Understand This - LIFE IS NOT REQUIRED TO BE FAIR! Therefore It Seldom Is...

There's continual whining amongst the liberal left-wing, socialist-"progressives". If they have no real cause to champion, they will create one out of thin air, using smoke, mirrors and BS to fill in the blanks. The most recent of their creations is the "climate crisis" based upon a particularly weak theory of "global warming". There are physical limitations to virtually all things, and there are natural cycles in which weather phenomena occur.

The growth of an iceberg can continue only so long before a chunk of it breaks off due to erosion, weight, and stress, thereby forming a second iceberg. We assume that the larger piece is the original iceberg, and we blame the separation upon "global warming".

At the same time we have other icebergs that are still increasing in size, and the scientific community blames that phenomena upon what? Nothing? Just because you can find a large group of scientists - or any other group - willing to agree upon something doesn't necessarily make it a "fact". There have been "doomsayers" since the beginning of recorded history, and it was probably a popular practice long before the recording of history began. And recently evidence has become available that shows there has been manipulation of the facts by the "global warming" gang, which creates bogus statistics and gives a highly unreliable picture of what is actually going on. There's an old saying in statistical analysis that goes like this... "Figures can lie, and liars can figure". Thus has the greatest scam in the history of the world been foisted upon the inhabitants of this planet.

A substantially larger number of scientists are in agreement that we are undergoing global cooling, than there are supporting the global warming theory. Do sheer numbers make one theory more correct than the other? Of course not. How then does the "global warming" theory gain acceptance over the opposing theory? It has been "sold" to world leaders through a network of scientists with a political agenda.

A "climate crisis" blamed upon mankind in general, but with an emphasis upon successful nations - such as the USA - gives the Europeans and other socialist governments the tools they need to leverage their beloved "redistribution of wealth" out of other sovereign entities via the United Nations-sponsored Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark this month. They hope to accomplish this by euphemistically referring to that redistribution of wealth as "global reparations" or "here's an envy tax from those nations which are less successful than you - pay up or risk being labeled an international Scrooge." These groups, which include several large international networks, claim that rich countries should acknowledge their "historical responsibility" and the “ecological and climate debts” they owe to developing countries. “Deep, drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, through domestic measures is part of reparations,” the statement said. “They took much more than their fair share of atmospheric space, and in the process denied the people of developing countries – the people of the South – their rightful share. They must give it back.”

EXCUSE ME?? What "fair share of atmospheric space" did we consume, and who determined and allocated such "atmospheric space" to us? If I were the President of the United States my response to that insanity would be a less-than-diplomatic "GFY!" When were these constraints upon "atmospheric space" created... and by whom? Did anybody see that memo? I must have been out sick that day! I say that because I have been on this planet for over a half-century and, until very recently I had never heard the terms "global reparations" and "atmospheric space". Now I'm thinking, "the 'global reparations' concept is undoubtedly an after the fact idea, created by those who have failed to apply themselves to their endeavors in a successful manner, and their left-wing socialist sympathizers." I'm sorry, but we don't owe anybody Jack (except China... from whom our "leader" continues to borrow money, building our National Debt to unsustainable levels and eroding the value of the U.S. dollar.)! How would the rest of the world like it if we demanded they repay their war debts to the USA? With accrued interest over the past 8/38/56/64/95 years, those amounts would probably pay off our National Debt!

I may not have been raised on a ranch, but I do know the difference between roses in bloom and BS when I smell it! The Copenhagen Conference is nothing more than an international platform designed to perpetuate the myth of "global warming" under the auspices of the otherwise powerless United Nations. Those who participate in the Copenhagen Charade are severely untrustworthy!

Of course there is a chance I could be wrong about all of this - about the same chance as my being a myopic Mongolian dwarf albino aardvark wrangler.

Bogus Tea Party Statistics - The Left Marginalizes Freedom of Speech

Looking back over the government- and media-reported Tax Day Tea Party counts, it seems that there were only "thousands" or "tens of thousands" disgusted American citizens participating in the event. I have been unable to find any realistic total figure published anywhere.

The closest figure I have been able to find was "15% of the parties have reported, and their total is 400,000", which extrapolates to 2,666,666 at 100%. That's TWO POINT SIX MILLION participants nationwide! However, the left-wing media is obviously unwilling to legitimize the movement by accurately reporting the total national number. If my math is only half correct it would still be 1.3 million angry Americans. Does a number that large deserve to be ignored... and labeled as "right-wing extremists who bear close watching"?

If the Government continues to ignore the voice of fiscal responsibility and conservatism, who knows what the final response will be? I doubt that these Americans will simply roll over and play dead, as the left desires, but available options are severely limited. A government that is unresponsive to the will of the people is a dictatorship.

I suppose I could be wrong about this, but it would require a much more active imagination than mine to convince me I was wrong.

Blacks, whites show prejudices along racial divide - - and this is news because?

I was just reading an Associated Press article on the Internet, bearing the above amazingly un-insightful headline. And, the story beneath the headline was equally un-insightful. But, it was the use of a statistic that caught my eye -

"Four of every 10 white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, calling them "lazy," or "violent" or blaming them for the ills of black America, according to the AP-Yahoo poll."

Exactly where is the surprise in that? Chances are that four of every ten Americans hold a least a partly negative view toward their neighbors, regardless of their race. Here's the deal ...

• There is no genetic, inborn dislike of the unlike. Racism, on all sides, is taught by those considered to be authority figures within the family, neighborhood and community. This indoctrination generally begins informally, at an age pre-dating that of understanding, through casual conversations among adults overheard by small children. Wishing to please the adults, the children memorize and practice the litany of hatred which they have heard, hoping for positive recognition.
• It seems to be a part of human nature, at least in many people, to want to look down the social ladder and see somebody beneath them. If there's nobody there, they will - in their own mind - place somebody there. Nobody wants to be on the bottom rung.
• There is resentment for some historical events within all ethnic and racial groups. Some of these events are well-known outside the group primarily affected by it, others are relatively obscure and well-hidden from 'outsiders '. The holocaust, and enslavement of black Africans in post-colonial America, are probably the two best-known. The Turkish war of genocide against the Armenians in 1915-1916, at the cost of 1.5 million Armenian lives, is probably one of the least remembered. The Irish and Italians weren't exactly received with open arms when they immigrated to the USA. But, we tend to forget about those things which happened before most of us were born ... if we ever learned about them in the first place. The whiners get the attention.
• Revisionist history has become a fun subject for our liberal left educational/indoctrination centers to foist upon the innocent young. The basic philosophy there is one of - if you don't like the way things happened in the past, rewrite history the way you would have liked it to have been! The hope there is probably that 'if a thing is ignored long enough, perhaps it will become less noticeable in the future.' If you ignore a scab it will heal more quickly ... but if you ignore a cancer, it may just kill you!
• Most people have had at least one negative social interaction with someone of a different race or ethnicity ... and probably 20 times that many with people of their own race/similar ethnicity, but which do they remember? (That was, of course, a hypothetical question which I shall now answer ...) They remember the one with the member of a different race, because there is something about them that makes it more memorable. It may be the color of their skin ... or the way they talk ... or their manner of dress. Regardless of what it may be, there is something about them that causes us to make a mental generalization about all the others who may resemble that person. That's just another negative aspect of human nature. Here's a surprise for some of you readers -human beings are not perfect, and the vast majority don't even strive for - or desire - perfection. It's easier to go with the flow of one's peers. 'Going with the flow' requires less objective thought, provides less emotional turmoil and less social conflict than taking an oppositional stand. On a slightly more positive note, you remain on good social terms with your peers and reap the rewards of being accepted as one of the like-minded masses.

Almost every race and ethnic group has been on the receiving end of prejudice somewhere and at some point in time. And many - besides people of African descent - have ancestors who were slaves. What would be newsworthy, would be if the media stopped fanning the flames of racial discord with insipid,sophomoric articles such as this one!

There must be some point in time at which we are all ready to put the injustices of the past to rest. Resentment of things that happened to ancestors 150 to 2,500 years ago is ridiculous! Yes, it was a bad deal. But, as the Irish and Italians have done, get on with your life - the one YOU have in the here and now. Living in the past is counterproductive, in that it will not resurrect your ancestors ... it will just keep feeding resentment. And that resentment seems to cross-feed to those you resent - who go merrily about resenting the resenters for their resentment, which only feeds that resentment, etc., etc., ad nauseam.

But, this is just the way I see things. I may be as socially myopic as most people seems to be. I'm not certain that I'm finished with this subject yet, but I'm going to post it anyway. I can always come back and continue it at a later time in a separate post.