Sunday, May 18, 2008

Doomed, I say!

I was catching up with JJ's blog when I found a post from the 13th of May that caught my eye. That post had a link to another blog's post, which in turn lead me to yet another blog. Finally, I ended up reading an op/ed piece from the Wall Street Journal that started the thread.

Have you read the piece by Mark Steyn yet? Yes, it is over a year old. It is also rather long and rambling, so let me sum it up for you:

Islamic jihadists are taking over the world.

I know... right now you are saying to yourself, "That can't be right. Dez must be misreading the article."

Go. Read it for yourself. I'll wait.

(Hot today. Think I'll get some pineapple juice with lots of ice. Ahhh. That hits the spot.)

Done yet? Okay.

He doesn't come right out and say it, and he tends to rant on unrelated subjects a bit, but if you read carefully you can see where he's going.

White people are in danger of extinction in about 30 years or so, to be replaced by Islamic extremist Arabs, who are breeding faster than we are.

He's not talking just about Christians, since there are plenty of them in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and their birth rate is keeping up with their death rate just fine.

He's not talking about Western European or North American culture, since we export that at a horrendous rate and it shows no evidence of going away anytime soon.

And he thinks this is of major importance, clearly. More important than climate change or the oil crisis (which, by the way, he does not see as important at all) or even the threat of terrorist attack by nuclear or biological WMDs.

So, it's not just "We're running out of white people", it's more like "OMG! WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF WHITE PEOPLE! QUICK! ALL OF YOU START BREEDING NOW!"

Oh, but that's not the scary part. Read the comments section after the article. Not a lot of dissension, is there? Then read what the Girl on the Right said about it.

Yup, there seems to be a lot of agreement. Even hero-worship.

So. Are Islamic Jihadists invading your neighborhood? Are we running out of white people? Sorry, but I'm not seeing it.

And what if we are? What difference would it make to the world?

In order for it to make a difference, especially at the end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it level that Mark was ranting about, you would have to assume that white people are better than Arabs.

That, in turn, would mean Mark Steyn is a racist, and all the people who agreed with him are racists.

No wonder he didn't make his point clearer.

(Oh, and if you agree with Mark's article, too, don't tell me. I don't want to know you.)

(Want to read some opinions by a pro-Western Islamic Egyptian? Go here. Just because people belong to a certain faith or racial group does not make them extremists.)

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Burning the Future

Coal supplies over half the electricity used in the United States. Where does all that coal come from?

There is a movie you need to see:

Burning The Future: Coal in America - Trailer from coalmovie on Vimeo.

If you're interested, more information can be found here:

Appalachian Voice Front Porch Blog

Coal Moratorium Now!

Portal: Coal Issues - SourceWatch

700 Mountains

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition


Fossil Fuel Power Plant

How Stuff Works: How much coal...

We need other ways to make electricity than burning hydrocarbons!

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