The Angry White Guy

… from the liberal agenda, whining and propaganda? Answer: NO!

So I’ve been working my aging but yet still firm ass off this week – I have a few more irons in the fire than I can keep up with and by God I needed a day off! So Sunday I got up and watered the flowers , the garden and a few other things due to the lack of rain (Typical July and August in Western KY), knocked down a few high spots in the yard mostly over the septic field and that was about it – I opted to avoid the news for the most part only watching FoxNews Sunday and the rest of the day I was going to watch the Discovery channel or some other mindless TV. The temperature outside was over a 100 (again typical) and I had been in it most of the week it was time for a cool day inside.

So I kick back in my chair and turn on a special on the Galapagos Islands and some new discoveries along with a few news species found, but what I found annoying was the underlying political agenda and the liberal “man is evil” guilt undertone to the show. Any new critter they found that was NOT harmful to the native environment must have traveled there by wing, wind, water or magic and any critter that was harmful to the native population just HAD to be introduced by man i.e. Fire Ants.

Now it’s true man COULD have introduced the Fire Ant and it’s also true that a Ant Queen on the wing could have been carried to the island after all newly hatched queens have wings and the wind can carry a insect 100′s and sometimes 1000′s of miles. In the Southern Hemisphere the wind generally blows east to west and if you have a map you’ll see that the Galapagos is the the west of South America – point being they didn’t even consider natural migration for any animal they deemed harmful, now I’ll give them the rat, the goat and the pig as it is documented the goat and the pig was released by 18th Century sailors for food, the rat likely came from one of the many ships as they had in so many lands before. So aside from the known feral animals I have to ask the simple question why are any introduced or new species the direct result of man involvement?

I’m not saying man has not altered the shape or conditions on the Galapagos Islands but how in the hell did all of the animals that were there long before the first man set food upon the island get there? Did they rise from the muck or were they somehow transported there by wind, debris raft or whatever 1000′s of year before man arrived to evolve into their own species? And who are these self-loathing-man-is-evil-liberal-morons to decide what new animals that arrived on the island is mans fault and who is to say they were not there all a long and they are just now “discovering” them? How many time to you see stories about newly discoveries species somewhere? Answer – all the damn time – so if a animal can go millions of year and not be seen by man then who are these idiot scientist to say that anything has gone extincted that they no longer see? Just because you don’t see it anymore unless it’s something huge like a Mammoth (which they blame man for it’s extinction) then you can’t really say with 100% certainty it’s gone, can you?

Just Google or Bing “thought extinct” and see some of the 5.7 million results of things thought extinct but weren’t and some are pretty good size like a peccary. Oh and by the way if you read about any thought to be, but now are not extinct animals you generally find across the board that the reason they were thought to have gone extinct is because of can you guess it…. drum roll please… evil man. Yep evil man has cause most everything to go extinct and I’m sure that out there some where is a lib trying to figure out how to blame man for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Case in point – and it’s not limited to animals which by the way have the ability to move – the highly educated elite class scientist said that the Franciscan manzanita had been extincted for 60 years – is the Franciscan manzanita on some remote tropical island? … No! Is it in some remote mountain top only accessible a couple a weeks out of the year? … No!  Maybe it’s in the northern tundra of Alaska? … Nope. Why then the Franciscan manzanita must be a wily creature capable of avoiding contact with humans? NOPE! It’s a stinking plant and last I check plant do not migrate nor avoid capture. So where was this thought to be extinct rare exotic? The Franciscan manzanita was hiding in the densely populated San Fransisco Valley around millions and millions of people and yet it was thought extincted … and it was only found when it was discovered to be in the path of a new freeway – then surly the Franciscan manzanita has to be small, it must be a tiny plant easily over looked by the average Joe – nope it’s 20 feet wide and 8 inches tall and yet around all those people it remained unseen. Oh and by the way the bankrupt California spend $175,000.00 to move it out of the path of the new road and they took cutting off it it to start a lot of new plant, frankly I would have told the environmentalist wacko that we’ll save the plant but they need to pay for it moving it, put your money where your month is enviro-loons or STFU. (I’m guessing that building of the road require a botanist to blaze the trail likely at great cost to the taxpayer.)

Anyway back to the original point about human guilt intertwined into nature shows – all I wanted to do was watch something non-political, non-bitching, non-agenda nature show and I ended up getting lectured about how intrusive and evil man is to the environment! Has man left his mark upon the face of the plant? Sure we have; we have cognitive thought, self awareness and opposable thumbs thus we build civilizations. However, man is not alone in the transformation of the earth – you have earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, locust, termites, ants, elephants and damn near every creature to ever walk, crawl, swim, fly or squirm in some way left their mark, sometimes wiping out entire eco-systems – the deforestation by elephants, not man led the the great plains of Africa, destruction of entire islands by volcanoes, and the devastation caused by viruses and bacteria down through the ages is incalculable, then you have fire which can kill millions upon millions of creepy crawlies and other animals, but without that fire many plants would not be able to reproduce as they relay on the heat to open their seedpods.

Nature is a vast and wonderful thing and sometimes I like to watch shows about it, but damn don’t lecture me about the evils of man unless you are willing to balance it with what all man has done to save the environment or some creature often at a ridiculous cost.

And for you liberal jackasses out there reading this going “See, See! Conservatives hate the environment!” You are wrong!” Liberals always have to have a villain in there world they are a victim and anything that happens to the environment is not there fault it’s those other people – in politics it the conservative people, in business it’s the people of corporation, in energy it’s oil used by people, in construction it the people that log trees – the liberals can’t see the forest for the trees and while they stand there in their sandals and tie-dyes sniffing the daisies (or glue) and their own farts the country around them is falling apart due to their endless whining and overblown sense of self importance.

So in the end I watched Abbott and Costello movies on TMC.

Damn liberals – they could screw up a wet dream.

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