IS IT HOT IN HERE BECAUSE NO ONE CARES

"Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"

Summers are hot. I have known this since I was old enough to know anything. So, why is it that all the news broadcasts on the radio today started with a story about how hot it is across the country? I heard that there were possibilities of record heat hitting major metropolitan areas, I heard how farmers are worried about their crops and I heard advice on what we should do if we get too hot. The best story of all was how we all should learn a lesson from the smart chess players who were in a park in Philly and knew enough to play in the shade. Brilliant.

I am sure the heat is being played up largely in part to push forward the global warming myth. Live Earth, the flop of a concert that was supposed to be the show-case spectacular as a follow up to Al Gore’s insane comedy “An Inconvenient Truth”, proved that most people either aren’t buying his tripe or they don’t care;

“The estimated 2.7 million viewers was slightly under the 3 million viewers NBC has averaged on Saturday nights in the summer with repeats and the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs on what is already the least-popular night of television.”-hollywoodreporter.com

Either way, it is a good sign of the return of common sense.

Al Gore has taken a natural phenomenon, climate change, and tried to restore his political life with it by blaming humans for its occurrence. He has no real answers for real problems, so he takes up a cause that is ambiguous and entirely fictitious and makes himself the hero of it, trying to garner support from the half-wits who actually listen to his mindless dribble. Does Al have answers for any of the real crises that face the world? Not that I have heard.

Al Gore isn’t unique in what he is doing. The politicians leading our country today are all avoiding meaningful issues and instead they are making headlines by doing nothing. Democrats are starting inquiries, to the tune of 300 in 100 days, into issues that are unimportant to everyone. Republicans are telling us we need immigration reform desperately and are putting forth no legislation for it. Meanwhile, Rome is burning and the modern day Nero’s are fiddling “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”.

So, as the radio spewed out the mindless banter about how hot it is today around the country, I spent a little time reading this;

“…..official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11 years old. As LT David Wallach interpreted the man’s words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, “What did he say?” Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family”- michaelyon-online.com

When Al Gore or any politician for that matter, decides to have a concert to raise awareness of the mass of Muslim serial killers known as Islamo-fascists, then I will take them seriously. When will we have a politician that will be brave enough to stand up and talk about the real problems of the world?

John Edwards is going to have a tour to bring to light the poverty that exists in America. Some one should point out to him that America is the only country in the world where the poor are fat and the rich are thin. Why doesn’t Edwards tour the middle-eastern countries where there is real poverty? He has already said that the war on terror isn’t real. So who is cooking kids and sawing people’s heads off?

All around us there are real issues that need to be discussed. Everything from social security reform to fighting the war on terror needs to be dealt with by our political leaders but they won’t do it. Their own lives are more important then their country. Their own political positions are so valuable that they will do nothing to threaten them. And as we allow ourselves to be anesthetized by a media that would rather talk about Paris Hilton and heat waves and that pushes issues that are meaningless like global warming and banning cell phones in cars, the real problems of the world grow bigger, unchecked by an un-informed populace and avoided by politicians more interested in their own political hides then their country.