Settled Science is an Oxymoron

The biggest lie you will hear repeated in the climate debate is that the science is settled. Science is never settled; it never has been and it never will be. In the 2nd century, Claudius Ptolemy scientifically "discovered" (using observation and charting) that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun and planets all rotated around us. For the next 1400 years, that science was settled until Nicolaus Copernicus discovered (through observation and charting!) that Ptolemy was, in fact, dead wrong. And so it is with the climate debate; the science is far from settled and somebody in the future will most likely laugh at the science-alarmists of today who go around telling us that we're headed towards drowning, boiling, starving, or whatever the slogan of the day is. Science often reverses itself; in fact, ~40 years ago the cover of Time magazine told us we were headed for an ice age because scientists used data that concluded that mankind was doomed and we were all going to freeze to death at some point. Often, they can't even accurately predict the weather tomorrow, much less tell us what is going to happen in X number of years. So much for scientific predictions.

For the record, I'm not a scientist and I don't know if climate change (formerly called global warming, until the timetables fell apart) is real, and if it is, if it is caused by our existence on the planet or it is just a naturally-occurring event far beyond our control. There are plenty of real scientists on both sides of the issue and frankly, I don't know who to believe. If these so-called experts can't agree, why should I take a side when I don't know who or what to believe. The media is spectacularly good at spreading half-truths and whole lies, so you can't believe much of what they have to say about it either.

Climate change science has also spawned a cottage industry that depends on government money and once that teat is suckled, we all know how hard it is to wean off of. It's easy to keep beating the drum when the revenue stream is flowing, and nobody cashing their paycheck seems to be in a rush to turn that faucet off.

Ah, but I do know when a charlatan is brought before us, and recently Greta Thunberg wore those clothes. With her bold speech that we'll be watching you...  how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood ...People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you... she showed us what a tool she is.

Greta, we didn't steal a goddamn thing from you. In fact, we have instilled at your fingertips the sum of all that man has accomplished to date. You whored yourself out to the panderers of doom and gloom that knew it would be hard to attack a naive and pretty 16-year old girl. How dare you allow yourself to be used this way... You spout disputed "facts" and numbers as if you're some sort of expert, when in fact all you are doing is regurgitating their we're all gonna die because you're idiots mantra. In fact, if the predictions we heard a decade or so ago were right, major cities would already be underwater. They aren't and again, that should tell you enough about scientific predictions and their accuracy.

But I do agree with you on one thing, but for a very different reason. We are headed for a mass extinction, but it has little to do with anything you've said. And it has nothing to do with a big asteroid or meteor crashing into the earth either. 

The mass extinction in the US began in 1973 when we legalized the killing of unborn human beings, Greta. In America, we've lost 60+ million living beings since then (probably hundreds of millions worldwide) and if that's not a large number, you tell me what is. When human beings can't agree on what a human being is or what being alive is, then we're headed down the tubes. When we so easily discard our values about human life and somehow justify the arbitrary slaughter of our future generations, we are doomed. You're 30 years too late to the party, sweetheart. The mass extinction already began almost 5 decades ago. How many Einsteins, how many Beethovens, how many Van Gogh's have been lost because some people couldn't be bothered to do what was done for them? If there is anything to get angry about, if there is anything you should wear a scowl over, it's that, Greta.

So while you have your 15 seconds of fame and cash the checks associated with that, the rest of us are going to go about our daily lives. And we're not going to chuck the inventions and innovations of those that preceded us because of a cult of people that think the sky is falling. Neither are we willingly going to open up our wallets wider to fund what you think ought to be done about it, and that's because if there's one thing government is good at, it's wasting money while taxing us to the nines. Frankly, we all read the story about the boy that cried wolf too many times, and we're getting tired of it

You were used, Greta and you don't even begin to understand how.

Stupid Q of the Week 21Sep

What a dog and pony show it was this week. First, the grey lady (NY Times) threw yet more mud at Justice Brett Kavanaugh with a hit job accusing him of inappropriate sexual conduct decades ago. Problem was, the details were sketchy and the "victim" refused to talk about it. It was another case of "all the news that's shit to print" from the biased fake newspaper. It's obvious this isn't about what Kavanaugh did or didn't do; rather, it's another attempt to remove him from the bench before another Roe v Wade redux hits the SCOTUS. Of course, all the turkeys calling themselves candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination immediately joined in calling for his impeachment .... and the irony of it all is they have more sins in their collective closet than Brett Kavanaugh could ever amass in 2 lifetimes.

Elizabeth Warren should impeach herself for falsely calling herself a native American Indian to further both her law and teaching career. Beto should be reminded he drove drunk and crashed a car, and then tried to drive away from the accident and probably would have, if somebody hadn't caught up to him and stopped him ... not to mention his arrest for burglary, of all things. Bernie Sanders ought to get on his prayer rug facing east and thank the deities that let his wife off after her stint running a college into oblivion while cashing some pretty large checks along the way. Kamala Harris ... well, I already wrote about her and she's no Mahatma Ghandi either.

In fact, all of the people running for President have skeletons in the closet. By the time you get to high office, you've trod on more than one set of toes. BTW, this includes the incumbent, but in spite of of that he still garnered over 300 electoral votes, mainly because his opponent was a bastard of epic proportions.

But all that changed when I read what MSNBC's Joy Reid said on Tuesday of this week. With no shame whatsoever, Joy clued us in that she's just another racist posing as a journalist, albeit on the airwaves, not in ink.

She said that white Christian men in America are "increasingly open" about their willingness to enact apartheid to ensure control of the government.

She said America has a problem because it has "a very determined minority—in this case, wealthy white men and wealthy white Christian men and Christian Americans who are of the fundamentalist variety."

She said those men, who support President Donald Trump as an "avatar" for their movement, are happy to use South Africa's infamous system of racial oppression to "maintain power forever."

This is the same Joy Reid that also came under fire for failing to provide evidence of her claim that hackers created a series of fake posts on her blog to discredit her. The posts, which were up for years on her blog "The Reid Report," contained homophobic language, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and other inflammatory material. She apologized but also alleged some of the posts were the product of "hackers" and called for a federal investigation. After a while, she dropped the request for an investigation, which pretty much tells us there were no "hackers" at all.

So here's my Ode to Joy, with apologies to Beethoven. I'm pretty sure that if he were still alive, he'd be glad he was deaf considering the felch the liberal media is trying to foist off as genuine journalism.

SQOTW 14Sep

It's Friday the 13th and a full moon is trying to peek out from behind the clouds as I write this. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with stupid people saying stupid things; maybe somebody will squeak one out tonight for honorable mention next week. We'll see.

This week's winner won twice; once for stupid quote of the week and also for stupid liar of the week. Of course I'm talking about Kamala Harris, who used her position (in more than one way!) as San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown's mistress to climb the political ladder all the way into the US Senate. California is, of course, so avant-garde that publicly dating a man 31 years older than her while he was still married didn't raise too many eyebrows. Often, Willie was so proud of his women that he would go to parties with his wife on one arm and his mistress on the other. Kamala "dated" him for quite a while, but when she was elected District Attorney and then Attorney General she realized she didn't need him anymore and dumped him with this comment:

"His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing."

I'm guessing Willie is regretting "dating" her now. And we can kind of take a guess at Kamala's character with that statement; it tells us she's a user of people to further herself, and when somebody can't do anything for her anymore, it's hasta la vista, baby.

But that's not what made her the winner this week. She's running for President (God help us all if she ever wins) and at a Town Hall in New Hampshire this week, after somebody in the audience called President Trump "mentally retarded," she replied Well said .... well said as she brushed her hair back and laughed. The man spoke very clearly and everybody heard his words. Not one word was mumbled. Her body language also tells us she was very much engaged in the conversation.

Of course, cameras were rolling and on replay, it dawned on her this was raw stupid for a supposedly politically correct Presidential candidate to do, so she attempted to spin her response with this tweet:

Kamala Harris

✔@KamalaHarris

When my staff played the video from my town hall yesterday, it was upsetting. I didn’t hear the words the man used in that moment, but if I had I would’ve stopped and corrected him. I’m sorry. That word and others like it aren’t acceptable. https:///1170434381003001857 

Denying she heard the words is something nobody is going to believe after watching that video, Kamala. A better approach would have been a sincere apology for your words and giggles, laced with a promise to try to do better next time. We're all human and most of us are familiar with the word "retarded." It still gets used often and I sure most of us have said it at one point or another.

Doubling down on her error and throwing away the chance to ever repair this, she followed it up with this bold lie:

"I heard him talk about the other stuff and then that came later and it was not something that I really heard or processed or I in any way condone. That's for sure," Harris told CBS News afterward.

Um, no. You heard it, you processed the words and you laughed. And then you honored the words, Kamala. The video doesn't give you any leeway to make that claim. It is patently clear you understood what was said.

I'm wondering if her pants burst into flames when she tried to spin it, but apparently they didn't, nor did they during the Kavanaugh inquisition confirmation hearings so I'm guessing that old adage really doesn't quite carry the penalty it says it does.

Besides, I'm betting Kamala realizes she needs the "retarded" vote when she tried to buff that scratch out, seeing as that's probably one of the prerequisites of being one of her supporters.

And you say Donald Trump is a liar. How ironic.

PS: If anybody comments on this blog entry, please don't say "well said, well said." That would seem ... retarded, considering the context.

SQOTW 7Sep

It was a slower week than last, but as always somebody or a group of somebodies said something stupid. San Francisco, the Gomorrah of the west coast qualified when their Board of Supervisors named the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization." Never mind that the NRA encourages patriotism, defends the Constitution of our country and promotes safe and responsible gun ownership with ongoing education, it is now a group of "terrorists". Thanks for the heads up; knowing ~5 million citizens of the US are now terrorists merely because you said so reinforces my thoughts about Trump Deranged Syndrome having infected the entire west coast of the US.

The irony of naming the NRA as terrorists but ignoring the radical violent mob of street rioters known as Antifa as much more worthy of the description strikes me as what happens when brain atrophy has reached critical mass in a Liberal. I visited SanFran decades ago ... and at this point, I can say with fair accuracy I'll never return. I never left my heart in San Francisco, but I'm pretty sure the majority of residents left their brain there long ago solely because they tolerate walking around human feces on the sidewalks as they conduct their daily business. I'm thinking some new strain of the black plague is going to arise out of this fertile environment because if government won't fix it, I'm betting mother nature is going to take a stab at it at some point down the road.

But this week even that stupidity loses to MSNBC's Chris Hayes, who, in a moment of sermonizing why the electoral college should be abolished came out with this gem:

 And the weirdest thing about the Electoral College is the fact that it wasn’t specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.

No shit, Sherlock. It wouldn't be legal if it wasn't  ...legal. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Congratulations, Mr. Obvious. Those words earn the dunce cap this week.

Oh, and good luck with that electoral college thing. Good luck trying to amend the Constitution to get rid of it. Do you really think 3/4 of the states are going to vote to diminish their say in Presidential elections? Do you really think the heartland of the US is going to allow 4 states to elect a President ... forever, going forward?

I doubt it. Wax philosophical all you want, it's not going anywhere for the foreseeable future.

But then again, who can really see the future, anyway? The best answer to that is historians, who already have a hint of what happens when the ability to choose representation suddenly goes away.