Aussie Ian Plimer: “Global Warming is the New Religion of First World Urban Elites.”

Here’s an Australian I actually like (As opposed to those who post and comment here. LOL!):

Humans are hard wired to be religious – that’s just a self-evident fact – and if you give up one form of religion, another will take it’s place. For the AGW crowd, this means that since Christianity and Judaism are pase and un-PC, Anthropomorphic Global Warming is the new politically correct religion.

“Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.

Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, [Mole must be this guy - Beef] and he may well be Australia’s best-known and most notorious academic.

Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of “anthropogenic global warming” — man-made climate change to you and me — and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.”

Read the whole enchilada. We need more men like this, standing athwart politically correct and factually wrong PC dogma, yelling, “Bullshit!”

Here’s an earlier diatribe of his which hits every possible nail on the head. Again, digest the entire enchilada.

Fuck leftard urban elites. They don’t know Dick Johnson about Doodly Squat.

Yes… escaped Siberian chipmunks… not death squad squirrels…

Memo to all VRWC operatives:

Somehow, a few of the top secret illerkay quirrelsay seem to have gone missing. Karl is most unhappy as he was planning on a “bring your own nuts” lefty convention on a certain death island a lovely tropical resort later on this week.

There may be a reward for the first operative to squeal do the right thing and own up for/dob in the persons responsible for this little mess as well.

Mum attacked by killer chipmunk (ok, at least the cover story is holding up).

YOUNG mum told yesterday how she is too frightened to go in her garden – after she was attacked by a “killer” Siberian chipmunk.

I might add this isn’t the first instance of this happening and it’s beginning to look suspiciously like incompetence… and we all know how Karl feels about that…

Karl's personal pet, Mr Snuggles.

More below the fold…

If you need it, take it.

Vereen is in jail. His brother says he has mental problems and may not have been taking his medicine.

Hot old cars! The Stanley Steamer.

The local rag (West Australian) had a story in it today about a rather “hot” old car they use to keep their engineering students up to scratch on the latest in pressure vessel tech such as that used on Nuclear power facilities and some shipping.

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=159017

The high tech power plant...

 

I hadn’t heard of these particular vehicles before and they seem way cool, considering when they were built.  And the sheer terror of the thought of a 1920′s vehicle being able to reach speeds of up to 160kph is enough to send your hair white.

The down to earth description of the tech does demystify it a little though.

“It is a great big Bunsen burner under a kettle,” he said. “Understanding steam is essential because around one-third of shipping involves steam power and nuclear power plants are also steam-driven.

More below the fold, I love the sound of these old things…

North Korea opens luxury resort

Apparently, it’s for the average folks up there.

In a congratulatory speech, Kim Ki-nam said the hotel was “another proud creation built thanks to leader Kim Jong-il’s love of the people in the military-first era.”

Really?

The completion ceremony was attended by key leaders of the party, the government and the military…

But not by strokeboy. Why?

Where is North Korean leader Kim Jung-il recuperating? Pictures published by the official media seem to confirm that Kim is suffering the effects of a stroke, since he seems to have lost the use of his left arm. Chances are he is in hospital or recuperating at one of his villas, an intelligence official speculated Monday.

Kim Jong-il is known to have 24 villas across the country, most of which are equipped with medical facilities comparable to those of hospitals.

Oh.

Meanwhile, why not give them even more money by visiting their new ski resort? It’ll, er, help their people.

Warning: graphic image below the fold.

Madonna is in Hideously Good Shape

Before, circa 1980:

After, 2009:

Full story.

Can you imagine how caved in her cheeks would be without the implants? I admire people who stay in shape – I work out on my Bowflex regularly – but that’s just frightening, not to mention the opposite of sexy.

P.S. The images aren’t loading for me right now, but almost our entire media library seems to be doing the same thing, as I look at it. WP may be having issues, so I’ll check the post later and re-attach the pics if need be.

Stop the ETS

The ETS, aka Emissions Trading Scheme, is a tax that will be imposed on all Australian people, and any company trading in Australia, who/that use CO2.

Science tells us only 0.04 percent of the atmosphere is CO2. Science tells us only 5 percent of total CO2 is man-made. It is obvious man-made CO2 does NOT cause climate change. Australia contributes 1 percent of man-made CO2. Stop this useless ETS TAX.

http://listentous.org.au/

Where Motorcycles Kill Cars: Hyabusa versus Carrera

Even with the Porsche driver taking up both lanes of the road to keep the bike behind him – driving like a typical car dick, in other words – he hasn’t got a chance when the merest straight opens up. The Suzuki pilot drinks his milkshake.

I love to ride twisty roads like that. Just watching that video gives me Pavlovian reactions in my throttle wrist and shifting ankle.

Sunday Brunch

First, the whine. Getting ripped off again by those bloody Koreans. They won’t even write me a reference. No, not because of a bad job done, but the game of musical chairs that is Korean bureauracy means that after two years of service, none of my “bosses” have been there long enough to know me and therefore write one.

Anyway, enough of the whine. Now here’s the cheese.

And since VodkaBlogger is off in cahoots with vague European girls, here’s a Sunday Shooter… a shot of Bourbon… well from Bourbon (St) anyway.

NSFW

When Fast Isn’t Good Enough: Nissan Encounters Warp Drive

I have a Dodge RAM 1500 Quad Cab 4×4 Sport pickup truck and a BMW R1100RS motorcycle, and I’m okay with that. Why don’t I have a car? Because I can afford the truck and the bike I want, but I’m nowhere near wealthy enough to afford any car I’d care to drive. Say, an automobile such as the Bugatti Veyron.

Here’s what happens when a fast car I could afford – the Nissan GT-R – meets a Bugatti Veyron in a matchup.

Well, calling it a “matchup” isn’t really fair, is it?

See, if I can’t afford a car that can do that, I’ll stick with trucks and motorcycles.

From AutoBlog.

UPDATE (bing)

The Veyron at top speed… 253 miles/h… 407km/h

It goes from 200km/h to 300km/h in 9.4 seconds.

The asked a Formula 1 team if they could use their wind tunnel. No can do. F1 cars don’t go fast enough.

UPDATE 2: For SezaGeoff, Angus Dei’s highly customized 1994 BMW R1100RS.

The Beef of God himself on his BMW K1200LT back in 2005 (Now sold).

I love motorcycles and have ridden over 100K miles on them in the past ten years.

Top Gear

An open letter…

Jeremy, please blow up an Equus.

What is an Equus? It’s the flagship car of Hyundai. And a new model just came out… after years of enduring the last.

But please don’t be rash.

Test it, test both, the old and the new.

Maybe you won’t want to blow them up.

But maybe you’ll need a ship to surface AEGIS missile on hand… just in case.

Regards,

James

No, not the Harry Potter Equus.

Obama does Monty Python… Healthcare

I stumbled across this filmclip over at Richards 3 beers later blog, now is it just me or does Obamas “Dr Placebo” shtick have undertones of a certain Monty python skit.

Watch and compare.

1 st Dr Obama effectively saying “your mother is to old, she should take pills and wait to die…”

 

The Python clip, Dr Obama comes in at around 2:30 into it.

 

“That’s what I’m here for, to reassure you”… FFS there is a case for elderly to have do not resuscitate, IF THEY CHOOSE, but if they, or their family can afford it, why shouldn’t they get the best medical care they can afford?

Obama is busy looking at it as a zero sum game. If granny has an operation, then little Billy the orphan cant have one. If you believe that crap then what hes saying is justifiable.

However isn’t the reality that the full fee operation (Im assuming granny is paying her own way)is making the hospital/surgeon/employees, quite a bit of money. That money is taxed,  a portion ending up in government coffers anyway. This allows for little Billy to be treated (maybe not top tier, but he will receive something) The hospital can justify training more doctors, opening more wards etc, because its making money. All this is generating more availability of health services, as long as you can pay.

Why shouldn’t your health care be linked to the amount of money you set aside for it?

Why should it be left to a faceless bureaucrat to make the decision?

Can someone tell me what the government does run well?

 

And for those who think an “all free” system like Australia’s is better…

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Hilarious Hillary

She’s declaring the US is back in Asia. Er, Hills, the US never left Asia. The six-party talks come to mind.

But speaking of such, the great DemFem announces that she’ll be discussing North Korea… whilst at a Phuket resort.

Yep. Lot’s will come from that I’m sure. Thailand is certainly the goto place when one wants to solve the North Korean problem.

Here’s some news for you Hillary. North Korea won’t ever be ‘solved’ until its regime collapses or is destroyed.

The South Koreans are hard enough to deal with, let alone those extortionist bastards up North.

Homo oecologicus

They’re dead serious (I think), but that didn’t stop me from laughing at every sentence. You couldn’t satirise gobbledegook this well.

Even by academic humanities standards, it’s a painful abuse of the English language.

Hit count 70,000… for today

Suddenly, we got a huge hit count today. Seventy thousand plus. So if you wanna post here, it seems you have an audience.

And as much as life is ‘not fair’, well, we do what we can and it usually sounds good.

Bitch, moan, complain, vent, expose, inform, enlighten…

And speakin’ of not fair… a song to celebrate!

Oi, moonbats. Get over it.

Man landed on the moon.

And fuck you if you need a link.

You’re probably the same pricks who think man-made CO2 drives climate change.

So why did the Soviets expose it as fake, since, like you know, it was the peak of the Cold War an’ all?

Oi wait.

They didn’t.

Even with all their satellites etc.

Why is that? At least give us a decent conspiracy. Not one involving hundreds of thousands of people. Make it evil. A select bunch. Na, don’t call them Illuminati. That’s been done. Probably best to make them smart aliens. Disregard that smart aliens probably could land on the moon, anyway.

Hey! Here’s one! Smart aliens helping humans. It ties in perfectly to Men in Black, the microwave etc.

Speaking of Tasteless…..

Well I finally managed to purchase a small jar of the new vegemite.

My thoughts? It’ll sell well because it’s not as…. pungent… as real vegemite.

Vegemite is not a taste that’s readily acquired, so anything that can grab a market is probably what they’re after with this new taste sensation.

Sure, it’s got a different texture on the tongue, and it tastes a bit cheesy, but it’s still vegemite.

The Godmother’s boy will eat it on toast or muffins rather than real vegemite, and Magilla’s been known to eat it on toast, but I prefer the original.

The idea with vegemite is to get them while they’re young, and they’re yours for life. I’m proof of that, as are probably 99.98% of the vegemite eaters you know. The rest are flukes.

Anyway, kids love vegemite and cheese sangas – I did as a kid – so these should sell well in the child cuisine market. How the product will survive the transition when the kids grow up is something we’ll see down the track, I guess.

Personally, I don’t like it. I grew out of vegemite and cheese yonks ago.

Oh, and it’s been christened “cheesymite” here.

I can’t call it a condimental disaster, but it is a catchy phrase if I do say so.

T**t in a can, my next business venture

Working in the mining industry as I do, Im fully aware of the pressures on blokes away from their loved ones for weeks on end. Fortunately the crew at Pacific And Combined Oriental, PACO for short have come up with an innovative idea.

 

More below the fold, possibly NSFW, including a few pictures.

why petrol sniffing and tasers dont mix…

No doubt this story will be blown up into a huge drama by the usual suspects, but its an interesting one just the same. Happened in a remote community near my home town.

a stock picture, not the man involved.

The following is the local newspapers reporting of the incident.

Tasered man burst into flames
http://www.kalminer.com.au/regionals.aspx?MenuID=243&ContentID=156700

Warburton man caught alight after police were forced to use a Taser stun gun when he allegedly ran towards them carrying a cigarette lighter on Monday.  (He was threatening the officers with the can of petrol and the lighter if my insider source is correct.)

A police spokesman said the incident occurred when police responded to a complaint at a house in Warburton about midday. (Petrol sniffing is a problem in a number of remote communities, most people want nothing to do with those actively sniffing, they are erratic and sometimes dangerous, the coppers were called by the householder to get rid of the bloke)

The 36-year-old man ran of from the house carrying the lighter and a container, believed to have contained fuel.

Police asked the man to stop, but when he failed to do so, an officer used his taser.

The man caught alight and the officer went to his aid, smothering the fire with his bare hands. (A balls effort by the officer involved, clearly shows he wasn’t wanting to hurt the man beyond stopping him)

While the officer helped the man, it is alleged an 18-year-old female threw rocks at his head. (Sadly not unusual, this happens quite often in remote areas, an officer attends, uses force, then the bystanders turn on him, they may have even been the people who called for assistance in the first place)

The man suffered burns to his body while the officer received burns to his hands and a cut to his head requiring five stitches.

The effects on the body are severe, long term, and systemic. The effect is much like “chroming” in major cities, where kids inhale paint and other fumes.

Ive seen a few kids in Perth like this, silver instead of gold though.

it affects nearly the whole body.

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The Sickness of Islam: Virgins Must be Raped Before Execution

But, of course, you can’t have sex without being married, so you have to marry them, rape them, and then you can execute them. The girls – we’re talking about teenagers here – might resist though, so you might have to drug them too.

“He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.”

In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard – essentially raped by her “husband.”

“I regret that, even though the marriages were legal,” he said.

Why the regret, if the marriages were “legal?”

“Because,” he went on, “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.”

I will not be satisfied until Islam is utterly destroyed and removed from the face of the earth forever. It is an intrinsically evil religion.

Via Mark Steyn.

What is this?

Sounds half decent.

Belated Sunday Brunch

Yummy?

H/T

Jakarta blasts, the unhinged attack…

As most people are probably aware a number of blasts and deaths have been reported in Indonesia due to a terrorist attack.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/18/2629576.htm

I was going to post on the attacks but many others are doing a much better job, instead I thought to myself “Hmmm what if i put the search termsjakarta blast mossadin my google search engine.

 

There’s some sad shits on the Internet, here’s a sample.

Mossad Bombs explode at 2 hotels in Indonesian capital; four killed

http://top-secret-at.blogspot.com/2009/07/mossad-bombs-explode-at-2-hotels-in.html

Zionist spreading the War on Terra to another Muslim Country… No Jewish victims reported

Quite apart from appalling illiteracy, this post just makes the assertion because no-one Jewish was killed, it must have been a Jewish plot….

Another?

Check the first 2 comments on this thread

http://www.islamonline.net/discussione/thread.jspa?messageID=179743

NO Muslim could do such a thing.  It must be George Bush, the CIA and mossad since they have the most to gain.  Obama knew about it and approved it.   Think about it…

 

Why are people so strange?

Cant we just waterboard these people with their own urine till they grow a brain?

Racism sux

Big night. Got so pissed off. Why? I was treated with so much disdain. Simply because I’m a foreigner. I cop this racist shit so much over here. Being treated like a fucking novelty act. Being treated with contempt. Being treated like somehow I don’t qualify as a true human being. And it sucks that Koreans will always see me as a foreigner, no matter how much I bow and speak their language (mind you, I cop many wonderful things, too, but still).

And I’ve been chatting with my girl. She lived in Melbourne for two years. She’s Korean. And she literally had people walk up to her and tell her to ‘get out of here’ (mind you, she also had many wonderful experiences, too).

Point blank.

Racism sucks.

Don’t any prick dare call themselves truly right wing and be racist. A true right-winger is anything but racist.

Did I mention I fucking hate racism?

PS DJ Dimitri from France was truly wonderful. VB might have heard of him.

But yeah, racism can go suck it’s own taint. To be honest, I don’t think there’s anything I truly hate except racism… and pedophiles. I’d tell it to lick its own nutsack, but it doesn’t have one.

/rant

Green scam fails, no-one suprised…

This may be the only time I ever do this, but green left weekly (yes an oxymoron I know) has a “good news” story. Of course to them its doom and gloom, but for the rational its a ray of light.

 

Carbon market undermines Perth recycling

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/802/41303

Basically its a whinge that a recycling project is uneconomical because the arse has fallen out of the carbon scammarket. What that actually means is the artificial subsidy generated by the scam scheme has halved in value. The product was rubbish, and has gone back to being worth rubbish.

The Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC) has an approximate $800,000 budget hole for its organic waste composting facility because the carbon credits it put up for auction in June failed to gain a response.

Ha,ha/Nelson Muntz…

http://www.smrc.com.au/go/what-we-do/carbon-abatement begging for customers much?

The $100 million Regional Resource Recovery Centre takes household waste from over 380,000 residents and produces high quality compost.

Thats $263.16 per resident in the area going towards making an $800,000 loss, thats some mighty powerful “stimulus” bang for the buck there.

 

In a similar auction last year, SMRC could not meet demand for its offsets. Sale prices then ranged between $16-20 per unit.

But of the 90,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent it put up for auction in June it received tenders for only a quarter of the volume. The price dropped 50% to $8-10 each.

So if I was to use the 90,000 tonne figure as what was sold last year (using only the $16.00 sales figure) they made 1.44 million dollars for a 100 million dollar investment.

They then sold around 22,500 tonnes of unicorn dung credits this year for a grand total of (using the maximum figure this time), $.225 million revenue this year.

It takes a truly special type of business acumen to take a free product (waste), let it rot a bit, sell it as compost and still make a loss. Im sure Treasury are on the hotline right now…

However, SMRC’s business development manager Tim Youe told Inside Waste market demand for the carbon offsets “has all but disappeared”.

Anyone looking for a new dead horse to flog at Copenhagen this year? Globull worming has done its dash…..

Hippie tears, is there anything more tasty in the world?

Love it!