Here we go again...
The more things change, the more they stay the same....
Opps, sorry I was just amazed that it's Green Week and Earth Day once again. Seems like every other week is Green Week nowadays. I'm all for protecting our planet, and I'd be willing to bet that throughout my lifetime (especially during my time in Boy Scouts) I've done more good to this planet than bad. Thing is - I don't need a new religion. Or as Jack Nicholson's character said in As Good As It Gets "Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up around here."
Lately, it seems like we are getting a lot of crazy. I noticed just a week or two ago that the Denver Nuggets were wearing GREEN uniforms to promote awareness of "environmental" causes. Hmmmm how much did it cost in time and energy to make whole new uniforms. How many windmills did it take to give us those monstrosities.
Oh and it isn't just the average sports fan who is bombarded with this PROPAGANDA. My kids watch Nickelodeon "On Demand" when we need a break. I actually caught a mini ad before Dora (if that show isn't propaganda I don't know what is) which personified the earth as a loving character who "gives a home to the human race" and "cares for me and you". The whole point of this ad is to recycle paper. While on the surface it's fine and cute, I'm sorry but the earth is not a person - it's a thing. This ad is just a start. You put this together with what kids are taught at school about "global warming" and you will see parents being turned in for being "eco-enemies". When you start teaching kids that the cuddly wonderful polar bears (oh wait, they really eat PEOPLE?) are dying because the ice is melting you are just indoctrinating them. (I actually had a guy I went to college with mention that "the polar bears are dying, we have to do something")
Heaven forbid we teach kids to listen to their parents, respect authority, and obey moral standards. But we can't do that anymore. So while we worry about our kids being green - a lot of them get to wear ORANGE, because they don't know right from wrong.
The fact is that I'm worse than a holocaust denier because I do not believe in "man made" global warming. "The argument is over," I've heard High Druid Gore say. Funny thing is, he won't debate anyone so I'm not sure how it's over. The argument hasn't even been made yet. We've only been "smart" enough to calculate and track temperature for a little more than a hundred years. so if the world is 3 billion years old, how do we know that the earth hasn't warmed and cooled 100 times over.
Since when does .0002% of the atmosphere trump the sun, which is approximately 100 times larger than this planet. It's almost like taking a balance ball compared to a golf ball. If that balance ball gets hotter or colder, do you really think that the grass stain on one dimple of that ball has a greater effect?
I recommend that everyone out there pick up a book called "State Of Fear" by Michael Crichton. Remember the guy who wrote "Jurassic Park"?? He started out a few years ago to write a book about what would happen when global warming actually destroyed the earth. Amazingly enough, when he took a hard look at the science, he just couldn't stay with his original concept. THE SCIENCE WOULDN'T SUPPORT IT. He was just too intellectually honest to write a book that propagates a lie. Best part is that he was on the side of the environmentalists, right up to his death. the problem he had is that global warming is a political issue, not a scientific one.
I know - I'm a heretic, holocaust denier, worse than Hitler and Nixon combined. Especially because I wrote this on Earth Day. Well you can simply burn me at the stake, because I'm not going to become one of those TRUE BELIEVERS out there.
Just give me back my basketball! You can keep your religion, I've already got my own and it doesn't depend on anything as temporal as Earth or weather.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Bizzaro World
So this is to be my first official blog (thanks Brian for saying this is what I was meant to do) and I have to admit I'm starting to feel like I'm living in Bizzaro world. You know, the messed up alternate universe where Bizzaro (Superman's twisted mirror image) lives.
Yesterday I officially became a protester and I'm not happy about it. I liked the insulated world I was living in. Those of you who know me would probably say that I'm rather outspoken (who me???) and that I have strong opinions (who'da thought???). But I've never been the protester type.
I think what changed me is the two little boys who are sleeping down the hall. When it was just about me, so what if the world was upside down. I've always had my values (not to say that I've always lived up to them) and yes Mr. Schumer, they are traditional values passed down from horrid places like my parents, my church, and the Boy Scouts (another right wing radical group). But until I was responsible for those two beautiful (but trying) little lives I knew I could take care of myself. Now I really do wonder.
I wonder why the economics I learned as a freshman in college don't apply to our government. Rule one in Econ 101; you must have a way to pay for what you borrow. For about the last 4-6 years that rule has gone right out the window. And not just for the government, but for the guy down the street. When did it become socially acceptable to be a deadbeat??? I'm not smart enough to fix the economy, but I'm pretty sure that loading up in TRILLIONS (think about that number for a minute, a person who lives to be exactly 85 years old will only have 2,680,560,000 seconds in their life, so more dollars in the last 3 months than seconds in my life) isn't going to fix it. Maybe I'm just oldfashioned or maybe they are teaching NEW Econ 101 and I missed it.
I wonder why it seems like the stuff we tried to get away with watching as teenagers (remember when you first got cable and you could stay up til 2 in the morning and turn on HBO and maybe catch a steamy sex scene) is now a commercial for a body wash. I have to admit, I AM the MTV generation. My friends thought I was crazy because of my love for videos, now I turn on ten minutes of MTV and I can see everything and anything I ever lusted over as a teenager. There is no shame in this recent explosion of exploitation. What happened to watching a video cause it's MUSIC television, not real life soap opera whorehouses broadcast 24 7 on that channel. My uncle was a sailor and I doubt he ever saw that kind of show while on shore leave - at least not constantly.
I wonder why people think life is so cheap. I've seen the environazis protest over the life of an owl, but call anyone who is Pro Life an extremist. Hmmmm, I know it's not right to ask this, but how cheap is innocent human life today. And I seriously don't want to hear the what if rape, incest, life of the mother so on and so on arguments. Not that those don't have merit, but the percentage is minuscule in comparison to everyday abortion. Those are issue we could compromise on! America is one of the only countries in the world where you can stand on the corner and scream "ABORTION ON DEMAND, 24 7" and only about half the people will even look at you. Most European countries have tighter regulation on abortion, so please don't tell me that there isn't room for some regulation here. And I'm sorry, but being any part of an abortion will leave a hole right through your soul. They don't tell anyone about that part.
Lastly, I wonder about "global warming". The same people who put a giant ICE planet on the cover of TIME magazine in the late 70's are now saying the earth is going to burn up????? Or wait, was that last year, before we had one of the coldest winters on record in the Northeast, or where it's supposed to snow 20" here in Denver tomorrow. Sorry, I was raised to question anything that seems like a line of rats following the music (does that make Al Gore the Pied Piper, jeeez what a horrid song that must be). Somehow this new religion doesn't appeal to me. And this new enviromentalism is a religion, of that there is little to argue. Of course this is from the same people who brought you evolution only in the schools, a THEORY that has one hell of a lot of holes in it. Why not aliens, teach??? It makes as much sense.
I guess I just never thought I'd live to see Bizzaro world. Guess I better go find some blue kryptonite, and pray every night and day for those two boys down the hall. I'll pray that by the time they grow up, Bizzaro world is a place in their dreams, not a nightmare coming to life more vividly each day!
Yesterday I officially became a protester and I'm not happy about it. I liked the insulated world I was living in. Those of you who know me would probably say that I'm rather outspoken (who me???) and that I have strong opinions (who'da thought???). But I've never been the protester type.
I think what changed me is the two little boys who are sleeping down the hall. When it was just about me, so what if the world was upside down. I've always had my values (not to say that I've always lived up to them) and yes Mr. Schumer, they are traditional values passed down from horrid places like my parents, my church, and the Boy Scouts (another right wing radical group). But until I was responsible for those two beautiful (but trying) little lives I knew I could take care of myself. Now I really do wonder.
I wonder why the economics I learned as a freshman in college don't apply to our government. Rule one in Econ 101; you must have a way to pay for what you borrow. For about the last 4-6 years that rule has gone right out the window. And not just for the government, but for the guy down the street. When did it become socially acceptable to be a deadbeat??? I'm not smart enough to fix the economy, but I'm pretty sure that loading up in TRILLIONS (think about that number for a minute, a person who lives to be exactly 85 years old will only have 2,680,560,000 seconds in their life, so more dollars in the last 3 months than seconds in my life) isn't going to fix it. Maybe I'm just oldfashioned or maybe they are teaching NEW Econ 101 and I missed it.
I wonder why it seems like the stuff we tried to get away with watching as teenagers (remember when you first got cable and you could stay up til 2 in the morning and turn on HBO and maybe catch a steamy sex scene) is now a commercial for a body wash. I have to admit, I AM the MTV generation. My friends thought I was crazy because of my love for videos, now I turn on ten minutes of MTV and I can see everything and anything I ever lusted over as a teenager. There is no shame in this recent explosion of exploitation. What happened to watching a video cause it's MUSIC television, not real life soap opera whorehouses broadcast 24 7 on that channel. My uncle was a sailor and I doubt he ever saw that kind of show while on shore leave - at least not constantly.
I wonder why people think life is so cheap. I've seen the environazis protest over the life of an owl, but call anyone who is Pro Life an extremist. Hmmmm, I know it's not right to ask this, but how cheap is innocent human life today. And I seriously don't want to hear the what if rape, incest, life of the mother so on and so on arguments. Not that those don't have merit, but the percentage is minuscule in comparison to everyday abortion. Those are issue we could compromise on! America is one of the only countries in the world where you can stand on the corner and scream "ABORTION ON DEMAND, 24 7" and only about half the people will even look at you. Most European countries have tighter regulation on abortion, so please don't tell me that there isn't room for some regulation here. And I'm sorry, but being any part of an abortion will leave a hole right through your soul. They don't tell anyone about that part.
Lastly, I wonder about "global warming". The same people who put a giant ICE planet on the cover of TIME magazine in the late 70's are now saying the earth is going to burn up????? Or wait, was that last year, before we had one of the coldest winters on record in the Northeast, or where it's supposed to snow 20" here in Denver tomorrow. Sorry, I was raised to question anything that seems like a line of rats following the music (does that make Al Gore the Pied Piper, jeeez what a horrid song that must be). Somehow this new religion doesn't appeal to me. And this new enviromentalism is a religion, of that there is little to argue. Of course this is from the same people who brought you evolution only in the schools, a THEORY that has one hell of a lot of holes in it. Why not aliens, teach??? It makes as much sense.
I guess I just never thought I'd live to see Bizzaro world. Guess I better go find some blue kryptonite, and pray every night and day for those two boys down the hall. I'll pray that by the time they grow up, Bizzaro world is a place in their dreams, not a nightmare coming to life more vividly each day!
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