As IF Times

link Dinosaurs farted their way to extinction, British scientists say | Fox News.

The implications of this ‘news story’ are mind boggling.   While I am certainly not in a position to scientifically question the astounding conclusion of this study, if these scientists’ claims are valid, some big changes are going to happen to our society.

The very first thing that comes to mind is the concept of being a vegetarian.  As astute readers of the article will notice, most of these behemoth monsters were actually vegetarians, consuming mainly plants and trees, albeit by the acre, Michael Moore-like.  As most consumers of beans and legumes are aware, consumption of such stuff can lead to embarrassing moments in crowded elevators.  Apparently, the dinosaurs had the same issues millions of years ago and they gassed themselves to extinction.  Logically, we can only extrapolate that vegetarian humans are actually harming our present environment and therefore they should be stopped immediately before it’s too late.

If we were able to monitor the air over San Francisco, Los Angeles or Vancouver, there’s a certainty that the air quality would show higher than the normal measures of toxic gases, which we can now trace  to rampant vegetarianism among their populace.  People may be forgiven who had thought that BS emanating from these cities were responsible for the bad air.  Of course, this gas issue is already known by those who are participants in Yoga classes.   They should immediately form an organization called STOP generating annoying smells, or STOP GAS.

If human vegetarians are a menace to society, then so are all herbivores.  For years, there were theories that cows were in fact the greatest contributors to global warming due to their release  of methane gas from eating grass.  Now, the fickle finger of blame is zeroing in on these dangerous animals.  This dangerous list of herbivores will include goats, sheep, deer, elephants and giraffes too.  All of these creatures are hastening the doom of mankind.  It turns out that eating meat is not only tasty, it’s also green and socially responsible!  Eating broccoli is bad after all!

Another implication of this story is that scientists seem to have the ability to discern the cause of events looooong past their occurrence by persistent and ingenious sleuthing.  Even though dinosaurs died off a few million years ago, apparently the cause of their demise is evident even now, as if it were a slightly cold CSI case and the chalk outline was in clear view.  It’s hard to believe that the dinosaur conclusion wasn’t arrived at sooner.  It was right under our noses; all that was needed was to stitch a bunch of seemingly unrelated pieces of evidence together as if it were a Mississippi trial.   This should scare all criminals.  The truth will come out eventually, although perhaps a few million years down the road.  It will only be a matter of time before they apply modern science to unravel some of the true puzzles of modern life; such as the mystery  of Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance or how they get the caramilk in a caramilk bar.

link U.S. interests leveraging Vancouvers civic politics.

While not shocking, I am duly impressed by the fact that an article such as this can appear in a Vancouver paper.  Years of marketing propaganda have managed to manufacture Vancouver’s reputation as the ‘greenest’ city in the world, whatever that means.  While there’s no doubt that the geography has much to do with this, the absence of any industry beyond selling real estate has certainly contributed as well.

Residents here are manipulated to think green by recycling bottles, paper, trees, cars, computers, coffee grounds, food waste, virtually anything that we use in everyday living.  And to make sure people comply, surcharges are added to many and most consumer items.  You can’t buy a computer, a car battery or tires without paying an extra fee for disposal costs….whatever that is.  It’s gotten so ludicrous that the phone company will charge you $2 on your monthly bill if you insist on having a paper notice.

Sure these things are perhaps nickel and dime items, but they do add up to some real money.   When the push was on to make transportation ‘greener’, transit trains were introduced to get people out of cars.  To encourage people to use transit, the cost of driving became more and more prohibitive.  The combination of insurance costs, gasoline taxes and associated green surcharges thereon, parking and now tolls for bridge usage wear away at people’s abilities to drive, forcing them on to public transit.   Somehow, transit still loses money regularly, so ironically, they will tax automobile drivers even more.

For those hardier types, bicycles were the way to go and before you knew it, bicycle-only lanes appeared in the downtown core causing congestion and disruption to the downtown streets.  Some government official must have returned from China and thought having thousands of bicyles on the streets was a good idea.  Luckily, since cyclists don’t pay any kind of consumption tax or licensing fee,  the cost to them is zero.  Unluckily for drivers of automobiles, owners of businesses and the average citizen, they get to subsidize these lucky few cyclists.

This article finally makes it clear that all of these ‘green initiatives’ were not spontaneous groundswell demands by citizens.  In fact, it appears as if they are the result of very sly marketing and persuasion techniques by green groups over time to make it appear as if everyone was onside with all the green propaganda.

The other recent prick in this balloon of illusion was the occupy protest.  As we can now obviously see, this activity was hardly the manifestation of a groundswell of discontent among the “99%”.  The 99% are actually working for a living to pay green taxes and so don’t have time to play 60’s hippy in public spaces.   The conspicuous reluctance of Gregor the Green to clean up the site has more to do with appeasing the sensibilities of his sponsors than it does to the overwhelming majority of citizens who prefer the site to be cleaned up.

In other cities in North America, the citizens are also finally fed up with the ‘spontaneous and democratic’ gatherings of anarchists and street people.  These gatherings were about as spontaneous as a Kardashian wedding.  They are all being cleared up as well.  Try as they might, the mainstream media’s attempted characterization of the occupiers as peaceful average folk were foiled somewhat by such inconvenient occurrences as rapes, fights, thefts, drug use, public defecation and deaths at the sites.  Like many house parties, it’s all fun in the beginning but eventually, you want the late attendees, many of whom were uninvited to just go.

Maybe these revelations will cause people to finally push back against all the politically correct dogma that’s pushed into their lives.  From observation of recent events, it looks like the “99%” are really the 1%.  It’s about time the real majority was heard.