Wow, that's just so awesome! I love the "We Got Mail" threads.

That is an easy one, under Obama, we eat the Rich.

Somebody been reading Ehrlich?

I suppose, somewhere out there, there must be a family doctor who will sterilize your kids for you because you're worried about world population numbers.

Thanks be to God, I have never met this person.

What the H*ll was he on?!

Wow! Eugenics in the inbox. Lovely.

Well, that can either be a) a hoax email or b) one of those Al Gore Kids (tm).

Charles, admit it. Somewhere in your house you have a huge moron magnet.

Procreate, please. Someone has to pay for Social Security.

I heard that people that eat carrots eventually DIE!

Somewhere tonight, 'Hillbillie Bill' is going to bed alone.

WTF?

Evolution and Creation does not matter.

This is the Internet version of writing in crayon. It'd be perfect if there were random, capitalized letters.

I have 9 kids and 22 grandkids.

COME GET ME.

BWAHAHAA!

All I see is open land when I drive between Kingman, KS and Denver, CO. Every time I hear some "Overpop" nut spew, I can only imagine them living in the middle of some place like New York and they've never left the metro area. Maybe to only fly to another metro area. They've never seen the wide, open spaces. Actually...I don't want them too. They might move out here.

Another Malthus devotee.

Depression carriers.

re: #13 MandyManners

This is the Internet version of writing in crayon. It'd be perfect if there were random, capitalized letters.

In different colors and fonts too!

Wow. Just... wow. I am at a loss for words, which is rare. But I did check his math, it's not too screwed up.

re: #17 Killer Tomato

In different colors and fonts too!

You can just smell the crazy.

Hillbillie Bill,

Got a link for you.

Go right ahead, I'll be right behind you...

I'm also not real worried about overpopulation as Nature has tended to deal with humans quite well on her own, thank you very much. Between disaters and diseases, Nature's got our number.

re: #18 BigPapa

Wow. Just... wow. I am at a loss for words, which is rare. But I did check his math, it's not too screwed up.

Neither was Raymond Babbitt's.

re: #5 howyadoin

Whatever it is, I don't want any.

Also- Soylent Green is people.

"hell to pay" is all the social security payments to these "cheaters" for the next millenium.

No profanity. No personal attacks. No accusations of being anti-Christian.

I'd say Hillbillie Bill is a step up from the usual mailbag posts.

Although, it would surprise me. 300 years from now:

"Have your child spayed or neutered today."

Well, I guess the good news is that Hillbillie Bill won't be having any kids.

Make that it WOULDN'T surprise me.

re: #24 Sharmuta

Also- Soylent Green is people.

dear lord--thats enought to make me want to start smoking! J/K--night all and thanks for all the well wishes on last thread--luv youse guys!

in the next 500 years the world’s population will be some where around 32 Billion people. When that happens there is going to be hell to pay.

And I should worry about this because...?

re: #15 howyadoin

Folks don't realize how big this country is.

If the world has not been destroyed by nuclear war in the next 500 years the world’s population will be some where around 32 Billion people.

First of all: Screw our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren. They were nothing but insufferable brats anyway. They can fry.

Second: I'm hoping we've come up with something better than nuclear energy by then, because otherwise we're likely still sitting around on our crummy planet wondering what the cool kids are doing over on OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb. And that's lame.

Third: You see 32 billion people. I see a booming market for deodorant and toilet paper. I'll be rich, baby. Rich.

re: #21 Sharmuta

Yep, nature always finds its balance. All it takes is one major epidemic in a tightly populated place, and voila, populations reduce. Also, food becomes more scarce if the population increases beyond nature's boundaries. We haven't reached that point here in the US (sadly, it has in other places). I doubt we will see any real overpopulation problems in our life time, or our children's life time, or our grand children's life times, and so on.

HillBillie Bill, please read this and shut up:

[Link: 2timothy42.newsvine.com...]

If there’s poverty, starvation, global warming and a hole in the ozone layer now ...

... then better do some extra procreation while the procreating is good.

This could be a very pissed off creationist, attempting sarcasm, but slipping on the banana peel of creativity.

Hard to argue with that.

Though I have not personally reproduced, I will argue, vigorously, that the writer is a fool.

Hillbillie Bill = child hater.

Meanwhile, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, a producer and host for Bridges TV who worked alongside the Hassans, said “now is not the time” to debate the cultural and religious context of the murder that appears to be an honor killing inspired by Aasiya Hassan’s desire to divorce her husband.

“There will be time for that later,” Hirschfield said in a statement obtained by FOXNews.com. “I will only say to those who leap to the conclusion that this kind of thing is intrinsic to Islam, ask yourselves if you think that drunkenness is intrinsic to Irish Catholics, or cheating in business is to Jews?”

Bwahahaha

re: #38 Charles

This could be a very pissed off creationist, attempting sarcasm, but slipping on the banana peel of creativity.

Charles, I haven't heard your opinions on overpopulation. You don't agree with this guy do you?

In the Year 2525

Nuclear war, global warming, overpopulation, hole in the ozone, famine.

I think he got everything.

I wonder if he ever goes out of his house.

Sounds like a Chinese government official.

Party member Hillbillieson Yobill Phat.

re: #18 BigPapa

Wow. Just... wow. I am at a loss for words, which is rare. But I did check his math, it's not too screwed up.

His math assumes no changes in current rates of population growth.

How come so few of those so worried about Over Population do the obvious thing?

When confronting the issue of overpopulation, political correctness has everyone ignoring the obvious 500lb gorilla in the room; It isn't Western nations that are the problem...

I think I read somewhere if you put the entire population of the earth in Texas the population density would be less than New York City.

re: #35 commadore183

And also, I doubt there will be 32 billion people living on Earth after 500 years. We'll be colonized on Mars, the Moon, and other planets WAY before that problem come up.

I'm hoping that in 500 years we will have colonized the moon, Mars and maybe beyond. Last thing I would worry about is overpopulation.

re: #44 Noam Sayin'

Nuclear war, global warming, overpopulation, hole in the ozone, famine.

I think he got everything.

I wonder if he ever goes out of his house.

He missed, war, plague and pestilence,

Evolution and Creation does not matter.

And neither "do" grammar, Hillbillie Bill.

Hmmm - say Charles, was this written in crayon on lined paper and if so, did he stay within the lines?!
Sorry not much more to say about this letter.

re: #52 jcm

He missed, war, plague and pestilence,

Cats and dogs living together ...

re: #26 Ringo the Gringo

No profanity. No personal attacks. No accusations of being anti-Christian.

I'd say Hillbillie Bill is a step up from the usual mailbag posts.

But the nuttiness - and the sheer offensiveness - are off the scale.

If you don’t, your future generations will simply breed themselves to death.

Why is it all the cool stuff happens in the future? To hell with our descendants, I want to boink to death NOW!

re: #36 howyadoin

I know there is a small snipe at Evolution in there, please ignore it and read on. Good info in response to overpopulation hysteria.

re: #52 jcm

He missed, war, plague and pestilence,

Dogs and cats living together...

Notice this whackjob went by Bill and not Billy. Just clarifying.

Take all of your children to the doctor...it is covered in the Porkulus package. You will get a check covering your expenses in the mail soon.

Tonight’s message from the Twilight Zone

Twilight? Did someone say Twilight? Excuse to link a clip!

re: #49 iChef

see the article I link to above. Ignore the snipe at evolution.

re: #55 OldLineTexan

re: #59 VioletTiger

Eight seconds...

As Yogi Berra would say, "Nobody lives on Earth anymore. It's too crowded."

re: #28 edge

Well, I guess the good news is that Hillbillie Bill won't be having any kids.

Oh, no. That's for the "little people"; I'm sure Hillbillie Bill thinks his kids are just fine.

"Don't worry folks. By then we'll have crossed human genes with fish genes and will have successfully populated the seas. If Don Knots did it, so can we!"

/s

So many causes, so little time.

I strongly suggest that you “STOP CREATING”

Just what we need - a bunch of unemployed artists, musicians, dancers, actors...

From the article:

The current world population is 6.6 billion people. The most dense city in terms of population is Manilla with 41,014 people per square kilometer. What does this mean? We can fit the entire world population in the state of Washington. Or maybe better put, humans only take up .108% of all the land on the globe, or .032% of the entire globe (including bodies of water).

Ok, but you say, Andy, who would want to live in Manilla. Fair enough, lets compare it to what I call the "good life." Fort Wayne, IN has a population density of 1,071 people per square kilometer. This means you can fit the the entire world population in the states west of the Mississippi plus Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Or better put, 4.114% of all the land on the globe, or 1.208% of the entire globe (including bodies of water).

Bed time.

G'night, realwest.

Actually the Obamessiah has used so much fuel in the past week it is mind-boggling. Washington to Chicago, Chicago to Washington, Washington to Denver, Denver to Washington and Washington to Arizona. I don't believe in AGW one bit but I don't think wasting resources is wise either.

re: #65 Dianna

Oh, no. That's for the "little people"; I'm sure Hillbillie Bill thinks his kids are just fine.

Yes, Installment #458091013 of the "I got mine! Screw you!" school of thought.

It's funny how the word looks misspelled when it's written "CREATING."

I can't help but see it as "kreeting."

Sounds like someone from The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

re: #44 Noam Sayin'
HEY NOAM! Nope - he is a survivalist! Stays in his bunker, only goes out when he runs out of his drugs meds whatever gets him through the day, doesn't even walk his dog cause some one could pick him off!
Oh and btw - how are you doing tonight?

Guess what I got when I serched Hillbillie Bill?

OT: news regarding the NY beheading

Lawyer: Religion not an issue

Religious speculation upsets imam in case of beheaded woman

We should remember that there are environmental extremists in Europe who sound just like Hillbillie Bill.

re: #63 Noam Sayin'

re: #59 VioletTiger

Eight seconds...

Two Ghost Busters fans, apparently.

re: #76 HelloDare

Yikes!

Hillbillie Bill = inbreader

This Hillbilly also isn't taking into consideration what sorts of advances might be made in the future with medicines, bioengineering, energy- it's possible we'd be able to develop new science and technology to allow more people to live, and live longer, than ever before.

Silly, eugenicist.

Was this spam? It sounds like spam.

re: #49 iChef

I think I read somewhere if you put the entire population of the earth in Texas the population density would be less than New York City.

Try Stand on Zanzibar. Or, The Sheep Look Up.

1970's dystopian novels, depressing as hell, wrong, wrong, wrong, but very well written.

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Sounds like someone from The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

"Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense."

Hmm.

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Sounds like someone from The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Attention. Pay close attention to tonight's episode of LOST. The best of the season. Will blow your mind (Oh, wait, you did that to yourself the other night LOL)

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Sounds like someone from The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

That's a gag, right?

re: #76 HelloDare

That is disturbing bordering on "mind bleach muratic acid" level.

Hard to argue with that.

I too find it hard to argue when I am laughing hysterically.

re: #76 HelloDare

Guess what I got when I serched Hillbillie Bill?

AAAHHH!

re: #70 Noam Sayin'
Hey whaddya mean "good night"?!? It's still early yet isn't it?!

Good night Noam, sleep well.

Evolution and Creation doesn't matter...
Do or do not, there is no try.
Wisdom from yoda bill.

re: #66 Gus 802

"Don't worry folks. By then we'll have crossed human genes with fish genes and will have successfully populated the seas. If Don Knots did it, so can we!"

/s

SEA KITTENS WITH FEET!...:)

re: #82 Sharmuta

This Hillbilly also isn't taking into consideration what sorts of advances might be made in the future with medicines, bioengineering, energy- it's possible we'd be able to develop new science and technology to allow more people to live, and live longer, than ever before.

Silly, eugenicist.

And he is certainly not accounting for the shit hitting the fan and it all goes south tomorrow.

The is only one certainty in the Universe: The ignorance of Liberals, Democrats and Moonbats:

The Population Bomb

Author Paul R. Ehrlich

"The Population Bomb (1968) is a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich. A best-selling work, it predicted disaster for humanity due to overpopulation and the "population explosion". The book predicted that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death", that nothing can be done to avoid mass famine greater than any in the history, and radical action is needed to limit the overpopulation. History proved Ehrlich wrong, as the mass starvations predicted for the 1970s and 1980s never occurred."

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #87 Sharmuta

That's a gag, right?

No, it is not. It is for very real.

re: #51 VioletTiger

I'm hoping that in 500 years we will have colonized the moon, Mars and maybe beyond. Last thing I would worry about is overpopulation.

Read Killing Star. Then we start frantically working on getting us well spread out, and beyond our solar system.

That book has kept me awake more nights than I really like confessing.

re: #82 Sharmuta

Or -

"I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world."
Henry Adams
April 11, 1862

re: #76 HelloDare

Guess what I got when I serched Hillbillie Bill?

Isn't that the Toxic Crusader?

re: #41 razorbacker

Good grief.

re: #76 HelloDare

Guess what I got when I serched Hillbillie Bill?

lmao

re: #86 Walter L. Newton

I'm watch last week's rerun now. I'm a little melancholy tonight. A nice new episode of Lost will surely cheer me up.

re: #87 Sharmuta

We've debated it here before. I think they're serious.

re: #1 BigPapa

I don't agree. From what I've heard, the total human population is projected to stabilize and then begin decreasing late in this century. The reason? Prosperous societies have low birth rates. As the world becomes more prosperous, total population growth will slow and eventually go negative.

re: #96 ted

Don't you just love it. There he was predicting the end of the world for the 1970s and 1980s. Reminds me of the Global Cooling fad.

You know what was a big bomb? The book The Population Bomb.
(1968) by Paul R. Ehrlich.

A best-selling work, it predicted disaster for humanity due to overpopulation and the "population explosion". The book predicted that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death", that nothing can be done to avoid mass famine greater than any in the history, and radical action is needed to limit the overpopulation. History proved Ehrlich wrong, as the mass starvations predicted for the 1970s and 1980s never occurred.

re: #87 Sharmuta

That's a gag, right?

It gags me.

re: #104 Killgore Trout

I'm watch last week's rerun now. I'm a little melancholy tonight. A nice new episode of Lost will surely cheer me up.

Listen carefully, they have been barreling forward with information. And some of the dialog is wonderful tonight.

re: #104 Killgore Trout
I quit watching Lost, they got off the island went back to the island, the island jumps through time? I gave up. I'll stick to cylon skin job babes with glowing spines!

re: #100 Killer Tomato

Or -

"I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world."
Henry Adams
April 11, 1862

Deja Vu is really a glitch in the Matrix.

re: #51 VioletTiger

I'm hoping that in 500 years we will have colonized the moon, Mars and maybe beyond. Last thing I would worry about is overpopulation.

If we hollow out the Earth, it could house trillions.

Or build a Ringworld or Dyson Sphere, ...

re: #69 howyadoin

P.J. O'Rourke pointed out that Bangladesh has the same population density as Fremont, California.

I've lived in Fremont. It's not that bad.

This says that it's not how many people per square mile that's the problem.

"Scratch the skin of a Liberal and you will Uncover a Facist"

Forced Sterilizations?

Two cases of GMTA tonight.

re: #85 jaunte

"Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense."

Hmm.

Heh.

So many things could result from becoming less dense: better job, more interesting at parties, float better...

re: #108 HelloDare

You know what was a big bomb? The book The Population Bomb.
(1968) by Paul R. Ehrlich.

I went back to college in the '90s.
They were still pushing that thing.

Uhhh, if the First World stops reproducing, what are you left with? No, the evil capitalists generally *aren't* reproducing; it's the 3rd world that's breeding like rabbits. (Although when they get around to aborting every female fetus...)

re: #114 itellu3times
Niven has a prequel out to Ringworld, but I can't find it in my local bookstore. :(

re: #106 Rich H

What do you not agree with? How can you disagree with me loving the 'We Got Mail' threads?

Maybe you meant to disagree with another point...

re: #108 HelloDare

You know what was a big bomb? The book The Population Bomb.
(1968) by Paul R. Ehrlich.

It's Obama's science advisor's Bible.

re: #96 ted
Yeah, but Paul R. Ehrlich got rich writing that crap, didn't he?
As P.T.Barnum and Rahm Emmanuel said, "There's a sucker born everyday!".

Giant rat caught in China
A giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.

Anybody know where John Kerry is?

/s

re: #120 SFGoth

Uhhh, if the First World stops reproducing, what are you left with? No, the evil capitalists generally *aren't* reproducing; it's the 3rd world that's breeding like rabbits. (Although when they get around to aborting every female fetus...)

The "Wars of the Bare Branches" tend to depress the population growth.

interesting...
Cali Senate Repubs oust leader over budget
Hmmm the (R's) in Cali seem to have found a pair (for the moment)

I can imagine this guy as a cynical genemonger, donating semen to every sperm bank around, while emailing everyone to sterilize, and cut down on his progeny's competition.

But where birth control is lacking, death control (famine, war, disease) will prevail. Life will find a way. And death will, too.

re: #112 pingjockey

I almost gave up a while ago. Too much time off between new episodes, the story lines were lagging and the witting wasn't very good. They're back on track now.

re: #82 Sharmuta

This Hillbilly also isn't taking into consideration what sorts of advances might be made in the future with medicines, bioengineering, energy- it's possible we'd be able to develop new science and technology to allow more people to live, and live longer, than ever before.

Silly, eugenicist.

He's not a eugenicist - or at least one cannot infer that from his email. He's a fearful soul, who believes we're heading for a world like that of the Pierson's Puppeteers. Crowded, and (without very aggressive technology) smothering in its own waste heat.

re: #125 Dustyvet

Giant rat caught in China
A giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.

Anybody know where John Kerry is?

/s

This wasn't the Giant Rat of Sumatra, was it?

re: #129 Killgore Trout
Okay, I'll give it a whirl.

re: #124 realwest

Yeah, but Paul R. Ehrlich got rich writing that crap, didn't he?
As P.T.Barnum and Rahm Emmanuel said, "There's a sucker born everyday!".

In 500 years there will be a thousand suckers born every day.

It's gonna be great

I believe we've tried to control the population on a mass scale as Hillbillie Bill suggests, it was called the holocaust! Fuck you Hillbillie Bill, you're a moron!

Hey, Hillbillie Bill. You know how you can stop creating? Squeal like a pig.

re: #77 ratherdashing
from the article:

Culture, religion doesn't play a role," said defense attorney James Harrington, reacting to speculation that the crime may have been an "honor killing." Experts say such killings are still accepted among fanatical Muslim men, including in the couple's native Pakistan, who feel betrayed by their wives.

Nope, no honor killing here. The AP says so.

re: #24 Sharmuta

Also- Soylent Green is people.

And darn tasty, too. Try some with jam. Or SPAM. It's good--and good for you.

re: #103 jorline
Hey jorline! Say, didja by any chance get my e-mail tonight (don't know if I sent it to the right e-mail addy)?

re: #132 Kosh's Shadow

This wasn't the Giant Rat of Sumatra, was it?

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

Thank you, Mr. Nutball!

I did a quick check of Hot Air. Readers are now complaining about too many atheist threads.

re: #91 Iron Fist

There's always nuclear war to fall back on if we ever need to do an emergency depopulation of a continent or two (Why do I have the feeling that this whackjob would nod sagely and say "You know, you're right" when told that little homily?)

He probably doesn't care how the population is reduced.

re: #132 Kosh's Shadow

This wasn't the Giant Rat of Sumatra, was it?

That is a called a "dog" you inbred morons!

Either that, of Louisiana's nutria export program is working.

complete hillbilly, think outside the box

re: #121 pingjockey

Niven has a prequel out to Ringworld, but I can't find it in my local bookstore. :(

Fleet of Worlds? It's available for download to Kindle. :D

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

re: #125 Dustyvet

Giant rat caught in China
A giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.

Anybody know where John Kerry is?

/s

That solves feeding the world problem.

re: #125 Dustyvet
China.

re: #107 Gus 802

Don't you just love it. There he was predicting the end of the world for the 1970s and 1980s. Reminds me of the Global Cooling fad.

Every 10 years they come up with a new socialist fraud to rob:

Global Cooling/Warming/ SARS, Heterosexual AIDS, Bird Flu, DDT, etc.

Try this search:

[Link: www.google.com...]

Yet ideology, at least as a mass phenomenon, is a comparatively recent development in human history.

Who, then, are ideologists? They are people needy of purpose in life, not in a mundane sense (earning enough to eat or to pay the mortgage, for example) but in the sense of transcendence of the personal, of reassurance that there is something more to existence than existence itself. The desire for transcendence does not occur to many people struggling for a livelihood. Avoiding material failure gives quite sufficient meaning to their lives. By contrast, ideologists have few fears about finding their daily bread. Their difficulty with life is less concrete. Their security gives them the leisure, their education the need, and no doubt their temperament the inclination, to find something above and beyond the flux of daily life.

Theo Dalrymple @ City Jornal

re: #36 howyadoin

This "fit the population of the Earth" into some arbitrary physical space argument doesn't take into account resource usage, however.

The proper calculation is, assuming a certain agricultural productivity, how many people can the total available arable land of the planet support?

(And of course, that argument doesn't take into account the effects of developing nanotechnology to the point where we can essentially reorganize matter at will, with maximum efficiency and zero waste.)

re: #131 Dianna

He's calling for mass sterilization.

re: #146 Cattt
Thank you. Couldn't think of the name!

re: #110 Iron Fist

Oh, no. They are deadly serious. The Leftwingers are scary-crazy when you start really examining them. Remember, Charles Manson was a hippie "Peace-and-Love"er.

Lets not forget Jim Jones, who was a firm believer in Apostolic Socialism while getting high, molseting and terrorizing his parishoners and dishing out cyanide-tainted Kool-Aid while he chose to eat a bullet himself.

re: #77 ratherdashing

Religious speculation upsets imam in case of beheaded woman

Is he seething?

Found this:

This is a message for Regis and Kelly. The world's population is now 6.8 Billion people. Experts predict that by the year 2050 the world's population will be 9.1 Billion people. That will be an increase of 2.3 Billion people in just 41 years. The U.S. population is now 305,000,000 people. The U.S. had an increase of 11,000,000 people from 2003 to 2008. That means if 1,000,000 people committed suicide every year for the next 5 years the U.S. population would still increase by 6,000,000 people. Japan has already cut their people back to one child per family. And even then their population will still continue to increase. Scientists have already said that there is a hole in the ozone layer. We have poverty, starvation, global warming and a hole in the ozone layer because we are over populated. The higher the population gets the worse things are. When this earth gets over populated with about 50,000,000,000 people and the ozone layer is gone your future generations will suffer hell like they've never suffered hell before. Do the word's "STARVATION" and "CANNIBALISM" mean anything? There are only two ways to stop this from happening. The first way is to stop creating and tell your children when they grow up not to create. If you have to, take them to a doctor and have something done to prevent them from reproducing. The second way is to thin out the herd. Get the Government of each country to let whoever wants to commit suicide do it. The Government can help with assisted suicide. People commit suicide anyway. So why not help them. If you or your future generations don't do something to stop the over population problem then I'm afraid your future generations will simply breed themselves to death. Make sure Regis and Kelly read this. Spread this message to the entire world. Byeyouall, Hillbillie Bill

re: #138 calcajun

And darn tasty, too. Try some with jam. Or SPAM. It's good--and good for you.

Lose the jam and it's low carb, too.

re: #122 BigPapa

Quite right. Sorry. Still a fledgling here.

re: #130 Iron Fist

Birth permits. Forced abortions. Age- and health- dependant Mandatory euthanasia.

All powered by Obama's magic unicorn pixie dust. There's a reason why these people scare the living hell out of me. And I don't scare easy.

Me too, bro.

re: #91 Iron Fist

There's always nuclear war to fall back on if we ever need to do an emergency depopulation of a continent or two (Why do I have the feeling that this whackjob would nod sagely and say "You know, you're right" when told that little homily?)

I suggest Rosie O'Donnell host a late night talk show. If the last image a man has each day is her mug, I guarantee the birth rates will drop dramatically.

re: #153 Sharmuta

He's calling for mass sterilization.

will it be covered by O plan?

re: #11 jaunte

Somewhere tonight, 'Hillbillie Bill' is going to bed alone.

Or maybe he's going to bed with Hillbillie Phil.

re: #125 Dustyvet

Giant rat caught in China
A giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.

Anybody know where John Kerry is?

12,000 miles away?

This guy might be for real. Piece of work no doubt. Probably some homeless guy in a library.

re: #150 Gus 802

Huh, it seems he's affiliated with Riverside United Methodist Church. he seems quite serious about his population theories.

re: #106 Rich H

I don't agree. From what I've heard, the total human population is projected to stabilize and then begin decreasing late in this century. The reason? Prosperous societies have low birth rates. As the world becomes more prosperous, total population growth will slow and eventually go negative.

That does assume (and I sincerely hope it's the case) that the Islamists do not expand their influence, and deny women education.

The fastest way to limit birth rates is to educate girls to at least a high school level.

take your children to a doctor and have something done to prevent them from reproducing

and the good news is that if everybody did it, in 100 years or so the population would be reduced to say...NOTHING!

re: #147 jcm

That solves feeding the world problem.

re: #125 Dustyvet
Hey Dusty! I heard Kerry navigated incorrectly again and is now in Cambodia again!

Somebody posted this a few days ago. Forgot who.

Teach the controversy t-shirts.

re: #154 pingjockey

Thank you. Couldn't think of the name!

Larry Niven, bless him, is how I discovered sci fi years ago. Someone seeded a free story of his that pointed to fictionwise (e-books) with a whole bunch more of his stuff. Read them all, then branched out.

I love the Pierson's Puppeteers. Talk about unique.

re: #164 itellu3times

12,000 miles away?

Oh, up the Mekong River without a paddle again...:)

/s

Hillbilly Bill was a scientist
and a scientist was he
he called for his pipe
and he called for his bowl
and he called for his LSD

re: #141 NukeAtomrod

Thank you, Mr. Noutball!

FTFY

Ugh - work tomorrow and its late. Gotta get to bed.
See you all around the campus!

I am hoping to go permanent at my job some time soon, so I can work on a third (and likely final) child.

I hope to live long enough that I can't really take care of myself. When that day comes, I trust my kids a lot more than I would trust some government bureaucrat to make decisions for me. The more kids you have, the more likely that kid who you will need to be there for you will be there for you.

Hillbilly Bill = Son of Unabomber? Perhaps.

re: #157 Gus 802

Good find.

I think this guy is a classic Level 3 moran.

re: #142 Killgore Trout

I did a quick check of Hot Air. Readers are now complaining about too many atheist threads.

Allahpundit's one of their lead writers. What do they expect?!

re: #172 Cattt
Oh yeah. Great aliens. I need to find some of his older stuff. I have Tales of known space, a gift from earth, 4 ringworld books and the ones he's written with Pornelle.

Hillbillie Bill is on the left:

re: #178 calcajun

Hillbilly Bill = Son of Unabomber? Perhaps.

Who would have sex with the Unabomber? Ick.

re: #176 Killer Tomato

Ugh - work tomorrow and its late. Gotta get to bed.
See you all around the campus!

Yes, 'nite all.

re: #181 Dianna

Allahpundit's one of their lead writers. What do they expect?!

They expect to be catered to.

re: #131 Dianna

He's not a eugenicist - or at least one cannot infer that from his email. He's a fearful soul, who believes we're heading for a world like that of the Pierson's Puppeteers. Crowded, and (without very aggressive technology) smothering in its own waste heat.

More like Soylent Green, where we'll have to eat excess old people minced and formed into tasty chartreuse wafers.

re: #182 pingjockey

The Man-Kzin Wars series is fun, too.

re: #173 Dustyvet

Oh, up the Mekong River without a paddle again...:)

Oh, he's got a paddle up his mekong alrighty ...

re: #183 ted

Ooo! Nice music.

re: #184 MandyManners

Who would have sex with the Unabomber? Ick.

I shudder to think. But we were talking about Ned Beatty the other day...

re: #188 jaunte
Yep. You scream, then leap.

re: #153 Sharmuta

He's calling for mass sterilization.

Voluntary mass sterilization - and he wants "us" to sterilize our kids. He's not advocating the sterilization of any one singled-out group.

He's vile, a fool, probably a bigot; but...let us stick to the hilarious, ridiculous evidence.

Thing about evolution is, it's a scientific fact that those who act on these messages just clear an easier road for those who don't. So it's a stupid idea.

The earth, and humanity, will survive. If we really do overshoot and collapse, at the end of it, enough of us will still be there to make a better job of it the next time civilization rises. My guess is that it won't collapse. Not globally. The last one standing will have no competition.

re: #182 pingjockey

Oh yeah. Great aliens. I need to find some of his older stuff. I have Tales of known space, a gift from earth, 4 ringworld books and the ones he's written with Pornelle.

You can get a lot of them used on Amazon, and many of the booksellers ship free. God, I love Amazon.

re: #184 MandyManners
A lot of the serial killers have groupies. Gaaah.

Somebody been reading Ehrlich?

I remember when my 14 year old older sister went crazy making posters about zero population growth. She was pretty obsessed about the subject. My mom's cryptic remark after seeing the huge display,"too bad birth control isn't retroactive". I was only 7 so it went over my head, but she was onto something. I wonder if Mr Hillbillie would volunteer for this noble experiment.

re: #191 calcajun

I shudder to think. But we were talking about Ned Beatty the other day...

Thank you so much for that visual.

re: #182 pingjockey

Oh yeah. Great aliens. I need to find some of his older stuff. I have Tales of known space, a gift from earth, 4 ringworld books and the ones he's written with Pornelle.

Hope you've caught his Warlock stories, and "The Magic Goes Away".

re: #195 Cattt
I need to go and browse!

re: #159 Rich H

NP. I was wondering how anybody could argue with such magnificent logic in the email to Charles. I mean, it's just brilliant.

Hillbillie Bill just might be Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Here is an anagram of Hillbillie Bill

Hill Bill Lib Lie

re: #152 Dar ul Harb

This "fit the population of the Earth" into some arbitrary physical space argument doesn't take into account resource usage, however.

The proper calculation is, assuming a certain agricultural productivity, how many people can the total available arable land of the planet support?

(And of course, that argument doesn't take into account the effects of developing nanotechnology to the point where we can essentially reorganize matter at will, with maximum efficiency and zero waste.)

Um. The actual limiting factor is - and will remain - potable water.

re: #183 ted

No, here he is...

and his brother.

Nytol

re: #199 itellu3times
I bought the "Magic goes away" for my 17 year old. "dad, dad, that is so cool"! Umm yeah Dad knows these things.

In truth, I worry about my children's future for that reason, given that I can remember what the fishing was like when there were 3 billion or so people around; although I'm not sure why the warning came to Charles.

Perhaps the influence of LGF is even greater than suspected?

re: #190 Gus 802

Ooo! Nice music.

Great Movie...Great Soundtrack...Don't Miss it!

OT Ariena Huffington(sp?) will be on Leno tonight

re: #100 Killer Tomato

Or -

"I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world."
Henry Adams
April 11, 1862

Ah, the Cylon option.

re: #132 Kosh's Shadow

This wasn't the Giant Rat of Sumatra, was it?

Wait, are you talking about the Sumatran Rat-Monkey?

"Awl these huge rets come a-crawlin' orf the slyve ships and RYPE the poor li'l tree monkeys! An' tha's how them ret-monkeys was born..."

re: #166 Killgore Trout

Huh, it seems he's affiliated with Riverside United Methodist Church. he seems quite serious about his population theories.

Riverside?

re: #187 NukeAtomrod

More like Soylent Green, where we'll have to eat excess old people minced and formed into tasty chartreuse wafers.

And sing Soylent Night at Christmas time.

re: #125 Dustyvet

A giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.

Anybody know where John Kerry is?

Standing on the kitchen table going "eek"?

Night folks.

That sounds like a joke to me.

re: #142 Killgore Trout

I did a quick check of Hot Air. Readers are now complaining about too many atheist threads.

Hey! That sounds kinda familiar...

OT (hat tip hotair):

Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D, is really ticked at MSNBC and Keith Olberbite.

Don't Believe What You Hear on Countdown: Keith Olbermann's Factual Errors

You go, Dr. McCaughey.

re: #204 calcajun

No, here he is...

[Video]

and his brother.

Classic Stuff...

And whose to say all those people have to use land the same way we do today?

Arcology, anyone?

Kind of "New Urbanism" meets Bauhaus.

(Of course, high density living means an inviting terrorist target...)

I'm complaining about too many complaints

re: #206 pingjockey

I bought the "Magic goes away" for my 17 year old. "dad, dad, that is so cool"! Umm yeah Dad knows these things.

Ever read Saberhagen's "Empire of the East"? If you liked "Magic Goes Away", trust me on this one!

If it's still in print ...

re: #221 Shug

I'm complaining about too many complaints

Complaints may be filed in person with S. Beaumont. Level 5, room 21.

re: #220 Dar ul Harb

And whose to say all those people have to use land the same way we do today?

Arcology, anyone?

Kind of "New Urbanism" meets Bauhaus.

(Of course, high density living means an inviting terrorist target...)

"Consider it as evolution in action!"

And with that, I go to walk my dogs and head for bed.

Take care!

re: #222 itellu3times

Or the twenty-seven "Swords" books that he wrote after ... of which the first three are pretty good. Excuse me - excellent, just a bit derivative of Empire. Saberhagen is an excellent wordsmith.

re: #203 Dianna

Um. The actual limiting factor is - and will remain - potable water.

Well, there's plenty of fresh water, if you have the energy to desalinate it.

(Or, in the case of nanotech, make a smart membrane or active surface that will sort out the water from the impurities.)

So portraying President Bush as a chimp is A-OK with almost all liberals, but linking a current cartoon chimpanzee with President Obama is racist. Right...

Hey Billy, Maisey Mae is callin'ya for supper. Just make sure you know what's in the pot.
/a

re: #228 Attaboid

Daisy Mae

re: #229 Gus 802

Ellie Mae. And Granny.

She weren't no Daisey.

re: #230 Sharmuta

Her too! Ha. My grandma in Argentina could have been a double for Granny.

ONLY on LGF could we make so many comments out of such thin material (no offense to you Charles)!
230+ comments on this? Well ok, mayber 30 were OT, but I mean, really?!

Fannie Mae and Frankie..

/wait, what thread is this?

re: #171 HelloDare

Somebody posted this a few days ago. Forgot who.

Teach the controversy t-shirts.

Those are awesome -- particularly the one that has the Devil in gardener's overalls planting dinosaur fossils!

(Although I'm not sure I get the one featuring a teapot -- I mean, is that a reference to some specific pseudo-scientific notion that I'm missing?)

re: #142 Killgore Trout

I did a quick check of Hot Air. Readers are now complaining about too many atheist threads.

It's hilarious! Now they're accusing people who don't toe their hate Hitchens line of being ... me!

I live in their heads.

re: #236 Charles

Toe heads. ;)

re: #235 Throbert McGee
I didn't get that one either, but I hear Obama's gonna sue for royalties on the first one on the second page!

re: #236 Charles

Guess they need a hobby. I've never really seen any atheist threads here per se.

It's a massive Honco conspiracy.

Science

re: #236 Charles

It's hilarious! Now they're accusing people who don't toe their hate Hitchens line of being ... me!

I live in their heads.

it called nightmares LOL

re: #223 jcm

Complaints may be filed in person with S. Beaumont. Level 5, room 21.

PINEAPPLE WALL MOUNT COMPLAINT DEPARTMENTPINEAPPLE WALL MOUNT COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT

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re: #235 Throbert McGee

(Although I'm not sure I get the one featuring a teapot -- I mean, is that a reference to some specific pseudo-scientific notion that I'm missing?)

Russell's teapot

What's in the air at hot air?

Somebody check for toxic levels of hydrocarbons

(Well, at least in that person's case, no more procreating is the way to go). I know we're supposed to be an earth in the lurch, population wise, but flyingacross the country, looking out at all that totally empty real estate, or even on a drive through the Delta here , with long stretches of no one in sight for miles... it's hard to get my head wrapped around it.
Talk about hell to pay... there will be, I am afraid...
[Link: www.wsvn.com...]
BHO is starting to show that disturbing trait seen in all the ' moderate muslims' here in the states... hear no, see no, speak no.
Unless, of course, it's to warn of impending financial doom.

re: #245 Shug

What's in the air at hot air?

Somebody check for toxic levels of hydrocarbons

RINOS RINOS RINOS!

Get thee to a nunnery!

Evolving Darwin Play Set

re: #57 Slumbering Behemoth

Why is it all the cool stuff happens in the future? To hell with our descendants, I want to boink to death NOW!

"Death By Snoo Snoo!"

Hitchens' "The Portable Atheist" has a lot of excellent essays in it.

Anyone see a dreadfully senile and guilty Alan Greenspan on teewee yesterday, on the one hand saying that deregulating finance is still the way to go, and on the other hand advocating nationalization of some banks?

re: #243 Dustyvet

PINEAPPLE WALL MOUNT COMPLAINT DEPARTMENTPINEAPPLE WALL MOUNT COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT

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LOL! That's great!

Hello Night Lizards! It snowed a wee bit tonite in Near Iowa.

I'm in a cynical mood AND my princess dog "lost" her toy du jour under the couch again.

How are you-all and what are we talking about.

You people are animals. You should just stop rutting. At least wear a condominium. Quackselodiums.

re: #245 Shug

What's in the air at hot air?

Somebody check for toxic levels of hydrocarbons

Entitlement.

re: #236 Charles

I live in their heads.

How can you stand such small places?

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a competition to decide which one to keep.

The businessman and his spurned mistress met in Qingdao, pictured here last August, local media report.

But the contest took a fatal turn when one of the women, eliminated for her looks, drove the man and the four other competitors off a cliff, Chinese media reported.

The spurned mistress died and the other passengers were injured, the reports said.

SNIP

The women knew of one another, but none elected to break up with the man and give up their rent-free apartment and a 5,000 yuan ($730) monthly allowance, the reports said.

When the economy soured, the businessman apparently decided to let go of all but one mistress.

He staged a private talent show in May, without telling the women his intentions. An instructor from a local modeling agency judged the women on the way they looked, how they sang and how much alcohol they could hold, the Shanghai Daily said.

SNIP

Bed time!

re: #203 Dianna

Um. The actual limiting factor is - and will remain - potable water.

Not "potable," as in "safe for drinking," but "fresh," as in "sufficiently non-saline that you can water crops with it."

This wouldn't happen anyway. Population trends aren't static. First world countries don't reproduce at a rate to sustain their populations. Even the poorest of the poor country's birthrates go down with time. In 500 years we'll more likely have a crisis of underpopulation than overpopulation.

re: #258 MandyManners

Later Mandy.

re: #235 Throbert McGee

Look at my Avatar.

re: #225 itellu3times

Or the twenty-seven "Swords" books that he wrote after ... of which the first three are pretty good. Excuse me - excellent, just a bit derivative of Empire. Saberhagen is an excellent wordsmith.

Ah, it's so good to be around other reasonably literate people again.

I'm currently working on the new Covenant novels.

re: #257 MandyManners

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a competition to decide which one to keep.

SNIP

And this is the society which seeks to be our successor on the stage of world affairs?

Personally, I don't give a shit about the population of the earth in 500 years

re: #253 ggt Hey ggt - good evening! We're still mostly talking about the topic of this thread!

re: #264 calcajun

And this is the society which seeks to be our successor on the stage of world affairs?

No kidding. They haven't even thought to put that on TV yet.

re: #265 Shug

Seriously, we still haven't figured out what to do with General Motors.

re: #257 MandyManners

How much alcohol they could hold? Is that sexy?

re: #264 calcajun

And this is the society which seeks to be our successor on the stage of world affairs?

No, that's Islam.