PICTURE THEM naked

Famous public-speaking trick: picture your audience naked.  Who can be scared of a naked audience? 

 

So let’s picture Davy and Charlie Koch naked.  They're killing our Mother the Earth, and people are too scared of these two bad boys to stop them.  

So one, two, three, children, let’s pop those Koch boys into their birthday suits!  

Not a stitch on!  Tan lines blazing in the noonday sun!   Chest hair rising to the occasion!   Four bare thighs and kneecaps all exposed to watching eyes! 

Charley and Davy, merely two human primates, put their pants on one leg at a time – just like you and me.    

The great senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders:

“Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers....”

Robert Reich, who served under three administrations, two Democratic and one Republican:  

"[T]he Koch brothers are undermining our democracy."

Lucya Graves, reporter for the Huffington Post: 

“Charles and David Koch have helped systematically derail climate legislation on Capitol Hill.”

does AUNTIE belong BEHIND BARS?

Whoa-ho-ho!  Here’s another way to look at it:  just clap those CCD’s (Climate Change Deniers) in jail:

“Climate Change Deniers Should Be Imprisoned,” says Rochester Institute of Technology philosophy professor Lawrence Torcello (this idea, BTW, has conservatives foaming at the mouth).

Alternatively, we could just have a nice little chat with CCDs like your Auntie Ethel Mae:

“How to Talk to a Climate Change Denier” (video)

"How to Talk to a Climate Change Denier” (article)

NOTE: If you have a bad memory like me, you’ll want to ink a few bullet points on your palm or something before your chat.

Talk to Auntie soon!  Your mother, the Earth, will thank you for it. 

pack IT UP & leave IT ON YOUR PORCH

I can’t help it, I get a bit peeved at climate-change deniers.

Scientists -- you know, the dudettes and dudes who invented spaceships, heart transplants, and Google glasses -- agree that the Earth is on a fast-track to the dog house unless we do something about climate change. 

So what’s holding us back? 

Climate-change deniers. 

Are you a climate-change denier?  Please sign:

“I promise to give my food, water and electricity to others when climate shrinks earth's resources to destitution levels.”    

Name: ___________________________
Address were we can come get your food:  _________________
Date: ____________________________

The Vanishing Face of [Mother] Gaia: A Final Warning

A few tidbits from a review of James Lovelock's new book The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning:

THE GIST OF THE BOOK: "‘The Earth, in its but not our interests, may be forced to a hot epoch, one where it can survive, although in a diminished and less habitable state. If, as is likely, this happens, we will have been the cause… too many people, their pets and their livestock - more than the Earth can carry.’

WHO IS LOVELOCK?: "... creator of the ‘Gaia hypothesis’. Back in 1974 ... Lovelock wrote cheerfully: ‘Assuming the present per capita use of energy, we can guess that at less than 10,000 million we should still be in a Gaian world. But somewhere beyond this figure, especially if the consumption of energy increases, lies the final choice of permanent enslavement on the prison hulk of the spaceship Earth, or gigadeath to enable the survivors to restore a Gaian world.’

"[Lovelock is] an intelligent man who developed highly sensitive scientific instruments for NASA, ... a free thinker who could be selectively quoted to provide succour to an enormous range of views, from the failings of climate science to the benefits of nuclear power.

WHY DOES THE REVIEWER THINK LOVELOCK IS DANGEROUS?: " ... his writings ... throw up the possibility of a world in which Nature is placed before humanity, with irrational and reactionary consequences.

WHAT IS THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS?: "For Lovelock, the Earth is a self-regulating, living system. He was initially struck by just how precisely the Earth’s atmosphere suited the maintenance of life compared with that of Mars, and concluded that this could not have simply been some geophysical accident; he argued that a web of complex feedbacks helped to ensure that the proportions of different gases were closely maintained.

"Lovelock is certainly in no doubt that the Earth is alive, though he is not really sure what that means. ‘Why do you keep on talking about the Earth as alive? This is a good question, and there is no rational answer; indeed to some of my friends my suggestion that the whole planet is alive is not “scientifically incorrect”, it is absurd. In reply, I say that science has not yet formulated a full definition of life.'"

For other reviews, zip on over to Amazon.com.

CHRISTIANS Causing GLOBAL WARMING?

Once upon a time, we all knew the Earth was our Mother. We worshipped Her as sacred deity. Then yaj the Jealous* roared into town on his Harlie.

He bellowed, “Mother Earth is dirt!” He jerked his index finger at humans and said, “You! ‘Subdue’ Her.”**

Feast your eyes on a few synonyms Microsoft Word keeps in its synonym drawer for 'subdue': ‘crush,’ ‘subjugate,’ ‘defeat.’

To Christians the Earth is a pitiful pile of dirt so dangerous it needs to be kept under lock and key. Oh – but it’s a handy place to throw all your kadiddle and dung.

MY QUESTION: If the world had never known christianity, islam and/or judaism, would we today be facing death by global warming?
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*yaj is yahweh/allah/jehovah, who pretends to be three different gods, but is really one. His other name is Jealous (“[T]he LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” Exodus 34: 14)[yEAH, gO rEAD THE bIBLE -- hE rEALLY dOES sHOUT oUT hiS nAME lIKE tHAT]

**27 “So God created man …, male and female he created them…. 28 God … said to them … ‘Fill the earth and subdue it.’" Genesis 1: 27-28
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Thnx to clio girl for the foto