Talking About the Weather
For the past twenty years or so, more and more people have been gulled into believing they have the power to make Mother Nature say “Uncle!”
Mark Twain is credited with having said that everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Actually, it was his friend, Charles Dudley Warner, who said it. But that’s the nice thing about being Mark Twain or, say, Oscar Wilde or even George Bernard Shaw. If anyone in the neighborhood says something witty, you get credit for it. But no matter who said it, it once was true, but those are what some of us now refer to as the good old days.
For the past twenty years or so, more and more people have been gulled into believing they have the power to make Mother Nature say “Uncle!”
There are several reasons that tens of millions of people are willing to pretend that we humans have the power to put a stop to things like hurricanes, cyclones and tidal waves. If they’re entrenched or ever hope to be entrenched in the so-called scientific community, it’s because they want to find employment at colleges and universities and be in a position to receive government grants.
If they’re left-wing politicians, it behooves them to promote the fallacy because they wish to gain even greater control over the nation’s economy. It is the same thing that motivated them to pass the Affordable Care Act, even though they knew that Obama was lying when he said that people would be able to hang on to their medical insurance and their doctors if they were satisfied with the status quo. They also knew they were lying when they claimed they would be providing 30 million additional people with medical insurance and cutting the cost by $2,500 for the average family. That is what we call a super whopper with fries.
Today, even Bill Clinton has begun calling ObamaCare “a crazy mess.” Of course by this time, when insurance companies are bailing out of the system altogether or raising their rates by 60-80%, it’s easy to call it crazy. Unfortunately, Bill was all for it when the program was known as HillaryCare in the early 90s.
What makes the climate change hoaxsters so totally vile is that they, better than anyone, know that they’re lying. The proof is that they started out warning us about global-warming, but when too many people started pointing out that temperatures had actually been declining for a number of years after Al Gore had sounded the alarm about cities being flooded out of existence by rising ocean levels, they suddenly stopped being so specific about the nature of the menace. Instead, they started using the more inclusive “climate change.” That way they couldn’t lose. No matter what the fickle weather might do, they could say: “See? I told you it would get (hotter) (colder) (wetter) (drier) (snowier) (foggier), but you ignored my dire warnings.”
And let us not forget that 20 years before that, the same crowd was running around like headless chickens squawking about a fast-approaching Ice Age.
There is one other group that has a dog in the fight. They’re the left-wingers in Third World nations who eagerly adopted the mantra that carbon dioxide, formerly known as the gas without which life could not exist on earth, was actually a toxic pollutant caused by Caucasians burning coal and oil. Those people, a group of anti-colonial, anti-white, communists that would certainly include Barack Obama and his father, would stop at nothing to bankrupt the industrial west.
That isn’t to say that there isn’t a toxic pollutant that should be eliminated from the earth’s atmosphere. But it’s not carbon dioxide; it’s Liberalism.
If you wish to understand why so many Americans who aren’t seeking jobs in the science departments of colleges, aren’t left-wing members of Congress and aren’t residing in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, would join with the perennial malcontents in this crusade, the answer is that they have been raised to believe in left-wing sound bites and slogans. They consider safe spaces, free stuff and politically correct speech, their birthright. They have been so successfully bamboozled that they actually consider Trump’s comments about an overweight beauty queen to be more offensive than Hillary’s private server, which was used for no other reason than to conceal the fact that the U.S. Secretary of State was accepting bribes from foreign nations.
These simpletons are so easily conned that they’re convinced that plastic bags are a greater threat to life on earth than Islamic terrorists.
To be fair, I must confess to harboring a scientific belief that may strike others as equally zany. I happen to believe that there is something toxic about sea water, and I’m not just referring to the damage it does to the paint jobs of cars parked too near the beach.
I just can’t accept that it’s coincidental that those who live within 50 miles of the coasts adjacent to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are, nearly without exception, devotees of Saul Alinsky, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, and totally dependent on the New York Times and the Washington Post, for their news of the world.
Even those supporting the Democratic ticket generally agreed that Mike Pence defeated Tim Kaine in the V.P. debate. Kaine made such an utter fool of himself in his role as attack dog that even when Gov. Pence granted that his opponent was sincerely invested in his Catholicism, I half-expected Sen Kaine to interrupt and announce: “Oh, no, I’m not!”
Speaking of jerks, Michael Reagan recently insisted that were she still alive, Nancy Reagan would be voting for Hillary Clinton. I recall that Mrs. Reagan came in for a good deal of ridicule when it was discovered that, while serving as First Lady, she often sought guidance from an astrologer. I guess she must have bequeathed her personal stargazer to Michael, or perhaps it was just her Ouija board.
In the meantime, Rudy Giuliani’s daughter has announced her intention of voting for Hillary Clinton.
It leads me to wonder if writing children out of wills has gone entirely out of fashion, the way that spankings and groundings apparently have in this ultra-permissive society.
I have long despised those who are extremely wealthy parroting Obama’s insistence that folks like themselves should pay their fair share of income taxes. For one thing, anyone who actually believes that Congress and the President should have even more money made available for them to waste needn’t wait around for tax rates to be increased; they’re free to write a check to the Treasury and call it a charitable contribution.
But of all of the millionaires and billionaires I resent, Warren Buffet is at the top of my list of irredeemable deplorables. That’s because his company, Berkshire Hathaway — and how much more hoity-toity sounding can you get? — has been fighting with the IRS over unpaid taxes since 2002.
During a recent exchange with a reader that involved Sigmund Freud, she happened to mention that in her opinion, Freud was an idiot whose theories have ruined a great many lives.
It was an observation with which I happened to agree. Having known a great many people who have undergone psychoanalysis — and how could I not, being Jewish and having worked in show business most of my adult life? — I regard the practice on a par with phrenology, astrology and Scientology.
So far as I’m concerned, Freud’s greatest achievement was in moving the couch from the parlor into his office so that he and all future psychiatrists could deduct it as a business expense.
