Sunday, December 12, 2010

Twelve Days of Christmas Extinction Rewrite

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Twelve Days of Christmas Extinction Rewrite

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me

A passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Five golden toads, Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Six Labrador geese a-flatly laying, Five golden toads, Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Seven silver trout belly-up a-swimming, Six Labrador geese a-flatly laying, Five golden toads, Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Eight Tule shrews a-taxidermied, Seven silver trout belly-up a-swimming, Six Labrador geese a-flatly laying, Five golden toads, Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Nine Maryland darters not a-darting, Eight Tule shrews a-taxadermied, Seven silver trout belly-up a-swimming, Six Labrador geese a-flatly laying, Five golden toads, Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to 
me

Ten Las Vegas Valley frogs not a-leaping; Nine Maryland darters not a-darting, Eight Tule shrews a-taxadermied, Seven silver trout belly-up a-swimming, Six Labrador geese a-flatly laying, Five golden toads, Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Eleven California grizzlies a-grisly slaughtered, Ten Las Vegas Valley frogs not a-leaping; Nine Maryland darters not a-darting, Eight Tule shrews a-taxadermied, Seven silver trout belly-up a swimming, Six Labrador geese a-flatly laying, Five golden toads, Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me 

310 million, 900 thousand drummers drumming, Eleven California grizzlies a-grisly slaughtered, Ten Las Vegas Valley frogs not a-leaping; Nine Maryland darters not a-darting, Eight Tule shrews a-taxadermied, Seven silver trout a-belly-up swimming, Six Labrador geese a-flatly laying, Five golden toads, Four calling-for-help Carolina parakeets, Three Heath hens, Two thicktail chubs, And a passenger pigeon pinned to a pear tree

© 2010 by tma_sierra hills
tma_sierrahills@ymail.com
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Friday, October 1, 2010

Robert Laughlin & Psycho-Anti-Green George Will

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     It would be like trying to explain to a an adult who does not already instinctively understand that something like, say, pyromania or child molestation is wrong, to try to explain why the ongoing human snuffing out countless other species is unacceptable. On that topic, I will admit that it is hard to believe that George F. Will still has the power to disappoint. But leave it to Mr. Will, in his 9-20-10 Newsweek column, “The Earth Doesn’t Care,” to take an article by physicist Robert B. Laughlin, about the changes on earth over the vastness of geological time, about which it is always good to be reminded, but also about which pretty much everyone with a good high school education already knows, and attempt to turn that into yet another juvenile Pee-wee Herman--like wedgie against the environment and environmental science.

     Of course it is always useful for scientists to remind us of the vastness of geological time, which, in turn, is dwarfed by that of astronomical time. And it is true that eventually, one way or the other, some solar burp, a big mother asteroid, or you name it, will terminate all life on earth. But what does that mean? Does that give someone the logical basis for merrily running out and offing the next 37 people they bump into on the sidewalk? Hey, why not, because in geological time it means zip! Furthermore, if Will is really intending to give us a wakeup call from an actual honest to God scientist, then why is Will so totally dismissive of thousands of  scientists who are deeply concerned about global warming and other environmental problems? True, their word does not have to be gospel, and, in fact I pray they are wrong. 

     But many of these scientists are themselves geologists and physicists. And is it really such a stretch to imagine that the human gushings-out of never-ending tons of foul gunk into the earth’s atmosphere might someday seriously alter the earth’s atmospheric system? On the other hand, since George Will seems to have been arguing over countless columns that, one, global warming is not happening, and, two, that even if it is, it makes no difference, maybe it is just best he continue to play in his book-lined study and leave the rest of us serious adults alone to try to solve these problems among ourselves.

     It is revealing that Will seems to be comically unaware that he is undermining his own argument when he cites the Laughlin exception on permanent earth damage: “Laughlin believes that humans CAN [caps added] ‘do damage persisting for geologic time’--extinctions that are, unlike carbon dioxide excesses, permanent.” Let's see, permanent earth damage that the earth doesn’t care about. Okaaay.

     But now comes what to George Will must be a clever slight of hand, but to anyone reasonable awake will be about as difficult to detect as observing an amateur magician trying to slip a red and gold glittering bowling ball out of his jockey shorts and into a deck of playing cards: “Today extinctions result mostly in human population pressures … but ‘slowing man-made extinctions in a meaningful way would require drastically reducing the world’s population.’ Which will not happen.”

     This is obviously the “fallacy of the false choice.” We either have to ‘drastically’ reduce the earth’s population--or nothing. And we must reduce extinction in a ‘meaningful way’--or nothing. Result? Oh well, so sorry, Sally Salamander--you’re fried!

     Of course this ignores the fact that the world is already not only staggeringly overpopulated, but that this overpopulation is continuing to drastically worsen, some of it, particularly in the United States, by purposeful legal and illegal immigration polices that will eventually increase population growth by hundreds of millions of people. (Fortunately most reasonable people know enough to ignore pro-overpopulation economists and columnists who forever keep yammering on about the falling “rate” of world population growth, which is only made possible by the fact that the growth RATE each year is recalculated against an ever-growing higher population BASE.)

     But let’s try to get Will’s argument straight once and for all. Even though thousands and thousand of species are being wiped out by overpopulating humans, we can’t even at least try to save, let’s say, hundreds of  species otherwise condemned to death (and improve human quality of life to boot, say, in the world’s teeming slums) by at least trying to slow the world’s population growth? Apparently not. Or how about saving even more species by leveling off population growth (which would have happened in the U.S. about now had we not embarked on an immigration binge starting in 1965-70)? Nope, we can hear George and his fiends yawn. And if something can be leveled off, can it not someday be lowered? “No way, Jose,” they would undoubtedly say. But why not? Because anything we do it must work--remember that scary word--‘drastically’! And, also, don’t forget, apparently saving just many hundreds or a meager several thousands of species would not be, you know, “meaningful.”

     Therefore, when it comes to the mass irrevocable wiping out of countless hapless species of plants and animals, commands General George F. Will the Courageous, above the sounds of the land-clearing slaughter--Let her RIP!

     Of course this is not the only clumsy slight of hand. The entire column obviously attempts to blur the concept of geological “earth” with the concept of teeming-with-life “earth.” Yes, of course, the earth someday, due to some astronomical or geological catastrophic event, is likely to turn into a big dead smoking cinder. Or maybe humans will destroy most of the life on earth before then. But, not to worry, the budding geophysicist triumphantly assures us: “The [geological] Earth doesn‘t care”! Yes, M. Will, most of us, including some elementary school kid working on his classroom science project somewhere near you, were already well aware of this profound pundit revelation.

     Finally--thankfully leaving Will’s rococo yet scattershot attempt to airily dismiss the destruction of the environment, the teeming-with-life earth that made all human beings and all other living things possible, including George F. Will--there is one thing that we know for sure: 

Just as there are geological laws, so are there biological ones.

     Populations that forever grow out of control eventually come crashing down. This is true even in societies that are wealthy and specialized enough so that they can pay people to be cheerleaders for their own biological Armageddon. But what makes this more tragic still is that today, for the first time in history, humans live in a era when clear scientific and historical evidence is easily at our fingertips to enlighten us on environmental sustainability and what eventually happens to populations that overshoot it. This means that not long ago we could have humanely brought our numbers under control and concentrated on the quality of life for all humans, rich and poor, as well as non-humans, rather than today‘s political-media elite mantra: Growth-growth-growth at any cost! Getting out of this catastrophe in time is still possible, but far more difficult.

     And, as icing on our Happy Deathday celebration cake, we now have people like George Will, who finally, in a backhand way, actually admit that the environmental destruction has gone very far, but uses that as the very reason why now nothing can or must be done. You see, doing anything “meaningful” would be too “drastic.” How convenient for we the human despoilers.

     According to many scientists, humans will have taken out over half of the earth’s other species before human populations crash toward some future environmentally devastated Dark Age.

     But, alas, as the old English proverb says, “There is none so blind as those who will not see.” 
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Newsweek 'Best Country' Off-Planet Award 2010

At one time I believed that the behavior of the mainstream media represented simply a cowardly going with the flow, passively supporting ever-increasing U.S. immigration-driven overpopulation and its destruction of the environment, and all manner of economic and social dysfunctions. However, over time it became evident that the news and commentary media are the primary cheerleaders supporting the main cause of these unfolding disasters. Why? Probably because the media are located perfectly at the nexus between, on one side, the big corporate cheap-labor/growth-at-any-cost forces (most media companies are mom-and-pop not) and, on the other, liberal/neocon political correctness that still sees any criticism of immigration, legal or not, as redneck, Know Nothing, KKK, or you fill in the name-calling, no matter how overpopulated or environmentally degraded America becomes. Today all of this is almost irrevocably welded into place because at the core of PC is racial PC, and most people who are politically correct would rather walk across their grandma’s back with cleats than do anything that could even hint at “racism,” and, of course, most immigration, especially illegal immigration, flows from the Third World.

At least one of the more amusing byproducts of all this is that the media will often tie itself into illogical pretzels trying to come to corporate/PC conclusions that are contrary to the facts that they themselves have just presented. It is all the more delicious when it is exemplified in a major news magazine’s cover story.  In this case it is Newsweek’s, August, 2010, “The Best Country in the World is …” Throughout the piece Newsweek admits the obvious, that in general “smaller is better.” For one thing, you simply have more abundant natural resources per capita. But, wait, that will never do! We especially need to deal with those exciting populous nations that are newly “emerging”--and don’t you want to move there already?--and we find, you guessed it, Hooray Mexico! And what is one of the most wonderful features of that future garden spot? Well, it is one of the blessed nations that possess  “a healthy birth rate.” What luck! No, I’m not making this up. Of course a cynic might say, “Yes, so healthy Mexico has to continually illegally export a Mississippi River of excess population into its northern neighbor.” Another spoil sport might add, “Yes, so healthy the southern region of the United States is being overwhelmed and swallowed up whole by it.”

But the most appropriate response might be just a calm shaking of the head in amused and fatalistic wonderment, watching the human comedy continue to unfold and replay itself again in the collapse of yet another advanced but self-deluded civilization … going, going … along with its innocent leafy environmental foundation that once made it all possible.
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Monday, July 26, 2010

Obama Cisco Kid Defense & Judge Susan Bolton

The Obama administration's 37th argument before Federal District Court Judge Susan Bolton:  "The new Arizona immigration enforcement law dishonors the memory of the Cisco Kid."

Improbably, I twice crossed path with the actor who played the Cisco Kid. First time at gas station in Santa Barbara, CA. Amazing that I would have recognized him so many years after watching him as a kid on our old Philco TV. One clue, however, was the licence plate on the back of his big bad car reading: "Cisco Kid."

In any case, the absurd Justice Department arguments put forth in Federal District Court before Judge Susan Bolton, for example, that Arizona might actually be successful and catch too many illegals, thus inundating the federal system, or, my personal favorite, Mexico might get mad at us, serve a wonderfully important purpose: demonstrating that the Obama administration, and many others in the federal government, enthusiastically support the foreign invasion of the United States. And, by the way, if the federal government is so lawyers-at-the-ready concerned about various states impinging upon federal powers, why aren't the mayors of "sanctuary cities" in federal prison right now, where they belong?

Relating to: “Hearing on Arizona Immigration Law Begins,” Jerry Markon, Washington Post, 7-23-10.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/22/AR2010072201548.html?nav=hcmodule

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Defense of Baseball Caps and Mustaches

Most of today's fashion pointers seem reasonable, but sometimes it is forgotten that function can be at least as important as fashion. This is true with baseball caps. If you reside and are often outside in a place that can have blasting summers and stormy winters, you need a hat, and one with a brim. That limits you. Do you pretend to be a cowboy? Or how about a fedora? Besides, a hat with a brim all the way around can be a real hassle if it is windy, unless you use a chinstrap. No thanks. A lot of these style do’s and don’t’s are common sense, but some are the result of urban young people with too much time on their hands, who think that everything is about style. It reminds one of the fact that mustaches have been declared horribly out of style for years. Yet when walking down the street in many towns you see that about every third guy is wearing one. But they are all embarrassingly out of style? Okaaay. But here's the kicker. If you have a mustache with a little triangle of hair under your lower lip (plead guilty), it is just fine--because then what you have above your upper lip is apparently no longer a mustache! Oh brother ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

President Brackish Oilbama

How did a so very intelligent, upstanding, transparent, activist and green, green, green administration not notice such a "cozy" and deadly relationship between offshore oil drillers and federal regulators--until now? Obviously this has been going on for many years and must have been widely known by anyone paying any attention at all to offshore oil regulation. It is as if the captain of the Titanic were standing righteously on his sinking ship and indignantly claiming that he had only just discovered that the North Sea is infested with icebergs--and he is not going to tolerate it one bit! Shocking, shocking, I tell you!
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

BP's new corporate motto? "Spill Baby Spill!"

After Santa Barbara and then Alaska, we have been endlessly told: (1) Drilling techniques have been becoming ever more awesomely safe and sophisticated; (2) Oil companies, like BP, have been becoming ever more awesomely environmentally sensitive, hence ads showing happy butterflies sunning themselves on oil rigs, or the like; (3) Those who still have concerns for offshore drilling are pretty much dewy-eyed extreme environmentalists, as opposed to real Americans who chant "Drill baby drill!"
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Jan Brewer Patriotic Speed Bump to White Cleansing

One of the important benefits of this new immigration-enforcement measure signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is that it, at long last, has been smoking out our Utopian/cynical political, media, entertainment, corporate and academic elites, who obviously want American citizens to be defenseless against Third World invasions. Their reaction to this quite sensible law has included almost everything just short of head spinning and projectile vomiting. Amazingly, politicians like Obama, and Bush before him, Pelosi, McCain and so many others, have been holding us hostage for decades, by saying that American borders will not be "tightened" until yet another amnesty has been approved. Just think about that. Obama and the others are saying that they will let murderers, rapists and drug runners in amongst us, unless we agree to legalize the criminals already here. (If there aren't such people among illegals, then illegals must be only population on earth that does not include them.) In other words, our political rulers are willing to see your son, daughter, husband or wife, or whomever you care about, die, unless another amnesty is passed. What else can this be called but evil?
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Ethnic Cleansing Stefan Theil & Newsweek Drumbeat

 
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     Besides the devastating impact of never-ending throngs of legal and illegal immigrants on the environment, on already unemployed citizens, on social services, crime rates, and all the rest, it is revealing that the only time that demographic ethnic cleansing is considered not a terrible thing, but instead the required enlightened view, is when it is white people whose  percentage of their nation's populations will be continually diminished. In fact, we are always told to 'Celebrate Diversity!' 

     So put on your party hats everyone and merrily shout after me: "My people are on their way out!" 

-- Commenting on: 

"The Incredible Shrinking Continent," Stefan Theil, Newsweek, 3-1-10.
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Mexican Slaughterhouse Latest Chapter


Yes, as many say, much of the "drug war" in Mexico is related to drug consumers in the U.S., but that is even more reason for tougher border controls and internal immigration-law enforcement, something that U.S. and Mexican politicians have been resisting for decades. Mexico has now become a slaughterhouse, and yet most Congressional Democrats, including Obama, judging by his voting record when there, and a sizable minority of Republicans, including Bush, always salivate with eagerness at the prospect of  ever-more open borders with Mexico. What can average Americans do when it becomes fashionable for American elites, including academia, the press, the corporate world and, God knows, Hollywood to proudly demonstrate their pious lofty indifference to the health and safety, and even long-term survival, of their own people? --Relating to “Americans Killed in Mexico,” Sheridan, Washington Post, 3-15-10.
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Monday, March 8, 2010

Freedom and Migration--and Ira Berlin

What could be more important than everyone in the world continually journeying toward greater freedom? Well, the natural resource base upon which it all rests. America is no longer a wide-open frontier to be endlessly exploited, as fascinating and worthwhile as it might be to observe and intellectually dissect the process of European Americans, original African Americans, Native Americans and others being demographically displaced by the never-ending "great influx." Scientists, true liberals, true conservatives and just plain common sense tells us there are earthly limits to human consumption. Today everything from fresh water shortages to atmospheric pollution longages demonstrate that we are now hard up against those very limits.--Related to “Migrations Forced and Free,” Ira Berlin, Smithsonian, Feb. 2010.
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Monday, March 1, 2010

Future Cities Overpopulation & Pangloss Palmisano

"We are adding the equivalent of seven New Yorks to the planet every year," which means . . . greater environmental opportunities! Like "monitoring (ever more serious) pollution" and "better allocating (ever shorter supplies for) water use." How does one begin to debate such Orwellian off-planet nonsense? In any case, there is something to be said for the idea that one of the core traits to the rise of a civilization will in the end be one of the core traits to its downfall. In this case a kind of blind almost comically child-like optimism.
--Relating to "The Future of the City," Samuel Palmisano, Newsweek,  1-25-10

Monday, February 22, 2010

Global Warming v. Godzilla & Partisanship

Although, from what I have read so far, I think global warming is real, dangerous and coming on quickly, there is no excuse for sloppiness in UN scientific reports. Also, dissenting scientific opinions should be welcomed, which is how you get to better understand the factual truth of things. Were the global warming dissenters to be correct, many environmentalists would rejoice. There were plenty of other environmental disasters to work on before anyone had to worry about icecaps melting, oceans rising, and all the rest of it. Although, let's face it, if Godzilla were merrily knocking down skyscrapers and barbecuing taxi cabs while lunging through the streets of Manhattan, it would not be long before U.S. Godzilla policy would become a raging tooth-and-claw partisan political fight. --Relating to “Series of Missteps by Climate Scientists,” Eilperin and Fahrenthold, Washington Post, 2-15-10.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Our Border Bipolar Presidents



     There is something darkly comical about having two American presidents in a row grimly believing that they are duty-bound to send mechanical hunter-killer drones practically through the open tent flaps of those in remote locations who might violate U.S. security, while  at the same time these same presidents almost salivate in eager anticipation at the prospect of signing yet another amnesty for millions of illegals who have violated U.S. security and sovereignty by intentionally physically invading America's borders. --Relating to “Under Obama, More Targeted Killings,” by DeYoung and Warrick, Washington Post, 14 Feb 2010.
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