by Patrick J. Buchanan

The scaremongers are not always wrong. The Trojans should have listened to Cassandra. But history shows that the scaremongers are usually wrong.

Parson Malthus predicted mass starvation 250 years ago,
as the population was growing geometrically, doubling
each generation, while agricultural production was going arithmetically, by 2 percent or so a year. But today, with perhaps 1 percent of our population in full-time food production, we are the best-fed and fattest 300 million people on Earth.

Karl Marx was proven dead wrong about the immiseration of the masses under capitalism and the coming revolution in the industrial West, though they still have hopes at Harvard.

Neville Chute’s “On the Beach” proved as fictional as “Dr. Strangelove” and “Seven Days in May.” Paul Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” never exploded. It fizzled when the Birth Dearth followed the Baby Boom.

“The Crash of ‘79″ never happened. Instead, we got
Ronald Reagan and record prosperity. The Club of Rome notwithstanding, we did not run out of oil. The world did not end in Y2K, when we crossed the millennium, as some had prophesied. “Nuclear winter,” where we were all going to freeze to death after the soot from Reagan’s nuclear war blotted out the sun, didn’t quite happen. Rather, the Soviet Empire gave up the ghost.

Is then global warming – a steady rise in the temperature
of the Earth to where the polar ice caps melt, oceans rise
23 feet, cities sink into the sea and horrendous
hurricanes devastate the land – an imminent and mortal danger?

Put me down as a disbeliever.

Like the panics of bygone eras, this one has the aspect of yet another re-enactment of the Big Con. The huckster arrives in town, tells all the rubes that disaster impends
for them and their families, but says there may be one
 last chance they can be saved – but it will take a lot of money. And the folks should go about collecting it, right now.

This, it seems to me, is what the global-warming scare and scam are all about – frightening Americans into
 transferring sovereignty, power and wealth to a global political elite
that claims it alone understands the crisis and it alone can save us from impending disaster.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, from which China and India
 were exempt, the United States was to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels, which could not be done
without inducing a new Depression and reducing the standard of living of the American people. So, we ignored Kyoto – and how have we suffered? The Europeans who signed on also largely ignored it. How have they suffered?

We are told global warming was responsible for the hurricane summer of Katrina and Rita that devastated Texas, Mississippi and New Orleans. Yet Dr. William Gray, perhaps the nation’s foremost expert on hurricanes,
 says he and his most experienced colleagues believe humans have little impact on global warming and global warming cannot explain the frequency or ferocity of hurricanes. After all, we had more hurricanes in the first half of the 20th century than in the last 50 years, as global warming was taking place.

“We’re brainwashing our children,” says Gray. “They’re going to the Gore movie (’An Inconvenient Truth’) and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous. … We’ll look back on
all of this in 10 or 15 years and realize how foolish it was.”

Gray does concede that for a scholar to question global warming can put his next federal grant in mortal peril.

While modest warming has taken place, there is no conclusive evidence human beings are responsible, no conclusive evidence Earth’s temperature is rising dangerously or will reach intolerable levels and no conclusive evidence that warming will do more harm than good.

The glaciers may be receding, but the polar bear
 population is growing, alarmingly in some Canadian
Indian villages. Though more people on our planet of 6 billion may die of heat, estimates are that many more may be spared death from the cold. The Arctic ice cap may be shrinking, but
that may mean year-round passage through northern Canadian waters from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the immense resources of the Arctic made more accessible to man. Why else did Vladimir Putin’s boys make their dash to claim the pole?

The mammoth government we have today is a result of politicians rushing to solve “crises” by creating and empowering new federal agencies.

Whether it’s hunger, poverty or homelessness, in the end, the poor are always with us, but now we have something else always with us: scores of thousands of federal bureaucrats and armies of academics to study the problem and assess the progress, with all their pay and benefits provided by our tax dollars.

Cal Coolidge said that when you see 10 troubles coming up the road toward you, sometimes the best thing to do is nothing, because nine of them will fall into the ditch before they get to you. And so it will be with global warming, if we don’t sell out America to the hucksters who would save us.

11/25

My friend slept over, and we went running this morning at 9 am. I ran around the golf course, I was impressed, my knee did not hurt. Since I stopped crossing my legs,  at work, under my desk, my knee problems stopped, when I jog. I ran and it was easy. The sun was out and I got a little tan.

Today is supposed to be my beach day. I will get going soon. Every Sunday I want to be on the beach in the sun. A towel in my bag and my bathing suit. And the sun.

We went to a vegan potluck last night. One that EARTHSAVE gives every month in Miami. Free Grub. But you have to bring a plate. There was a raw food singer there with songs he sang like, "Take this burger and shove it"  or "When a man loves his meat". Funny, we were laughing.

I saw a bunch of raw foodists and fruitarian, farm boys and organic farmers. My friend who is now head of marketing at Wild Oats was there and so were potluck friends from long ago. Most of the food was cooked. Usually these potlucks are high raw foodists, but not this one. This is big thanksgiving one. I was impressed by the unique recipes.  I wish people made more food, alot of it ran out. My mom was there and she had a blast.

My friend woke up this morning, never really eaten vegan before, and she said, " I noticed, that when I passed gas, it didn't stink, and this morning I feel really good, really lighter, and I had no problems sleeping." My mom says all those things too. Her poop no longer stinks and she feels lighter.
 
There was also a box of starfruit that this guy bought from his backyard
, we took many home, in season now. Mangos were nice.



Fruit in juice and the box of stuffed mushrooms comes from a raw vegan farm I used to work at. I didn't try either


My plate
my friend grew the microgreens and avocado so I had some. very nice. I had a few plates like this, not very much, mostly grapes and some cocount cream.  I was not all that hungry.
That is mango puree I made with blueberries.




Fruit, starfruit, nuts



Marinated garlic, okra and olives. I do not consider them raw foods but some people do, because they are not cooked. But I say marinated is cooked. Yet olives and okra are fruits because they have seeds for all you marinated fruitarians.


My mom, you should have seen the piles of food she ate. She loves this kind of food.
She has had many surgeries and has a type of incurable cystitis where it's incurable thing that causes her pain all her life. She has not felt any pain since this diet or eating high raw. Of course she loves cooked vegan food and rarely pastas.  And when she drinks coffee or tea it comes back a little but never as bad as she had it for many many years eating bad food.  Plus she gets stomach aches,  I know because I always see her after she eats certain foods, and this food doesn't give her any, she told me happily.




This was some fancy raw cranberry and orange relish, sorry my camera blurred, I need to learn how to use it




Mango puree with blueberry, I made two of these, all gone


Coconutcream, my friend's fave, of course, I love coconutcream.


These grapes were to die for they were so tight




Pomegranates and pineapple



I am not sure what this was, this is baked fruits for you cooked fruitarians, but I didn't have any. Looks
like baked apples, squash and peaches.



These avocados were fresh, look how big ours gets here in Florida!




These are RAW VEGAN FRIENDLY dishes that were there

Wilted kale salad with chipotle dressing


Someone makes this every month, tomatoes, cukes and mushrooms


Nuts and sprouts. I have so many beans and seeds in my kitchen sitting there
 years from when I was raw vegan. Maybe next time I sprout them all and bring like this.




Buckwheat greens my friend brought from farm.


Raw vegan dehydrated fruit cookies. I say "dehydrated" is cooked as well. But some dont consider it cooked, but, "dehydrated"



Raw cookies Lots of these everywhere'


homeade sauerkraut If you like that sort of stuff, I do not consider
sauerkraut raw food.  But many people do. They will learn on their own though after many
years of "almost raw".. what a difference it makes. It takes time I am sure.


There were many salads like this


grains tabbouleh



Some COOKED Vegan dishes,
 
I will not post most of these,
because, this is fruitarian blog,
but I do think people were being really creative



My mom liked these. My friend noted alot of this vegan food is baked, which I think is better than fried.



Stew you can cook, I guess, made from chopped veggies and possibly vegetarian broth?


There were many bowls of nuts, cooked and raw. Also , many yams and sweet potatoes,
I won't post those here..
and my mom made this



Grains tabbouleh, looks cooked, some people make it raw with crushed sprouted grains


look beans and greens



Vegans love chickpeas and curry


This was vegan eggsalad.





Fruitarian Dave Mason, from raw food boards, and a raw foodist farmboy.  That little guy in the back with the tie is some raw food activist and organizer of Fort Lauderdale. You can see my girlfriend with hand on her chin. That is my mom to the left wearing a dress I gave her.

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So far to eat today ( 5 pm)

Orange juice power size at Jamba juice
1/4 Watermelon with spoon
5 oranges cut in fourths
Chopped tomatoes, cucumbers and avocado with teaspoon of tahini


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If people are ideas, what ideas are me? Greatness? Beauty?
Ok, so what are the kind of things that great people do? Great people are heroic, but not altruistic, but selfish. great to others is not what I want to be. I want to be great to myself, and I want to make myself proud and I want to earn my highest self respect ever. Ok, So how do I do this? I work hard and I think. I write my ideas and what I know are right ideas down. I know certain things are right and wrong yet, I blank out and slip up, thinking bad choices, they have no consequence and that it is just me who knows, yet that is never the case. Whatever I know, everybody knows. Or will know, or will SEE in me.

Lies should not be told because then I am proving others and their thoughts affect me, and they don't .

Lies, I mean, do I owe other people private information? No, not at all. just lying is a form of "making things up" ,that I hate so much about certain people. Like my mom. She makes up stuff, about the possibility that heaven could be inside the sun. I tell her that is crazy talk and she says " No, God just gave me the idea". I told her imaginary friends should not even exist in childhood, and she tells me that GOD is NOT an imaginary friend, no, he is real, and to find ONE person to disprove GOD... as if I were not there disproving it, in front of her. I hate this, I hate this conversation, but we have it all the time. Then she jokes, she will go to church to pray for my soul.  So you see, when I tell lies, I am guilty of the same thing she is. Making up STUFF. Like crazy people do all the time. I do not want to be crazy, but a proud rationalist or realist.

 Its insane how many of us do the same thing day in and day out. About god,  rationalizing doing things they know is wrong, making excuses, lying, denial, saying A is NON A
All of that is evil, because it hurts us. Why does is hurt us? because we are here in reality. It's perfect. It is so beautiful. When we imagine things that are not there, we blank out and give up responsibility of our lives.

 Me and ME, Here in reality, nothing will ever change in side this reality. We do bad, we get bad, we do good, we get good.

 Life IS LIFE

 A IS A,

and you cannot say a peach is an orange when it IS a peach.

You cannot cover things up, make excuses, deny feelings, wish away problems, or blank out. It is there facing you, reality. It knows everything about you.

 I love reality and I love rational people. AynRand gave me that gift. She is such a great philosopher.

I watched a Movie BABEL. I recommend it, it was breathtaking. So fascinating. My mom says it was the best movie she has seen in a long long time. I see alot and I say this is beautiful to watch. It is fascinating on how others live. Cultures.

My mom, again, bitches how something ought to be done to help these poor illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican US border. I asked her, "Why dont you pay for a lawyer to help one of them? Or go down there, help  and feed them yourself?" She says " there are public Lawyers do that for free" I said "No mom, (laughing) nobody does that for free. Who is paying for lawyers to work for free? Are you? Are you going to pay out of your own pocket to help these illegal aliens or are you just saying that someone SHOULD, and who is going to do that, even when you dont want to?" then she whines how its wrong that they have to suffer so much!! I said, " Well then, go AND HELP THEM then, or stop complaining. We have a great country, and its people, like you, who want everybody else to do something, but when you are faced with doing something, you don't want to, why should anybody else be forced to?

Its just when I hear stupidity, in someone I am close to, it drives me crazy. Its like she chooses to be a moron, a follower of all that is on tv. Which 100% is not the truth. The only truth, is not out there, but INSIDE ME, in my mind, based on my thoughts and my judgement. I Think for myself. Myself is the only truth out there. I don't care how many billions have worshipped a dog, I don't believe in what I can't prove myself.



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Look! After the top companies in Atlas Shrugged

I am recumbent on my couch, with my Benetton sheets and my COMSOS photo book of outer space. Who knew Mars had water on it? Looks just like it. Lakes that look like water.

Reading is somniferous, I hope to sleep well tonight.
 

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11/26

I wrote a lot tonight. Very powerful stuff, I mean, its going to be thoughts of my one character. I breath the life into him slowly, he is warming on me. Very striking man.

Work was fun, I worked so hard and got stuff done, lots done.  I even took other girl's work and MAN every single one of their work, was a disaster. Wrong addresses, punctuation all messed up, missing documents in the computer, missing copies . I didn't say anything. I feel really sorry. Work, they just can't
be bothered with it! They have kids who go to the principal's office,  they have to leave all hours any time they want,  kids who get cuts at school,  they have families, child services is on the phone for them, they are buying houses, they are moving, they just don't show up some times.

My office roomate didn't show up today, again. Didn't call either. Anyways, what about the work? the actual work. Looks like it will be me mostly. I  love it. I do. I don't mind, I just wonder if I can do it all alone, I think so. Yes, I may be able to.
 
Except scheduling. There is an old lady who works with us, who is so great. She does a good job. I forget about her because she is in her own world. The lawyer seem surprised when I told him I finished something that he didn't expect back for days.

 As far as fruitarian is concerned. I will include whatever it is I want to eat, I think I am wanting greens. I sometimes like them. Not all the time, but lately I know I want them. Leaf by leaf or in fruit smoothies. I can only eat so little of them, being bitter, but the kind in the supermarket are sometimes fluffy. Or I can include mint in my smoothies. I just want  Why? because I do.

half a cucumber
2 quarts watermelon juice
2 orange juice glasses
1 c chopped grape tomatoes and 1/2 teaspoon tahini
a few medjool dates dipped in tahini
watermelon juice, as much as I want.

PS my boss settled the case he had the mediation on today. Good for him, very easy. I want to do things like that, settle large cases.

Some surinam cherries hang from trees, I ate some purple sweet ones yesterday off bushes.

I weighed myself 114 tonight. 111 in the morning. I am now going for my postprandial JOG. I am so lucky I can do that after I eat. Most people can't jog after dinner. I can jog anytime.