tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post7785403351286371218..comments2024-03-29T08:07:48.935-04:00Comments on Waddy Is Right: Making Government Work...For a ChangeNicholas Waddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-10513040622913297882018-05-05T21:24:15.318-04:002018-05-05T21:24:15.318-04:00Quite right. The Earth will be here long after th...Quite right. The Earth will be here long after the environmentalists (and the oil executives) have gone to their graves. Besides which, a species that is capable of damaging the climate is also capable of fixing it...Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-9790593365568540772018-05-05T16:40:35.060-04:002018-05-05T16:40:35.060-04:00Dr. Waddy: Some breathlessly smitten tree huggers...Dr. Waddy: Some breathlessly smitten tree huggers (actually, I love trees and I don't like to kill them) think the Earth to be a living thing and it might be a small step from that to think it sentient and intelligent at a level high or low enough to actually take note of human actions and opinions. My son will be climbing a volcano next to a very active one in Guatemala this week. I trust that entity capable of producing jaw dropping spectacles like that, the good old Earth, is not upset with me for questioning the global warming gospel. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-22640423340800012932018-05-05T00:50:29.935-04:002018-05-05T00:50:29.935-04:00Jack, it's a shame that environmental regulati...Jack, it's a shame that environmental regulations aren't subjected to rigorous cost-benefit analysis, or even judged by their actual impact on the environment, in many cases. As usual, the political calculus is pretty simple on the left: to oppose their designs is to oppose the Earth itself...Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-62194587610977079022018-05-04T19:19:53.971-04:002018-05-04T19:19:53.971-04:00Dr. Waddy: President Trump has the power to cut t...Dr. Waddy: President Trump has the power to cut through deep state obfuscation by well paid bureaucrats who take three hour martini lunches and sneer at the concerns of real Americans. But he has wisely decided to use this power advisedly and wisely. Congress should follow his example. You know, I grew up in 1950's and '60's Buffalo, NY, where the air and water quality was very bad. Legislation and regulation has resulted in an astounding rise in the quality of the same to a sensible and endurable quality. But, uh, that's not good enough for the perfectionist left. Their ideal is unobtainable perfection and an effort to bring it about would serve their goal: the destruction of our culture, society and polity and its replacement with a tyrannically mandated order, from top to bottom, from town to town and block to block, as they figured out in their smoky dorm rooms.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.com