Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:28:58 PM
The global warming crowd is always eagar to tell us that natural disasters are either man-made or a manifestation of the abused planet's wrath. I see the recent terrible flooding in Iowa as a sign from an angry God. He is telling us"I gave you corn for food and oil for fuel. What makes you think that I got that backwards -- I, the Lord? As long as you are stupid enough to take food and put it into your gas tanks, I will put it underwater!"
Heed my words, mankind, and beware God's wrath...
I'm sorry that Tim Russert died so young, but the enconiums to his even-handed unbiased approach to the news and to his show are beginning to nauseate me. A blogger named
Cassandra has not been swept up in the tsunami of bathos, and gives several examples of Russert's leaning-to-port approach. I never forgot the two times I saw Newt Gingrich on Russert's show. Russert could barely contain, and could not conceal his hatred for his guest. He never -
never - spoke to a Democrat like that, at least not in the years I watched him.
I'm sorry he's gone so soon, and I wish him well in the hereafter, but the reaction of his fellow reporters to his passing reminds me once again of one of my favorite definitions in the Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce):
Saint (n) -- a dead sinner revised and edited.
Republican Senator John McCain, who is a dim-bulb when it comes to energy policy, declared that he would never support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (aptly referred to by Mark Steyn as the Arctic National Mosquito Refuge), saying that the area should remain "pristine". Jonah Goldberg of National Review (who has actually journeyed to that barrendesolation) informs us that "pristine" means "unspoiled,
virginal, in an original state". Actually, the area that we'd be drilling in is "In summer, ... is mostly mosquito-plagued tundra and bogs ... In the winter, it reaches 70 degrees below zero (not counting wind chill, which brings it to 120 below) and is in round-the-clock darkness." (This is quoted from Goldberg's
June 13th article.) To me, it sounds like one of the few places on earth which could be beautified by carpet-bombing.
Virginal? I'll wager that very few places on earth are as completely screwed...