National Review’s Katherine Timpf interviews protestors at the Flood Wall Street climate march. Some segments are just unbearable to watch.
The video pretty much tells you all you need to know.
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One guy wants to shame all rich people, regardless if they made their money from global warming studies, a carbon free business, or even from writing books about controlling climate change. Just a lot of self absorbed, jealous and warped people. Is it any wonder these people don’t have a job to go to on a Monday? Would you hire any of these wackos?
evidently 360.org did….
Before you laugh too loudly,bear in mind that roughly half the elected officials with responsibility for governing the various civil jurisdictions of the United States either agree with these pathetic characters or, at best, will go out of their way to avoid displeasing them, with the consequences falling on everyone else.
in this connection, it’s worth recalling how an audience that included many important Washington politicians in the Democratic party gave Michael Moore a standing ovation for an incoherent rant called 9-11.
(For those who don’t think it was incoherent, see Christopher Hitchens’ review. [Incidentally, the book the film was supposedly based on, House of Bush, House of Saud was quite good, and unlike the movie quite coherent.])
Well, there are plenty of screwballs on the left, but there are plenty of them on the right also. At least I didnt see anyone in the video carrying asault weapons. A dose of common sense would be very helpful on both sides. We dont know for sure human caused CO2 is not a threat, we just have a pretty good idea the threat has been overstated. Lets not forget there are intelligen,t sensible people on both sides..
Talk to the hand.
From one of the stellar examples of humanity in the video: “We’ll just go to their f***ing house and burn their f***ing house down, man!”
With that kind of terrorist violence being proposed, as a remediation method for the trace gas that all flora on Planet Earth need to live, it is no surprise why a majority of US citizens support the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms for personal protection. That IS common sense, even if they don’t actually carry “asault” (sic) weapons……
@ur momisugly tom port
What is your motivation to tossing in a reference to so-called “assault weapons?”
Are you of the persuasion that a semi automatic firearm fires a projectile propelled by CO2? Aughh …..
But it is nice to know that you are reading this thread. That offers hope for your mental state.
more people killed with hammers/blunt objects each year in the US than with firearms.
this includes beatings.
so you saw 2 assault weapons on each individual there.
assault weapon is a term coined to fool suckers.
you fell for it.
Tom Port
September 26, 2014 at 12:23 pm
“Lets not forget there are intelligen,t sensible people on both sides..”
Yeah, but I can convert those in 3 minutes. So they’re losing those pretty fast.
DirkH,
This may not be the place for it (I’d love to know where this is discussed in detail) but could you share your 3-minute conversion argument? I’ve had successes in rescuing people from alarm, but it always takes a bit longer than that.
There is no evidence that CO2 is a threat. There is no such thing as an “assault weapon”, a meaningless term invented by enemies of freedom. Unless you mean any weapon with which a person could assaulted.
We should be bombing these idiots, before ISIL. They are more dangerous.
Thanks, Katherine Timpf.
So, now what? Climate activists should become a protected endangered species?
Cult followings illustrate mass psychosis, with violent potentials.
I saw similar ilk from (Pick One: Anti-nuclear, Anti-aparthied, Anti-war, Anti-logging, Anti-mining, Anti-American, Socialist, Animal Rights, Feminist Rights, Union Rights, ad nauseum) protesters, as an undergrad and grad student at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and Madison campuses. This was during the late 70s and early 80’s. Nearly the same pathetically lame, irrational, and violence espousing rhetoric was applied to disparate ‘protest marches’ by motley human masses that seemed collectively and progressively the same.
Fast forward +30 years:
They seem just as collectively and progressively lame, irrational, and violent today.
I was there at the same time. Have you been to Madison lately? They’re still there, except now they are teaching, and probably getting research grants from our tax dollars. Yikes.
CiW,
Haven’t been in Madtown in the last decade but may visit my engineering alma mater this Thanksgiving week, to renew some personal and professional connections. I’ll be in Wisconsin for deer hunting with family and a bunch of ‘catching up’ with old friends in Green Lake, Waushara, and Winnebago counties.
In the early 80s, I used to join some of the left leaning professor’s ‘teach-ins’ on the slopes of Bascom Hill. Being a bit older student, I enjoyed challenging their socialist assertions to their wannabe cadres and had some success encouraging others to think for themselves. Somehow, the umbrage from these professors seemed to shrivel when I pointed out that the slogan “Question Authority!” applied equally well to them…..
Go Badgers! Go Pack!
Some rational and reasonable people were interviewed at the Climate March! (Just not these people!). 🙂
“The lunatic is in my head.
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me ’til I’m sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There’s someone in my head but it’s not me. ”
Just something about a few o the folks in that video that make me think of that.
I just finally clicked and watched the whole thing…the movie Idiocracy comes to mind. And just think, these people vote, and reproduce.
You think it’s hereditary?
I don’t know what is going around in NYC but that is evident in that small sample shown in the video. Seems to be a bit of CCAP (Climate Change Activist Psychosis). The descript fits well: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/psychosis
The young man in the video contemplating arson on the homes of those he disagrees with needs some immediate and serious therapy.
Not sure I woulda done much better with a microphone shoved in my face while being filmed 🙂
I believe the film Idiocracy projected this devolution. Clearly this process has been dramatically accelerated by Obama’s successful implementation of Cloward-Piven on steroids:
http://www.spike.com/video-clips/f8drn8/first-10-minutes-of-idiocracy-clip-1
I laughed off the line.
“National Review’s Katherine Timpf interviews protestors at the Flood Wall Street climate march. Some segments are just unbearable to watch.”
Wasn’t flooding NY James Hansens job?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/22/a-little-known-but-failed-20-year-old-climate-change-prediction-by-dr-james-hansen/
Wait, I thought redneck flyover-value denialists like us didn’t BELIEVE in the theory of de-evolution…
“drsanity” no longer blogs (just google it). But this University of Michigan Medical School professor of clinical psychiatry, and former NASA flight surgeon (when the space shuttle Challenger went down) – made it her late-in-life’s duty to chronicle and understand the American Left: besotted by what the Harvard Med School educated psychiatrist-turned pundit Charles Krauthammer dubbed “Bush Derangement Syndrome,” or BDS.
She concludes that the Left is almost possessed by psychotic rhetorical tropes of diversion, denial, displacement, and projection. In a word, psychosis. While the Right is afflicted by neurotic ones like depression (eg, in 2009, “conservatism is dead”).
Therefore, she reluctantly – and against Dr Pat Santy’s own husband who is a Democrat – affiliated with the Republicans because the alternative was too dysfunctional and delusional to tolerate.
dr sanity blogged about it for about ten years. I’d buy her book if there was one. Try googling “drsanity” and any Lefty name you want, or else “defenses” to get introduced to her insights. Her psycho-politico-cultural work remains unsurpassed in critical depth – and sadly, in relevance – as the above video vividly shows.
They certainly look like “normal” Americans to me, having been to Neiman Marcus in Florida a few years ago. Heh Heh. Sorry Alaska.
It is really sad so many people can be so gung-ho and jump on an issue they barely understand except for what is fed to them by news media and politicians and blown way out of proportion to get a more catchy by-line or votes.
Even if at say worse case scenario of 1/8 degree C per decade (which is not occurring almost two decades now, just a theory), the effects of global warming if it occurs should be completely unnoticeable to humans, but maybe not sheep, like people can really notice 1 degree change in average over a decade. Well Kerry can be more worried about global warming as a threat than ISIL, but misguided idiots at march worry me too since any bs can be fed to them, then you have votes and public policy prescriptions which can do so much more damage than good.
These people are interesting, but you can see and hear them everyday in NYC. What bothers me is this interview with Bernie Sanders during the march (it was supposed to be about Leonardo DiCaprio, but that interview tanked). Sanders says what the administration, the EPA, the congress and the Main Stream Media has been saying, and there is no 60 Minutes investigative report to refute it:
http://www.pjtv.com/v/10273
Wow, you’re right, that’s really scary!
Apparently he really believes it.
Notice how he jumped straight to “Who funds you?”
Heh, the polar bear costume looks pretty realistic. Could be a great costume, but I’m curious as to whether it’s a real polar bear skin and if it’s legal.
This pretty much explains why there is little point consulting the public on just about anything. I’m not sure I really understood the point (s) they were trying to make.
Also, they do realise that burning houses down will increase CO2 emissions…….right?
Rent a mob on parade.
Regardless of the NR video interviews of last Sunday’s NYC climate march participants, I swear that while at university in the late 1960’s that I saw their ancestral doppelgängers in protest marches back then.
John
re: the man with the “Grateful Dead” tee shirt. This will get me banned or at least in the censored bin. I was raised by vaudeville circuit grandparents. I still have my grandfather’s touring trunk complete with destination stickers still attached. I have copies of Cecil B. DE Mille silent movies that give me glimpses of my grandmother dancing for the cameras. After retiring from the circuit to run the family ranch, they both continued their craft by providing music and dance lessons of all kinds.
I, along with two of my three children continued that legacy by being involved in choreography. Two of my three children became choreographers as teenagers for dance teams, and I served as the choreographer for the Salem Boys Choir, a part time job I thoroughly enjoyed for three years. I know exactly what Grandpa and Grandma would say were they alive today about the Grateful Dead tee shirt the man is wearing in the clip, and singing groups like them. “They’re dead and I’m grateful.” I will have to concur. I just don’t consider that style of music, nor that era, as something that provides an advancement in music theory.
It seems to me that pot and other forms of drug use put music theory on pause, to be revived sometime later when musicians decided to sober up and think about what they were doing.
With the best and the brightest of America on display the Marxist takeover is imminent.
Depending on whether or not this is the George Steiner I know of, I read “Grapes of Wrath” as a 7th grader. I was unimpressed with the Movie version.
Would that be George Steinbeck?
Nope. George Steiner, french-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He famously reported to have read “Moby Dick” as a child. Precocious would describe him if that is indeed what he chose to read as a “child”. I was not exactly a “child” when I read “Grapes of Wrath”. I have often dreamed of remaking that novel in a way that would rectify the censorship influence of the time that destroyed any attempt to portray the central theme of the book. I believe Ted Turner owns the rights to that story.
When does the copyright of Grapes of Wrath run out / expire ? It was published in 1939.
garymount, the Steinbecks still own the domestic rights, Fox owns the foreign rights. Apparently Spielberg has been in negotiations to produce a remake since 2013, snatching it away from another entity who wanted to do a miniseries. I hope Spielberg advocates for a more accurate remake. The original version stayed close to the first half of the book. But the real drama is in the second half of the book. And I would imagine censors were the cause of its departure from the text at that point. The best and most censorable parts are in the latter half of the story. But without them, the guts of the cinematic story will again disappear.
Say, what ?
Best not to get the natives riled.
Showing this as representative of AGW activists is like showing skeptics as deniers and creationists. Videos like this are just not helpful/
OK, you got your digs in.
Now you are embarrassed by the army that carries your colors ?