Some people are just beyond help.
At Canadian embassy, global warming protester nears starvation
By IAN DUNCAN — Tribune Washington Bureau
On a patch of pavement outside the Canadian Embassy, Jay McGinley is trying to starve himself to death.
After drinking nothing but water for more than 30 days, he appears close to achieving his goal. When he stands up, his dark blue sweater hangs from a wasted frame.
On the 21st day of his hunger strike, May 15, McGinley was hospitalized briefly when his kidneys almost failed. He returned to his post the next day. Wednesday would be his 36th day without food.
He demands that the United States stop using fossil fuels, particularly those harvested from tar sands deposits in Canada. He is confident that if 1,000 people were to die for his cause, the government would act.
“I need to get us from 1,000 to 999 as fast as possible,” he said. “I need to blaze that trail.”
Full story at The Bellingham Herald h/t to Marc Morano
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Apparently he’s tried this before: May 6th, 2007 from NPR:
Hunger Striker Wants to Make Difference in Darfur
Which goes back to 2005.
He apparently has changed his name to “start loving”. Like “Vermin Supreme” he seems to be a professional protestor. Here’s a blog about him. Me thinks he’ll pull out of this latest hunger strike at the last minute, after all, the man is a professional.
I leave you with this (those with weak stomachs may wish to logoff now):
After announcing her candidacy for President of the United States and Prime Minister of Israel, Roseanne Barr decides to talk to people on the street. Here is the interview that follows with peace activist “Start Loving.”
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Gail Combs says:
“I would nominate him for the Darwin Awards but they stipulate
The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it…
So I guess he does not qualify.”
Actually he has not met the main criterion, in that he is still corporeal. To really qualify he would have to become like the famous Monty Python parrot: “E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life. ‘E rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket. ‘E’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, rung down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!!”
I would suggest that if he does manage to emulate the parrot, it could be judged an accident, given his previous history of inability to accomplish this goal for Darfur.
DirkH, just shows how much the US dollar has been devalued.
Gunga Din says:
May 30, 2012 at 8:23 pm
i agree. Nuttier than a fruit cake.
Years ago at the Univ of Iowa Med School, two prospective medical students showed how much they wanted to be doctors by sitting out in front of the school on beach lounge chairs and having a starve-in. They kept track of their resulting acidosis by checking the acidity of their urine. They then proudly showed the admissions director how smart they were. The director told them that anybody who was stupid enough to starve themselves, particularly someone who wants to be a doctor, was showing him clearly that they were too stupid to be admitted, ever!
They were caught sneaking off to the local McDonalds late at night and other students were smuggling them milkshakes during the day. Now that ‘s dedication.
Why is he wearing a sweater and scafe?
Must be cool/cold eh!
Opps….that should be scarf
This goes far beyond “Climate Craziness of the Week”. This “man” wants the US to stop using ALL fossil fuels. If this was to happen tomorrow, I guesstimate that within 2 months at least 250 million would be dead, at least 20 million would have fled, and the remainder would be in a state of civil disorder that would be killing millions more a week as some survivors try to take food from the few low level producers that remain, who would defend their property to the death. This should be obvious to anyone with half the brain of a Mycoplasma.
p.s. Perhaps this would be the way to stop the “Climate being destroyed by CO2” madness. If all producers of fossil fuels were to shut down for a week or two, citing EPA endangerment/pollution findings and DoD global warming national security warnings, then the average person would note exactly what the result of these extremist views would be. The lunatic fringe, whether climate “scientists”, bureaucrats or “environmentalists would be discredited forever (hopefully) and we could all get back to our normal lives.
It is my (probably wrong) understanding that a contract that requires an action that is either illegal or immoral is unenforceable so that supply contracts that require the destruction of the world or national security should come under that heading.
Maybe he could share the spotlight, head north up to the Arctic, and show the world we must fight global warming to save the polar bears, which, as he’ll demonstrate, are eminently lovable and huggable.
Maybe Start Thinking should meet Stop Whining.
Whatever happened to Roseanne Barr?
She used to be really, really funny. (=Ha Ha).
Now she’s really, really funny (=peculiar)
What went wrong?
Now I understand the line from Forrest Gump, ” Stupid is, as stupid does”
“martinbrumby says:
May 30, 2012 at 11:25 pm
Whatever happened to Roseanne Barr?”
She fired her writers?
What a shame. This guy is probably mentally ill. I’m really not sure why he hasn’t been sectioned.
“Richard of NZ says:
This goes far beyond “Climate Craziness of the Week”. This “man” wants the US to stop using ALL fossil fuels. If this was to happen tomorrow, I guesstimate that within 2 months at least 250 million would be dead, at least 20 million would have fled, and the remainder would be in a state of civil disorder that would be killing millions more a week as some survivors try to take food from the few low level producers that remain, who would defend their property to the death.”
That is a very good point, sir. He might as well be demanding a wholesale national suicide. This guy needs help…
In the comments from a recent thread at Lubos there is a fine example of a duly qualified individual who was very successful at removing himself from our gene pool …
http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/indian-man-electrocuted-voltage-check/54BuorH-AVlFKpAmbGQ5ZQ
Warning :: Graphic!
This is the adult form of the childhood temper tantrum.
This guy is 100% unemployable, he would do something stupid.
The man needs professional help, are there no mental health laws in the US?
He should be sectioned for his own protection IMO. If he were threatening to jump from a tall building, holding a gun to his own head, or some other form of imminent suicide, surely he would have been sectioned by now?
Note the American Psychological Association has an alarmist “Resolution on Affirming Psychologists’ Role in Addressing Global Climate Change” here http://www.apa.org/about/policy/climate-change.aspx
Maybe they can be approached for a statement on this case. Is there not a Hippocratic oath for psychologists along the lines of “first do no harm”?
It is organisations like the APA who should come under scrutiny regarding this case IMO.
Mann, Hansen, Briffa, Gavin, Gore – did you see this?
An excellent example in how you should demonstrate your fervent beliefs in a non-problem.
Can you imagine what a skinny Gore, or Mann, would look like?
Scottish Sceptic “ONE in three Scots families will have to go without heating within three years if fuel costs keep rising.”
Is this MSM fear mongering, one that has been said to, ‘injure civil society’?
So, MSM proclaims 30% of the consumer market evaporates, unable to meet exorbitant extortionate power prices – surely, on the basis of supply/demand one assumes either the price will eventually decline to meet the market or the power company goes out of business? What is the cut-off customer number, before the power generating company starts running at a loss because it has priced itself out of the market? 30% priced out of the market = unintended consequence, eg. civil unrest, societal collapse and mayhem. The CAGW elite will be on a balmy beach somewhere saying “Let them eat cake.”
What I find incredible about people like this, and a great many other protestors, is that the ONLY reason they have the luxury to behave in this fashion is the very thing they want to stop.
As long as he does me no harm, I am happy for him to behave as he pleases, however. I wish he would offer everybody the same courtesy, but his derangement (as regards CO2) will not let him, I guess.
I’m sure we’re all impressed by his own self importance.
Hoser says:
May 30, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Well said, sir.
This man is a self agrandizing egomaniac. Turn off the camera. Give him no more attention.
He looks a bit like Bobby Sands. He’ll start a dirty protest next….