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Thursday, September 19, 2019

My favorite quotes on politics, and climate change ... and Yogi Berra's best

"The urge to save humanity, 
is almost always a false front 
for the urge to rule."
       H. L. Mencken 


"The urge to save humanity 
from harmless carbon dioxide, 
is a 'progressive false front 
for their urge to rule". 
Honest Global Warming Chart Blog


"Illegal aliens have always been 
a problem in the United States. 
Ask any Indian."   
            Robert Orben


"Nobody goes there anymore.
It's too crowded"
 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra


"There is no distinctly 
American criminal class 
-- except Congress."
 Mark Twain (1835-1910)


It's deja vu all over again."
 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra


"A government which robs Peter,
 to pay Paul, can always depend 
on the support of Paul."
  George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


"When you come to a fork 
in the road, take it."
 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra


"Suppose you were an idiot, 
and suppose you were 
a member of Congress. 
But I repeat myself."   
   Mark Twain (1835-1910)


"It  ain't  over  'till  it's  over".
 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra


"Blessed are the young, 
for they shall inherit 
the national debt."
  Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)


"We're lost, but we're
 making good time."
 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra


"It's not what we don't know 
that hurts, it's what we know 
that ain't so."
   Will Rogers (1879-1935)


"You can observe a lot
by watching".
 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra


"In California you lose a point 
off your IQ every year."
  Truman Capote (1924-1984)


“You can sway a thousand men, 
by appealing to their prejudices, 
quicker than you can convince 
one man by logic.”      
       Robert A. Heinlein 


“Politics is the art 
of looking for trouble, 
finding it everywhere, 
diagnosing it incorrectly, 
and applying 
the wrong remedies.”
    Groucho Marx


"I really didn't say 
everything I said"
 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra


“Environmentalism
is an urban religion 
disconnected from nature, 
or rural life, or the realities 
of food and mineral production. 

This environmental religion 
is terrified of doubt, skepticism 
and uncertainty yet claims 
to be underpinned by science. 

… Like many 
fundamentalist religions, 
it attracts believers 
by announcing 
apocalyptic calamities 
unless we change 
our ways. 

… Logic, questioning 
or contrary data 
are not permitted.”     
    Professor Ian Plimer 
(from page 463 and 464 of his book: “Heaven and Earth”)


"90% of the game,
is half mental."
 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra



“Future generations will wonder, 
in bemused amazement, 
that the early twenty-first 
century’s developed world, 
went into a hysterical panic, 
over a globally averaged 
temperature increase, 
of a few tenths of a degree, 
and, on the basis of 
gross exaggerations, 
of highly uncertain 
computer projections, 
combined into implausible 
chains of inference, 
proceeded to contemplate 
a roll-back of the industrial age.”     
     Richard S. Lindzen, PhD, 2009