(2007-04-03) — The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must regulate carbon dioxide emissions and suggested using the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade precedent to reduce the number of “renewable CO2 emission sources.”
“Since each human produces almost a ton of carbon dioxide per year,” the high court said, “reducing the number of exhalers provides the greatest opportunity to make immediate cuts in the gross CO2 content of the atmosphere.”
Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the 5-4 majority, said greenhouse gas production could be cut even further if “a woman’s so-called right to choose were legally elevated to an enforceable patriotic obligation.”
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1 wildhowd // Apr 3, 2007 at 10:17 am
I would like to suggest a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Since it is primarily the United Nations and leading Democrats demanding this reduction perhaps they could initiate the program to make sure it will work. The plan is quite simple, breath on alternating days. This should reduce human contributions by half. Once the UN shows how well it works the rest of the world should be happy to get on board.
2 Scott Ott // Apr 3, 2007 at 10:17 am
EPA to Use Roe v. Wade to Regulate CO2 Emissions…
by Scott Ott(2007-04-03) — The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must regulate carbon dioxide emissions and suggested using the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade precedent to reduce the number of “renewable CO2…..
3 Shelly // Apr 3, 2007 at 10:56 am
This at least makes more sense than calling it a “constitutional right.”
4 RedPepper // Apr 3, 2007 at 11:24 am
How did this country manage, in such a relatively short time-frame (the span of a single human lifetime), to so thoroughly lose sight of the principle of self-government ?
5 boberinyetagain // Apr 3, 2007 at 11:44 am
Can a woman that gets an abortion claim an carbon credit that she could seel to Al Gore so that he can then claim a reduced footprint?
6 boberinyetagain // Apr 3, 2007 at 11:44 am
or she could sell it to Al rather than seeling it, whatever works
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 3, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Why do they make life so difficult. Now when I grew up in the 50’s I could see the alarm for carbon. The smell of rubber in Akron was the smell of money. Now you can see the sun, swim in the water and wash your clothes and hang them outside.
But the jobs are gone, the money is gone and so is the pollution.
Algore-you are 50 years to late. Sorry.
8 onlineanalyst // Apr 3, 2007 at 12:19 pm
What’s next? The “final solution” of single-payer Hillarycare to determine which unfit or too-old people must be eliminated to prevent the harmful effects of CO2 production?
Planet Gore has loads of observations about the absurdity of this ruling, based on the fantasy that speculative thinking by some scientists about man-made emissions are indeed confirmed fact: http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/
We have an out-of-control judicial body usurping legislative powers and a legislative body grabbing executive ones. We are in a state of Constitutional crisis.
9 antodav // Apr 3, 2007 at 2:07 pm
“Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the 5-4 majority, said greenhouse gas production could be cut even further if ‘a woman’s so-called right to choose were legally elevated to an enforceable patriotic obligation.’”
Yay!! I’ve been so frustrated all this time that we haven’t been working to become enough like communist China lately. What did we give Democrats control of Congress for after all, anyway?!
Re: #4: RedPepper, I have three letters for you: FDR.
10 da Bunny // Apr 3, 2007 at 2:18 pm
There’s no reason to stop at Roe v. Wade precedent to reduce CO2 emissions. The “Schiavo Decision” precedent would be a “useful tool” to reduce these emissions as well. Since the ends always justify the means in Liberal-Land, the EPA can begin mandating the removal of feeding tubes and the disconnection of oxygen tanks and life-supporting machines to stop these greenhouse gas contributors dead in their tracks. Plus, there’s the added benefit of the euphoria brought on by the ensuing starvation, suffocation and the like.
11 upnorthlurkin // Apr 3, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I’m all for these libs limiting their “renewable CO2 emission sources”!! The fewer the better! Me, I’m just going to plant more flowers and trees. That should take care of my exhaling problem shouldn’t it?
12 woodnwheel // Apr 3, 2007 at 3:30 pm
onlineanalyst said:
“We have an out-of-control judicial body usurping legislative powers and a legislative body grabbing executive ones. We are in a state of Constitutional crisis.”
That reminds me of Douglas MacKinnon’s new book, “America’s Last Days” (another one I’ve picked up but haven’t yet read). He imagines a scenario in which things are so out of control, a revolution is started, led by a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a former FBI director. MacKinnon wrote a column for Townhall explaining his motivation for writing the book that you can read here.
13 Darthmeister // Apr 3, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Won’t be long before SCOTUS renders a decision to tax the air we breath. Then it can really get into important legislation like the BBQ carbon offset tax which is to be levied against every American who barbeques during the summer months.
If treason is the highest form of patriotism, then abortion is the most sincerest form of patriotism. Less chance of a child growing up to be a warmonger in the services of a Bu$Hitler.
14 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 3, 2007 at 4:09 pm
5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices are, themselves, pollution.
15 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 3, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Oh, and
God Bless America
16 Darthmeister // Apr 3, 2007 at 4:16 pm
woodnwheel,
Sobering. And as the author states, its worth debating the questions raised because as America becomes even more politically divided as the rest of the world becomes increasingly insane, there is a small possibility of such a scenario arising. And may God save this country if it does.
And using the liberals own brand of arguments, if it ever came down to a patriot movement agitating for a new republic under the old Constitution, the liberals only have themselves to blame for their transparent betrayal of this country and its ideals and traditions by becoming the culture of death, pandering to illegal immigrants and attempting to appease an enemy abroad which seeks to destroy our way of life.
It also doesn’t bode well to know there is an unconstitutional left-wing shadow government in place that has been seeking to undermine the Bush Administration with leaks and lies to the lamestream media, compounded by the fact the CIA and the State Department have become increasingly left-wing in the last twenty years. I think tens of millions of Americans have been sobered by these developments and are increasingly uneasy with the militant hatred of the anti-war left, too.
If America does find itself at such a historical confluence, I pray it will be restored to its original American traditions and ideals by the ballot and not by the bullet.
17 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 3, 2007 at 4:19 pm
This “woman” is a piece of garbage.
18 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 3, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Heh. Michelle Malkin has a doozy of a “pic-of-the-day”.
19 Beerme // Apr 3, 2007 at 5:16 pm
The plan is quite simple, breath on alternating days. This should reduce human contributions by half. Once the UN shows how well it works the rest of the world should be happy to get on board.
Comment by wildhowd — April 3, 2007 @ 10:17 am
This reminds me of a joke (but what doesn’t?):
An Irishman goes to a doctor to lose weight. The doctor tells him he is going to prescribe an eating regimen that will help him to lose the unwanted twenty pounds. He tells the Irishman to “eat normally the first day, then skip a day, and repeat this for two weeks until you come back to see me”.
The Irishman returns after two weeks, having lost nearly sixty pounds! The doctor asks him how he did it. The Irishman says “I followed yer regimen, Doc, but it was terrible hard work”!
The doctor says, “yes I know, the not eating, right”?
The Irishman says, “No. “Twas the bloody skipping”!
20 Beerme // Apr 3, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Push it real good…
21 onlineanalyst // Apr 3, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Re #13: French Wallonia (the French part of Belgium) is already imposing a tax on outdoor BBQ.
France itself still has not gotten a handle on his car-BQs.
22 Rock Slatestone // Apr 3, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Starting June of 2008, all men 18 and older will have to start bottling their flatulence in or to cut down on green gas emissions.
Women of course are exempt from this bottling procedure since everyone knows that females do not release gas out of their backside.
The only issue left is to figure out what to do with all the bottles. So far that will be decided by local governments.
23 gafisher // Apr 3, 2007 at 8:22 pm
CO2 should be kept safe, legal and rare.
24 Hawkeye // Apr 3, 2007 at 8:41 pm
OLA #21,
Yeah, and the stupid part of the whole thing is that the French police will be flying around in helicopters trying to spot illegal B-B-Q-ers. So to save the CO2 emissions from a few charcoal briquettes, the French are going to waste tons of fuel flying in copters. Now that’s the way to cut CO2 emissions! D’OH!
25 conserve-a-tips // Apr 3, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I’ve been gone all day, friends, and what a long one it was. Dealing with an electrical problem at the daughter’s house that could only be explained as Nightmare on Elm Street. Sheesh. Y’all wouldn’t have believed this wiring if you’d seen it. The electrician is thinking about writing a book about it. I wonder what Al Gore would have said about it?
I read Scott’s title and honestly thought he was going to play on the joke about Roe vs. Wade as a way to travel in New Orleans and how rowing would use up less CO² then wading in those strong waters…but he’s smarter’n me. I like his idea better. Just think, Darwinism at its finest.
Speaking of which. Has anybody noticed that these global warming and environmental nuts really don’t believe the theory that they have been touting since its inception called Darwinism? If they did, then they wouldn’t be panicking. What’s there to panic about when it’s a proven fact that the fittest survive whatever is thrown at them? If it gets hotter, then humans will just evolve into thicker skin or they will grow air conditioners. If it starts to flood New York, New Yorkers will grow fins and gills. I mean, let’s get real here and recognize the wonders of the Survival of the Fittest. Do I hear an “amen” brothers?
26 conserve-a-tips // Apr 3, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Oh, Redpepper ~~ It all happened when the Beatles came to America.
27 Darthmeister // Apr 3, 2007 at 9:28 pm
The dhimmie Nancy Pelosi
Boy, those Muslim fundamentalists sure know how to put women in their place. Can you imagine the outrage from the liberal Donks if an evangelical Christian church which believed their female members should wear a head covering then forced a female outsider to wear a head covering when visiting their church? Christendom would never hear the end of the left’s rants about “Christian thugs living in the Dark Ages” or “what kind of 21st Century hospitality is that?” Double-standards all over again.
I always thought sHrillary, Helen Thomas and Madeline Albright would look rather fetching in hijabs … mmmmm, nix Helen Thomas.
28 Darthmeister // Apr 3, 2007 at 9:29 pm
JL3rd,
I see you beat me to it.
29 camojack // Apr 3, 2007 at 11:47 pm
See O2? Sí, O2…
30 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 4, 2007 at 5:46 am
Well, as far as I can tell in the dark, my Dodge pickup (which you may know just got out of the body shop about 6 weeks ago) survived the Ping-Pong™ ball-sized hail we were hit with last evening about 2030 CDT.
I’m sure I was comical out there in the downpour protecting my baby with blankets as I saw the hail beginning to come down. But, after all, the hood is brand-new…..know what I mean?
31 Harry Daschle // Apr 4, 2007 at 7:10 am
Other things that may help are to pardon Jack Kevorkian so he can get back to work, and to help promote the “gay agenda” as they are much less likely to reproduce!
Then we could continue appeasing the terrorists so they will be able to kill off more of us infidels!
Maybe that is what the Dim-o-rats are shooting for?
32 Harry Daschle // Apr 4, 2007 at 7:15 am
Last thought. Aren’t Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, and Helen Thomas using valuable air that could be better used?
With the noxious gases emitted by these three, they must produce more than a ton of carbon each.
Just a thought!
33 Darthmeister // Apr 4, 2007 at 7:20 am
If the LibDonks would simply outlaw heterosexual marriage and sex, maybe that would reduce humanity’s carbon footprint. A Supreme Court ruling to that effect ought to do the job. They could put Rosie O’Donnell and Bawney Fwank in charge of this new Department of Non-Reproduction.
34 MargeinMI // Apr 4, 2007 at 7:27 am
They’ll take my grill when they pry the flipper from my cold dead hand.
35 Darthmeister // Apr 4, 2007 at 7:28 am
DEMS BAN TERM: ‘GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR’…
And see, they’ve just won the war on terror by banning it! Out of sight, out of mind, I guess.
President Franklin Roosevelt was a moron. Just think, 427,000 American soldiers would have never died if FDR would have simply banned the term: “The War on Naziism”
36 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 4, 2007 at 7:58 am
Several years ago, when I was still being held captive in California, they banned restaurants from using ventilators to throw meat smoke into the air. Where once you could drive by and lick your chops at a steak being seared on the grill, well, that has been eliminated. With what, I know not what.
37 upnorthlurkin // Apr 4, 2007 at 7:59 am
Seriously, it’s 15° up here this morning. That’s 30° below normal. We won’t warm up anywhere near normal this week! A winter storm isn’t unheard of up here and it turns out this one is a blessing as it will slow down the rising river and prevent serious flooding. It looks ominous out my bedroom window with the pure white snow and the black looking water encroaching on our city.
If you guys have to exhale, could you turn to the north and blow real hard?! Much appreciated, thanks!
38 upnorthlurkin // Apr 4, 2007 at 8:03 am
Ms. Rightwing, probably just pollution from garbage and exhaust! (I know that always makes my mouth water!!) For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out why I always got headaches when visiting California….my poor system is just too accustomed to breathing pristine air!
39 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 4, 2007 at 8:06 am
Stories you may not want to read before breakfast:
700 POUND WOMAN RESCUED FROM BATHROOM
http://www.newsnet5.com/home-backup/11512459/detail.html
40 tomg // Apr 4, 2007 at 8:08 am
Stray thought:
If we burn hydrogen, we can use up the oxygen we breath and make water to flood the planet at the same time.
I think hydrogen was invented by Karl Rove.
41 upnorthlurkin // Apr 4, 2007 at 9:39 am
I know this is off topic, but when has that stopped any of us?! Bad news for the surrender monkeys
here. Since I am loath to watch network news, I missed this.
42 GnuCarSmell // Apr 4, 2007 at 11:10 am
In order to lead by example, the five Green Justices have agreed to undergo environmental neutralization therapy — a procedure that is eerily similar to lethal injection for condemned killers. Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter and Kennedy said “How could we rule for regulatory tyranny unless we were willing to put our money where our CO2 orifice is?”
I know it’s a fantasy, but I would love to see Bush replace these five wretched anti-Constitutionalists with some originalists.
43 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 4, 2007 at 11:15 am
According to Algorical Logic, there is an Ice Age right around the corner.
Yesterday at this time it was near 80°F and right now it is about 55°F.
If this current apocalyptic trend continues, the planet will be frozen solid before next week.
44 onlineanalyst // Apr 4, 2007 at 12:12 pm
JL3: Algore is a profit…er, prophet. We are now entering the accelerated climate change sphere of doom. We are going to die! Aaaaargh!
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