Pauly calls me to tell me the polar ice caps are melting
This is at 3 a.m.
He claims he has evidence that the sea levels are rising and
we might drown if don’t head for higher ground.
“That’s nice,” I tell him and yawn.
All I want to do is go back to sleep.
But I know just how persistent Pauly can be, a regular
bloodhound when locked onto a scent about global warming. He won’t stop
pestering me unless I hear him out.
This time, it’s the polar ice caps; sometimes he goes on
about how evil the president is or about some other natural disaster destined
to doom us.
For Pauly, all this gloom is actually good news.
Where as normal people take up sensible hobbies such as
collecting postage stamps, Paul contemplates all the possible world ending
disasters.
He actually thinks we can survive it.
He’s not like those deluded other green people who
egotistically believe they can save the planet by recycling or banning
everything everybody else enjoys, for Pauly, plastic is not evil, but a means
to an end.
He’s made plans for us to buy land somewhere high enough so
that we can all enjoy beach front property when the oceans rise, land upon
which we can rebuild civilization-- his
way.
Pauly demands that we give him a percentage of our weekly
wages for this noble cause.
Hank dutifully complies; Garrick tells Pauly to get a job.
This, of course, means Garrick will have no place in Pauly’s
new world order when the end does come.
Pauly always calls me at odd these odd hours, my phone
jangling me awake with each report of an earthquake in Ecuador or an outbreak
of flu in Peru.
When CNN recently reported a possible asteroid strike, Pauly
nearly poked his eye out, peering up at the skies via telescope, calling me
with hourly reports about the asteroid’s progress.
He actually sounded disappointed when the asteroid missed.
I’m always tempted to turn off my telephone.
I’ve even debated whether or not to tell Pauly not to call.
But somewhere in the back of my head, stirring among the
unending echoes of media’s lust for disaster, I wonder – what the hell I will
do if Pauly turns out to be right.
Since the 1960s, we all knew how out of touch with reality the American
education system is.
Mired in that misnamed period called the enlightenment, schools teach a
largely deluded and questionably moral agenda that ill prepares them for contemporary
times.
Most kids are ruined for the real world by the time they leave
elementary school -- opinions and world view shaped for them by educators with
a specific agenda and which puts each kid in a bubble of illusion and wishful
thinking expanded on later in high school and college.
In some ways secondary education resembles a terrorist organization in
which teachers and professors serve as handlers in order to make sure student
maintain this particular point of view.
Is it any wonder that these kids buy into discredited beliefs such as
the new green deal or walk out of class to protest trump or gun violence?
Students -- in particular the best and brightest -- are constantly
seeking approval from those who teach them and so do and say things they know
will win them praise.
So, each of these events reflects not what students believe but what
they are taught to believe by adults who for the most part live in a bubble of
their own and espouse out of date philosophies that students accept as truth.
Conservatives have long maintained that schools and most often colleges
have become bastions of liberal propaganda.
This is only partly true.They
have become places where professors who are out of touch with reality teach
kids to be out of touch as well.
While claiming to be teaching kids how to think for themselves, these
professors teach them how to think like the professors think, creating an army
of intolerant clones who mistakenly believe they are the soul possessors of
truth.
It's extremely frustrating dealing with people who assume they know
more than you do, overly miseducated zombies who spout a lot on nonsense then
go into tantrums when the world won’t take them seriously or they can't get
their own way.
Unfortunately -- like a world terrorist organization -- this is
self-perpetuating and there is no way to bring back these young people once
they have been so skewed by this corrupting influence.
More well-meaning teachers have told me that a student is really ruined
by the time they leave grammar school, maybe even before that, so, if we are to
provide them with a read education, we have to stop subjecting them to
propaganda starting in Kindergarten, and start reaching them how to survive in
the real world – where we lave already learned some four legged animals are
more equal than others, regardless of how much diversity claim there is.
Democrats appear to be working off a script, pre-digested for them by
some questionable think tank.
This is why all of them seem to be saying the same things at the same
time.
All of them have the same talking points. So, we hear them spouting the
same rhetoric as faithfully as catholic school children do catechism.
Only with democrats Catholicism has become the enemy as has all culture
with roots in Europe.
There are clear themes being promoted such as trumps tax returns -- Democrats
implying h e must be hiding something even though Democratic Gov Jerry Brown
withheld his as well as have others. This allows democrats to engage in
conspiracy with evidence. But even if Trump releases his returns, Democrats
will pick through them seeking anything they can spin into a crime.
This is exactly what Democrats are doing with the Mueller report, doing
hand stands to squeeze obstruction which isn’t there except in their vivid
imaginations.
Of course, Democrats are not above lying -- the way they did when they
orchestrated to Ford conspiracy against Kavanaugh.
In pursuit of power, no tactic is beyond them. Ruining the reputation
of an innocent man is a small price to pay to keep him from reversing roe v
wade.
Fair play is not in the Democratic script.
Democrats have spent the last four years painting Trump as a racist -
this is partly because blacks and Latinos did not come out in the numbers
needed to beat trump in 2016.
This is why Dems harp on the hurricane response to Puerto Rico, hoping
to stir up wrath against trump among a population skeptical of Democrats.
What is the most pervasive talking points for Democrats involve guns.
The attack on guns targets the strong GOP base but more importantly it
diverts attention from many of the social services that liberals rely on as a
safety net. In many, many cases where there is gun violence there has been
warning to local officials and these have been ignored. So Democrats divert
detention by blaming the guns because they cannot attack the social services
that they put in place as an alternative protection – since the social services
are generally owned and operated by Democrats.
As with the GOP a decade ago, Democrats appear to be destroying the
moderates in their own party or forcing them to toe the extremist line.
Some Democrats in congress that I’ve known for decades have always been
frauds, people abandoned their role as legislators to become full time spin
doctors.At no point can you trust this
type to level with you. They constantly manipulate you and expect you to take
their outrageous declarations with a straight face. Even when they have a legitimate
issue, they so hack it up it becomes an anti-campaign advertisement and has no
relationship to reality.
Because so many of us in media value our contacts with people like him,
we often simply play along – so as to maintain our good relationship at the
expense of informing the public that there might be other equally or more
legitimate points of view. But many in media are easily corrupted, or have
graduated into the profession with similar skewed views, and so never fully
embraced the concept of an objective press, and feel no need to hold this kind
of legislator accountable – somehow actually believing the bull shit at the GOP
and Trump are purveyors of evil rather than people with differing points of
view. So Democrats keep throwing around talking points like racist and white
supremist or sexists while defending racists like Itham Omar when the other
side points out her hateful rhetoric.
Media and misguided corrupt Democratic extremist have a convenient
marriage, one that follows a clearly prescribed script, as vivid in its imagination
as any of the equally deluded movies Hollywood is producing these days.
But this is a disease that is spreading to more legitimate Democratic
legislators, whom I have respected in the past, but out of whose mouth this same
rhetoric is spewing suggesting someone in the party is holding their toes over
a fire or threatening to pull out their fingernails unless they conform to the
party line.
Suddenly, legislators who used to sound reasonable are loading their
statements with anti-Trump BS, good people perverted by a bad system into
reading from a script that has been written by Democratic think tanks in order
to convince the public there is actually truth to any of the claims – this is a
similar technique used to convince us that there is actually merit to the
concept of man-made climate change, when there isn’t.
So now once-thoughtful legislators sound like idiot clones of the New York
mayor, testifying to the merits of The New Green Deal or the evils of the Trump
Administration, packs of Democrats all saying the exact same things at the exact
same time, like pre-programmed robots who can no longer thick or act on their
own for fear of being labeled a heretic by party bosses.
The United Nations climate committee clearly has hired writers from Sci-Fi
channel for its latest piece of propaganda regarding potential extinctions.
This comes at a time when scientists are required to have some world
ending theory in order to get papers published or receive grants. But the UN
committee has gone way over the top in their attempt to hoodwink the general
public into thinking the world is coming to an end.
Since the same group of UN scientists that came up with the extinction
report this week got caught lying about climate change in 2009, you have to suspect
this report is also a lie.
The report came out just in time for the climate change pep rally in NYC,
helping to keep loyal followers from deviating from the true faith.
These conferences are billed as forums but keep out any opinion than
the prescribed script.
This is all politics and no science as the UN committee sets an agenda
that is largely unproven by legitimate science.
This is field of dreams science. if you say something often enough,
intimidate or bribe enough scientists, it must be true.
All these UN reports start with a very small group of so-called scientists who
are promoting a particular agenda -- which is largely fantasy. These are based on presumption and projections
not on observable evidence. The reports are what this tiny group believes will
happen but cannot prove.
By promising grants or withholding publication in scientific journals
they control, this small group intimidates other scientists to sign on to this
scam.
The hope is that if they can brow beat or bribe enough legitimate
scientists, this group can con the general public into believing the 21st
century version of Orson Welles’ Halloween radio n broadcast, depicting the end
of the world rather than an invasion from Mars.
This is also about politics.
These climate change fanatics are riding a Democratic wave, an agenda that
promises even more grant money for research once Democrats regain power. For
the democrats it is a campaign issue that allows them to go after the principle
support for the Republicans which is big oil.
Democratic money for campaigns is flowing in from these environmental
companies such as solar and wind and more importantly there is a move by
Democrat to totally violate the original concept of environmentalism. Many of
these would be scientists are actually talking about going back to nuclear
because the wind and power sources can't possibly meet all the needs of
contemporary society.
This perversion by the New Green Deal has environmentalist of a
previous generation rolling over in their graves as the new questionable
environmental community embraces the pro-nuclear lobby.
The hypocrisy of contemporary environmental science is so overwhelming
you can't even blame Syfy channel for making it up.
These are people who will say anything and do anything even when there
is no basis in fact.
The worst part is how many gullible young people actually believe the
world is going to end in 7 years
No matter how outrageous the lie by the UN committee publishes, these
poor fools will continue to believe and will never understand how badly they've
been duped.
More realistic people understand this is all about money and power and
the Democrats needing to have an issue to garner young votes against the
Republicans even if it is total fantasy as if it's JRR Tolkien managed to write
it for them.
One million species are not going extinct what is going extinct is common
sense
It's clear that I will never be
able to enjoy baseball again.The mayor
of New York City has decided hot dogs cause global warming.
This is also true of going to Coney Island where I have always counted
on getting some of Nathan's Famous.
I would really like to think that the mayor of New York has simply
taken a little too much LSD to explain why he has decided to destroy one of New
York's cultural treats.
How anti-New York can you get by Banning hot dogs?
Since hot dogs have their origin in Germany and Eastern Europe, this
must be a plot to bring about the end of life as we know it and the mayor of
New York has taken a stand to protect us from our own worst instincts.
It really doesn’t matter to the mayor that there is little solid
science to prove co2 causes climate change, hysteria is enough.
This is the same mayor who killed the ground hog on ground hog day no
doubt seeking to protect us from the global warming of an early spring.
This is also the mayor who seeks to do away with skyscrapers made of glass,
steel and concrete, choosing no doubt to lock up the population of NYC in big
pine boxes - elaborate coffins in which we can await the ultimate end.
This ban on building materials will undo all progress made since before
the Roman Empire and bring us back to living in tents or caves, rootless nomads
or worse prisoners in some windowless dungeon from which there is no escape.
I like beer and hot dogs at ball games. But not at the expense of
destroying the world. And if the mayor says hot dogs are destroying the world
who am i to question him regardless of the bad science he employs to justify
it?
Not only will I have to give up ball games and going to the beach, back
yard barbeques are a thing of the past as well. Not just because of hotdogs but
also burning of coal.
Since there are no coal mines in NYC, the mayor won’t lose votes
banning burning of coal. But what comes next? Will he ban rice and beans
because beans cause people to fart and scientists who sell us this scam like
snake oil tell us farts cause global warming?
So does breathing and we do a lot more of that every day. Maybe the
mayor will require kids in schools to breathe less often or perhaps not at all.
The real cause of climate change has little to do with man-made green
house gases - if you discount all the hot air spewing from politicians like the
mayor of NYC. Science shows the earth is simply returning to a warming trend
that existed before the little ice age. But scientists won’t get grants to
study something so mundane as that. Engineers won’t get contracts to build dykes
against imaginary floods. And politicians like the mayor won’t get reelected
unless they terrify the population into believing the end of the world has
come.
This leaves only one question unanswered: do you want mustard or
relish?
Anniversary of that car crash long ago, a moment in time that woke me
up from a dream Louise and I could go on after we came back east, and I straightened
everything out with the law.
The car crash in distant retrospect seems funny but seemed tragic at
the time since it was prelude to the breakup that transpired two weeks later.
hank and I routinely had a night out together, while Louise stayed home
with the baby. in exchange I stayed home to care for the baby while Louise went
out with Garrick’s girlfriend, Jean.
I did not know at the time that Jean encouraged Louise to see other men
during these nights out with the girls. but even Jean was surprised by how far Louise
went with them.
Of course, our nights out were hardly innocent since Hank's goal was
always to pick up girls and since he always cheated when he was dating someone,
he assumed I would too.
Until the night of the crash I managed to keep this from happening
despite Hank’s persistent efforts.
On this night however hank stopped to pick up two underage hitch hikers
on our way to the rock clubs in Greenwood Lake.
The girls wanted to get drunk and make love and Hank expected me to do
my part to accommodate them. But I didn’t want to cheat on Louise. So, when Hank
made me pull the car over to buy beer on the chance, we could not get the girls
into one of the clubs, I went to the toilet where I actually prayed for a
miracle to keep the inevitable from happening.
Since I did not like driving at night, Hank climbed behind the wheel. He
was in a hurry to get to the lake and find a private where we could park. We
did not see the other car making a k turn on the blind side of a curve until we
hit it.
Nobody in our car wore a seat belt.
As a result, Hank plunged into the windshield with only the steering
wheel to keep him from going through it.
Weary before the crash, I had leaned back in the front passenger side
seat. Instead of hitting the windshield, my face hit the dash board breaking my
nose, blood blinding me for a moment so all I heard were the moans of the
girls, one of whom said her legs were crushed by the front seat moving back
with the impact.
I was out of our car first where I saw someone from the other car, a
passenger, I think, yelling at me and asking how fast were we going?
I went around to help Hank out. He was shaken but bleeding the way I
was. He seemed in a daze and stared at the back seat where the two girls were
trapped.
I heard sirens. Hank remembered the beer and had me fetch it out of the
car to toss away in the woods before the police arrived. Someone from the other
car did the same.
Nobody wanted to get caught with booze in their car even unopened.
The police arrived; then came the ambulances, one for each car.
We piled in. Someone put a bandage on my nose to stop the bleeding. One
of the girls complained about an injured leg.
EMTS treated us then asked questions about who we were, where we lived
and how old we were at which point we learned both girls were 16.
Hank looked pale but not about their ages. EMTs worried we all might go
into shock. they kept asking us questions.
blood type?
O positive.
weight?
165.
height?
5 foot 11.
married or single?
Married.
At this point one of the girls cried out: "you didn't tell me that!"
An embarrassing silence followed and might have lasted an eternity had
Hank not picked that moment to go into shock.
At the hospital Hank and I got put in one part of the ER, the girls in
another while the victims from the other car in a third. But there were no
doors and we could hear everybody including family members who had rushed there
from some remote location.
Orderlies and nurses came and went taking our temperature and such. but
when they came to take blood, Hank balked.
He refused to let any son of a bitch stick a needle in him -- the one
and only thing that kept him from ever becoming a junkie.
The fact that he fainted during the army induction blood test kept him
from going to Vietnam.
An orderly got a nurse, and a nurse got a doctor to tell him if he didn’t
permit the blood test the hospital couldn’t treat him, and he would have to sign
a waiver of service to get discharged.
Hank signed then made a phone call to get Pauly to come and drive him
home.
I had no dread of needles and wanted someone to fix my nose which had
started to throb.
But when I heard the roar of a father of one of the girls asking where
the fuck we were I decided to sign myself out as well.
Fortunately, Pauly found us before the father did. Hank and I crowded into the back of Pauly's
girlfriend's blue VW bug for the long bumpy ride home, unaware until later that
Hank had suffered a hairline fracture in his neck from the crash and any minor jolt
- like the many we got on the rough road back - could have killed him.
Pauly’s girlfriend didn’t want to drive all the way though Paterson to
drop hank off at home and so deposited both of us at my place where Hank could
stay until the morning when his mother could retrieve him.
The baby was asleep. So was Louise.
When I woke her up to tell her I almost died, she yawned said
"that’s nice" then went back to sleep.
Now all these years later the memory still haunts me, that moment when I
came to realize she did not care if I lived or died. Two weeks later she and
the baby were gone and slowly like slow torture l got reports of how she'd cheated
on those wild nights out with the girls. So, I could not later appreciate her
kindness when she called finally to see if I was okay.
Mayor De Blasio and the city council of New York have drunk the
Kool-Aid and now are out to get the skyscrapers to pay fines because of all the
glass they have.
Like many democrats he and his city council bought into the new green
deal scam.
They are like many in the past are convinced the sky is falling or
rather the sea is rising when it is not. At least not at the rate they claim.
The mayor claims glass towers as with Babel will lead to the demise of
the planet.
This is the declaration of a simpleton, and something we would not
expect to be coming out of the mouth of the mayor of the biggest city in the world.
This is all based on bad science that tells us man is causing the earth
to warm and the ice caps to melt.
The north pole is melting just as it has for 18,000 years long before
anyone built the first glass tower.
This melting halted briefly when the gulf stream changed course and plunged
us into the little ice age. When the ice age ended in 1880 the warming trend
resumed.
Deliberately stupid scientists (more like snake oil salesmen) convinced
of their own self-importance came up with a ludicrous exclamation called global
warming despite little or no concrete evidence to support it.
Part of this miscalculation has to do with the way warmists measure the
earth temperature. They use ground measurements rather than more accurate
satellite ones.
Warmists also measure near urban centers which skew their readings.
Nobody disputes that cities are warmer than other areas. this has little
to do with glass skyscrapers but a much more complex mixture of causes. If
glass skyscrapers caused global warming NYC would be warmer than Newark which
it is not.
Cities are warm because they have a greater concentration of people and
services. For instance, all buildings built since the 1960s have windows that
do no open. They must rely on air conditioning as do most homes, cars, buses
and subways all spewing heat into city air that did not exist prior to 1950.
There are so many factors that go into so-called climate change that it
is ridiculous to blame glass Towers or even CO2.There is absolutely no proof that CO2 is
responsible for global warming. The fact is water vapor is much more prevalent
and that is not caused by human activity but an interaction with sunlight in
the oceans.
If you actually believe the co2 myth, then it's not industry or cows or
even glass towers causing it but people themselves who breathe and fart in far
greater numbers than their hooved counterparts. Cities are concentrated centers
of humanity and this is becoming more so now. This is why we need these giant
glass and concrete towers to house them.
Some other idiot democrat suggested government ought to limit the
number of kids parents have and so outlaw immigrant families which have the
most kids generally in urban settings.
Blaming skyscrapers is as simplistic as blaming co2. both are sound
bite political BS based less on real science than bad science fiction.
The whole climate scam is about money either to get grants for bogus
research, build flood walls for floods that will never happen or to extort
black mail money from the owners of skyscrapers.
And worse the mayor isn’t stupid. He knows it's a scam.
