The United Nations Gets Religion! (Mayan)
Oh, great Ixchel, aged Mayan jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine who set the universe in motion, Lady of the Rainbow, water goddess, consort to Votan, goddess of the moon, of reason, creativity and weaving! May you shed reason and shine your light upon the dim bulbs of the United Nations!
That blessing should be granted to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change if Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the gathering, gets her wish.
Figueres invoked Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates, waxing semi-poetic as she pleaded for enlightenment from the ancient goddess: ”May she inspire you–because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools:” http://tiny.cc/wj7q2
The depth and sincerity of the Costa Rican executive secretary’s prayer truly take one’s breath away, unless you consider that there was more to Ixchel than your average Mayan goddess.
She is closely associated with Chac Chel, the Mayan Young Moon Goddess who “is often depicted with a rabbit, . . . She is said to be of a merry and somewhat loose character, and rabbits are also famed for their reproductive abilities. She (as Ix Chel) had a great shrine on the island of Cozumel, one of the places to which hurricane Wilma recently caused great destruction:” http://tiny.cc/eh4t9
Secretary Figueres may or may not have had any intent of associating the delegates with rabbit-like, loose moral character but she certainly wasn’t inviting “great destruction” on Cancun nor upon this latest attempt to foist the farce of global warming, now known as climate change, upon the world.
There’s no need to pray for the destruction or failure of the Cancun U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, this year’s version of last year’s failure at Copenhagen. Figueres should know that it is perfectly capable of failing, imploding, self-destructing on its own, the fate of most U.N. initiatives.
(See “Arrogance on the East River,” http://bit.ly/eL1CBZ, for a review of 2009′s “Climate-gate” and the ensuing debacle in Denmark.) . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2932)
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Upside-Down, Inside-Out
Upside-Down, Inside-Out
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you–if you’re naïve and stupid.
Those may not be all the original words of Sinatra’s “Young at Heart,” but they’re more realistic than Frankie’s.
Maybe it’s the age–or just my age–but I’ve been getting uneasy, queasy feelings, vibes in the current vernacular, that believing our nation will always be the great nation in which we grew up is wishful thinking, a fairy tale if you will.
Do forgive the purplish prose but I also firmly believe that we collectively stand at a precipice, a hazardous cliff overhanging an unforgiving plunge into chaotic change, into changes that threaten to forever alter who Americans are and what America is.
We were warned of this by candidate Obama, of change we could believe in, and it’s in progress although it may not be the warm and fuzzy change we were misled to anticipate.
As Harry Reid dishes out unprecedented bribes to win senatorial votes, as China gives fair warning that the world’s financial well is running dry, as the president’s new bff’s abuse and ridicule him, Obama blithely keeps marching on with his permutation campaign.
The essence of Obama’s change is that we now seem to be living in a world not merely turned upside-down but inside out.
Previous absolutes are given a relativistic spin, traditional values and understandings are reduced to the level of antiquated absurdities, America is gradually being transmogrified into just one more nation in the United Nations’ mob rather than Ronald Reagan’s shining city on the hill.
It’s worthwhile to read and consider Reagan’s words in his Farewell Address: “In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1383
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you–if you’re naïve and stupid.
Those may not be all the original words of Sinatra’s “Young at Heart,” but they’re more realistic than Frankie’s.
Maybe it’s the age–or just my age–but I’ve been getting uneasy, queasy feelings, vibes in the current vernacular, that believing our nation will always be the great nation in which we grew up is wishful thinking, a fairy tale if you will.
Do forgive the purplish prose but I also firmly believe that we collectively stand at a precipice, a hazardous cliff overhanging an unforgiving plunge into chaotic change, into changes that threaten to forever alter who Americans are and what America is.
We were warned of this by candidate Obama, of change we could believe in, and it’s in progress although it may not be the warm and fuzzy change we were misled to anticipate.
As Harry Reid dishes out unprecedented bribes to win senatorial votes, as China gives fair warning that the world’s financial well is running dry, as the president’s new bff’s abuse and ridicule him, Obama blithely keeps marching on with his permutation campaign.
The essence of Obama’s change is that we now seem to be living in a world not merely turned upside-down but inside out.
Previous absolutes are given a relativistic spin, traditional values and understandings are reduced to the level of antiquated absurdities, America is gradually being transmogrified into just one more nation in the United Nations’ mob rather than Ronald Reagan’s shining city on the hill.
It’s worthwhile to read and consider Reagan’s words in his Farewell Address: “In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1383
Saturday, December 19, 2009
The Bloom Is Off the Obama-Rose
The Bloom Is Off the Obama-Rose
In what must be a major trauma for Obamians, President Barack Hussein Obama’s rep as the Savior of All Mankind, the Second Coming of the Obamassiah, the Man Who Would Be King, the Man Who Would Bring Us Change and Salvation, after less than a year in office our president has come up against a shocking reality.
He’s none of the above.
Hot on the heels of repeated failures at home, in Asia, and in Europe, Mr. Obama went to Copenhagen where, despite all the bluster, he failed yet again at the United Nation’s Climate Change Summit.
His dramatic collapse in approval ratings was very predictable but his penchant for repetitive screw-ups, disappointments, and outright failures on various world stages were anything but predictable, at least to his idolators throughout the planet.
Just months ago, they still regarded him as the best thing to happen since Bill Clinton beat his impeachment rap.
Obama is sadly reminiscent of the title character in Hemingway’s short story, “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Francis’ pathetic life, however, ended on a distinct and glorious uptick after an extended period of living as a cowardly appendage of his wife, Margot, when a wounded African buffalo kills him.
Okay, all comparisons limp somewhat and Obama’s experience has been the reverse of Macomber’s.
After years of glory and acclaim, the president’s life, . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1378)
In what must be a major trauma for Obamians, President Barack Hussein Obama’s rep as the Savior of All Mankind, the Second Coming of the Obamassiah, the Man Who Would Be King, the Man Who Would Bring Us Change and Salvation, after less than a year in office our president has come up against a shocking reality.
He’s none of the above.
Hot on the heels of repeated failures at home, in Asia, and in Europe, Mr. Obama went to Copenhagen where, despite all the bluster, he failed yet again at the United Nation’s Climate Change Summit.
His dramatic collapse in approval ratings was very predictable but his penchant for repetitive screw-ups, disappointments, and outright failures on various world stages were anything but predictable, at least to his idolators throughout the planet.
Just months ago, they still regarded him as the best thing to happen since Bill Clinton beat his impeachment rap.
Obama is sadly reminiscent of the title character in Hemingway’s short story, “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Francis’ pathetic life, however, ended on a distinct and glorious uptick after an extended period of living as a cowardly appendage of his wife, Margot, when a wounded African buffalo kills him.
Okay, all comparisons limp somewhat and Obama’s experience has been the reverse of Macomber’s.
After years of glory and acclaim, the president’s life, . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1378)
Monday, November 16, 2009
Climate Change? Never Mind.
Climate Change? Never Mind.
When corrected after elaborating on such malapropisms as “Russian jewelry,” in lieu of “Russian Jewry,” SNL’s late, great Gilda Radner’s/Emily Litella’s standard rebuttal was always, “Never mind.”
Less than 4 weeks after British P.M. Gordon Brown issued his chilling warning of an imminent cataclysm “of floods, droughts, and killer heat waves” that would strike the planet if the climate change confab in Copenhagen didn’t save us in 50 days, the climate changeists have effectively said, “Never mind.”
It was funnier when Litella used the line.
There’s no rush after all despite Brown’s panic that Earthlings had less than 2 months to avoid catastrophe: ”U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action:” http://bit.ly/2Y6Yuk.
Danish P.M Lars Lokke Rasmussen added, “We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook.”
What “hook” he meant was left unclear. . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1329)
When corrected after elaborating on such malapropisms as “Russian jewelry,” in lieu of “Russian Jewry,” SNL’s late, great Gilda Radner’s/Emily Litella’s standard rebuttal was always, “Never mind.”
Less than 4 weeks after British P.M. Gordon Brown issued his chilling warning of an imminent cataclysm “of floods, droughts, and killer heat waves” that would strike the planet if the climate change confab in Copenhagen didn’t save us in 50 days, the climate changeists have effectively said, “Never mind.”
It was funnier when Litella used the line.
There’s no rush after all despite Brown’s panic that Earthlings had less than 2 months to avoid catastrophe: ”U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action:” http://bit.ly/2Y6Yuk.
Danish P.M Lars Lokke Rasmussen added, “We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook.”
What “hook” he meant was left unclear. . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1329)
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