Recently we received the good word that asteroids knock out life on earth roughly every 27 million years and it is calculated that we have about 16 million years left before another round of it. It was the asteroids that helped make mammals supreme having last time around focused on killing dinosaurs. [CNN]
No worries, intelligent men of science are busy trying to bring them back to life through scientific means such as creative quasi-cloning. [Independent.uk] Could these behemoths further reduce the tropical rain forests and interfere with our own efforts to produce climate change?
Moving from asteroids to asses, many politicians in the US are worried about running out of ways to control whole populations. They have caused new taxes, new fiscal and new medical controls to kick in and the control mechanisms are running out. Obama has caused several laws to be drafted to give him powers of varying degrees over the internet, etc. In other areas he is investigating the possibilities that may fall under executive privilege. What could be wrong with government control? Democrats theorize that the large and powerful government they have created could surely control the planets. Short term the election may threaten the extinction of many but you may be sure that asteroids are not on their menu.
Then there are scientists. Remember when a punch line went “blame it on the attorneys”? I never bought into this. Blame it on the scientists. Many of their number and their civilian counterparts have got politicians all worked up about climate change and mankind’s role in it. The politicians cannot wait to take on climate control as it exists outside of a GM vehicle. They could control the climate if they could control mankind.
It’s unfortunate that there are such long intervals between these meteor-inspired extinctions. It would help end the climate change debate once and for all and control Democrats. Meanwhile, we can either set our mortality clocks by the semi-regularity of the asteroid arrivals or we can set them by the frequency of Kennedy divorces (recently, it seems it is Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s time again), the stock market or the instances of Democrats in power.
Election 2010 is our only option short of an asteroid. We need to rid ourselves of a group that is so human and ego-centric. Living with Democrats is like living in a Woody Allen film. There was a memorable moment in one film in which one character announced that there had just been a murder in Central Park and police were looking for a suspect. Allen roused himself from his inner thoughts long enough to say “I wasn’t even near Central Park.”
Democrats have one card left to play other than race in this climate change debate that may help them take a step back. The Chinese have told us they will not cease to buy big, cumbersome, gas inefficient vehicles. They claim it is their turn to enjoy the ill-got advances in automotive design. Eureka. We can nationalize climate change. We can blame it on the Chinese. We don’t have any control over the Chinese. In point of fact, it is the exact reverse. They are the asteroids of our age. One man’s science is another man’s albatross – rather Dodo bird.
UPDATE on Climate Change Legislation.
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blackwatertown
July 26, 2010
I like the Woody Allen line. I sometimes feel that way – suspiciously guilty despite having no possible connection to an event. As you can imagine, passing through the scrutiny of regular security checks was a bit of a trial.
As for the Chinese – I read somewhere recently (maybe it was here) that the Chinese are deliberately appearing uncooperative when it comes to combating climate change to hide the significant efforts they are making to develop new environmentally friendly technology – so when they’re ready and we’re all desperate, they can use their huge domestic market as a springboard to dominate in new energy technology.
samhenry
July 26, 2010
I wouldn’t put it past the Chinese to be working on a solution while building up the crisis. The “inscrutable East” and all that you know! Thanks for this lead. I will pursue this.
I feel so bad about the fact that so many such as you yourself were traumatized by the constant checks of papers and purpose. I will remember that you survived it albeit haunted when the time comes for it here.
DarcKnyt
July 26, 2010
Ah, the Chinese and their big, fuel-inefficient vehicles. I remember when we used to call those “tanks”, what with their treads and the huge gun turret on top, weighing in at 60 tons or so, and running down students in Tienemen Square. THOSE were the days, my friend! The DAYS!
The Chinese aren’t the only ones given a pass on the whole Kyoto Treaty deal. India was allowed to ignore it too, under the same pretense of being a “developing economy”.
Climate change. They even had to change the name from “global warming” to stop being made fun of when the winters were the coldest we’d had in 15 years. HA!
samhenry
July 26, 2010
I love it – the tanks of course. It really was like a stilleto in my kidney to have the Chinese get out from under as a “developing economy” and then form a league of “developing” countries at the Copenhagen conference.
I was researching trade with South America and of course the Chinese are in there big time. But several economies there, in Africa and elsewhere are finding what we found – trade with them is decidedly a mixed blessing.
Bless you, Darc
DarcsFalcon
July 27, 2010
I am tempted to respond that Democrats do indeed cause extinction, with every abortion they support.
Okay, sorry, /rant.
I’m pretty sure it was the Chinese who bought our Hummer line, when Obama closed it down when he tool over GM. They have learned what a wonderful thing capitalism can be – now we just have to wean them off that Communist government!
samhenry
July 27, 2010
You are quite right about extinction. Rant allowed. It was, indeed, the Chinese who bought Hummer. Will they embrace democracy? We can hope. Problem is as you know some societies function better as dictatorships. That’s how I run my house!