Rick McKee, editorial cartoonist for the Augusta Chronicle, sends me this political cartoon about climate change which he posted on his Facebook page and the WUWT Facebook page.
It sums up perfectly what is wrong with our current political leadership: they are more worried about climate change than they are immediate threats with a clear and present danger.
SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/rick.mckee?fref=photo
According to Breitbart, Hillary Clinton made the comments at a recent paid for speaking engagement in Las Vegas. I guess when you get that kind of money, you’ll say anything for hire.
The topic is explosive, not so much for the climate change part, but for the other two elements in it. Commenters should be be warned that we’ll snip any inappropriate comments.
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Politicians love to talk about solving Climate Change. It is so far in the future that they will long be retired before the voters can judge their results.
The economy, national defense. These on the other hand are issues to be avoided, because they call for real solutions today, and most politicians have no solution. Taxes and regulations will not put people back to work, nor will they discourage your enemies.
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From “climate change” to the fake “war on women” campaign, it amazes me that anyone takes Democratic candidates seriously, when they themselves refuse to address genuinely serious issues.
A hallmark of liberalism is cowardice. This is the root of the problem. Can anyone remember a time when lefty did not appease the aggressor or somehow blame the victim for the aggressor’s actions? Liberals live in a perpetual Stockholm syndrome. Pathetic.
It’s not just Billary that’s pushing this lost agenda … there are plenty of the clueless going along for the ride.
There is a very virulent strain of respiratory virus targeting kids in Missouri and throughout the Midwest. Kids are being hospitalized at an alarming rate. Luckily, local and federal government remain laser focused on the more pressing and urgent issue of climate change.
Meanwhile meteorites have been consistently doing fly-bys by the earth, and luckily the ones that have hit so far did not have the mass or velocity or landed in remote areas resulting in minimal damage. However, astronomers estimate there are 2,400 objects relatively near the Earth that are about a quarter mile across. A rock like that hitting the earth would produce a 5,000-megaton blast and a 7.1 Richter-scale shock. Depending on where it hit could devastate civilization as we currently know it. Even though civilization hangs in the balance, we do not even have early warning systems never mind any plans to mitigate a deadly rock heading toward earth.
I am not promoting we develop a multi-billion dollar anti-meteorite tax, but if I was forced to be disaster taxed, I’d rather be taxed on a program to avoid a meteorite cataclysm. Think of the technology breakthroughs that came about due to the race to the moon, imagine the technology innovation from such a new ambitious program. Again not promoting the idea, just sayin’.
So how can it not be glaringly obvious that there are many other disasters (war, viruses, plagues, meteorites, political corruption) on the urgency scale than climate change.
http://www.space.com/27026-asteroid-2014-rc-earth-flyby-sunday.html
Closest approach is about now. Its size is estimated 20 meters.
I’m sorry, but just about everything currently happening in the US and the world is more important than the possibly microscopic influence of Mann made CO2 on climate. I do agree, however, that climate policies themselves are important… they are destroying economies and keeping hundreds of millions of people in poverty. Inexpensive, reliable power is the foundation to a better life. The Siren’s call of climate change has been the genesis of a massive number of laws, rules, regulations and taxes. Imposed, we are told, to stop the climate from “changing.” How does that work? I’ll tell you, by strangling the world’s economies and sucking up resources that could be used to advance the human condition. The real consequence, those policies are driving the world’s poor back into the Dark Ages.
Politicians have taken the apocalyptic fortunes told by warmists, in the guise of science, and along with their puppets in the media have used it to wrap us up in chains. If you’re on their side, you get lavish grants, subsidies, perc’s for your industry… not so much if you’re poor. The US used to be the world’s bread basket. Now we are forced, by law, to burn corn in our cars while the price of food skyrockets. The wheat we used to supply to the world at a fair price is now scarce as more farmland shifts to growing that subsidized corn.
If you’re in Africa you’ve got to fight to get a real power plant built that could help raise your country out of the Stone Age. Up step the Climateers at the UN and the rest of the corrupt world governments they slap down those evil coal plants. Next they turn to their other face and pressure those poor countries to invest their little money in “renewable” technology that barely works… but it makes their friends and donors rich, gives them talking points and keeps the lid on the poor. Wealthy nations, that already have real energy, are taxing their citizens for the money to pay off the corrupted 3rd World under the guise of climate “reparations.” As if pay offs will stop the climate from changing. Global cooling, warming or climate change or whatever poll tested moniker is in vogue this week will not hurt a single soul in Africa. Lack of reliable power for basic industry and lack of fuel for agriculture and sky high grain prices will kill millions. You want the real terrorists… look to Progressives like Clinton along with rest of the politicos, government bureaucrats, and their cohorts in climate “science” that are regulating millions into early graves.
Amen
They’re rioting in Africa
There’s strife in Irain
There’s hurricanes in florida
And we all need rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans
The Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs
South Africans hate the Dutch
And we must do our best to love somebody very much.
But we can be grateful
And thankful and proud
That man has been endowed
With a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know now to be thankful
That to this very day
Someone has not set the spark off
And we’ve not all been blown away
They’re rioting in Africa
There’s strife in Iran
What nature doesn’t do to us
will be done by our fellow man
(Merry Minuet – 1959?)
It takes somebody who doesn’t think it takes a village.
Ignore real threats in favor of an imagined threat that will rake in more cash and power.
Given the alarming facts that many of the most brutal “Islamic State” Killers are young muslims which were socialized and educated by idealistic and liberal teachers in Europe, and that muslim population is growing extremely rapid there, one can only be bewildered of the strange situation, that the European main stream media seem to be more concerned about the very questionable possibility of a dangerous Global Warming in the year 2100 than about the rather higher probability that Europe will be a part of the “Islamic State” then.
A truly pitiful case of denial of reality…
There is too much money in it.
JohnWho
September 7, 2014 at 11:28 am
I thought it was Tom Lehrer. It is actually Sheldon Harnick .
http://youtu.be/L8-BI89mb9A
Kingston Trio made it known to me, too.
Don’t get me wrong, I am no fan of any of the Clintons and Mrs. Clinton is a prime example of a hypocritical (self-snip — bad word that starts with a B) but the simple fact is that all politicians are corrupt, liars, and out to fleece the “common man”. This post highlights a real public example that we can all see, but the politicians all are so dirty that they make “The House of Cards” TV show look like it is a white wash of politics. (either version; but the the Brit version was way better)
No one gets elected to national office year in and year out without becoming very wealthy. Why do you suppose that is? (perhaps one or two counter examples in my lifetime)
So if all are “corrupt, liars, and out to fleece the “common man”.”, who would you vote for for US President?
As a believer in the non-aggression principle, I would not vote for anyone. Humans are meant to interact with each other in a voluntary, mutually beneficial way; much like the Irish did for at least a 1,000 years and maybe for 9,000.
http://markstoval.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/1000-years-of-irish-anarchy/
http://markstoval.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/9000-years-of-anarchy-in-ireland/
History teaches us that every State (government) will sooner or later brutalize its own citizens. It is usually the poor and other minorities that get it first. As the American police state gains ever more power, notice that even wealth is no longer a shield against the minions of the state.
markstoval
September 7, 2014 at 1:44 pm
A believer in the “non-aggression principle” would not have lasted long in ancient, pagan Ireland. In the Bronze and Iron Ages, the island suffered constant warfare among clans and petty kingdoms. Its perpetual violence spilled over into post-Roman Britain, to include slave raiding, as in the case of St. Patrick. and invasion of what is now SW Scotland by the Scoti, who drove the native Picts out of that region.
Nor did Christianity do much to quell the native aggressiveness of Gaelic culture. Invasion by Vikings did however lead to fewer and stronger local kingdoms in the areas remaining free of foreign domination, although Viking slave raids from their Dublin base continued to plague the whole island, until the subsequent Anglo-Norman conquest.
… but the simple fact is that all politicians are corrupt, liars, and out to fleece the “common man”.
No. That false canard is the excuse used by sooooo many to not vote. It is also used to justify not taking the time to identify honest candidates that they will support with both personal time and money, to get them elected and simultaneously displace the corrupt.
I personally know ‘politicians’ that are highly ethical and honest, from school board members on up. I provide my personal time, labor, and money to help get them elected. You should also.
Everyone accessing WUWT should be actively identifying honest candidates and working to get them elected. YOU can make a difference, if you will only make the effort!
Mac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2014
Elections for the United States Senate will be held on November 4, 2014, with 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate being contested in regular elections whose winners will serve six-year terms from January 3, 2015 to January 3, 2021. Additionally, special elections will be held to fill vacancies that occur during the 113th United States Congress. Currently, there are 36 Senate seats to be decided in November 2014, 21 of those now held by Democrats and 15 by Republicans. Polls in early September indicate the GOP will make gains and perhaps take control of the Senate by gaining six seats…..
YOU can make a difference, but you have to do more than talk about it here on WUWT.
There are just 2 scant months left before the Nov 4th elections. Find local, state, and federal candidates you can support and ‘put your money, time and labor where your mouth is’.
Great speech. I first heard something like that in the ’60s. It is utter BS of course but if it makes you feel good about participating in politics then go for it. We have been trying to “make it better” for over 200 years. Any day now some election will make it all better! /snark
You go vote, but I refuse to be part of the charade.
“Everyone accessing WUWT should be actively identifying honest candidates and working to get them elected.”
Bingo. Politics is ironing out the differences in opinion between honest people but there is no place for compromise between truth and lies, between good and evil.
Well said, Mac. I’ve got an up-and-comer, small gummint believer I’m supporting for state office. If everyone does a little bit, things can change, but first we have to apply the brakes. Then we can see about shifting into reverse.
You are 100% correct, Mac. I am so tired of people saying “They are all rotten”. If they are, it is because we are rotten. Whoever said this great experiment called America would be easy? We were founded on blood an sacrifice. It is us who are weak, not politicians.
“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society. “ – John Adams, Novanglus Letters, 1774
Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces. James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, 1877
“…all politicians are corrupt, liars, and out to fleece the “common man”” “As a believer in the non-aggression principle, I would not vote for anyone. “, – markstoval
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
As a believer in the non-aggression principle, I would not vote for anyone.
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When it comes to aggression, it is what the other guy believes in, not what you believe in that matters.
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Refusing to believe what you can see for yourself is denial. Trivializing political topics (or scientific topics or religious topics) by calling opponents deniers is harmful in all regards.
Sooner or later these folks will run out of low information voters and they will be out of power.
In walks the current attempt to nationalize public education: Common Core.
Mark
No they won’t. That is why we have open borders, illegal immigrants, and amnesty, to keep the leftists in power and keep the poor and minorities down on the plantation.
Wow. Millions of people would vote for her for president. The weather here is beautiful considering. Something.
McCain’s secret meeting with crISIS:
http://govtslaves.info/mccains-secret-meeting-isis-syria/
Once you smash a country to pieces, it’s easy to frame & blame your victims — and without a mote of shame.
We won in Iraq and did put it back together again, until Obama stupidly pulled out.
These gains that Obama and Biden bragged about, until they blew it.
Barack Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, claimed Iraq as their victory.
Biden in 2010:
I am very optimistic about—about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.
Obama in December, 2011:
We’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We’re building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war, not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.
Had Obama insisted on a status of forces agreement leaving even a single heavy brigade in the country, ISIS would never have had a chance there, but would have stayed in Syria. It’s not just the military force, but the leverage the US would have had with Maliki to force him to act less like an Iranian puppet tyrant, suppressing Sunni Arabs, and more like leader of the whole country, Shi’a, Sunni and Kurds.
Of course Iraq was never a genuine country, anyway, but was born broken. It was held together by brutal force and the minority Sunni Arab dominated military, especially after overthrow of the Hashemite king by the Baathists, who eventually produced Stalinesque Saddam.
Two points:
1. A principled decision not to vote is fundamentally wrong, as you would be deciding to have exactly the same effect as you would if you were too stupid to find your way to a polling booth. No matter how execrable the candidates, one has to be marginally less detestable than the others.
2. If man-made climate change is catastrophically affecting the planet, NO sacrifice is too great to address the problem. ISIS is barely relevant in this context. The problem is that the ‘strong’ evidence for the developing climate catastrophe is contrived and the real evidence is weak. Even so, decent science is not going to win the war: it’s the simple fact that the world is no longer perceptibly warming and, for the average person, it never was. If the climate can be shown to be warming again the anthropogenic warmists will be reinvigorated and a provable anthropogenic connection will self-evidently (for them) exist. In the absence of a palpable disaster it is difficult to keep the people in a state of alarm.
Regarding point one: You judgement that “A principled decision not to vote is fundamentally wrong” is based on a couple of assumptions that (to me) are demonstrably wrong. First, there is the assumption that the elections are fairly counted and conducted. Do five minutes of Google time on “vote rigging” and you will find things like this: http://investmentwatchblog.com/programmer-under-oath-admits-computers-rig-elections-on-ohio-and-florida-from-2011/ Secondly, even if one candidate is marginally better than the other, we need to also assume that publicly available information is adequate to determine which is better. Thirdly, the marginal superiority of the candidate in question has to be greater than the marginal benefit I receive from not wasting my time analysing the candidates and going to the polls. Fourthly, by voting, I have given my tacit approval of a system which may still (“may still”? More like “almost certainly will”), put an evil person in charge of government. Fifthly, even if my vote were to make the difference between an evil person in charge and a good person in charge, the system itself is still based on fining, kidnapping and killing people who have neither broken a bone nor picked a pocket (to paraphrase Jefferson.) Sixth, if any election ever comes down to one vote (mine) then the courts today will not accept the results and will demand a recount. The recount will then validate or throw out ballots until they reach the desired outcome.
If we had an honest system with fair processes and laws based on natural rights, I would vote. We don’t. I stopped voting a few years ago. The system is so corrupt that I refuse to give my sanction to it. Instead, I usually spend that day doing gardening.
(I will admit that the two major parties are not exactly the same. The Democrats give speeches explaining how they are socialists — and then do what they say. The Republicans give speeches claiming to be conservatives — and then do what the socialists want.)
Hillary’s Huma the Muslim Brotherhood leader in the State Department helped steer the Obamantional policy in the Middle East. I think denial of the Islamification of Europe coupled with ISIS is a major threat, it does follow however a major impact event.
Both Clintons are deep in the Muslim camp. Bill gets hundreds of thousands for each “speech” in the Gulf region. Of Hillary’s close personal confidant and more, Arabist Huma Weiner, ’nuff said.
I know that guy in black….it’s Emmanuel Goldstein
“Commenters should be be warned that we’ll snip any inappropriate comments.”
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Which leads me to believe there is such a thing as a propriate comment 🙂
Shouldn’t pose the question if you don’t wanna hear the answers.
I’ve seen this on several different blogs lately, mostly national news sites. Guess who the writer is referring to:
1. He is different from the other politicians.
2. He will rise from obscurity.
3. He will speak boastfully.
4. He will try to change the times, perhaps to define a new era, related only to himself.
5. He will attempt to change the laws to gain an advantage for himself.
6. He will not answer to a higher earthly authority. He will do as he pleases.
7. He will not believe in any god at all, except for himself.
8. He will hate a nation that initially, will have some control over him, but he will destroy this nation.
9. He seeks total political control for own glory, not democratic republic or anything really for the people.
10. He will have great earthly success. He will succeed in whatever he does.
11. He will be a mega-liar who actively opposes the truth. He will fling truth to the ground, be insolent and skilled in intrigue. Through his shrewdness he will cause deceit to succeed by his influence.
No, it isn’t Pee Wee Herman…
Julius Caesar ?
The Antichrist – from a list of attributes in the Book of Daniel
To be specific:
Yes, everyone would all agree that Obama is “wearing out the saints of the Most High” — on both sides of the political aisle.
The next verse seems to be very prophetic too …
… perhaps a reference to the upcoming 2016 Presidential elections?
Guys it is a cult. Reality has nothing to do with it.
u.k.(us),
Could be. Except I don’t think they had blogs back then.☺