Season's Greetings and A Happy Nuke Year

I am talking with my bud on the Left Coast today for no reason. I’ve got unlimited long distance; see, so I chat endlessly. Surf the Net high speed at the same time. Cable in the background spews the talking heads, who will actually completely contradict themselves if you take the time to listen to them all day.

Naturally my thoughts turn to our friends the Ruskies and their decision to nix the Kyoto treaty…which was DOA the moment we squashed it back when. Frankly, the whole environmental issue seems pretty tame compared to loose nuke material just barely stopped the other day in Georgia…. the good news is it was their Georgia, not ours. So, hey, who cares about the Kyoto treaty anyway? By the time we can’t breathe for the car fumes, we will be able to read by the light of the radioactivity in the air…

But seriously, to get back to the Greenhouse gas. I would welcome those halcyon days when weather-related Armageddon made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Today, it’s a snore. But here is my theory about Greenhouse gas, anyway.

My Modest Theory About Greenhouse Gas

It’s not caused by cow farts, or whatever. Nor, however, is it caused by too many car motors burning up the source (oil) of so many of our geopolitical problems at a rate still too slow to avoid said problems soon enough for my taste. (The sooner we use up all the oil, the sooner we move on to something less noxious, and not centered in the Middle East, but real alternative fuels is another discussion.)

No. Al Gore and his damnable Internet caused the greenhouse gas. And the revolution in communications that it spawned (lots of phone calls go over the Internet these days, we just don’t know it. That’s why I can get unlimited long distance for a flat rate). And by the advent of all those damnable talking heads on cable spewing hot air into the atmosphere day and night.

That’s right. Our own hot air is doing us in. It really no longer matters which side of whatever issue I’m on. The air that blows from the left is as hot and stupid as the air that blows from the right. Does anyone really think there is a middle way, a rationally worked-out resolution that can get through the ideological static anymore? It makes me wish for the good ol' "Contract with America." Didn't agree with it, but it was at least consistent.

The only thing I’m sure of, in these days of nation-building and big government spending, is that hot air is what’s causing the Greenhouse gas. Regrettably, the Kyoto treaty fails to address this particular type of gas emission.

The ancient Greeks called it Hubris…basically mocking the gods. I call it Hotbris, which loosely translated means, waging your hot dog in each other’s faces, when you Kyo-know-nothing, until you get into a shouting match or bar fight.

And speaking of the environment…how about the clever financial maneuverings already going on in the nuclear power industry to set up some of their facilities to go bankrupt so taxpayers get stuck cleaning up the “clean energy source” mess at billions of dollars. Meanwhile, in the short term stockholders will make a profit and the bigwigs running these firms will clean up thanks to their bonuses based on said fancy bookkeeping.

We may not be around to see this nuclear financial crash but our kids will … unless those Georgians succeed in selling nuclear material for a dirty bomb to some terrorists. It doesn’t really matter who they are or what they espouse, as long as it’s politically correct to call them that. (Near as I can tell only Jews and the Irish can be called terrorists these days without bringing the PC police to your door.)

Once the terrorists set off their dirty nuke-spewer it won’t really matter that the “clean energy source” our military foisted on our civilians wasn't so clean, after all. (Check the History of Nuclear Energy to see the military’s influence on our inherently unsafe reactor designs.) Thanks to the need to protect us from our enemies, we now have opened the door to nuclear proliferation and also ended up with a power source both more expensive and dirtier than any other…no kidding, see the economics part of, "(Can nuclear power be made proliferation-proof?")

And did I mention that Greenhouse Gas won’t get us until long after the nuclear genie gets way, way, way out of the bottle?

So I guess, the pundits, regardless of their devastation of the environment, are the least of it. With the holiday season upon us, the world is aglow with the spirit of brotherly love…all the brightly lit shop window displays…or is that a dirty bomb somewhere downtown?

Anyway, Cain and Abel were brothers, so that says something about brotherly love, too.
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