"[Ocean fertilization is a] technique analogous to afforestation, but economically more attractive. [It would] speed up the natural absorption of CO2 into the ocean. Currently, much of the world's oceans is a biological desert. Even though many of these areas have adequate supplies of the basic nutrients, nitrates and phosphates, they lack essential micro nutrients like iron. Ocean fertilization (McElroy 1983) has been widely discussed among scientific specialists, with experiments proposed by the late John Martin (Martin 1990, 1994), and endorsed by the late Professor Roger Revelle, director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institution in La Jolla, California. With the completion and publication of the successful IronEx-II test (see Cooper et al. and other papers in the October 1996 issue of Nature), it now makes sense to consider ocean fertilization as a viable candidate for sequestering atmospheric CO₂. The process is cheaper and politically less intrusive than control of emissions. It also exploits excess CO₂ as a resource for enhancing ocean fisheries." (Hot Talk Cold Science -- Global Warming's Unfinished Debate, by S. Fred Singer, 1997, pages 72-73.)

"Grieving mom" Cindy Sheehan says the U.S. isn't worth dying for and George W. Bush is the biggest terrorist in the world; he's a lying bastard; he's an evil maniac. You may not like what she says, but you can't argue with her because her son died in Iraq. If you attack the content of her comments, you are attacking her, and that's simply not allowed.

John Kerry said U.S. soldiers in Vietnam raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blew up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside. He served "with honor" in Vietnam, so you must not disagree with his accusations.

Some wives (the "Jersey Girls": Kristin Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Lorie Van Auken, and Mindy Kleinberg), whose husbands died in the Twin Towers attacks, say the attack on the Twin Towers could have been prevented by George Bush. Are you going to dishonor these poor women by challenging what they say? How dare you! That would be cruel and heartless. (We are to pay no attention to the fact that the Jersey Girls were strong and vocal supporters of John Kerry.)

Scientists say there's man-made global warming going on. They're scientists, for goodness sake, so what they say can not be challenged. (The fact that thousands of other scientists disagree is conveniently ignored. The mainstream media consider it unnecessary to inform the public about such contrary scientific views.)

It's the mother's choice. She's the one who must endure the pregnancy. It's her body. She and her doctor ought to have the final word about aborting a tiny human being. Yes, that's the rhetoric, but what about the life of the little one? Who's speaking out on his or her behalf? (Of course the Constitution does, when it asserts the unalienable right to life, but those "old" documents, we're told, are "out of date," so don't pay any attention to them.)

With the kids are in school, then they are the unassailable ones. We must spend more for them. We must have smaller class sizes. They're so young and innocent, we must let teachers -- trained professionals -- instill in them proper values regarding sex, the environment, the United Nations, and certainly religion (Christianity is so dangerous, we must never even allude to it in the sacred halls of K through 12).

	MONDAY, June 12, 2006. I found a bunch of pro-illegal-immigration pictures on the Internet, and here are. (Not all are from demonstrations in the U.S.) Our Senators and Representatives are working very hard [they keep telling us] to find an answer to the border problem, but all the "solutions" they propose are based on the assumption the illegals want to become Americans. (And thus will vote!) But, what if illegals don't want to become Americans? And besides, what evidence is there to suggest they do? Are immigrants buckling down with their English studies to achieve proficiency? Are they demonstrating fondness for the American flag and expressing eagerness to recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Are they showing interest in embracing America's traditions and values? I don't think so. They seem more interested in keeping their right to vote in their "home" countries. They seem more interested in rooting for their country's sports teams instead of ours. They seem more interested in being buried in their "homeland" than in their "new" homeland. They seem more interested in maintaining their "old" ways instead of embracing U.S. culture and customs. They want all the benefits of citizenship but none of the responsibilities. Immigrants a hundred years ago were a different breed. They understood that coming to this country very often meant hardship and sacrifice, but they willingly endured the demands because they so wanted freedom and opportunity. My sense is that millions of illegals today don't give one hoot about America. They obviously don't care about our laws; the first thing they do upon entering our country is to break one. Our elected representatives should take steps immediately to secure our borders. They should pass legislation to revoke instant citizenship for babies of illegals. They should prohibit dual citizenship. They should pass laws that prevent non-citizens from taking advantage of U.S. benefits that were intended for U.S. citizens. And they should enforce the laws already on the books! Is that too much to ask?

"The Earth has certainly warmed in the last 100 years, although not as much as suggested by the IPCC. However, the sun has also been hotter during the same period, so that some, if not all, the warming is attributable to the more intense solar activity this century and to the shortening of the solar cycles themselves. If indeed there has been warming, it is clear the sun did it, not mankind or greenhouse gases."
"Days of Sunshine," by John L. Daly.

"The resulting warming due to this effect over the last century could be comparable to the amount of warming people think has been due to the greenhouse effect. Add to that the other effects due to the Sun, and greenhouse gases become less than 50% responsible for rising global temperatures."
"Viewpoint: The Sun and climate change," by Dr. Paal Brekke.

"Global warming is occurring due to oceans heating, not greenhouse gases. The oceans are heating due to hot spots rotating in the earth's core, which is the cause of ice ages."
"Global Warming," by Gary Novak.

"17,000 [scientists] have actually signed a petition against the Kyoto protocol."
"Is 'Global Warming' Hot Air?" an interview of Dr. S. Fred Singer by Geoff Metcalf.

"[S]atellite data contradicts the global warming theory. It is telling us something most of us have intuitively known for a long time. Some months and years are warmer than normal, while others are cooler. But over the long haul, earth maintains about the same temperature."
"The Politics of Global Warming," by Michael Coffman.

"'Human-induced changes are real,' says warming skeptic Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia, 'but the changes are so small and of such a benign nature that they are insufficient to support any expensive or disruptive policy. If anything, they indicate that the best policy is probably to do nothing.'"
"Global Warming - Hot Problem or Hot Air?" by Jonathan H. Adler.

"Interestingly, each successive refinement and improvement to the [climate-predicting computer] models has moved predictions in one direction: towards ever more modest estimates of an anthropogenic effect on warming."
"Global Climate Change," a STATS survey of current research.

"[A] study published in 1991 [. . .] reported a close tie between the actual length of the solar cycle (which averages 11 years but varies from 9 to 15 years) and surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere throughout the entire twentieth century. If true, it would mean that human influences, such as increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, have contributed little or nothing to the approximately 0.8 degree C warming of Earth's surface since 1885."
"Sun's Role in Climate Change Continues to Spark Controversy," by SpaceDaily.

"There has been no measurable increase in the Earth’s temperature in the last 50 years, even after human activity has increased CO2 in the atmosphere from about 250 PPM [parts per million] to approximately 450 PPM."
"Environmental Information," by the Williams Institute for Advanced Constitutional Studies.

"Changes in solar brightness do correlate with changes in Earth's global temperature. But for climate researchers this only rubs in their ignorance of climate change."
"Sunspots May Play Role in Global Warming," by Robert C. Cowen.

"There has never been conclusive evidence that global warming is NOT a normal cyclical trend between periods of global cooling, or that it is caused by CO2 and other so-called 'greenhouse gasses'."
"Debunking the Global Warming Myths," by Doug Edelman.

"The objective of the global warming hoax is to create conditions that would reduce the earth's population by restricting the use of energy to protect health, to reduce the amount of food that can be grown to feed the population. It is an attack on the countless other ways modern life extends and protects our lives."
"Debunking Global Warming," by Alan Caruba.

"Unless and until we [. . .] start paying attention to the fact that none of the credible data gathered on the issue of CO2-generated climate change, when brought together and analyzed responsibly, point to anything remotely resembling the 'crisis' that so-called 'concerned scientists,' in collusion with I'm-happy-to-be-led-by-the-nose liberal-agenda media honks, are trying to sell us, we're doomed to be inundated by so-called 'news' that predicts our collective climatological demise because we failed to limit our carbon dioxide emissions."
"Debunking the Myth of Global Warming," by Greg Lewis.

"Before we get too carried away with all the big talk about 'science' and 'experts,' let's not forget that we are talking about a field that has trouble predicting whether or not it will be raining tomorrow. Yet we are expected to pile staggering costs onto the American consumers and taxpayers because of speculative theories turned into computer models."
"Who Says the Globe Is Warming?" by Thomas Sowell.

"The prevailing theory that human activities cause global warming, and its supposed manifestations – droughts, hurricanes, floods, bugs, fires, you name it – is only a theory. A religious theory, maybe, but not a testable scientific one."
"Skeptics Shut Out of Warming Dialogue," by Paula Easley.

"I think it's possible to prove the whole human-caused global-warming issue is a hoax."
"Calculating Human-Caused Global Warming," by Fred Gielow.

"One can accurately describe the United States as a 'total racist society' in which every major aspect of life is shaped to some degree by the core racist realities."
- - --- Professor Joe Feagin, professor of sociology at Texas A&M University.

"What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists -- all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few 'conservatives'."
- - --- Professor Grover Furr, associate professor of English at Montclair State University.

"[T]he problem is capitalism, [and] the only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time [March 2005] is socialism."
- - --- Professor John Bellamy Foster, associate professor of sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene.

"Go to Vietnam and shoot your commanding officer. Become an airplane mechanic and learn to sabotage planes. . . . [A]ll police and members of their families must be killed and law enforcement demoralized. All jails and prisons must be opened and inmates liberated."
- - --- Professor H. Bruce Franklin, John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers University.

"The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military. I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus."
- - --- Professor Nicholas De Genova, Columbia University.

"We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." Also: "We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here. We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population."
- - --- Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor of political science, University of Texas, Arlington.

"I am writing this essay sitting beside an anonymous white male that I long to murder." Also: "It is difficult not to hear in standard English always the sound of slaughter and conquest."
- - --- Professor bell hooks [the lower case affectation is hers], distinguished professor of English at City College in New York. [Prior to adopting the name "bell hooks", she was known as Gloria Watkins.]

"Jews are a race of skunks and animals that stole Africa from the Black Man."
- - --- Professor Leonard Jeffries, professor of black studies at City University of New York.

"The United States has lost the war in Iraq and that's a good thing."
- - --- Professor Robert Jensen, associate professor of journalism, University of Texas, Austin.

"One of the great achievements of Communism, rarely recognized in the West, is its relatively successful containment of American power from the early 1950s through the demise of the Soviet state in 1991."
- - --- Professor Peter Kirstein, professor of history, Saint Xavier University.

"[George W.] Bush and bin Laden have much more in common. If anything, bin Laden's parochialism is slightly less offensive: whereas Bush concludes his addresses to the nation with 'God bless America' . . ."
- - --- Professor Vinay Lal, associate professor of history, University of California, Los Angeles.

"[The] Jewish state is a racist state that does not have the right to exist."
- - --- Professor Joseph Massad, assistant professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University.

"We as Americans have to hope America will lose [the war in Iraq]."
- - --- Professor Michael Schwartz, professor of sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

"We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it."
- - --- Professor Haunani-Kay Trask, professor of Hawaiian studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa.

o Cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease. He says over 13 million people are currently taking prescriptions to reduce cholesterol, but heart disease statistics in the U.S. continue to escalate. Hmmm. If all these drugs are doing any good, why does heart disease increase? Shouldn't it decrease? The booklet also notes that 60% of the people who get heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels! The majority of people who have high cholesterol levels never suffer heart attacks. Further, half of all heart-attack sufferers have none of the standard, recognized risk factors: smoking, obesity, genetics, or high cholesterol.

o Butter is a healthy food. Doctors have banned butter from many Americans' diets and recommended substitutes, but margarine, Williams says, is more dangerous than smoking cigarettes. Margarine's trans fatty acids are poison to your arteries, he explains. Eating butter can even protect you from skin cancer, Dr. Williams says.

o Eggs are a perfect food. When I went through a cholesterol scare, I gave up eating eggs. I even stayed away from egg noodles. The booklet says it's not true that egg yolks will raise your blood cholesterol level. Dietary cholesterol can't do that, Williams claims.

o The sun is actually good for you. It's widely believed that if you can't avoid the sun, you should at least use sunscreen. But the doctor says statistics indicate people with healthy tans have 50 percent less breast and colon cancers than those who avoid the sun. Vitamin D (our main source is the sun) is a proven cancer-fighter, while sunscreen products may actually cause skin cancer, according to Dr. Williams. Sunscreens contain one or more of five chemicals that may actually encourage cancer. Also, they block the production of melanin, which protects against skin cancer.

o An aspirin a day may actually increase the risk of stroke and heart attack. A Canadian research study found that aspirin increases the risk of stroke and heart attacks in 40% of the people who took it. Three other studies support the finding. Also: constant use of aspirin can make you blind by increasing your risk of macular degeneration, and it increases your risk of cataracts by up to 44%.

o The human body needs fat for peak performance and appetite appeasement. Cutting out fat may actually make you more overweight, according to Dr. Williams. One type of fat, conjugated linoleic acid, assists in weight control. But the body doesn't manufacture it, it must be in our diet, in such foods as beef, milk, and dairy products, just the foods medical people warn us to avoid.

"Let us damn America, let us damn Israel, let us damn them and their allies until death."
- - --- Professor Sami al-Arian, professor of engineering at the University of South Florida.

"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents."
- - --- Professor Bill Ayers, distinguished professor of early childhood education and senior university scholar, University of Illinois, Chicago campus.

"Ultimately we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country [the U.S.], because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country."
- - --- Professor Ihsan Bagby, professor of Islamic studies, University of Kentucky.

"We [blacks] must eliminate the white man before we can draw a free breath on this planet."
- - --- Professor Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones Rutgers University, Stony Brook.

"Columbus's actions launched an era of modern colonialism, rape, pillage, genocide, cultural destruction, slavery, economic and environmental devastation."
- - --- Professor Marc Becker, associate professor of Latin American history at Truman Stat= University.

"Civil rights laws were not passed to give civil rights protection to all Americans."
- - --- Professor Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal professor of American social thought and professor of history, University of Pennsylvania.

"The only way you can reach a conclusion that the [Black Panther] Party was violent is that blacks are not entitled to defend themselves."
- - --- Kathleen Cleaver, senior lecturer in law at Emory University.

"[I]t appears that the greatest threat to our freedoms is posed not by the terrorists themselves but by our own government's response."
- - --- Professor David Cole, professor of law at Georgetown University.

"Half the American public is terminally stupid."
- - --- Professor Juan Cole, professor of history, University of Michigan.

"In [Iran], there is a democratically elected government. If you ask me, [President] Khatami has more clear legitimacy than Bush does."
- - --- Professor Hamid Dabashi, professor of Islamic studies, Columbia University.

"[T]he only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class."
- - --- Professor Angela Davis, professor of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military."
- - --- Professor Nicholas De Genova, assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University.

"Falling temperatures will cause the ice caps to sink into the ocean, producing "a global tidal wave that could wipe out a substantial portion of mankind, and the sea level could rise 60 to 100 feet." (1970.) Also (some years later): "The population of the U.S. will shrink from 250 million to about 22.5 million before 1999 because of famine and global warming." [Emphasis added.] Also (as quoted in 1990): "Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure." Also (as reported in 1992): "Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."
- - --- Professor Paul Ehrlich, professor of population studies and biology at Stanford University.

[I]n the "gay rights" movement's relentless struggle to legitimize homosexuality, and in the greater society's veneration of them as heroes of the great civil rights crusade of the new millennium, we've forgotten one thing. In the endlessly clever media campaign that's bamboozled everyone, "restructured their consciousness," turned their hate into love and their rejection into acceptance, something crucial has been lost.

We've forgotten about reality. We've been living in a Madison Avenue fantasy world of marketing images and carefully crafted rhetoric in the foreground, with court battles, fascistlike intimidation, and relentless waves of persuasion in the background.

But what about the truth we've left behind? What about the reality of homosexuality, of what causes it, and of what it means physically and spiritually for those so oriented? Do we even care any more? [. . .]

[S]exually abused young males are "up to 7 times more likely to self-identify as gay or bisexual than peers who had not been abused," concludes the peer-reviewed 1998 study, "Sexual Abuse of Boys," by William C. Holmes, M.D. and Gail B. Slap, M.D. [. . .]

Unfortunately, with all the brainy marketing behind the campaign to mainstream homosexuality, what's been swept under the rug is the recognition -- once commonplace in America -- that flawed early relationships or sexual victimization can put a child on the road to homosexuality. [. . .]

Today we've basically abandoned "old-fashioned" notions of right and wrong in favor of "consensuality," which means two people can do whatever they want, no matter how abominable, as long as they "don't hurt anybody else." The problem with that -- aside from the fact that it denies the existence of God and His laws -- is that in such a deluded state you have no basis for determining if you're hurting another person or not. A pedophile justifies sex with children precisely because he doesn't believe he's hurting the child; rather he believes he's loving him. [. . .]

Where and when will this "gay rights" public relations steamroller stop? The end game is not only to bring about the complete acceptance of homosexuality, including same-sex marriage, but also to prohibit and even criminalize public criticism of homosexuality, including the quotation of biblical passages disapproving of homosexuality. [. . .]

Their campaign will not end until Christians and other traditionalists opposing homosexuality are shut up, discredited, and utterly silenced -- and all because of a little factor we've forgotten about in our cleverness, namely this: In truth, there is something wrong with homosexuality.

Simply put, it is unnatural and self-destructive -- just as Western civilization has long understood it. [. . .]

Glorifying dysfunctionality and corruption, we have relieved homosexuals of the inner conflict they once felt over their condition -- something they desperately need, indeed all of us need, if we're ever going to overcome our problems and find wholeness.

"The 1983 La Paz Agreement between the United States and Mexico is a pact to protect, conserve, and improve the environment of the border region of both countries. The agreement defined the region as the 62 miles (100 km) to the north and south of the international border. This area includes maritime (sea) boundaries and land in four American states and six Mexican border states." La Paz Agreement. La Paz Agreement. Border XXI and TRIP: Summary of the Framework Document. About the Border XXI Program. Border XXI Documents.

"Tucked beneath the coattails of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was an additional agreement implementing what has come to be called the La Paz Agreement that calls for the elimination of the United States/Mexico International Border at Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas. The La Paz Agreement was implemented in January 1997 and calls for a 62.5 mile strip north and south of the border to be an open zone and will be called "Border Region 21." [Italics added.] "Federally Supported Land Grabs: Border Area 21, Elimination of the Border Between U.S. and Mexico."

"Border 2012 is a 10-year, bi-national, results-oriented environmental program for the U.S.-Mexico border region. The Border 2012 Program is the latest multi-year, bi-national planning effort to be implemented under the La Paz Agreement and succeeds Border XXI, a five-year program that ended in 2000." HCM2021. U.S.-Mexico Border Program.

"Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1 million."

"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population . . ."

"Being queer is more than setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and seeking state approval for doing so. . . . Being queer means pushing the parameters of sex, sexuality, and family, and in the process, transforming the very fabric of society. . . . We must keep our eyes on the goal. . . of radically reordering society's views of reality."

"All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. . . . [W]e shall make films about the love between heroic men. . . . The family unit -- spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence -- will be abolished. . . . All churches who condemn us will be closed."

"We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons will become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us."

"[W]e are going to force you [Christians] to recant everything you have believed or said about sexuality."

"Against the mighty pull of institutional Religion one must set the mightier draw of Science and Public Opinion. Such an unholy alliance has worked well against churches before, on such topics as divorce and abortion."

"We have captured the liberal establishment and the press. We have already beaten you on a number of battlefields. And we have the spirit of the age on our side. You have neither the faith nor the strength to fight us, so you might as well surrender now."

"Whether in culture, politics, law, business, the news media, entertainment, education, or even the church, homosexual strides have been nothing short of astonishing. Once condemned as 'immoral deviants,' homosexuals and lesbians today are honored, idealized, defended as victims, and celebrated as role models. Thanks to 'hate-crimes' legislation, they are now afforded extra protections as a special class of people -- protections nor granted to all members of society. (If you were assaulted, the perpetrator would get one sentence, but if you were assaulted because of your homosexuality, the perpetrator would receive a more severe sentence under hatecrimes sentencing guidelines.) Meanwhile, in what was once a vibrant Judeo-Christian culture, Christians and other proponents of traditional biblical principles are routinely cast as bigots and 'homophobes.' . . "

"Mankind is the biggest blight on the face of the earth." -- PETA statement.

"I don't believe human beings have the 'right to life.' That's a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PETA co-founder and national director.

"It would be great if all the fast food outlets' slaughterhouses, laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow." -- Bruce Fredrich, PETA spokesman.

"I would rather have medical experiments done on our children, than on animals." -- PETA statement.

"If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would." "Only 7% of Americans are hunters. That means there are more of us than there are of them. It is simply a matter of democracy. The majority rules in a democracy. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States. . . We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state." -- Wayne Pacelle, CEO of the Humane Society of the U.S.

"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition." -- Peter Singer, known as the "Father of Animal Rights".

"To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of tradeoff." -- Bill Maher.

"Even if animal tests produced a cure [for AIDS], we'd be against it." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PETA co-founder and national director.

"Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being." -- Bruce Fredrich, PETA spokesman.

"Ants are sentient beings, like we are, and have a right to life like we do, and they shouldn't be shown the level of disrespect the producers of ant farms show them." -- Stephanie Boyles, PETA.

"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be granted equal consideration." -- Michael W. Fox, vice president, Humane Society of the United States.

"We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded children." -- Alex Pacheco, former director of PETA, and subsequently the head of an animal-rights fundraising company.

"I think it is speciesist [someone who accepts human domination over animals] to think that the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center was a greater tragedy than what millions of chickens endured that day and what they endure every day because they cannot defend themselves against the concerted human appetites arrayed against them." -- Karen Davis, president of the animal rights group United Poultry Concerns.

"If a human four-year-old has what it takes for legal personhood, then a chimpanzee should be able to be a legal person in terms of legal rights." -- Steven Wise, Harvard University lecturer and author of Rattling the Cage.

"Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans." -- Peter Singer.

"[A]rson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause." -- Alex Pacheco, former director of PETA.

"If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justified solution." -- Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for PCRM [Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine], a front group for PETA.

"I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism." [Environmentalism equals replacing capitalism with socialism.]
-- Judi Bari, Earth First! member.

"The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally."
-- Aaron Wildavsky, political scientist and professor. [Environmentalism equals making everybody equal; that is, it's communism.]

"No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits. . , [C]limate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world." [Environmentalism equals changing the world.]
-- Christine Stewart, Canadian Environment Minister.

"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land." [Environmentalism equals a return to primitive living.]
-- David Foreman, Earth First! member.

"We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." [Environmentalism equals changing policy by claiming -- even without substantiation -- it's necessary to save the world's environment.]
-- Timothy Wirth, Clinton Administration U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, and one of a number of politicians (including Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank, Al Gore, John Kerry, Christopher Shays, and others) who were designated as "Green Leadership for the '90s."

"[W]e have to offer up scary scenarios [about global warming and destruction of the environment}, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts one might have. . . . Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." [Environmentalism equals lies "if necessary".]
-- Stephen Schneider, Stanford University environmentalist.

"We routinely wrote scare stories about the hazards of chemicals, employing words like 'cancer,' and 'birth defects' to splash a little cold water in reporters' faces. . . . Our press reports were more or less true. . . . Few handouts, however, can be completely honest, and ours were no exception . . . . We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment." [Environmentalism equals government-sponsored deception.]
-- Jim Sibbison, former EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) press officer.

"Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say." [Environmentalism equals silencing debate and stifling contrary opinions.]
-- Ross Gelbspan, former editor of the Boston Globe.

"I would freely admit that on [global warming] we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy." [Environmentalism equals indoctrination.]
-- Charles Alexander, "Time" magazine science editor.

Thoughts for 1999.
Thoughts for 2000.
Thoughts for 2001.
Thoughts for 2002.
Thoughts for 2003.
Thoughts for First half of 2004. Second half of 2004.
Thoughts for First half of 2005. Second half of 2005.

The way back home.