9/19/19: It’s monsoon season in Texas. Just as scientists warned, climate change increases both the rate of water evaporation and the amount of water the atmosphere will hold. The science is simple.
This will cause more frequent “extreme weather events.”
This week, Tropical Storm Imelda dumped almost four feet of rain along the Texas coast. Catastrophic flooding resulted. Five people died, gas stations, homes, businesses, and entire towns were submerged. Flights into and out of Houston (a city which also drowned in 2017) were canceled. Runaway barges striking the I-10 bridge over the San Jacinto River forced closure of the highway. Thousands of people, pets and even livestock had to be rescued. Gov. Greg Abbott, a dedicated climate change-denier, was forced to declare a state of disaster for 13 counties.
Meanwhile, Imelda had dumped the seventh highest amount of rain ever recorded in U.S. history. Hurricane Harvey, which dumped 60 inches over Texas in 2017, set the all-time mark.
In Trumpistan, of course, all efforts to protect the
environment are viewed as job-killing, commie plots.
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The birds and the bees are dying.
A NEW STUDY, just released by commie scientists and published in Science magazine, warns that the commie bird population in Canada and the United States has fallen by 2.9 billion since 1970. That’s a decline of 29%.
The commie scientists warn that the decline is evidence of a “widespread ecological crisis.” They also warn that climate change has made the situation worse. Overuse of pesticides is a major factor.
Well, screw it! Who needs birds!
By the way, bee populations are also in dramatic decline across the United States. Commie beekeepers have faulted the Trump administration for approving use of chemicals they blame for the precipitous fall.
Well, who needs commie bees!
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IN OTHER NEWS, Daniel McCarthy, running as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, has proposed a novel solution for the immigration crisis on our southern border. McCarthy would like to shift the border slightly, by annexing Mexico and turning Mexico into a bunch of new states.
The idea of a bunch of new states – probably sending more Democratic senators to D.C. – would likely cause “Moscow Mitch” McConnell to start shouting about “full-bore socialism” again.
Speaking of “Moscow Mitch,” the Senate Majority Leader did allow a vote on legislation yesterday which allocates $250 million to help states improve voting security before the 2020 election.
On the other hand, Republicans in Congress are freaking out because the people of Washington D.C. are talking about becoming a state. For some bizarre reason, the 702,000 people who live in the District think they have a right to have one vote in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate.
Republicans oppose the idea because – hey – the Founding
Fathers!
Rep. Jim Jordan, lunatic GOP lawmaker from Ohio, made that point clearly during hearings yesterday. “This is not what the Founding Fathers intended,” he pointed out. Then again, the Founding Fathers did not intend that a president could pardon himself. (Jordan likes that idea.) Nor did the Founding Fathers, in their infinite wisdom, intend that women should vote. Or African Americans.
Or poor white men.
The Fathers did think, however, that it was a great idea to count every five African Americans the same as three white folks in determining state populations. (I think it is only a matter of time before Rep. Jordan or some other GOP stalwart suggests a return to that system.)
Here’s where debate stands. Republicans already in Congress, representing heavily-populated states like Wyoming (578,759), Alaska (731,545) and North Dakota (762,062), believe that the people of those states should have just as much say in the U.S. Senate as the people of California (39,512,223).
But, as “Moscow Mitch” sees it, it would be “full-bore
socialism” to let D.C. residents have a voice. (See: 6/19/19.)
During congressional hearings yesterday a map was submitted. Advocates of statehood suggested that the federal government retain control over the National Mall, the White House, Capitol Hill, and all federal properties. The rest of the District would become the fifty-first state.
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who represents the 755,000 people of the Fourth Congressional District in his state, homed in on the key issue. Why did the proposed map leave Trump International Hotel under jurisdiction of the new state? Massie, a Republican, was in a position to raise such a stupid objection because he speaks for the people of the Fourth Congressional District in his state.
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) pinpointed the root cause of Republican opposition to statehood, saying, “When they say it’s not about race and partisanship, you can be sure it’s about race and partisanship.”
A witness for the Republicans at the hearing called on Rep. Connolly to take his words back. Because who would ever think the Republicans would stoop to race-based partisanship!
“Never,” Connolly responded.
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