(2007-01-17) — On the heels of devastating ice storms in the Western and Midwestern United States, that resulted in dozens of accidental deaths and more than $1 billion in damage to citrus crops, President George Bush plans to use his State of the Union address next week to call for a “major surge in carbon-rich smog to spur man-made global warming.”
White House sources said today that the president is concerned about the lethargic pace of U.S. production of greenhouse gases, and believes a preemptive campaign to bolster heat-trapping particulates in the atmosphere is the only way to fend off apocalyptic visions of what he calls “a day without orange juice.”
Mr. Bush will reportedly call for a new international protocol in which industries that don’t produce greenhouse gas emissions would be permitted to buy credits from heavy smog producers to atone for their failure to help provide the earth with a “protective blanket.”
54 responses so far ↓
1 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:07 am
God Bless America!
2 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:08 am
…I’ll be right back….gotta run out and start my truck….I’ll let it warm up a bit….
Hey! I’m just doing my part! The dhimmis keep talking about the need to sacrifice!
3 MargeinMI // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:12 am
Good morning all! I just got back from running The Boy to school, and all I can say is, “BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR”! A right toasty 7 degrees (in the sun) and my arms are tired from scraping ice off my vehicle. A (protective) blanket sounds pretty good right about now.
4 RedPepper // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:20 am
Waaaahh!!!
I want my global warming!
Algore! You promised!!
Brrrr!!!
5 Scott Ott // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:23 am
Bush Calls for Smog Boost to Guard Citrus Crop…
[<a href="http://web.mac.com/scottott1/iWeb/Site/Podcast/352643A2-4548-4C3A-ABCD-06305BED7B82.html" TARGET="_blank">Audio Version</a>]by Scott Ott(2007-01-17) — On the heels of devastating ice storms in the Western and Midwestern Unit…
6 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:25 am
Yeah, tell me about it!
7 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:26 am
tee hee! Even the boss flubs once in a while!! I wanna know how you got that address to go under that book?! Wow!
8 camojack // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:35 am
No, no, no…the term du jour is “climate change”.
(That way, you can blame it for everything…)
9 Darthmeister // Jan 17, 2007 at 10:01 am
It doesn’t matter what Shrubya does, the cold snap is his fault because he didn’t sign the Kyoto Accords. And darn that Rovian Weather Control Machine, too. Now scurvy will afflict THE CHILDREN!
10 gafisher // Jan 17, 2007 at 10:20 am
Have you seen AlGor’s latest film, An Igloovenient Truth?
11 MargeinMI // Jan 17, 2007 at 10:26 am
Re: “climate change”. We’ve been living with that forever in Michigan (long before Al Gore or the Rovian Weather Machine). A common lament, “Don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes, it’ll change.”
12 da Bunny // Jan 17, 2007 at 10:58 am
With all of the “gasseous emissions” coming from the dhimmicrat-controlled houses of Congress, this “Smog Boost” should already be under way.
13 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 17, 2007 at 11:02 am
I guess I am on the wrong page as usual. My teacher in elementary school always yelled, “Miss RightWing, (I was just a miss back them), are you in a fog again, wrong page.
Oh, I miss the rubber dust, factory smoke and polluted rivers of my youth. Dirt meant money and everybody had some.
Now the environmentalist cry out about pollution. Ha! Where were they when we had good all American pollution, not this cheap watered down stuff we have now.
Give me that ol’ time pollution, give me that ol’ time pollution, give me that ol’ time pollution. It is good enough for me
If it was good enough for papa, if it was good enough for papa, it is good enough for me.
14 TouchyFeely // Jan 17, 2007 at 11:05 am
Bigger is ALWAYS better -
signed: Government and Big Business.
15 tomg // Jan 17, 2007 at 11:19 am
Mr Gore(bachov), tear down that windmill!***
***or suffer an environmental tax as punishment
16 Fred Sinclair // Jan 17, 2007 at 11:20 am
Re #13 - Better a miss than a mess - being a guy though I guess I’ll stick with being a mess.
Heirborn Ranger
17 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2007 at 11:38 am
Good morning Scrapplers! Hey! It’s already 13° up here! Take that, Ms. RW!! Letting my truck run must’ve done it!!
18 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2007 at 11:40 am
Ms. RW, did you get the audio to work yet?! I love it!! And such a handsome fella!
19 GnuCarSmell // Jan 17, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Bush has threatened federal prosecution if Al Gore fails on promises of “global warmth, ’specially now when it’s really, really cold, and the orange folks are hurtin’.”
20 gafisher // Jan 17, 2007 at 12:32 pm
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock ahead again. I’d thought it was because of the blast in Los Angeles and was going to note it in the Jack Bauer thread, but it turns out it’s because of this pesky global warming instead.
Their clock hasn’t been right in sixty years, but at least in recognizing the atomic source of global warming (the Sun, of course) the Atomic Scientists appear to have finally gotten something right.
21 conserve-a-tips // Jan 17, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Scott’s satire reminds me of the time when ranchers were trying to shoot every coyote they saw, because they thought that the coyotes were killing their calves and lambs. When the coyote population had shrunk significantly, all of a sudden the rabbit and rodent population exploded and the ranchers were panicked that the grasses were being overrun and eaten and the feed grains were being inhaled. I believe there is a saying, “Be careful for what you ask. You may get it.” Ha. AlGore has so succeeded in making everybody tow the line regarding polution, now the earth is cooling down. Riiiiigggggghhhhhttttt.
22 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 17, 2007 at 1:11 pm
upnorth
26 degrees and sunny. Guess that is best I can do today
23 Fred Sinclair // Jan 17, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Algore believes that if you light one cigarette, an iceburg in Anartica melts, so all smokers should do their part to help reverse global warming by quitting smoking.
Heirborn Ranger
24 Fred Sinclair // Jan 17, 2007 at 1:13 pm
When they outlaw tobacco, I’ll switch to pot (Mary Juwanna) ’till then, I shall continue to enjoy my pipe (I’ll vote to outlaw cigarettes though).
However, if cigarettes were outlawed, taxes (both Federal and state) would go through the roof as Michigan for instance sought to replace hundreds of millions of dollars in missing cigarette tax moneys (currently $2.00 per package = ten cents State tax money per cigarette)
The Federal Government would save a little as it stopped payments to tobacco growers - seriously overshadowed by the billions (that’s with a “B”) of lost tax revenue. I read that the Federal government gets enough in cigarette taxes each year to pay for two and a half new nuclear powered Aircraft Carriers like the new “USS Gerald Ford” that our Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced this AM on TV. Considering how much he hated Ford and dislikes the military, it’s no wonder that he sounded like he had a tennis ball stuck in his throat as he said all of those ‘nice’ things about Ford and the Carrier that will wear his (Fords’) name.
I don’t sit in the smoking section where I eat as I dislike the smell of cigarette smoke (and besides they won’t allow me to smoke my pipe).
Heirborn Ranger
25 Mrs. Kajun // Jan 17, 2007 at 1:13 pm
What is the difference between smothering to death with smog and freezing to death with ice?! The end result would be the same. I’ll vote for the smog-it might take a little longer and be less painful.
26 seneuba // Jan 17, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Here in MN, we need the cold from Dec-Mar. The pond has to stay frozen so that my kids and all their friends can safely play broomball and ice skate.
If it gets too warm, we have to trek into the city to the dreaded indoor arenas. (Ugh!) And their dreaded “rules”. And their dreaded hours. And their dreaded fees.
In my world: cold = freedom
I’m lovin’ it in ex-urbian MN!
27 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Senuba, I’m right next door in ND! I concur! You do get used to it!! The more you’re outdoors, the easier it is to spend more time outdoors! We might not be recognizable in our cold weather gear but we stay comfortable!
28 GnuCarSmell // Jan 17, 2007 at 2:58 pm
If we don’t stop global warming now, I fear my beloved Texas will become a frozen tundra. Not that I have anything against a good caribou steak now and then …
29 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 17, 2007 at 3:30 pm
No offense but…..
Hillary Clinton makes me want to puke.
30 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 17, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I awoke this morning to snow on the ground here in Arlington TX and to predictions of another ice storm this weekend. What fun.
As a Buckeye, I am quite adept at driving in such conditions, unfortunately the locals are not. Last Sunday night on I-20 in Fort Worth, my beloved Dodge pickup was damaged (it’s drivable, but just barely) by an off-duty Grand Prairie police officer who decided to lose control and turn left right in front of me as I was cruising along minding my own business.
[sigh] I love my truck…..It was perfect. Was.
31 Mrs. Kajun // Jan 17, 2007 at 4:01 pm
“Tis glad I am that this weather is great for some. However, as you get older and especially with the situation we have here, it is a “tough row to hoe.” Survival of the fittest, I suppose.
32 LuckyDog // Jan 17, 2007 at 4:20 pm
30 JamesonLewis3rd
Sorry to hear about your truck. I’m originally from Ind. (Go Colts, go Bears!) and I was reminded of the time when I was in the Air Force stationed in Abilene Tx. around 1973. There was an ice storm that hit the city and I’ll never forget the statistic that for a 24 hour period there was on average an accident every 5 seconds. Believe it. Texans don’t know how to drive in winter conditions.
33 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 17, 2007 at 4:42 pm
seneuba
As a former Minnesowta resident I was about to ask you about Dec-Mar pond but I figured it out-December through March. I thought maybe that was a lake or something.
JamesonLewis3
I remember driving through Dallas 1n ‘78, I think, after an inch of snow. They called off school, work and nearly everything that moved. I was trying to get my 18 wheeler off to Houston. Zeech, what a mess
34 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 17, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Well, it took me a while to find the numbers but, now that I have, I say that the current augmentation of US troop levels (along with a similar boost in Iraqi security forces) in Baghdad will easily meet the requirements stated in the Counterinsurgency Field Manual (page 25).
35 Godfrey // Jan 17, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Bush has decided it is now convenient to obey the Fourth Amendment. One of the (few) positive effects of the Democratic takeover of Congress, perhaps?
36 GnuCarSmell // Jan 17, 2007 at 5:38 pm
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but an arctic seal just entered my formerly sun-drenched Texas land and barked at my dog.
Global warming has gone badly awry.
37 The Last Moderate Alive // Jan 17, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I was reading Time just the other day (Yes, I know, liberal media. Spare me, please, and let me get to the point.) and they had another article about a man I’d surely like to meet, former Commander of the 101AB, General Petraeus. He is, of course, now in charge of (among other thing) the surge forces that the current Administration is trying to use to retake Baghdad from the sectarian civil war that has erupted there.
Now the reason I bring this up is because, in the manual on Counterinsurgency that he co-authored, he calls for (I’m making sure these numbers are correct) 20 troops per 1,000 residents. Baghdad has a population of (according to the compendium of all human knowledge, Wikipedia) around 7 million in the city alone. That would be around 140,000 troops, and the largest surge being talked about (20,000 extra troops) brings the grand total to a… less than adequate 35,000.
About global warming (climate change? I don’t keep up with these things) I watched An Inconvenient Truth recently, at the urging of my girlfriend, and it was a very interesting movie. Very eye-opening, if I might say so. Global warming is definitely an issue in our world, and its not something we can ignore. Well, we can, because at times the human race can be… short sighted and just plain stupid, but we can’t afford to.
38 Darthmeister // Jan 17, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Did you club it, GnuCarSmell?
39 Darthmeister // Jan 17, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Insurgencies Rarely Win - And Iraq Won’t Be Any Different…
The insufferable arrogance of the American anti-war crowd is no more evident than when they claim America has “lost the war” in Iraq. What is their basis for such a determination when there is no modern track record by which we can come to any kind of conclusion about what represents “losing” when dealing with Muslim extremism, excepting of course the very real possibility that America ends up fighting the war in her own backyard as a result of cutting-and-running from foreign battlefields? Then it can be truly said the anti-war left’s cut-and-run prescription has indeed caused America to lose the war against Muslim terror tactics. What irony.
I’ve never seen a generation of Americans so hellbent on losing a war than the present lemmings mesmerized by the liberal media’s siren song of defeatism.
You can quote me on that one.
40 Effeminem // Jan 17, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Hey LuckyDog! I’m from Texas and I drove on ice once!
Man, I miss that car.
41 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 17, 2007 at 7:12 pm
As for me, this war isn’t “lost” until I die in hand-to-hand combat with some Islamofascist, sheethead scum-and I don’t plan on dying that way.
42 GnuCarSmell // Jan 17, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Darth - I don’t believe in clubbing. Do you know what they want for a cover charge these days?
You’re right about the insurgency. There’s no way for the enemy to defeat us. Failure can only come about if we surrender to the enemy, which is, of course, the Democrat position in dealing with Islamic terrorism. I think of the Dem’s strategy as the Fetal Position.
43 Effeminem // Jan 17, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Since I have to push that dumb post in.. Death before Dishonor!!!
44 Effeminem // Jan 17, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Testing…
45 onlineanalyst // Jan 17, 2007 at 8:44 pm
You passed the test.
With this new lemon law, Bush intends to let slip the smogs of Gore.
46 conserve-a-tips // Jan 17, 2007 at 9:43 pm
James,
I am soooo sorry about your truck! We ventured out on Monday…mistake….and it was like being in a disaster movie. I have never seen so many cars, trucks and SUV’s nose-dived or rear ended into the ditch or upside down. Wow. We didn’t try it again, until this afternoon and believe it or not, it was worse. It snowed this morning, then melted a little and then froze again. I stood out on my front “lawn” where there is a three inch sheet of ice and without even trying, just started to slip-slide with my feet together toward the house. Now if you have been up here in Oklahoma City area, it is pretty flat. That was an awesome feeling!!! I am scared to death to go out on my own. I have osteoporosis and have broken a number of bones. I have an aversion to falling!
47 onlineanalyst // Jan 17, 2007 at 10:19 pm
In re to the FISA court and the recent letter from AG Gonzalez about intercepts: Here is a quick analysis (See “The Bush ’surrender’ that Wasn’t” thread) that points out the the issue of contention was about speed of action and that the administration’s hammering out details was not a concession as it is portrayed in the media. AJ Stata’s blog has further information.
The letter that AG Gonzalez sent to Sens. Leahy and Specter of the Judiciary Committee is available at NRO’s “The Corner”. One of the last paragraphs is of interest in that it says it will share with the senators some of the highly classified procedure used, information known to the Intelligence Committee. How leaky with the notorious Sen. Leahy be with this information.
Also, a commenter over at captainsquartersblog posted a link to the website for the Communist Party of the USA. Its plans for the past midterm elections, its goals for the country under the guise of “progressivism”, and the Democrat candidates it supports are all listed in the communique. Check it out: http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/769/1/135/
I rather doubt that any of us are surprised by this information. What boggles the mind is how many are duped into being useful idiots. Number 14’s post above comes to mind. Unwittingly he describes Hugo Chavez to a T; even the military component is part of the Venezuelan megalomaniac’s plan as the former military leader seizes industries for the state, shuts down opposition media, and crowns himself leader for near perpetuity.
48 Darthmeister // Jan 17, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week … NO COVER CHARGE! (Cheech Marin on a Cheech and Chong record from the 1970s.) Hey maaaaan!
Don’t get me started or we’ll be nuking whales before long, GnuCarSmell.
49 onlineanalyst // Jan 17, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Woo hoo! I got a 3rd place honorable mention for my caption of a news photo here. Scroll back for the photo and its original caption. Such fun!
50 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 17, 2007 at 11:37 pm
conserve-a-tips
Stay home. Hopefully you have cable, there has been a lot of good old movies on Turner lately. Better than breaking your bones. They always say down yonder in your parts that if God put it there (snow) He will take it away. Spring will get there before it gets here.
51 Darthmeister // Jan 18, 2007 at 6:53 am
Sex-changing chemicals found in Potomac River…
That certainly explains the growing reality of RINOs.
Al Franken Seeks Advice for Possible Senate Bid…
Run, Al, run! The perfect moonbat candidate to run as a Democrat Senator.
Pelosi May Create Global Warming Panel…
The hot air coming out of that panel certainly will be enough to change the climate. How many trillions to stuff corks in volcanoes and orbit Polaroidâ„¢ lenses in space?
NORTHWEST AIRLINES apologizes to Hajj pilgrims…
It’s only a matter of time before future terrorist “Hajj pilgrims” exploit this new security breach. Muslim fundamentalists aren’t stupid in paving the way to their global caliphate by exploiting the free world’s naive, hypersens-o-tive multiculturalism. Liberals see this “profiling” as a moral equivalent to FDR’s internment camps.
52 MargeinMI // Jan 18, 2007 at 7:32 am
Fred, #24: Wow, I never thought of it that way. Ten cents for every cigarette I smoke is going to Jenny Grandholm? That might just be THE incentive I need to quit!!!
Morning all!
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54 The No-Brain Zone // Jan 22, 2007 at 8:10 am
How to Protect the Citrus Crop in the Future……
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