On an irritatingly non-embeddable video at WBZ, Charlie Baker had this nugget on global warming.
We should all rely on the fact that most of the science agrees that temperatures are rising, CO2 levels are rising, and it would probably be a good idea to do something about that.
Guess he read that UN report after all. đŸ˜‰ No clue (yet) on what that “something” might be, but more to come, no doubt.
Anyway, then Jon Keller asks if Baker sees himself as “somewhere in the center” of this debate. To which the Smartest Man (formerly) In State Government replied:
If there is such a thing as a center, I guess I would say that, Jon.
Wow. That’s awfully existential. Or meta. Or something. I have no idea what it means, but I’m sure Charlie does. ‘Cuz he’s super smart and stuff.
As Keller aptly said after showing Baker delivering that gem: “Yeah, good luck, pal.”
….to which Thomas Carlyle repied, ‘Egad, she’d BETTER!’
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p>Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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p>Or at least SOME intensity!
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p>(Forgive me – Baker’s loquations have this effect on me…)
and the last verse apply to to Charlie Baker’s campaign themes
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p>Here’s the last verse of the poem PP quoted above and I’m sure that since William Butler Yeats was one of the many Irish Revolutionary poets, he would approve our application of his famous words
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p>The Second Coming (last verse)
by William Butler Yeats
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p>Not quite twenty centuries since Charlie abandoned state government for the dreaded private sector, though sometimes it seems like it. And I can’t speak about the speed of his thighs either.
that a poem reflecting on the insanely massive horror of WWI seems to have little to do with the MA-GOV race.
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p>That being said, climate change could make WWI look like rock-paper-scissors.
The WBZ segment does the usual “even handed” thing where there are two “camps”, the “believers” and the “deniers”. How will we ever make up our minds?
AGW, the most evil scam ever foisted upon humanity. Decades in the making, career of globalist Maurice Strong and major part of the deliberate destruction of America.
It is liberating to not bother with recyling since there is no future for this country.
Gee, like many people, I would have gone with Hitler’s Final Solution or the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment or American Idol.
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p>Global Warming is a conspiracy? To what end?
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p>Besides, what does recycling have to do with global warming?
Red Mass Group had a post a few days ago calling me out for my insistence that global warming is real. In my response on the site, I raised some questions about Charlie Baker’s original position on climate change, and tried to make the case about why it is particularly relevant in the race for Governor.
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p>It was a good back and forth, until Baker flipped (I think) on them. That abruptly ended the conversation on RMG.
why climate change denial is such a bedrock “conservative” idea. I just don’t understand what’s in it for them, except that bad old Al Gore must be a rotten liar … along with, like, every climatology department at practically every university in the civilized world.
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p>Still mystified.
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p>2. Regulation. They’re suspicious of anything that involves regulation. On global warming, the deniers seem to think that it’s a secret plot to get away with the regulating liberals have always wanted to impose.