Reflections From a Murky Pond

Still Need A Sweater

Finally the weather is starting to warm up a little, but sweaters are still the order of the day. Fortunately, that’s not too hard to take.

America’s domestic enemies, the Liberals and Progressives, love to rant about McCarthyism – except, of course, when it used to further their own agendas. Then they’re all for it.

Nowhere’s is the more true – except for possibly “race relations” – than when it comes to Global Warming, specifically civilization’s causation of it. Once that’s involved, witch hunts are A-OK.

Late last month three Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, without any authorization by said committee -  sought to achieve a “Chilling Effect” on dissent with Climate Change Orthodoxy by demanding that 107 groups surrender 10 years of their respective detailed funding source data.

For the last ten years, please provide the following:

• List of funded research efforts (including but not limited to grants, fellowships, scholarships, consulting contracts, contracts, honoraria, and speaking events) on or related to climate, climate change, global warming, environmental issues, air quality, atmospheric or oceanic topics, greenhouse gas emissions, associated impacts of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide, methane, aerosols, solar radiation, vulnerable animal species or ecosystems, geology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, astrophysics, or heliophysics.
• For each payment made to individuals and/or organizations associated with the funded research efforts listed above, please provide the following information:

1. Name of recipient;
2. Institutional affiliation;
3. Payment amount and duration of the term of the funded research effort;
4. Reason for payment;
5. Copy of the grant and/or contract, including any terms containing restrictions related to the disclosure of the source of the payments; and
6. Deliverables submitted as part of the funded research effort, including any publications, or written materials.

The demand by these Democrats can only be seen as a McCarthy-esque assault on organizations that they see as promoting “global warming” skepticism through funding research that might contradict the Warmists claims apocalyptic claims.

Here’s a little bit of history, specifically the history of New York City. It’s only 8:28 out of your day; give it look.
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Things were both very different and very much the same in NYC a century ago, so there’s something to the adage, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

Interestingly – to me, at least – that adage, an epigram by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, was only 50 years old when the earlier clips in this video were shot.

The weather is still cold and quite vile. Where I’m at in NYC it’s hovering around freezing and cycling between snow, sleet, and rain.

This is sort of weather where and when you really need a hoodie if you’re going outside. Even better would be a down-filled hood since, as you can see, it gives more and far better and hotter options on how to wear it.

I do strive to educate the masses in whatever small ways that I can, and I freely admit to a love of language and idiom. Hence, here’s a new and, I believe, quite useful addition to people’s vocabulary.

Sarchotic
Function: adjective
Date: 2012

Definition(s):

1. Being so sarcastic that people don’t aren’t sure whether you’re joking or just plain crazy

Indeed, given the nature of times, this particular idiom is growing in usefulness at the same pace as digital “communication.”

Oh yeah! Sarchotic is a word i can very much relate to.