Reflections From a Murky Pond

It seems many of the Liberals are outraged that President Obama included Professor Jonathon I. Katz in his “dream team” of scientists, mostly leading physicists and engineers, who’ve been charged with going  to the Gulf of Mexico to work with BP to stop the oil leak that’s contaminating the Gulf waters.

What is most telling is not that the Left is outraged but what specifically they’re outraged over in this matter.

What should be able to be considered strangely, the issue isn’t with Prof. Katz’s admitted lack of usefulness in dealing with the spill or its cleanup.

I was honored to be invited and enjoyed the experience. Did I have anything much to contribute? I think I have some ideas for how to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, but I don’t have anything very specific to offer on the present problems. It is very much in the hands of the real pros.

— Professor Jonathan I. Katz
St. Louis Beacon Interview

If Prof. Katz’ lack of qualifications to deal with British Petroleum’s catastrophic failure was the reason for the Liberal’s outrage I would take no issue with it. From the above quote I would guess that Prof. Katz himself would not gainsay their opinions. But the Liberals’ wrath and condemnation is not about Katz’s credentials or skills; it’s about his ideology and the fact that it doesn’t match their own.

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In the wake of Arizona’s Governor, Jan Brewer taking the much needed defensive measure of signing SB 1070 into law the bulk of America now knows that Arizona has a critical and lethal problem with illegal immigration and illegal aliens; the Liberals and their minority tenants have made sure of that with their vitriol, their hate, and their protests which predictably devolve into race riots. What most people still do not know is how filthy of a problem these illegal immigrants are.

The Trail of Filth – What Illegal Aliens Leave In Their Wake

Estimates on the number of illegal immigrants who sneak into America from Mexico across Arizona’s border vary wildly. A conservative-to-moderate range would be 100,000 – 250,000 illegals enter the US through Arizona’s southern border per year. Each and every one of these invaders wreaks environmental damage upon our lands during its treks.

Extrapolating from San Diego State University’s study of the environmental damage cause by illegal passing through the Cleveland National Forest, in eastern San Diego County, California we can quantify this damage in the following ways based upon the estimate of 100K – 250K illegal immigrants per annum:

• Illegal immigrants blaze 48 – 72 miles of new trails
• Illegal immigrants disturb 16 – 24 acres of wildness habitat
• Illegal immigrants leave 5.5 – 8.25 tons of trash
• Illegal immigrants light 1,100 – 1,650 illegal campfires
• Illegal immigrants burn 420 – 630 acres of land by starting wildfires

That’s a significantly horrendous level of ecological damage and would normally have the Liberals outraged at the perpetrators, especially since the more arid regions of the planet have more delicate biospheres and a very vulnerable to such depredations. It’s not one, however, that is going to receive much attention unless the Liberals, always and often laudably at the forefront of environmental causes, get involved.

Unfortunately for Americans and the ecosystems of southern Arizona – frankly the ecosystems of our border states et al – the Liberals, by and large but presumably with a few exceptions, are not outraged at foreigners – especially non-Whites – who commit environmental crimes.  Those sorts of polluters do not seem to bother the Liberals.

The Liberals, whenever vaguely possible,  instead prefer to either turn an blind eye to the problem or make excuses for the non-White invaders and attempt, as always, to shift both blame and responsibility to Americans, primarily White Americans.

So we are left with a mess. Arizona has a dangerous and filthy problem – illegal immigrants, and the best source of action and awareness against the problem, the Liberals,  has conflicting priorities based upon racial politics.

With ObamaCare being imposed upon the American people by President Obama and cabal of Liberals in Congress be assured that they will soon turn their destructive eyes back to Cap & Trade and punitive regulation of the energy sector of the American economy.

If they manage to pass some variant of the traitors, Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) and Rep. Edward Markey’s American Clean Energy Security Act, America’s economy – especially at the average consumer level – is going to be horribly harmed, possibly beyond the point of recovery.

That is the point of their exercise and to be expected; you can’t “fundamentally change“ America without first destroying all that it is.

But President Obama’s and his Liberals’ Cap & Trade scheme, like almost all man-caused disasters, would not be without its humorous side.

Do You Have A Permit For Those Emissions, Buster?

Can’t you just picture this happening? The insectile mindlessness and regimen of the average bureaucrat and their enforcers combined with the hubris and narcissism of Obama’s regime makes such a ludicrous scenario almost assured.

After all, if one is beset by such arrogance that one believes that he can fundamentally change the very planet Earth, it’s a small step to deciding to regulate it. 😉

It’s World Earth Day 2010 and, as such, it’s a good day to truly think about the beauty, power, and majesty of our planet. This is a good time to cultivate a little perspective.

Let us all for a moment put aside our pride and hubris and look at the Earth and the stark, raw power She can bring to bear at any given moment.

April 19, 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Erupting

Nothing short of our profligate use of our arsenal of nuclear weapons could hope to match the power and destructive force of the recent eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, which was a small and relatively mild volcanic eruption.

So when you hear people ranting or whining about Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) or how the Civilized World has caused massive and apocalyptic Climate Change via our CO2 emissions over the last handful of decades think about this picture and recognize that all of this hype is predicated upon people’s pride and hubris.

Love the Earth for she is fair and perilous beyond all of our means to measure. Just don’t delude yourself – or be deluded by other’s vanity or cynical manipulations – into being so confident that mankind can so easily fundamentally change Her so easily.

Amid the strife, pain, and rage inducing events of the world there are also small wonders to behold – if one is wise or lucky enough to find them.

Macro photographer Miroslaw Swietek was wise enough to find these sleeping jewels and capture their beauty and we’re lucky enough that he shared the images with the world.