I don't know about you, but I often meditate on how fortunate I am to have been born in the late 20th Century. It doesn't take much to trigger the introspection. This morning I was standing at the kitchen sink, rinsing a dish before placing it in the dishwasher. The ubiquity of running water, both hot and cold in vast quanties is a miracle we take for granted.
Have you never pondered as you watch an epic movie of King Arthur's days about the lack of flush toilets and regular showers? Somehow I doubt that Guinevere was quite "fresh" in the modern hygiene sense. Braveheart takes it to a whole new level when you mass all those fat guys in kilts on a Scottish hill-side with a couple of hundred horses.
I recall that even in the pre-historic period of the late '60s when I was instructing in AF pilot training at Chandler AZ, that we were able to exist in the monotonous days of 110+ degree heat because we moved from air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned squadron building. Life in the Wyatt Earp days in Tombstone must have been brutal, especially in all those black suits.
It has been good to live my life now rather than then.
The problem is that we have elected an entire government full of devious scoundrels intent on dismantling all of this and thrusting us back into the 19th century and earlier. It is a religion, requiring sacrifice, penitence, pain in this life to build a better future for those yet to be born. Our reward will come in the great by-and-by. We must stop global climate change, nee warming. To do that we must regress rapidly.
WaPo Paints Future Misery in Happy Pastels
What you have just read is the flowery description in a top dollar New York restaurant for their newest menu item, a shit sandwich with a side order of flies.
You probably never realized the wonders of going to work in a cubicle farm with a hundred sweaty, unwashed Dilberts for a day of drudgery at 90 degrees and 95% humidity. You're gonna love it!
5 comments:
Some times you just want to smack these idiots upside the head.
There is a REASON we invented AC and why it because ubiquitous. Put this guy cox in the desert with no modern niceties, like lights, running water, sanitation or air conditioning and you would see him whine and change his tune.
Yes, I know it would be great for the environment if we ALL stopped using AC, stopped driving, stopped flushing, and all that, but alas, we are just too stubborn. However, imagine how much of a difference could still be made if all the LIBERALS stopped using AC, stopped driving, and stopped flushing. Maybe after we all see how great it works for them after about ten years or so, maybe we'll have a change of heart? I really think they should try it. Come on, lead by example people!!
You don't understand Randall, the Liberals ar ethe "Special" people who MUST have the modern conveniences to enable them to better tell the unwashed how to live their lives.
Ed, by "we", I'm assuming you mean you and I and other mere mortal people will be forced back into the stone ages. Because I'm willing to bet that "they", meaning Obama and his cohorts, will still be living in air conditioned comfort and jetting to Gstaad or wherever else the intelligentsia is rutting this year. If Nov 2nd doesn't hurry up,I'm afraid we'll skip the usual tar and feather and the torch and pitchfork phases of peon rioting and go straight to the 28 April 1945 celebration of Mussolini's governing style by his adoring populace. (has anyone else noticed a likeness in how the big Moo appears in photos and somebody else?)
This would be a good companion activity for my plan to get the oil industry to voluntarily take a one-week shutdown....from well-head through refineries and distribution to gas pump. Total shut down for one week. Afterward, have one of these green yo-yos pontificate over national media about what a great week he's having. Shutting off A/C in Washington would probably have positive effects....reducing the office schedules of these parasites would probably yield salubrious results for the rest of us.
:-) Mike Brown
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