A touching quote from a Houston Chronicle article about California Governor Arnold Swarzenegger’s Earth Day speech on MTV:
When Schwarzenegger ran for governor in 2003, he was criticized for popularizing gas-guzzling Hummers. He has since reduced his personal Hummer fleet to four, two of which he said have since been converted to run on alternative fuels.
Gee, I’m getting all choked up here. Almost as much as when I read about Sheryl Crow’s plans for toilet paper and napkin usage.
P.S. The Arnold thing reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons where Ranier Wolfcastle (the thinly disguised Swarzenegger character) tells Homer what mileage his Humvee gets: “One mile per gallon highway, zero city.”
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The dinner lesson – a classic and clever primer on taxation. This is the best example I have seen to show the flaws of “soaking the rich” to fund endless government programs and redistribute wealth. I have no problem with wealthy people paying a great share of taxes. But how much is too much? If you want to soak the rich, keep in mind that they are remarkably water-proof. They can afford to find loopholes to get around paying taxes. And where does fairness end and covetousness begin?
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Earth Day and Evolutionists – “The moral obligations underpinning Earth Day simply do not follow from the naturalistic world view that embraces Darwinism.”
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Dem’s, WMD’s & Iraq . . . Oh my - this link is a keeper, especially for those with short attention spans.
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I keep hoping to read that Sheryl Crow was just kidding, but no luck so far. Has she never heard of a cloth napkin? We have even begun using them in our lunches. Sheesh!
BTW, The Smoking Gun has a copy of her tour rider… interesting reading.
Ann Coulter: I take the biblical idea. God gave us the earth.
Democratic Strategist Peter Fenn: Oh, OK.
Coulter: We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.
Fenn: This is a great idea.
Coulter: God says, “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”
Fenn: Terrific. We’re Americans, so we should consume as much of the earth’s resources…
Coulter: Yes! Yes.
Fenn: … as fast as we possibly can.
Coulter: As opposed to living like the Indians.
My comments to Earth Day and Evolutionists at my blog.
http://www.anomalousdata.com.
It’s too long, and a little snarky, so I didn’t want to hijack Neil’s blog with stuff people might find unpleasant. Please be aware that my natural writing style is flippiant, irreverant, and has been described as “intense” by which I think people mean that I could be nicer… though I rarely curse, and don’t in this entry.
“He has since reduced his personal Hummer fleet to four, two of which he said have since been converted to run on alternative fuels.”
Let’s see using Al Gore’s credit system, we could now consider Arnold to be green, right?
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