Jonesboro Tea Party

 

I went to the Jonesboro Tea Party last evening with our BMW rider friend Deb (that's her with the bumper sticker).

Maria doesn't go to political stuff because it would represent a conflict of interest for a newspaper editor. I, on the other hand, am no longer hampered by that consideration since I'm retired.

The Jonesboro affair was better attended than the one in Paragould - bigger city, bigger turnout. I estimated the crowd at 300-400. It was also more structured with more speakers, most of whom made their points concisely and eloquently.

The exception was an older guy who spoke first and got off on a rambling tangent about the "green" movement as it affects our economics and lifestyles. While his points about making better use of our coal and oil resources were well taken, I thought his ridicule of wind turbines was ill-informed and ill-considered, since the German wind turbine firm Nordex is building its U.S. manufacturing plant right here in Jonesboro. Insulting what will soon be a major employer and huge economic force in the region is hardly good judgment.

And, he missed the basic underlying point that human-influenced global warming is a hideous lie, based on repeatedly discredited junk science, that is being used by the Obama crowd and other moonbats to drive their agenda. Developing alternative energy sources is the right thing to do because it's a step forward, not because the uninformed think the planet will turn tropical if we don't.