Moron of the Day: Beer Mongering!

It is a constant complaint of the left that the Republican party only maintains it's hold on the reins of power by fear mongering. We describe the real existence of thousands (if not millions) of terrorists who hate us and want to kill us while they literally predict the end of the fucking world on a daily basis.

Well, now their fear mongering has gone too far:

BEER will be short supply, more expensive and may taste different as climate change affects barley production, a scientist says.

Drought conditions in parts of Australia where malting barley was grown was likely to get worse, according to Jim Salinger of New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

I will not stand idly by and my family intimidated and terrified by ramped up warnings about impending beer shortages! To my fellow Wisconsinites, this is tantamount to suggesting air may be in short supply. After all, we are a state that found St. Patrick's day insufficient and created an additional Beer Day not three weeks later!

Keep your rotten fear mongering to yourself, Jim Salinger; today's Moron of the Day.

Hollywood Rapes Another Corpse

From doubleplusundead, I learn that Hollywood intends to remake The Day the Earth Stood Still as a lecture on climate change.

My agents have managed to obtain an advanced copy of the opening sequence. Be warned, you aren't going to like what you see.

Moron of the Day: Goracle

God damn you, Al Gore! Why the fuck did you have to pick the second day of Spring to visit Wisconsin? As everyone well knows, your arrival is predicted to bury us in over a foot of snow! Why the hell can't you just stay with your precious polar bears in the Arctic? I'm sure you're disturbing Gaia rage will keep you warm during those long winter nights.

Pros: I get to leave work at 1:00 instead of 4:30 because of the weather.

Cons: I had a hot date that will now be cancelled and getting off work early doesn't really help much when it should take me 3 hours to get home.

I fucking hate you, Al Gore.

Spring Greetings from Kenosha, WI!

That is a lawn chair through my now dislodged and destroyed screen door. The red car in the background is my bottomed out G5 GT

Blinded By Global Warming Hysteria

Via Instapundit, I see this article in which the GM Vice Chairman professes his belief that Global Warming is a "crock of shit." The writer of the article goes on to say:

Anyhow, this doesn’t mean that GM isn’t serious about building the Volt, of course—just that global warming isn’t the reason. And that’s fine. GM doesn’t have to have noble intentions as long as it delivers the fuel-efficient cars it’s been promising.

Is Seth Fletcher saying that there are no noble reasons to build an electric car aside from averting something as unproven and theoretical as massive, catastrophic, anthropogenic climate change? Does it matter that an electric car could have great positive effect on several established environmental problems caused by internal combustion engines such as smog, dirty roads, and oil waste? Is it ridiculous to consider the myriad economic and geopolitical benefits including reduced dependence on foreign oil and cheaper fuel prices?

Nope. Once again all of the concrete, addressable environmental problems are swept aside in lieu of the end-all of environmental concerns - Global Warming. I guess there is nothing Global Warming can't do and nothing you can do that is noble if it doesn't effect Global Warming.

Imaginary U.S. Carriers Destroying Environment

You really have to read all of this post and this post and the original article to truly appreciate the staggering awesomeness of this guys stupidity:

Got that? Sanders claims that in January of this year, every single carrier we had, to include one that was decommissioned in 2003 (the Constellation) was in the Gulf.

Every one. 13. Because, you know, we always put all our carriers in one area in order to present a lucrative nuclear target while abandoning our world wide mission of keeping the sea lanes open. To put it succinctly we have never, nor would we ever, group 13 carrier strike forces together and certainly not in a waterway as restricted as the Gulf.

This has never happened.

Or from the weekly standard

The USS Abraham Lincoln, familiar to us as the ship on whose deck President Bush declared to the nation, on May 2, 2003,"Mission Accomplished," remains in service, but the military keeps classified all the numbers about its fuel consumption. The USS Lincoln helped deliver the opening salvos and air strikes in Operation Iraqi Freedom. From March 2003 until mid-April of that same year, during its deployment in the Gulf, the Navy launched 16,500 sorties from its deck, and fired 1.6 million pounds of ordnance from its guns.

The USS Abraham Lincoln has no "guns," other than those used in air defense. The 1.6 million pounds of ordnance should refer to bombs dropped in Iraq via aircraft.

Indeed, nearly every piece of information no matter how trivial is incorrect in this piece:

To keep the B-52 or F-111 in the air for extended periods of time requires in-flight re-fueling.

Did he actually do any research before this or did he just get a copy of Jane's Combat Aircraft and start writing? The F-111 was retired in 1998 so I find it more than mildly unlikely that it would be flying in 2007. Seriously, read it all and let me know what your favorite inaccuracy is!

Can't Teach An Old Commie New Tricks

Nearly thirty years ago, a bunch of uneducated musicians got together to cripple the advancement of nuclear power in the United States. Recently they went to a fundraiser for Barbara Boxer in California in the company of Al Gore. Much was made of their desire to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. As Hugh Hewitt and James Lileks discussed, surely they'd come around on nuclear power. Not so:

In 1979, we helped organize five nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden and an anti-nuke rally that drew 200,000 people. These efforts and the ongoing work of many grassroots and national safe energy groups have helped to hold off the building of new nuclear reactors ever since.

But three decades later, we're facing the same nuclear issues. And to counter this threat, we are organizing once again.

Clearly the only solution to global warming is to completely hamstring global economies. I guess what they say is true; you can't teach an old communist new tricks.