The wisdom in the following quote just makes me shiver:

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it. You don’t multiply wealth by dividing it. Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else. Whenever somebody receives something without working for it, somebody else has to work for it without receiving. The worst thing that can happen to a nation is for half of the people to get the idea they don’t have to work because somebody else will work for them, and the other half to get the idea that it does no good to work because they don’t get to enjoy the fruit of their labor.

~Dr. Adrian Rodgers, three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979-1980 and 1986-1988).

That right there is a out-of-the-park kind of home run. I mean, just think about it. Look at each sentence individually and realize the depth of wisdom in each one. Each one is a wisdom into itself, and the synergy of all of them together is extremely powerful.

Hat tip to (believe or not) The Memphis Liberal, although I think he meant the opposite as to what I read into it.

And so, the privledged elite gather in “Hopenhagen” to tell the rest of us how to live our lives. Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges. I think the sub headline really spells it out: Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.

Now, this is a UK paper, so let me tell you how big Middlesbrough is. Middlesbrough is a town in the Tees Valley conurbation of North East England and sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It is the largest and most populous settlement within the Borough of Middlesbrough, which encompasses the town and several outlying villages which have become suburbs. Population, according to a 2001 census was 142,691. So, the 20,000 attendees will emit about seven times per capita the carbon footprint as a regular person during the same time.

Of course, all of the delegates and other attendees have bought “carbon offsets” to combat the immense load of carbon they are producing. Which is utter bull, because all the carbon offset companies do is charge outragious sums of money to plant….trees.

Here are some more quotes from the article:

And this being Scandinavia, even the prostitutes are doing their bit for the planet. Outraged by a council postcard urging delegates to “be sustainable, don’t buy sex,” the local sex workers’ union – they have unions here – has announced that all its 1,400 members will give free intercourse to anyone with a climate conference delegate’s pass. The term “carbon dating” just took on an entirely new meaning.

A British paper with a sense of humor. Who would’ve thunk?

Instead of swift and modest reductions in carbon – say, two per cent a year, starting next year – for which they could possibly be held accountable, the politicians will bandy around grandiose targets of 80-per-cent-plus by 2050, by which time few of the leaders at Copenhagen will even be alive, let alone still in office.

Even if they had agreed anything binding, past experience suggests that the participants would not, in fact, feel bound by it. Most countries – Britain excepted – are on course to break the modest pledges they made at the last major climate summit, in Kyoto.

So, another part of the Liberal playbook that spells disaster for the rest of us. They set unattainable goals, which will wreck everybodies life, in order to “save the planet.” They will set standards that they don’t have to live by, but everybody else will, to assuage their guilt that “something is wrong.”

What no Liberal has yet to answer me on, is what is the “correct” tempature of the planet supposed to be? Is it one number, a range in numbers, or what? The Earth is going to heat and cool by itself, generally because of the Sun. Trying to artificially hold the tempature to one abitrary number is only going to make it worse. You will do cooling things when it gets too hot, which would take a while to get rolling, and just as long to stop. If you don’t stop soon enough, then you end up too cool, so you have to do warming things. It never ends. So, unless you know how to truly adjust the weather, despite all of the forces acting against you, you will aleays overeact and make bigger cycle swings than if you had just left it alone.

 Here’s something else to think about:

In Copenhagen there was a humbler note among some delegates. “If we fail, one reason could be our overconfidence,” said Simron Jit Singh, of the Institute of Social Ecology. “Because we are here, talking in a group of people who probably agree with each other, we can be blinded to the challenges of the other side. We feel that we are the good guys, the selfless saviours, and they are the bad guys.”

Let me repeat that last line just one more time. “We are the good guys, the selfless saviours, and they are the bad guys.” So, just because I disagree, I am not just wrong, but EEEVIL. I want to wreck the planet. Oh please.

I live on the same planet that they do, and I don’t have an exit strategy when (not if) these wingnuts screw things up beyond repair. The Sun is going to have way more impact on the weather more than my cars exhaust or my electricity useage.

Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver us from the good intentions of fools.