Fahrenheit 451

[Ubiquitous]

Sometimes even we are astonished at the lack of self-awareness evinced by
supposedly intelligent people on the liberal left. Check out this
FoxNews.com report:

Two San Jose State University professors took a picture as they
held a match to a book that takes on the idea of global warming,
and the photo landed on an official school website until some
realized the idea of academics burning books is not exactly
scholarly. The image depicted Alison Bridger, a professor and
chairwoman of the university's department of meteorology and
climate science, holding a lit match beneath "The Mad, Mad, Mad
World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania" as the
312-page paperback was held by assistant professor Craig
Clements.

"This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland
Institute," the original caption read, according to an archived
version of the webpage. ". . . Shown above, Drs. Bridger and
Clements test the flammability of the book."

SJSU's Department of Meteorology and Climate took the photo down from its
website after a science blogger called attention to it. The department
called it "an ill-conceived attempt at satire."

No doubt that's an accurate description. They seem to have thought it was
funny. But why? Aren't they aware that book-burning is associated with
censorship and totalitarian regimes? The only way the joke makes sense is
if the ones telling it are its butt.

In a similar vein, here's the latest contribution from the New York
Times's Charles Blow:

Many on the political right simply can't get this diversity
thing right--and I deeply doubt that they want to. Theirs is
a bone-deep contempt for otherness, a congenital belief in the
superiority-inferiority binary, a circle-the-wagons, zero-sum
view of progress, prosperity and power.

That's the difference between us and them: They hate everybody who isn't
like them, whereas we don't hate anybody who's like us.


--
"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a
problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have
an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is,
as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the
solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this
crisis."
� � � � -- Al Gore acknowledges exaggerating the dangers of "global
� � � � � �warming"

[RichA]

On May 13, 5:22 am, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
> Sometimes even we are astonished at the lack of self-awareness evinced by
> supposedly intelligent people on the liberal left. Check out this
> FoxNews.com report:
>
>         Two San Jose State University professors took a picture as they
>         held a match to a book that takes on the idea of global warming,
>         and the photo landed on an official school website until some
>         realized the idea of academics burning books is not exactly
>         scholarly. The image depicted Alison Bridger, a professor and
>         chairwoman of the university's department of meteorology and
>         climate science, holding a lit match beneath "The Mad, Mad, Mad
>         World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania" as the
>         312-page paperback was held by assistant professor Craig
>         Clements.

Why do actions like that from the left surprise anyone? Every so
often, in the B.S. fight against AGW, one of them gets "caught out" in
their real motives. Global wealth re-distribution is the global
warming cause.

[Tunderbar]

It reminds me of the television show "Moonshiners". I've heard them
say several times, about law enforcement, "we have to be lucky all the
time, they only need to be lucky once".

When you're looking over your shoulders because what you are doing is
wrong, eventually you slip up and everyone gets a glimpse of what your
motivation is.

Here are a lot more glimpses:

http://www.c3headlines.com/global-warming-quotes-climate-change-quotes.html