The Sweet Science

Boxing. The so-called “sweet science”. Two opponents in a ring that pound on each other until one wins. By strength or technique or both.

You thought fighting Congress on Health Care was a boxing match. You jab. You give them a knockdown in August but they get up and they fight on.

Then Reps. Henry Waxman and Barbara Boxer (oh the irony) come up behind you with a metal chair and clonk you with it.

Suddenly, your boxing match turns into THE WWF (E, whatever!).

It’s not the gentlemanly sport of boxing you’ve been in, it was the Entertainment-driven, fake, pre-planned world of Professional Wrestling.

The con is complete.

Hope and Change!

And your the sap who brought a boxing  glove to a machine gun fight.

Then you see what was written on the back of the chairs you just got clobbered with:

“CAP” and “TRADE”

And suddenly you understand FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.

It tolls for thee.

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” (Orwell)

In June, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Waxman-Markey energy bill, which aims to increase investment in renewable energy and slash carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050.  In early October Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer unveiled the Senate’s version of the bill.  It is even more ambitious, with a goal of cutting emissions by 20 percent by 2020.

So while we were punching and counter punching on Health Care these 4 were coming out of the audience with a chair each.

The sponsors also drop the politically loaded term “cap and trade,” calling it “pollution reduction and investment” instead. (NYT)

How Orwellian of them.

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather…

…To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading.

GLOBAL WARMING!

That darling of leftists everywhere.

Problem is, the above unedited text is the opening from a 1975 Newsweek article on GLOBAL COOLING. And how if we didn’t do something right bloody now and do it fast we were all going to freeze and starve to death.

Bet you couldn’t tell the difference.

The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.

Then just decades later along came GLOBAL WARMING. And the same dire predictions.  The very same predictions, only now we are going to fry not freeze in the span of 30 years.

Amazing.

And scientifically, crap.

But Politically, it’s gold for control-freak leftists who are way smarter than the average bear (in their minds)…

IT’S NOT GETTING HOTTER: Five major international climate centers recently reported that average global temperatures have not risen over the past 11 years.  In fact, experts say, temperatures actually dipped

in eight of the last 11 years.  Some scientists now predict that global cooling could continue for another 10 to 20 years.

And there’s the pause:  Where global warming stopped for 11 years and it will now resume by 2020.

So we gotta do it NOW!

Brought to you by the people who just got some the earliest snow in Midwest in decades.

An autumn storm brought snow to parts of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, the earliest snow on record in some towns used to harsh winters.(Newsday)

And everytime the alarmists have  a big conference it snows on them.

Oh ‘but the icecaps are melting!’.

Yeah, and there is an ice field in Argentina that is growing!

In Argentina, the Perito Moreno glacier expands every day, even as Global Warming “threatens” the planet.

http://www.iceagenow.com/Growing_Glaciers.htm

Whoops!

Could it be that Global Warming is just…natural? That the planet’s temperature simply rises and falls?

Global Climate Changes

Naw, must be the evil humans.

And the those evil polluting capitalists of industry.

So let’s control them instead!!

Those evil polluting greedy scum bags!

That’s you!

Kerry and Boxer deserve credit for their work so far, and encouragement in fending off the inevitable calls for compromises by industries that fear the cost of change. The cost of inaction – or inadequate action – would be far greater.(boston.com)

Rep. Henry Waxman (D) – The harsh reality is that America’s global warming and energy challenges are just too important for us to keep mailing it in by not enacting a comprehensive energy and global warming bill.”

“The bill does not add one penny to the deficit,” Boxer said. “We’re very excited about that.”

The House passed its version of the bill, which is almost 1,500 pages long, at a cost of about $900 billion.  Members had less than 16 hours to read the final bill before it was voted on.  Legislators are seizing power and adding unprecedented tax burdens to Americans without even reading the legislation.

Poor households will receive additional payments to compensate for purchasing power they will lose due to cap-and-trade, another indication that the administration sees the law’s effects on prices.

Oh, like the subsidies to pay for the mandatory health insurance…

President Obama and congressional Democratic leaders, who have suggested that a cap on carbon emissions would help revive the U.S. economy. (NYT)

Sound eerily familiar??

Feel that chair yet?

Well, their always the TAX table, or  Professor Obama in the White House with the lead pipe!

To be continued…