Comments on: Why Small Irish Eyes Need Big Hollywood

By: bernadette

bernadette — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:34:55 +0000

You could throw in two recent ones– Happy Feet and Over the Hedge, too.
People are bad, bad, bad — animals and nature are good, good, good…
I can’t let my kids watch this porn !

By: Steevin Harper

Steevin Harper — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:09:41 +0000

Yes l agree with Ryan Healy.
Hollywood and the established media are like two dirty tramps in disguise hoboing for a living equaly with compulsively corrupt governments.
You only have to look closely at the faces, bloodline connections and agendas of these so called leaders then the games up and exposed.
lts a maze of illusions that thinking parents are up against and its like scrounging through a garbage tip…but in order to find many
truths one needs to get their hands dirty in the process.

By: Fran Manns, Ph.D., P.Geo. (Ontario)

Fran Manns, Ph.D., P.Geo. (Ontario) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:03:10 +0000

Bumper stickers for a large bumper.
The danger to the planet is an optical illusion. CO2 is de minimis. Prosperity, however, is being seriously threatened by NGO lobby groups with tunnel vision. It is not heavy industry at fault. It is cynical politicians fishing for constituencies using politically correct red herring for bait.
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Eric Hoffer, 1951 – “The True Believer – Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”
P.11
“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors , shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the actions that follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
And p.12
“People who see their lives as irremediably spoiled cannot find a worth-while purpose in self-advancement…Their innermost craving is for a new life – a rebirth – or failing this, a chance to acquire new elements of pride, confidence, hope, a sense of purpose and worth by an identification with a holy cause. An active mass movement offers them opportunities for both…” [ Is this Mr. Gore?]
and P. 13
“ It is true that in the early adherents of a mass movement there are also adventurers who join in the hope that that the movement will give a spin to their wheel of fortune and whirl them to fame and power.”
And

Eric Hoffer, 1979 – “Before the Sabbath”
p. 7
“ I am curious about Pechorin, a Russian intellectual of the mid-nineteenth century who wrote a poem on “How sweet it is to hate one’s native land and eagerly await its annihilation.”

By: Fran Manns, Ph.D., P.Geo. (Ontario)

Fran Manns, Ph.D., P.Geo. (Ontario) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:02:18 +0000

Keeping in mind that windmills are hazardous to birds, be wary of the unintended consequences of believing and contributing to the all-knowing environmental lobby groups.
Climate and economy are being linked. Climate is a multiple loop, multiple input, complex system. The facts and the hypotheses do not support CO2 as a serious ‘pollutant’. In fact it is plant fertilizer and seriously important to all life on the planet. It is the red herring used by the left to unwind our economy. That makes the science relevant.
Water vapour (0.4% overall by volume in air, but 1 – 4 % near the surface) is the most effective green house gas followed by methane (0.0001745%). The third ranking greenhouse gas is CO2 (0.0383%), and it does not correlate well with global warming or cooling either; in fact, CO2 in the atmosphere trails warming which is clear natural evidence for its well-studied inverse solubility in water: CO2 dissolves in cold water and bubbles out of warm water. The equilibrium in seawater is very high; making seawater a great ’sink’; CO2 is 34 times more soluble in water than air is soluble in water.
Correlation is not causation to be sure. The causation is being studied, however, and while the radiation from the sun varies only in the fourth decimal place, the magnetism is awesome.
“Using a box of air in a Copenhagen lab, physicists traced the growth of clusters of molecules of the kind that build cloud condensation nuclei. These are specks of sulphuric acid on which cloud droplets form. High-energy particles driven through the laboratory ceiling by exploded stars far away in the Galaxy – the cosmic rays – liberate electrons in the air, which help the molecular clusters to form much faster than climate scientists have modeled in the atmosphere. That may explain the link between cosmic rays, cloudiness and climate change.”
As I understand it, the hypothesis of the Danish National Space Center goes as follows:
Quiet sun → reduced magnetic and thermal flux = reduced solar wind → geomagnetic shield drops → galactic cosmic ray flux → more low-level clouds and more snow → more albedo effect (more heat reflected) → colder climate
Active sun → enhanced magnetic and thermal flux = solar wind → geomagnetic shield response → less low-level clouds → less albedo (less heat reflected) → warmer climate
That is how the bulk of climate change might work, coupled with (modulated by) sunspot peak frequency there are cycles of global warming and cooling like waves in the ocean. When the waves are closely spaced, the planets warm; when the waves are spaced farther apart, the planets cool.
The ultimate cause of the solar magnetic cycle may be cyclicity in the Sun-Jupiter centre of gravity. We await more on that.
Although the post 60s warming period appears to be over, it has allowed the principal green house gas, water vapour, to kick in with more humidity, clouds, rain and snow depending on where you live to provide the negative feedback that scientists use to explain the existence of complex life on Earth for 550 million years. Ancient sedimentary rocks and paleontological evidence indicate the planet has had abundant liquid water over the entire span. The planet heats and cools naturally and our gasses are the thermostat.
Check the web site of the Danish National Space Center.
http://www.space.dtu.dk/English/Research/Research_divisions/Sun_Climate/Experiments_SC/SKY.aspx

By: RYAN HEALY

RYAN HEALY — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:58:41 +0000

The problem is Hollywood and the media are working with the government to spread this propaganda.

It is not Hollywood or even the government’s job to educate your children. That responsibility is in the hands of parents and it is never too early to talk about all the lies the media feeds are kids every day!

By: Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Tuesday Highlights

Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Tuesday Highlights — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:01:56 +0000

[...] So, CO2 caused the tsunami? [...]

By: Cryptofascist

Cryptofascist — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:33:12 +0000

I am over 45 and thank goodness I wasn’t exposed to much propaganda. I can’t even remember the Cuban missile crisis because my parents and teachers tried to protect us kids from too much fear and anxiety–I was in 3rd grade–and what purpose would that serve? I fell for the CFC scare in college, but it wasn’t an overriding concern at that time. Eventually I got over it with lots of reading of various points of view.

It’s hard to imagine nowadays how little propaganda the schools and media served up, except history did emphasize patriotism and what a great country this is. I still believe it. Movies and TV told interesting and original stories. News pretty much stuck to facts. The culture was open and vibrant, not constantly sending PC messages.

I believe the virus of socialism-communism was injected into this nation (and around the world) by Soviet indoctrination/propaganda during the 50’s without much awareness on the part of average Americans. It has since grown and metastasized, taking over the media/entertainment/educational establishments. Even many of the churches have been subverted. I believe we conservatives have an obligation to speak up, homeschool, get on school boards, infiltrate the media ourselves, speaking sense to nonsense to our friends and neighbors. We owe it to our families, country, and most of all, to God. We need to “speak truth to power” as the old lefty cliche goes, because we are up against a very powerful foe and if we don’t push back, thought crimes are next.

By: Mike Kriskey

Mike Kriskey — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:04:26 +0000

The late Michael Crichton’s State of Fear was about an environmental group causing a tsunami which they would blame on global warming. The idea took me out of the book because I couldn’t believe anyone could possibly be fooled.

I’m sorry, Mr. Crichton.

By: Anthony Epp

Anthony Epp — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:28:05 +0000

This type of miss-education will continue until people start concerning themselves with what they are consuming, be it food, drink, or ‘entertainment’ choices. Until then, the ones that ARE concerned with what they are consuming are at the mercy of those that don’t, unless we all get ginormous iPods.

By: Liz L.

Liz L. — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:58:18 +0000

At one point in history, as I learned from a wonderful lib history professor, the UK’s climate was similar to the mediterranean area; sunny, warmer, good for growing vineyards (they have archaeological proof.) So I think only the people who enjoy the rain would complain about climate change reverting back to how the climate once was. (I had another liberal prof explain in my evolution class how we are still emerging from the last ice age. So yeah, not all lib profs are crazy and ignore the evidence that is out there.)

But it’s nice to know that when we finally get the big earthquake in Utah that has been predicted forever, that we can blame the tectonic shifts on global warming. When can I buy my global warming insurance policy?

“In the movies and TV shows the villain is always the businessman. (Don’t the makers of “Law and Order” ever get tired of people working out who the killer is in the first five minutes?)”

Not necessarily, but it is always, always, the big-name guest star. And yeah, that is also boring.