[TheRealThing]

Got a petition from the Sierra Club today. Asking me to say NO to Trump's efforts to - Gut the EPA, - Kill the Clean Power Plan, - Expand coal mining, - Sabotage green jobs, - Poison our water, -Open public lands. :lame:

In the State of the Union Address of 2015, Barack Obama made clear what he believed to be the greatest threat faced by America. Climate change.

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"No challenge – no challenge – poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” Obama said in his sixth State of the Union address Tuesday night. “2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does:  14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.”

Delivering on his repeated pledge to use his executive authority to sidestep an intransigent Congress, the president has harnessed Cabinet agencies and the bully pulpit – the so-called pen-and-phone strategy – to transform environmental issues from an oft-ignored fringe topic, one dismissed by powerful industry groups and conservative lawmakers, to the centerpiece of his second term.

Since unveiling his Climate Action Plan in an address in June 2013, he’s used the Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Department and Interior Department to introduce the first federal restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, extend hundreds of billions of dollars in government support and loan guarantees for clean energy projects, tighten fuel standards for motor vehicles and curtail heat-trapping methane gas emissions from the oil and gas sector.
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https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/201...ate-change


Today's announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports was welcomed news for this nation's metals manufacturing concerns. Meanwhile back in La-La Land, climate change alarmists are writhing in agony. These guys are such ideological slaves imagining themselves the self appointed saviors of mother earth, (what a laugh) that they don't care one wit that America doesn't have industry enough to produce steel or aluminum products for her own people. Much less provide military equipment necessary to establish a viable national defense.

The Framers said the number one concern of our country is for providing a strong military defense, and that thought is further so stated as being the primary function of the federal government in the US Constitution. No matter what the 21st Century thinkers on the order of Barack Obama say about the likelihood of war; God has made the prophetic assertion that war certainly is coming. And I for one will certainly take His Word for it.

In that case, how much uranium would one reasonably suppose Russia would cede back or sell back to the US in time of war? How much steel and aluminum would China sell to the US in time of war? If not for fracking and the opening of oil rich fields for drilling, how much oil would Iran have sold the US in time of war? In October of 2013, owing to unreasonable EPA regulations, the last remaining lead smelting firm in the entire USA closed it's doors. Consider the uses for the environmentalist's lowly esteemed lead. Now that we no longer produce lead, how much lead will China sell the US in time of war? The military applications for lead are nearly endless. Everything from bullets for soldier's guns, to the batteries that start their Humvees. Lead is widely used in the ship building industry among many others, from the lead shielding for nuclear reactors to shielding for electrical cabling. Lead is used extensively as shielding material in the medical industry as well.

The point? I heard the President speak of the global ridiculousness of late, in which America voluntarily abdicated her manufacturing advantages via some very bad 'deals.' They were bad alright. But what really, was the underlying motivation for our gutting the US manufacturing community? I know what I say it is, is. The afore mentioned self-appointed saviors of mother earth are more worried about pollution than the survival of mankind. Climate alarmists are trying to engineer an earthly utopia, and in their eyes should shortages of fuels and materials cause grief even loss of life, that is acceptable collateral damage.

The irony in all of this is as follows. God made this earth replete with natural resources so that man could sustain himself. Coal, oil, timber, ores of all kinds, and yes, clean water and skies. As man's industrial prowess grew, so did his understanding about how to protect the environment. And he has to large extent, at least in this land, endeavored to be good stewards of what The Lord has provided. That's not good enough for the Chicken Little left whom cannot get enough of the natural disaster movie circuit. They know better than everybody, even to the point of denying mankind use of the natural resources given him of God, and feeling sanctimonious about it in the process. And dare I mention this yet again? There are no alternative energy forms in existence as yet to replace fossil fuels. Hello? What are we supposed to do, just lay down and conserve body heat?

Now for the irony. The world is coming to an end, and by the looks of things not long from now. Not by industrial pollution nor the greatly overwrought notion of global warming, but by the pollution of man's own heart. Idyllic pastures of the liberal imagination notwithstanding, man's aspirations will never be sated with pure babbling brooks and little wind up pollutant free cars. So as men celebrate their own abilities and understanding in turning away from Godly guidance, and in a shadow or imitation of what is to come, one of our own, AntiChrist, will prosecute an attempt to rule this world. He will fail. Immediately following the imposter, the real Prince of Peace will come. And where men throughout the ages have failed, He will certainly succeed. In fact since God is not restricted in any way by time, He has already witnessed His Son's earthly reign, and refers to that as the millennium. During that 1,000 year span, He will rule the nations with a rod of iron. And believe me, things here on the big blue marble will be glassy smooth during His reign.

But men in their natural minds assume they can do everything for themselves, and we have come to call that mindset Secular Humanism. Hence the confusion, about whether it is okay or not to use the very resources God has given us. DJT--- "Sad"