Pelosi: Biden-Manchin climate bill will appease ‘angry’ Earth: ‘Mother Earth gets angry from time to time, & this legislation will help us address all of that’

Pelosi much have consulted a witchdoctor with powerful medicine. God help the USA with such leaders.

Mother Earth? What happened to “men are from Mars, women are from Venus”? I’m in favor of “CAGW Loonies are from Pluto”, and let’s hope they go home soon.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed in various gods and goddesses. Today we call that mythology and do not believe they exist. They were simply made up to try and explain various natural phenomena and existence. They shared all the foibles of their worshippers. Now Nancy Pelosi is pushing Mother Earth as the object of her climate activism. Mother Earth seems like some of the ancient goddesses and shares all the foibles of Nancy. 😉

CRAZY NANCY: “Mother Earth gets angry from time to time, and this legislation will help us address all of that.”

Yes. And my cup of coffee gets angry from time to time and burns my tongue. Getting a handout from the taxpayers will address that.

I would say that Nancy Pelosi is talking down to us but in reality, she’s down so far it looks like up to me.

Apologies to Richard Fariña.


“Angry Earth” is cooling:

Sorry, Pelosi, it’s Her (with a capital “H”) Choice, not her Choice. Throw another baby on the barbie, it’s over. Lose your ethical religion.

“At the witch trials in Salem the judges were educated at Harvard. This was supposedly 100 percent science.”

No. Not as lawyers, legal profession or anything similar.

The involved minister, Reverend Samuel Parris

“In 1673, Samuel Parris was attending Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts when his father died. He left Harvard without graduating and returned to Barbados and take charge of his father’s estate. He then became a sugar merchant in Bridgetown but was unsuccessful in the business.

In 1680, Parris moved to Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, with his two slaves, Tituba and John Indian. He married Elizabeth Elridge that year and the couple had three children: Thomas, Betty and Susannah. Parris once again tried to find work as a merchant but then decided to change careers and began training to become a minister.

In 1686, Samuel Parris began serving as a guest minister and interim pastor for several Boston churches. In 1688, Parris entered negotiations to become the new minister in Salem Village. Parris accepted the position and became the official minister in July of 1689.”

Harvard, like Oxford taught religious Divinity studies.

The chief judge at the Salem Witch Trials, John Hathorne;

“His father, William, was a local judge who came to the New World on the “Arabella,” one of John Winthrop’s eleven ships that brought over 800 puritans to the colony in the summer of 1630.

William was known for being a “bitter persecutor” of Quakers and was responsible for ordering the public whipping of Ann Coleman in Salem in 1662. William was also in the military, serving as a captain of the Salem military company in 1646, during King Phillip’s War, and was promoted to major in 1656.

A savvy businessman, William used land grants to secure an extensive property, which he turned into farmland, and owned much of Salem Village, which is now Danvers, including the hill upon which the Danvers State Hospital was later built in 1874.

John Hathorne’s Early Life:

After John Hathorne came of age, he worked as a book keeper and was granted a small share of the family estate, a small portion of Mill Pond Farm along the edge of Salem town, according to the book Death in Salem: The Private Lives Behind the 1692 Witch Hunt:

“John launched his career keeping books for Salem’s merchants, but he soon recognized the rewards of land speculation. By the age of twenty-one, he had become a propertied man and eligible bachelor, yet he wouldn’t wed until thirty-three, and then to Ruth Gardner, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a Quaker couple who had fled to Hartford, Connecticut, leaving her in the care of her uncle.”

Chief Judge John Hathorne had no higher education. At Harvard, Oxford or “Salem Community College”.

A) It has been postulated, legitimately, that many of the witch trials, including England and Europe, were because of flour ergot infestations.

B) The trials fell apart when the regional Judiciary forbade spectral evidence. Possibly, the supply of ergot blighted grain was finally consumed.

“On July 23, John Proctor wrote to the clergy in Boston. He knew the clergy did not fully approve of the witch hunts.

Proctor told them about the torture inflicted on the accused and asked that the trials be moved to Boston where he felt he would get a fair trial.

The clergy later held a meeting, on August 1, to discuss the trials but were not able to help Proctor before his execution. Proctor’s wife managed to escape execution because she was pregnant, but Proctor was hanged on August 19 along with five other people.”

“Yet another crucial moment during the Salem Witch Trials was the public torture and death of Giles Corey. Corey was accused of witchcraft in April during his wife’s examination. Knowing that if he was convicted his large estate would be confiscated and wouldn’t be passed down to his children, Corey brought his trial to a halt by refusing to enter a plea.

English law at the time dictated that anyone who refused to enter a plea could be tortured in an attempt to force a plea out of them. This legal tactic was known as “peine forte et dure” which means “strong and harsh punishment.”

The torture consisted of laying the prisoner on the ground, naked, with a board placed on top of him. Heavy stones were loaded onto the board and the weight was gradually increased until the prison either entered a plea or died.

In mid-September, Corey was tortured this way for three days in a field near Howard Street until he finally died on September 19. His death was gruesome and cruel and strengthened the growing opposition to the Salem Witch Trials.

“The new court was presided over by William Stoughton, Thomas Danforth, John Richards, Waitstill Winthrop and Samuel Sewall. Now that spectral evidence was not allowed, most of the remaining prisoners were found not guilty or released due to a lack of real evidence.

Those who were found guilty were pardoned by Governor Phips. The governor released the last few prisoners the following May.”

“William Stoughten; circa1631- 1701.

1650: Graduated Harvard University with a degree in theology.

June, 1653: Graduated New College in Oxford, England graduating with a M.A. in Theology.”

Most of those involved in the Salem Witch Trials were Puritans. Theology was paramount over layman subjects.
That many of the people involved benefited financially and politically from convicting witches is well in evidence.

“As for why these victims were targeted in the first place, historians have noted that many of the accused were wealthy and held different religious beliefs than their accusers.

This, coupled with the fact that the accused also had their estates confiscated if they were convicted has led many historians to believe that religious feuds and property disputes played a big part in the witch trials.”

e.g., “Five more people were hanged in July, one of which was Rebecca Nurse. Rebecca Nurse’s execution was a pivotal moment in the Salem Witch Trials.

Although many of the other accused women were unpopular social outcasts, Nurse was a pious, well-respected and well-loved member of the community.

When Nurse was first arrested, many members of the community signed a petition asking for her release. Although she wasn’t released, most people were confident she would be found not guilty and released.

Her initial verdict was, in fact, not guilty, but upon hearing the verdict the afflicted girls began to have fits in the courtroom. Judge Stoughton asked the jury to reconsider their verdict. A week later, the jury changed their minds and declared Nurse guilty.”

“This was supposedly 100 percent science.”:
Let me know when science proves anything related to religion, basis of theology, divinities, spectral beings or whatever that was used in the witch trials.

Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate. There is plenty of scientific rationale to support the conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. Hence all efforts to reduce CO2 emissions will have no effect on global climate. Mankind does not even know what the optimum global climate actually is let alone how to achieve it. The spending bill will waste money but will not improve global climate.