The Maxim: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
My Take: Power deludes, and absolute power deludes absolutely.
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Posted on 01/22/2013 12:29:00 PM PST by lowbridge
Not to be outdone, Barack Obama has used his second inaugural address to declare war on an even more nebulous threat to the security of the world: reality, itself.
Here's how he put it in his inaugural address: (H/T Theo Spleenventer; Bishop Hill)
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms."
The first sentence is a blatant untruth. Concerted global action so far to deal with the threat of climate change has resulted in: higher energy prices; more deaths from fuel poverty; more intrusive regulation; the destruction of rainforests and the squandering of agricultural land on biofuels; higher food prices; famine and food riots – as a result partly of the drive for biofuels; the entrenchment of corporatism and rent-seeking to the detriment of free markets; the ravaging of the countryside with ugly solar farms and even uglier wind turbines; the deaths of millions of birds and bats; the great recession. How any of this has in any way benefited either our children (who are going to find it far harder to find a job) or future generations is a complete mystery.
The second sentence is a devious combination of the junk factoid and the non sequitur.
That "overwhelming judgement of science" is a reference to the comprehensively discredited Doran survey: the one where the "97 per cent of climate scientists" turned out to consist of just 75 out of 77 climate scientists who could be bothered to reply to two silly and dubious questions.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
When you are as totally unqualified as the kenyan usurper, and you destroyed a great many of the brain cells you may have had by getting "all wee weed up", yet you advance to the oval office through affirmative action, it is very difficult to distinguish reality.
you should tell people like that to abolish the law of gravity, and go jump off a tall building.
I think it was either kimberly gilfoil, or perhaps hte other darkhaired girl who said “:If he gets reelected, you are goign to see him unleashed’ and she couldn’tr have been more right- he let it be known right fro mthe start at the innauguration that he was abotu to destroy ALL the nmoral values this coutnry once stood for- And he’ll do it all convincing hte masses that it’s ‘for their own good’
A powerful delusion is sweepign htis nation whiel prices for EVERYTHING are risign rapidly whiel the coutnry refuses to any longer properly take care of hte sick and elderly- thsoe under the delusion think everythign is goign just fine and that thweir messiah his higness in washington, will take care of it all-
We’re i nvery seriosu trouble in this nation
“Climate change” is Obama’s smokescreen for spending more federal money that we don’t have on dubious ventures.
The news media is all agog over gay rights.
The Maxim: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
My Take: Power deludes, and absolute power deludes absolutely.
Global Warming on Free Republic
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