Daily Kos Week in Review: Getting Mighty Crowded
One expects a lefty blogger to be pro-choice on abortion, but pro-plague? It's true. This past week, one Kossack rooted for the emergence of a deadly pandemic as a corrective for a "wildly overpopulated" Earth. Others, less extreme in their views, merely accused conservatives of stupidity, insanity, neurosis, and refusal to accept their homosexuality.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Jon Stafford: I see dead people...or at least I'd like to
...I often describe myself as "Not Pro-Choice, Pro-Abortion. There are too many goddam people already." And while this is meant to be facetious, nevertheless there is a seed of truth in it, because I believe that the world is wildly overpopulated and that we must take steps as a society to reduce it. This will undoubtedly be met with accusations of callousness, but we would could really use is a global superplague. The Black Death may have been horrible, but without it there would never have been a Renaissance...
xxdr zombiexx: The Tea Party requires a pooper-scooper
...MOST teabaggers - I'm not about to refer to you politely you fucking dimwits - are dumber than dogshit...
Lefties are[n't] on their well-financed TV station encouraging near-psychotic losers to shoot up rightwing establishments. Noooooo - that's you all...
You all believe this shit SO much you were willing to fuck the entire country by killing our credit rating. Even al Queda didn't attempt anything like that...
Big Chuck: Perry's candidacy is a barometer of right-wing rage
...[I]t is not just the Tea Baggers who seem deranged...
The alienation against the rest of America and our government...includes others who will threaten havoc to save their tax cuts, and it includes the legions who want to somehow head off the coming of pluralistic America.
If Governor Rick Perry enters the Republican primary, his following will provide some measure of how many people share his deep, destructive anger...
Hunter: Paul Revere, hostage-taker
...Let's take [Mike Lee's] supposition that the Tea Party is like Paul Revere at face value, or hat value, since the hat seems to be the defining thing in any of these comparisons. That would make Wall Street the British, or perhaps just the credit ratings agencies are the British—it's not entirely clear, but close enough.
I suppose, then, that the debt ceiling situation could best be compared to the time when Paul Revere, hearing from his friends that the British were coming, holed himself up in a tavern with fifty hostages and swore he would shoot them all, then burn down the entire town and surrounding countryside unless he was paid off handsomely...
Hunter: GOP = OCD
...[The Republican presidential candidates] are all insane, or have to pretend to be in order to not be driven out of the race by crazier rivals...
The low point of the [Iowa] debate, for anyone hoping for a shred of sanity: every candidate says that they would refuse even a 10-to-1 ratio of spending cuts to tax increases. That, my friends, is not a policy. It is an obsessive compulsive disorder...
Vintage Dem: Bachmann's the opening act for headliner Romney
...The powers behind the right, the money behind the right...[are] expecting us, and rightly so, to be distracted by the shiny-scary thing that is Bachmann's crazy eyes. To focus on the Tea Party. It's a calculated move to eventually bring in someone who will look good on camera, speak softly and calmly, and appear to be more centrist...
Leftwing Noise Machine: Right-wing homophobes should just admit they're gay
...[C]onservatism is less a political philosophy than a sexual dysfunction. Isn’t it time that homophobic conservative males embrace their inner gayness and stop this gun-toting, mock-macho family-values drum beating that so transparently veils their own self-hatred? That or at least shut up and stop attacking sexual minorities, of which they are unsuccessfully pretending not to belong.
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Question is, how many more
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 4:21pm.
Question is, how many more people can we sustain as a planet and as people?
Years ago I read an article
Submitted by Paleo2k on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 4:34pm.
Years ago I read an article which claimed that if given the standard 2.5 bedroom american home with average sized front and back yard the entire worlds population could be contained within an area slightly larger than the state of Texas. I sat down with some friends and ran the numbers ourselves and we came to the same conclusion. That was when I was in high school in the 70's. Recently saw an article online (can't find it at the moment) which had revised that assertion to include Oklahoma and some of Kansas. Urban centers are certainly heavily, and some perhaps overpopulated but the planet as a whole? Nawwwwwww.
ps...a quick google search of 'world population in the state of texas' renders plenty of results.
That's certainly true in
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 4:37pm.
That's certainly true in terms of physical space. Doesn't sound logistically real fun. imagine the traffic jam from such a concentration of people?
But what about in terms of natural resources water, food, etc.?
Wadda ya mean? That leaves
Submitted by Paleo2k on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 5:37pm.
Wadda ya mean? That leaves the entire remaining area to exploit! Same infrastructure we currently use just without the gaps. Wouldn't want to live there personally. Simply an academic exercise to demonstrate how little room we actually occupy relative to habitable surface area.
It's in the trillions, Bal
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 5:26pm.
"Question is, how many more people can we sustain as a planet and as people?"
That number rises into the trillions, Bal. There's plenty of resources available, both on land and undersea, to sustain a population of several trillion comfortably, if only we were wise enough to utilize them fully.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Well let's hope so. Just hope
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 5:35pm.
Well let's hope so. Just hope we smartly manage our resources.
balboa does have a point. If
Submitted by Liberallies on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 5:55pm.
balboa does have a point. If we mismanage our resources and if we mismanage the brain God gave us, we never have enough for all humanity.
All we have to see is Africa, how it is a land full of resources, but a few in power control it while countless starve to death.
managing our resources is key as well as the human brain.
→ Balboa is absolutely right!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:35pm.
Managing resources is the key.
Only the most hateful or outlandishly foolish would dare burn food in gas tanks while humans starve.
I know Jer will howl "foul!" when I tell you this would not be so proudly touted if it were white people in Europe starving, rather than the spindly little black pawns in Africa.
This week we celebrate Iowa politics. Seems this time around, Iowans are satisfied their plan to starve the 3rd World, while increasing corn production, is solidly ensconced in American Entitlemania.
There is no money in
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 7:18pm.
Feeding the starved. Just who do these crony-capitalist democraps, think they are fooling anymore?
Trillion is the new Billion, Cobra
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:19pm.
Don't believe me, look at our debt!
This whole bizarro eco-rant from the left reminds me of Tom Clancy's classic "Rainbow Six".
Too bad the outcome won't be the same for the left-wing lunatic tree-huggers. Alas.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
J, Given that I define justice is when people get what they...
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:42pm.
...deserve, that was the best ending to any Clancy book ever written.
And I have read them all.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
The earth can sustain alot
Submitted by mattm on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:25pm.
The earth can sustain alot more people than currently occupy it. Famines are usually purposely caused by governments as a form of genocide. That's what has been going on in the Sudan and other muslim controlled areas of Africa for decades. The Irish potato famine was deliberately caused by the British. The Ukranian "Holdomor" famine which killed 6 to 10 million people or more. etc....
Those who advocate "population control" are , knowingly or unknowingly, supporting those who are actively pursuing a policy of genocide. Their goal is to stabilize the world population at about 500 million - which is population drop of 92%! http://www.kickthemallout.com/article.php/Story-Georgia_Guide_Stones
Why do they want this? Easy - to more easily control the few who remain.
Funny you should post this. Yahoo! is touting this as we speak:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 4:48pm.
http://news.yahoo.com/one-child-policy-surprising-boon-china-girls-15210...
So I guess that the AP will suggest that Obama must get rid of one of his daughters. I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!
djwolf12, Exactly! I read an
Submitted by Liberallies on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 5:14pm.
djwolf12,
Exactly!
I read an article not too long ago of an English professor who was demanding that the UN start pushing the one child policy around the world. Well that is until it was found out that he had more than one children.
This overpopulation wackos always demand from others that which they are unwilling to sacrifice first.
I am still trying to understand what an English Professor would
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 7:24pm.
care about this so much and hope the UN should push this marxist agenda. Shouldn't the English Professor be teaching English? Shouldn't the professor be caring about the well being of the students enrolled in the class? No, he'd prefer to lecture the rest of the world about issues non-related to what he should not be teaching. This topic is for Sociologists and political science professors.
Al Gore
Submitted by Blorg on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 2:33am.
was pushing the same crap, but didn't want to give back any of his FOUR kids.
Speaking of sacrifice. You
Submitted by dmntd1 on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 8:22am.
Speaking of sacrifice. You know why Abraham was asked to sacrifice his 12 year old son?
Once his son hit 13, it wouldn't have been much of a sacrifice!
Have a great Monday people!
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
hmmm maybe the democrats are
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 4:54pm.
hmmm maybe the democrats are moving to mass suicide.
The Ultimate Resource is our
Submitted by Liberallies on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 5:13pm.
The Ultimate Resource is our Brain!!!
Human beings will always find a way to survive and live well if the power of our brain is used to its potential.
Hysteria like this has been around for a while. All one needs to do is read the books and the craziness of the 60s and 70s when "intellectuals" were claiming that by the late 1980s and mid-1990s the Earth would be overpopulated and there were going to be horrific riots even in the United States due to a lack of food and water....
6 billion human beings and....still going strong.
and let us be honest here. As I heard once a doctor retell a story of a patient that came into his office asking for an abortion. This is how he answered the lady.
"why do you want an abortion?" The lady answered, "because I have 8 children and a 9th one will take too many of our resources and food". The doctor politely answered, "Well actually, bring me your oldest son or daughter, they eat and consume much more of your resources than a newborn. Kill the one(s) that are truly eating up and heavily using your money". The woman today has 12 children!!
How many of those who claim overpopulation are willing to kill themselves, kill their already born children for the better Earth they speak of? Exactly! Why do Liberals always want others to make the sacrifices they are unwilling to make first?!
Most of the world is underpopulated and there is technology abound that can be used to feed and give water to much more than 6 billion people!
The Human Brain is the Ultimate Resource!
If anyone knows...
Submitted by dvdaughtry on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:07pm.
"Hysteria like this has been around for a while."
...it's this (points up) guy folks.
You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?
The Human Brain is the Ultimate Resource
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 8:15pm.
Unless you're a liberal.
Democrats and Melthususians
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:02pm.
Democrats and Melthususians including the Kos idiots can make this world a better place by jumping off cliffs. If they really believe the BS they always spout, otherwise it's like anything else they spew: garbage.
And if those Kos idiots think it's "normal" for a guy to shove himself up the backside of another, then THEY are insane.
I've stopped being polite to them in social situations
Submitted by Pharmer on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:05pm.
When the lefties tell me that there are too many people, or that people are parasites upon the planet, despoilers, etc......... I suggest that if they truly believed in their assertions, they'd set an example for others, and kill themselves.
So far my suggestion hasn't produced any volunteers to 'show us the way'.
reduce the surface population
Submitted by g00se99 on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:08pm.
Just like scrooge. If he starts with himself ill consider his arguement about plagues.
OK. We're all gay.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:14pm.
Why can't we just admit our inner gayness?
/suc
human haters
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:17pm.
The enviro whack jobs are not considering how many PEOPLE the planet can support but how many OTHER SPECIES can live without interaction with humans. They see humans as an alien species that disturbs the natural cycle and must be limited. Humans are likened to invading kudzu smothering out natures natural order..
What's the point?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 6:46pm.
I gotta ask, what's the point of free medical health care if they want the population to be reduced? You'd think these "over-populationists" or some liberals who worry about that, that they would want people to die off quickly instead of getting health care from their doctors.
It's that same logic that they use for wanting to keep the most heinous criminals on death row alive but go ahead and have abortions.
-Jon
Jon The Sooner We "Die with Dignaty" The Sooner They Collect
Submitted by Avitar on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 2:39am.
Killing off the old before theycan give away their money is a very profitable Government activity. Add in the number of pensions that can be cut short and the Social Security that can be cut off and there really is no wonder that the Government wants to decide to pull the plug.
They hve had the FDA in place blocking progress in medicine for a full Century next year. They kept anitibiotics offt of the market for over twenty years until FDR's son needed some.In the words of the former DNC chairman Rommer ."the old have a duty to die!"
I don't feel any duty to the DNC at all.
Getting mighty crowded
Submitted by theknight70 on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 8:21pm.
I find these articles to be quite tiresome to say the least. Libs have been spouting this kind of propaganda for years. I just have a mind to tell these people to put there money where their mouth is and kill themselves. That way two birds are "killed" with one stone. That is one less person on this planet and one less person on this planet leaving a "carbon foot print". What makes these people think they are the only ones allowed to live and not others? What a bunch of morons.
DON'T TREAD ON ME!
The Daily Kook once agan
Submitted by celator on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:55pm.
The Daily Kook once agan verifies one of the radical left's favorite core ideas--euthanasia. They really do believe that there is just the right number of THEM, and far too many of US.
The party of death promotes
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:17pm.
The party of death promotes murdering INNOCENT babies, assisted suicide, mass geonocide, riots, and liberal drug use. But somehow WE'RE called terrorists that have guns to people's heads and are responsible for Gifford's shooting.
It's funny how Lefties fear
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 12:35am.
It's funny how Lefties fear overpopulation while supporting with religious zeal the inefficient and resource-intense practice of "organic" farming. If these people were really so concerned with overpopulation they wouldn't mandate the waste of vast quantities of agricultural resources to produce ethanol.
Oh, but what am I doing? I'm just being a dumb teabagger. I need to engage in more intellectual leftwing pursuits like catching up on Jersey Shore on my Ipod while I sip lattes at Starbucks! Then I would understand these complexities!
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I've gotta say that this
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 1:15am.
I've gotta say that this Daily Kook thing is my Sunday night entertainment, while making a BBQ and having a black cherry/vodka drink, after a nice refreshing late afternoon swim. At least I'm in a mellow and light-hearted mood, so that I can read this crap without getting agitated.........although it's usually too lame for me to take seriously.
We went over the 'kill everybody' thing a couple days ago.......but I'd have to say that this 'right-wingers are gay' theory is pretty intriguing.......especailly coming from the side that is pushing such a resentless gay agenda!!! I guess they have to rationalize a lot of their ideas and thoughts in order to feel OK with them.
This is an Old Old Star Trek Story.
Submitted by Avitar on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 2:20am.
Back in the sixties they mad this yellow fever dream into a story in the first three seasons. The Government of a planet was trying to give the citizens Shatneritise so they would die. Aparently not realizing that William Shatner only dies in front of cameras.
When you know as little about how the world works as Hollywood does you will believe anything. If you have access to a video library look up "The Name Of the Game" for the biggest whoopers and silliest stories ever filmed. That was from the Acid age when LSD was Hollywood's drug of choice.
Current technology will support sixteen billion on earthFurther we are right at the begining of the most powerful acceleration in technological change in history. Read "The Singullarity is Near," "The Coming Convergance" or "Engines of Creation" if you need background as to why this is happening.