Happy as a Fat Baby
When I hear something that is disturbing or controversial, before I get too exercised, I usually heed the words of wisdom handed down by my mother: “consider the source.”
That is why I find much of what passes for “news” these days so frustrating and troublesome. All of it is based on information provided by “unnamed” or “anonymous” sources. That means you have to rely on the credibility of some gasbag who claims to be quoting them, a gasbag who has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to pee on your shoes and tell you it’s raining.
I mean, how would we all feel if we learned that the New York Times’s “White House Source” was the prep cook, who never leaves the kitchen, who got it from one of the maids, or Harvey the Invisible Giant Rabbit? Pretty stupid, I guess.
But that is certainly possible. So, for right now, I’m believing nothing that is said on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS and ABC, and only about one-third of what I am hearing on Fox News, and nothing appearing in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times or the Washington Post.
Today’s thing that appears to be true is that President Trump announced our withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, something he promised during his campaign. Now, I have not made much of a study of the Paris Climate Accord and am hardly in a position to offer an informed, intelligent opinion on the President’s move.
I will concede that I have a rather half-baked opinion that the Global Warming Panic has been largely manufactured by jerks like Al Gore, who need a job, and “Globalists” looking for ways to hose the United States, and that a lot of the so-called “evidence” used to alarm everyone has been, in no small part, fabricated. But my judgment about the desirability of our withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord is based entirely on the reaction of others to the news.
Those totally freaked out by President Trump’s announcement and who are in various stages of meltdown include the following (get ready, it’s a long list): Obama, Hillary, John Kerry and every other Democrat; every snowflake in every taxpayer-supported institution of “higher learning” and their professors; every progressive, socialist, communist and all of Hollywood; every gasbag on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS and ABC, and every reporter and editor at the New York Times and the Washington Post; Michael Moore, Bernie Sanders, the Dixie Chicks and Elon Musk (the brilliant entrepreneur with lockjaw on the government teat); and the leaders of France, Italy and Germany (and a few other European countries), all of whom have their hands in our pockets and cannot manage their own business, much less ours.
If all of these consider President Trump’s decision a capital offense, then that is a sure indication – to me at any rate – that his decision was a correct one. If they are desolate, in despair, horrified, terrified, angry, disappointed, upset and just generally ticked off, then I AM HAPPY AS A FAT BABY.
They say two steps forward, one step back. I guess Trump is that one step back.
I’m frustrated with the human race in general for destroying our beautiful planet. I’m so glad we are on our path back to the sun. Global warming will have a whole new meaning in a few 1000 years or so. Sadly, I don’t believe the human race will live that long. We will have cut too many trees, polluted to much air-land-rivers, and killed most of earth’s animals by then. By the time the majority of the masses realize pollution is a real problem, it will be too late for us.
You know Frank, it just natural for our climate to change. It does it every few hundred years no matter what “We” do. That is a proven fact of life. It’s like Lawyers. Lawyers write the laws. Lawyers argue the laws. Ex-lawyers, now called judges, decide what laws we have to abide by. We would be so much better off to let God sort it out. He gave us the coal to keep warm with. As well as the wood to build with and the iron to make railroad tracks with. He also grew the trees to filter out the air we breathe. So, NO we don’t need all the so called “Brains” to screw up the environment. Just let the farmers farm, the fishermen fish, and “People” rule.
Sorry this is one I can’t agree with. I am not a Democrat or a Republican, I am a free thinking individual that researches claims of news for myself. There are problems with global warming. Ask the Mayor of the island in Chesapeake Bay whose island has remained at the same elevation but has lost several feet to water. Or the Alaska islands. You must not live in this country’s cities that issue bad air, stay indoors warnings on a regular basis or talk to farmers who are looking for alternative cash crops because higher average temperatures and less water effect their bottom line. Reduction in pollution is a benefit for everyone except those individuals who put personal profit above the needs of everyone else.
I see plenty being done here in the USA to help get alternate energy sources. The rest of the world is just pissed because WE won’t be funding THEIR programs. So bravo to the President of the USA!
Right, Don. We’ve got enough problems here at home on which to spend money. We don’t need to keep giving away what we need for ourselves.
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