Icon of the New Religion

Love her or hate her, believe that she acted on her own or was manipulated by her social-activist parents or whatever, one has to see with clear eyes how Greta Thunberg has gained a more than mere cult following among the new wave of religious zealotry that is permeating the world at large.

This is not a new thing as we know and although none of us living today were around when the last couple of religious cults started, perhaps we're seeing how it may have happened way back when. Young Ms. Thunberg didn't happen overnight, of course, since world society is heading into its third generation of people brought up as climate cultists.

Many point to Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring" as the "Bible" of the movement which had it's roots back in the 1950s when Ms. Carson, a trained Marine Biologist and nature writer, became interested in the effects of synthetic pesticides used in agriculture and DDT in particular. This book got DDT banned and sparked a movement that lead to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Given this sort of social success, the Climate Cult has grown larger around the world to the point where it is now in direct competition with the older more established cults of the past 2,000 years. In the same fashion that Paganism, which deified storms and other actions of the natural world, was eventually swept away by the Monotheists, so now the circle will be complete and society is again embracing natural phenomena as acts of the new, angry God.

The Mural in San Francisco

So this Argentine artist, Andres Inglasias, is painting a 60 ft by 40 ft mural of Greta on a building in San Francisco and the non-profit group that commissioned the work has gone out of it's way to make any detractors aware that they only use water-based paints with eco-friendly spray cans and use electric vehicles, etc since there are two groups of people they have to be concerned with.

On the one hand they have the Conservative Unbelievers who will point out any hypocrisy in materials and deeds that they should slip up on right down to getting coffee in a Styrofoam cup and on the other is their fellow Orthodox Environmentalists who will do the same thing but with more shaming.

Greta the Spiritual Icon

To me, Greta Thunberg has an interesting face, not pretty, not ugly, more determined and always it seems unsmiling. This is the kind of face, with it's strength of conviction, that leads a cause. She's done her penances, she's made her pilgrimages, coming to the United States and even speaking to the United Nations. Who gets to do that? Not everybody.

Although soon to be 17, Greta took Earth's Plight into her life when she was 8 years old and although welcoming of her strong stance, I don't believe her parents were behind her religious devotion to the cause of Climate Activism. We all know how young children can get fixated on an idea and even though she has adopted the religion of her parents, I believe it was she alone that chose to take the next higher step of the truly devout. She has transcended her mentors. 

She has organized strikes, gained followers and established her disciples to whom she has proven her devotion. She's now become the face of the new expansion, an icon for the new Masthead.

Think of her as the young Mother Theresa of Climate Change, sacrificing all for her dedication to her cause, answering the call of her God and now, with divine light, they are ready to take over the world.

How to Spot Cyber Fraud

In a somewhat related note, most of the working world who use computers and work on the World Wide Web have read about or taken training on how to spot what has become one of the worlds most prevalent dangers, Phishing Scams! So, as a sort of Public Service Announcement, I'd like to take this moment to point out the one glaring giveaway to look for as a sign that that you are being set up for fraud...

a Sense of Urgency.

Fraudsters are just using human nature against you. They know that most people just want to do the right thing and so they seek to exploit a person's sense of wanting to be helpful.

By using call to action statements like; "We Need to Act Now!, We Can't Afford to Wait!, Time is Running Out!" and "There is No Time to Lose!", the fraudster is looking to hurry you into making a mistake that they can take advantage of and so stands as a clear sign that the person or people you are dealing with are trying to manipulate you.

Hope this helps.

Misunderstanding the 2nd Amendment

The founding fathers of the United States of America didn't fight a long and bloody war with the mighty British Empire so that we are all guaranteed the right to own a hunting rifle. That's just not it at all.

It was so that the citizenry, that's you and me, had a right to bear the same arms that could be brought to bear against us should the government determine that it should march against the people in order to subjugate them to their might.

As someone once put it, the people who started our government and framed the U.S. Constitution and it's linchpin, the Bill of Rights, were not powder-wigged fools. They foresaw that someday in the future that there could possibly be a time where people of the nation would need to use such arms to either defend themselves or to drive out those who may wish to take over the government either from within or without. And to do that, a hunting rifle just isn't going to cut it.

The Teeth in the Bill of Rights

Does anybody believe that any of the other 9 Amendments in the Bill of Rights would be worth a hill of beans without the 2nd Amendment?

Freedom of Speech? The United States is the only country in the world where the right of the people to speak and say what they want, including talking down the President and it's ministers, that has written an absolute guarantee to it's people. We see the difference in this way of thinking all over the world. Canada doesn't guarantee it's citizens a right to free speech, nor France or Great Britain, not Australia or Sweden. Great Britain doesn't even have a written constitution. I guess your rights there are whatever Parliament says they are. No right to privacy, no right to free speech.

There is no equivalent anywhere in the world to our 1st Amendment. Some say it's our weakness but they'd be wrong. Like what you hear or hate it, people have a right to say it. And if, say, the government were to attempt to smash the people's right to protest and speak out, what mechanism could there be to impress upon government that the people wish to maintain this freedom?

That's where the 2nd Amendment comes in.

So perhaps one could say that the 2nd Amendment guarantees the 1st.

How about the 3rd Amendment? Could soldiers possibly be taking over homes in modern times? Would you call that impossible? Well it is since it is specifically outlawed in the 3rd Amendment. So, say, if troops were deployed to a disaster area here in the U.S. and needed a place to stay and told you that they were staying and you had to go...well, that's where the 2nd Amendment comes in.

How about something like China's new "President" for life? I like how our government likes to refer to Dictators of counties we trade heavily with as "President". But take Mr. Xi Jinping and his desire never to leave office. If this happened in the United States, what do you suppose might happen?

China has no such right of the citizen to own a fire arm and it shows.

The 2nd Amendment upholds the entire Bill of Rights. It is a complete and most perfect document made strong by the right of the people to bear arms. It is unique to the world and because it is so, the 2nd Amendment is the most maligned and attacked amendment. It just goes to prove the adage that for the American citizen, freedom is fought for every day. And so we fight on for those who don't understand the full meaning of why it's there.

Lexington, Massachusetts

If anybody bothers to look at my profile picture, you'll see that I'm standing on the bridge at Lexington, MA. This is the spot where our first citizens stood and traded fire with the troops of the British Empire. No small feat this. This was the day of the "Shot Heard Around the World" and where later in the day practically all the armed citizen militia answered the call and the British, by the end of the day, got their asses shot off.

Why did the British come out of their Boston stronghold that day? What was their purpose? To get the guns. They knew rifles and gunpowder were being stored in Lexington. That's what they came for and there is a larger than you are lead to believe group of people in this country that thinks that the next entitled government entity will try the same thing if they aren't paying attention. That's just the way has been ever since that day, April 18, 1775. It's going to take more than the latest media parade to knock them off of this belief.

Gun Sales will Rise

Anyone who thinks that these school shootings has reduced by one iota the public's desire to defend themselves with a firearm is living under a mistaken belief system. People will again flock to buy a gun based upon the media's inflammatory rhetoric which has very much sought to exploit the tragedy in the hopes of getting out in front of their anti-gun campaign before the real story of the failure of law enforcement, both local and federal, to act to stop a very preventable shooting.

What's an Adult? 

Even if I lived in my mother's basement playing video games at the age of 18, I'm still considered an adult, although not quite a responsible one. But even so, the law says that at the age of 18 I can be tried as an adult in the court of law and sign binding contracts.

Raising the age of buying a semi-automatic rifle or weapon, and they're ALL semi-automatic these days, to 21 represents a clear infringement on the rights of an adult to own a firearm and will not stand. They can pass the law but it won't hold up in court. You can carry a fully automatic weapon in Afghanistan for the U.S. government but you can't carry a semi-automatic when you get back? That's bullshit.

Bill Clinton Tried it

The Clinton Administration passed the so called "Assault Weapons Ban" back in 1994 which only served to drive ownership of such labeled weapons underground. Who knew how many were out there. The state of California imposed an assault weapons registry which nobody paid any attention to. So that's your precedent.

Rights Under Assault

Our rights are violated daily. The National Security Agency, the NSA, has been outed as spying on U.S. citizens in violation of the 4th Amendment that guarantees protections from unlawful search and seizures of property. The 1st Amendment is under assault from the Political Left for which has been mounting a sustained campaign against what kind of speech is actually protected, branding speech as "racist" or "hateful" or partitioning speech with the bogus "Free Speech Zones" when, of course, all speech is free anywhere you want to speak it. The U.S. court system is constantly working on the 5th Amendment going so far as punishing people for failure to incriminate themselves.

We have giant U.S. corporations making deals with foreign Dictators while simultaneously voluntarily allowing our own government free access to their communications systems for "monitoring" of U.S. citizens. There is no privacy any more and the collusion between multi-national corporations and government to know everything about everybody should be a major cause of concern for every thinking American.

And you think people are going to just give up the right to own a gun?
  

Government Scientists March for Government Science

There was a march in Washington, DC, the Boston Common and other places around the nation to declare freedom for science. But how free can science be if the government is funding it?

The claim is that they are marching to prevent government interference in science but it’s really that the NEW government does not wish to continue funding this particular propaganda cycle of Global Climate Warming Change since, after 30 years of this bullshit, people still aren’t buying the fear.

This accusation of “increasing attacks on science” is really just an attempt by the government owned science community to remain on the public gravy train and to once again proclaim that they are anything but props in the government political machine of the last administration.

“It’s not about the current administration,” said co-organizer and PUBLIC health researcher Caroline Weinberg. “The truth is we should have been marching for science 30 years ago, 20 years, 10 years ago…The current situation took us from kind of ignoring science to blatantly attacking it.”

But it IS, indeed, about the current administration because the “scientific community” has said nothing over the last 30 years since their message was the government’s message. What did science matter then? They were both on the same page and what a lucrative page it has been!

But now, the government, is not.

Oh, it was a good living for all these educated “science guys”, the ones who would roll out studies every other year of how: coffee is good for you,/coffee is bad for you/coffee is good for you, butter is bad for you/butter is good for you, cholesterol is killing you/cholesterol isn’t killing you.  All important stuff to our daily lives as if anyone ever had given up coffee based on such ground breaking scientific research. And on the other hand we hear not a word about all the crap producers are putting into the food. 

And clearly the biggest money maker out of all this science has been: The world is getting warmer, and warmer, and warmer, global warming is man-made, global warming is now climate change and it’s a global crisis, that it is almost too late and we’re almost at the tipping point if we don’t do something NOW about it so run, run out into the street and shout to the world that this must be stopped as if any government, in their modern and established pomposity and egotism, can do ANYTHING to change the weather. 

Just ask China how that's going.

The United States government, like I’m sure many First World countries, pays very well for research, especially research that supports the particular agendas of these administrations. What are all the so called “Climate Scientists” going to do now? 

They may have to “choke”, get a real job!

There is no mandate in the United States Constitution that the federal government HAS to fund scientific research. There is no law behind this taxpayer funded entitlement. The government funds scientific research for many purposes and one cannot escape that some of this funding is for political purposes. Funding a “scientific project” at a college in a Senator’s district was always a reward for good behavior and a plum and having a “scientific finding” to counter a detractor’s research to muddy the waters is also a helpful thing to have. 

We see this with the Climate Cabal where past respected organizations like NASA and NOAA confirm as fact mere conjecture put out for political motives.

If it wasn’t for the political activism and yes, the religious fanaticism of these scientists on "what to do" about the weather, the public would not have lost faith in what they say in the first place.

The partisan actions of these propagandists have been repeatedly exposed in their efforts to fudge the climate numbers that abet the global effort by their government benefactors to grab an even bigger slice of the private sector revenue, to take an even bigger role in the determination of the means of production and as a result rob the working class of even more resources thus rendering us all less and less free. 

These same “scientists” would not shed a tear over the loss of our freedom of self-determination. They only cry now over the loss of their role in the efforts to control the narrative. Oh, and they'll miss the money!

Without their credibility, these "learned men and women" are useless and in reality when the government REALLY wants something they can use, they just BUY it from a private party.

Although the government did fund the development of computers at certain stages, they weren’t invented in government funded facilities. Neither was the stage rocket, the gasoline engine, electricity, the electric light bulb, direct or alternating current, the electric engine, the airplane or any other useful item to the government. They waited until an entrepreneurial spirit invented it and then they BOUGHT it.

In other words, they relied on a Free Market system of product development because back in those days they actually felt they had a limited amount of money and were still careful about how much paper money they printed. There may have even been a feeling of responsibility to the public trust but the Lord only knows when that disappeared or if it ever existed.

It is time to get these educated welfare recipients and government yes men/women off of the public pay rolls and the sooner the better. They should actually have to go out and earn a living in the private sector for a change.

If they can.