Posted on 04/09/2014 7:40:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Although it’s been going on for years, it seems lately there is an all-out assault by the nanny government to crack down on our liberties.
Nowadays, when the people say no, our rulers just do the old end around, or sleight-of-hand. They cause us to concentrate on one thing while they regulate behind our backs.
Lately it seems that even this tactic has changed and the Nanny State has begun to attack us from all sides.
Take this global warming nonsense. With every passing year, the people are coming to realize what a hoax it has been. Every poll conducted puts the climate change concern at or near the bottom of a fairly long list of worries.
The left is losing the argument and they know it. And what do we know about the left and arguments? That’s right, as they lose traction on an issue, rather than let the issue die, they become even wackier, even more unhinged, finding more devious ways to control our behavior.
And that is why I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all this nudging and shoving is being ramped up. We must keep in mind that leftists don’t stop. They may change tactics, but they will never give up.
A few examples:
First, we’ve recently heard that the makers of Al Gore’s masterpiece, An Inconvenient Truth, are pondering a sequel. Yep – we can’t get enough Al Gore. They must believe this is a way to re-create buzz about their faltering movement.
Second, a British government official wants “man-made global warming deniers” arrested and jailed. He wants to deny the “deniers” access to radio and television interviews.
Third, in the next several years, Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for trucks and cars are being raised to ridiculous, possibly unachievable levels.
Fourth, the government health brainiacs are devising a plan to text fat people. Yes, the 15 members of the nanny “Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee” are looking out for us. These 15, all pointy-headed intellectual theoreticians, don’t want us to consume trans fats, sugar, salt, soda or red meat and are developing a method to remind us, or at least the fat ones. And how will they find out who’s fat? Why, from the information provided when signing up for Obamacare. You know, the information that is supposed to be kept private.
But, you may ask, what does this have to do with global warming?
Well, it’s the “red meat” part. The leftist food police, who think red meat is unhealthy, are now being assisted by the EPA.
It seems, coincidentally, that now it’s methane emissions that will ruin the planet and kill us all. No, it’s not carbon dioxide or the ozone hole. It’s now cow farts that will evidently be our doom.
Yes, cow farts contain methane, which like everything else, is a “greenhouse gas” and must be controlled and limited, despite the fact that methane emission levels have been falling since 1990.
So the Obama brain trust has proposed a 25% reduction in methane emissions by 2020. And how does one control such a thing? By feeding cows Gas-X?
No, by thinning the herd. Not as many cows = not as many farts.
This will in turn drive up the price of beef and dairy, which means fewer people can afford it, which makes the food Nazis happy.
People fart, too, and there are 7 billion of us. Are we next?
So it all comes full circle – but I’m sure it’s just a happy coincidence and not collusion.
Oh, and one question. Some estimates put the number of the American Bison roaming our plains at around 60 million at one point. Why was cow flatulence not a problem then? Do Bison not fart?
I guess then, you could say that all those evil European buffalo hunters that virtually wiped out the bison population were environmentalists, doing it for posterity. They must have known all that added flatulence would be harmful to Mother Earth. They were real forward thinkers.
Seriously, I don’t really know if these departments meet to conspire against us or, because they all think alike, it just seems that way. I guess, at the end of the day, if they succeed in controlling all aspects of our lives, it doesn’t really matter whether they conspired or it turns out to be a Nanny State Coincidence.
If cattle farts are outlawed . . .
Nanny State PING!
“Natural cork.”
We drove around through our cow herd for quite a while today. I didn’t hear a single cow fart!
Thanks for the ping!
Must all be SBDs.
I guess the answer is to eat buffalo. They can’t demonize buffalo without being anti-Native American racists.
As anyone who is even minimally informed on the subject knows, termites produce more methane than all of the ungulates in the world both domestic and wild. What's the plan to eliminate termites?
If they want to start thinking that human farts are destroying the earth, then I am dead-solid sure they’ll execute me as a serial killer.
What’s worse? Cow farts or smokers? It’s a tossup....
Just douse a large, wooden house in poison and let them have at it.
NY Times’ Thomas Friedman: Those Who Question Manmade Global Warming are “Trotskyite Radicals”
When will Obama make call on Keystone?
The great climate change walkback
Global Warming on Free Republic
Leftists have always been insane, but now they’re wearing colored lights and howling under the noonday sun - all to distract attention while they shred the Constitution and eat it while hiding under the table.
That would work ... as well as taking one car off of the road. ;^)
Totalitarians. Hands down.
The most abundant and strongest greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is......
water vapor.....
Idiots......
4.government is beyond ridiculous as these government agencies mission to reduce cow farts to save the planet from the global warming hoax shows. this alone proves that government can never work.
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