the constant skeptic

Well, the bloggers have arrived, according to the Media Bloggers Association.

The bloggers began showing up yesterday for the Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby trial “as credentialed members of the media covering a federal trial.” Is this a major turning point for bloggers out there who want some street credit that they feel they deserve? Are bloggers going to give the mainstream media a run for their money? Or is it just two sides of the same coin? One will be too far right and the other too reactionary, so an informed reader will have to do what is necessary to find the middle ground and draw their own conclusions.

All this comes as oil hits a new low at $51 dollars/barrel. Looks like we can kiss those electric car dreams goodbye. Bring out the Hummers and the Mustangs…

The fact of the matter is that the profiteers are going to squeeze every last drop of profit out of petroleum before switching to alternative means to fill their greedy pockets. You can bet that the major oil companies already have some patented designs and innovations hidden under lock and key, just ready to unveil to the world to conveniently save the day at the right moment, when peak oil finally strikes and we are heading towards certain economic doom and depression, which I thought was going to happen when Alan Greenspan stepped down after his long tenure of effectively controlling and managing the domestic money markets.

Yes OPEC has even called for the use of ‘advanced technology’ to reduce CO2 emissions… but I wonder who has these ‘advanced’ technologies under lock and key…

Actually we shouldn’t worry about peak oil ushering in our certain doom, since we are borrowing billions of dollars from China to pay for our ballooning trade deficit. This deficit is going to ruin the dollar in international markets, which will bring the US down quicker than any presidental policy could.

As a final note in this rambling terrible post; please if your filling up your car and you see a Hummer filling up as well, give the drive a fresh slap in the face for me, and tell him he is killing our planet. And then slap yourself in the face because the CO2 from your flatulence is killing the planet as well, and it’s probably too late to do anything about it.

Climate change is real, but the questions are:

1. Are we actually causing climate change, or is this just something cyclical?
2. Is there anything we can do to stop it, short of going back to the pre-industrial era?

hmmm.

Since we are doomed, we might as well enjoy our little lives while we can and listen to some good music. I hopefully will get another playlist posted up for the next one, so keep checking back. Thanks for the read and please comment.

PS - here is more crapola about the North American Union farce.

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