The Climate Will Take Care of Itself

By I. M. Ulysses

After reading Rex Murphy's "So why aren't we celebrating saving the planet" I was reminded of a quote from the movie 'The Core. "I came here to save my wife and my two children. Seven billion lives, it's too much."

It's too much because, for the average guy, proving for your loved ones is far more important than the vagaries of 'climate change' and what might or might not happen now or 300 years from now. When you have a mortgage or rent to pay, electricity, heat and water, food and clothing, the other issues don't matter.

Politicians, however, don't seem interested in that.  Perhaps that's because they are inherently disconnected with the people they were ostensibly elected to serve. Indeed, US President Obama called "climate change" a 'bigger threat' to the world than even terrorism.

That's actually a very sad statement.  It demonstrates that the 'little people,' the ones who do most of the living, tax-paying and dying, are not that important when, as Mr. Murphy pointed out, world leaders wish to be seen "slaying a world-threatening dragon that has yet to be allows them all the strut and self-importance that trivial matters like deficits, job creation, and commitment to everyday peoples’ struggles do not. The latter is real work, the former a magnet for spotlights and inflated self-grandeur."

Terrorism, unemployment, higher taxes, higher prices for food and transportation all have an immediate and consequential impact upon our lives. If one loses their job, they cannot afford to live NOW, let alone be concerned with the theories of well-paid scientists and professional political hacks drum up and support.

From a historical-perspective, it might give leaders like Prime Minister Trudeau or President Obama great satisfaction to know that in 300 years people may give them credit for 'saving' the world by implementing polices that might have 'prevented climate change.' But most people, the people that will struggle to pay for their policies, and their hypothetical outcomes, and their egotistical legacies, don't care about that. Their struggle is the struggle to live long enough and well enough to ensure they can provide for their families NOW.

That's the problem with the current climate-change mania. These political leaders are asking us to sacrifice NOW for hypothetical outcomes that MAY benefit people down the road. 

That would be fine if we were certain that these sacrifices are both necessary and worthwhile. But, as appealing as the idea may be to some, for the rest of us, It's too big a notion to contemplate.

For the rest of us, for my wife and I in particular, what really matters is  the security, happiness and health of our friends and family NOW. The concerns of generations to be born years from now matter little when you cannot pay your bills, buy food and just live.

That may seem selfish to those who are certain about 'climate change' and the need for us to make sacrifices for the future. But Mary and I, along with most people, are not concerned about the self-important posturing and preening of people who are both wealthy and important enough to not be affected by the policies they hope to implement. 

We're more concerned about the well-being and health of people we love and care for NOW. And as long as they and we are doing fine, I'm sure, to paraphrase Trudeau, 'the climate will take care of itself."


Read Rex Murphy's column here:
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-so-why-arent-we-celebrating-saving-the-planet

Trump-ing the Vote: The Donald and the Ban on Muslim Immigration

By I.M. Ulysses

I understand how nutty it is to consider a reality-show ‘star’ like Donald J. Trump being a president of anything more complex than a school debating society. I also get that he is stirring the pot and how liberal-types are all up in arms about this "demagogue" becoming a world leader.
A month ago, I felt the same way when Canada’s own underwear model and poster-boy for self-indulgent-but-vapid-rich-kids Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister (I’m still waiting to find out how he will grow the economy ‘from the heart outwards’). But if my brain can survive that shock (ok, it took a bit of heavy drinking, and lots of ‘it’s ok, we’ll be all right’ reassurances from my wife I’ll admit) I'm sure American democracy can survive Donald Trump.

What it cannot survive, though, is the collective ignorance of people who jump all over those who agree with Trump's plan to limit or ban Muslims immigration.

The rhetoric from Liberals and their allies reminds me a robot that has become stuck in a subroutine, repeating the same mantras over and over again. It all begins with ‘racism’ and ends with ‘racism’ but the fact is Trump’s plan to halt Muslim immigration is NOT RACIST.

LISTEN CAREFULLY – ISLAM IS NOT A RACE it is a RELIGION and an IDEOLOGY! OK? Black people are a ‘race.’ Chinese people are a ‘race.’ Even white people are called a ‘race.’ BUT ISLAM IS NOT THAT! Infact, for all its faults (and I could enumerate them here if you want), it is very inclusive of ALL so-called ‘races’ much like Christianity.

I understand, though, where they're coming from. Most are sincere but  ignorant types with intellectual pretensions, who have been pandered too for far too long. It’s to the point they cannot even see their own foolishness and hypocrisy, isn’t it? But don’t worry, I’ll guide you to the land of sensibility.

It begins with the understanding that what Trump wants to do is far less radical than what white, Liberal, and Democratic US President Jimmy Carter did in 1979. You remember the peanut farmer from Georgia? The first US President from a former Confederate state since before the American Civil War? The one who rehabilitated Confederate President Jefferson Davis by posthumously giving him back his citizenship almost 90 years after his death?

Well Carter, in light of the Iranian Hostage Crises BANNED and ordered the REMOVAL of ALL Iranians from the USA. Where was the hue and cry of racism then? I don’t remember it, do you? That really was racism because it didn’t matter what you believed, it only mattered where you were from and what your origin was.

Trump, for all his faults, is not going that far. He is simply saying the USA should vette Muslims OF ALL RACES from EVERYWHERE, presumably including Canada. In light of the fact that Muslims are responsible for all known acts of terrorism in the last 25 years, that’s not such a hard or bigoted platform. This includes 9/11, the Boston and California bombings, the two Paris attacks, the London subway attacks and the attacks in Spain and elsewhere; attacks all performed BY MUSLIMS! 

Look, I’m sorry if people disagree. But in a world where any Muslim (it seems) can be ‘radicalized,’ even within North America or Europe, is it not understandable that some precautions should be taken to ensure that those coming form abroad, from countries where Islam is the dominant force and where there are already known acts of terrorism happening, to be more careful? Or have we already forgotten (as it seems people have) that one of the Paris bombers ARRIVED IN FRANCE AS A REFUGEE FROM SYRIA?

Though I'm not a Trump supporter I do understand the man's popularity. It is, in fact, a direct response to the ignorance and claptrap coming from the bleeding-heart Liberal crowd; the kind that cannot see past their own  hypocrisy and foolishness. 

They, ALONE, are responsible for Trump's rise from half-witted and cheesy reality-show star to potential world leader. Americans are simply expressing that.
They are tired of being patronized by high-minded liberals with idealistic pretensions  but no real policies. Like Canadians, they want to feel secure and that their government cares about their welfare, not scoring political points to appease politically-correct  buffoons who seem to think they always know better but whose ideas have only contributed to the acts of terror that we see all over the world.

Its now time to listen to them. If nothing else, Trump is certainly doing that!