I know it’s cold when I get ice in my beard. This morning it was 10° when I went out to feed the horses, which is a full 36° warmer than a bad day we had a few years ago. And it’s nothing compared to the temperatures I’m seeing in the Dakotas. Minot this morning was at ‑11° and I’m seeing regular lows in the ‑30/-40 range across that frigid chunk of the upper Midwest—which was once under many feet of ice. And probably will be again.
I remain unconvinced by the climate doomsayers because there is something a tad too religious in their zeal. The harder they preach the climate gospel the more I am reminded of Joel Osteen and the half-million bucks recently discovered in the bathroom walls of his megachurch. I am, however, utterly convinced of their other motives, particularly in light of the sudden unmasking of the left’s despotic leanings via the plague playbook. They are, often, the very same people.
Those motives dribble out slowly—and almost always come with the word “ban” attached. There is a devout element of the climate church that would love to decide what you can eat, what you can drink, where you can hike, what you can drive, what you can blow leaves around with, what you can wear, what kind of light bulb you can use, what you can read, how many children you are allowed to have, and although they can’t square it they also don’t really believe it’s your body and your choice. Not really. They simply can’t wait to tell you what kind of vaccines to put in your body, and if you resist the doctrine by kicking at the pews, the jesuits will schedule you for an exorcism. The whole thing reeks of Old Testament Orthodoxy and is somehow tied to the same human desire for the miraculous arrival of a faultless savior and promises of ever-lasting life. Osteen bought off the plumber with 20k and an NDA, by the way, and the story has been buried with the same kind of explanation we see everywhere else when Maggie’s Drawers get run up the flagpole: the issue is being investigated.
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