OMG! WTF?

I saw this posted on a BBS — there was no attribution.

1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

I stole this article from here.

The upcoming Carbon Tax is the worst thing Canada has done to it’s people since GST.

“For the record, I hate icebergs, so to hell with them. Their only good for putting old people on to get rid of them.
Don’t volcano’s put out more emissions then we will ever put out? why don’t the liberals put a volcano tax on countries with volcanoes? I have a hybrid-volcano and I’m getting 58 miles per gallon of lava.”
- The Sudbury Star

The article below is good too.

Excepts From the Globe & Mail:
Margaret Wente: “Carbon cuts are just a fantasy” - June 24, 2008

VANCOUVER — I have bad news for Stéphane Dion. Out here in B.C., the people are revolting. Gordon Campbell’s much-applauded carbon tax was pretty popular in February. But now, as people are being hammered by record gas prices, the enthusiasm has cooled. A new poll says a whopping 59 per cent of British Columbians now oppose the tax - and it hasn’t even kicked in yet.

Beware the fickle voters. Everyone loves carbon taxes, until they have to pay them. But there’s a much bigger and more serious reason for people to be skeptical of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade plans, green shifts, offset schemes and all the other policy proposals that have fueled such mind-numbing debate. The reason is that they won’t work. And you don’t have to be a climate-change denier to see why.

I know, I know. Mr. Dion likes to tell us the planet’s fate is in our hands. Sorry! It’s not. It’s a big old world out there, and most of the six billion people in it are scrambling to use more energy, not less.

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Despite our good intentions, we can’t do anything about it. Last year, China clearly overtook the United States as the world’s biggest CO2 emitter. It now accounts for two-thirds of the yearly increase in global emissions. China and India will build a new coal generator roughly once a week for the next 25 years. As we ditch our gas-guzzling SUVs, the Chinese are buying 20,000 new cars every day. Two billion people still lack access to electricity. If we try to tell them they can’t have it, they’ll just laugh at us.

Could we reduce our carbon footprint enough to compensate for all this furious growth? Not a chance. We’d have to repeal air travel, cars and the rest of the 20th century. Global warming is really hard to fix. But don’t take it from me.

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In other words, it will take a massive technological revolution to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, and anyone who says otherwise is kidding you. It’s all very well to say that we ought to lead by example, and do what we can. It’s a good thing to start figuring out how we can eventually wean ourselves off fossil fuels. But if all our efforts to regulate carbon amount to scooping sand from the Sahara with a teaspoon, shouldn’t we face facts?

“We may have set ourselves down the wrong path when we framed the challenge of mitigating greenhouse gases in terms of reducing emissions,” says Mr. Pielke. He says only massive long-term investments in carbon-neutral technologies will do the trick. Keep that in mind during the next eye-glazing round of green debates.

So basically in about 2 years apples will cost $10 each. AWSM.

Look. I don’t smoke and neither should you. It’s bad for you. But that’s besides the point. People do smoke cigarettes. Many people. It’s a fact of life.

Now, if the government wants you to not do something, they make it illegal. The latest thing to become illegal is the fact that individuals cannot smoke on public patios. If caught, they may be liable to some fines. The rule is that they have to stay like 5 or so meters away from the specified area. Which is totally ridiculous in my opinion.

Here in Vancouver though, we have these safe injection sites for all the homeless drug addicts to have a nice warm sterile environment to inject themselves with heroin away from the cold and diseases.

Friends of mine have been talking about going to the safe injection sites and smoking cigars there because they don’t have proper places to smoke. I think they should.

Why do people who continuously do not and will not contribute to society always have more rights then your average smoking person?

Is that fair for us hard working, tax paying citizens?

If you wanna kill yourself with cigarettes, I think you should have the right to do so wherever and whenever you want. Die from lung cancer, help keep the world population down, therefore contributing to saving the environment.

Second hand smoke isn’t pleasant to be around, but neither is fascism.