Posted on 12/13/2006 4:18:21 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Cato the Elder famously dragged Carthage into every speech, calling for it to be destroyed. Like a modern-day Cato who has played the DVD of "An Inconvenient Truth" way too many times, The Boston Globe manages to drag global warming into an editorial this morning about, of all things, the baby that Mary Cheney is expecting.
Writing of the decision of Cheney and Heather Poe to bring a child into the world, the Globe claims that:
"Like any couple choosing to become parents, they must have concluded that the joy of raising a child outweighs the uncertainties of introducing it to a planet threatened by global warming, nuclear proliferation, and other terrors of the modern world."
"Like any couple"? If you're a parent out there, please raise your hand if, in deciding to extend your line, you took the possiblity of rising sea levels into account. A number of authors, including Mark Steyn in America Alone, have written of the danger that the West's low reproduction rates pose to the survival of our civilization. But there is every indication that motives have more to do with preserving a certain kind of lifestyle than anxiety over the ozone layer.
The editorial concludes with this bit of do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do coupled with pandering to the younger set:
"The best baby shower gift for them may be privacy and time -- because time will encourage the good common sense of young people to dawn on the rest of the nation."
The best gift is privacy? Such as in not writing editorials exploiting the pregnancy to advance your own political agenda? Seems the dawn of good common sense hasn't risen over Beantown yet.
Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net
Globe global-warming ping to Today show list.
Whenever I buy beer for the weekend, I always consider how much the ocean level will rise due to my kidney evacuation. So I have to ask myself: Would buying a 6-pack be better for the penguins and the fish and the environment than a 12-pack?
So I compromised and made up a rule: Never buy more beer for the weekend than you can count on your fingers and toes.
I just heard a soundbite of Bill Bennett on the Today show, which I don't get for another 15 minutes. Matt Lauer says to Bill that the majority of Americans voted to pull out of Iraq and as quickly as possible. I was quite surprised as that particular line was not on my ballot. Lauer now reads minds, apparently.
All of MSM really believes they read all of our minds:)
And with Global Warming, you better buy the beer that's already chilled! ;-)
I'm going to buy mine warm from now on. I'm such an evil, white, racist, sexist, polluting bastard that I don't deserve chilled beer!
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