An inconvenient truth

I never thought I'd applaud a speech made on the House floor. I never thought I'd want to pat a Congressman on the back as much as I want to do right now. Yes, I realize it's 0330, and I'm probably just tired or having a really good dream, but...

...what I have linked to above is probably the most magnificent verbal bitch slap at human-hating environazis I've ever read coming from a politician.

Recognizing that the myth of man-made global warming is simply anti-human, anti-freedom and anti-LIFE, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher from California's 46th Congressional District issued an absolutely brilliant condemnation of the "consensus that man is causing global warming" crowd I've ever read coming from the festering hole of authoritarian spew we call Washington, DC.

If one accepts this as fact rather than theory, this idea that man-made global warming is overwhelming our planet, then one would be expected to also accept controls, regulations, taxation, international planning and enforcement, mandated lifestyle changes, lowering expectations, limiting consumer choice, as well as personal and family sacrifices that are all going to be necessary for us to save the planet from--well, from us.

Anti-freedom? Yes. Anti-human? Yes. Anti-life itself? Absolutely.

If the frothing Gorebots have their way, the government will control everything from our travel habits, personal food choices, and other lifestyle decisions we make as "free" human beings.

A 2006 report entitled ``Livestock's Long Shadow'' to the United Nations mentions livestock emissions and grazing, and it places the blame for global warming squarely on the hind parts of cows. Livestock, the report claims, accounts for 18 percent of the gases that supposedly cause the global warming of our climate. Cows are greenhouse-emitting machines. Fuel for fertilizer and meat production and transportation, as well as clearing the fields for grazing, produce 9 percent of the global CO2 emissions, according to the report. And also, cows produce ammonia, causing acid rain, of course.

Now, if that's not bad enough, all of these numbers are projected in this report to double by the year 2050. Well, not only are we then going to have to cut personal transportation, which will keep us at home, but when we stay at home, we can't even have a bbq. And heck, they won't even let us have a hamburger.

I would like to point out that before the introduction of cattle, millions upon millions of buffalo dominated the Great Plains of America. They were so thick you could not see where the herd started and where it ended. I can only assume that the anti-meat, manmade global warming crowd must believe that buffalo farts have more socially redeeming value than the same flatulence emitted by cattle. Yes, this is absurd, but the deeper one looks into this global warming juggernaut, the weirder this movement becomes and the more denial is evident.

Rep. Rohrabacher made this speech last month. He cited a number of prominent, respected scientists from highly-regarded academic institutions who disagree with the "man has caused the earth to heat up and therefore must be forced to sacrifice his earnings, his freedoms and his life at the altar of crappy science" so-called "consensus." Hat tip to the Rott for bringing attention to it.

Now go and read the speech. I promise you won't be sorry.