3 Million Homes 'Should Be Demolished' To Cut Global Warming

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-30-2005 | Charles Clover

[FairOpinion]

This is insane. Even if they believe in global warming, instead of recommending that people plant a few more thousands of trees, they want to destroy houses.

I think these people will only be happy, if they are giver permission to eradicate humanity from the earth alltogether, and give it back to "nature".

[Rocky]

The sun is setting. Small men are casting large shadows.

[Bernard Marx]

The Naming Of Cats

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,

It isn't just one of your holiday games;

You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter

When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.

First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,

Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,

Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--

All of them sensible everyday names.

There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,

Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:

Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--

But all of them sensible everyday names.

But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,

A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,

Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,

Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?

Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,

Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,

Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-

Names that never belong to more than one cat.

But above and beyond there's still one name left over,

And that is the name that you never will guess;

The name that no human research can discover--

But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.

When you notice a cat in profound meditation,

The reason, I tell you, is always the same:

His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation

Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:

His ineffable effable

Effanineffable

Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

Thomas Stearns Eliot

[cajungirl]

Thanks for the Elliot post,,I love that poem and I loved it in Cats.

[Bernard Marx]

Yes, "Cats" was a great show that displayed the human and fun-loving side of the author of "The Wasteland," etc. I thought of this one when you mentioned your cat's name. Besides, it occurred to me that Eliot -- an American conservative who preferred to live in Britain -- would be astounded at how far and how rapidly England has veered to the anti-human Left.

This is a very depressing thread that makes me wonder just how much of such madness humans will endure before they wake up to reality. It needed a light moment.