Global Warming strikes again.

It would seem that a group of idiots taking a “climate change” tour up to the arctic to observe the ice melt and epic devastation that global warming has caused up there have run into a problem. The sea ice that was supposed to be disappearing and opening up that new shipping chanel over the top of the world has trapped the Kapitan Khlebnikov, a 24,000hp Russian icebreaker, in more ice than it can break free of.

Global warming indeed! here’s an exerpt from an article about the incident:

I am on the bridge of the massive Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, and the tension is palpable. We have hit ice - thick ice.

The ice master studies the mountains of white packed around the ship while the 24,000-horsepower diesel engines work at full throttle to open a path. The ship rises slowly onto the barrier of ice, crushes it and tosses aside blocks the size of small cars as if they were ice cubes in a glass. It creeps ahead a few metres, then comes to a halt, its bow firmly wedged in the ice. After doing this for two days, the ship can go no farther.

The ice master confers with the captain, who makes a call to the engine room. The engines are shut down. He turns to those of us watching the drama unfold, and we are shocked by his words: “Now, only nature can help this ship.” We are doomed to drift.

What irony. I am a passenger on one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world, travelling through the Northwest Passage - which is supposed to become almost ice-free in a time of global warming, the next shipping route across the top of the world - and here we are, stuck in the ice, engines shut down, bridge deserted. Only time and tide can free us.

Oh, and for the record, I had to scrape frost from my car’s windshield yesterday morning and had to turn the heat back on in the house as the temperature dropped below freezing. In May. Almost June.

Oh, and I don’t want to hear “climate change” either, because that’s what it does. It changes.

Yep, since we’re all doomed anyway, I thought I may as well have a good time.

So, to celebrate global warming, I bought a 1947 Plymouth. Yep, Flathead straight 6, unanalyzed exhaust, horrid gas mileage and crankcase vents that spew gases into the atmo. It’s a greenie’s worst nightmare. I can’t even imagine the carbon footprint that it has

It’s fun! Hell, if we can’t have fun with doomsday, what’s the point, right?

This may seem like a no-brainer here, but apparently it’s not. In this day and age of smoking bans, light bulb laws and calls for socialized medicine, it’s become painfully apparent that the people have lost their way.

So now it’s time to do a little reeducation.

The lesson that needs to be re-taught is the fact that the government is not here to help you. They are not an omnipotent power. They are not a power for good. They are not even all that smart. They do what is best for them, not you, and their underlying goal is more power.

Since I don’t want to get too far off topic, I’m simply going to apply this to smoking bans; although the concept can be applied unilaterally to nearly any other topic.

So, when it comes to smoking bans, why isn’t the government here to help you?

I hear the argument all the time. Nearly every day in fact. The government is doing what is best for us. They’re banning smoking to protect us. They’re only doing the right thing. Blah blah blah.

Really?

Have any of these people stopped to think about this? Have any of them stopped and realized that the only reason the government is involved in this battle and siding with the anti-tobacco nuts is because it works in their favor?

I have.

Let’s put this in perspective though. What is the overwhelming goal of government? To expand and grow its power and control. It’s a well-known fact and perhaps something that those in government doesn’t even realize they’re doing (although I suspect the vast majority do). The Founding Fathers of this nation realized this and Framed our government to help protect against such things. However, over time people have found and manipulated ways around the Constitution and have managed to grow and expand the government and exert power and control over the people in blunt violation to what the Framers intended.

As we speak, there are two prime offenders to freedom: one is environmentalism, the other is public health and the fallacy of “protecting us from ourselves.” Air pollution not withstanding, smoking bans fall under the latter of those two tools of control, and as a whole we should not be happy about this.

The anti-tobacco advocates, while perhaps good intentioned at one time, have become unwitting tools of government. They preach the values of “public health” and “saving us from ourselves” and do the dirty work of government. After all, who needs a ministry of propaganda when you have scores of zealots who will do it for you. The anti-tobacco crowd builds government power and undermines the concepts of a free nation as defined in our Constitution all in one swift motion.

But they don’t get it. They see the government as their friend and see their cause as right and just because the government says they are right. Need I point out the flaw in this logic? The government, by default, will side with any cause that nets them more control over the population. This is not rocket science. This is basic government systems 101.

So why don’t they get it? Because it’s a win-win situation and human nature is to be blinded by one’s own victory. They are winning the battle but losing the war, yet they can’t see past their own ego to realize this. All they see is that they got their way. Everything else is either irrelevant or inconsequential. The problem to face here not the anti-tobacco victory, it is the fact that they don’t understand that they are being used by the government to accumulate more power.

I’m not writing this as a conspiracy theory, I’m writing this as a wake-up call. This is truth plain and simple and those of us who care enough to open our eyes to what’s going on in the big picture understand that public health is being used to do exactly that which our Founding Fathers warned us against!

So just remember, the next time that anybody claims that the government is forcing smoking bans on us because they’re in our best interest you should remind them that the only thing that the government can do that is in our best interest where smoking bans are concerned is to allow us to live free and make our own choices. Anything else is just a power grab.

Cross posted from BtBWI
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Doing some housekeeping

I am trying to get things put back togther as far as the blogging thing goes, and I have to say that I find some of the past year very funny.

Part of my housecleaning is dusting off some of the older posts and comments and trying to get a feel for what’s been going on and what burned me out so badly. While I have already ventured down the “my party left me behind” road and come to terms with that, I have to say that the number one burnout factor has got to be global warming.

Looking back, I get a good larf out of it. The pure lunacy of the people I (we) deal with on this issue is staggering. I mean, these people are either the worst sort of brain-dead sheep or they’re living on Venus. Either way, the number of times I could find where somebody called me out and told me to “look around, global warming is happening!!” or “people like you need to wake up, global warming is happening and it’s already too late!!” is unreal.

These people spoke with such heartfelt passion that it almost made you forget that their heads were so far up their asses that the only “warming” they knew was their own sense of self satisfaction as it warmed their little bellies.

What’s really interesting is how this merry little band of idiots is now struggling to come up with excuses to justify the fact that their definitive knowledge of climate and weather patterns has proven to be wrong. Notice how quiet they were all winter? Or are we just concerned about seasonal global warming? The rest of us might call that spring and summer, since yes, in fact things to warm up during those seasons and technically I guess you could call it global warming…

But seriously, with the exception of Al Gore who’s more concerned about building his monetary empire than actual environmental issues or science, we really haven’t heard any of the alarmist bullshit for months. Where did they go? These same people were the ones who were jumpig up and down every single day claiming that the sky was falling and the only way to save ourselves is to give Al Gore our money… Gee, I wonder if they feel smart now.

Is it possible that the hoax is coming full circle and the people who knew that they were right and we were nothing more than nasty liars in the same light as holocaust deniers are the ones who look like the idiots? I would hate to be the last one holding the bag on the global warming thing. When all is said and done and all the money wasted to line the pockets of Albert and all of his little friends under the guise of saving us from ourselves is tallied up… Somebody or some people are going to look like real fools.

Mark my words. Eventually people will catch on to the fact that weather and climate fluctuations do not signal global warming (i.e. cooling does not equal warming no matter how many pathological liars say it does).

But for all those who still don’t get it, don’t worry, I’m still selling my cooling offsets. For just $5, I’ll go into my freezer, grab an ice cube and put it out in my back yard to offset the warming. Just think, for just $5 you can feel better about yourself and your evil lifestyle.

And for those who do get it, I’m selling positive carbon offsets. So for just the price of one gallon of gas (at market rate, of course) you can increase your carbon footprint helping me run it through my ‘47 Plymouth with it’s uncatalyzed dual exhaust.

Think about it! I offer the best of both worlds. And who says I’m not equal opportunity?

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