In the past, I'd wonder if I was crazy, given how many people disagreed with me about how I interpreted things. Today, I know that the world around me has gone crazy, and I am one of the few sane people left.
As I write this, our 47th president elect is making some crazy statements in a press conference. The two things that stuck out most is that it cost (in today's dollars) $1,000,000,000,000 to build the Panama Canal, and 38,000 lives were lost building it. I did a fact check while he was speaking and found that it cost $385,000,000 ($12,000,000,000 in today's dollars) and only 5,800 lives were lost during its construction. He's up to the same old tricks, and the press is not fact checking him when it needs to do just that - even if it's only on the Chryon at the bottom of the TV screen.
We are about to enter an age where facts don't matter, and that frightens me. Global Warming, Water Shortages, and other "Green Issues" are real. Yet, the clown about to take office says that everything his opposition supports is bullshit. Even though I say we're not yet ready to convert to purely electric powered vehicles, I believe that we need to develop an electric transportation economy as quickly as possible. Given that electric vehicles are not practical in our colder climates during their winters, hybrid vehicles would be a good compromise to help reduce emissions. Yet, "Clown #47" keeps claiming that we can burn "Clean Coal". If you believe him, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
"Clown #47" says that we should take back control of the Panama Canal, force Denmark to sell us Greenland, and make Canada our 51st state. A Canadian MP suggested that our West Coast and the Northeast US should sever our ties with the US and become Canadian provinces. Given a choice between what the clown wants and what the MP wants, I'll go with the MP. She made much more sense in her speech.
Our clown likes to make outlandish statements to distract us from the evil he plans to do. Given the lunacy inherent in his recent speeches, I wonder what he really has up his sleeve....
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