Science was not my best subject in school, so I am uniquely unqualified to render an opinion on "Climate Change" or "Climate Crisis" or "Global Warming", or whatever they are calling it nowdays.
So you know I wasn't going to watch 7 hours of the CNN Town Hall with the rapidly depleting numbers of Democratic candidates for President.
I'd rather have a 7-hour root canal without anesthesia than watch it.
You don't have to be Nostradamus to know ahead of time what the Democrats would say.
1) Climate Change is real.
2) Let us explain why Climate Change is real: shut up.
3) It is all Trump's fault
4) Ha, Ha, look at him using a sharpie to draw on a map
5) Give us all your money if you want to live.
6) We are all going to die. Right now.
In case you didn't know, there is something called The Green New Deal, which is the creation of someone I think was probably my equal in Science knowledge, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I'm sure the most she has used her science background before The Green New Deal was making a killer Moscow Mule.
But apparently, The Green New Deal is sacrosanct. It promises to ban: fossil fuels, 99 per-cent of cars, 99 per-cent of planes, meat, and cow farts. "Moderate" Former Vice President Biden has said The Green New Deal does not "go too far", although he may have thought it was a new menu item at Applebee's.
According to news accounts of the "town hall", not one candidate criticized The Green New Deal. Let that sink in. Democrats have rightly gone bonkers when President Trump goes to Wacky City. But they don't even blink when a proposed plan wants to ban fossil fuels, which would be a major restructing of American life to say the very least. That to me is weird.
This is the group of people that want to replace President Trump. But what do they want to do? They want to get rid of "fracking". Kamala Harris, who will be on the ticket if Grandpa Joe wins the nomination, says she "absolutely" wants to get rid of fracking because "We have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact of the health and safety of communities." Note the term: "We have to". (Just for fun, count how many times she uses this phrase.)
However, our grand and glorious protectors of our nation's trust (CNN) did not ask two simple questions. One, what evidence do you have that fracking impacts the health and safety of our communities enormously? Two, why do we "have to"? Can't we have one of these marvelous discussions the left always want to engage in before we get rid of something that arguable has helped the United States to no longer be dependent on The Middle East for our energy?
Harris was also asked at the Town Hall about supporting dietary guidelines to decrease the consumption of red meat. I'm still not clear what "red meat" has to do with climate change except maybe cow poots, but hey, the progressives are on a roll.
Harris said, "The balance that we have to strike here, frankly, is about what government can and should do around creating incentives and then banning certain behaviors." We already have a balance. The government inspects the meat and makes sure it is fit to eat. Then the government prints a "pyramid" which shows you the proper diet. Up until 2019, the government thought you could make your own decisions about what you order off of a menu.
What does she mean by "creating incentives" and "banning certain behaviors"? I don't know, but I would bet it means you would no longer be able get one of those monster hamburgers that have double cheese, triple smoked applewood bacon, and an egg on it.
She continued: "I mean, just to be perfectly honest with you, I love cheeseburgers from time to time. Right? I mean, I just do. But there has to be also what we do in terms of creating incentives of what we will eat in a healthy way, that we will encourage moderation, and that we will be educated about the effect of our eating habits on our environment. And we have to do a much better job of that. And the government has to do a much better job of that."
While I appreciate her honesty by admitting she loves "cheeseburgers from time to time" in front of that group of nitwits at the townhall, she doesn't explain how our "eating habits" effects our enviroment. It appears our "eating habits" are just another aspect of life some people in government want to get their grubby hands on.
Here's a question to ponder. Was there any doubt in your mind that Senator Kamala Harris would be in favor of "banning" plastic straws?
Of course she does. Just like a Southern Baptist being against drinking alcohol, a Democrat has to be against plastic straws. However, and expect this to become an issue in the upcoming Democratic primaries, Harris had the gall to admit, in public, that it is difficult to drink out of a paper straw.
I can vouch for that. My wife and I went to my favorite socialist ice cream shop, Ben and Jerry's on my birthday. Ben and Jerry made me an incredible milkshake. But there was only one problem: they only had paper straws.
I came to one conclusion: paper straws suck.
The reason for this is that paper straws really don't suck like a plastic straw. But for the record, Senator Harris wants to encourage "innovation" on paper straws.
That's how far we've come in this country in sixty years.We've gone from a President promising to land man safely on the moon to a Presidential candidate promising to make paper straws suck.
Literally.
YEP !!
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