In the cradle of ignorance

Many of us have sat back this decade and marveled at the lunacy in certain corners of the world where the fraud that is man-made global warming is concerned.

We've shaken our collective heads as governments signed on to Cap & Trade systems that are nothing more than a massive tax on every citizen who drives a car or uses electricity or consumes products not deemed "environmentally friendly."

We've wondered and cursed privately that the Al Gores of the world escape indictment for not only perpetrating this fraud but also enriching themselves personally as "ghost partners" in obscure, worldwide corporations that sell these carbon "off-sets" that Joe Citizen must buy in the form of a tax for exceeding his monthly gasoline allotment or kilowatt hour limit.

And we've offered up a mental thank you to George W. Bush for refusing to sign on to Kyoto early in his first term and not only placing that kind of financial burden on every American but also destroying American industry and, in the process, driving our economy even closer to doom.

A like number of environmentalist kooks have cursed Bush for doing so. They live on every lying, manipulative word uttered by the Al Gores. They use half-truths as ammunition and wild claims of impending doom. They condemn the voices of sanity and reason and logic and, yes, even science, which have grown in great numbers the last five or six years.

The majority of us, however, don't know what to think or simply don't care. Many reading this, even, have no time to concern themselves with issues outside the realms of their daily lives. They and millions of others have dozed throughout a lifetime of complacency. Simply put, they're comfortable. They've largely lived lives seemingly unaffected by the goings-on in Washington, let alone far corners of the globe.

To those, I say you better wake up, and you better do so quickly.

Those on the opposite ends of this global warming spectrum know what's coming. The majority in the middle, though, have little sense of what they've signed on for in helping (whether through action or inaction) put in power those who now run this country.

Initiatives already are underway that will change the fabric of how we live our lives. Laws are coming. So are treaties, which are most frightening because those are not policies that, when proven bad, can be changed by the next Congress. Once signed, they're irreversible.

A high-ranking kook in Britain is even talking seriously about laws concerning population control. You can read the story here if interested.

If you're not or if you think that will never happen here or even if you think maybe there really is something to all this hoopla because you haven't bothered to look past the doctored polar bear pictures or the constant manipulation of data by certain "scientists" or the media or left-wing politicians, I again say:

Wake the hell up. "Change" is most definitely coming. And I guaran-damn-tee you that you're not going to like it.

(Imported from Feb. 1, 2009)