Pissing Off (P)regressives

My Facebook posting was not well received.

Thought to ponder. The 60's and 70's radicals are the 21st Century Establishment.

This election cycle has seen a number of folks "unfriending" me. Pussies can't stand anyone calling them on their bullshit. They seem to need a safe place to keep from having their feelings hurt. On Facebook?

I am rapidly becoming persona non grata in the People's Republic of Boulder. Oh well.

Snort

From a grandson's Facebook page.

Speaking of grandsons.

Yeah, I'm Depraved

This made me laugh. Shamelessly stolen from Dysfunctional Veteran on Facebook.

Damn Drunks

This morning one of the hospitals we service had a belligerent drunk in the Emergency Room. The town is too small to support a detox facility. I felt so sorry for the staff trying to deal with him. A Deputy was standing by to haul his sorry ass to jail once the medical staff cleared the transfer.

I don't have a problem with people who over indulge but keep their manners (and aren't on the road). The assholes get to me. In the younger days when working crowd control, I enjoyed throwing their sorry asses out. I wouldn't have made it as a police officer, lacking more than rudimentary tolerance.

But WSF, what kind of drunk are you? Sunshine, I don't need alcohol to be obnoxious.

End of rant. YMMV

Life in a (P)gressive City

http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2016/03/04/come-on-denver-city-attorney-who-didnt-work-a-day-in-2015-gets-another-raise/

Climate Change Shamans

Once again WSF goes wandering down a murky path. You have been warned.

Trying to stay awake on the road, turned on the radio and came across an individual preaching “climate change”.   Said it is the, “Biggest threat to us as a species”. As he went on, the message I heard was only he and his fellow “scientists” and useful idiots could save us. Damned if he didn’t sound just like an evangelical preacher spouting fire and brimstone.

History is replete with shamans, priests, witches/wiccans, druids, etc. While a source of good (medicine, morals, laws) they have also been focused on gaining power over their fellows. That brings wealth, status, and good sex to them while they promise various rewards to those they seek to dominate. Someone please tell me I’m full of shit.

Climate change?  Hell yes, it has been happening for eons. Will we suddenly become Venus? Will we enter another Ice Age?  Will all the frozen methane on the sea beds be released suddenly? Will the ocean currents suddenly reverse course? Will the magnetic poles suddenly reverse polarity? You don’t know, I don’t know, and these “climate change” scaremongers for damn sure don’t know. What the scare mongers do know is there is money and power to be had if their “message” is believed by enough people. Many of them could make a living writing scripts for horror films.

Take for example this gem.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-earth-endangered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans

I get it that this is satire. I also get the people who find this humorous also believe it.

I’m reminded of another little gem.

 If we can’t use the power of persuasion, we’ll use the persuasion of power.”

Andy Stern, Former SEIU International President

I don’t doubt for a minute that, if available, force won’t be used to advance the “climate change” shaman’s agenda.

There are two real dangers here.

First, the loss of our freedoms and property.

Second, the boy who cried wolf. So much bullshit has been spread that a real and serious threat won’t be believed.

One last swipe at “settled science”.  I read where someone drilled down on one claim. The scientific organization has a membership of around 6,000. 79 members, out of 6,000 were surveyed. The results were published as to imply all 6,000 members were in agreement.

As always YMMV.

Belly Flapping Principal, Political Divison

My late father was a great proponent of what he called, “The Belly Flapping Principal”.  Short version, nothing changes your perspective and motivation like hunger.

So now WSF is tripping down the road of Presidential election politics. Why not? All the cool bloggers are doing it.

Many people see their financial lives eroding. The older ones see their children and grand children struggling. The “millenniums” sense they are screwed. Lots of belly flapping going on now, and lots more on the horizon. People want answers. They want solutions.

Bernie Sanders promises relief using other people’s money. Trump promises to, “Make America Great Again”.  

All of the other candidates are offering, “Same shit, different day”.  First order of the day is protecting the vested interests.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln

Of course Abe lived in an age without sophisticated “spin doctors”.

Where will it all end? Damned if I know. Lots of people a whole lot smarter than me can’t answer that question.

YMMV