How Sweet It Is!

The liberals among my readership were hoping, pehaps, that the hiatus was due to some incurable malady. Well it wasn’t, but just because I had an old school friend here as a house guest did not mean I had suspended my hearing nor my disbelief.

A week in politics is a long time and it’s even longer for a blogger. The temptation is to try to catch up which is both impossible and dumb because the world has moved on.

So, I’m not going to talk about rationed mammograms. I’ll let Kathleen Sebellius swing on her self-built gallows by the side of her twisting and long-dead sisters.

And, today we can add cervical cancer screening to the growing list of healthcare rationing indictments.

Nor will I dwell on the fiasco of misspent stimulus money in places that don’t exist that didn’t create jobs that weren’t. I did that weeks ago. Remember that little town in Texas? The post was called “A Tale of Two Cities”.

Instead, I’m going to fast forward to Al Gore and the subject of global warming that isn’t. I was going to say poor Al but that is clearly not true because Al has made millions out of the myth of the demise of polar bears by premature drowning.

Al was on “The Tonight Show” with Conan O’Brien a couple of nights ago and was extolling the idea of population growth limitation in order to eliminate global warming. Now let’s take ‘em one at a time. Al’s thrust this time was to push the concept of geo-thermal energy and opined that the potential was limitless because of the “millions of degrees” locked up in the planet’s core.

Well, it’s true that nobody knows the true number but every opinion says it’s somewhere between 5 and 8 thousand. Now that’s not something that your average Joe might know but this is Al, the self-proclaimed guru, a Nobel laureate as well,. But then so is Arafat for murder and Obama for nothing.

But I can’t leave “global warming” without mentioning an article from the latest issue of “Der Spiegel” reporting a study from the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg which concluded that the planet Earth has not warmed one iota for the last ten years.

Now there's "An Inconvenient Truth" if ever I heard one and it will surely do nothing to spur international action at the highly-touted conference next month in Copenhagen.

So now, let’s turn to population growth.

The “Green Fringe” point to China’s policy of one child per couple as the way, the truth and the light . Now, I’ll make the math as easy as possible but the logical end to this program is that one poor working sap in Shanghai could wind up supporting 2 parents and 4 grandparents. This is clearly unsustainable under any economic model that can be constructed. Something has to give and perhaps the easiest way is to get people to die sooner.

What better way than to ration medical care such as mammograms and pap smears. For a start, the women die earlier and they clearly can’t have more kids. So in one fell swoop, we reduce the population which pleases Al and his followers and we please Obama by cutting medical costs.

How's all that lovely Hope and Change working for ya' Huh?