Politrickle issues

I feel like I need to write about political stuff, but with the onset of very annoying cold or something I don't really feel much like thinking and sorting. Sorting? You know, sorting lies.
If you're not up to dealing with lies or evasions or something resembling double talk, it is probably impossible to deal with politics.

Politics seem to be all about what are called "issues."

Sounds important, but what are issues?

I'm not sure. However, I am pretty certain that "issues," as defined in politricks — oops, that's misspelled. It should be politics. Or should it? Politricks? Maybe that should be the buzzword. "Politricks" is all about issues. Or maybe one just grows out of the other.
But issues are not real things. Issues, most of them, are created, often from some existing activity, but some, seemingly out of the air. They're made up.

The party or group with the most politricks (issues) gets the jump on the others.
Look at the last Congressional election, it and the presidential election preceding it. George Bush was returned to the White House, but how? Having won the office in the preceding general election the Republicans seemed to feel they were fat cats. Fat cats don't do much but sit around, look good and eat.

The party really didn't set much up. Both Bush presidential elections were close, but then the party controlled the Congress. Not by much. Then it came time to try and reelect the president (or get a new on).

The party really didn't set an agenda and almost lost the office because the other side figured a way to bring up some issues. They weren't especially good, but the race was very close and, although the Republicans retained control of the Congress, but only until the next congressional election.

The Republican Party once again had no agenda. They had won the preceding (Bush) election and were home free. Or were they. They probably won that that round on an issue they didn't consider terribly important and currently are completely discounting, probably to the delight of both Democratic candidates. The big difference between Bush and his opponent was the "life issues."

These include, but are not limited to abortion, euthanasia and fetal stem cell research. For Catholics, for example, the "life issues" are not negotiable. They are not supposed to vote for a candidate who supports things like abortion. If you could get all the Catholic voters in the country to support one candidate, that candidate could probably be elected. And there also are the evangelical Christians, most of whom have the same attitude toward the life issues. Between the groups there are a lot of votes. Yet no one has called out for them. It's surprising, too, because the next president will almost certainly have the opportunity of picking a new Supreme Court justice.

I think the biggest "politrick" right now is the climate thing.
Global warming? Global cooling?

Anyone who can read this has access to a lot of information on the web and incidentally there is some weather stuff not put there by Al Gore.

This old (literally) planet has been around for more than four billion years, which I think that most of us would consider is a long time. During that period, the Earth, which was probably pretty warm until it got an atmosphere, cooled enough to allow life to exist on it. Sometimes we forget that we live in an ice age. If we didn't we wouldn't be here.

We have always had this idea that we should be in control of things. Now we're trying to control the climate, which is the absolute height of arrogance. This earth, which a rather exciting old man I knew years ago called a spinning ball of mug, is here because of the Sun, we continue to exist because of the Sun, which does far more than merely light the world and give those of us who are careless springtime sunburn cases.
The cry right now seems to be against carbon dioxide, which is interesting and becomes a truly great politrick: We can't live without carbon dioxide. Atmospheres enriched with carbon dioxide provide bigger and better crops. I've heard and read all sorts of things about minimizing carbon dioxide. We're trying to convert motor vehicles to ethanol. But burned ethanol emits carbon dioxide, too. And production requires a lot of grain. Which should primarily be a food source.

You may have noticed that everything getting more expensive. Food prices have really starting soaring lately, partly because the raw materials for food have become more expensive. There is a practically worldwide shortage, now, of grains.

All because someone has played the ultimate politrick and convinced thinking people who should know better that gasoline and diesel engines are turning the earth into a cinder.
Actually Earth temperatures have not risen in ten years.