This and That.

I haven’t posted ‘my tree’ for a while, there isn’t much change during the summer months unless I can happen to be there with unusual weather or activity of some sort. But now it’s Fall, it was a fabulous day here in Toronto, temp was in the low seventies with a cloudless sky and I had time to pop down the ravine where the tree lives.

…

The world has seen far worse than the 21st century has given us so far, The Dark Ages after the fall of Rome, the Muslim hordes that almost took Europe over several hundred years in the Middle Ages, [yes, I know, they're at it again, and in a more insidious manner, but I don't see them succeeding] and the 1914-18 War, the effects of which are with us still, but has there ever been a time with such a frivolous, shallow population as it seems a majority of the Western people are? The US has just elected a nonentity with no experience and no achievements other than a shape shifting and therefore unknowable entity. In the UK, the BBC, the staid old dependable Auntie Beeb which saw us through the war and has been a byword for all the highest culture of the west, has lost its rudder and drifts aimlessly in a sea of multi-culti, lowest common denominator trash.

Now, from that same erstwhile respected BBC, there is this:

FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.

A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.

Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.

His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.

The loony left has infested the infrastructure of the media, schools and academia like an army of termites, mindlessly chewing away at the foundations of the West. Two things kill termites, powerful poisons and fresh air. Since the left has covered itself well and does a pretty good job of keeping all the doors and windows shut tight on its activities, they may not leave much choice for those of us who prefer to live in the open.

…

Melanie Philips as usual does a good job of laying out why we conservatives don’t buy into the Obamamessiah and his Oprah-esque New Age b/s:

In Britain, there is a collective swoon over the election of Barack Obama. Media superlatives have exhausted the lexicon of cliches. Journalists wept with joy over his acceptance speech. Even members of the Conservative shadow cabinet are firmly in the fan club. There’s been nothing like it since… well, I was going to say Dianamania, but actually the person who most comes to mind at this moment is Britain’s former prime minister, Tony Blair.

Like Obama, Blair took the country by storm when he won the first of his three general elections in 1997and threw the Conservative party completely off balance (indeed, it still hasn’t recovered). Like Obama, Blair was charismatic, eloquent, hip, and relaxed, in cruel contrast to the bunch of sleazy, incompetent throwbacks to the paleolithic era in the departing Conservative administration. Like Obama, Blair was seen as a messiah figure, who would lay his hands upon a broken nation and bring healing where there was discord. And like Obama, Blair had an agenda of change.

Blair was widely considered to be a conservative cuckoo in the Labour nest. Indeed, he came to power because he symbolically trashed the party’s commitment to state-control socialism, thus establishing his credentials as a centrist. What few realized at the time was that in fact he was a radical of a different stripe. He wanted to remake Britain and even change human nature itself, wiping out prejudice and ushering in a new world order of progressivism.

Read it all and wonder why we don’t get clear thinking people like this as our leaders.

Sphere: Related Content