Random Nuclear Strikes

In a strange twist of truth and hyperbole at the HuffPo, US Representative Major R. Owens (NY-11) steps over the “Sanity Line” with a little piece titled “Ethnic Cleansing in the Shadow of the Superdome”  .

If you skiped the post title and went right into the body, you wouldn’t realize that the guy is whacked out of his skull until around the fifth paragraph.

Like Rep. Owens, I believe that spending my federal tax dollars, via FEMA, to repair a stadium is an insult.

But unlike Rep. Owens, I don’t think it is the fed’s duty or their job to build low-cost high density housing projects for anyone. If folks weren’t so used to being dependant upon government dollars, the forces of the market would take over and investors would build housing.

But ask anyone you know who has had any success in investing in real estate and they will tell you the one thing that is holding back a big boom in building of apartments in NOLA: Because gov’t is a follower and not a leader, as soon as the fed sees someone dumping loads of private money into the construction of high density housing, they will then do the same. This would sink just about any possibility of profit that an investor or a group of investors could hope to gather.

Why would someone sink $10 Million into a housing project when there is a high probability that the fed will come in and build a half-dozen projects shortly thereafter, for little to no cost to the new tenants? To someone who wants a return on their investment, that sounds like a good way to fail.

The wasting of our tax dollars on rebuilding the Superdome is one of the most ignorant things I’ve seen the fed do in recent years, but it is not an attempt to wipe out the black population in New Orleans.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is nuttier than squirrel turds.

I didn’t want to, but I did it anyway.

I went into the dKos Animal Farm and Petting Zoo.

There, I found an item that not only fits this post category to a tee, but shows us the twisted priorities of the left and how they can downplay the threat of terrorism.

Over at the dKos, they have a system called “Diary Rescue”. If a certain “diary” post gets enough recommends or if whomever is tasked with “rescuing diaries” likes the post well enough, the “diary” gets bumped up to the front page so as to give it more exposure.

And that is where I found today’s example of “The Dumbest Thing I’ve Read All Day”.

In the center ring of the three ring circus that is leftist blogs we have a comparison between:

International Fundamentalist Islamic Terrorists armed with Nuclear Weapons

and (a drumroll begins and the spotlight swings over to….)

Global Warming!

The consequences of global warming are terrifying. Much more terrifying than any nuclear bomb in the hands of a terrorist.  Millions of people, including most Americans, displaced by rising waters, starved to death, diseases gone wild, all within 50 years.

Even if you think that this scenario has only a 1% chance of happening, does it not make sense to try to do your utmost to stop it?

If Cheney’s 1% doctrine applies to terrorism, does it not apply also to global warming?

If so, why isn’t anyone asking Cheney this question?  Of course one would have to have balls and an opportunity to do so.  I am just floating this meme here hoping that it flies. Because I am really worried that there is more than a 1% chance that I may live to see global warming kill us all.

(emphasis NOT mine)

I just have no words that can describe exactly how idiotic those words are. If the “diary’s author, Shockwave, is more worried about the possibility of rising sea levels, and an extra degree of fahrenheit and whatever else AlGore can dream up to scare people than the actual threat of an Islamic Totalitarian state giving nuclear weapons to terrorists, then there is really nothing I can do to help him.

Another item of interest that was bumped to the front page of the dKos:

Bush Family History 1900 to 1920: The Rise of American Fascism

Yes, that is yet another diatribe on the topic of GWB’s grandfather and great-grandfather with the same info that was being circulated before the 2000 election. For some reason, not only do the dKos inmates find this information exciting and new, they exuberantly thank the “diary’s” author, London Yank.