Climate change is a big cash cow

It was recently reported that Greenland recorded its highest temperatures in 1,000 years.

First, what’s wrong with that statement?

In 1612, Italian inventor Santorio Santorio came out with the first thermometer but no real accurate way to determine a patient’s mouth temperature. Around 100 years later, Daniel Fahrenheit invented a more reliable way using mercury, and his method had a temperature scale.

Considering the above, I would like to know who was sitting in Greenland 600 years earlier and measuring the temperature of one of the most desolate places on the planet. But just to play along, since we’re still millions of years coming out of an ice age, I imagine it’s possible it did get warmer.

The conference in Davos, Switzerland was yet another ridiculous charade of climate posturing. I keep trying to find a more powerful definition for hypocrite.

It’s beyond belief that the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry continue to attend these summits. These self-glorifying preach-fests force upon the masses the impending doom of climate change. And they do so with such angry convictions and a straight face. Yet the images of a thousand private jets lined up that transported these phony greens, in many cases just a couple people per plane, the helicopters who flew them to Davos, or the enormous black, gas sucking beasts who drove them there are simply ignored.

There is no shame.

Environmentalists the world over want to strip you of your petrol-operated vehicle and completely ignore the plumes of carbon that billowed over Davos.

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For safety’s sake

Open letter to the current police chief in Santa Barbara: Please enforce the stop sign laws of this city.

Dave Blunk Santa Barbara

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Medicare is destroying American medicine

Public comments extolling the benefits of Medicare once again exposed the naivety of the American public on government “benefit” programs. Lincoln’s comment, “You can fool some of the people all of the time,” applies here.

As socialist democratic president Lyndon Johnson said when he signed the Medicare bill back in 1965, “If they knew how much this was going to cost them, they would revolt now.”

ALL Americans are on Medicare!

Medicare has become the biggest, most invasive socialist government program in our history. Each and every American is affected by this civil service dictatorship. We have gotten another dose of the same from the socialist democratic Obama administration with the addition of Obamacare to our tax burdens.

Medicare already controls all of the medical health aspects of all 46 million Americans over the age of 65. We are all forced to contribute 2.9% of our income to Medicare for our working life as are our employers for 2.9%.

Many people pay far more dollars into the system than others based on their higher salaries.

But everyone gets the same service through this form of wealth redistribution. The Washington, D.C., civil servants tell us how much we will get in coverage and how much they will pay the doctors, if they will pay them at all. So for about 40 years, each of us working people pay into the Medicare system before we get benefits at 65. We keep paying into the system through our Social Security benefits until we die.

The government has a record of every aspect of your employment life and your medical life after 65. They know who you have worked for and how much you were paid. It is all in a big computer in Washington, D.C.

Civil servants dictate what hospitals and doctors can get paid for their services. As a result, doctor bills are always underpaid, and we “Medicare patients” have to be taken as “welfare patients” to get the medical coverage we were forced to pay for all of our lives!

Since Medicare only pays 80% of the bill (if it is allowed, after a growing yearly deductible), we are forced to buy Advantage or supplemental insurance if it is allowed in our county and for what Medicare tells the insurance

Years ago, when Greta Thunberg screamed at the world and refused to fly, drive or use any modern convenience to get home because it would have been the end of the planet was at it again right next door in Germany. She was protesting a coal mine and never said a peep about the frauds who brainwashed her for their own oil overindulgences. Because as John Kerry said, he’s an important guy and needs to fly private. The rest of you just deal with it.

California always gets the brunt from the Climate Cultists. None more so than the old Gov. Jerry Brown, who shrieked for many years the death of the planet was just around the corner.

Back in 2018, Gov. Brown said we need to take extraordinary steps to “shift the weather back to where it historically was (and where was that exactly?),” noting that the current climate is the hottest it’s been “since civilization emerged 10,000 years ago.” Was he around then? Could have been, I guess.

It was another stupid statement (along with numerous others) that too many people didn’t question. Jerry blamed all the fires on climate change when as we all know, There are arsonists, lightning and fires caused by power lines. Then the argument becomes, “But they burn hotter because the weather is hotter.” No, they don’t. Hot is hot. Gov. Brown further claimed days are going be 135 degrees for months on end. Just like Al Gore predicted, a few decades ago, the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro would melt away. Wrong!

We all know fires take off with the wind made worse from lack of proper forest management. The environmentalists go silent about forest management