It's not over until the fat man debates

A lot of coverage in the media today is being given to former eight year Vice-President, and eight minute President, Al Gore. The chubby guy, who was but a heartbeat away from the Presidency, is now giving heart palpitations to a growing number of scientists and "man caused global warming" skeptics the world over.

For years Mr. Gore has been saying the debate about Global Climate Change (note the change in terminology) is over. Well as Sylvester Stallone, as the scholar John Rambo, once shouted, "Nothing is over!" Hell, the debate never began.

Al Gore has been ducking debate since before the release of the very erroneous An Inconvenient Truth. The Nobel Prize winner is being anything but noble in his zeal to push forward an implementation of climate policies that promise to wreak havoc on the global economy. The only cooling these regulations, taxes and schemes will cause is a cooling of the engines of capitalism.

Newt Gingrich did an admirable job pointing out some of the foibles and inconsistencies in Gore's little presentation this morning. Unfortunately, Newt was a last minute substitute. The first round draft pick was the UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Lord Monckton had been asked by Republican Congressman Joe Barton to offer a rebuttle to the incorrect facts pulled from the former VP's butt. Unfortunately, the leaders of the House Democrats refused to let Lord Monckton speak and decided to inform him when his plane landed in Washington. You'd think they would have wanted to save all that carbon from being burned and told him, the polite way, before he made the trip.

My friends, the hysteria around Global Warming and the push to enact legislation based on false science, misinterpreted data and outright lies by the Green crowd is bordering on the criminal. It is well past time for us, right thinking and informed Americans, to push back against this tide.

We should start by forcing a very public debate between Mr. Gore and a renowned person from the other side. There are several who would do wonders. They probably don't even have to be from the A team. A second rate debater with a bit of information and common sense would do well against Al Gore and his debate strategies of talking down to people and sighing.

Inform yourself. Then inform your neighbor. Look at these and have your eyes opened:

The recently launched Climate Depot.

The Australian.

A great look at Earth Day predictions from 1970.

A look at the kind of ideas that Earth saving minds come up with.

It is a slippery slope as Green will be the new Pink

I feel for the DHS classified Right Wing Extremest Tea Party attendees in the Salt Lake area tomorrow. The mountains above our beautiful city are expected to get another two feet of global climate change induced snowfall. This skiable precipitation will be nothing but a cold wet rain in the valley. I suppose the inclement weather will limit attendance of the event to the truly faithful and keep the riff raff to a minimum. I will be doing the 450 mile carbon burning commute to Las Vegas for the day so my attendance will be only in spirit. To those of you going I say carry on and carry an umbrella.

The spring snowfall turns my thoughts to global warming and the manufactured hysteria around this false, anti-capitalist movement. Summer will soon be here along with the warm temperatures we normally have. Heat waves will spawn the usual newspaper and internet headlines of rising sea levels, melting ice caps and mankind's imminent demise.

The "green" movement, having reached the highest levels of our government has inspired a stimulus package filled with incentives for energy saving jobs, energy saving technologies and alternative energy research. The incentives promise us a better tomorrow and a cleaner planet. Unfortunately, a recently released study indicates the move to "greener" jobs will lead to a bitter tomorrow and emptier parking lots at companies. The unemployed who are now training for "green collar" jobs should be prepared to be back in training very soon as their new job will lead to less jobs overall.

Recently, President Obama's Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, said that the amount of "developable" wind power off the East Coast could produce more energy than all of the coal-fired electric plants in the United States. According to FactCheck.org this statement is full of a bit of globally warmed hot air.

In theory there is enough offshore wind to generate far more electricity than coal plants do. Right now the United States has a total of zero offshore wind farms and, assuming the Kennedys and their Portuguese water dog walking friends in Hyannis Port aren't the only "not in my back yard" citizens on the East Coast, that number likely won't grow to the 3,600 farms it is estimated will be needed to harness and produce enough electricity to replace coal in the near future. To put that number in perspective, we are talking about land based farms that will cover an area the size of the state of Rhode Island.

In an example of how cannibals eat their own, the environmentalist group, Friends of the Earth, have stated that their fellow tree huggers favorite pump product, Biofuels, is producing twice the amount of carbon emissions of the gasoline they are made to replace. As one (most likely) ponytail clad vegetarian member of the group stated, "Trying to cut emissions by adding biofuels to petrol is like trying to cut down on beer by lacing your pints with vodka". I'll agree with him on that point; these green groups drive me to drink, but only in hybrids.

Most disturbing in this age where new coal, oil or nuclear plants are as welcome as Caroline Kennedy at the Vatican, a study of the effects on employment of public monies spent on renewable energy sources in Spain has just been released. In speeches, our President Obama has pointed to the bull running homeland as a solar powered shining example of a green move toward alternative energy. I will admit I haven't read the entire 51 page report but I did gleam this from the executive summary:

"... while it is not possible to directly translate Spain’s experience with
exactitude to claim that the U.S. would lose at least 6.6 million to 11 million
jobs, as a direct consequence were it to actually create 3 to 5 million “green
jobs” as promised (in addition to the jobs lost due to the opportunity cost of
private capital employed in renewable energy), the study clearly reveals the
tendency that the U.S. should expect such an outcome."

What that means in English and Austrian is the expansion of and investment in green jobs actually has a net negative effect. According to the study, Spain spent over 570,000 Euros to create each "green job", including subsidies of more than 1 million Euros per wind industry job. The study cautions against green energy mandates. Duh!

Tomorrow (today for most of you) there will be an estimated 2,000 protest Tea Parties around this great carbon producing country of ours. The numbers in attendance should dwarf those of any recent Earth Day celebrations. Despite this turnout, these parties will be belittled, discounted and made fun of. The attacks have already started on left leaning internet sites and MSNBC. It amazes me that, in the face of overwhelming impact, the mainstream media can ignore this movement while, in the face of underwhelming and often made up "facts", they support the global climate change crowd. Tomorrow, I can hope, will be the tipping point in the economic battle and this will lead to additional victory on the warming front.

While taking back our government, let us also remember, we need to take back our planet.

If you get a chance, pick up a copy of the newly released book "Heaven and Earth" by Ian Plimer. Heaven and Earth is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy inspired by the likes of Mr Offset himself, Al Gore. In fact, help the economy, buy two copies and give one to a friend; preferable a liberal one.

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Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense

Reading headlines today I had to check the calendar a few times to make sure it was not still April 1. I wish it still was because, without the hope that what is being reported is really an attempt at a prank, I am left only to assume those in our government really do think we are stupid.

I've seen the video of President Obama not bowing before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G-20 meeting in London. Well, according to a nameless White House staffer, one of the 500 in the Pres' European posse,

"It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah,".

If that is the case, I have to wonder who's hand that is rising from Obama's side after straightens his waist. I know he and his administration seem to have their hands in to so many aspects of our daily lives that is seems they are blessed with more than a humanly count of two hands.

Those of you think this is a conservative built mountain erupting like an Alaskan volcano that could blast Obama particles skyward (see below) need to realize this is an example of the First African American President of the United States being able to produce yet another faux pas without being called on it in the fawning mainstream media.

Following the anonymous staffer's logic, the President should have been almost on the floor to perform a two handed shake with the Ewok sized Queen of England. Let's go to the tape and see how far he had to bend to shake her hand:


It seems the President's knowledge of bowing etiquette is right in line with his gift giving prowess and mastery of Austrian as a second language. I am thinking the President studied science at the same place as these other subjects. In an effort to curb global warming, The ONE is exploring a plan to shoot pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays and cool the Earth.

The fact that there has been no warming in the past 10 years notwithstanding, isn't pollution (like those particles being launched) one of the things blamed for the supposed warming? The author of Audacity of Hope seems to be quite audacious in his opinion that mankind, sorry personkind, can control nature with what would be a parlor trick akin to making hand shadows on the wall from a table lamp's light.

The plan to stop global warming could be like a cold shower to the maker of the Kyoto Box Oven. This aluminum foil covered cardboard box won the "inventor" of the box around $100,000. I wonder if he is going to reinvest some of this bounty in to developing the Magnifying Glass Microwave?

I wish I could make these things up but I guess truth is stranger than fiction.

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It is one of the 57 seven states

I missed the online Town Hall meeting held by The ONE today as, unlike many of those who seem to attend these types of events, I have a job. I haven't had a chance to check out any online replays but I did see a few of the questions. I am afraid that we have reached the tipping point. Why is every question asked of a government official these days centered around what the government is going to do for us. I've news for you folks, it isn't what the government does for us, it is what it does to us.

It does seem like the First African American President of the United States, along with his teleprompter, is everywhere these days. I doubt there is a sole left in our 57 states who hasn't seen him on Jay Leno, 60 Minutes, You Tube and I think I saw him in a cameo in the movie the Watchmen a few weeks ago. He was the one with all the super powers.

I guess when you are a former community organizer, part time Senator and expert on everything, you should be public in your views. Face it, what hasn't The ONE spoken about publicly? I will give you one thing.

In North Dakota, people are working feverishly to protect their belongings and homes from the rising waters of the Red River. It must be Global Warming, sorry make that Global Climate Change, creating automobile size ice chunks that are blocking the river on its northerly trip in to Canada. Or, perhaps, the Canadians think the river is a British activist MP and are denying it entry. Either way, the situation is severe.

Surprisingly, The ONE, just like he ignored the frozen, toothless, inbred hicks in Kentucky a few months ago when more Global Warming caused storms put out the power across the state making Hillcicles out of the country folk not lucky enough to have struck oil while hunting for food and had moved to 'Beverly, has ignored the goings on in Canada's basement.

He did declare a state of emergency. This is good as it frees up government assistance more quickly. But, face it, emergencies are declared nationwide at the first sign of a high wind or when polls begin to falter. And Barack Obama would never pass up an opportunity to increase government spending. Would he?

The fine, hard working citizens up in fly over country should be in our thoughts and our prayers. So far, their work is paying off but Mother Nature can be, well, a mother and it is but a matter of time until the levy breaks. Whether you agree with his policies or not, The ONE is our President. A word of encouragement on behalf of the country to those who, at this moment, probably feel as alone and helpless as an environmentalist on his way to the North Pole to show the effects of global warming stuck, without food, in a blizzard.

Perhaps someone can put a few well wishes in to the teleprompter for you.

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Wear your mullet long enough and it might come back in style.

It amazes me how out of touch our leaders are. It seems every initiative, every bill, every speech and every waking moment of our esteemed politicians in Washington has something to do with saving the planet from Global Climate Change or going "Green".You will note the I wrote Climate Change and not Global Warming. The recent spat of cold weather, recent as in the past ten years, has somewhat changed the tune of the single minded climate fanatics.

Take a look at the chart to the right. This Pew Research Council study shows more regular folk care about who is paying the toll for the trips politicians are taking on private jets to the warm climate of the Caribbean than the toll those jets are taking on the Caribbean's climate.

It surprises me that the party currently in charge, the Democrats, are the ones supposedly in touch with the hopes, cares and feelings of the electorate.



They have invited the completely out of touch with society but completely "touched" in the head Al Gore to testify next week on Global Climate Change. The Republicans, the out of touch ones according to the media, are likely to be less hysterical about this subject. Look again at the chart above then look at the one to the left and tell me who is in line with America.

Yeah, that is what I thought too.

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A bright future? I don't really see it.

I was up working late, again, last night and I found myself squinting more and more while trying to read the words on the laptop screen. I initially blamed my clouded vision on the fact that, in the past few days, I've had about as much sleep as a long haul trucker hauling energy drinks and coffee beans on a three day coast to coast trip who is sampling his freight and swallowing copious amounts of "Speedballs". I then feared it was middle age manifesting itself through the shortening of my arms, which in turn had changed the relation between my head and the screen causing the entrenched focal length of my eyes to become out of whack. After all, the past few years have gone by faster than the miles which roll under the aforementioned trucker's semi on a newly paved interstate highway somewhere other than formerly pothole laden Pennsylvania. Thankfully, I was wrong in both these suppositions.

A quick peek under the lampshade of the light to my right revealed the source of my visual frustration. The hotel had installed energy saving, environmentally pure and agonizingly dim compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). These electronically charged spirals were putting out about as much candlepower as the prayer offering candles at an atheist's altar. Having identified the source I relaxed as, after all, I was only going to be in this hotel one more night. Unfortunately, the light bulb of recognition burst when it became apparent these CFLs are the wave of the future thanks to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Signed in to law December 19, 2007, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is an omnibus energy policy law that consists mainly of provisions designed to increase energy efficiency and the availability of renewable energy. If you ask me, in many ways this omnibus bill misses the boat.

Items addressed in this law include increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards, Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and the current darkened cloud over my desk, Appliance and Lighting Efficiency Standards. Check out some of these not so bright ideas. According to a National Center for Policy Analysis review of the law, under the new standards:

* 100-watt light bulbs are banned entirely in 2012.
* 70-watt light bulbs will have to be 36 percent to 136 percent more efficient.
* 50-watt bulbs must be 50 percent to 112 percent more efficient.
* 40-watt bulbs will have to improve 50 percent to 110 percent.

Incandescent bulbs cannot meet these new standards absent a significant technological breakthrough and currently there isn't a light at the end of the tunnel heralding this. Thus, the common light bulb will soon be extinct.

For all their hype, CFLs are a poor substitute. Not only will they foster return to the darker ages, the supposed environmental benefits are grossly overestimated. And God forbid little Timmy, unable to see well enough in the low light to avoid it, knocks over the floor lamp at the day care center and breaks one of these toxic filled glass grenades. In addition to spreading shards of glass all over the lead painted toys from China that the center picked from the bargain bin at WalMart, the breached CFL will spread "dangerous" amounts of mercury powder in a cloud of death nearly as fatal a the cloud of death surrounding the dirty diaper bin after a lunch of mashed fruit.

From the same NCPA review:

...when a CFL broke in her daughter’s bedroom, Brandy Bridges of Prospect, Maine, called on the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to make sure she cleaned up the broken glass and mercury powder safely. A specialist found unsafe levels of mercury in the air and recommended an environmental cleanup firm, who estimated the clean up cost of at $2,000. Beause her mother was unable to pay the exorbitant cleaning bill, the girl’s room remained sealed off in plastic for more than a month.

Just like electric cars, windmills and Ed Bagley Jr's bicycle powered toaster, CFLs have not caught on with mainstream consumers. The government is required to force feed what it has deemed is in our best interest. Check out this link to see what the dim whits in Washington have come up with. They've been busy little beavers and this bill contains more ideas than Edison's notebook. I am especially proud that this "energy policy" bill includes provisions for Swimming Pool enclosures to prevent drowning and an extension of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) for another year.

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A post of midget proportions

Sorry for the absence of the last few days. I am fighting a cold and just took some cold medicine and am about to pass out. So I offer this post that is so short the no matter what type of attention you pay, you'll probably get change back.

I wrote previously about problems caused by those who are too sensitive to politically incorrect words and language. It doesn't seem to be getting any better. Look here, here or here and dread the future. If these headlines don't make you want to toss some dwarf cookies I don't know what will.

At least we can tease those global warming idiots about being wrong on the disappearance of sea ice.

There's no business like snow business

I had one of the best ski runs of my life yesterday. Well over 1,000 vertical feet of untouched virgin powder just out of bounds from hoards of tourist skiers sliding lemming like down the center of a packed highway of a ski slope at a local resort. If you think I am being vague about the exact location where this occurred, I am. I don't want anyone who might read this to come along and pirate the booty in this Davey Jones treasure trove of liquid gold. It's mine matey.

To listen to the main stream media and the stories spoon fed to them by the climate change mothers you'd think I would not have had an opportunity for such a run ever again. Just weeks ago newspapers had stories of the ski industry's demise due to global warming.

Thank God they were, like it seems they are in every dire climate change prediction, completely wrong. Either that or the ski resorts move to being "green" paid off early. Not only are the early season conditions good here in Utah, they seem to be going schussingly well all over North America. Of course, this time of year the South American resorts don't fair as well but leave it to the press to have to regionalize good news.

It should come as no surprise the news of good ski conditions is not being heralded from the white-capped mountaintops. For that would be lending credence to us nut jobs who question global warming. Even articles that mention the deep snows put a chill on the good news with reports of how the failing economy is now hurting the industry.

Of course the season is still young and an ill warm wind could take the moisture from our sails and stall our ship amid melting seas of snow. My hidden booty might well be a rock garden instead of a white gem. If that happens the climate change machine will be running full on once again. The forecast belies such an occurrence but these guys couldn't predict the results of a two-headed coin toss. I am adopting a wait and see attitude and am keeping a Pirate's patched eye toward the heavens. When it comes to skiing, it is all downhill from here.

Where’s my wig young man, I’m so cold my false teeth are chattering.

I got in to a discussion the other day about whether the voting age in our country should be lowered. One argument was that sixteen year olds can drive cars, they work and they pay taxes on the wages they earn. Denying them the right to vote while taxing their burger flipping pay equates to taxation without representation. While that may be a good point, I say, “screw ‘em, they are just kids and don’t have enough experience to make an educated decision”. I know, my argument holds liquid about as well and as long as a freshly opened beer bottle in my right hand but that isn’t the point. As a society, we’ve deemed age eighteen as the point where an individual becomes an adult and thereby receives the full benefits of adulthood and the responsibilities as well. In essence we’ve stated that this is the amount of life experience it takes to become informed.

If you think back to the days when our constitution was written, people died younger. Eighteen years old was nearly half a lifetime. To maintain consistency, with life expectancy in the United States approaching 80 years perhaps it is time to raise the voting age to around 40 (and 65 in Florida).

You may say that someone can educate and inform themselves through study but it is only through experience where one learns how to cut through the bias and bull that exists in most curricula. Education is only as good as the information that is used to educate.

For this reason I say a better suggestion than elevating the voting age would be to raise the age requirement to be a climatologist to about 2,456,454 years. Al “yeah I can’t believe they gave me a Nobel Prize either” Gore and his global alarmist crowd are basing their theories on hundreds of years of data, not the millions that the world has been around.

I’ve been collecting global cooling headlines for the past few months and the stack of papers is now so high it is blocking the heating vent and I am freezing my butt off. Just today we see headlines about snow in Las Vegas, snow in Malibu, snow in New Orleans and snow in Chicago. Ok, so no big whoop with it snowing in Chicago in December, but you get my point!

When you hear the warming alarmists warming up their arguments, I suggest you ask them how far back their data goes. Hell, every time I see a painting of George Washington he’s got a thick coat on and there’s snow on the ground. I’m thinking that’s why all those guys wore the wigs; they were fashionable and warm! 2008 will be the coolest year of the decade but according to the warming crowd it may still be too late. Thankfully there are cooler heads in this argument but the media doesn’t cover them as hotly as they do those ranting hysterically about GW. Not GW Bush, the other dangerous one: Global Warming.

So while NASA quietly revises temperature charts, I think we should only listen to climatologists who were around when man first created fire to take the frost off the pumpkin on those chilly early morning Mastodon hunts.

It’s a shame the world may be cooling. I’d hate to think this was a bad investment?

By the way, the real story of today is not this insipid little topic. Check out a story here that really matter and will make you so hot under the collar you personally may contribute to the melting polar ice caps.

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It's all about the Big O

It is 3:37 am in chilly Denver, Colorado and I have been tossing and turning all night long. I just can’t quit wondering, “What’s eating Oprah?” I mean, we know what she’s been eating; everything! Its just the Queen of all the media for people who don’t watch real media seems a bit upset lately and I can’t understand why. Her boy Barack “Illinois has a governor?” Obama won and she will be in Washington hosting her show for his inauguration. I am sure BHO will see fit she gets a ticket for any ball she’d like to attend and it’s not like she can’t afford to have her gown for the evening let out a bit.

Things seem to have settled down at her Taj Mahal of a school in Johannesburg. The adage “no news is good news” is virtually guaranteed when nobody at the place has access to email or cell phones. No news also means the head mistress there was never charged with doing anything other than being strict and disappointing Oprah.

And she seems to be scraping by in these tough financial times. She’ll be coming in to her OWN in a few years and, if a half-black man can be elected President, who knows what Oprah will accomplish now that she has been unleashed!

So why does the Queen need to whine about Sarah “I am back within spitting view of Russia” Palin going on other shows to give interviews? It isn’t like she didn’t have the chance to interview her back when she was thin Oprah. You know, back when it would have mattered like when she interviewed Barack Obama. Back when she didn’t want to use her show as a political forum. So now, fat Oprah is lamenting that La Governess Bonita went elsewhere to talk about herself. I guess it is Oprah’s turn to get schooled that there are consequences to your actions.

Of course Ms Winfrey’s mind probably began to be troubled back in January when she endorsed The ONE. The comments section of her website lit up more brightly than the National Christmas tree after Nancy "deer in the headlights" Pelosi finally figured out how to turn the switch with comments berating her for abandoning Hillary in her time of need. My guess is these malcontents were just frustrated meat eaters seeking to extract a pound of flesh when they could.



I accidently picked up Mrs. Bald Man’s copy of O magazine in the bathroom a few months ago. I figured since I was going to be there for a while I might as well see what all the fuss was about. A half hour later I emerged dreaming of Tom Cruise, teary eyed with a new cookie recipe that I had to bake immediately. I realize now I just needed the food to comfort my unease with my body issues. I wish I'd had a shoulder to cry on.

My posts, like our initial invasion in Iraq, don’t usually come with an exit strategy. I’m not sure why I even care that Oprah is now fat and upset she can’t talk to the governor of a state that isn’t even on the route past fly over country. I guess it just irks me to see yet another narcissistic television star put herself out there and not expect a backlash. It is no Secret the Queen’s latest binge was supposedly brought on by being diagnosed with thyroid problems. Like me and my resolution to my body issue psychosis, brought on by reading O to start with, she turned to food. In the coming months we’ll all be subject to her brave battle back to thinness through personal trainers, personal chefs and couch jumping with Tom Cruise.

I do wish her a healthy recovery from fat. If only fat Elvis has been so brave we might still have the King around. But I think the Big O's constant battle with the Big O of being Overweight is detrimental to the many people who truly struggle to maintain healthy weight. Regular folk who will be forced to watch the coronation of The ONE at home on the couch with a bag of Cheesy Poofs and the cat on their lap and not being chauffeured around from ball to ball chatting about global warming. I just hope this isn’t the start of the Oprah’s School Girl diet craze.

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Lefties, Lefties everywhere and they are driving me to drink.

I promised myself in starting the rant fest that is this blog that I’d always make an attempt to be humorous. The operative word is attempt. Most of today I’ve been in a mood more suited to singing a dirge while driving a little girl to euthanize a litter of kittens on her birthday than to wax on with Mr. Miyagi like quips about the important issues of the day. Remember folks, spay and neuter!

There really isn’t that much going on that is funny politically, socially, economically or environmentally; especially environmentally. Remember the poor Polar bears trapped on the ice because the polar caps are melting?

I hope you can continue reading through the tears I am sure are now filling your eyes. I just hope they are tears of laughter as you think about the morons who actually feel the bears shown are in any peril. Trust me, the cuddly and cute overgrown seal stuffed carnivores are plenty healthy enough to use a group of granola fed vegetarian Earth Firsters as their own personal salad bar given the first opportunity. They aren’t in danger.

The same can’t be said for a group of Narwhal whales in the Canadian Arctic. I guess they believed the global warming alarmists who said the world’s ice was going to soon be gone forever and didn’t make plans to join the Blue Hair migration heading from Long Island to the Villages for the winter and are now so trapped by frozen Dihydrogen Monoxide (see below) that they wouldn’t be able to make the flight even if they had tickets. Unfortunately for these blubbery convicts, they are in danger.

The millions of geniuses who brought Hope to the White House have helped get people in charge who are willing to do something about the global warming crisis. Just what they will do I don’t know but I am sure it will be something grand. I can only hope the smarter than the average Polar Bear officials check out this wonderful, politically incorrect view of the incontrovertible, universally accepted reality of climate change before they do too much. It seems the Brits are getting it. God save the Queen’s winter wardrobe.

I’ll be skiing on natural snow this weekend, next weekend and probably every weekend from now through spring. I might take a break for the inauguration of Mount Rushmore’s next honoree. I am sure I won’t be the only one enjoying a free soda while I wait for the coming free lunch this administration is sure to offer. I might even try to find a new friend to watch it with now that the matchmaking bigots online will let me post a proper picture and a paragraph.

I best enjoy this gravitational powered slide downhill as much as possible this year. For while last year was a record one for snowfall in Utah and much of the west, there is no guarantee that this isn’t the year when global warming finally wins and the mountains remain barren of the frozen water crystals I love so well. If mother nature doesn’t rain her tears upon the ski resorts, modern technology enables the evil recreational capitalists who run the areas to take advantage of the savings from more efficient toilets and make their own. Well, at least until they ban water!

Ban water you say? Surely Shirley you aren’t serious. Who could possibly make an argument to ban water that would ever hold, umm, water? The idea isn’t as far fetched as you’d think. Your typical leftist, environmentalist type is more gullible than a Congressman who believes the Big Three CEOs give a rat’s ass that he thinks their corporate jets are excessive.

Don’t take my word for it. Penn and Teller prove the point brilliantly!



There are problems galore and times may be tough but, face it, sometimes you’ve just got to laugh.

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