An Idea for the Rising Ocean

I'm still on this climate change groove I'm afraid. After all with only twelve years or less now before, in Greta's words,"the mass extinction" will occur I thought I better get this thought I had out there before it's too late. I truly hope some policy makers from the UN will see this idea---for I know they, like Mr. Obama who recently purchase a small seaside palace on the Vineyard, will wish to keep their waterfront wigwams unmolested by the rising tides. This idea will assuage our anxieties about such climate catastrophe and provide some well deserved justice for the criminalized climate.

Well, without further adieu here is my thought. It was provoked by the harbor I live by that has quite a number of boats bobbing about. I got to thinking: boats displace water don't they? Why they all do: rowboats all the way up to cruise ship. There must be thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of them that are, each one, displacing water and thereby increasing water depths. Well what if boats were all pulled out of the water and stored on land? And we wouldn't even need to stop with boats. What of Swimmers? Think of the millions of people who populate the beaches. Consider how much water they displace on a hot Acapulco day! So one could easily beseech the UN, our new magisterium, our new sovereign our new legislator to make a law prohibiting entering any body of water, no matter the rising Fahrenheit and centigrade. Simply no people allowed in. And if this wasn't enough we could get rid of the whales---how much do they raise the levels of the ocean?---this of course would be a little trickier because we want to save the whales on our bumper stickers. But I think having the climate apocalypse being so taught in the schools as it is that any creature's right to the oceans and rivers will be overridden by the trustworthy predictions of all this settled science. And in the end perhaps there would be no need for ships and boats or planes---the levels would so shrink that eventually we could simply walk the Atlantic all the way to the Azores if we want to---provided of course that we get a certificate of permission and pay the surcharge. I hope those that have access to Greta can let her know my plan and she can orate it with her masterly inflections of voice to get such an idea across to our global trustees.

Carbonated Concern

With such carbonated concern for the end of the world fast approaching, the certain coming catastrophe, I would think this irrefutable inconvenient truth would be just the catalyst to have us toss out our air conditioners, toss out our smart phones for the energy saving pencil, take up the relaxing riding of bicycles, string out clotheslines again across all the backyards allowing for solar drying, and in conjunction find all washers and dryers and dishwashers going out to the transfer station (in a less sensitive time known as "the dump"). I wish now to buy stock in washboards. I know the certain reversal to the old ways of us doing for ourselves with our own musculature will be quite a good regress. This will be how we really can provide the justice the climate so demands. Yes, may dishpan hands become great again.

The Grooming of a Future Fuhrer

Maybe my imagination's getting the better of me but I sense the hatred and anger transfused into this child may be just the thing to inspire a future-first-female Fuhrer.

The First Future Female Dictator?

How much anger and hatred can you store in a kid? And how much arrogant virtue signalling can you propagandize a kid with? And how much can you coach self-righteous loathing into a sixteen year old? And how much precocious totalitarian zeitgeist can you fill the small frame of a Greta with? Sadly, a lot. Sadly, this political use of children is not yet considered child abuse. Sadly, she hasn't recognized all the supporting serpents pouring out their heady deadly wine into their chalice glittering with celebrity. Sadly, we may have the first future female dictator in the making. Oh, the addictive thrill of fighting for a cause!

Climate Change Should Correct Our Lifestyles

Climate change. Once known as global warming. Somehow we even now hear about climate justice. Not simply justice, but climate justice. Well. I'm starting to get it. The only thing is that I would think my fellow Climate Justice Warriors should be selling their SUVs in favor of smart cars, or even keep to their bicycles because of how fast the planet is heating up. But I wouldn't be honest if I didn't admit to having a doubt creep in when I see such Climate Justice Advocates like the Obamas purchasing a 15 million dollar oceanfront mansion on Martha's Vineyard which should be one of the first great inundations of the climate flood. And the great oceanographer, Al Gore, who got so many, even the Pope, to see that Climate Change was one of the foremost concerns of our present world keep his 40 room mansion in lieu of a more climate friendly wigwam. One just wonders why there wasn't a commandment about climate justice on the tablets of Moses. Anyhow, I am glad that we will now be listening with magisterial obedience to the UN concerning this urgency. But the only thing is my fellow climatized citizens don't seem to be tossing out their air conditioners and recycling their smart phones---every little bit of saved energy helps! This is something I would think would be a given, especially seeing that the existence of our mother earth is at stake.

And what is most disconcerting is that when I tried to dissuade the buyer of an oceanfront property right across from me of the great foolishness of their purchase they looked at me with an incredulous look. And when further mentioned to my now new neighbors the SUVs in their driveway as being most ecologically insensitive and that the central air that they no doubt had, not to mention dish washers and dryers and washing machines (they had no clotheslines outside the house) were creating a carbon footprint unnecessarily substantial, my neighbors seemed to regard me as a climate crank. But think of it: only 12 more years! Certainly one must be concerned this hastening of the probability of polar bears having to find their little islands of ice shrink to nothing but ice cubes. Therefore I am in a quandary: I don't see all those who hold such a settled science as Climate Change holding it as dogmatically as it seems the dogma requires. As a result, my faith is growing feeble in the settled science being not as settled as I was catechized to believe.

The Authority of the Amazon UN

Disturbing thoughts provoked by the documents circulating concerning the approaching Amazon Synod: I truly hope I am incorrect in my interpretation of what I am reading. It would be quite unfortunate if the UN came away with the authority of a magisterium. May we have the discernment of those Bereans who had so studied the Holy Scripture that they may be approved (cf. 2 Tim. 2:15). After all St Paul himself praised them for such adherence to the authentic Apostolic teaching. May it be so for us, and especially for our shepherds.

Democrat Debates: Doesn't Debate Imply Disagreement?

Recently I watched a video account of a 25 week premature baby that was saved through the efforts of doctors. This effort was in stark contrast to diabolic rhetoric of the democrats in their "debate" (I put "debate" in quotes because I was under the impression debate implied disagreement.) Instead of disagreement, however, what happened in the democrat debates was a case of collectivist conformity. And one of the cases of collectivist conformity concerned  "reproductive rights" and how abortion was necessary to our planet's health. Population control was of the essence. 
Among other areas of collectivist conformity were what us deplorables, haters, bigots might term hackneyed ad hominems leveled against America: how America is racist, our president is racist, white men are racist. Guns. How guns kill; not the people holding them (unless of course they are white supremacists). Why, how callous are those NRA types who wish to retain their right to bear arms at the cost of all the school children who are coming under fire. (But aren't they after all in gun-free zones?)
Sometimes you just get a far fetched notion, like perhaps, just perhaps these virtuous secular moralists up at the collectivist podium might not actually adore children as they seem to announce---what sometimes gives this far fetched possibility is how these children champions seem to view the little one when he or she just happens to be in a woman's body: it seems then that the democrats' adoration is quite subdued. To put it in another light: imagine if you will the reaction of Mr. Bernie Sanders, perhaps the foremost advocate of controlling the population, on watching the video account of the 25 week old premature. I mean wouldn't he wince at the unfortunate occurrence of adding one more mouth to feed to the world's population? And of course I can imagine the entire democrat stage looking on in a collectivist chagrin to such a tragic climax to what could contribute to the Carbon Footprint.

18 Years Ago Some People Did Something

18 years ago some people did something. And of course since 1972 some people on the Court did something and since then Parenting and Family Helpers like Planned Parenthood have staff people that are doing something, doing it in nice clean clinics with nice clean forceps with the sanction and applause of some people in Congress who always seem to be doing something. In 1941 I believe FDR might have announced over the radio that some people did something in a place called Pearl Harbor. I also believe Winston Churchill in the late 1930's was afraid that some people were doing something in Dunkirk. I also seem to recall that in September 1939 the country of Poland was very aware some people from some neighboring country were doing something to their borders which were intolerantly not the open kind so you can hardly blame some people for using a little force when one has un-accommodating borders. And farther back in the 18th century some ship commandeered by Captain John Newton was involved in doing something. And perhaps in the great fall of the Roman Empire the Romans came upon the idea that some people from the North were approaching and about to do something. And perhaps the Trojan Horse that entered Troy had some people (bearing gifts no doubt) in it and were anxious to do something (bestowing those gifts no doubt) when they got inside; and on a less colossal scale Caesar realized his best friend Brutus did something with something that caused him to remark "Et tu Brute?" And it seems that the Old and New Testament writers could've saved a lot of effort if they had only said, "Back in the Old, someone did something to his brother, Abel, and then in the New, Someone came along and did something on a place called Calvary to make up for all the people that are doing something.

The Settled Science in a Glass of Ginger Ale

While having a soft drink jammed with ice it came to me after some time elapsed and the solid had made its way to a liquid that the level of the drink was less. The displacement caused by the ice was greater than it was when it turned to water. Then it was I realized one of the first pieces of settled science I knew as a kid with a ginger ale and ice cubes bobbing wonderfully at the surface. This is the kind of science every kid knows before he has had common sense schooled out of him. I'm surprised that with all the angst about the levels of ocean rising no one has seemed to have recalled this! Why have not the popular scientists of the NY TIMES and HUFFINGTON POST and other such scientific organizations acknowledged this great catastrophic anomaly? Why shouldn't they wonder of such misbehaving physics? Shouldn't they see it just the other way---the water levels dangerously decreasing and the sands of coastline expanding? Why, I can just envision it! Even at high tide one might have to walk miles just to get one's toes wet. This explains at least partly, I think, why the Obamas weren't afraid to buy their 15 million dollar cottage on the globally warmed shores of Martha's Vineyard.

Francis's Stacking of the Curia

Doesn't look good what now appears to be the outnumbered orthodox conclave cardinals. Maybe the very great possibility of this "irreversible change" will wake us to the peril of cultural capitulation. St Pius X had warned of modernism. It turned out he knew what was around the chronological corner. Perhaps in spite of Francis's stacking of the curia an unexpected orthodox shepherd will come forth from the Holy Spirit's slight of Hand. May we pray for that.