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Econuts torch “green” luxury homes

I have been saying for years that the environmentalist movement is, by and large, a home for displaced communists who needed something to do after communism failed.  A large number of these people are staunch anti-capitalists.  Heck, they have to be, in order to explain why their own lives have been failures.  While a number of them do indeed care about the environment, a large percentage of them could give a hoot about it.

Need more proof?  Look no further than Seattlestan:

For people who are anti-sprawl activists — or have baser motives — a new-built house sitting empty in a previously rural area evidently makes a ripe target for an attack by fire.

It happened again today north of Seattle, where three of six model homes on a so-called Street of Dreams burned to the ground and a fourth was damaged. Fire officials said the blazes were deliberately set, and that a sign was found at the scene claiming responsibility and signed E.L.F., which stands for a shadowy group or movement called the Earth Liberation Front.

The model homes were said by their builders to contain environmentally friendly or “green” elements. But the size and location of the houses appeared to irritate whoever left the sign and presumably set the fires: “Built Green? Nope black.” The sign said that “McMansions” in rural areas are “not green.”

Fire officials in suburban Seattle said the blazes could not have been accidental. “We’re certain that these homes were arson,” Fire Chief Rick Eastman said in a televised interview.

The E.L.F., or people using the initials, has claimed responsibility for other fires around the country, including attacks at three location in Suffolk County, Long Island, in early 2001. Three nearly-completed houses were burned by people claiming to represent E.L.F., who spray-painted messages on other houses nearby: “Stop Urban Sprawl”; “If you build it we will burn it”; and finally, “Burn the rich.”

How’s that for a media bias euphemism?  Domestic terrorist and arsonist = “anti-sprawl activist”!  Do you think if I went to Berserkley and beat the holy Hades out of some anti-Marine hippie retread miscreant who richly deserves it, maybe the MSM would refer to me as a “pro-Marine activist” or an “anti-moonbat activist”?  Me neither.

Anywho, back to the original point.  You have houses that were built to be environmentally friendly, and the econuts set them ablaze anyway, sending decidedly environmentally unfriendly smoke and ash into the air.  These a-holes put the “mental” in “environmental”, n’est-ce pas?

March 4, 2008 Posted by | environuts, media bias, Seattle | 5 Comments

Government school punishes janitor for reading a book

From the “hallowed” halls of IUPUI:

Keith John Sampson never thought he could get in trouble for reading a book, especially not on a college campus. But that’s what happened. Sampson is a man in his early 50s. He does janitorial work for the campus facility services at IUPUI, where he’s been gradually accumulating credits for a degree in communications studies. He has 10 credit hours to go.
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At the time, Sampson was reading a book he had checked out from the public library. Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan, published in 2004, features a photograph of the University of Notre Dame’s famous golden dome on the cover. Its author is Todd Tucker, the publisher is Loyola Press of Loyola University in Chicago.

The book is about how for two days in May 1924, a group of Notre Dame students got into a street fight with members of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan was meeting in South Bend for the express purpose of sticking a collective thumb in the eye of the country’s most famous Catholic university. Notre Dame vs. the Klan was a Notre Dame Magazine “Pick of the Week” and garnered an average customer review of 4.5 stars on Amazon.com. In its review, The Indiana Magazine of History noted that Tucker “succeeds in placing the event in a broad framework that includes the origins and development of both the Klan and Notre Dame.”

Sampson recalls that his AFSCME shop steward told him that reading a book about the Klan was like bringing pornography to work (WTF? – Ed.). The shop steward wasn’t interested in hearing what the book was actually about (Remember, to the left, feelings trump facts! – Ed.). Another time, a coworker who was sitting across the table from Sampson in the break room commented that she found the Klan offensive. Sampson says he tried to tell her about the book, but she wasn’t interested in talking about it (Remember, to the left, feelings trump facts! – Ed.).

A few weeks passed. Then Sampson got a message ordering him to report to Marguerite Watkins at the IUPUI Affirmative Action Office. He was told a coworker had filed a racial harassment complaint against him for reading Notre Dame vs. the Klan in the break room. Sampson says he tried to explain to Watkins what the book was about. He says he tried to show her the book, but that Watkins showed no interest in seeing it (Remember, to the left, feelings trump facts! – Ed.).

Then Sampson received a letter, dated Nov. 25, 2007, from Lillian Charleston, also of IUPUI’s Affirmative Action Office. The letter begins by saying that the AAO has completed its investigation of a coworker’s allegation that Sampson “racially harassed her by repeatedly reading the book Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan by Todd Tucker in the presence of Black employees.” It goes on to say, “You demonstrated disdain and insensitivity to your coworkers who repeatedly requested that you refrain from reading the book which has such an inflammatory and offensive topic in their presence … you used extremely poor judgment by insisting on openly reading the book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject in the presence of your Black coworkers.” Charleston went on to say that according to “the legal ‘reasonable person standard,’ a majority of adults are aware of and understand how repugnant the KKK is to African-Americans …” (Where do these morons get off telling anyone about a “reasonable person” when they’re being so incredibly unreasonable in this situation? – Ed.)

Sampson was ordered to stop reading the book in the immediate presence of his coworkers and, when reading the book, to sit apart from them.

“I feel like I’ve been caught up in a 21st century version of catch-22,” says Sampson, who has never been given the opportunity to officially face any of his accusers. When I tried calling the Affirmative Action Office, I was told their policy is to never speak to the media.

But, Sampson says, this episode could be an opportunity. He would welcome the chance to participate in a moderated forum that might use his experience for a larger discussion dealing with intellectual freedom on the IUPUI campus.

That’s a good idea. For Sampson’s sake, I hope ideas still count at IUPUI.

Ideas never count at public universities anymore. Feelings are more important.

By the way, this was at the end of the story:

Editors note: At press time we learned that Sampson received another letter from IUPUI’s Affirmative Action Office, postmarked Feb. 21. We will continue to follow this story.

How ironic that a program like Affirmative Action, which is based on discriminating against one ethnic group in favor of other ethnic groups, is complaining about discrimination!

March 4, 2008 Posted by | affirmative action, bigotry, political correctness, public education | 7 Comments

Hillary’s zinger serves as a de facto endorsement of McCain over Obama

Props to the Hilldawg for this one:

“I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he’d bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.” 

Ouch!

March 4, 2008 Posted by | Hillary, McCain, Obama | 2 Comments

Founder of the Weather Channel wants to sue profiteers of global “warming” scam

Wouldn’t that be just awesomely McAwesome?  From Business and Media:

The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.

Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.

“The Weather Channel had great promise, and that’s all gone now because they’ve made every mistake in the book on what they’ve done and how they’ve done it and it’s very sad,” Coleman said. “It’s now for sale and there’s a new owner of The Weather Channel will be announced – several billion dollars having changed hands in the near future. Let’s hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information.”

The Weather Channel has been an outlet for global warming alarmism. In December 2006, The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen argued on her blog that weathercasters who had doubts about human influence on global warming should be punished with decertification by the American Meteorological Society.

Coleman also told the audience his strategy for exposing what he called “the fraud of global warming.” He advocated suing those who sell carbon credits, which would force global warming alarmists to give a more honest account of the policies they propose.

“[I] have a feeling this is the opening,” Coleman said. “If the lawyers will take the case – sue the people who sell carbon credits. That includes Al Gore. That lawsuit would get so much publicity, so much media attention. And as the experts went to the media stand to testify, I feel like that could become the vehicle to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming.”

Earlier at the conference Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, told an audience that the science will eventually prevail and the “scare” of global warming will go away. He also said the courts were a good avenue to show the science.

Just as the junk science of the “new Ice Age” of the late 1970′s came and went, so too will the junk science fad of global “warming”!

March 4, 2008 Posted by | global warming | 4 Comments

   

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