I'm Just Speechless ...

Every once in a while I come across an article that makes me wonder if the author and myself are looking at the same world. Often that's good; I'm as likely as anyone else to have blind spots in my worldview, and re-assessment doesn't hurt.

Then I come across one like this, and I'm left speechless. It starts off as a typical global-warming-is-a-hoax article, and goes downhill from there ...

Eskimos think their world is melting. Looks like they may want to cash in on the last of the ice—they, and the leftists who are using them to validate the “global-warming” propaganda that circulates around the planet ... According to the American Policy Center, there is no global warming ... Furthermore, as an American Indian, I note that the Eskimo people, that group selected by the Left to keep that global-warming issue alive and lucrative, have always had quite a separate history from the rest of the American tribes. They fought no wars. They spilled no blood for treaties. Their “land” was not so desirable. They did not suffer the same conflicts over their icy homeland that most other “indigenous” peoples of America endured over their choice, productive lands ... they are simply not American Indians ... So who are these Eskimos to think they deserve different treatment? ... Why should America try to “preserve” their environment? What treaty is this based on?

Here's one of the original articles on the subject.

Check www.realclimate.org (a site concentrating on just the science, not the social implications), and in particular, this thread, about global warming. The trend is there, the effect of human activity on the trend is still under debate.

In particular, the Artic sea ice is shrinking, and has been for several decades. See also the NASA article.

I know of at least one massacre of Aleutian Inuit by Russian traders in the 1800's off the top of my head ... and I wouldn't call their lands less "desirable." Why should we preserve "their" environment? Because it's *our* environment, too - and that's a whole 'nother discussion if you disagree.

A false scientific claim of global-warming, a non-authoritative claim to preserve an irrelevant ethnic life-style, and an anti-American political orchestration behind it all.

That's the line that left my mouth hanging open. It's just wrong on several levels, and I'm saddened that there are folks out there who just swallow it whole.

EDIT: You can read other folk's comments on it here, as well.

And a bit of goodness

This does give you a fuzzy-feel-good feeling. And, I don't even *have* kids :)

I Remember When You Wanted Lemon Trees and Graveyards (from RealLivePreacher.com)

Wheee!

A set of 'yena paws for seiferkitty :)



I'll have to take a better picture of them, though.

Excessive Zeal

A Denver police sergeant is under investigation for allegedly threatening to arrest a woman Monday for displaying on her truck a derogatory bumper sticker about President Bush.

"He told her that this was a warning and that the next time he saw her truck, she was going to be arrested if she didn't remove the sticker," said [a witness].

Colorado ACLU Legal Director Mark Silverstein said that the alleged threat of arrest clearly violates First Amendment protection.

"The Supreme Court considered a case about 30-some years ago where a person was prosecuted for wearing a jacket that said, 'F--- the draft,' on the back. The Supreme Court said states could not prohibit people from wearing such a jacket," he said.

The bumper sticker? White letters on a black background: "F*CK BUSH", uncensored. You can read the article here.