Posted on 04/22/2008 6:00:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
Of the many things most people do not know about Earth Day is that it is also the anniversary of the Alan Carubabirthday of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union. Coincidence? I doubt it.
These days most people know little of history. We are witnessing a new generation who know little or nothing about the Soviet Union and the Cold War it waged against America and the world for the supremacy of Communism in the latter half of the last century. These are kids who don't even known when we fought our Civil War and for whom Korea and Vietnam are just names of places where there were wars, the latter of which we lost.
When we finally left Vietnam, we lost something else too. We lost the willingness to wage war the only way it can be waged, by killing as many of the enemy as possible to make them lose the will to continue. That includes destroying as much of the enemy’s homeland too. It involves overwhelming force and that involves a massive military presence. You can't do that with just volunteers.
The actual financial cost of the war in Iraq has been small compared to the size of our gross domestic product that is measured in trillions of dollars. It’s small, too, in terms of the casualties of the war. In World War Two, we lost more than 4,000 men taking a single Pacific island. Truman dropped two atom bombs on Tokyo because it was estimated we’d lose a million men to take the main island. He was right to do it.
Americans have grown soft. That’s one of the reasons Osama bin Laden thought he could destroy the Twin Towers, drain a trillion dollars out of our economy, and disappear into the hills of the border country between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He expected the U.S. to respond, but he also knew he had time on his side. We would grow tired of chasing Taliban around. Our allies would grow tired, too.
So we come to Earth Day 2008 and, despite the many good things to be said of America, we have let ourselves be trapped by the many lies of the Greens, incrementally allowing them to decide everything from how much water we can have in our toilet tanks to whether we can buy an incandescent light bulb. Like bin Laden, they knew they could wait us out.
They also know how pliable our politicians are. All three of the candidates for president believe global warming is happening even though a kid in Meteorology 101 can cite the data since 1998 that documents a cooling trend. It’s going to get a lot colder because we are all on the forward edge of a new Ice Age. We’re due one. Any climatologist will tell you that.
So Americans will blindly go along, not understanding why the food costs more and the cost of gasoline and other energy like natural gas keep climbing even though common sense says that if the government does not permit access to our own reserves—for all the blather about energy independence—the price will go up in ways beyond our control.
Americans will blame Big Oil whose combined ownership of worldwide oil reserves represents a scant 4% of the world’s known reserves. That’s right, ExxonMobil, Shell, Conoco Phillips, BP and the rest own very little of the world’s oil.
One of the many nations who does own oil is Russia, our former adversary in the Cold War. Now they have so many oil billions they want to buy American businesses with the surplus. There's something very wrong with that! Under Putin, they have returned to a dictatorship. The Russians seem to prefer that.
Americans will blame our farmers—the 2% of the population that feeds the rest of us and whose exports represent a significant part of economy—but why blame people who the government literally pays to not plant crops? Why blame people whose own costs of planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and transporting their crops to the market cost more thanks to a crazed government mandate to turn 40% to 60% of the corn crop into moonshine and then requires oil refineries to add that moonshine to every gallon of gasoline you buy? And then taxes us for every gallon of that inefficient blend!
Earth Day. What an absolutely idiotic notion.
Anyone who has ever traveled around the planet will tell you that it’s filled with forests, jungles, deserts, mountains,and mostly oceans. We have pretty much used every bit of arable land we can to feed the population. Only the Green Revolution of genetically modified seeds has made it possible to get greater yields per acre of farmland. Otherwise people would have died off in the millions in recent times.
They are likely to do so now if this artificial food shortage created by an idiotic “biofuels” program isn’t junked as fast as possible.
The Greens will just have to be content with killing millions of Africans by denying them DDT to protect against malaria or millions more around the world from dengue fever. Add to that the third of the world’s food supplies that are lost every year to insect and rodent predation because the Greens cannot ban pesticides fast enough.
Then there's that problem of refrigeration to preserve foodstuffs since the Greens got Freon, the cheapest and best refrigerant every invented, banned.
Earth Day makes me want to puke.
Everyone who runs around complaining about plastic supermarket bags makes me want to puke.
Everyone who thinks we should all crowd onto trains and buses and not drive when we want and where we want makes me want to puke.
Everyone who cries about endangered species when 95% of all the species that ever existed on Earth are extinct make me want to puke.
People who don’t care that a billion people on Earth live on about $1 a day or that a billion people do not have electricity make me want to puke.
People that won’t let Americans build more coal-fired or nuclear plants to generate the electricity we need make me want to puke.
A government that throws billions at studies of climate change makes me want to puke.
The climate is changing. The climate has always changed. The climate will continue to change. Get over it!
Alan Caruba blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com . He is the founder of The National Anxiety Center, http://www.anxietycenter.com .
Alan Caruba Bio and Archives
“You can’t do that with just volunteers.”
Stopped reading here. What utter uninformed cr@p. We have the deadliest military that has ever existed. The problem is not its size or lethality. The problem is a lack of political will to use it to full effect.
The congressional dems want consumer costs to skyrocket until November. Hell, wasn’t them who said things would change once they took control of Congress? Indeed, things have changes. And, the DBM fails to mention where the blame lies.
The insinuation is that somehow the people who volunteer aren't good enough to get the job done.
Which is poppycock.
I think the coincidence of Earth Day and Vlad’s birthday is happenstance. We recovering hippies know that 4/22 is early in Taurus, maybe the first non-cusp day of Taurus, and Taurus is an earth sign.
Everyone who thinks we should all crowd onto trains and buses and not drive when we want and where we want makes me want to puke.
Everyone who cries about endangered species when 95% of all the species that ever existed on Earth are extinct make me want to puke.
People who don’t care that a billion people on Earth live on about $1 a day or that a billion people do not have electricity make me want to puke.
People that won’t let Americans build more coal-fired or nuclear plants to generate the electricity we need make me want to puke.
A government that throws billions at studies of climate change makes me want to puke.
Unless we create holy hell, we will not only puke... OUR WALLETS WILL BE PICKED CLEAN as well!
It’s also Peter Frampton’s, Jack Nichoson’s, Glen Campbell’s, and Eddie Albert’s birthday. Coincidence, I think not...
FROM WIKI:
The significance of the date
* April 22 was the birthday of actor Eddie Albert. Because of Eddie Albert’s early work with environmental causes and groups, when International Earth Day was created, it was decided it must be held on April 22 because that is his birthday. [15]
* April 21 was the birthday of John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club. This is not lost on organizers who thought that April 22 was Muir’s birthday.
* April 22, 1970 was the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin. Time reported that some suspected the date was not a coincidence, but a clue that the event was “a Communist trick,” and quoted a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution saying, “Subversive elements plan to make American children live in an environment that is good for them.”[9] J. Edgar Hoover, director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, may have found the Lenin connection intriguing; it was alleged the FBI conducted surveillance at the 1970 demonstrations.[16] The idea that the date was chosen to celebrate Lenin’s centenary still persists in some quarters,[17][18] although Lenin was never noted as an environmentalist.
* April 22 is also the birthday of Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor Day, a national tree-planting holiday started in 1872. Arbor Day became a legal holiday in Nebraska in 1885, to be permanently observed on April 22. According to the National Arbor Day Foundation “the most common day for the state observances is the last Friday in April . . . but a number of state Arbor Days are at other times to coincide with the best tree planting weather.”[19] It has since been largely eclipsed by the more widely observed Earth Day, except in Nebraska, where it originated.
Peter Frampton’s ?....oh yeah, the guy in the GEICO commercials!..............
A perversion of intelligent opinion often starts with gross exageration.
Making them loose the will to continue and having a monopoly on "force" and violence at the conclusion is a plain description.
Going through the sixties, the earth day leftist connections were obvious at the time. It wasn't a deep secret that the new-left were honoring Lenin.
Neat....You should post it! Worth a laff or two or three!........................
typing with kitty in lap hence one handed, no caps.
thanks.
may i have the link, please?
Happy Earth Day!
; )
JMO, but I think you both read something into Caruba's article that wasn't there; that is, his probable contention that boots on the ground hold territory. We have the ability and resources to win most any conflict, but holding on after winning is another matter altogether. Not unlike our "surge" in Iraq. Against enemies hell-bent on martyrdom, "boots" are the only way to keep what we've won, and of course, the will to get'r done.
Today also happens to be my own birthday and I just don’t like sharing it with Mother Earth! It kinda pisses me off...:)
http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/looselose.html
For those less informed, Carubabirthday is celebrated when your reindeer reaches puberty. Common among Laplanders and other northern-dwelling peoples.
It is normally celebrated with a Lapp Dance.......
long article at poster’s link ping
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977496/posts
Global COOLING Currently Under Way
Excerpt: All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously. A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years.”
My additional comment on this last article, is that at this rate of cooling the Earth will be in an Ice Age in 10 years, if this rapid cooling continues ( and based on my research on Sun data there will be more cooling). The liberal media would be going nuts if the Earth had warmed this much, almost a whole degree Celsius in year because they say only 8 degrees more or so and the planet would be destroyed.
. This is just one more piece of evidence that shows that the socialists( the government-media-complex and liberals) are destroying the U.S. economy so that they can destroy capitalism and turn the U.S. into a socialist state.
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