This is fantastic.
A leading skeptic of global-warming science is challenging celebrity activists such as Al Gore and Sheryl Crow to lower their “carbon footprint” to the same level as the average American by Earth Day in April 2008.
“I simply believe that former Vice President Al Gore and his Hollywood friends who demand we change the way we live to avert this over-hyped ‘crisis’ not only talk the talk, but walk the walk,” said Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican.
“How hard is it for these elitists to become as frugal in their energy consumption as the average American? I think the American public has a right to know they are being had.”
A so-called “Gore Pledge” was introduced last month when the former vice president appeared before a Senate committee to discuss his views on climate change. Mr. Inhofe asked Mr. Gore to sign the pledge to reduce his use of products that produce greenhouse gases, but he declined, instead citing alternative carbon trade-offs.
Al Gore isn’t willing to make the types of changes he’d encourage in the rest of us because he says he “Mr. Gore says he pays a self-imposed “carbon tax” to offset the environmental impact of his large home and global travels.”
This goes back to that elitism that we constantly see from the left. They think they’re smarter, better, and able to get away with whatever they want–even while criticising us.
…especially when they tell us how much toilet paper we should be allowed to use.
Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment.
Crow has suggested using “only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required”.
Does this make anyone else think of the “The Stall” episode of Seinfeld?
It is both sad and scary that some people feel this way.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on Wednesday listed the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a ban on “partial birth abortions” along with the killing of 32 people at Virginia Tech, in describing what she called a hard and emotional week.
“I know this is a very hard and emotional week given everything that’s happened,” Boxer said at the opening of a speech on global warming in Washington, D.C. She then listed “continuing violence in Iraq … the accident that our good, dear friend Gov. Corzine is suffering from, the Virginia Tech tragedy … and today a Supreme Court decision that I believe endangers women’s health.”
H/T GOP Bloggers
Dr. John Sparks, who was my Constitutional Law professor at Grove City College, has written an excellent piece on today’s Supreme Court decision entitled “Retreat from Barbarism—the Court on Partial-Birth Abortions.” He is obviously much better versed in constitutional law than I am, so rather than try to comment myself, I am going to refer to his words.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart is an important step away from the cruel practice of abortion. Although it upholds only the Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (President Clinton vetoed similar bans twice) and therefore does not deal with the bulk of abortions, the opinion at least recognizes that taking a living, sentient youngster part way out of the safety of a mother’s womb and then killing it is such a heinous act that the state, in this case, the federal government, may prohibit it.
Justice Kennedy’s opinion contains a nurse’s description of a partial birth abortion, clinically called an “intact dilation and evacuation.” A warning to the squeamish, the description is graphic and grisly. Here is what the nurse wrote about a late-term abortion, which is included in the Court’s majority opinion: “Dr. Haskell went in with forceps and grabbed the baby’s legs and pulled them down into the birth canal. Then he delivered the baby’s body and the arms—everything but the head. The doctor kept the head right inside the uterus … The baby’s little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a baby does when he thinks he is going to fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby went completely limp. … He cut the umbilical cord and delivered the placenta. He threw the baby in a pan, along with the placenta and the instruments he had just used.”
Justice Ginsburg’s dissent calls the majority opinion “alarming” but apparently does not view the partial-birth abortion procedure with the same alarm. Her concern is for possible “health risks” to the mother if partial-birth abortions are banned since some physicians regard them as more protective of the health of the mother. However, medical opinion is divided on that question and the Court correctly concluded that Congress was not precluded from passing legislation in those circumstances. (The statute does contain a clear exception for mothers whose lives are endangered if an abortion using this method becomes necessary.)
Those who support the civilized protection of the most vulnerable members of society—babies in the womb—should be grateful for this small step away from barbarity. The opinion, with its plain and painful presentation of what is involved in an abortion—in the womb and just outside—should give pause to those who have not decided on this issue, and create doubts even among those who have argued for abortion in the past.
Sometimes, we need to look at the dark parts of our past so we can make sure we don’t make the same mistakes again. So why are some schools in the UK avoiding “controversial” subjects like slavery or the Holocaust? Because heaven forbid someone is offended.This is not only sad, its scary.
Some schools avoid teaching the Holocaust and other controversial history subjects as they do not want to cause offence, research has claimed.
Teachers fear meeting anti-Semitic sentiment, particularly from Muslim pupils, the government-funded study by the Historical Association said.
It also said the way the slave trade was taught could leave both white and black children feeling alienated.
To quote George Santayana, “Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it.”
Or, from the movie Sweet Home Alabama “History’s history. No use sweeping it under the rug.”
Just read the first sentence of this story…
A suspended Toronto elementary school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing feces (excrement) on a child.
What? Crazy my friends.
I’m still a Stones fan, but this is pretty disturbing…