Chock full of global warming nuts

Who's nuttier? "Laurie David" Suzuki, 71, for berating a gymnasium full of grade 6 students in Calgary or former Liberal defence minister Paul Hellyer, 83, for suggesting he believes advanced technology from extraterrestrial civilizations offers the best hope to "save our planet" from the perils of climate change.

Suzuki's organization should be audited immediately as a political party, it's not a charitable group. The Martin Liberals had the CRA investigate the Catholic Bishop Conference when they criticized Liberal policy and hypocrisy, why not tax the mouthy millionaire hypocrite Suzuki?

"The only thing (Harper) cares about is getting re-elected with a majority government," ranted Suzuki to the 11 year olds in the captive school gym audience. (And this was a group of well meaning kids who were donating $835 to his own cause!) "It's up to your moms and dads to ensure your futures and livelihoods are part of the agenda. I don't believe there is a green bone in Harper's body," continued an angry Suzuki. "(Harper) has never, ever indicated he cares about the environment."

David Suzuki has an enormous home with huge windows overlooking windy Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver. He has at least one other home as well. To say he's over housed is an understatement. He drives coast to coast to coast in vehicles that make SUVs look like a Prius. He's a "carbon copy" of Laurie David, Al Gore and other unctuous 'celebrity expert enviro-hypocrites' who just won't shut up and who never walk the walk.

Winnipeg Sun columnist Tom Brodbeck broke the story last week, pointing out Suzuki is travelling across Canada lecturing us peons on how to emit less greenhouse gases, even as he rides in spacious luxury in a diesel-spewing rock star tour bus that is large enough to ordinarily seat up to 54 people, but is only transporting eight at any one time including the chauffeur. And now he's coming back to Ottawa again for another Love-In with the "editorial board" of the Ottawa Citizen, which is now more akin to a shoddy NDP high school newspaper, having long ago abandoned any pretense of journalistic objectivity in favour out outright cheerleading for Suzuki and his unqualified hypocrites of his ilk like Gore, Stern, David et al.

Yes the UF-ologist Hellyer can be seen at UFO conventions for "World Peace" http://www.exopoliticsinstitute.org/Conference-Photos.html but if he does ask E.T. about how he gets that litle bicycle to fly and gets an answer, I'll bet the little two wheeler is a lot cleaner than Suzuki's 54 seat rock star bus, either of his mansions, his V8 gasoline powered limousines or his big dirty frequent-flyer jet airplanes.

In this battle of the Timothy Leary nut bars I can at least picture Paul Hellyer trying to ride a unicycle at Pali Gap with lei around his neck. Suzuki? He'll be sitting up front on the jet, typing away on his laptop and dreaming of the next gig on his rock star tour...later flying home Business Class to stretch out and enjoy the beach view at his Gore-like palace, or warming his hands by the fire at Rideau Hall with Gourd Downer of the Practically Hip... "When does it snow in Ottawa?" indeed!

He's better than you, you know. Laurie David, Suzuki, Nick Stern, they're all better than you. Jet-setting millionaire (multi) mansion-dwelling finger wagging hypocrites. They're ALL better than you. Or so they keep saying. Just look what they can get away with!

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A spokesperson with the CRA (Revenue Canada) said yesterday, if someone complains about Suzuki's partisan rants by calling 1-800-267-2384, it will be investigated and "taken seriously". I'm calling, are you?

King of the hypocrites

Al Gore's massive 10,000 square foot Tennessee mansion uses more than 20 times the national average in energy.

Utility records show his average monthly electricity bill was over $1,200 US.

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh ­more than 20 times the national average.

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh­guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

Since the release of his movie An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for his mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.

Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.

Now, don't you finally agree he is better than you? I nominate him for the Laurie David Suzuki award in Outstanding Hypocrisy.

Popping a Rivet

So Methuselah Gainey finally pulled the pin, and ever conservative, it was, on the surface, nothing to write home about. Could the move possibly bode well for the Habitants a year or two from now though? Or even in the immediate future?

By jettisoning the longest-serving Canadien, assistant captain Craig Rivet of North Bay (Saku Koivu's roommate), Bob is not only retooling the team for the future by ditching an overpaid underachieving temperamental player who had become selfish, taking dumb penalties, fighting with the coach and resisting discipline but Bob and the brain trust have also acquired a very decent young kid. Captain of Kelowna's juniors, an ex Team Canada Silver Medal winning defenceman who is already playing 17-18 minutes a game for the Sharks. With him comes a first round draft pick, showing GM Wilson's desperation perhaps?

I had grown increasingly disappointed if not outright exasperated with Rivet's temper tantrums on the ice, several of which hurt the team. Losing it after what he thought was a questionable penalty call, he drew another (unsportsmanlike or misconduct), putting the team down by two men, usually leading to an 'automatic goal' by the opposition. When told he was sitting out a game recently by Guy Carbonneau, he lost it again, stormed out of the arena, well...just another example of his level of frustration and lack of control. When passion becomes irration(al), it's time for action. It was not a Brashear-Tremblay showdown or Roy-Corey but it was enough.

Rivet had become a very average or below average 32 year old, unable to adapt to the new faster NHL. Now the next guy on the bubble as an overpriced under-achieving player is Matthieu Dandenault, who seems to be treading water and is over his head far too often, eclipsed by even the small Mark Streit as an effective utility player. Where is J-F Cote`, scheduled in October as the sixth defenceman? Injuries to him and Frankie Bouillon didn't hurt the team out of the blocks but it's been telling since Christmas as the vets sagged.

It will take more than the Rivet move to magically transform the Habs into a playoff contender though. With Huet gone (and he was 'gone' as an effective backstopper well before he tore his hamstring), Aebischer back to being a question mark as an effective number two and the 21 year old rookie Halak looking promising but yet to 'walk on the water' in a Dryden or St. Patrick game-robbing team-carrying fashion, things are looking bleak.

If Steve Begin returns in time, if Kovalev suddenly heals and shows some heart...well there are too many 'ifs.' (Both may play against the Leafs tonight, Kovie describing himself as "70%".)

Overpriced, underachieving, emotionally fragile, this year's version of the Canadiens looks headed for the links. True, if they make they playoffs they could surprise someone in the first round with hot goaltending but that's about as far as they could go. No Claude Lemieux dudu-disturber, no Stephane Richer sniper as in '86 and '93, no game-stealing wunderkind goalie (yet)...the Leafs game will either show their mettle or the way to the showers. Who wants it more? That eighth spot should be enough motivation for their best players. The grinders are doing their best. Too often it's the two top lines who have snoozed while the team lost. Contrast their play with that of the Buffalo Sabres: eight regulars out of the lineup and still giving a fine team like Ottawa a rough weekend (they split the games with Buffalo scoring ten goals in spite of their thinned ranks).

If this fade continues down the stretch it will be time to jettison the perpetually disappointing Koivu. He's again suffered long periods of moody ineffectual play, 2 goals in 24 games type of stretches, he's no leader. Watch him next game against Sundin, let's measure him that way.

Your move, Saku. Playoffs or playing through?

(Late note: RDS is claiming Gainey may be stocking up on first round picks with this Rivet trade, as he can now trade a 1st-rounder, keep one and acquire a a second line scorer rental player without really losing anything. The clever old goat may have done himself a goodun here. Who'll he go after?)

Hillary v$ Obama

The latest leading Dems' scat-flinging has produced the news that each plans to attempt to raise $100 million - just to campaign in California!

Bill Clinton raised $3 million when he had his first primary run in that state.

Imagine how much good money like that could do like that for the poor, the homeless, inner cities, health care relief, medical research, global warming...

If an obscene amount like that does not shake everyone out of their torpor then nothing will.

Campaign reform America, yesterday.

As I've written before, if they (the United States) have not learned from the failed presidency of Dubya that fundraising alone is not enough...the States cannot afford another president with steroidal fundraising who just bought the office.

At this critical time it has to be about ideas, a plan, an ideology. They need another Reagan, a Thatcher. Not another Dubya and certainly not a vacuous ambitious liberal like Clinton II or young Obama. Let's hear from people with grand ideas rather than uber-financed airheads.

Suzuki hypocrisy lambasted

FINALLY a few media types have begun saying what this scribe has been bellowing for years: David Suzuki is a ridiculous hypocrite on the environment.

The celebrity expert on global warming (who like most celebrity Chicken Littles is not a climatologist) has come under severe criticism for his Dirty Diesel Bus Tour.

It's instructive that no one even thought to ask whether the coast to coast to coast bus tripping was an effective tool to conduct his propaganda tour let alone whether the massive bus, its tons of equipment and supplies, ten employees (including Suzuki and the driver) was running on bio-diesel or the regular disgusting dirty stuff.

Today we finally have the admission that yes, it is a regular dirty diesel bus, identical to the type used by rock stars and other self-aggrandizing celebrities. They could have used bio-diesel or regular fuel blended with "soybeans or canola" one source said but a Suzuki spokesman said "that would have voided the engine's warranty."

The spokesperson claimed the Suzuki organization would later "purchase high-quality carbon offsets that support renewable energy and energy efficiency projects."

A Winnipeg Sun writer (I could not find their column online and the Glib and Mail typically does not mention the competition by name) said Suzuki "may want to look in his own back yard before lecturing Canadians on how they're destroying the earth" because his bus releases lots of carbon dioxide.

Not to worry. Since he is much better than you, as usual the rules don't apply, he'll just con you into giving him money so he can do the tour in his dirty diesel bus, polluting the atmosphere and releasing GHGs and then buy some 'credits' with your donations later. Ah, life as an untouchable enviro-saviour!

The tour cost over $300,000. No word whether that includes the "forgiveness" Suzuki will be buying with donated monies after the 'wrap.' The Globe quotes a Suzuki spokesman as saying they will be buying $80,000 dollars worth of forgiveness by the way.

Let's see the receipt, your holiness.