News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
MT. VERNON, OH—According to sources in a dark, mysterious land known as the “Midwest,” one visitor from California found himself horrified when he left his hotel to go for a walk and found that all the trees were on fire. He began to hyperventilate as he collapsed on the trail in panic and cried out for help.
“HELP! Dear God, help me!” he cried. “The fires followed me here from California! Please God, spare me. I’ll do whatever You want. I’ll give up avocado toast for a year! I’ll start tipping my UBER drivers! PLEASE!”
Thankfully, a good Samaritan came upon the distressed young man in the woods. “Hey, my dear, don’t worry. The trees aren’t on fire. They just look that way. Here in Ohio, we have this thing called ‘seasons.’ We have spring, summer, fall, and winter. This is fall. During this time of year, the green trees change colors to look red, orange, and yellow! Isn’t that neat?”
The young man wiped a tear from his face and looked around. “Wow… it’s actually kinda pretty, isn’t it? So no fires?”
“No. No fires. We haven’t had one of those here in 400 years. You can relax, son.”
“SON?” he replied. “Did you just assume my gender?”
Go here to read the rest. During the first Farm Aid on September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois, I recall a young female reporter from the East standing in front of a typical corn field waiting to be harvested, and breathlessly telling her television audience that Federal action was urgently needed if this corn was a sample of how the crops were doing. Farmers were talking about that ignorant city slicker for days afterwards. The Midwest is used to being ignored by the coasts, and truth to tell we are probably better off for that fact.
Sheryl.
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Very good.
Nature and the city slicker.
Assuming someone’s gender used to be when you walked into a public place and someone, whose back and long hair is facing you, isn’t what you assumed. A MAN with that long straight hair?
Those were the days where gender assumptions were naturally honest mistakes.
How things have changed.
When all Hollowed’s eve was secularized into Halloween it seems that the invitation to be something other than what nature created you to be, took hold.
Now men can be women and so on..
The nightmare is that the delusion is being forced upon society.
Political correctness is another name for virtual reality. Offended that I use the incorrect pronoun?
I’m offended that you mock nature.
When mom or dad told you that you could be anything you wanted if you just put your mind and heart into it, and work hard, they were speaking about vocations.
Today parents will supply the knifes and means to carve their children up as if there carving a pumpkin, just so Jimmy can be Judy in an unending Holloween evening. For most Judy’s their treats becomes tricks as they fight nature and nature’s law.
Call me insensitive or mean if you want but nothing could be uglier than enabling a child and having that child suffer a lifetime of pretending to be someone it’s not.
I have an in-law who moved out to Fruits and Nuts land three years ago, and she has completely swallowed the leftist b.s. they believe in. She thinks the fires they’re having out there are caused by global warming. I tried to explain to her that the real cause of those fires was the failure to clear out the brush that builds up in the forests over the years. She just flipped me off saying, “follow the science”. Yeah, the same ‘science’ that says you’re assuming someone’s gender when you properly denote their actual biological identity. BTW, this poor girl went to a Jesuit college, so go figure.
@Stephen: “BTW, this poor girl went to a Jesuit college, so go figure.” No figuring needed. You just gave the reason why her head is full of mush.
@Philip: “Call me insensitive or mean if you want but nothing could be uglier than enabling a child and having that child suffer a lifetime of pretending to be someone it’s not.”
And it is highly likely to be a very short lifetime. Go over to Life Site News or some other trustworthy source and look up suicide rates among the “transgendered.” Something like 40 times the average rate for the general population. 😢
It’s been very warm here un Cincinnati. As if yesterday we haven’t had ANY changing if the leaves yet.
A few years ago I read a book called “Two Years Before the Mast”. It is a memoir by the Richard Henry Dana Jr. As he traveled from Boston around South America and then up and down the California coast in 1835 collecting animal hides. One of the places they visited was called El Pueblo de Los Angeles. It was small Spanish town surrounded by wilderness. Even then with almost no people, smoke would sometimes hang in the valleys. They would go up in the hills in what is today Los Angeles to cut firewood for the ship. They had to be very careful with the axes so as not to strike any stones and cause a spark and a fire. Again, almost no people live anywhere there in the wilderness. No one at all lived in what we now call San Francisco. The gold rush of 49 changed everything.
I hate “auto correct”. Let’s try again. “It’s been very warm here IN Cincinnati. As OF yesterday we haven’t had ANY changing if the leaves yet.”
JFK-
Auto-corrupt. Or less polite terms….
Inversion layer, I think it’s called, although I also seem to remember there was some big environmental changes shaking out then, starting roughly a century before Columbus, per the folks who look at plant remains. It’s actually really interesting because it’s hard to draw a line for “changes started,” between the ice age and now– just “lots of people lived here at this point” and “folks didn’t live here because it got too hot/dry/wet/cold.
….it’s kind of sad that neat stuff like that is political, now, huh?
Very sad. Most people only know what they see right in front of themselves right now. Much of Ohio was covered by glaciers until 10,000 years ago. The closest was north of me, east of Dayton. It left grooves in the rocks. I’m pretty sure they didn’t have automobiles and coal power plants back then and there were a lot fewer people so “global warming” must have been caused by the usual method, the Sun.
In the last Ice Age -cold oceans absorbed most available CO2. Levels dipped dangerously low, close to the death of plants.
Most of the scientific “narrative” knowingly lies. Ends justify the means when “saving the planet and/or getting funding”. More CO2 does not mean warmer oceans -warm oceans means more CO2. Less CO2 in the atmosphere does not mean colder oceans -colder oceans means less CO2. (think of a carbonated liquid in a closed container and the amount of CO2 absorbed, in and out of refrigeration )
There are glacial erratic’s near me, some gigantic like Big Rock NH. Kettle Ponds on the Cape formed by glaciers, and even Cape Cod itself.
There is plenty of evidence, change has happened before. We should fear the frozen wasteland an Ice Age would bring, not a little warmth, and be glad more CO2 is being added, so if an Ice Age does happen again, plants won’t die off. It’s likely that if it weren’t for us humans burning fossil fuels, in one or two more ice ages they would-