RUNNING SCARED

Well, now. I can't for the life of me remember what the subject of this blog was going to be. This is why you should always finish what you start. Being the creative sort I've decided to compose a likely unrelated blog of the same name. Again, being the optimistic type I will look into my rose colored crystal ball and offer some predictions about my AGW friends. What will become of them and their supporting industry as the global temperatures begin to cool or possibly rise at the very slow pace which they have been over the last century or so. I mean, talk about running scared. At some point even people who didn't take Earth Science class in High School are going to start putting together the obvious inconsistencies in the climate "models" compared to the reality of the situation. Sure the media can extend the game a bit longer with all the "first time" stories about weather events and such. But at some point someone is going to look back at all those interesting, "on this day in weather history" scenarios and see that they are only "firsts" for a particular location. Weather has been quite unruly for millennia and we are not experiencing an odd collection of phenomena but in fact are experiencing the intrinsic nature of weather. It's truly fascinating. Look up something called a "Heat Burst". Middle of the night, the high for the day was maybe, 95, and some location in Oklahoma has a hundred mph wind and temperatures of 102. Geepers Wally. And if you hadn't heard of them before the media could blame it on AGW and most would believe them. How about those Mesoscale Convective Complexes of thunderstorms. There's another cool weather phenomenon. In my life here in Wichita, Ks, (I'm 60), I remember Summer's with over 40 days above 100. I remember a winter where the temperature was below freezing for well over a month. Peoples water supplies were freezing up because the frost line went so deep. Anyway, it may take a while, but the Climate Change profiteers will begin changing their story and then will eventually disappear. I just hope there is a semblance of economic activity left when they finally come clean and tell the truth. And the truth, just so you'll recognize it when they finally tell it, is that man's effect on the climate is real, but minimal in scope compared to the effects of the sun and the oceans.
    So, to summarize, in the future, the Al Gore types will indeed be "running scared"
Thanks and have a great day.

A CALL TO EXCE0TIONALISM

    Odd, I suppose, to address whole nations with a seldom read article. Assuming the readership here, including myself, will still qualify as seldom.But this is my intent today, though if you don't qualify as a country I would still invite you to listen, with your eyes, to my points. Once again, while consuming a meal my mind was overwhelmed trying to understand all the steps, all the people, all the companies involved in bringing me the chance to enjoy my stack of pancakes with a sausage patty. For instance;

    THE WHEAT: the wheat is used in making the pancake batter. Some form of flour that is.

God created wheat:

Man learned how to grow it more and more efficiently so as to make it available to all.

    :irrigation

    :weed control

    :combines

    :tractors

    :genetics

Over time we developed ways of bring it to the masses.

    :trucks

    :trains

    :elevators w/dryers to help preserve it

    :mills and other processing facilities

    :stores (owners, stockers, checkers etc.)

Now, above is a partial treatment, due to time restraints, of just one aspect of my meal. But it you expand this partial list to include the designers, engineers, manufacturers, assemblers, truck drivers, store owners, stockers, checkers, quality control, fuel for harvesting and transporting, and a stove and pan to cook the pancakes in it's incredible. And if you expand this discussion to include the milk and butter, syrup, ketchup, (yes, ketchup), etc. it's absolutely mind boggling.

    These processes are part of what I call collaborative miracles. A partnership between God and man. I believe our country, because of it's Constitution protecting our individual freedoms, has become the most fertile ground for these collaborations to take place. I also believe we are moving away from a government which will allow for the continuation of these processes. These processes unfold over time as people engage in commerce with each other. As someone with a service or product contracts with someone needing that service or product to provide such for an agreed upon item of value. Money or an exchange of other services for instance. This is where the rubber meets the road in defining freedom. Freedom and free market capitalism go together. With a civil society intact, and yes we are loosing that by the day, these interactions result in great advantage for the country as a whole. If there is a catch it is this; we need to understand our createdness. We need to understand that we are all made in God's image and that we have intrinsic value. Without this understanding it all unravels.

    So, Venezuela, Cuba, Nigeria, Russia, listen up. If you want to be exceptional you don't need to become American, you need to become a champion of individual rights and free markets and a respecter of all who live in your country's borders. In time your citizens will make your country truly exceptional. Who knows, maybe at some point you could show us the way back from our current path towards Oligarchy.

Thanks, and have a great day. (That is, if you want too)