I listen each week to the podcast of the NPR Program Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!; The NPR news quiz show from the NPR station in Chicago. Great show and quite funny usually! You should give a listen. I mention this because last week's show was brought to mind as I walked through The Wilderness yesterday.
Anyone who reads my blog with any regularity and has for any length of time has heard me talk of The Wilderness. It is the patch of gardens to the north of Hampton Court Palace that has huge lawns that have been naturalized with crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops. The lawns blaze in the spring with loads of gold, purple, white and yellow flowers. The show last week had a story of how visitors to Washington DC have been alarmed by the blooming of the cherry blossoms along the estuary. They are a couple months early.
What brought the show to mind was my walk through the wilderness. There are patches of yellow in The Wilderness already! Granted, we had crocuses bloom late this past summer, and we have had a very warm winter thus far, but is this a fluke or a sign of global warming? What is a person to believe?
Obviously, we're supposed to believe that this has nothing to do with global warming. Neither does the fact that the plum trees in my street are in bloom (in January!) or the blooming cherry trees along the river walk. This cannot be a function of Global Warming because as President Bush (the wanker in chief of the US) keeps telling us… there is no scientific evidence that Global Warming is real. And for him to say it so many times, it must be true. After all, we were welcomed as heroes back in the two-week long war to oust Saddam Hussein, and finding all those WMDs was Mission Accomplished! Thank God we could fight it on the cheap and pay for the entire action from the profits of selling Iraqi Oil for them. (And of course, this was not a war about oil! It was all because Saddam Hussein attacked us on 11 September 2001!)
See, saying things repeatedly does make them true!
I hope that wherever you are today, the weather is clement and the skies are clear! (Unless it is winter and supposed to be cold and miserable, then I hope it is snowing like hell!)
Don Bergquist - 22 January 2007 - Thames Ditton, Surrey, UK
Anyone who reads my blog with any regularity and has for any length of time has heard me talk of The Wilderness. It is the patch of gardens to the north of Hampton Court Palace that has huge lawns that have been naturalized with crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops. The lawns blaze in the spring with loads of gold, purple, white and yellow flowers. The show last week had a story of how visitors to Washington DC have been alarmed by the blooming of the cherry blossoms along the estuary. They are a couple months early.
What brought the show to mind was my walk through the wilderness. There are patches of yellow in The Wilderness already! Granted, we had crocuses bloom late this past summer, and we have had a very warm winter thus far, but is this a fluke or a sign of global warming? What is a person to believe?Obviously, we're supposed to believe that this has nothing to do with global warming. Neither does the fact that the plum trees in my street are in bloom (in January!) or the blooming cherry trees along the river walk. This cannot be a function of Global Warming because as President Bush (the wanker in chief of the US) keeps telling us… there is no scientific evidence that Global Warming is real. And for him to say it so many times, it must be true. After all, we were welcomed as heroes back in the two-week long war to oust Saddam Hussein, and finding all those WMDs was Mission Accomplished! Thank God we could fight it on the cheap and pay for the entire action from the profits of selling Iraqi Oil for them. (And of course, this was not a war about oil! It was all because Saddam Hussein attacked us on 11 September 2001!)
See, saying things repeatedly does make them true!
I hope that wherever you are today, the weather is clement and the skies are clear! (Unless it is winter and supposed to be cold and miserable, then I hope it is snowing like hell!)
Don Bergquist - 22 January 2007 - Thames Ditton, Surrey, UK
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