As IF Times

link Worlds sixth mass extinction may be underway: study – Yahoo! News.

Who pays for these studies?  When you are drawn in  by the hysterical headline, you naturally look to see how much time humankind has left.  Is it weeks? Months? Years? Should we put off buying that place in the Desert? Forget about college for the kids?  It turns out that you’d better not stop brushing your teeth.   It’s a wee  bit beyond human years.  Nothing wrong with being prepared, but the best estimates are between 3 and 22 centuries from now. 

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As in 300 to 2200 years.  Sadly, the idiots who did this study won’t be around to smack when their predictions are wrong.  They would have been paid their $$$ to come up with this brilliant study and then be off studying some other urgent calamity, like the sun running out of rays.  But let’s suspend our rationality for a moment and say we believe the results of their thorough and likely expensive study.  The question is, so what?  Do we leave messages in bottles for the great, great, great, great grand kids instructing them that buying real estate is not a good bet?  Should man start funding science programs to escape earth?

On the other hand, if mass extinction is in the cards anyway and mankind is doomed to extinction like dinosaurs and girl bands, then why are we spending any time, money and effort at all on the global warming industry?  Why should western society submit to self flagellation on the behest of those who transparently want a wealth transfer from a gullible society into their sanctimonious control?  How is this different from wise shamans of the ancient Mayan civiliation who believed that human sacrifices would somehow benefit their society?  I’m sure even the sacrificees believed so at the time.  I’ll bet they would be annoyed to learn that their self  sacrifice really didn’t achieve what was promised considering all the convincing rhetoric at the time.  Of course, back in their day, there wasn’t a lot of discourse on what would please the gods.  Somebody said it was so and that was that. 

Try as they might to emulate that kind of blind devotion, the global warming crowd today haven’t quite been able to achieve this, though they’ve come close.  Most rational people have caught on to the charade, but devotees still abound, similar to the faith of the Mayan sacrificees.  Most of these people are east to spot since they all subscribe to ‘the green’ look.  For some reason, a common feature is the crazed, wall eyed look, a la Marty Feldman.  In addition, beards and uncombed hair are also part of the appearance requirements.  The men are even worse.  It’s as if David Suzuki opened a costume shop. 

As the fervor dies down on this mania, we’ll keep an eye out for the next big calamity which will devastate mankind if we don’t tax more to prevent it.  But as the study above shows, we know the big day is really a few hundred or a few thousand years off.

link Islamist rebel urges total war with Russia.

Not that pleas  for a united front against the enemies of Islam are new, but refreshingly this time, it’s not against the Great Satan but against Russia.  I’m not sure how Russia stands in the Satan pecking order but since Great has been taken, the logical position is Pretty Big Satan, or Next Biggest Satan.   This may stir the competitive sensibilities of the Russians who do not like to be inferior to anyone.

A new twist in this plea for a united war is that they are calling for women to join the fight as well.  This can be regarded as progressive for that movement because in the past, women have never been considered as anything other than chattel.  Now they are at least being addressed as people.   I’m not sure how tempting the invitation is however, given that if they eventually win and an Islamist regime ensues, women will have the privelege of being subjugated and treated as less than human as a reward.  Hmm.  Wonder if option B is better?

This offer is no less preposterous than the situation that exists in the U.S.  When you think of the platform of the progressive movement, their model is just as ludicrous.  If you vote for them, they will spread the wealth and make sure that rules and regulations are in place that won’t allow any wealth creation.  The implication is that corporations and wealthy people will be taxed so that the ‘average’ person can have a good wage, whatever that is.  Those with some basic grasp of economics may figure out that if no one is rewarded for taking a chance on business, then no one will start one.   All of a sudden, the only employers are the various tentacles of  government, which of course are the people themselves.  In essence, people will be taxed at ever higher rates in order to pay… themselves. 

Oddly, in the case of the Islamists, some women will heed the call for the struggle.  Even more sadly, as has been proven over and over again, voters here are happy to be bought with their own money.  For example, as rabid a guy as Michael Moore is, he can still claim people who sympathize with his worldviews.   It shows that you don’t have to create elaborate stories to fool  the people.  You only need tell part of the truth to a gullible audience.