A Republican in name only (RINO) eventually tires of
role-playing when the opportunity to display true colors arises.
Mayor Bloomberg emerged from his cocoon of political deceit last
week in such blooming leftism that I suspect he's planning to
give Hillary Clinton a run for the Democratic presidential
nomination in 2008. Anyone surprised at this possibility hasn't
been paying attention to how he's ruining, I mean, running this
city.
At a speech before graduating students at his alma mater, John
Hopkins University, Mr. Bloomberg embraced the left-wing agenda
with a fervor missing from every phony campaign speech he gave
running for re-election as a Republican. Last week in Baltimore,
he railed against faith-based science, warned against global
warming, and in essence, congratulated himself for making New
York the abortion capital of the nation. Oh, and he hates the
National Rifle Association.
It appears that the mayor is addressing national issues but his
positions are hardly likely to win him support within the GOP.
No, Mr. Bloomberg wants to appeal to the Democrats who are having
second thoughts about having Senator Clinton represent them in
2008. I grant you that Mr. Bloomberg is a smart man when it comes
to business and accumulating billionaire status, but if he really
believes in global warming then he's just as flaky as Al Gore.
More likely, he's just repeating the left-wing mantra that will
appeal to celebrities who'll flock to his side if he decides to
switch parties. They just love anyone who mocks those who have
strong religious beliefs.
The mayor criticized school districts in Kansas and Mississippi
that want to teach "intelligent design," the theory
that human life cannot be explained solely by evolution. I don't
understand why there's a problem with teaching more than one
hypothesis for one of the biggest mysteries of life. I attended
Catholic school where we learned about Darwin and were taught
that his theory may indeed explain the evolution of man's body
but that man with a soul cannot be scientifically explained.
Where's the conflict?
When my son was just six years old and heard the expression,
"big bang" on television, he asked what it meant. After
I explained that some people believe this is how the world began,
he said, "But who started the big bang?" 1188 2174 1284
2185Not what but who, he asked. Good question.
In Eric Metaxas's latest book, "Everything You Wanted to
Know About God but Were Afraid to Ask" he points out that
while the sun and the moon are millions of miles apart in
distance, they appear equal in size to our naked eye. Are
eclipses an accident or can they occur by design?
As for global warming, I believe it is the height of arrogance to
think that we humans can have a significant impact, given how
this planet defends itself. Way before humans existed, the earth
has warmed and cooled without our help. How old is the planet and
exactly how long have we actually been keeping records of our
climate? The answer is about 4.5 billion years and we've only
been recording climate changes for, at the most, a couple of
hundred years, and that's a generous assumption. Now we have all
these scientists coming out of the woodwork spouting whatever
their sponsors granting them funding want them to decree. Any
genuine scientist suggesting it's all a hoax is labeled a loony.
Just ask professor emeritus Bill Gray Of Colorado State
University, who is regarded as the world's most famous hurricane
expert. He's run out of government funding and is using his own
money to support his research. Why? Because he's debunked the
entire global warming crusade as nonsense. He says that climate
change is normal and natural. There was a medieval warming period
before there were any big oil companies. Needless to say, this
scientist is being ignored.
I honestly think that Mr. Bloomberg is too smart to fall for the
climate crisis nonsense, but stupid people vote too, so why not
spout any gobbledygook that makes corporate America look evil.
Plugging his global warming film, "An Inconvenient
Truth," Al Gore has flown all over the place, gobbling up
carbon dioxide producing hydrocarbon fuels, to urge us to cut
back on our oil consumption. What a joke!
I found Mr. Bloomberg's remarks meant to appeal to pro-choice
advocates to be the most inane. He said, "We have taken aim
at unintended pregnancies by increasing access to high quality
reproductive health care services for all our citizens." He
didn't say, "unwanted," which is bad enough. He said,
"unintended." Ahem. This writer was unintended. All of
my five glorious, beautiful, healthy grandchildren were
"unintended." The unintended also vote.
Mr. Mayor. Quit the charade. Switch parties now and get your
running shoes on.