This Blog is Green

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Back about 100 years ago, when I was a kid in the 60s, my parents had a litter bag in our car.  They taught us not to litter.  We cared about the environment.  Back then caring about the environment made sense, the steps we took to protect it had reasons that were self-explanatory.  People shouldn’t be trashing the countryside or tossing cigarette butts out the car window to burn down forests.  We has slogans, too.  Don’t be a litterbug.  Only you can prevent forest fires.  Perfectly logical.

Nowadays we’re expected to be “green,” whatever that means.  I take it to mean I should post in green, so I do.  It makes as much sense as anything else the libs require from us.  Outlawing freon to protect the ozone over Antarctica.  Yeah, sure.  I don’t mind posting in green, but I do mind light bulbs being banned.  Yeah, I know, they weren’t explicitly banned, but a law was written in such a way that they’re no longer on the shelves.  Well, they are on shelves, but in people’s attics instead of in the stores.  What scares me is that people take it seriously, and you know more craziness is coming and people will take whatever is next seriously, as well.

Now I’ll guarantee I care more about the environment than Algore.  He burns up more carbon in a month than I will in a lifetime.  I don’t jet around in a Gulfstream to give speeches on saving the planet.  It’s a sacrifice, but one I’m willing to make because I truly care.  Algore should either shut up, or fly coach like the rest of us if he wants to get somewhere.  And check out that photograph in his blog.  Fifty trees had to have been felled just to supply the paper he keeps around him.  And how many monitors does he need in that office.  Good grief.  Talk about irony.

And he doesn’t even post in green.

Conversation with a Liberal

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“Hey, how’s your guy Santorum doing?”

“He’s not my guy.”

“You’re a social conservative aren’t you?

“Yes.”

“He’s against contraception.”

“So?  When have I ever mentioned contraception?  Abortion, yes, but I’ve never said anything about contraception, I don’t care.”

This guy isn’t a far left dailykos type lib, just center left and maybe closer to the center as I perceive it.  So what’s at work here?  We’ve had similar discussions before.  He brings up an issue in the news as if I care about it, but the issue is really created by the Democrat party and the Republicans get asked about it even though none of us ever brought it up in the first place.  Maybe Santorum has, I don’t know, but if he did it’s his issue and not every other Republican in the Universe.  That’s really the crux of the strategy.  The Democrat party responds to a point that isn’t made and the liberal media asks every Republican to comment as if it’s in the party platform.

If you ask a Democrat party member who talks about it the most, in this case contraception, they’ll respond the Republicans are talking about it.  The truth is the Republicans are the ones getting asked about it.  Unfortunately, most don’t explain it the way I just explained it, and it’s probably hard to do so within the constraints of a media interview.  A few will hand it back by pointing out it’s a waste of time asking stupid questions when we have huge unemployment, massive deficits, out of control gas prices, and other miseries foisted upon the populace by an inept president.  That’s probably the best way to handle the question in a superficial medium like television.  It gets the point across.

Sarah Palin Destroyed U.S. Politics?

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According to Richard Cohen of the Washington Post, Sarah Palin destroyed U.S. Politics.  Single handedly.  Now I don’t know about you, but I think that’s pretty cool.  One unknown governor suddenly appears on the scene at the very end of August 2008, and in November loses the presidential election to BHO.  Well, she must have been the presidential candidate.  Tell a liberal that BHO isn’t a very good president, and the lib will tell you he’s better than Sarah Palin.  She must have been the one that ran.  She must be running this year, too, because the liberals are campaigning against her again.

Anyway, she campaigned for a total of two months and a few days in 2008, and single handedly destroyed our politics.  It must have been pretty fragile for her to be able to work that fast, and it’s an especially amazing feat considering she’s not very bright, or so the libs claim.  But what’s troubling is that we didn’t find out about it until now, and the liberal media should have figured it out at the time.  They deployed platoons of reporters to Wasilla to peer into every nook and cranny trying to find stuff on her.  To their credit, they did find that she banned library books that weren’t even written yet, so that should have tipped them off she had some amazing capabilities.  But despite all of their sleuthing, they never figured out that politics was being destroyed right under their noses.

So Sarah, you go girl.  I love you.  If our politics are still moving, even a little bit, just grind a heel into its fleshy underside and twist your ankle until it’s still.  Show them who’s got the mojo.

Democrat Party Properties

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No, not DNC headquarters, Hollywood, or the White House.  This is more hypothetical.  You’ve undoubtedly right clicked on a disk drive icon and brought up the Properties sheets, right?  It shows a pie chart of disc capacity with how much is used, how much is free, as well as a lot more information and tools.  Now just imagine if you could right click on the Democrat party and bring up its properties.  Scary thought, huh?  What would it show?  A zombie apocalypse?  That thing from Aliens?  The Star Wars bar?  Rosie O’Donnell and Helen Thomas?  Okay, it’s getting too scary now.  Sorry.

One thing it would show has been revealed by the U.S. Justice Dept. recently.  They’ve blocked a Texas law requiring voters to show ID.  Why?  You guessed it.  It unfairly impacts minorities.  In this instance, it’s Hispanics, but the same argument can be made for other minorites, all of whom tend to be Democrats.  Now it’s tempting to speculate why the DOJ thinks minorities are less likely to have IDs or, if it’s true, why that is.  That’s missing the point.  The point is that minorities are mostly Democrat party members, so Democrat party members are less likely to have IDs.  That’s one of the properties of Democrats.  No papers.

So why are Democrats less likely to have IDs?  I dunno, but it’s obviously the case.  Otherwise BHO wouldn’t be trying to block the law.  I’ve been wondering how anybody can function in this country without ID.  Don’t they drive their electric cars, use credit cards, or any number of the countless activities that require IDs such as attending a Congressman Eugene Green, D-TX town hall meeting?  I couldn’t do it, but Democrat party members are much better at working the system than the rest of us, so they get by somehow.

Jayne

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This is Jayne the cat sitting on a case of light bulbs.  Sylvania 100 watt bulbs, to be precise.  Next to it is a case of Philips 60 watt bulbs.  They’re all on top of a cabinet in my computer room.  There are more boxes of light bulbs than this, too.  You all know why I have lots and lots of light bulbs.  Because the Democrat party banned them and George Bush signed the nonsense.  Thanks, Mr. President.  Bipartisanship isn’t a virtue when it’s based on bull elmo, BTW.  Banning my bulbs isn’t going to lower the oceans, believe it or not.  It’s not going to change the climate one bit.

Criteria Shaping

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Criteria Shaping.  There is probably a multisyllabic word for it that ends with -ism, but I don’t know what it is.  I do know it when I see it, and the left uses it routinely.  We saw a great example of it recently when Rush Limbaugh referred to a leftist operative’s claimed behavior as that of a “slut.”  Well, the left went bonkers over that, getting offended as they often do when it’s not one of their own doing it.

As is invariably the case, the left’s own people have been calling conservative women far worse names and doing it far more often than Rush ever did.  This was an outlier event for Rush and, while I didn’t think anything about it when I heard it that day, he apologized.  it wasn’t a leftist apology like “I apologize if I offended you” either.  It was the real deal.

Bill Maher in particular has been insulting Sarah Palin quite a bit, and it’s so obvious the left couldn’t ignore their own hypocrisy this time around.  So they had to engage in criteria shaping, which is finding the difference in two similar situations and making that the deciding criteria for why whatever they’ve been doing is acceptable and why what the right did is the greatest offense of the century.

Bill Maher is a comedian.  That’s what made it acceptable.  The left has been calling Rush an “entertainer” for years, which implies it’s not acceptable for an entertainer to call somebody a slut unless he falls into the narrower category of comedian.  And the left says these things as if it’s established criteria that is known to everybody and known going back to the beginning of time.  Whatever criteria shows up to fit a given situation is instantaneously eternal.  It’s like moving a goal post and saying it’s been there all along.

Criteria shaping is also used every four years to fit their presidential candidate, but that’s for another post.