What is life without the Western Civilization?

Shelby Steele in an excellent article, "Israel and the Surrender of the West"-

.....the entire Western world has suffered from a deficit of moral authority for decades now. Today we in the West are reluctant to use our full military might in war lest we seem imperialistic; we hesitate to enforce our borders lest we seem racist; we are reluctant to ask for assimilation from new immigrants lest we seem xenophobic; and we are pained to give Western Civilization primacy in our educational curricula lest we seem supremacist. Today the West lives on the defensive, the very legitimacy of our modern societies requiring constant dissociation from the sins of the Western past—racism, economic exploitation, imperialism and so on.

West today is battered from without and eaten up from within.It's own leaders -political and intellectual- are hastening the decline. Some unwittingly but others, like Obama, with eagerness and relish.When the Western Civilization, as we commonly understand it, finally dies, it's replacement in the world and in the West won't be a pretty one. Despite all the talk of a multi-polar world, the non-western poles tilt towards despotism, even those that like India have a democratic veneer.

Skeptics are saving millions of lives

Delhi Commonwealth Games, we are told,are to be 'greenest' sporting event ever-

Indian authorities organizing the 12-day meet have just announced a series of measures to offset the carbon footprint that the event will generate.

Delhi state Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, while unveiling an 'ecological code' for the Games, said numerous initiatives like plantation of saplings, waste management and measures to ensure energy efficiency are being taken by her government to mitigate the carbon footprint of the event.

The 'Delhi Ecological Code' targets to make the event the first carbon consumption neutral games, by taking various environment friendly measures like reducing energy, to monitor and minimize the polluting impact of the sporting event by ensuring a reduction in carbon emissions and focusing on clean fuel, waste management and water conservation.

According to the Chairman of the Organizing Committee Suresh Kalmadi the Delhi games will be the "first carbon consumption neutral games" in the history of sporting events.

Nearly 150,000 tons of carbon foot-print is expected to be generated during the October 3-14 meet which will be attended by athletes from the erstwhile British ruled nations.

What a farce! This reminds me of a fat slob who chomps away at an extra large pack of fries after he has had a couple of shakes and a few burgers - and he thinks he can melt it all away by stretching a leg or two the next morning!

If the planet is so in peril from all the eveeeel CO2(which is still the official Indian position) -then why organize games at all? It makes no sense. Why add more poison rather than reducing it -and feel good by saying that we aren't adding as much as others? It's absolutely ridiculous.

But who said faith is rational? Devotees of the Global Warming religion by their daily actions prove that it is a faith -and not science as they claim.

Communism was supposed to be scientific too.And how many tens of millions perished in that 'scientific' experiment? It is only a rugged band of much-maligned skeptics who are keeping such experiments from repeating, this time in the name of saving the planet.

All vagina, no brain

Jeff Poor-

'Vagina Monologues' Creator Tells Palin to Look at 'Earthquakes and Tsunamis' for Global Warming Proof

Whatever Eve Ensler is carrying inside her it's not a brain.


Related -
The Hindustan Times today goes after Sarah Palin yet again-

Funny, I missed their snarky piece on Obama's pathological reliance on teleprompters, even to address a 10 Person Meeting-

or to speak in a sixth grade classroom-

On Paul Samuelson, may he R.I.P

Aristotle Geek has a post on the noted economist Paul Samuelson who died a couple of days ago.Samuelson said this about the Soviet Union right before it collapsed-

The Soviet Union is proof that, contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Aristotle Geek also has a great quotation by Mark Skousen, one of Samuelson's critics-

The ultimate value of a free economy is not production, but freedom, and freedom comes not as a profit, but at a cost.

Read the whole thing.

And they came in 140 private jets to stop us from flying

One of the pet fetishes of the global warming panic-mongers is the campaign against us peasants flying in an airplane -that, they tell us, is killing the planet.As one of the most prominent warminger, George Monbiot, put it -

 

Global warming means that flying across the Atlantic is now as unacceptable as child abuse

In that case there is plenty of child abuse going on at the Copenhagen climate summit-

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

(as in the previous post about the 1200 limos the page may take a while to load because of all the jets-again it's not my fault, it's Al Gore, Pachauri and their big-dollar pals)

 

Here are 140 private planes-

 

I say – save the children from so much abuse, cancel Copenhagen!