It was a little after four on Sunday morning. We
had planned to sleep late, but the howling north
winds were buzzing through the soffits and creating
such a racket I crawled out of bed. Somehow, my
trophy wife was still sleeping. Because our pace is
slower on the Sabbath, I started breakfast on the
cook stove by quietly splitting some kindling,
opening the damper, and nearly effortlessly building
a crackling fire. The word “nearly” is significant
as the wind billowing over the top of the garage
began powering the smoke back down the chimney. I
hustled to override this downdraft with a hot
flash-fire because the trophy wife can be cranky
when the smoke alarm rockets her out of bed. By
releasing the combustible energy trapped in multiple
crumpled pages of outdated issues of (insert your
paper’s name here), my cooking fire emerged
victorious. I tossed some bacon into a cast iron
skillet and before long, surmised the worst thing
about being a leftist vegetarian is never being able
to experience the wonderful aroma of sizzling
bacon—poor fools. These same over-indoctrinated
folks think coffee comes from a stainless steel
apparatus at Starbucks, so are bewildered by the
smell and sight of a brown liquid boiling in an old
blue enamel coffee pot. It really sucks to be a
leftist. My trophy wife is at the polar opposite
end of the political spectrum, so the aroma of bacon
and coffee brought her from under the covers;
something a 50 mile per hour north wind could not
do.
It was just cracking daylight, when we sat down to
breakfast. Across the pasture we saw our horses and
mules behind a clump of box elder trees sheltering
themselves from the bitter wind. Most are covered
with a two-inch thick blanket of snow, but the older
ones lacking a winter hair coat were snowless; the
sign they were losing their battle with Mother
Nature. Andy’s back was black. He is 30 years old
and is the last member of my first mule team;
Wyoming’s winter winds took his brother, Amos, a
couple of years ago. Andy has no teeth and in
spite of our best efforts with barrels full of
cracked corn, he will not see another Montana
spring. For no reason other than it is the normal
cyclic nature of weather, this winter of 2013-2014
is shaping up to be as nasty as the winters of the
‘70s, namely the 1770s and 1970s. Interestingly,
both decades ushered significant changes to the
American political landscape; in the 1770s the
forces advancing freedom prevailed, while the 1970s
brought significant victories to those advocating
tyranny. Is the relationship between weather and
politics causative or coincidence? Let’s take a
look.
During the horrendous winters of the 1770s our great
American experiment in freedom was born. More
goodness and relief of human suffering has occurred
worldwide because of American liberty than any other
reason. However, during the winters of the 1970s,
freedom took a back seat to tyranny. President
Nixon burdened us with the Endangered Species Act in
1973 and the government sponsored religion of
environmentalism became a fundamental part of
education. During this frozen decade, Marxist earth
worshipers blamed western capitalism for the
impending ice age and the hysteria of global cooling
spread like wildfire. Headlines boldly stated it
was just a matter of time before North America would
be covered in ice if we did not use tax policy to
strangle western economic growth. Opinion became
scientific fact and deniers were ridiculed as
ignorant.
A global warming pattern emerged in the 1980s and
1990s. Without missing a beat, the forces
supporting the national religion of environmentalism
adopted the man caused global warming mantra. For
reasons I will never understand, the impending ice
age warnings of the 1970s were purged from the
memories of most Americans. Global warming
hysteria, like the global cooling hysteria, again
spread like wildfire with the only possible solution
being to manipulate tax policy to strangle western
capitalism. Does that sound familiar?
Today, we find the climatologists and eco-tourists
trapped in record breaking sea ice surrounding
Antarctica still advancing the theory of man caused
global warming. This begs the question: Exactly
how stupid does the ruling class think we are?
Answer: Very stupid—you have been trained to be
stupid and do as you are told all while thinking you
are the smartest person in the room. Government
indoctrination disguised as education is dangerous,
but now to my point.
For me to claim a causative relationship exists
between the winter weather and politics is
ludicrous, just as is the relationship between man’s
carbon emissions and climate. You are being played
as a fool. Whether the majority of citizens will
discover this leftist fraud before the noose has
choked the last breath from American liberty is the
question I cannot answer. Are we like Andy, and
this is America’s last winter, or will this record
breaking cold stimulate a great awakening where a
majority of voters repel tyranny and restore the
principles of limited government. The decision is
yours. What say you?
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