House of Eratosthenes

Have you signed the Pavley Petition yet? (H/T: Boortz.) It says we here in California have to stop George Bush, because he’s been throwing the monkey wrench into the works of good legislation designed to curb the global warming emissions that caused the wildfire down in San Diego.

This is the kind of nonsense that threatens to crumble under it’s own weight, like a beached whale, simply by being taken seriously. This is, in my opinion, exactly what we should do.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The most important issue of the 2008 elections is, who’s going to bring us the biggest pile of scorched terrorist carcasses. You can pontificate and bluster away about gun control and minimum wage to your heart’s content, none of it matters if you aren’t going to run out there and kill me some terrorists. Second most important issue is, is the democrat party stupid or full-blown crazy. The Pavley Petition is advancing a nugget of lunatic logic that is a repeat of what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid already said this week. Questioned about this immediately afterward, Reid himself didn’t seem to put too much stock in his own remarks:

Officials said Tuesday the winds and high temperatures are expected to continue. But when the fires do stop, lawmakers likely will debate the cause of the fire.

“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday, stressing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package.

Moments later, when asked by a reporter if he really believed global warming caused the fires, he appeared to back away from his comments, saying there are many factors that contributed to the disaster.

I think it comes from that huge win the donks had right after Watergate: They seem to be everlastingly convinced that if the news cycle will barf up some all-consuming item that commands everyone’s attention for a week or more, all those bad donk ideas will suddenly look good. It’s as if they’re saying to themselves, hey it worked in ’74, it can work anytime. Bad idea, plus a high profile bit of news that has some real legs to it…equals a good idea, or something that sufficiently resembles a good idea.

Hmmm…now that I think on it, since 2002 this one of the few things on which most of them have been consistent. It’s like they don’t know what to do about Iraq, but they’re dedicated to waiting around for the perfect news item to make their bad ideas look good. Why they don’t just get ahold of a genuinely good idea, so that what’s happening this-day or that-day becomes irrelevant, is something I don’t understand. You’ll have to ask them.

But ideas the donks think are good, seem to have it all in common that they appear to look good, at a given time. They’re conditional. We must keep talking about Abu Ghraib, because that’s when ignoring Saddam Hussein looked in hindsight like a good idea; we must talk about Terri Schaivo, because that’s when they look almost sensible; we must talk about Hurricane Katrina, Jena 6, global temperatures in 1998…etc. Everything is justified by some event, which may or may not be repeated.

It’s like they’re steadfastly opposed to figuring out what makes sense all the time.

No wonder they get so pissy when Dick Cheney says things like “Nine one one changed everything.” He’s stealing their schtick.

Funny thing is, though — killing terrorists does make sense all the time. What nine one one changed, was that up until then we didn’t see it.

I think the donks should write this into the party platform next year. Come on donks, it’s a news event. By the time of your convention, the event will be just nine months old. Talk about those awful fires in California, and how they were caused by global warming…write it into the platform…and four months after that, we’ll all get together and vote on whether you have command of your mental faculties.

Next year’s second most important issue, easily.

Hey! You leave my guns alone! 😉

That’s actually my second most important issue, but right now it’s tempered by the fact that a whole bunch of legistators would have to agree with an anti-gun president, plus the Supreme Court … and I don’t see that happening in the relatively near future. Which is why I’ll cut Giuliani some slack on that point should he win the nomination. If he wins the General Election, a herd of elephants should come in on his coattails, and we just got two decent Supreme Court justices. That should hold the leaks in the dam for a little while.

You’re right, dead terrorists is #1. So #2 in this election is, to me, about culture. Which way do we want it to go? Europe, or America? Neville Chamberlain, or Ronald Reagan? Navel-gazing pansies, or trail-blazing pioneers? Secular Humanism imposed by the state, or freedom of religion? Speech codes or freedom of speech? A culture of Victimhood, or a culture of self-determination? Socialism or Capitalism?

‘Cause to me it’s pretty clear that that’s the choice.

Democrats = Europe
Republicans = … well, ok, a lot of times Europe Lite — but at least it’s closer to America.
- philmon | 10/26/2007 @ 12:23
I noticed (last evening) the WX Channel and That Person I Love To Hate wasted NO time in joining the Fool’s Chorus…twice an hour, at that. Gawd, but those folks DO need a 12-step program, a la Al-Anon. They’re Big Time co-dependents…
- Buck | 10/26/2007 @ 12:36
Phil,

On the American Independence vs. Europeean Eusocietal Entomological six-legged collectivist thinking, I think half the folks agree with you and me. The other half don’t understand what all the fuss is about and have already started growing antennas out their heads.

Whereas, I gather just about everyone is concerned about the issue I say is 2nd-most-important. Even those who are ready to vote for the “Surrender Now Or We Just Might Win” party, have deep reservations and misgivings about what kind of company they’re thinking of keeping. They just don’t want to admit it.

I think as far as underlying philosophical cause-and-effect, though, you’re right. What you’re describing is causative to just about everything else that divides us. Even some issues that don’t seem to be derived from that, are…which is worthy of a post in itself, that I’m sure I’ve already written a few times.
- mkfreeberg | 10/26/2007 @ 13:11
Buck –

Yeah, I know what you mean about Heidi. Like there’s never been a severe drought in Southern California before.

There are fires there every year, I even remember that from when I used to live there as a little kid (San Diego & Arleta back in the late 60’s early 70).

The difference is, now people are building houses in the way of the fires.

Hey, my arm pit itches. Must be global warming. Sheesh.
- philmon | 10/26/2007 @ 13:38

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