He May be Right

Thursday, Canada attempted to appease the wacko fringe granola eaters by releasing a plan to reduce greenhouse emissions. Apparently the only approved plans have to come from out of touch with reality leftistas. Saturday Al Gore called Canada’s environmental cleanup plan a fraud. He may be right. If anyone knows about environmental fraud, it’s Al Gore.

First he ascends to the American vice-presidency largely on the coattails of his book “Earth in the Balance.” It could not have been on the basis of his senatorial career. He basically did nothing other than get his wife lots of face time on TV denouncing explicit lyrics on music cd’s. Although their cause was noble, they had no ability to restrict free speech and music today is as lurid as ever.

I don’t think that he was elected as Clinton’s VP based on his intellect. We can all recall that as the Clinton bus tour went to Monticello, Gore famously asked who the statuary in the rotunda represented. Any school child would have been able to tell him that it was George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. If he wasn’t sure, he could have looked at the pictures on his daddy’s money.

Gore’s book was basically a manifesto of his environmental beliefs. It had little to no basis in fact and many scientists came out to say that it misstated facts and made assertions that could not be supported by science. Nevertheless, Bill Clinton chose him as his running mate. Fortunately for Gore, Clinton was a whole lot more electable than he was.

Then after Gore failed in his only bid for the presidency on his own, he produced a video that he called a documentary that has had the leftwing base drooling ever since it came out. Gore has ridden this latest scientific fiasco again to the forefront as the media darling of environmental activism. Unfortunately, his movie is less factual than his book. It is based on assertions and misstatements of fact that has caused a multitude of real scientists to publicly denounce it. Still, Gore is in the paper almost daily as the messiah of global warming.

Yet Mr. Gore is a fraud. He calls for the removal of fossil fuel based vehicles yet he drives a luxury SUV. He flies in a private jet around the world to promote his video. Most famously of all, Gore racks up a whopping $30,000 a year electric and gas bill as he tells others to stop wasting energy. The response from Gore was that his bill was offset through investment in a company that plants trees to absorb the carbon in the atmosphere and researches the use of methane gas for fuel. I think that Gore is full of smelly gas. This could be a lucrative business. Perhaps we could start a company to sell carbon offsets and use the proceeds for Artic Power, a group lobbying to drill in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.

When Al Gore calls Canada’s plan a fraud, he knows what he’s talking about. He’s not an environmental scientist but he’s been living and perpetuating a fraud on the people of North America for years.

Someone With Integrity

It’s an old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. However, when a person spends a week in the press portrayed as out of touch, a git, a ninny, a moron, retarded, or brain damaged, and then the next week is back in the press as offending a Catholic church Archbishop, that person is stretching the limits of the above axiom. Sheryl Crow just can’t seem to stay away from bad press. I must apologize to the brain damaged and retarded people for linking them to Sheryl Crow. I did not mean to disparage you.

It seems that the Archbishop of St Louis, the Most Reverend Raymond Burke, resigned his position as chairman of the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation. The organization had booked the TP queen for a concert and Bishop Burke wanted the concert cancelled because of Crow’s pro-abortion activism. When the foundation’s board of governors chose profit over principle, Bishop Burke resigned.

I am not Catholic. But Bishop Burke has shown himself to be a man of integrity. He suggested that John Kerry be denied communion for his pro-abortion statements and the church couldn’t stand the negative publicity. It is time that more Christians, Catholic and protestant, take a stand for their beliefs publicly. That’s not to say that pickets should be formed outside every human slaughterhouse in America (though that would be a great thing). That is the mission for some but not everyone. Believers of every faith can no longer keep silent. We will be held accountable for the murder of millions of babies if we do not give voice to our beliefs.

A little over a week ago, the Supreme Court bravely acknowledged that there is barbarism in the practice of abortion. Although that is my description of their actions, it is a beginning of a battle for the unborn future leaders of this country. The pro-death abortionists realize this and have stepped up their campaigns to save their murderous agenda. I believe that Justice Ginsberg even referred to this as an issue of women’s health. BS. Children are not a disease Ms Ginsberg. They are a gift from a benevolent Creator. Archbishop Burke gets it. We should all take heed of his example.

Gee, I Didn't Think About That

Here is a microcosm of all that is wrong with the modern environmental movement. As the steward of creation, mankind is not a blight but the caretaker. All would not necessarily be well if we were removed from the food chain. We have a responsibility to effectively manage all of the “things” that make up our world. That means that we must weigh the risks and calculate the benefit of any activity, no matter how well intentioned. In this case, I’m sure that the coyotes appreciate the snacks provided.