(Last column till next Wednesday. Closed half day today, all day Thursday, Friday, and President’s Day, which is Monday. Happy birthday to me on Saturday)
I’ll admit it, I was sucked into it at first, but have read enough of late to totally discard the “earth warming” nonsense, and especially the increase in carbon dioxide. Is carbon dioxide increasing? Great! That’s what makes plants and trees grow. Co2 is fertilizer in the air for the green things on earth. Where I live, it has been the coldest winter in anyone’s memory, and we have had over twice the normal snowfall for a year already, and March is the snowiest month here. As I write this, The Northeast and Midwest are having brutal cold, and in northwest New York, no one can remember ever having this much snow…and it is still snowing! It was just about 30 years ago that the ’experts’ were warning us that we were about to enter a new ice age. The warming currents which keep Europe and Britain warm will fade, and the earth will revert to a modern ice age. Surely you can remember that! We all worried and shivered. Now it’s the opposite? New science? New discoveries?
Then there was the odious ’ozone hole’ in the atmosphere. Oh my! We’re all doomed to be baked in furious ultra violet rays pouring through that hole. The size of the ozone hole was daily clocked and reported by the media. That hole may have been there for a million years or a billion years, because it was there when the brilliant scientists first discovered it. It’s still there, but for some strange reason, it has escaped reporting. Just another scientific fad which the white robed, bespectacled, highly degreed boobs have invented to gain attention to themselves, or for some reason to throw panic into the citizenry.
Worried about the oil shortage? You needn’t. There is enough wind power in just three states to supply all the electrical power for the entire nation 7/24 with wind turbines. Does the wind ever stop in Amarillo? On mountain tops? They can be privately owned and the current fed into the grid, and there would be no need for any central power generation using coal or nuclear. (Can’t someone teach Dubya how to pronounce that word?). Ford and GM have announced a plug-in hybrid, which will eliminate the need for any gasoline in 80% of the time for the average driver. That’ll eliminate most of the nasty gases it would seem to me, plus wind electrical power. All we’d need oil for is for lubrication! Solar heat for homes, and solar electricity even, plus millions of wind turbines would make us totally independent of imported oil and make even Los Angeles air breathable. Why Not do it? Because there would be oxen gored. Big oil industry would suffer, as would filling stations and repair shops, not to mention a host of other big corporate fat cats. Why don’t we do the obvious? Why? Unfortunately, stupid can’t be fixed.
My method of stopping the border invasion is so simple and cheap. Post signs and broadcast continuously in Spanish: “Anyone entering the United States illegally will be shot.” That would solve it instantly. Arm everyone and make it open season on illegals! Do we shoot an intruder in our home or business? Damned right. So why are the national guard and border patrols prohibited from shooting? And if shot at, why do they go to jail if they retaliate? You tell me, but I say that stupid can’t be fixed. Nor can politics, no matter who runs or gets elected. Happy Valentine’s day to you gals, and everyone have a great weekend.