There’s only one question I have for everyone out there today.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Don’t you know the planet is in danger of shriveling up like Al Gore’s testicles on a cold winter’s day? Don’t you realize that unless we do something NOW about global warming, Los Angeles will be under water before you know it and they’ll have to cancel all those “See the Homes of the Stars” tours? Can’t you see that unless we abandon all industrial production and go back to a time when men were men, women were women, and horses were just like cars except they didn’t have chrome bumpers and electric sun roofs, that the Earth Goddess will be angry at us and punish us by cancelling the Winter Olympics in 2050? (Goodness! What will the Canadians do if they can’t compete in Curling?)
YOU PEOPLE SUCK! No commitment. No concern for the planet. AND YOU’VE GOT THE MOST GOD-AWFUL TASTE IN MUSIC I’VE EVER SEEN!
Live Earth has been branded a foul-mouthed flop.Organisers of the global music concert – punctuated by swearing from presenters and performers – had predicted massive viewing figures.
But BBC’s live afternoon television coverage attracted an average British audience of just 900,000.
In the evening, when coverage switched from BBC2 to BBC1, the figure rose to just 2.7million.
And the peak audience, which came when Madonna sang at Wembley, was a dismal 4.5million. Three times as many viewers saw the Princess Diana tribute on the same channel six days before.
Two years ago, Live 8 drew a peak television audience of 9.6million while Live Aid notched 10million in 1985.
The BBC blamed the poor figures on Saturday’s good weather and said its Wimbledon tennis coverage had drawn away afternoon viewers.
Critics said however that the public had simply snubbed what they saw as a hypocritical event.
ALL OF YOU SHOULD BE ROYALLY ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!
More people went to see Tiger Woods play golf in DC than the Live Earth Concert – many, many more:
People in attendance at the PGA Tour event today in the D.C. area: 37,613, per a local sports channel.People in attendance at Al Gore’s Live Earth event in D.C. today… Well, somewhat less than that. Guessing whether it was 100 times less, or merely 50 times less, that’s just part of the fun.
Here’s what look like empty seats at the marquee event in New York.
And drastically fewer people showed up than anticipated in Rio.
What does it say about you dilettantes that 140,000 people showed up at a NASCAR race in Daytona to watch carbon spewing automobiles race around an oval track while a less than impressive 52,00 showed up at Giants stadium to watch rocker Bon Jovi (local boy) and that paragon of restraint and virtue Kanye West?
Why, I’ll be you didn’t even sign the pledge. What pledge, you ask? Why, the Live Earth Pledge, naturally:
I PLEDGE:
1.To demand that my country join an international treaty within the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth;
You see what I mean about horses, right? Cutting 90% of our greenhouse gas emissions would take us back to the turn of the century. That’s the turn of the 20th century!. But hey! Who’s counting centuries with “earth in the balance?” And don’t forget to pledge this part extra hard:
2.To take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by reducing my own CO2 pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become “carbon neutral;”
No burping. No farting. And forget about barbecuing the next 4th of July. Gas, electric, or briquette, it doesn’t matter. They all contribute to your massive carbon footprint on this planet.
And no burning wood either. Don’t you know how long the Earth Goddess has to work to grow a tree? What’s the matter with you? If you get cold during the winter, might I suggest burning a few unnecessary books? For a list of accepted and appropriate titles to burn, go here. Of course, there’s always “snuggling.” But keep your hands to yourself! No monkey business under your recycled cotton blanket. You know how Mother Earth feels about kids – the fewer the better. Unless they’re white. But all you brown and yellow people out there CUT IT OUT, WILLYA! You’re spoiling the planet for the rest of us by having oodles of kids. Take a cold shower once and a while, huh?
But I see where all those big music stars and even Al Gore failed to get through to you. It’s not their fault. They did their best. IT’S YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE FAULT! YOU JUST DON’T CARE ENOUGH TO BE A TRUE CLIMATE WARRIOR!
So be it. For penance, when the next one of these “Live (fill in the blank)” concerts takes place. I condemn you to sit in front of your computer or TV and watch the whole thing from beginning to end. Even if Madonna shows up. Even if the Beastie Boys are, well, Beastly. That will teach you the proper way to practice social activism; sitting on your butt listening to the bones creaking from ancient musical acts.
AND DON’T GET ANY IDEAS THIS IS OVER. IT’S NOT. NOTHING IS OVER UNTIL WE SAY IT IS. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? AND IT’S NOT OVER NOW!
So make sure you sign the pledge. It may be an inconvenient truth, but there you have it.
AND I DON’T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN ON YOU LIKE THIS AGAIN. GET GREEN!
9:17 am
That picture of Al Gore with the empty seats (and arm gesture) is priceless.
9:52 am
[...] SHAME ON YOU! [...]
10:28 am
10 years from now…..
Daddy, who is Al Gore?
Sweetheart, he is the one who invented the Internet and Global Warming.
Daddy, What’s Global Warming? It was a scheme by a failed politictian to insert himself into global political stage by predicting the rapid end of the Earth unless HE were able to collect a TAX on all the different forms of energy we use.
Daddy, Whatever happened to him?
The supreme court ruled that his brand of “environmentalism” had become a fanatical religion and paradoxically, because of the precedence set by the ACLU in the early part of the century, his “religious speech” was prohibited in government buildings and in the public square just like any other form of prayer or mention od God. Eventually Al Gore and his followers came to believe that the only way to save Mother Earth was for their to be a massive reduction in the number of humans on the planet so they all committed suicide and we lived happily ever after.
Daddy, did that solve Global Warming?
It turns out that the warming was not caused by CO2 or Greenhouse gasses after all. The Warming was caused by solar activity and actually caused a rise in the levels of greenhouse gas. So you see honey, there is no threat from “Global Warming” a few misguided people just misunderstood the cause of our planet’s natural warming cycle.
Daddy, Are they ever going to repeal the “Carbon Tax” that we pay on all forms of energy we use?
Don’t be silly darling….
10:37 am
Well, I feel chastized. Now how do we get the earth goddess to stop starting all those silly fires out west, releasing massive amounts of CO2? Someone has to take responsibility for lightning strikes. And volcanoes. And cyclic perturbations in solar energy output. I’ve already changed my lightbulbs—but it just keeps getting hotter the further we get into summer. -cp
11:14 am
Oh Rick. You and your infinite douchebaggery …
You got those tree-huggers this time. Their big concert failed (maybe according to selected accounts), and you know what that means … global warming is a farce. See it can’t be true if people didn’t show up, no matter what those pesky scientists say.
Now I get how scientific concensus it reached:
If 100,000 or so mouth-breathers want to sit and watch fast cars go vroom-vroom in a circle, global warming doesn’t exist.
If 30,000 or so effette NoVa yuppies want to watch Tiger swing a stick at a ball, global warming doesn’t exist.
Thanks for the commentary. Things are so much clearer now.
11:21 am
Unlike you, Al Gore, and the rest of the anti-science bigots who keep insisting “case closed,” real scientists struggle to find the facts.
And as far as my “believing” (what does believing have to do with science unless you see global warming as a religious cult?) global warming, well read this and then tell me what I “believe”:
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/05/27/who-do-you-believe-on-global-warming/
You’re so simple minded you can’t grasp the complexity of the issue much less the debate. Go away and let the adults play for a while, ‘kay?
11:22 am
I have been holding back too long on my commitment to ending global warming. Using my trusty Wikipedia, I learned that water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas culprit, emitting from 36% to 70% of all greenhouse gases, the variance being whether you add gases together or look at their individual effects.
Friends, I want to run for office, so here is my idea from the greening of Mother Earth. DRAIN THE DAMN OCEANS! Evaporation from the oceans causes the most water vapor, ergo greenhouses gases, by far, making dear Gaia suffer immeasureably.
I invite all who care to help me with a few kinks to be worked out yet (not quite sure where to drain the oceans to), but together we can defeat global warming
! DRAIN THE OCEANS, SAVE THE PLANET
p.s. another small kink is how we save the whales while saving the planet with my plan. But I’m sure some Wiccan, neo-feminist, post-modern jihadist marine biologist can help me out.
11:29 am
Heh. I love it when I write a post that brings out the snark in my readers!
11:37 am
[...] Rick Moran sarcastically screams, “ALL OF YOU SHOULD BE ROYALLY ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!” [...]
11:38 am
Wow Rick, you sure told them!
The way you completely misrepresent other people’s views in order to discredit them? Brilliant!
The way you mock others who work unselfishly to make our world healthier? Genius!
Rick, you haughty little pissant. You are an intellectual pin worm who wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked you in the face with a 12 inch dildo (though I suspect you’d enjoy that).
Maybe you can mock those abolitionists next… don’t they know that slavery is natural and will never end? Besides, I heard that abolitionists wear clothes that contain cotton picked by slaves! This obviously means that their whole cause is a ruse! What jackasses!
Of course, it is you who are the jackass, a stupendous one at that.
11:42 am
Exaggerating someone’s position to make fun of it is called “satire” by us grownups.
Now, make sure you clean your room and make your bed before you go out to play, ‘kay hon?
11:55 am
Rick, assuming you were talking to me:
I never said “case closed” or anything near it. That said, I did, however, infer (not even state) that the balance of scientific opinion weighs against you. Fact, not fiction.
Regarding the term “believe”, where do you find the word in my post, and what is your fascination with quotes? Regarding the relationship between “belief” and religeon, you are totally off base: belief is simply defined as (1) trust or confidence; (2) a conviction or opinion (thanks American Heritage!). For example, It is my “belief” that the sun will rise in the east. Thus I “believe” many scientific concepts (albeit with various degrees of certainty).
The point of my snark (and believe me you didn’t inspire it; i was born this way for better or worse) was that the attendence at the various venues has nothing to do with the rightness or wrongness of the concept. My snark was directed at your snark which attempts to debunk the concept of global warming based on whether it is more or less popular than NASCAR, Tiger Woods, or the cult of Princess Diana.
Nice try. I will now go back to the kids table, and you can go back to your navel gazing.
11:56 am
sure rick…and mis-representing someones position…like when you talk about abandoning all industrial production…is called lying. but that’s what you “grown-ups” usually do when you really have no other valid argument. and really rick, if you have to lie to support your position…how strong is that position?
12:32 pm
Salt:
What’s the point if you’re not going to read the link I provided that lays out exactly what I think of global warming – which is a lot closer to your position than you give me credit for.
I have no problem with scientific inquiry into changes in climate and atmosphere. But for Al Gore and the Luddites who slavishly follow him to tell me that I’m some kind of Nazi because I don’t close my mind to the possibilities being explored by other, reputable scientists, then they can kiss my ass and screw themselves. THEY are the purveyors of anti-science, not me.
Jay – you have no problem laughing at Colbert or Stewart when they wildly misrepresent conservative positions. It’s a little different when its one of your oxes being “gored” isn’t it? And if you don’t believe there are anti-industrialists out there who wish to see the human race reduced to a “sustainable” level of 800 million with no factories save those that were in existence in the 15th century, then I suggest you read up on some of the company you’re running with as far as global warming absolutists are concerned.
1:32 pm
rick…in general stewart and colbert are doing what you attempted…satire…you either don’t get the concept…or you just aren’t very good at it. but i do appreciate your confidence in comparing yourself to them…it’s like when george bush compares himself to george washington…silly, but cute in a precocious sort of way. the truth is that most of us who are genuinely concerned about the environment see opportunity in advancing science, and ultimately industrial processes, to the point where we can produce whatever we want at pollution levels equal to those in the past. unfortunately there are people like you, and others who have posted above, who seem to be frightened by change. but it’s ok…history is rife with examples of the masses taking a long time to come around to what we now see as common sense advances.
3:11 pm
What the left-wing trolls here just don’t seem to get is that many people are in favor of conservation, protecting the environment and reducing or eliminating our reliance on foreign energy sources. However, we aren’t buying Al Gore’s apocalyptic message of doom and gloom, and we aren’t in favor of crippling our economy.
I see the same little trolls, ME, and jay k., all over the blogosphere whining and complaining. The problem is, they don’t understand the argument and their beliefs have no basis in reality. Why is it significant that the numbers were low for Live Earth? It shows that people aren’t buying the doom and gloom message of Al Gore and his followers, and that pisses them off. See, if you don’t buy into their doom and gloom scenario, then you obviously do not care about the environment and, therefore, must be some right-wing fanatic. What they can’t handle is the fact that people know the debate isn’t settled. In fact, we know that as more evidence comes out, it shows that Al Gore doesn’t really know what he’s talking about.
Rick, when you’re dealing with people that have the maturity level of pre-schoolers, you know you’re never going to “win” a debate, because they’re usually too ignorant to know what they’re talking about. The more the truth gets out, the more irrational and immature they get.
Just keep shining a light on the truth and eventually they’ll scamper off, as all cockroaches do…
3:15 pm
“...that the Earth Goddess will be angry at us and punish us by cancelling the Winter Olympics in 2050? ”
Huh? Should we instead believe that the “real” God is going to send us hurricanes because we allow homosexuals to live among us? The “right” is the side really caught up in supernatural mythology.
3:29 pm
“...we aren’t in favor of crippling our economy…”
so everyone is just supposed to buy your doom and gloom predictions no matter how unfounded…typical.
try this todd…a lot of us see this for what it is…an issue that some have decide to use as a wedge issue…very similar to immigration…yes it’s a problem we need to deal with, but it’s not a full on crisis. the problem is that unless folks like you are hit over the head nothing gets done. take for instance the multitude of warnings about terrorism on our soil before 9.11. it took an actual event to wake so-called republicans up to the threat. now the same so-called republicans claim to be the only ones who get it. so if anything is to get done about the environment (besides so-called republicans gutting and reversing the progress of the clean air act and the clean water act and on and on) it takes people like al gore sounding the alarm loud and from the roof-tops. maybe it’s over the top, maybe not…but at least it’s getting reaction. we’ve already seen that folks like you would just as soon sit around and wait until it’s too late.
3:52 pm
What about an “eco tax” on gasoline, let me suggest half a Dollar per gallon, and using this tax money for establishing better public transportation everywhere in the USA: trains, subways, tramways, bus connections, bike ways …
It would save you a lot of oil, make the USA more independent in the MidEast theater, and in a side-effect it would be ecological as well.
I know, the whole thing would amount to a revolution: a real change in the US way of life.
But look at Europe, at Munich f.e., my home. My American students all enjoy our excellent public transportation system, and also the bike ways, in general the easiness with which you can move without a car.
And the eco tax would not really cost you so much. The reduction in oil demand would lower the price of gas, too …
Is such policy “Luddism”?
4:18 pm
KC:
I could care less about God or Gaia. I’m an atheist.
Now don’t you just feel all silly and stupid inside?
4:24 pm
Forget it, Todd. Don’t you know that JayK is our moral superior? That we should be down on our knees THANKING GOD (or Gaia) that people like he exist to protect the planet from stupid, mouthbreathing, inbred yahoos like you and me?
Don’t stop him when he’s on a self-righteous roll. He refuses to read anything else on this site that would contradict his demonization of my views. You see, that would destroy his nice, neat little narrative with him the enviro-hero and you and I as eco-Hitlers.
Don’t respond to him anymore. Let him troll on…
4:26 pm
And by the way, Jay – I laugh harder every time I read this. Your lack of a sense of humor is not surprising one bit. I find the left generally to be the most humorless bunch of self absorbed nincompoops on the planet.
4:31 pm
“Oxes being gored”! You’re my hero, Rick.
6:55 pm
Rightwing Nuthouse.
The Right is really becoming a nut house.
Wrong in Iraq, wrong in the environment they are now the drag that the Republican Party has to carry to the next election debacle in 08.
The 27-30 percent minority that the Right represents was enough in the past to give them….... NOTHING. They had a place in the political wilderness. After an accident in history that combined “chads” and Ralph Nader to give them power with 9-11 fear to keep them in power they actually believed that there views were correct and even main stream
Iraq gives you a 27% approval rating…. That would be you voting for yourselves. And in the environment is about the same percentage. Since we are in a Democracy I guess we Americans are politely trying to tell you to go back to the hole you came from, and please stay there until you can find some common sense and re-join the human race.
7:00 pm
Global warming is not a right/left issue. It is a matter of science.
But you have proven that the science doesn’t matter as long as you can bash Republicans with the issue. That makes you as dangerously ignorant as anyone I can imagine on the right – perhaps more so.
8:07 pm
Rick
Please do look at the science…..
And please look at who supports the science for Global Warming, and the “science” against global warming.
Science is apolitical. But if that’s the case way has the Bush Administration for years now done everithing within their power to discredit every scientist warning of Global Warming?
..... Are they dangerously ignorant?
Me, I am not dangerous. I am just trying to put the facts as I see them.
8:11 pm
Hi Rick.
As you said in your piece “What I Believe about Global Warming,” despite the scientific consensus that human activity is raising the temperature of the planet there is still much uncertainty about the issue. Why don’t we err on the side of caution—traditionally a conservative approach—and act as if the dire warnings were correct?
Perhaps this will cause some economic pain (although many European countries have reduced their GHG emissions without damaging their standards of living at all). But what if we look at any such cost as similar to an insurance premium? The chance of one’s house burning down is slim but no one uses this to claim that fire insurance isn’t important.
I suspect you’ll say that the costs of reducing GHG pollution are greater relative to the economy than insurance premiums are to our personal incomes, but some quick math show this isn’t the case. Let’s say I make $30K/year and my insurance costs $300/year. That means I’m paying 1 percent of my income to cover this risk. One percent of our current GDP ($13 trillion, conservatively) is $130 billion. You quoted $1.2 trillion over 10 years as a worst case scenario combat GHG’s, or $120 billion per year. Paying to clean up GHG’s would cost us no more as a country than fire insurance costs us a family!
Maybe the planet won’t ‘burn,’ but if it turns out it does, I think we’ll all regret we didn’t buy the insurance that was available to mitigate the damage. And perhaps life insurance is a more accurate analogy because the risk of global warming will effect our children and grandchildren much more than it effects us. We all need to start acting on behalf of their futures.
Just in case.
12:17 am
Whatever, Jay. Keep on believing your doom and gloom scenarios and worshipping at the altar of Al Gore. The same man that uses 10 times the amount of energy as the average person and flies around in private jets. Keep on listening to Madonna who has stock in some of the worst polluting companies in the world. Yeah, keep listening to them because, after all, they “care about the environment.”
Sorry that so many of us don’t buy your BS…
7:03 am
Global warming is not a right/left but an issue of science. At first.
But our ANSWERS to this issue are political: how to interpret the scientifical findings, and what to do in response – individually, societally, and governmentally?
Now, if there were only a 25% plausibility that we are up to ruin our ecosphere by polluting and abusing it – these 25% should be enough to make it wise for us to change our life-style radically. (I suppose the plausibility of the Gore warnings can claim a higher percentage than that. I give it 50%.)
Anyway, nothing can grow eternally, so from this intuition, too, we ought to think of ways how we could do without growth, how we could learn to live with some shrinking.
Some “Luddism” may become a sound counter-principle to our contemporary progress & growth addiction, to our one-sidedly Capitalist structures.
I mean balance, not just “Luddism” as a prevailing strategy. And “Luddism” here is only a provocative and misleading metaphor for what we ought to do to shrink our consumerism.
7:45 am
Rick-
Your right-wing rantings don’t change the fact that there has not been a discovery of a major new oil reserve in the last five years.
The experts disagree on the when of peak oil, whether it is now, 2 years from now, or 5-10, but peak oil is coming and if we don’t implement policies to reduce our dependencies on oil we will be a second or third rate world power.
12:18 pm
Al Gore needs to shut up.
1:13 pm
I don’t understand a couple of things. One, why do people get so exciting about defending pollution and pollutants? Saying we can’t do too much too quickly is one thing, so as not to destroy the economy. Saying that it’s nonsense and we should do nothing is just dumb.
Cuz the reality is, there are a lot more scientists who say it is happening than who suggest a it isn’t. A LOT more. If the ones who say it isn’t happening are right, what…we have cleaner air to breathe? Oh no! Of course if the majority is right and we listen to you….total disaster. Total freaking disaster.
This is such a no brainer decision for me.
Second, the snarky comment about a Goddess was cute but are you really implying that your magical and invisible Ghost in the sky that has His followers wear funny robes, eat the flesh of the Ghost’s son and drink His blood…is somehow more impressive than a magical and invisible female Ghost who has Her people worship the wind and sky?
Okie dokie then.
Sorry but I don’t get it.
1:41 pm
You people really don’t do nuance very well, do you.
Look – and for the last fricking time. Here is the sum total of “a lot more scientists who say it is happening than who suggest a it isn’t” means:
“It” = the planet is getting warmer and an unknown percentage of that is because of human industrial activity.
That’s it. Anybody who says that there is agreement or consensus or rock solid dead certainty about anything else as it relates to global warming is talking through their ass. CO2 levels now, CO2 levels 100 years from now, what the temp will be 100 years from now, or 50 years, or 10 years, or anything else – NOBODY KNOWS!
Now, my purpose in making fun of SOME people who “believe” in global warming as if it were some kind of religion and that if you don’t “believe” in every dire prediction and gloom and doom scenario that you are a climate Nazi or worse, is simple; there are many who wish to use global warming to stick it to the United States and the west as well as impose their own belief system regarding “sustainable life” on the rest of us.
Al Gore is a tool of these forces. He’s too dumb to control them and perhaps he’s dimly aware of their dual agendas. But until science can demonstrate that 1) we can actually do something about global warming or 2) that there is a genuine threat to our civilization, I will forgo the pleasure of giving up approximately 12 trillion dollars in economic activity over the next 25 years in order to achieve the 90% reduction in emissions called for at Live Earth (See pledge above). If we are going to go back to the turn of the 20th century, we need a helluva lot more compelling evidence – not to mention the cooperation of China and India who are both bigger polluters than the US - before we impoverish the American people.
But as you can see from the comments above, if you don’t buy in to the entire program, you’re a goober chewing yahoo. At least that kind of ignorance is relatively harmless. THe kind of ignorance on display above from the hysterics is a lot more dangerous.
3:08 pm
Amen. How are we supposed to take an issue like global warming seriously when the chosen spokespersons to deliver the message are a bunch of pampered pop stars? I mean, if terrorism were really a serious threat, the Republicans would have chosen an articulate speaker to clarify matters. Because the messengers are idiots, we can easily dismiss the twin threats of global warming and terrorism as specious issues advanced only for partisan gain.
1:04 pm
>Rick Moran Said:
>1:41 pmÂ
>You people really don’t do nuance very well, do you.
I agree. There have been many un-nuanced arguments posted above including: “global warming doesn’t exist,” “Al Gore et. al. are goofs so global warming doesn’t exist,” “unless we have 100% certainty, we should do nothing about global warming,” “reducing our pollution will impoverish us,” and “there are many who wish to use global warming to stick it to the United States and the west as well as impose their own belief system regarding “sustainable life†on the rest of us.”
I find this last one particularly interesting given that 1) to date it is western governments (with the exception of the U.S.) that have taken the lead on fighting global warming, and 2) any child can see that sustainability is not a “belief system” or “lifestyle.”
Sustainability is the principle that, in any finite system, taking resources from that system without replenishing them will lead to the system’s collapse.
THE PLANET IS A FINITE SYSTEM! It is not like the economy. Economies are not finite or zero-sum. They grow. Increased economic activity increases wealth AND the opportunity for even more activity. Sadly, the almighty market meets its match at the planetary scale. Or even sooner.
History is littered with civilizations that collapsed because they didn’t respect their finite resources. The ancient Maya burned so much of their forest (to produce lime for the construction of their cities) that their rivers clogged with silt and their irrigation dependent agriculture collapsed. Likewise, the Easter Islanders deforested their island (to aid construction of their spooky giant-head totems) and their agriculture collapsed.
Our predicament is not so clear cut (pardon the pun). Air pollution from our civilization threatens to change weather patterns, with consequences for world water supplies, coastal real estate, extreme weather events, species extinction and, of course, agriculture.
Luckily, we’re much better equipped than past civilizations to deal with this. We’ve got incredible scientific insight into these mechanisms and risks, and incredible technology to deal with the problem.
I’m not calling anyone a “yahoo” or any other epithet, nor do I wish to attack anyone’s sincerity, or intelligence, or right to their own opinion. I think it’s really sad how quickly this and other debates in our country descend into such attacks. For me, it shows how poorly educated in clear thought and constructive argument we’ve become as a society. How intolerant we’ve become for views other than our own. For my part, I’m just trying to throw facts into the debate, as clearly and respectfully as I can.
And about certainty… If over 90% of Wall Street analysts said there was a 90% chance that such and such a stock was about to tank, would you invest in it?