Brain of yours not so bad.
Good English at least you can speak, yes?
(The Zohan descends back to earth from higher plane of Yodda thinking)

Yes there is a distinction between us and the frogs.
But there is also a similarity.
Both are true at the same time.

(This is somting called quantum physics thinking which many a humanoid cannot grok.)

If you look at how many people react to a crisis situation, they act like frogs (reptile), they act like sheep (limbic). These reaction paradigms are ones that served us well through earlier evolutionary times. They did not serve us well due to some grand scheme of an intelligent designer. They served us well due to random luck. (If one does not understand that, one does not understand the the theory of evolution.)

Now our luck is running out. The very things that assured our survival (as a species) in the past can become our undoing in the future.

Yes, pumping ever increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere has propelled our species into the “industrial age” and has greatly improved the standard of living that many of us take too easily for granted. But we can’t keep pumping ever increasing amounts of CO2 to infinity and beyond. Even Woody the toy cowboy in the Toy Story movie gets that. In my movie, Don’t Mess with The Zohan (puh puh), the Palestinians and the Israelis get it that they can’t keep escalating the battle forever. Trees don’t grow to the sky. If they try, they topple over.

See you in Dubai,
Your alter ego friend, The Zohan

I’ve never once thought of over-population as a problem.

Gasp!!!!! Heresy!!!!!

P.S. And we’re not all frogs – there is priceless worth in a human being (even one in a developing country), but that distinction has perhaps escaped you so far.

The human brain is crudely divided into 3 sections: reptile, limbic and neo-cortical.

It appears that “conservatives” have reptile dominated brains.
On the other hand, “liberals” have limbic dominated brains.

This is not to say that one is better than the other or that either is rational.
The reptile fears captivity and loss of “freedoms” (by the unknown them who hates our freedoms).
The limbic loves kumbaya social gatherings; believing everything will be solved if only “we” all get together and sing a song.

Neither of these brain shells helps when it comes to solving long term problems like over-population, global warming (just wait till 2013, not), fossil fuel depletion and so forth. There is no magic bullet, no holy words to utter to one’s deity. We are all frogs in the same simmering cauldron. And jumping out is not an option (stop the world, I want to get off).

“Only 10% Will Survive Global Warming”

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/only-10-will-survive-global-warming

They don’t want a solution: they want the power and control that the unsolved (or better, the unsolvable) greenhouse gas “problem” brings. Of course, Cap ‘n Trade brings us no closer to a “solution” to the unsolvable “problem” while effecting powerful redistribution of resources to “cap” growth and quality of life in developing countries (“we polluted as a developing country, but we have a moral obligation not to let others, and we should make sure they have condoms too”), so it is the perfect ploy…. And in 30 years when global warming is completely non-existent, we can say Cap ‘n Trade worked. ROFL!!!

P.S. Remember to drive your SUVs to get your swine flu shots, cappies! Fear the flu!!! Surprised the President hasn’t implemented martial law yet. The CDC promised us deadly H1N1 (<>) would infect half the population. Oh wait, they were right – it would have, except for all the cappies who did drive their SUVs (or their parents’ SUVs, or the SUVs their parents gave them for graduation) to get the shots, and effectively thwarted the epidemic. Good job, cappies!! No one will ever be able to prove otherwise!! Now you can go watch a movie. (/sarc)

Scrappy,

Speaking of know it all, you of course understand why the “Zohan” came into existence as the counterpart to “Scrappy”, no?

It is all very obvious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Mess_with_the_Zohan

Shalom my alter-ego friend

Seaweed!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article522203.ece

And they will hopefully have better leaders too (Go Sarah!)

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Good for you Scrappy bubbla that you able to turn on critical thinking parts of brain of yours when it come to the George baby Bush your people voted for to be in office.

Bad for you that now you shut off critical thinking parts of brain when it come to pumping poisonous gasses as if it were harmless poo poo into atmosphere.

What you think; that diz can go on forever? That CO2 parts per million (ppm) can just go up and up with no consequence forever?

This is childish thinking Scrappy bubbla. This is sticking head in sand like ostrich or turkey bird. You and your people (I do mean you people) have no scientific model for predicting what will happen as more and more CO2, CH4 and other stuffs go more and more into atmospheric like it be cesspool. You and your people only complain that utter people’s models not perfect. Well vise guy and huchum, you Scrappy; now you show deh people your model. Aye? Show how you tink that atmosphere and world will go from pumping bad tings into air forever, from cutting down forests forever, from sticking to the BAU (bizness as the usual) forever.

No?
You have nothing?
You have no science?
You have just supreme confidence in your non-negotiable way of life?
On Easter Island there wuz peoples like you. Now they no more there.

Have chag samai ach, Scruppy bubblah
(Happy Thanksgiving)
((For you of course, not for your turkey bird, ehh?))

We must talk zis about some more.

omgosh, Zohan, project much?

[Scare ON]
Oooh, better buy beach front property in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula if we don’t pass Cap ‘n Trade fast!!! Oooooh, and you’ll die there if we don’t pass health care reform!!!! No time to read the bill – this is an(other) emergency – Wall Street is restless!!!!!
[Scare OFF]

P.S. I have been one of the Bush Administration’s biggest critics as everyone here likely knows…. I believe he will go down in history (at least temporarily) as the worst President ever, and not just because of what he did for oil. A Carter needs a Nixon to get elected, and an Obama needs a Bush – bad presidencies are almost always double-barrel (that’s how a democracy works).