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Wolly and the New Tone

One can always count on the progressive left to never let a crisis go to waste. Rahm would surely be proud...

The congressional delegations of these states — Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky — overwhelmingly voted to reject the science that polluting the climate is dangerous. They are deliberately ignoring the warnings from scientists.

Did you get that? This is the gaia bringing down her righteous rath on the eeeeeevvollll DENIALISTS!, like it's the secular-humanist-radical-environmentalist analogue to Sodom and Gommorah.

CIVILITY NOW!

Speaking of the wrath of gaia, our old pal Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom brings us one of Wolcott's latest hits where the cetaceous-like-homunculus in the silk smoking jacket attempts ghoulishly muses:

I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong–Mother Nature’s fist of fury, Gaia’s stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

How empathetic ... More like pathetic, in my humble opinion.  To which Jeff replies:

Were Wolcott, by some grand cosmic irony, forced to live in a land fully forested, its coal and ore unsullied by the touch of human hands, he’d last precisely fifteen minutes before the wails of complaint he levied at some soggy log for its conspiracy to cause chafing to his ample buttocks resulted in a cougar attack, and a mess of silk and elastic and butterfat.

Along with some other characteristically delicious stuff.  Read the whole thing; Jeff linked to Wolly, so we don't have to. And in his comment thread you'll find several links to statements by actual meteorologists who make it very clear that this is simply a natural phenomenon, and not the result of "climate change".

Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also dismissed Thursday climate change as a factor in the deadly tornadoes: "Actually what we're seeing is springtime," he said.

Quote via Jammie Wearing Fool.

ACE sums up all of the reprehensible attempts pretty succinctly:

As has been said many times before -- The Left loves "the masses;" they hate actual people. Along the lines of Lenin's famous quip about tragedy and statistics, humans only count to the extent they can be reduced to symbols and abstract political impulses.

Whereas most would say human lives are each precious, the nastiest of the left must always add a caveat: * For some definitions of human life.

Remember this next time someone in your circle is hand-wringing about the lack of civility on the part of conservatives.  Also, measure how long it takes President Obama and other prominent progressives to call out these folks for their violent and hateful rhetoric; but don't hold your breath.  Just hold the memory, and act on it next time you're in the voting booth.

Rocketman