So, not all bad, then, that Sarkozy

Write a blog for too long and you will find yourself typing words that you never thought possible.  For example, what an intelligent man that Nicolas Sarkozy is, well, in some things at least.  Brenden O'Neill over at The Coffee House provides one example of Sarkozy's intelligence - and courage! - by reporting the Hungarian dwarf's remarks on anthropological global warming, the new religion de notre temps.

In the speech he said, ‘People [talk] a lot about climate change… but the climate has been changing for the past 4.5 billion years. Man is not the sole cause of this change.’ He then said something that struck me as reasonable but which is apparently mental and unutterable: ‘Sahara has become a desert — [that] isn’t because of industry.’

Cue the sight of red-hot pokers being warmed up and ancient torture chambers being re-opened in the Bastille because to the eyeball-swivelling, mouth-dribbling fanatiques of the global warming religion this was outrageous heresy.

The former leader of the French Green Party, Emmanuelle Cosse, said his remarks were ‘hallucinatory’ — anyone who questions the climate-change creed must be on drugs, right? They went ‘beyond the limits of decency’, she said.

Calm down, dear, yes, the ghastly little man has said and done some awful things in his time but this isn't one of them.  In fact, just the opposite, it's the truth!

Comments

[TheBigHenry]

Climate change, shlimate change. The whole screaming match is bullshit (that would be "bollocks" in Blighty). Not even Big Al (i.e., Einstein), could know whether man's activities had an effect that was beyond the limits of noise in the measured (and doctored in East Anglia) data. And recall, Big Al was the guy who told God what to do!

But even if man's activities do have a not insignificant effect, and if there was anything that could be done about it, it would first and foremost need to be done in China and India -- where, as you might have known, 36% of the world's population resides (and burns fossil fuel like there's no tomorrow).

So if the fanatics insist on agitating for their religious cause, let them take their fanaticism to China and India and break us a fucking give.

[JK]

Have you seen this David?

http://www.timesofisrael.com/norman-podhoretz-the-last-remaining-anti-anti-trump-neoconservative/

[TheBigHenry]

JK,

I have read your linked article, in which Podhoretz is quoted as saying, “If Trump were to be elected, he’s not an emperor, he’s just one person, ... So to me, it’s just a no-brainer [he supports Trump over HRC].” This is technically correct -- the American President is not an emperor. But there is one power that the President has that no one else in the world does -- he alone can nominate a candidate for Justice (or Chief Justice) of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Yes, yes, yes, the Senate has the power to block the nomination. Nevertheless, no other person or entity can nominate a candidate. And, as I have stated before in these pages, that is the overriding issue in the upcoming Presidential election.