Posted by
NYMike on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Ahh, the famous logic of Monty Python. With some indulgences, and apologies to to Eric Idle, et.al. Is she a witch? How do you know? She's looks like one. What do we do with witches? Burn them. Why would she burn? She's made of wood. How could you tell she's made of wood? She might float. What else floats? Very small rocks, and ducks. Therefore, if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood, therefore she is a witch. Burn Her!!!!
It was Global Warming until it was just getting too darn cold in many parts of the world, and the Antarctic Ice Cap, by all scientific measure has actually gained mass the last ten years. And doggone it if International Falls, Minnesota didn't break a record this week - for the coldest temperature recorded there, 40 degrees below zero.
So, now let's call it Climate Change. That solves that bugaboo, and heck the climate is always changing anyway. Is it not cliché in just about every burg and hamlet in the country that somebody somewhere, usually an old fart in a barbershop, will say "Eh? Don't like the weather?? Wait 10 minutes." Guffaws and knee-slaps all around.
Is it or is it not? Perhaps that is the way Bill Shakespeare would have put the question as to the climate and it's propensity for changing on occasion. Or perhaps "Is you is, or is you ain't?" would be how Louis Jordan and countless hep cats since would put forth the question as in - "Is you is or is you aint' a-changin'?"
The new argument of the left, to accompany the new terminology of Climate Change and those that argue the reality of it, is now relying on a twist on an old maxim. Somebody said it is better to believe in God and he not exist, than to not believe in God and he exist. If you don't believe in God and it turns out you were right in that God doesn't exist, well, good for you. However, if you don't believe in God, and it turns out he does exist - well, sucks to be you then in a rather big way. Eternal damnation in fiery hell and all that.
Now we are being told that it is better to believe that man (American Industrialization) is causing Climate Change and that we must do something about it because if it doesn't exist, in the end, we have just been better stewards of good, old mother earth anyway. The alternative is to do nothing and then in 50 years New York City is under water and plants won't grow, and we could have done something, but didn't.
Logically, then, if Islamo-Fascism does not exist, is it better to do something just in case it does. I think I would prefer a degree or two of warmth over 200 years as a possibility rather than a certain bullet to the brain as wished upon me (and you) by some of our Islamic friends from several, several miles away. And until the Islamists develop a weapon that can shoot that bullet, with reasonable accuracy, from 7000 miles away then I would prefer that the bullet stay 7000 miles away and the determined shooter stay otherwise engaged, 7000 miles away, with military knocking on their front door. That is at least until the Democrats cut and run in Iraq and Afghanistan, allow the Islamist to take over Pakistan - and they then partner with Iran and Korea to - well, dang, now that bullet is a long-range rocket with a nuclear warhead and it is only 500 miles away.