Dear Norwegian Friends,
Now you've done it.
Tucked way up there at the top of the world out of the way, the American Right undoubtedly never thought much about you. You were up there with the Polar Bears (that they heard were in trouble for some reason but didn't care about) and there was no reason to pay attention to you. That was until last week when you gave the Nobel Peace Prize to one of their main enemies - Al Gore.
Al, of course, has picked up many prestigious awards lately for proclaiming what to many of us seems like common sense - put a whole lot of crap in the atmosphere for a long time and eventually something bad will happen. But this seems to have never occured to the American public and it has taken a whole lot of charts and graphs to convince them that this is indeed the case. But Al's made good inroads with the half of the American populice that isn't living in the 19th century. Good for Al. Somebody had to do it and he's been laboring mightily for many years attempting to take sense to the people. I personally wish that he had done more in this department with Bill when he had a chance before the Dark Ages, but that's another story ...
Anyway, now the Exxon/Mobil knows where you are (actually they knew where you were before but, since Norway is a major oil producer, they assumed that you were on their side) and you may be in trouble. They may send Ann Coulter out to slime you so that she can sell more books or Bill O'Reilly may go into some sort of anti-lutifisk rant, all so that they can continue the current war against science and rationality that they are making so much money at. You survived a Nazi occupation so you can probably handle this, but its really too bad that you might have to put up with what we've had to deal with for the past seven years.
Above all, don't take it personally, because they don't. It's just business to them and it really doesn't matter to them if we kill the planet as long as they continue to get their cut of money and power on the way down. And, of course, people like Al Gore don't get theirs.
And, after all, you may luck out. They probably figure that the Swedes gave him the prize. And given your feelings about the Swedes, wouldn't that be ironic?
Best,
MTS
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