As IF Times

link Peru’s mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter | World news | The Observer

This is one of those articles that illustrates the propaganda that the left leaning media spins so well. This particular paper is notorious for their slant on today’s events. Unless you view these pieces with some healthy skepticism, you are subtly coerced to believe that it is industrialization that’s at the root of the problems facing these unfortunate people.

Full credit is given for the ambitious article since a number of evils are roped in to blame for the suffering of these rustic mountain people. This passage:

“…In a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly. These communities, living at the edge of what is possible, face extinction because of increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate, which may have been altered by the rapid melting of the glaciers…”

doesn’t even make any sense. The accepted strategy of the weather chicken littles is to assign every incidence of abnormal weather to anthropocentric warming…even if it’s extreme cooling. Again, we hear Orwell guffawing from his musty grave. Rational people will be exhausted at attempting to argue the logic of these people. In a different time, when one was accused of being a witch, they were either burned or thrown in the lake. If they survived, they were a witch, if not, then society was rid of a scourge. You would think we’ve moved a bit past that, but ample evidence shows otherwise. In any event, that was only the side point.

Another gem:

“…Climate change campaigners and development NGOs say that the failure of Copenhagen has signed the death warrant for hundreds of thousands of the world’s poorest and that a quarter of a million children will die before world leaders meet again to try to thrash out another deal at the United Nations next climate change conference in Mexico in December. Among them may be these children of the high mountains…”

Heck, a quarter of a million children will die anyway because of falling out of trees, falling over cliffs, eating bad shrimp, skateboarding without helmets, but more likely because of corrupt and inept governments and their ill conceived policies. The weather as a cause of minor mortality is probably down the list somewhere at 47.

Of course the real culprit are industrialists,

“… Last July, dozens of indigenous protesters were killed and scores injured when riots broke out in Bagua Grande in the Amazonas region over claims that the government was giving away land to oil and gas drilling…”

While I can’t comment on the veracity of this, I do know from a parallel life that if an economic resource can be developed in a lesser developed country, all manner of concessions and considerations are given to the local government as compensation for any displacement. In many cases, large infrastructure projects are created such as power or water supplies as well as transportation routes. It is in the best interests of the developer to have everyone happy. It is then up to the government to best decide how and where to use these resources. As we know, in many nations, even ours, some people are more equal than others so the distribution of resources is never fair.

What perplexes me about this piece is why these people are still living in this harsh, hostile area. The article states that winters are longer, disease is rife and conditions have worsened over the years to the risk of losing this population. Why doesn’t the local government use resources to move these people, create alternate means of making a living etc etc? Are they not allowing people to move from the mountains to more hospitable parts of Peru? Apparently the people here are ‘hardened to poverty’. Why should that be? If you lived in New Orleans and the water rose again, would you become hardened to the mud?

You can bet humans are at the root cause of this grief, but not via the weather.

link How Warren Beatty slept his way to the top | Mail Online

Tiger and Hugh are pikers compared to our hero Warren. Applying a little arithmetic to this claim and using the assumption that Warren’s ambitions started at 15 and is now 60 plus or minus, we have a 45 year career. So 12,775 into that gives 283.88 women per year on average, 284 if we round up to give benefit of doubt. I’m sure we know people who haven’t brushed their teeth or gone to the bathroom that many times in that span.

So, on average, every 1.28 days, our hero deflowered another willing (presumably)maiden (also assumed). While Wilt Chamberlain also claimed to have bedded lots of gals, his number is more vague: some say 10,000, some say 20,000; how does a guy keep count after 9700 anyway?

Back to Warren, who as some may know, was an actor during his time off chasing Wilt’s record. He must have been paid a heck of a lot of dough for the few times he part-time acted because the practical cost of maintaining his busy lifestyle must have been national debt-esque. Imagine the laundry bills of this guy for sheets alone even allowing for some activity outside of the home stadium. What about lubes, gels and the cost of regular penicillin shots? How could he keep up a home and pay utility bills or even have time to eat if 90% of his time is spent with his eyes half closed? If he was gallant, think of the cost of ‘you were special to me’ cards, although he probably got bulk discounts on those; let’s not forget money spent on the thank you for coming parting gifts.

It’s a wonder the guy even wore pants; surely it would have been more expedient to walk around in a toga or at the very least, a kilt. Of course, there is another plausible explanation. It could be that his brain functions were fouled up because, well because all the blood was elsewhere. He may have been counting, but like a record with a skip in it, the number jumped; 4,5,6,112 and so it went. As a matter of fact, it’s a medical marvel that he has managed to live as long as he has considering the small amount of time that blood was actually circulating in his brain.

But a guy like Warren can harness such skill for the benefit of mankind if he really wants to cement his legacy. He should be giving lessons on dating to Muslim extremists. Those guys have to blow themselves up to get the kind of action Warren gets between breakfast and dinner. Why not write a book or create a how to video series for these shy guys. This is a win win idea for every one. Warren gets to pass on his natural skills; The erstwhile suicide guys get some real life action and therefore cuts off the supply of human fuses for the terrorist groups and women who had always wanted to bed Warren (if there are any left who haven’t) can benefit from his teachings vicariously.

Interestingly, Warren has recently given some hints at running for office when he’s not running to the shower. I can see his slogan now, SERVE MAN, SERVICING WOMEN!