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Polar Bears Drowning As Globe Warms
An anonymous reader writes "The Times Online is reporting on disturbing findings from the arctic. Polar bears appear to be drowning when they attempt long sea crossings as a result of receding summer ice." From the article: "New evidence from field researchers working for the World Wildlife Fund in Yakutia, on the northeast coast of Russia, has also shown the region's first evidence of cannibalism among bears competing for food supplies ... As the ice pack retreats north in the summer between June and October, the bears must travel between ice floes to continue hunting in areas such as the shallow water of the continental shelf off the Alaskan coast -- one of the most food-rich areas in the Arctic. However, last summer the ice cap receded about 200 miles further north than the average of two decades ago, forcing the bears to undertake far longer voyages between floes. "
It is with extreme disgust that I write this letter and say what will undoubtedly be considered venal by some of my peers. Nonetheless, it must be stated that Mr. Santa Claus's profiteering and power mongering will make today's oppressiveness look like grade-school work compared to what Santa has planned for the future in the near future. In the rest of this letter, I will use history and science (in the Hegelian sense) to prove that I find Santa the most sick person in the world.
Santa's publicity stunts manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: disguise the complexity of color, the brutality of class, and the importance of religion and sexual identity in the construction and practice of statism. Phase two: deny citizens the ability to draw their own conclusions about the potential for violence that he may be generating.
You may make the comment, "What does this have to do with smarmy swaggerers?" Well, once you begin to see the light, you'll realize that Santa never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. He presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, he seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that I could go on for pages listing innumerable examples of his distasteful practices and abusive allegations. I have already written enough, surely, to convince you that I frequently wish to tell Santa that in every country, there are directionless mendicants who are every bit as gin-swilling as he. But being a generally genteel person, however, I always bite my tongue. An old joke tells of the optimist who falls off a 60-story building and, as he whizzes past the 35th floor, exclaims, "So far, so good!" But it is not such blind optimism that causes Santa's backers to think that they can undermine the current world order. I am particularly disgusted by Santa's blind intransigence and utter ingratitude, and everyone with half a brain understands that. Take, as an example, the way that Santa wants to defile the air and water in the name of profit. Well, if we don't hinder the power of dictatorial kooks like him, our children will curse us in our graves. Speaking of our children, we need to teach them diligently that by brainwashing his representatives with fetishism, Santa makes them easy to lead, easy to program, and easy to enslave.
While I aver that Santa has every right to his appalling opinions, if he had his way, schools would teach students that the majority of disgusting litterbugs are heroes, if not saints. This is not education but indoctrination. It prevents students from learning about how I must admit that I've read only a small fraction of Santa's writings. (As a well-known aphorism states, it is not necessary to eat all of an apple to learn that it is rotten.) Nevertheless, I've read enough of Santa's writings to know that if you've read any of the virulent, supercilious slop that Santa has concocted, you'll really recall Santa's description of his plan to view countries and the people that live in them either as economic targets to be exploited or as military targets to be defeated. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that we can all have daydreams about Happy Fuzzy Purple Bunny Land, where everyone is caring, loving, and nice. Not only will those daydreams not come true, but Santa's adulators tend to fall into the mistaken belief that Santa's suggestions epitomize wholesome family entertainment, mainly because they live inside a Santa-generated illusion-world and talk only with each other. Santa's idiotic claim that it's okay for him to indulge his every whim and lust without regard for anyone else or for society as a whole is just that, an idiotic claim.
The clericalism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, militant attack on progressive ideas. Yes, Santa may have some superficial charm, but he argues that censorship could benefit us. I wish I could suggest some incontrovertible chain of apodictic reasoning that would ov
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Yeah, right.
You just know that's the subtext of the whole matter.
Signed,
A person who lived through the global cooling brouhaha in the 70s.