Gore Calls for Carbon-Free Electric Power - NYTimes.com

Former Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the winds and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts.

“The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk,” Mr. Gore said in a speech to an energy conference here. “The future of human civilization is at stake.”

“Yeah, and you can buy it from me, Al Gore, Jr., former Senator, former Vice President.”

People pay to watch this snake-oil bullshit, and the Wretched Gray Spinster prints it up as the gospel truth. There is absolutely nothing, not one tiny centavo, to these horseapples. This sonofabitch is into Chariot of the Gods land with his lunacy, but I guaran-damn-tee you there are people all over America just pissing themselves thinking about a carbon-free America.

“The survival of the United States of America” is at risk. Are you kidding me? How in the fuck does this garbage go unchallenged? Why does this lame-ass “science” show up on my intertube screen? It’s aliens and Area 51 and Art Bell-level unmitigated horseshit.

We have simply got to find a way to stop it. It’s unreal, as in NOT FUCKING REAL! It’s fucking imaginary. Got it? It, global warming & climate crisis, it’s not FUCKING REAL. It’s fucking IMAGINARY.

Godalmighty damn.

I really need to stop drinking. This shit drives me berserk.

So Much for the ‘Looted Sites’ - WSJ.com

A recent mission to Iraq headed by top archaeologists from the U.S. and U.K. who specialize in Mesopotamia found that, contrary to received wisdom, southern Iraq’s most important historic sites — eight of them — had neither been seriously damaged nor looted after the American invasion. This, according to a report by staff writer Martin Bailey in the July issue of the Art Newspaper. The article has caused confusion, not to say consternation, among archaeologists and has been largely ignored by the mainstream press. Not surprising perhaps, since reports by experts blaming the U.S. for the postinvasion destruction of Iraq’s heritage have been regular fixtures of the news.

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Neither the British Museum pair nor Prof. Stone responded to my calls seeking comment.

I remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the loony left over the priceless antiquities that had been lost in the fog of war. I doubt I’ll ever see a single acknowledgement of their utter wrongness, much less an apology for their boneheaded value system where a flower pot is more important than a human.

Footnote: many more of these stories to come in the next few years, as Iraq becomes the higher-functioning, democratic nation-state that was intended from the git-go.

Via John Weidner…