OtherComments Off on Ahmadinejad’s Newest Apocalyptic Vision
Jun032008
I guess our only hope is for Barack Obama to hurry over to Iran to sit down and talk with this nut job. I’m sure he’ll be able to say something to him that will cause Ahmadinejad to have an epiphany and suddenly come to love all Jews. Heck, with his messianic ways, Obama might even be able to get Ahmadinejad to convert to Judaism.
Seriously, at what point do threats from Ahmadinejad warrant a response?
There are only so many options:
1. We do nothing and hope Iran doesn’t develop a nuclear weapon that wipes Israel off the map.
2. We try diplomacy, which is nothing more than negotiation with a lunatic, or
3. We send a message, like Ronald Reagan did with Gaddafi in Libya, by sending a couple of punk-seeking missiles into the Presidential palace.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims would uproot “satanic powers” and repeated his controversial belief that Israel will soon disappear, the Mehr news agency reported.
“I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene,” he said.
“Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.”
Since taking the presidency in August 2005, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly provoked international outrage by predicting Israel is doomed to disappear.
“I tell you that with the unity and awareness of all the Islamic countries all the satanic powers will soon be destroyed,” he said to a group of foreign visitors ahead of the 19th anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ahmadinejad also again expressed his apocalyptic vision that tyranny in the world be abolished by the return to earth of the Mahdi, the 12th imam of Shiite Islam, alongside great religious figures including Jesus Christ.
“With the appearance of the promised saviour… and his companions such as Jesus Christ, tyranny will be soon be eradicated in the world.”
Ahmadinejad has always been a devotee of the Mahdi, who Shiites believe disappeared more than a thousand years ago and who will return one day to usher in a new era of peace and harmony.
His emphasis on the Mahdi has been a cause of controversy inside Iran with critics saying he would be better solving bread-and-butter domestic problems rather than talking about Iran’s divine responsibility.
If you are sick and tired of being told that you should feel guilty for harming the Earth just by your very existence on the planet, then June 12 may offer a chance for a beneficial carbon belch.
Carbon Belch Day is a brilliant idea because it sends a message of ridicule to a bunch of environmental con artists who are determined to accumulate power and money from their dirty little scam. This is the perfect response.
In my opinion, Global Warming is nothing more than a disguised liberal plot to advance their politics and it is simply a masked and camouflaged way to get liberals to where they want to be: in power over as many aspects of your life as possible.
Thousands of Americans are pledging to fire up their charcoal barbecue grills, bask in the infinite glow of numerous incandescent light bulbs, shun recycling of any kind and take spontaneous road trips in gas-guzzling vehicles to increase their personal carbon output – all in protest of the Senate debate over a bill calling for a “cap-and-trade” system.
Grassfire, one of the nation’s fastest-growing grassroots organizations, has declared June 12 Carbon Belch Day and is enlisting citizens to expel more than 100 million pounds of CO2 to combat climate alarmist propaganda and to take a stand against a “$1.2 trillion carbon tax.”
“We wanted to point out the absurdity of the climate alarmism of Al Gore and others who want to make us feel bad for just about everything we do and rally people for the battle over the carbon tax which is now underway in the Senate,” Grassfire president Steve Elliott told WND. “We really plan to engage lots of citizens who have been under carbon-footprint guilt for far too long and give citizens an opportunity to make a statement that we reject climate alarmism. We’re not going to stand for this carbon tax.”
The Lieberman-Warner bill, named after sponsors Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Sen. John Warner, R-Va., calls for imposed limits on U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions beginning in 2012. President Bush opposed the bill, saying it could create as much as $6 trillion in new costs on the American economy, though he has not threatened to veto it.
Elliott said, “We wanted to time Carbon Belch Day around the debate of that bill so we could rally people and have a platform to talk about this issue.”
Grassfire provides a “Carbon Belch Calculator” with a checklist of activities citizens can take part in to celebrate their independence from climate alarmist-imposed blame. Suggestions include the following:
Super-cool your house (turn A/C down 5 degrees)
Don’t recycle glass/plastic/aluminum/newspapers for one day
Take a plane trip
Eat meat with at least two meals (steak dinner a bonus)
Mow your lawn with gas-powered mower
Leave two light bulbs on for entire day
Hang/light one string of Christmas lights
Host a barbecue with lots of friends – charcoal (11lbs/hr) or gas (5.6lbs/hr)
Drink beer
Watch television
Light a campfire
Do partial load of laundry
Take an 8-minute shower
Leave computer on 24 hours
Drink bottled water
Elliott said Grassfire took research that climate alarmists put together to create the calculator. The organization has already surpassed its goal with 108,566,729 pounds of carbon emission commitments, and Elliott is planning for an even larger response.
“It shows that there are many tens of thousands of citizens who don’t accept climate alarmism and who are not going to sit by quietly as Congress imposes another tax on the American people,” he said. “We just want to see this continue to grow as we rally people in opposition to what the climate alarmists are doing.”
Grassfire cites Britain’s Environmental Audit Committee plan to implement a card system and require citizens to punch in when they pay for gas, plane tickets or household energy as reason for concern in the U.S. The organization warns, “Don’t think for a minute that ‘carbon ration cards’ won’t find their way to the Democratic-controlled Congress, especially when all the presidential candidates are pushing climate alarmism.”
Elliot said Americans should break free of carbon footprint guilt and refuse to go along with “a huge government program with a huge government tax.”
He encourages concerned citizens to sign a pledge stating, “I will do my best to increase my CO2 output and unleash a Carbon Belch on the planet. I do this with no fear or concern that I am destroying the planet. In fact, I think a good Carbon Belch can be healthy now and again.”
Internet forums were ablaze with reactions to the Carbon Belch Day announcement. The following are responses to Grassfire’s proposal:
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll see how many things I can leave on at home that day while I take the old jalopy for a long, aimless ride.
Very mature everyone. Let’s waste resources and pollute just to prove how immature and proud of our ignorance we are. Way to fit the stereotype of the dumb, arrogant, wasteful American. Fortunately, as you all get older won’t have to put up with your 19th century ignorance. I just hope that you North Shore Nancies etc. don’t screw up the world much more before we are rid of you.
Why not just have a barbecue in the middle of the week and have some old-fashioned fun? June 12 is a great day for a barbecue. I can smell the meat cooking, and PETA getting HOT over this, along with the global warming extremist pundits. Those guys have gone too far anyways … let’s get some balance back!
That’s messed up … Thank people like that for record high energy prices and climbing rates of environmental quality related health issues like asthma.
[“Sad” climate alarmists:] I’ll light a candle for you on June 12 (In fact, I’ll light a whole bunch of candles for you).
