Piers’ head is about to explode as he comes to terms with the contents of Ruperts latest memo on climate change.
Interestingly, California filed a suit against six car manufacturers last Wednesday, alleging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars.
Attention-seeking Californian Attorney-General Bill Lockyer wants to hold car-makers liable for the damage caused by their vehicles’ emissions, but he should be suing the Malibu Mafia for blocking efforts to reduce California’s pollution problem.
With the exception of Ronald Reagan, almost every Hollywood star has been dead wrong on every serious political question, from the closet communists of the Cold War to Hanoi Jane Fonda’s appearances with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery. The present battle shows nothing has changed.
Al Gore could have saved a lot of hot air and greenhouse emissions if he had stayed home and lectured his pals on the Left Coast of the US.
If he’s as serious about global warming as he claims, he’ll take his tent show down to Malibu pier and picket the local crowd.
Mel Gibson knows how to get some press in Malibu; maybe he could help.
Hilarious.
Ha. Did you see that cunning move? He called it the ‘left coast.’ Classic Piers, Classic. Hang on… Malibu … does he mean Arnie? I would have thought the Governator has made some Piers approved decisions.
I wonder what all those latte sipping ‘right coast’ New-Yorkers would think? (Curses, that would have worked a lot better if i knew which were the inner-city bohemian bourgouise suburbs of NYC.) Chelsea?
Piers is a fearless fighter.
He just took his humiliation over the “Bab baa black sheep” SNAFU on Playschool – which he vented a full page on – and just kept on punching.
So many Australian values contained in one commentator.
Oh, i’ve made a goose of myself haven’t I? Oh well.
Look Piers is a sensitive guy. I can prove it. Last week I sent a post with a link to the ADF inviting him to sign-up so he can get really down and dirty with the war on terror – making the move from Colnel Blimp to General Armchair, as it were.
Oddly enough it wasn’t posted.
Maybe it was that or my comment thanking him for his sterling service during the Vietnam war.
I think that was cruel and insensitive Christine.
And it overlooks Piers’s special talents, that could be put to performing far more culturally useful tasks than as a grunt combing the Tora Bora mountains.
Instead, Piers could stand in the niche left by the Taliban’s demolition of the smaller of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
Great idea Katz! He’s about as old as the originals. Or maybe that was the dinosaurs. Not sure.
Piers does have an overall big point to make with this particular little anecdote though. Namely, that somehow reducing GG emissions in any serious sort of way, will be a process designed for someone else’s backyard and at their cost and ‘we’, the morally concerned, can carry on business as usual in our own backyards.
Are you guys sure you want to go with a plan that involves blowing up Piers’ head to an even larger size than it currently is?
What do you mean Obs? Are you having a go at Gore? Or are you getting the different groups of morally concerned people mixed up?
I, for one, am more than happy to put my reduced GG emissions where my moral concerns are.
I don’t think so observa. Piers can’t get his limited nut around the fact that the boss has gone over to the other side, and so he’s reduced to taking a swipe at the usual irrelevant targets.
Since when has the corpulent old goat evidenced the slightest concern about global warming?
To paraphrase Kimberella on another thread, it looks like we’ve suddenly woken up to find we’ve been at war with Eurasia all along.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die…
get real Obby,
Here’s the scoop:
http://www.pchpress.com/local/citycouncil9-11-06.html
It’s not just celebs, you see.
Akers is part of the dogwhistle-wedge-counter-elite-latte-Hollywood-faggots love-OBL Media Claque.
Truth is, few folks in Malibu want it.
Ain’t democracy wonderful?
“…and the chance to reduce greenhouse omissions …”
Was that a Freudian slip in his article?
And what’s with calling Fonda, Hanoi Jane? I’ve heard it on good authority that Ackerman’s nickname in those years was Hanoi Piers.
I’m afraid I don’t see the hilarity in those paragraphs.
“I, for one, am more than happy to put my reduced GG emissions where my moral concerns are.”
I guess what Piers is asking all of us in a way, is does that also apply if say a gas port or simply a wind turbine interferes with ‘our’ view, albeit they are reducing ‘our’ emissions. It’s often about this point that ‘our’ minds start wandering to orange bellied parrots, if not ‘our’ real estate values.
Well of course malibu residents would block any development off their coast, at an av property price of $US1.3M and beachfront up to $US20M they have their investment to consider.
Is Al still running for Pres?
Yes, there’s all manner of irrelevant snark there (something of course bloggers would never be guilty of) but if you read the wider column he does have a point – that two of the major green-approved technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (natural gas and wind power) attract all manner of NIMBY opposition when companies actually try to build them.
No the original Snark comes from Akers.
What percentage of the rate payers of the city of Malibu are Hollywood stars? 0.05%?
Are their opinions on the gas plant distinguishable from their non-celeb neighbours? No.
Do celebs owe it to the world to be more sacrificial of their private interests? No.
Would Akers achieve one of his rare hard-ons if he wrote a denunciatory screed about the lack of public-spiritedness of mail deliverers domiciled in the City of Malibu? No.
This is all about the palsied tumescence of Piers Akerman.
According to the above commenters this Piers is “Dog-Whistling”, he experiences “Palsied Tumescence”, & lots of other things.
He is also 100% right.
Agreed. Where my grandparents live in SA (Onkaparinga council district) they were involved in campaign to build turbines in the hills behind Aldinga. It was opposed by a lot of people who thought it would be an eyesore. The hills were featureless lumps that turn an ugly shade of yellow each summer. What idiots.
Oh bollocks, Steve. Bunging in an LPG terminal at Malibu is about as appropriate as plonking one down on Boni beach.
Piers is just a Corporate lackey…attacking a man who puts his money where his mouth is when it comes to protecting & fighting for ‘endangered species’, as Brown is doing in a legal case, demonstrates how low Piers is on the moral development chart. A greedy, hired gun who is becoming past-tense by the moment.
Think so?…I’m sure Rupert M. is more concerned about promoting Global Warming to earn more ‘panic’ bucks…& will use the theory to push for nuclear energy & clean coal…serves the interests of his mates for him to go w/ the flow right now. Global Warming is a bona-fide issue…but ‘pro-war’ Rupert is no saviour…he’s a chameleon. Don’t forget that he eventually turned on the Tories in UK to support Blair…look how that turned out…:(
EYES WIDE SHUT prevails.
Steve at the Pub.
Well no he isn’t, this is about the stupid talking points the right always employ when they arrive at the wrong side of history, which nowdays is on just about every substantive topic around.
In this case blame the left or enviromentalists for the increasing change in climate. You see, if only these nasty Malibu style lefties and enviros would lets us grown ups get on with doing things we be able to deal with climate change.
My response? Whatever fat boy.
Ultimately if that’s what it takes for Piers and his band of merry jokers to come to grips with this issue I don’t care, just as long as they comes to the party. In the meantime we’re gonna have fun charting their twisted and turning logic.
Oh really?
Which Hollywood celebs were against the end of Jim Crow in the south?
Or wasn’t this a “serious political question”?
Akers is a tool. Anyone who respects him is a fool.
The gas terminal is to be 14 miles off shore which is out of sight, but those coked up celebs in Malibu would still be offended by the very thought, precious things.
Piers Akerman is RIGHT winger? (How the wheel turns!)
As I recall it he was a VERY active lefty agitator.
Err umm wasn’t this all about trying to stop the construction of an off-shore gas well? A fuel that produces 75% of the carbon of other petroleum product? If we’re gunna kick the carbon habit, its all the way with solar, wind, & wave while we still have the fuels to power the plants to manufacture the infrastructure…..
I’m sure Mailbu has its heart firmly in its real estate value back pocket, but its a bit like giving up smoking ( of which I have more knowledge than I care to share with any of you) – we either come to terms with moving away from the carbon economy or accept we are an evolutionary dead-end, mindlessly hurtling toward our own extinction. The ultimate proof against creationism I suppose. Nice to be proved right, but a bit pointless when we’re extinct.