Quotes of the day
posted at 10:40 pm on February 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of ‘climate change delusion.’”
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“You think the economy is bad now – wait a few years… Wait until we’re almost completely out of oil and food and water and available land … we need to lose 4.4 billion people and we need to lose them fast.”
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They finally have a diagnosis for Commander Gohhhrrr. I think if you are so worried about not drinking up all the good water…let them drink Urine. The ultimate recycling.
portlandon on February 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
But, but, but it’s for the children!
Laura in Maryland on February 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Huh? The entire population of Earth could live, four per house, in the state of Texas.
jgapinoy on February 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
“Wait until we’re almost completely out of oil and food and water and available land … we need to lose 4.4 billion people and we need to lose them fast.”
I’ll be happy to make you number one on the “lost” list, Kotler.
I guarantee you will go before I do.
Bishop on February 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Apparently, the Australian doctors have never heard of some chap named……….
……….. Al Gore.
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
I like this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/us/10torture.html?hp
“In a closely watched case involving rendition and torture, a lawyer for the Obama administration seemed to surprise a panel of federal appeals judges on Monday by pressing ahead with an argument for preserving state secrets originally developed by the Bush administration.”
//commence leftist outrage against Obama.
James on February 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
They are all turning into Woody Allen…
d1carter on February 9, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Sky. Falling. End. Of. World. Dogs. Cats. Living. Together. Six. More. Weeks. Of. Winter.
johnsteele on February 9, 2009 at 10:49 PM
“…wait a few years… Wait until we’re almost completely out of oil and food and water….”
Or……….
…….. we could use a Trillion in stimulus dollars to use our new technologies to cleanly drill for our own domestic oil and shale, and start building desalinization plants up, down, and across all of our coast lines, employing millions of workers providing a series of products we could sell all over the world to provide inexpensive clean energy and water to billions, while generating a revenue stream to pay down our national debt?
Nahhhhhhhh…………
…………. let’s just kill a billion people.
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Goracle is just a fat fraud getting rich off lefty morons who lap his shtick up by the barrel loads…he knows his
victimsaudience well…if he really believed any of the crap he spews, he wouldn’t be living in some mansion burning enough electricity to power a small town and jet all over the planet talking about the need to stop carbon emissions NOW!AUINSC on February 9, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Great! Let’s start “losing” people in Africa, since that continent has the highest birth rate. Or perhaps in the Muslim world, again because of their high birth rate. Hey, if a family has 8 kids, dropping back to 4 shouldn’t be all that bad, huh?
/somehow I don’t think the libtards would agree with my suggestion.
funky chicken on February 9, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Didn’t Gore win a Grammy last night or something………?
……… I didn’t watch, I was too busy burning oil in my back yard and letting the faucet run all night.
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 10:54 PM
“…we need to lose 4.4 billion people and we need to lose them fast.”
Sheesh – what a piker. Shigalov had a better suggestion: Eliminate 9/10 of the world’s population, and then make 9/10 of the surviving 10th into slaves of the last 100th.
Except Shigalov was just a character in a novel 150 years ago. Probably have to make those 9/10s into 99/100s in order to bring things up to date.
CK MacLeod on February 9, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Time to add yet another
hippie leftist progressive East Villageliberal mental health disease to the DSM. Don’t worry though, at the rate we’re going many Americans will be flocking to claim they have this “illness” to seek disability payments. Or perhaps garner Federal protection once they add this to the ADA guidelines.“Hello Bob? Yeah, this is Tom. I can’t come in to work today. Seems as though I’ve come down with another attack of climate-change-delirium.”
California will lead the way.
Mr Gus on February 9, 2009 at 10:56 PM
What a bunch of psychos.
CP on February 9, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Problem solved!
Canada rents out the bush,crap,I mean
the forest!
Lots of clean water,and space!
No Global Warmers,Socialists,Liberals
or moderates,independants tho are welcome!(Snark!)
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 10:57 PM
I do my best to conserve resources and live conservatively..
but wtf man? Nut job thinking a glass o’ water is going to kill people. These people are nuts.
Live frugally, not nut-jobally.
blatantblue on February 9, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Yeap………….
……….. it’s only a matter of time.
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 11:00 PM
And since oil supplies are running out, we’d better go after that western oil shale and get to drilling offshore here, right?
Right?
funky chicken on February 9, 2009 at 11:02 PM
So is global warming now officially delirium?
blankminde on February 9, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Somehow I doubt any of the 4.4 billion will non-whites. Maybe all Liberals should commit mass suicide and save the planet.
DerKrieger on February 9, 2009 at 11:03 PM
“out of oil and food and water….”
Out of food? Aren’t large Midwestern areas pushing for turning corn into ethanol to pour into gas tanks?
I think it’s a bad idea (less energy than gasoline, etc.) and it did incrementally raise the price, but we’re not going to run out of food even if ethanol production doubled.
Water? There are oceans full of the stuff. Desalinization will become more popular if we approach shortage. The earth also won’t “run out,” as it goes through biological systems etc. and returns to the environment. It gets polluted (and can often be cleaned), but it doesn’t vanish from the globe after use.
cs89 on February 9, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Ok, if you honestly feel that it’s that urgent, why don’t you put your money where your mouth is and get us started.
Seaking of fear mongering, when you consider how outspoken liberals were about how “Bush played on our fears” they’ve been real quiet while Obama is doing the same.
Eschelon on February 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM
The only person contemplating murder is Kotler and those like him. These people are demented and dangerous. This guy actually has a web site on Psychology Today?? Shouldn’t be surprised, I guess.
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
–Eric Hoffer
JellyToast on February 9, 2009 at 11:08 PM
This is like the Human Resources department VP’s demanding you hire based on diversity, but they wont’ give up their slot in the name of diversity.
SouthernGent on February 9, 2009 at 11:12 PM
There have been stories about children having nightmares and anxiety problems over ‘global warming’ for years. Drudge had a link up some time ago about the seeming epidemic of such in Britain.
Of course, that was ‘global warming’ related. Since the name for liberal idiocy has been changed to ‘climate change’ I guess the anxiety caused by it is now something new, too.
Liberals are not only stupid, but they are vile, despicable people who are happy to scare the living sh!t out of children in order to get to their parents. Liberals are terrorists in every sense of the word. Their self-hate is well earned by their atrocious personalities.
Modern liberalism is fatal sickness that the West has. It will kill us, eventually, unless we are able to get these idiot leftists back in the sandbox where they belong. They are not adults and cannot be allowed to eat at the adult table, no matter how many temper tantrums they throw.
progressoverpeace on February 9, 2009 at 11:15 PM
One more reason Al Gore and his ilk should be in jail. They have directed much of this propaganda directly at children in order to sway their parents, that’s a Nazi tactic by the way, and now we have lots of kids belly churning that the world is going to end if they drink water or eat beef.
These SOB global warmers are a bunch of greedy, shameless criminals that should be arrested for this gargantuan fraud and the harm they are doing to kids.
Maxx on February 9, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I really like the Pengore photo. HotAir improves every time Allah uses it for a post.
fiatboomer on February 9, 2009 at 11:19 PM
And what of Al Gore?? You could play back that tape of him screaming how “Bush played on our fears!”
Global warming,, the very end of our world,, what is a greater fear than that??
If Hitler could convince a nation that to secure their future, the extermination of an entire race of Jews was necessary. How much more could many throughout the world be seduced into thinking that another mass extermination is needed to save not just their very lives, but the planet itself?? Is any sacrifice too great to save the earth from destruction???
JellyToast on February 9, 2009 at 11:20 PM
So…in addition to AlGore’s [The Goracle, ManBearPig, etc.) climate change delusion syndrome, he is stating that, at some point in the very near future, it will be the policy of the United States to engage in mass genocide on a scale to make the Holocaust look like an afternoon romp?
coldwarrior on February 9, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Exactly. It’s a brilliant strategy when you think about it…
But that still doesn’t make it right.
Eschelon on February 9, 2009 at 11:23 PM
“we need to lose 4.4 billion people and we need to lose them fast.”
And Hussein is working on it!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
christene on February 9, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Look over the descriptions of the following 2 houses and see if you can tell which belongs to “The one who calls himself an environmentalist.”
#1. A 20-room mansion(not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas, add on a pool(and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00
per month. In natural gas alone(which the last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.
#2. Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet(4 bedrooms) and is nestled on an arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the
ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling
system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected after then
irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE #1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist-AL GORE!
HOUSE #2. (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
- wolf2012 on Debbie Schussel
MB4 on February 9, 2009 at 11:30 PM
In case you don’t know what the environmental movement is about:
The environmental movement will not be satisfied to tax every cent away from you with the carbon tax scheme, after they have robbed you of your wealth, they also want you dead.
Maxx on February 9, 2009 at 11:37 PM
According to THE POPULATION BOMB we all died 9 years ago, so stop worrying kids.
Hysteria is the most fun a dull scientist can have.
profitsbeard on February 9, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Some people are determined to be their own worst enemy.
So what are these loons waiting for, they should set an example or are they expecting everyone else to expire so they can have it all to themselves?
Speakup on February 9, 2009 at 11:37 PM
It’s like the beginnings of some horror sci fi movie. Only it’s real life.
I’ve said this before here,, when I was young,, people who said the world was coming to an end were made fun of. It was considered a big joke to see some guy walking down the street carrying a sign reading “The end is Near.”
Now,, those people are celebrated. they are in our Universities, schools and government. They write best selling books and get paid thousands to give speeches.
Growing up too, when you read history, you’d read about some civilization that seemed so advanced for their time in things like mathematics, construction, art,,, yet they would be convinced they needed to throw their virgin daughters into some volcano each year to have a good harvest. Environmentalism today is the modern equivalent of the old witch doctors. Different name, different titles, but the same spirit.
JellyToast on February 9, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Global Warming: It’s the Sun, Stupid
darwin-t on February 9, 2009 at 11:39 PM
This sounds like a call for genocide or a major world war or something. What I find interesting about this entire Nadya Sulamen story is how many Muslim women have 10+ children and the media never even notices.
Dollayo on February 9, 2009 at 11:39 PM
I blame China.
WisCon on February 9, 2009 at 11:40 PM
After a two year battle with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl and, alas, his mind.
aquaviva on February 9, 2009 at 11:48 PM
The link right below the Kotler piece at the Psychology Today site reads “Find a therapist.” He should take them up on it….
Fallen Sparrow on February 9, 2009 at 11:49 PM
…and I thought it was that Nobel thingie Algore received…
Entelechy on February 9, 2009 at 11:50 PM
FDR got us out of the last depression, not by federal make work projects but by killing millions of people.
jukin on February 9, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Note to Kotler:
Those advocating a smaller population should go first.
profitsbeard on February 9, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Not bloody likely. I’m already amazed (shouldn’t be, I suppose) at the ability of the koolaid drinkers to simply not care when confronted by the lies they’ve been told and believed, by the abject and rank hypocrisy of things like this. They simply grin stupidly and blissfully don’t care.
Midas on February 9, 2009 at 11:55 PM
We have to depopulate the Earth…to save it….from people…for people.
Got it?
aquaviva on February 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Anyone see this yet? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
pmanley on February 10, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Maxx on February 10, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Child abuse.
Connie on February 10, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Best way to shut that nonsense up is to say, “OK, we agree with you, but we get to choose who goes.” They’ll go quiet real quick.
OldEnglish on February 10, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Interestingly, the leftist outrage against Obama is already starting because of this.
Obama Fails His First Test On Civil Liberties
By mega leftie Glenn Greenwald
justfinethanks on February 10, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Steven Kotler needs to neuter a few of his dogs.
unclesmrgol on February 10, 2009 at 12:27 AM
This is so funny.
One sacrificed himself at the Alter of the Gore.
Another wants creation to be a crime.
I suggest the later follow the example of the former.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM
What these Godless people don’t understand is God’s abundance.
cjs1943 on February 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM
After you, genius.
Jim Treacher on February 10, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Yeah, the funny part about tools like this… they try to use stats to proove their point, yet don’t seem to know that the USA and Europe are pretty close to Zero Population Growth…
So he needs to take his messege to Asia, and the MidEast, before he blathers at us…
Romeo13 on February 10, 2009 at 12:36 AM
I’m all for losing at least 51% of the population of the USA, but all the rest of the countries have to do the same.
buh-bye liberals.
Spiritk9 on February 10, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Ever since March 31, 1948
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Emily ought to know that the only people with psychosis related to perceived climate change are liberals. Us conservatives (as well as our children) sleep well and are better adjusted overall.
unclesmrgol on February 10, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Yes, and if inacted it will look a lot like this.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 12:42 AM
“We’re all gonna die”………version 2845768930485987234967
Next?
GarandFan on February 10, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Or…give everyone an apartment over 1,000 square feet each, and no ones apartment would touch the property line of any other.
anuts on February 10, 2009 at 12:49 AM
I second the motion. All in favor. Right!
Before the lottery begins. Please Mr. Kotler, step up to the plate.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 12:53 AM
France
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Hmmmmm….
Soylent Green?
Romeo13 on February 10, 2009 at 12:56 AM
I Love Global Warming.
Everything is so………. Warm!
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 12:56 AM
For the last 30 years the environmental movement has been trying to figure out how to exterminate 80% of the global population. Collapsing the global economy will not only cause a lot of death and destruction but also a lot of damage to the planet, it’s not their first choice but I think they’re getting desperate.
This movement/religion is world wide and growing every year, and these people are actually more dangerous than anything Gore could come up with.
It can get real, real fast.
A. Weasel on February 10, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Global warming crazy is nothing compared to HotAir password babble. In case anyone would like to sign in as me, my password is…
Se##$%,fart noise,nunsoutfitVvRU12
I know you need to be secure but golly wilikers guys.
2Tru2Tru on February 10, 2009 at 1:00 AM
How does my hissy fit? Good to be back.
2Tru2Tru on February 10, 2009 at 1:01 AM
The logic goes against an inexhaustible food supply.
Everyone’s gatta eat right?
I’ll try the Soylent Vegan tonight. My cholesterol is has been kinda high. All those Omega 3, 2, 1′s, goodness in a tightly sealed package. Low carbon impact.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 1:02 AM
I♥WARM
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 1:08 AM
We have already got Mexico, Central and South America. Ya’ll take the rest of them.
Johan Klaus on February 10, 2009 at 1:11 AM
I lived in Buffalo for a few years and heard the war stories from the Canadians about socialized medicine. Makes me sick that we are headed down that road. Amazing that no one brought up the stealth care in the bill.
pmanley on February 10, 2009 at 1:12 AM
Damn liberals want to not only inflict a economic genocide on us with “stimulus” bills and “carbon taxes” but they want a real life human genocide as well.
Tell you what liberals, take yourselves out first and leave your money to those us who actually have a sense of self preservation.
What? No takers?
Yakko77 on February 10, 2009 at 1:12 AM
The new name for communism.
Johan Klaus on February 10, 2009 at 1:14 AM
Half my family, on me mums side, lives in Canada.
I also have family living in Europe.
The problem is the same with healthcare. Which government enity will decide who will get help and who will not.
This is mental maddness this nation is walking into.
Which pill did Alice swallow before falling into the rabbit hole?
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 1:22 AM
After the fall of Communism, they moved on to the Environmentalism movement.
This virus spreads as the Green Movement, Eco-Terrorism and such. Planned Parenthood is a really, really good way to reduce the population.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 1:27 AM
Unfortunately it’s a lot more dangerous than communism.
from my link above;
Someone is working on a slower, air born Ebola.
A. Weasel on February 10, 2009 at 1:33 AM
A little dose of hopenchange will make everything ok.
pmanley on February 10, 2009 at 1:33 AM
Gee,
I wonder where the Nadya Suleman, the Octopulets Mom, fits in this world?
Criminal? Is she stealing the air I breath?
No, those babies will be helping to pay for my Social Security retirement.
Providing there will still be a country after this is all over with.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 1:37 AM
All closed systems are self-correcting.
Nature will eliminate those who are hysterically unfit to reason this through.
As the great docudramas have shown:
NO BLADE OF GRASS!
LOGAN’S RUN!
PANIC IN YEAR ZERO!
IN THE YEAR 2889!
THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH!
~~~We’re doomed, I tell you, doooooomed!
profitsbeard on February 10, 2009 at 1:46 AM
I’m more optimistic. Like Zardoz.
Eternal Life, hoping for Eternal Death.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 1:55 AM
AGW is just another aspect of the Culture of Death.
Irenaeus on February 10, 2009 at 2:14 AM
Did anyone else notice that the Almighty and Great Hussein called terrorist, Folks.
Listen to his answer to Helen Thomas question.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 2:54 AM
You’re assuming they will have jobs, and be productive members of society. Don’t count on it. According to reports, before giving birth to the newest 8, the octomom was receiving @ $500 a month in food stamps, and 3 of her first 6 kids were receiving “disability” checks. So not only will those kids probably not be supporting you, but your kids will be supporting them (and their kids, who will likely be third-generation welfare recipients).
AZCoyote on February 10, 2009 at 3:11 AM
Yeah, I know. Wards of the State to be sure.
But like Global Warming. I can dream. Can’t I?
Canned food does have a shelf life.
Kini on February 10, 2009 at 3:22 AM
Liberals need to keep this stuff up! Loud and often! Possibly the American people will realize what they have done and will start electing some adults…with brains…to congress!
sabbott on February 10, 2009 at 4:44 AM
Why don’t this antihuman libs just off themselves, after all charity is supposed to begin at home.
eaglewingz08 on February 10, 2009 at 6:15 AM
I wonder how these people would have reacted to the Black Death. Now that was a disaster of biblical proportions.
Or even the Influenza Epidemic back in 1918. Let us imagine the hysteria that would come from a pandemic that effected a fifth of the world’s population.
No, these people are good at creating nightmare scenarios, not dealing with them. They love the drama.
Terrye on February 10, 2009 at 6:21 AM
AZ:
This is not China, we don’t tell people how many children they can and can not have. If I was going to be pissed at anyone in that case, it would be the medical professional who impregnated the woman.
Terrye on February 10, 2009 at 6:23 AM
I have speculated for sometime that one reason children have lost interest in playing outside is because of all this fear mongering. Nature/earth is often portrayed as sick, weak and dying. Who would want play in something so damaged. Just stay in where everything is safe.
Hey maybe I should write up proposal to study this and get some of this crazy stimulus cash.
peterargus on February 10, 2009 at 6:24 AM
Maybe a few but not most of them. I think his administrations support will not erode over stuff like this. The part we don’t get, the part that needs to smack us up-side our thick Conservative heads is that they don’t really care about that; A lot of them knew that Bush prosecuted the war exactly like they would have. They dissented because there had to be an angle of attack. This (the war) was the most emotion to a big block of their voters. Positions they took stumping had to be abandoned unless of course they really do mean to weaken us.
Watch Hollywood turn start talking tough about our enemies again. Watch the bastards who wouldn’t give us the time of day, now volunteer to do USO shows.
hawkdriver on February 10, 2009 at 7:31 AM
I simply pointed out the fact that the kids are already receiving welfare, and likely to continue doing so in the future. And yes, in this country one has the right to have as many children as one chooses. But as all rational people understand, rights come with corresponding responsibilities. This woman chose to have six children without a husband/father, and without the means to care for the children on her own. She then chose to add eight more babies to her already overburdened household. She is not entitled to immunity from criticism for her irresponsible choices simply because she had the “right” to bring those children into the world in the first place.
AZCoyote on February 10, 2009 at 7:38 AM
Uh, I believe that the Goreacle is the first known sufferer of this malady.
Physics Geek on February 10, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Under The Messiah’s new plan that IS CURRENTLY porking it’s way thru our traitors in Congress, we will not have to worry about overpopulation in America. Our older citizens are going to systematicaly be denied care, even basic hip surgery. We are going to “ration” the great new health care system to the far left radical “young people” that first elected this POS PotUS… And yet, here we sit, ignorant to it all… Noone in the MSM, not even Rush or Hannity or Levin are talking enough about this “rationing” and it’s impact on older Americans. I wounder when we are going to wake up from our malayse and fight back before it’s too late. The “new” health care policy IS IN THE STIMULUS BILL NOW… We are NOT talking about far off things, it’s here!
Mark Garnett on February 10, 2009 at 7:50 AM
This is what happens when the libs won’t let you discipline your children. My parent would not have let me away with nonsense like this for one minute. The kid isn’t suffering from “Climate Change Delusion”, he just has lousy parents.
Tommy_G on February 10, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Gore doesn’t exhibit any of the symptoms, though. He preaches to others while producing more carbon than an entire small town.
ProfessorMiao on February 10, 2009 at 7:58 AM
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