I hope the people shoveling snow in Denver or battling floods and freezing temps in Fargo aren’t as confused as I am. Do they even understand they can’t be having these difficulties? With the earth heating up at a furious pace, what they are experiencing is impossible. Geez, ask Al Gore!
Those mental giants who went sledding off to measure the North Pole’s dwindling ice cap, and had to be saved by fume-belching fossil-fueled airplanes, couldn’t possibly have experienced the arctic cold and blinding snow they thought was threatening their lives. They must have been hallucinating from the heat! Okay, so which one of you kids can spell man-made global warming? Let’s see: H-O-A-X. There’s another way to spell it too: T-Y-R-A-N-N-Y.
You see, any confusion arising here has to do with attempting to address the whimsy of political religion by using the concrete logic of science. It’s the old square peg in a round hole story. Now for the capper: Since there’s not much around these days to feel good about, let’s create something that will give us all a few warm fuzzies. How about a global “Earth Hour“? You know, like making a “wave” at the ballpark!
Yes “Greenies” Saturday night, as 8:30PM hits their time zone, everyone in the world is supposed to turn off all energy consuming devices for one hour — assuming they live in a country that can afford energy consuming devices, like computers, cell phones and lightbulbs. ‘Bama’s brother George in Kenya, for example, may have to visit the neighbors; I don’t think Thomas Edison has visited his block yet.
Am I participating? Oh, you bet! At 8:30 Saturday night, I plan turn on every light, appliance and energy-gulping device in the house, just to see how fast I can make that little black dial spin on the electric meter. I may even start both cars and let them run for an hour or so. Whatever you do is strictly up to you, at least until our morph into The People’s Republik of Amerika is complete. Then, we’ll be taxed into submission and forced to comply like the mindless little ‘Bamabots who actually buy this kind of crap.
At least until then, I have reserved one defiant digit in the center of my left hand for at least partial erection toward these great green gobs of global gullibility — and you know what? Regardless of how any of us respond to this latest “planet-saving” ploy, we’re all still going to have enough juice to burn toast and brew coffee in the morning.
R.S.F.
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