at least influencing, the price of oil. And this at a time when America is far more vulnerable than usual due to ongoing tensions from a banking crisis, national debt and inflation.
In Cold War 1.0, the strategy of "Mutually Assured Destruction", was played out every day by two sober presidents utterly committed to self-preservation. This time, Nuclear Weapons might soon be in the hands on the likes of unstable leaders, such as Ahmadinejad, who seems bent on self-destruction.
Picture from www.jewcy.com
In Cold War 1.0, America had leaders who were capable and willing of confronting evil in the world; who fought for America, who urged our success; who had a plan to win the peace and foster the national will.
Alas, This is who America has placed its hopes and trust upon…
Picture (with some alteration) from pentagraph.com
| Senator Reid, The Senate Majority Leader said, "U.S. can’t win the war in Iraq; the war is lost." |  |
| Representative Pelosi, The Speaker of the House, said, "Iraq is a failure." |
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And then there’s Senator Obama…
As I write this, I find him a dangerous quantity. Much of what he has said comes from a heart of appeasement and non-confrontation - given that, he will allow Russia and her allies a clear and unfettered path to world dominion.
I feel he will acquiesce to provocation offered by Russia and her new allies, giving them far more advantage than is prudent.
Picture from http://www.barackobama.com
Such is the dire state of America’s leadership as we commence one of our most dangerous and challenging times.
I ask you… Who will deny Russia an opportunity to deploy missiles in Cuba this time and uphold the Monroe Doctrine? Yes, Russia is already speaking of returning to Cuba:
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| This article from… |
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| This article form | The Russian News Agency |
I ask you, who will deny Russia an opportunity to invade and occupy even more of Eastern Europe’s fragile democracies? Certainly not a tentative and timid European Union. Indeed, had they not been so fearful of Russia, Georgia would have been voted-in as NATO’s newest member.
And with the Democrat’s refusing to allow America to explore and exploit our own vast oil reserves; and given their demonstrative and palpable fear of confrontation and competition, have we not exasperated and enabled this new Cold War?
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Yes, we’d all like change to the old world conflicts and their intrigues; We all long to feel the warm and loving embrace of a nurturing hospitable planet, where our world leaders meet with clasped hands in a large circle, in some meadow, raising their voices in Koombaya! |
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Picture from www.zimbio.com
But alas.
For yet a while longer, the world is still the world. A dangerous place where the dead-eye stare from enemies seen and unseen, still abides, still machinates, still enterprises in mischief, our undoing.
And so this November, when your civic duty prompts you to vote for the leadership which will choose America’s fate in such an uncertain future, remember this well…
Is peace still peace if we’ve sold our national soul to achieve it?
Or is America better than that?
Tom
As lofty as it sounds, its still killing!
I listened to a debate this morning between Laura Ingraham and Jennifer Stockman. Stockman represents some republican movement toward "Pro-Choice", While predictably, Laura argued for Pro-Life" (Thanks Laura).
Abortion is a tiresome, bone-weary argument that never seems to go away; with groups deeply entrenched on what they both believe are moral principals.
Picture by P. Chicago, www.flickr.com
This is the "Pro-Choice" view: Women have a right to do whatever they want with their bodies. They feel it is an unimpeachable right guaranteed under the Constitution!
Picture from www.nationalreview.com
As for "Pro-Life" - They advance a simple and moral argument: Abortion is killing and killing cannot be condoned as the undisputed and sacrosanct right of anyone!
And from here, the landscape becomes broken and ambiguous. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled via multiple decisions,that abortion is legal, but may be regulated.
To the Pro-Choice crowd, no regulation is acceptable. To the Pro-Life crowd, banning abortion is the only regulation necessary.
And so America still struggles with the the morality and legality of it all. The argument that women are entitled to an unconditional right to abortion, logically becomes the right to kill the unborn child, even well into its final trimester, when the conscious mind has begun to form. Indeed! Even Obama apparently voted in favor of legislation in his home state that would cause children who survived a failed abortion, and were consequently born, to be killed through neglect.
And so we are left with this two-fold argument.
How much killing is appropriate to compensate women for their perceived lack of self-empowered. And of course, how do we define "killing".
Gee. This seems like a job for Congress. Aren’t they the ones who write our laws and make those kind of proclamations? Indeed, with Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the house, you’d think she’d be right on top of this!
Oh good. The Wall Street Journal, mentions that Congress made a number of proclamations this year. Maybe they looked at protecting fetuses.
Hmmm.
They saluted the Idaho Potato Commission’s 70th anniversary and recognized soil as an "essential natural resource."
They designated May 5-9 as National Substitute Teacher Recognition Week, and set July 28 as the Day of the American Cowboy.
Democratic Rep. Charlie Wilson of Ohio, a fourth-generation undertaker, sponsored a National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day.
Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, whose home state of Georgia has 24,000 acres planted in watermelon, pushed a resolution establishing July as National Watermelon Month.
Nope… Apparently no time to worry about the ongoing genocide of unborn Americans. Not with Dirt and Watermelons on the agenda.
Anyway, this was bothering me, and I felt compelled to write my peace. We seem to have put the most vulnerable among us as the central piece of an argument, that America should not be having.
Choice… Wasn’t that the argument the South used over slavery? Choice… Isn’t that the argument Hitler used when annexing the Hinterlands? Choice… Isn’t that the argument Iran is using over its Nuclear ambitions? Choice.
Choice… This one photograph sums it up for me (warning- this is graphic).
Choice.
Tom
History’s Déjà vu or Déjà voo-doo!
They say History repeats itself. And today it seems to be doing so with break-neck speed! Yes, take counsel, indeed, take flight - for behold, everything bad that has ever beset humanity, has suddenly returned to once again darken our world.
Alas, the end draws neigh.
Attend.
Another cold war is about to commence…
"Russia and USA to launch another Cold War after their presidents leave office"
With an attendant Cuban missile crisis…
"Duma Deputy: Russia may deploy missiles in Cuba"
Meanwhile,
Another oil crisis has befallen us…
And yes, another banking crisis…
Another largely gratuitous, yet appropriately catastrophic stock market crash…
While Israel predictably stands poised and ever-ready for yet another Armageddon.
As World temperatures climb again… It seems to happen every 100,000 years. I gather Al Gore wasn’t there to help out the other times - too bad.
While the usual plethora of "End of the World" predictionists are once again proclaiming the unerring accuracy of unfolding world events.
And as if all that doom and gloom were not enough to seal humanity’s dire fate - how about this: another big time Democrat gets caught having an affair while his doting wife continues to stand stoically by him.
picture from theaustralian.news.com
And so History repeats. But just this one last time. Because this time, we really, really are - all going to die.
Really!
Picture from clipartheaven.com
What should we do?
Yeah, what to do.
No problem! I’m there for you! Here are 7 essential ideas to help you prolong, ever so briefly, what will no doubt be, an utterly hopeless and miserable existence:
1. Convert all your stocks and savings to precious metals. In the coming chaos, you’ll want to trade your gold for stuff you need, like food, or pit-bulls or egg-laying chickens.
Picture from www.indored.com
2. Don’t fly on airplanes that are crewed by born again Christians. As we all know, Christians will undergo a rapture, just before the Earth starts to go to crap. One minute they might be flying your airplane, and the next… WHOOSH! Right straight to Heaven!
Well, you could die before you had a chance to go broke or properly suffer from a well placed biblical pestilence.
Picture form quadri.wordpress.com
3. Splurge on big stuff using only credit. Why not? Institutions will be so broke it won’t matter. May as well watch all that bad news unfold on a brand new plasma TV.
picture from elmwoodmagic.com
4. Try to buy a defunct missile silo in the Mid-West; or perhaps build a bomb shelter in your backyard.
This will soon be your home!
animated gif from dorseyland
5. If you need a calendar for your bomb shelter, don’t waste your money on one those Mayan calendars. They run out of time in 2012.
Yeah - Mayans think the world will end in 2012. If I were Mayan, I wouldn’t be making 2013 calendars either.
Picture from www.howstuffworks.com
6. Buy lots of guns and ammo and join a civilian militia. You’ll need to protect yourself from the coming hordes of violent banjo-playing "deliverance-type" highwaymen.
Picture from http://stewart-rhodes.blogspot.com/
And 7. Go get an intuitive or psychic reading to see how much time you have remaining.
And ladies, get a pedicure.
Need a coupon?
Hope I helped here. And please accept my best wishes that your upcoming suffering and demise be painless and not overly inconvenient.
Tom
Given today, is tomorrow really that hopeless?
Absolutely. And its all been predicted by top scientists in their respective fields.
Whisper it with that haunted, eyes-glazed over look: "Top scientists".
Sure, I can understand, I had the same reaction when I first learned of it all. Go ahead - this is certainly the time for an appropriately off-color metaphor or expletive. Feel free.
Time for explanations.
We’ll begin with a lesson in Dead Reckoning. The Holy mantra of the navigating world, Dead Reckoning is how ships found their way across the wide expanse of ocean before we had such things as satellites or GPS.
But more important than all that, Dead Reckoning is how we can now, all scientifically, and methodically, describe the human condition as utterly and completely hopeless.
Hopeless.
Yes, thanks to Dead Reckoning, we can plot a million ways to die, and perhaps even calculate when.
Dead Reckoning… The breakfast of champions (with apologies to General Mills and their fines cereal product).
So let’s be off.
Picture from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dead-reckining.svg
Its 0900 and we’ve just plotted our first Dead Reckoning (DR) course. Our ship’s starting position is seen above in the triangle marked 0900.
We’ve drawn a straight line in the direction our compass shows we’re heading (that’s the pointy end of the ship for you land-lubbers).
A glance at the ship’s log tells us how fast we’re going. Hmmm, 10 knots. That’s chewing up a nautical mile every 10 minutes. Good - nice round numbers are easier to calculate.
And so at 1/2 hour intervals, given our speed and direction, we’ll plot along this line, our predicted position with dots and half circles. (We’ll reward ourselves a full circle as we reach each of these points.
And that’s it. Dead Reckoning.
Navigation’s version of Occams Razor!
True, true, the simplest solution always tends to be the best. Don’t you agree? And what could possibly be simpler than a DR Plot!
Picture from http://learnsigma.com/applying-occams-razor-to-lean/
Moreover, something that works so elegantly for navigation, must work for everything else, don’t you think?
That’s Occam’s Razor too!
Let’s put it to the test…
If we know how warm Earth is today, and we know how warm it was 10,00 years ago or so, its a simple matter to plot our temperature predictions for the next 1000, 2000, even 3000 years! Oh look! We seem to have uncovered an inconvenient truth!
What about food? If we know how much food we can grow, and how many people it can feed; what child’s play to plot our predictions about population growth to see when everyone will starve to death. Ouch - that’s pretty bad news too.
And, ahhh, that scourge of all scourges, oil! We can plot our current supplies, the rate we find more, together with changing demand over time… Oh, look - even more bad news! Let’s call it "peak oil" and be afraid.
Getting the idea?
Back to Dead Reckoning.
As I mentioned, ships plied the 7 seas for centuries using such a principal. All that remained of course, was to routinely check the actual position against this DR plot. In ancient times, they measured the height of the sun at noon; and provided their clocks were accurate, this told them latitude. Today we merely glance at our trusty GPS.
Let’s take a look at our position and see how we did. We’ve been reading for awhile - it must be 1000 by now.
A quick look at the Global Positioning System… We’ll plot our new position on the Dead Reckoning Plot with a big blue dot and circle. Oh… It seems we have wandered off course; and slowed down too! Lets draw a line from our starting point to see what the course really was - something around 025 degrees it seems; and our speed, approximately 9 knots.
But how could that happen? Let’s see, the compass still shows the pointy end of the ship is heading in a compass heading of 030; the speed by log still measures 10 knots.
Yeah, what could have happened…
In nautical terms, its called "Set and Drift". You see, winds and underwater currents have buffeted our ship unawares, affecting what we thought was its even and measured advance. Our devices for measuring time, speed and heading have also induced error (for reasons that are beyond the scope of my illustration here).
And so I give you set and drift. Uncalculated but significant affects to our trusty predictive tool, the Dead Reckoning Plot; and more importantly, the reason our ship’s position is seldom where its supposed to be.
Time for Occam’s Razor again.
Dead Reckoning being only middlin useful, given navigation’s simple problem of ship’s course, speed and position, imagine how inadequate when attempting to predict such infinitely complex events as global warming, starvation, or peak oil; a notion made more ludicrous given our meager handful of facts and observations.
Indeed. For a mere few degrees off course on our transatlantic voyage causes us to miss the entire Northeast coast of the United States when aiming for New York City. 1 measly degree causes a Five Billion Dollar NASA probe to miss Mars and shoot off into deep space. And only a half of a degree might ground our ship upon shoal water while piloting up a meandering river.
And so we ask yet again: If we know how warm Earth is today, and we know how warm it was 10,000 years ago, is it a simple matter to plot temperatures for the next 1000, 2000, even 3000 years and arrive at Global Warming?
Maybe not.
Lo. Someone Dead Reckoned (DR’d) humanity’s technological progress. In a recent article in the New Scientist, a Physicist named Jonathan Huebner, found that humanity is heading into a technological dark age.
Gee, that seems to contradict this DR plot by Kurzweil, whose 2001 essay, The Law of Accelerating Returns plotted an ever-accelerating rate of technological change (from Wikepedia).
Apparently lots of technological change is coming; but maybe not.
Maybe, maybe not.
Ahhh, such a conundrum… "Given today, is tomorrow really that hopeless?"
Or put another way:
Given Big Bird, is the Queen of England really that different?"
Picture from tmz.com
Or perhaps…
If either of them had wheels, would they be unrecognizable from my trusty 2005 Dodge Rumble Bee with the 5.7cc Hemi?
picture from www.trucktrend.com
With gas milleage no better than 15 miles per gallon?
Maybe, maybe not.
Thanks for reading; I appreciate any comments.
Tom
That Scourge of All Measures, The Metric System!
For those of you old enough, remember all that nonsense in the 1970s and 1980s about America converting to the Metric System? Someone had this notion that America should do away with our archaic yards, feet, inches and pounds, and instead conform to the world’s view about how to measure things. Behind all this was the idea that commerce and scientific inquiries between various nations, including America, would be far more efficient because we wouldn’t needlessly have to convert measures.
Such a dumb idea. The metric system would simply die an ignoble death once America rebuked it.
No, far better the world should be conforming to our methods. After all, we’re talking America here!
Let’s check the score. Note below the nations in red - they’re the ones still NOT using the metric system.
Map from Wikipedia
Go figure.
Tom
Humanity isn’t just anti-oil…
Almost everyday, we read or hear of yet one more lawsuit against some oil company, that aims to stop them from drilling, or pumping. Here’s an example.
I was struck by the significant huddles we place in front of oil producers, and then whine and b*tch about price. What with our uncooperative government, and its insufferable political intrigues… And then once approval is given, the formulation of leases, then the environmental impact statements, wetlands studies, species impacts; the incessant trips to town meetings to answer this question and that. And all the while, demonstrators and activists are making their lives living hells with their protests, nuisance demonstrations, and of course non-stop court case proceedings.
I’m not in the oil business by the way, never was. This is all from the outside looking in.
Well, its a good thing we have Alternative Energy coming to our rescue. Something we can all agree on at last.
Let’s chant it together: "Alternative Energy, Alternative Green Energy, Alternative, non-carbon producing, tree hugging, planet loving energy!"
Doesn’t that give you a nice warm glow?
Ahhh.
How about all that good clean wind power! Blowing with hapless abandon all around us! Oh, so green, so clean, so wondrous!
Oh look… Someone doesn’t like Wind Energy.
Picture from Soul Online
And this screen shot…
Web capture from windstop.org
Well, we can always build Nuclear Power Plants…
Oops.
Picture from cop13news
What about geothermal power? You know, use the Earth’s internal heat to generate electricity! Hey! The earth is already a smoking burning caldron inside - why not just boil a little water on top and send it to a turbine for electricity! How natural! No carbon footprint, no pollution from man-made sources…
Oh. We seem to have hit a snag here too.
Picture from sciencefaction.com
Fine. We’ll just focus on solar power! you know, just an innocent array of mirrors or collectors, scattered here and there on rooftops or in desserts.
Hmmm. Not in California apparently.
Web capture from heartland.org
Ok. We’ll focus on our amazing biofuels! In fact just this morning I saw an article in Popular Mechanics about some very promising technologies! Ahh, good, clean and renewable biofuels!
Oh… We seem to be protesting that too:
Picture from: The American Culture
And clean coal? Is that America’s next boom for energetic humanity?
Picture from: Read the Hook
Fine.
I guess that just leaves my trusty bicycle. And to borrow a phrase from the NRA, "You can take my bicycle away from me when you pry it out of my cold dead fingers!"
Oh.
As Jim Rohn once opined, "All good will be attacked." I wish it were that easy. It just seems more often than not what’s good for one, is attacked because its bad for another; hence the chaotic and hostile environment created around any innovation or idea.
But in the end. Humanity always seems to come through. And we will again this time, despite our ardor to the contrary.
Tom
