The polar bear doesn't need protection...
Polar bear numbers rising, Inuit elders tell wildlife board
This action unnecessarily hurts people...
Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik lashed out at the closing of the U.S. market, saying it won't affect the number of hunting permits issued each year, but will cause economic hardship in Inuit communities. He contended that bears aren't really at risk because their numbers are rising. Wildlife biologists believe the population is double the 1960s levels because of reduced hunting pressure."Our scientists in the field as well as Inuit elders have observed an overall increase in the polar bear population," Mr. Okalik said in a statement. "The truth is that polar bear populations are at near record levels."
We're protecting an endangered species that's undergoing a population boom because it might be threatened by a potential problem that's not really a problem after all...
Winter sea ice could keep expanding
It's all a big sham.
When I was a kid, I remember staring at the iron curtain in a village in Germany that was cut in half. On the West German side, the village was bright, well maintained, and prosperous. Based on aerial photographs and what we could see, the East German side appeared dull, grey, and disheveled.
The West German border was marked by a short fence anyone could hop over. The East German side had a wall, guard tower like one might see at a prison, guards behind machine guns, open space between the wall and a fence, machine guns on the fence set to spray bullets at anyone touching the fence (while we were there a West German was shot by the East Germans because he was sneaking over a night and dismantling the machine guns). Everything on the East German side was built to keep people in.
I never saw anything so depressing in my life. To my liberal college professor father's (whom I love) ultimate dismay, my political leanings were forever changed by that trip. I saw marxism/communism as the greatest threat man ever faced. I still do.
Fast forward a couple of decades. My wife and I learned she was pregnant just before we left for a week at a remote Mexican resort with no television, phones, or newspapers. Just before we left, the Berlin Wall came down.
I've never been more optimistic about the future. Everything seemed to be shining. I remember thinking that there was never, ever a better time in the history of the world, to bring a child into the world.
Liberty was on the march. Tyranny was in retreat.
It may seem overdramatic, but I've seldom been as pessimistic as I am now. I feel like I'm staring at the iron curtain in that small German village all over again and it's advancing.
I know there are ebbs and flows to man's liberty in the fabric of time. I just hate to live in a time of liberty's retreat, tyranny's rise, and greater human misery and suffering, whether it strikes me and my family personally or not.
To me, the enviromarxist agenda seems as stark and apparent as the iron curtain. It's underpinnings are based on the presumption of climate change (and the climate's always changing) and dependant on psuedoscience. The psuedoscience is the excuse for the central control of human activity by an elite few and the corresponding restriction of individual liberty.
Truth will eventually come out and the foundations of enviromarxism will come crashing down. The only question is how long it will take and how much damage will be done to the human condition in the meantime.
People worry about Islamic fascism. Not me. It's easy to see, over the top in its hate, and obvious to oppose. We can beat it because it's clear we must.
I worry about marxism cloaked in green because it's rot from within and so compellingly deceptive to so many people who are ill-equipped to question, challenge, or combat the big lie. I worry that there is no one challenging the enviromarxist orthodoxy on the American political scene.
Ours is the country of Reagan. And yet, a choice between McCain and Obama is the best we can do?
Personally, I'm starting to conclude that an Obama presidency, as disasterous as it would surely be, might be the better option since Obama is so much easier to oppose. If Carter gave us Reagan, what might Obama bring?
A McCain victory is unlikely to be much different an Obama win. There will still be a rise in misery, though maybe a little less. But coming from the GOP, McCain will remove a rallying point of opposition, leaving the path open to Clinton, the most evil of all "leaders" on the American political scene.
If four years of McCain could lead to eight of Clinton, could four years of Obama lead to eight of a yet unknown opposite to Clinton? Could four years of Obama halt the ebb towards tyranny and lead to a flow towards liberty?
I don't know the answers. I just know I can't tolerate any of the choices and seek some silver lining from the dark clouds forming over our nation and, from there, the world.