WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! CONGRESS ACTION: July 2, 2000 ================= NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE: As Al Gore's prospects of electoral victory in November become more problematic, his well-known Messianic complex is coming to the fore: "Elect me so I can save the world from global warming, or else you'll all die." Thus we see Gore's signature issue, global warming, being pushed onto the front burner (so to speak) once again. This month the federal government released a new study called "Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change". How much taxpayer money was spent on this latest exercise in trying to scare the public is anybody's guess. But we can be sure that those millions of dollars spent on what amounts to transparent campaign advertising for Al Gore (one of the inherent advantages of incumbency) will never be declared on any Federal Election Commission disclosure forms. Much of the fearmongering in this latest report, as well as most of the recent pronouncements about global warming from a variety of sources, trace a rise in global temperatures that began about a century ago. Perhaps those who actually learned history when schools actually taught facts rather than feelings, can think back to what they learned about medieval Europe, and recall what happened in Europe (and the rest of the world, of course) beginning roughly at the start of the 16th century and lasting several hundred years. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: "Throughout most of what is commonly called the Little Ice Age (1500-1850).for much of the time the northern latitudes came under cool continental conditions. Observed temperature series in Europe from Paris to Leningrad show large fluctuations until 1850. Glacier advances are recorded in the Alps, in the Sierra Nevada, and in Alaska. Corresponding low sea levels are recorded by early tide gauge records in The Netherlands and Germany. Even in equatorial latitudes there are traces of mountain glacier advances (as in the Andes of Colombia)." (emphasis added) Guess what happened at the end of the "Little Ice Age", beginning at the end of the 19th century; that is, about a century ago. As the world emerged from this normal, cyclical cooling, average temperatures gradually began to get warmer, and sea levels gradually began to rise. Indeed, this has been the global trend since the end of the last major ice age, about 11,500 years ago. And this trend of increasing global temperatures and rising world-wide sea levels will continue (Al Gore's hysteria notwithstanding) until the next ice age. According to the World Book Encyclopedia: "An ice age generally lasts about 100,000 years; an interglacial period, from 10,000 to 20,000 years. The most recent ice age ended about 11,500 years ago. Most earth scientists expect that another ice age will follow the interglacial period in which we now live. . The most recent Pleistocene glaciers reached a depth of about 10,000 feet. When they were at their greatest extent, so much water was frozen in them that the sea level was at least 330 feet lower than it is now." Perhaps it is necessary to point out that none of these climate fluctuations -- not the Pleistocene Ice Age that ended 11,500 years ago, nor the Little Ice Age that ended about 150 years ago -- had anything whatsoever to do with human activities, nor with the internal combustion engine that Gore is so intent on banning: "Within the context of the Strategic Environment Initiative, it ought to be able to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustible engine." (Earth in the Balance). But unlike King Canute, who knew he could not stop the tide with his command, Gore actually thinks that he can control the world's climate. A prime example of the consequences of this dangerous arrogance is the current spike in gasoline prices caused, at least in part, by the EPA's mandates for ethanol and MTBE to be added to gasoline to combat ground level ozone (smog). The National Research Council found: ".the overall impact.is very small"; and further, that ethanol actually ".increase(s) the overall potential of emissions to form ozone." EPA's alleged "fix", in other words, actually increases the problem. On May 17, 2000, members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (John McCain, Chairman) heard testimony on the scientific research on global warming. The testimony of John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, may be instructive: "I want to encourage the committee to be suspicious of media reports in which weather extremes are given as proof of human induced climate change. Weather extremes occur somewhere all the time." He concluded with a question, and a common-sense answer: "Is the climate changing? Yes, it always has and it always will.". BLAME THE GUN MAKERS: Having withdrawn from the Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani apparently felt a need to rebuild his left-wing extremist base. So New York City has announced that it is joining the municipal lawsuits against gun manufacturers (New York State jumped on the bandwagon also) because, as the corporation counsel in the Giuliani administration explained, "many, many unfortunately thousands of injuries and deaths that occur throughout the country from the illegal distribution of these guns." In New York City it is virtually impossible for a private citizen to legally own a handgun. But law abiding gun owners and legal firearms manufacturers are considered to be a danger to the good citizens of New York. On the other hand, criminal gangs and homicidal killers are simply part of that "beautiful mosaic" of New York City. On the same day that the lawsuits against gun manufacturers was announced, two other items of interest appeared in the New York City newspapers. One item concerned one Juan Gonzalez, described in the report as "a deranged homeless Cuban refugee" who, 14 years ago, unleashed a sword-swinging rampage on the Staten Island Ferry, killing two people and wounding nine others. Obeying New York law those eleven victims were, of course, unarmed. And they were butchered. Juan Gonzalez was found by a judge to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, and went into a mental institution. He was just set free, having convinced a judge, a jury, and the Staten Island District Attorney that he is no longer a threat to the public -- as long as he continues taking his medicine to control his schizophrenia. Not being allowed to arm themselves against the likes of Juan Gonzalez, perhaps the good citizens of New York should start carrying shields. The second item concerned a ruling by a New York State Supreme Court judge. The Queens Police Department went to court in February to ask that 21 members and associates of the Bloods street gang be barred at night from Queens Plaza, where authorities said gang members controlled prostitution, claiming that the Bloods' role has led to violence in the area. The judge denied the police petition, deciding that the city had failed to present convincing evidence that the gang members' activities were menacing enough to the public. A lawyer for the New York Civil Liberties Union cheered: "The Constitution does not permit the city to banish people from public streets even if they are alleged gang members." So while the Bloods roam the streets, thanks to that judge and the New York Civil Liberties Union, law abiding -- and defenseless -- citizens of Queens will be banished from the public streets instead. Out of fear. Is anyone really dumb enough to think that the Bloods have been disarmed by New York's draconian gun control laws? And if the Bloods ever get into a shootout with other local area pimps, we will most certainly see their numbers turn up in Handgun Control's statistics about how many "children" are killed every day by gun violence. But New York has decided that it is firearms manufacturers that pose a threat to the good citizens of New York. BANISH RELIGION: The Supreme Court has spoken: Student-led prayers before high school football games are unconstitutional: "The policy is invalid on its face because it establishes an improper majoritarian election on religion, and unquestionably has the purpose and creates the perception of encouraging the delivery of prayer at a series of important school events." Thankfully, the Court saved us all from the perception that prayer might ever be encouraged. The student-led prayer was found offensive because it ended "In God is our trust". Dangerous stuff, there. It is fortunate that today's Supreme Court wasn't around 200 years ago. If they had been, no doubt George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison would have been silenced as well: "I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend." -- George Washington, First Inaugural Address; April 30, 1789. "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. . And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." -- George Washington, Farewell Address; September 19, 1796. "And may that Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the universe lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity." -- Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address; March 4, 1801 "I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with His providence and our riper years with His wisdom and power, and to whose goodness I ask you to join in supplications with me that He will so enlighten the minds of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their measures that whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to you the peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations." -- Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address; March 4, 1805. "In these my confidence will under every difficulty be best placed, next to that which we have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic, and to whom we are bound to address our devout gratitude for the past, as well as our fervent supplications and best hopes for the future." -- James Madison, First Inaugural Address; March 4, 1809. The left wing press unanimously cheered the court's ruling, no doubt looking forward to the day when the Supreme Court also rules the Declaration of Independence to be unconstitutional: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Happy Independence Day. Enjoy it while you still can. 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