While watching footage of the unspeakably fearsome tornado that ripped though Moore, Oklahoma, the thought fleetingly crossed my mind that some loudmouth leftist would try somehow to blame it on pro-freedom normal people.
Sure enough, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse did exactly that.
Yeah, I think that is bull crap and in the utmost of poor taste too. Do you think OK will ask for federal aid? You know what their 2 Republican Senators said to the 5 states requesting aid for Extra Tropical Storm Sandy damage.
ReplyDeleteBut OK is a Red State so we'll let it be your tornado.
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ReplyDeleteIn case you don't sully your mind with the "Freedom Hater" take on the OK Red State Senators' parsing of the difference between the 5 states they turned down for Sandy aid and their great oil laden state where many get their Cadillac health care plans from their employers that we pay for at the pump.
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P.S. They even look mean.
But I, too, am not at all "that" on board with the obvious global warming that is going on being anthropomorphic, but if it is, my thinking is that this is so BIG that there is not much we can do about it. It does make me wonder why they apparently can quite often barely breathe in big cities in China (hell, they had a huge problem during the Olympics for us all to see), without the pollution regulations we have here.
ReplyDeleteFor example, I am a Florida springs junkie and swim in and hang by these beautiful "free" gifts of nature whenever and whereever I can. I can't tell you how horribly they and their denizens are suffering with algae bloom. I have seen a huge difference over the 10 years I have been coming down here to work (swimming in them is much more enjoyable and spritually fulfilling than work of course, you might say I work to live for moments like that there). They are dying dude. The springs are dying and I have that on very good authority, not only from what I read, but from who I know, friends in high places so to speak. We still need to protect these precious natural resources. And that costs much more money than we have been able to manage to squeeze out of the Republican Florida executives and legislative branches here. It simply costs $$ and, unfortunately, will cost the offenders $$$. Sure they throw us a bone, but this is a collective problem and requires collective $$$. That $$$ goes into human pockets and gets recycled into other human pockets so it is still in the economy, but septic tank owners will likely have to have some $$$ taken out of their wallets too. Whether putting all these regulations on our carbon output will help is questionable, but I know with the springs the clear cause is fertilizer run-off, septic tank leakage and, of course drought. I would rather be naked and poor (with a naked and poor lady, of course) living near a springs than in that house upon a hill, moon lying still. Come on baby, run with me. Sorry, you'll have to cruise in that pink Caddilac with someone else hot for your honeypot.
By all means, let's do what is going to work and not fool with what won't.
ReplyDeleteWell put, makes reasonable sense to me. Just don't derisively lump all us nature lovers in as 'tree huggers.'
ReplyDeleteYou may be heartened to know that Discover Magazine which is a serious scientific sort of simplifier for the masses and not glaringly politically biased is circulating this on facebook and on their website that castigates Blue State blowhards and Barbara Boxer for their misguided guile, which reads, in part:
ReplyDelete"...read this Dot Earth post by Andy Revkin, who says that the relationship between greenhouse gases and tornadoes is “an important research question,” but one that “has no bearing at all on the situation in the Midwest and South — whether there’s a tornado outbreak or drought.” He goes on to write: The forces putting people in harm’s way are demographic, economic, behavioral and architectural. Any influence of climate change on dangerous tornadoes (so far the data point to a moderating influence) is, at best, marginally relevant and, at worst, a distraction."
Read more at: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/?p=11242