CBS Funny?

Today, while watching CBS news I witnessed the main media's tone deafness regarding global warming and climate change.

As a witty end to the newscast, which by the way carried the news of a flash flood that blew away a 50 years old dam, CBS carried a comparison between last winter and this summer.

In both segments, the "odd" heat, and "odd" amounts of snow were pointed to in a jovial way as somehow examples of "people griping about the weather, but can't do anything about it".

I cringed as I watched it.

Everyday...every single day, there is more compelling evidence that CO 2 emissions are creating climate change that could render our future a living hell on earth.

There is more moisture in the atmosphere. There just is. This results in incredible downpours and huge snowfalls. These "freak storms" are just not freak. They are products of dramatic climate change.

Meanwhile, the major media continues to ignore global warming, or treat it like a "freak climate oddity" and write witty, funny pieces about it.

Nashville, Tennessee, Alabama, New Orleans, Shasta County, San Diego; the list goes on and on. Wildfires, huge rainfall totals that wash hundreds of houses away.

And don't forget the droughts in California, Arizona and other western states. Shasta Lake, the key lake in the Central Valley Project, filled this year for the first time in almost 20 years.

We are still considered to be in a drought condition. And this is only the beginning.

Meanwhile, thanks to CBS/NBC/Fox/ABC et al, people are propagandized that the climate catastrophe is somehow a cute, funny thing...just "mother nature being mother nature".

The polar ice cap will melt completely in the next 10 years. It may be gone in the summer next year!

I won't list the 99% scientific belief in global warming. I won't list the full court press that oil companies like BP are waging to convince us all that global warming is just cute, or funny.

So, we don't do anything. The energy bill fails in the Senate. There is no climate legislation. California is poised to vote for a proposition that will stop our efforts to act now to reduce CO 2 emissions until unemployment gets to levels we haven't seen in twenty years. Of course this is sponsored by oil companies.

Cute. It's really all cute.

In a few years this cute little "thing" will kill millions of human beings, animals, and just might poison the oceans. This little cute thing may end human civilization on the planet.

And tonight, with this calamity looking us right in the face, CBS does a piece on how funny the odd hot weather is, and how funny the huge eastern snow drifts were.

Of course, both seasons set records for precipitation and heat. 2009 was the hottest year in human recorded history..

And it is just starting.

And it is not funny.

Today I Spent Some Time

Today, after a nice (?) round of golf, I spend a very interesting hour talking with a very interesting person. I find out later, looking at his info, that he is a "tea party member".

He claimed to vote for Obama, but now is very critical of the President. I have a little problem with the first part of this.

Some personal criticisms were expressed.. I constantly reminded him of the lack of personal contact he had with the President. He didn't seem to mind these questions. Yet, he talked as if he knew Obama personally.

Personally? That implies a relationship that none of us has.

This points out the conservative criticisms of the President as if they somehow "know" the President. Huh???

That is ridiculous. None of us can possibly know the President personally.

Which points me to the observation of the ridiculous position the tea party has. They somehow know the President.. They know his mind. They know his motives.

I am a liberal. I never have professed to know the President. I would like to know him. I would like to have a couple beers with him. But, I don't know him.

So, how in the world can the "cons" "know him".

It is ridiculous. It is absurd.

Which sums up the cons position. Absurd, and ridiculous!

Another Con

Unbelievable. Now the cons have decided to vote against extending unemployment compensation. The reason is that people are shirking work to use up all their unemployment. These implies that people stay on unemployment willingly.

Remember the overwhelming numbers of unemployed workers are applying for work in mass numbers. Remember, the amount of unemployment compensation is minimal. People cannot pay their mortgages nor feed their families on unemployment compensation. Five people apply for every job opening.

Thousands show up for work. Job fairs are overwhelmed with applicants.

And still, the idiot cons argue that unemployment is encouraging unemployment? What?

These people are beyond belief.

The country may be lurching to the right but it is stupidly being led by Fox News and the Heritage Foundation. This "grass roots movement" is being fed by large corporate donations and funding.

The bottom line here is corporations are running the public debate in this country. The Republican Party is owned by the far right corporate class. Money is winning!

Today, right NOW, the top 500 companies in the United States are sitting on the highest amounts of cash and reserves in history. Do they consider investing in America?

No, they are sitting on their hands as America goes broke. Foreclosures are still raging, unemployment is still in double figures, and the rich corporations won't invest. Remember, one reason for their huge reserves is the federal stimulus, tax credits and tax cuts. Do they invest, like the con's favorite philosophy promises. No way. They sit and they wait because "We are not sure of the stability of the economy". This is another proof that "trickle down economics" doesn't work.

Of course, the real reason the corporations are not investing is they are waiting for the 2010 mid-term elections so they can help elect more Republicans who are in their wallets.

So WAKE UP AMERICA. Who got you into this mess? Who has always been the friend of corporate power? Who now votes against the unemployed and makes up a fiction that unemployment benefits actually encourage unemployment..

Anyone who has been on unemployment knows the truth. They know the agony and the depression being without work grinds into a person. People are not lazy who are unemployed. They are victims of the conservative free enterprise nonsense that has literally ruined the middle class and has destroyed our once vibrant economy.