CLEAN COAL

i thought liberals all saw 'an inconvenient truth' and listened to al gore, who noted that clean coal is like a healthy cigarette??!?!? how quickly the memory/critical thinking errodes!

more unparliamentary language

Green Party TD Paul Gogarty tells Labour TD Eamon Stagg "Fuck you Deputy Stagg, Fuck you" during Dail Eireann debate on the social welfare cuts contained in Budget 2010.        

SO funny:

SO funny:

The European Union President, Herman van Rumpoy, has been called a "damp rag" with the "appearance of a low-grade bank clerk" by a British MEP. 

Funny Commentary

From a conversation with a friend:

This is good that you aren't bogged down by technical and practical things......you aren't focused on how to make the resource distribution most effective alla Eichmann, but rather on the suffering underlying and in criticizing the methodology that determines what's 'effective.'

Thats what practical/technical degrees such as business are about: how to 'effectively' operate the machinery (of exploitation and suffering).

The Truth Deficit

Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals:

“As its power increases, a community ceases to take the individual’s transgressions so seriously, because they can no longer be considered as dangerous and destructive to the whole as they were formerly: the malefactor is no longer ’set beyond the pale of peace’ and thrust out; universal anger may not be vented upon him as unrestrainedly as before — on the contrary, the whole from now on carefully defends the malefactor against this anger, especially that of those he has directly harmed, and takes him under its protection. A compromise with the anger of those directly injured by the criminal; an effort to localize the affair and to prevent it from causing any further, let alone a general, disturbance; attempts to discover equivalents and to settle the whole matter (compositio); above all, the increasingly definite will to treat every crime as in some sense dischargeable, and thus at least to a certain extent to isolate the criminal and his deed from one another — these traits become more and more clearly visible as the penal law evolves. As the power and self-confidence of the community increase, the penal law always becomes more moderate; every weakening or imperiling of the former brings with it a restoration of the harsher forms of the latter. The ‘creditor’ always becomes more humane to the extent that he has grown richer; finally, how much injury can he endure without suffering from it becomes the actual measure of his wealth. It is not unthinkable that a society might attain such a consciousness of power that it could allow itself the noblest luxury possible to it — letting those who harm it go unpunished. ‘What are my parasites to me?’ it might say. ‘May they live and prosper: I am strong enough for that!’