The unchanging climate of Copenhagen

Be concerned. Many of the worlds leaders are in Denmark and it is not for Carlsberg, Lego or danishes. Yes, apparently there is a common goal - to address the climate crisis. As a premise, it would be some kind of wonderful if leaders from these nations got together and decided that maybe this issue that every scientist who is not on a oil company payroll has decided is a very serious situation. Advisory alert - if you live near a cliff, river, ocean or lake, New Orleans, Richmond BC, Nederlands, etc. - time to start thinking about moving.

Copenhagen will prove nothing. As bleak as it is, there is no way that anything that is proposed will be followed. The real travesty is that we are in midst of a climate crisis and the last thing we need is more bureaucracy to be added to the situation. Until we get a "buy-in" from the oil/gas and all of those other polluting industries, the worlds leaders might better be shopping for blue cheese.

So what to do? Protest and boycotts? Perhaps. But, this is the question of our generation and perhaps of all time? Why are people so greedy?

For arguments sake, let's go with the "climategate" theory and the idea that human caused climate change is just a massive conspiracy held by 99.9% of climate scientists in the world. As a kid many of us were told, that anything is possible...

Ok. So let's say that its true. Does this mean that we should embrace greenhouse gases? Should we hope that in our communities that we can get more of these "harmless" gases, perhaps near schools if possible. Perhaps there are some island beaches that have tar and we can start some mini tar sands.
Wouldn't it be great?

The bottom line is, why on earth would anyone want to be involved with an industry that willingly pollutes, destroys the earth and jeopardizes the health of everything and everyone? Unfortunately, it comes down to that five letter word - Greed. You don't have to be Gandhi or the Buddha to see it, it is what it is all about. It is not the climate we need to change, it is us.

Tiger, Tiger

TIGER, tiger, burning bright

have you lost your sight?

In the forests of the night,

was there no light?

What immortal hand or eye

seriously, why?

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?




In what distant deeps or skies

how many more lies?

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

or thighs?

On what wings dare he aspire?

you are going to need a new tire

What the hand dare seize the fire?

its all over the wire

And what shoulder and what art

really, really wasn't smart

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

one more family torn apart

And when thy heart began to beat,

what made you cheat?

What dread hand and what dread feet?

every party girl you did meet?

What the hammer? what the chain?

twas the golf club that caused the pain

In what furnace was thy brain?

Cheat on Elin are you insane?

What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,

No one will forget this for years

And water'd heaven with their tears,

you better start drinking beers

Did He smile His work to see?

You are no longer free

Did He who made the lamb make thee?

A monogamous married man you will be


Tiger, tiger, burning bright

you have lost the fight

In the forests of the night,

someday she'll forgive you, she just might

What immortal hand or eye

travel alone when you fly

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

I heart Huckabee?

Gotta feel for Huckabee, his presidential bid is over. Perhaps one of the strongest candidates for the Republicans in the next round is going to have a really difficult time selling the traditional "republicans are tough on crime". Giving clemency to Clemmons turned out to be a bad idea, but how could he know this guy was gonna be a cop killa?

This is were it gets strange - because you cant really blame Huckabee. Clemmons appeal for clemency was a document full of words of a changed man, a man you found Jesus and God, a person who realized he hung with the wrong crowd and made mistakes in his youth. After all, Clemmons was only 17 when he got charged with a series of burglaries and bringing a weapon to school. His rap sheet didn't imply that he knew how to use it.

You can picture the situation. Huckabee sitting in his office surrounding by his favourite bible thumping neo-con advisors with a pile of papers to sign. Clemmons appeal comes up, he sees the officers recommendation for clemency and realizes he just has to add a signature to release this guy who has found god.

Huckabee, regardless of his asinine politics, backwards thinking and just plain ignorance, will be remembered as the guy who released the criminal who killed the cops and not the guy who fried squirrels in the popcorn popper.


"When we were in college we used to take a popcorn popper -- because that was the only thing they would let us have in the dorms -- and fry squirrels in the popcorn popper." Mike Huckabee