11 Replies to “Climate Change”

  1. Zeer mooie foto. Ik woonde in Nederland voor een tijdje en mijn ouders emigreerden uit daar.
    And we kids understood what my parents were saying in Dutch when they thought they were talking behind our backs. The swear words they said to us when they were mad at us were a little difficult to understand the exact meaning of until I lived there, and they were explained to me. Gasp! Mom & Dad! Tsk, tsk!
    During the war, my great-grandpa, who was a klomp maker (he made wooden shoes), used to nail little pieces of old bicycle tires to the bottom of the shoes to keep his grandkids from wearing them down by skating with them on the frozen canals. Lol! Stubborn kids. Wooden Shoes, Wooden Head, Wouldn’t Listen.
    Btw, I live in Canada because of the Canadian Army liberating Holland. They just worshipped the ground that Canadians walked on, and as soon as they could, they left the shambles of war-torn Holland, and came pell-mell to Canada, landing in Halifax after crossing the Atlantic by boat, and then by train to a small little village in Western Canada that still had mud streets and boardwalks. Canada was good for my parents from there on too, and they prospered here.
    They still love Canadians to death in Holland, and I was instantly popular wherever I went when I lived there, simply for being a Canuck.
    I went to the War Museum near the town where my parents were born, and the last half of the museum is completely dedicated to Canada, and filled with Canadian memorabelia – pictures of the Canadian soldiers, pacakages of Player’s cigarettes thrown from the tanks, chocolate bars etc. The very last room had a big sign saying “O Canada, We Thank You” and they had those Dutch Delft plates hanging on the wall, one made for each of the Canadian divisions/battallions that fought in Holland. I left that museum with tears in my eyes. The Dutch have twice now, invited all of the Canadian WWII vets to Holland – all expenses paid, and billeted them into people’s homes – to celebrate the 50th & 60th anniversaries of Holland’s liberation from the Nazi’s.
    It was living in Holland that made me, as a young man back then, become fiercely proud to be a Canadian. It’s a shame we can’t build that kind of patriotism so easily while here at home. Although, the Canada that my parents loved so much has changed a lot over the years, thanks to leftardism.
    Anyway, sorry for my rambling story… back to Climate Change!

  2. I liked your rambling story, Sam. My dad was one of those soldiers. After the war my parents corresponded (at Christmas) every year for a long time with a family that Dad had stayed with. I remember them taking letters to be translated by a Dutch family that lived in town.

  4. Mao Stlong say, Gleetings flom China.
    Hair stolms not fleaks.
    …-
    “Freak Beijing storm turns day into night
    China correspondent Stephen McDonell and ABC cameraman Rob Hill saw day turn into night as a freak storm swept across the capital Beijing today.”
    “Today’s extreme weather follows yesterday’s hail storms across eastern China’s Anhui province, which killed 14 people and injured more than 180, AFP reports.
    Anhui’s Civil Affairs Bureau said that more than 10,000 people were evacuated and nearly 9,700 houses collapsed in yesterday’s severe storm.
    Anhui was struck by hail and winds of up to 104 kilometres per hour, causing $82 million worth of damage.
    A similar hail storm struck the region in the first week of June, killing 23 people and injuring more than 200.
    Officials have warned residents that more dangerous weather could follow.”
    http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/5656336/freak-beijing-storm-turns-day-into-night/

  6. sam steele must be new here.
    SDA is censorship central. not a whiff of &%^%#&$ foul &$^#%&#$$ language or naughty images or neo-nazi stuff but they still play whack-a-mole with it. all you have to do is point out major hypocricy or contradiction in their ranks.
    and it sure does get rank sometimes.
    they must be hard core xtians accustomed to stifling dissent.

  7. Hey Sam,
    I liked your first post, but boy howdy, did it go downhill from there.

  8. don’t be a moron, godot. There’s no censorship. There’s a filter that catches foul language, link dumping, and such. As for the hypocrisy (check your spelling, by the way), most of that comes from the climate-change salesmen.

  9. it warms my heart and brings tears to my eyes remembering what our forefathers did for our country and others oppressed by tyrants. As a serving member I have a deep respect for our vets.
    Unfortunately, all those things they fought for are being taken away from us in the name of the greater good. Populace control through climate change agenda is just one. We need more men and women like our forebearers to come forward and educate the masses on why freedom isn’t free, and the need to remain vigilant. What happened to the line in the national anthem, we stand on guard for thee? Who’s guarding what? Sam Steele is right, we need more patriotism.

  10. sam steele, nice first post. Godot, bugger off you off-topic troll leftard lobotomized dick’ead. I am no more a “hard core xtian” than the Dalai Lama – but naturally a moron like you has to try to see the world as black and white, The People vs. The Man: simple explanations for simple minds. Take a hike, dumbo, you’re out of your depth.
    So back on topic? Yes, it was a damn cold winter and spring and the summer is chilly too. Funny how the simple act of leaving your fantasy computer world and going outdoors provides so much more useful information than computer models of things that haven’t happened yet, isn’t it? When I moved to the Left Coast in 1990 we had lots of snow and skating-thick ice on little Trout Lake. Then a while, back there in the late ’90s and early 21st century, it got warmer – and so the gigantor eco-anustard money-generating machine ground its way inexorably into being, and the cash registers started ringing worldwide.
    Jim Hansen, whose predictions were based on his expertise on the atmosphere of the planet Venus, became the pet harpy of a failed Presidential candidate, who was consequently given an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize for making a science-fiction flick.
    And then, Hunter S. Thompson might have said were he alive to see it, things got REALLY weird. We are now bombarded form every angle with suggestions about how the “save the planet” by SPENDING OUR MONEY THE RIGHT WAY. Constantly. On buses, on billboards, on TV, in print.
    Now, I loathe conspiracy theories as much as the next well-informed person. This is different. This is just a nice big gravy train anyone who lacks a conscience can jump on board, all who conform are welcome, and you get to think yourself morally superior while you’re fleecing people. Opinion rules our society, and if you understand this there is hard currency to be made. Be hip, be now, be a la mode, get with the program.
    So – is there any hope of turning the tide? Why, yes! Fashions fade, and this one will too. I am hopeful, anyway, having been around long enough to see this as at LEAST the second or third wave of pop-cultch ecotardism.
    And I humbly pray to whatever deities there are: may it be the last.

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