Cowboy Confessional

Understanding your enemy is critical. Understanding who is not your enemy may be more important.

Much to their credit, the west has gone to great lengths to differentiate the average Muslim and the average moron (i.e., jihadist). They are different critters, and killing one but not the other is good policy, good strategy, and a good exercise of new military equipment.

The October issue of Reason magazine carried an article on the intricacies between Kurds, Iran and Iraq. As insightful as this article was (as almost all Reason articles are), two neighboring passages caught my attention.

A Vanity Fair reporter mentioned that “every person he visited (in Iran), with the exception of one single imam, offered him alcohol, which is banned.” This agrees with what an Iraqi expat said on a local talk radio program, where she claimed that the average Muslim was identical to the average Protestant, in that they went to services maybe twice a year and committed every non-violent sin in the Holy Book.  In other words they took scripture with a grain of Lot’s salt.
But author Michael J. Totten also mentioned the other Muslim variant … idiots ala Al Queda. “Its now infamous warnings to street vendors in Iraq’s Anbar Province not to place cucumbers next to tomatoes in the market because the vegetables are ‘different genders’.” This is cited as “one of myriad reasons why most Sunni Arab tribes in that region recently flipped to the side of the hated Americans.”

Contrast these two extremes, and your head will either swirl with liberated perspective, or ache from conflicted insanity. The former group believes in their religion, but not its excesses. The other believes in inflicting religious excesses upon everyone through the point of a sword. Combine the worst parts of the Spanish Inquisition of a Gallagher concert, and you have al Queda.

Scripture says it is sin to kill men, but remains silent on slaying vegetable segragating homicidal maniacs. Saving Islam while bombing bin Laden is richeous, sane, corrective, educational, Darwinistic … and entertaining.

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If sex is original sin, Murphyisms are original cynicism.

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“A peace prize is a positive message and support to all those champions of peace in the world.”

Sure. And the Inquisition was a positive affirmation of all those who championed Christian values in the world. Just ask any Jew who became an NBA candidate after a positive adjustment on the rack.

The quote above, as self deluded as it may be, came from Ole Danbolt Mjoes the Nobel Committee chairman discussing their decision to give Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m sure Mjoes believes what he uttered, as did Miguel de Morillo when he said “Light ‘em up” at a witches pyre.

Perspective is a commodity rarer than oxygen on the moon whenever belief and politics intersect. The generation currently in control of the planet were whelped in time to suffer the excesses of the ecological revolution, and as a group want to “save the planet.” Their belief that humans are mightier than the entire globe, combined ecosystems, and that damned hot nearby sphere we call Sol, demonstrate more conceit than common sense.

It also shows a lack of historical evaluation about Mister Gore and his stock in trade: inciting unfounded panic.

Al has a unique gig. He finds small but credible scientific theories, then projects a worst case scenario in order to instill dread in the hearts of the mindless. This is akin to seeing a flowing garden hose and anointing yourself the new millenia Noah. Al does the same thing, and has been doing so for a long, long time.

Back in 1992, when Al had yet to occupy the seat for has been politicos know as the Vice Presidency, he published “Earth in the Balance”, which predicted imminent catastrophe through over population (populations knee-curved in many high-growth countries), pending famine (we’re now over-producing food) and social meltdown (which has always been the human state). In short, Gore promotes the End of Times and rakes in cold cash from the pockets of those unable to think critically or question their political heroes.

See, you can profit from stupidity without taxation.

This makes one ponder the motivation of the Nobel committee. There is no end of negative critique of Gore’s general environmental predictions (past and present) and even the core theories of anthropogenic global warming. In the absence of confirmed, irrefutable scientific proof, Gore’s doomsday forecasts should be held in suspicion deeper than that reserved for theology. After all, one unfounded belief is no better than the next.

Yet the Nobel committee’s acclimation echoes those who have not reviewed the debate, the claims, methodological errors, counter-claims, and relative proportions of man-made pollutants to the net ecomass. The Nobel committee substituted policy for peace, and in awarding Gore this prize, improved neither.

Yet, I speak to the wind. The fact that a few billion lemmings have run off the Cliffs of Gore. They will lay claim to any positive change in the weather, and amplify their collective fears whenever it rains or snows harder than they can recall (which given the copious amount of dope they may be smoking, this is likely an abbreviation period of time). The political die has been cast, and critical thinking has been nailed to the cross.

Hail Gore, our new Caesar.

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