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FINALLY: The Homeless Utility Vehicle

Posted by Catmman on Monday, August 18, 2008 9:39:56 PM
No.  I'm not kidding.  Yes.  It is real.
 
I'm super cereal.
 
 
There is only one small problem with this useless, yet innovative idea:
 
One minor error in Mills' game plan is that there isn't a market for HUV's since homeless folks don't exactly have the funds to pony up for one.
 
Indeed.
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Comic "Hero" Hearts Obama; Bigfoot Mulls Options

Posted by Catmman on Monday, August 18, 2008 9:09:07 PM
The celebrity endorsements have begun! Savage Dragon, a superhero and police officer whose adventures are published by Image Comics, is throwing his hat in the ring for Barack Obama. The news is blared across the cover of issue No. 137, with the green-skinned hero dressed up for the occasion in a black jacket, crisp white shirt and striped red tie.
More here (if you're really that interested).
 
Something that sucks as much as Obama?  This comic!
 
In the interest of full disclosure, I have never read a "Savage Dragon" comic.  As often as I visit the comic stores in my area, I don't think I've ever SEEN a "Savage Dragon" comic.  Honestly - he's hardly "savage" at least in this cover, and green skin and a fin on the head hardly makes you a dragon.
 
This, this is a savage dragon!  A bunch of them:
 
 
(H/T: Ace)
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Need To Create Eco-Awareness? Try Brainwashing.

Posted by Catmman on Monday, August 18, 2008 1:52:36 PM
Articles and reporting adding both sides of the global warming/climate change debate result in fewer people believing mankind is responsible for global warming/climate change and that it is necessarily a bad thing.  What are the skeptics to do about this?
 
The answer is obvious if your an alarmist:  DON'T report or present the ALTERNATE/SKEPTICAL side of the issue!
 
Duh!

News stories that provided a balanced view of climate change reduced people's beliefs that humans are at fault and also reduced the number of people who thought climate change would be bad, according to research by Stanford social psychologist Jon Krosnick. [...]
 
By editing CNN and PBS news stories so that some saw a skeptic included in the report, others saw a story in which the skeptic was edited out and another group saw no video, Krosnick found that adding 45 seconds of a skeptic to one news story caused 11% of Americans to shift their opinions about the scientific consensus. Rather than 58% believing a perceived scientific agreement, inclusion of the skeptic caused the perceived amount of agreement to drop to 47%.

American Psychological Association leaders say they want to launch a national initiative specifically targeting behavior changes, including developing media messages that will help people reduce their carbon footprint and pay more attention to ways they can conserve. They want to work with other organizations and enlist congressional support to help fund the effort.
 
We know how to change behavior and attitudes. That is what we do," says Yale University psychologist Alan Kazdin, association president. "We know what messages will work and what will not."
 
Got that?!  The American Psychological Society, in the name of increasing "eco-awareness" and people's environmental "sensitivity", is advocating for the PURPOSEFUL AND DELIBERATE withholding of alternate or skeptical points of view when it comes to climate "science"!
 
The biggest question which pops out to me is:  If the "science is settled"; if the "debate is over", why go to the time and trouble to edit, delete or otherwise segregate other points of view when it comes to climate/global warming?  The answer is in the research itself!  Unless alarmist activists DO edit out alternative points of view, they risk losing the argument! 
 
People aren't stupid.  When presented with both side of an argument or debate; when both sides are honest arbiters, people will make a reasoned, rational decision based on the facts.  Alarmists can't have that.  They know they have overstepped things with their fearmongering and "wolf crying".  People are beginning to lose interest in the alarmism.  Why?  Because NONE of the predicted calamities have come to pass and actual scientific observations don't match with the alarmist hysteria.
 
The American Psychological Association's position to PURPOSEFULLY misrepresent climate" facts" amounts to nothing more than good, old fashioned brain washing.
 
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Being President Also Above Obama's Pay Grade

Posted by Catmman on Sunday, August 17, 2008 6:07:09 PM
The Almighty, All Merciful Unto the Highest, Lord Obamamessiah - Praise Be His Name - or, as he's more affectionately know in the blue collar world, "Mr. HopenChange", got his butt roundly kicked by John McCain last night.  Why?  Because of answers like this:
 
 
And then his attempt at a moralistic equivalence on "evil".  In the Obamamessiah's world it seems there would be no "evil" except for the "evil" of others trying to take on said "evil.  Add a bit of nuance (through insinuation) that America is "evil" (or that our actions are, regardless of intention), mix with some Democrat messianic dodging and bingo - pure gold:
 

I really like the whole "we can confront evil when we see it".  Except if it's in Iraq, huh Senator?
 
The Obamamessiah's powers of foretelling didn't help him in this near flub on "experience":
 
 
The DNC, the Obama Campaign and the Loony Left are thanking their lucky stars (and the Obamamessiah - Praise Be His Name) this occurred on a weekend. 
 
This week before the DNC Convention is not going to be a good one for The One.
 
Heh.
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