We live in strange times. As I casually follow the latest economic news I cannot help but think about the 1970s. When OAPEC imposed the Arab oil embargo upon the United States and Western Europe to punish us for helping Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War a series of near-catastrophic economic events ensued. The US economy was weakened by the incredible rise in the price of oil, which shocked the economy into a period of high inflation and recession. …
Stever has submitted some comments for publication that I have not published or rejected as I write this. I’m not impressed enough with the “new” Blogger service to upgrade this account and I don’t have the ability to edit comments. I will post part of Stever’s latest submission here and reply to that portion. The portion I am leaving out is a reference to Ickipedia, a source of disinformation I neither trust nor endorse.…
1200 scientists and innumerable government-appointed editors are in the process of telling us that human-induced global warming has begun.
Let’s get real for a moment. This has happened before. It has happened more than once before. Regardless of whether dinosaur flatulence contributed to any periods of global warming during their period of ascendancy, scientists are acting like humanity is on a self-destructive path that is altering the natural state of the universe.…
