A modern parable

Three men are in an ice fishing hut. It’s fairly well tricked out because they have a pot bellied stove and a good supply of wood. One of them likes to smoke cigars that smell like smoldering oily rope.
One of the guys brings in two blocks of wood and throws them into the fire. It is a fairly mild day and the hut becomes a little warm. Immediately both of the non smokers blame the smoker for the rise in temperature and kick him out of the hut.
What’s the point? The sun is going through another one of its regular cycles (which take place over decades). This time it is putting out more energy (the ice caps on other planets are melting as well). The environmentalists have pinpointed human pollution as the over whelming factor in global warming. Yes we need to deal with the guy who smokes the oily cigar. Deal with pollution – yes absolutely. Follow schemes promoted by a politician who would like to ride the issue into the White House? Follow the recommendations of those who have a very nice career, thank you, from riding the environmental horse to the bank? I hope not.

I Wonder

7/19/07
I Wonder

I wonder if the Taliban have people in this country who understand English and read our newspapers and listen to our news broadcasts?
I wonder if they find joy in the news that there are politicians who are constantly lobbying to pull our troops out of Afganistan?
I wonder how much this encourages them to try and kill even more Canadian soldiers?
I wonder if Mr. Layton and his party understand that they are now personally responsible for the death of every soldier that the Taliban kill.
Don Cook