Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Al Fin: China Outsmarts Obama / Pelosi Carbon Reich
In a brilliant feat of legerdemain, China has demonstrated its own adroitness on the world energy scene. Anticipating the carbon-phobic stance of the incoming Obama / Pelosi reich, China has laid the foundation for supremacy in clean-coal IGCC (integrated gasification combined cycle) technology. Coal gasification is a critical component of any intelligent "bridge energy policy" meant to span the gap in time between the "cheap oil age", and the "abundant clean sustainable energy age".
Not Your Father’s Christmas Play : "Santa Goes Green" panned
In my opinion, it was the worst show I have ever seen in my half century of living!

I was not prepared when I was tricked into sitting through a half hour long political statement on “Global Warming.” I was not appreciative that my grand-daughter is being taught this unproven theory of mankind destroying the Earth, and that even Santa must do something to prevent its self-destruction.
How many different schools are putting on this "Santa Goes Green" show this year?

Sheet Music Plus - Santa Goes Green - by Mac Huff, John Jacobson
ISBN 1423438876. Melting ice caps, global warming, surfing reindeer! The North Pole is going green this year and everyone is excited - everyone, that is, except Santa who likes things just the way they are. Solar panels, LED light bulbs, new power sources? It all sounds a bit inconvenient to him.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If it's any consolation, my daughter played "Spruce Tree #1" in this play at her middle school here in Florida. Apparently Santa was the bad guy who just couldn't get his head around why he should have been driving an electric hybrid sleigh, as if magic flying reindeer aren't green enough? Anyway, my 12 year old daughter and her friends in the play were generally mocking of the play and its message. They sang the song in the video and laughed about the lyrics. Their favorite song for laughs? It was the one about recycling a fruit cake. Which to my mind was the perfect metaphor for the environmental movement; A bunch of fruitcakes endlessly recycling themselves.

bb said...

The concept that humans can irreparably harm the earth is terribly popular, yet extremely silly. At best, the planet is undergoing evolutionary changes, and anyone who thinks that we can do anything about it is pretty arrogant. As George Carlin said, "The planet is fine. It isn't going anywhere...we are."