Disconnected from Reality

So I should be looking at homes in Colorado or other high mountainous areas?I think I will go with a tropical mountain in Columbia so I can drink coffee, smoke “cigarettes” and watch the Apocalypse unfold.

Bloody yanks!Hey, Bob, I know you’re a fan of Ricky – I’m wondering if you seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO-8S57Rxmc It aired over here last night.

My regards to her Majesty, James.

Ha, I’m actually Irish — we get the same TV feeds as the UK — so don’t hold British colonialism against me, please: we, too, have been victims. At the moment, however, the less said about that the better (angry men in balaclavas may be listening).

I know how to tread water. Fuck all the rest of you drowning motherfuckers.

@ GItheWhatever- Dude come chill in Colorado. I’m pretty sure there’s a bunch of GDAB’ers out here. Plus we have great “cigarettes.”>>>We’re a smart people!Yay! Thanks Republicans for yer War on Science! It’s fun because people can choose not believe in thorough, peer-reviewed research because they don’t want to believe it!Fun climate change tidbit: the Greenhouse Effect was discovered in the 19th century by a scientist studying glaciers. By the time he finally published, he’d had to revise his estimate of the time it would take for it to be a problem from millennia to centuries. And that was before, y’know…cars.

Bob, there you go again, with your “science” and such as.Also.James – where are you in Ireland?

Just 40 percent?!?!well, it’s not for a lack of trying on the part of the anti-climate propagandists..

Packy: Wexford. Where you at, holmes?

I’m in Alaska, but was just over visiting my sis, who lives in Longford. You’re one of the “Boys of Wexford,” eh?I didn’t make it down there this year. Next time.Ireland’s economy is suffering just like everywhere else, but the Gov’t ther doesn’t seem to know what to do about it. They don’t have the borrowing power the US has.

Packy, I wouldn’t say that I am: I don’t exactly identify with all that nationalistic bullshit (I’m on this blog, after all!)As for our government’s handling of the crisis: you’re pretty much spot on.We, basically, have a leadership that was as complicit, philosophically, as the Bush administration in all of this: buying over-the-odds into the property boom, little to no market regulation, etc., etc. Nevertheless, recently, they’ve gone about cutting social spending in a big way — reducing health-care, welfare, wages in the pubic sector, with as much shame as career criminals.On the bright side, the general public seems to be growing in genuine knowledge, and the need to do something to bring about accountancy and change is as big as I’ve ever felt it here before. A general strike is likely within the month.