The Denier
(And the windmill – is this the new symbol of Catholic faith?)

**Unlike this pope, Canute was a wise king who was fed up with his advisers who tried to tell him he was all powerful. So, to show them how idiotic the idea was of a mere human having control over nature, he had himself sat down before the natural variation we call a rising tide and commanded it to cease.
In one simple action he showed his own humility, his wisdom and the stupidity of his advisers – a lesson this pope needs to learn.

I came across an article written by someone whose house has been stolen. Given the context I immediately expected another green hypocrite and I was not mistaken.
But first, however hypocritical, obnoxious and generally “denialist” the person, a crime was committed and it’s a personal tragedy for them and no one “deserves” that. However, as they remind me so much of the hypocritical “denialists” who have a massive personal carbon footprint and then criticise us sceptics for putting the facts in the way of the hypocritical hysteria, as the block is unlikely to read this, I feel it’s worth highlighting how ridiculous their idea of “green” actually is.
Like all “Greens” they start by saying they were “going to live as ethically and responsibly as we possibly can“. So what do they do? They buy a plot of land in the wilderness: “45 minute drive to our property – a drive that I’ve made at least 20 times each way, at this point.” and what’s the first thing they do?  … destroy the wilderness or as he puts it: “after the $3,100 of additional land clearing and tree-trimming“. Continue reading →

I need £1000 in order to put myself up for election in 2015 and have enough money to print the leaflets which the establishment parties all get delivered for free.
However, even so, the £1000 (assuming lost deposit) is remarkably good value. Lenzie is full of the “decision makers” of Scotland so its a very good target for climate information, the MP is a green hypocrite and the £1000 is cheaper than paying a company to deliver them.
Whilst there have been some generous donations, unfortunately I am still very far from the £1000 and having had unpaid “work” as a climate sceptic for many years I have had no income and so I’m putting a red line down that I will not fund the campaign from my own (wife’s) pocket.

Strategy

So, I am now contemplating a sceptic keep fit program.
This program involves printing as many leaflets as the present donations can provide for and then hand delivering them. The leaflet will lay out the scientific basis against the nonsense policy of the Scottish government and then explain I would like to stand and ask for donations to help make this happen.

UKIP

For those who aren’t aware, UKIP are denying the Scottish membership any say over their party in Scotland. In particular, the “chairman” is now appointed, but contrary to the rules that say the “chairman” must not be employed in the party office, this “chairman” works for David Coburn – claiming that as an appointed “chairman” this rule does not apply.
So, this “chairman” will never willingly have an election because either they lose and keep their job or they “lose” and become an elected chairman without their EU funded salary.

On the 22nd of December my paypal “cheque” finally cleared and I confidently expected to hear the ring on the door just before or just after Xmas.
Xmas came and went. Eventually I gave the supplier a ring and they emailed me a tracking number.
What a delight! From this tracking number I can now see that the parcel was picked up by “Speedy Express Delivery Service” at 14:15:47 on 2014-12-29  …. It then arrived in Sofia (which I found was the capital of Bulgaria) at 22:16:59 on the same day …
So, what has “Speedy delivery” being doing with my parcel since?

… Nothing!

Until I checked it just now to find that as of 08:32:50 7 days after SPEEDY delivery picked it up, it has finally made it to Budapest in Hungary (next door to Bulgaria) where the status is: “Processed in Office”.

At this rate of progress I am confidently expecting my “Speedy delivery” parcel to arrive some time around March – and as a sceptic I fully anticipate it to be a box mashed to pieces missing the contents and with a customs demand that must be paid before I get the parcel to see it is without its contents.

Welcome to the internet age!

Orders placed at the speed of light.
Parcels delivered at the speed of a gestating elephant.

And the only real difference … is that I can now see online how slowly my “snail-mail” is getting to me.