Just when you think you have heard it all....

 

 

 

"Actually I am not even that upset these whoppers are told by elected officials. I am upset so many believe them..."

I have to tell you. I have heard some whoppers coming out of Washington over the past few years. Not just little whoppers - I mean the king sized whopper, extra cheese, bacon and everything else thrown on. But now another big whopper is coming out of St. Paul. And (supposedly) backed up by some metro sheriffs. First, some former whoppers to set the stage.

Al Gore - I would first like to give our former Vice President credit and congratulations. He is a rich man. And he became a rich man not by inventing a product which enhances lives. No he became rich beyond dreams by inventing a story. A story about manmade global warming. J. T. Barnum was correct when he said suckers being born every minute.

In 2007, Al Gore said our Artic sea ice could be completely gone by 2014. That be totally gone. Not even enough ice left to put in a cocktail. And it is our fault. We burn coal. We drive V-8 trucks. We eat meat (and as we know, cows fart). Well as we know from reading the FACTS last year, artic ice is doing just fine thank you. Plus in his movie "In Inconvenient Truth", it was pointed out when the polar ice cap started to melt, the sea level would rise a foot or more. Still waiting. For me, I was hoping that prediction was true. It would mean fewer miles for me to drive to an ocean beach.

Barack Hussein Obama - The hand off has been made. It was a lateral from Al Gore to our current President. And our President has taken this fable to a whole new level. Like making the use of coal almost illegal. Don't worry the nation gets 40% of its electricity from coal - we will worry about that another day. But the whopper in the story is this - our President, the Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, said the biggest threat we face today is not the Norks, not ISIL, not Iran, not China, not Al Qaeda, and not even Mother Russia. Nope. It is that dastardly thing called man-made global warming. And it is your fault. It is my fault. So our Pentagon is gearing up and getting ready to fight - a myth.

Governor Dayton - Yes the allure of very good BS has now hit close to home. I know, I know. Our Governor is also "all in" on the man-made global warming myth. But that is old news. One of our Governors new "pet rocks" is Pre-K. This vital, critically important program will be the panacea for all our ills. Not only will it erase the achievement gap metro schools (and make Rhodes Scholars out of everyone), it will also stop crime. And we have hard core, empirical evidence to support that assertion. What kind of evidence? The same kind used for man-made global warming predictions. In other words - none.

So for a "throw back Thursday", the hits just keep on a coming. Lies are good if they bring in money. Sometimes personal wealth as in Al Gore, other times government growth. Pre-K would be a bonanza for the state education coffers. And for the teacher's union? Let the good times roll!

My advise to all is simply this - keep you BS filters clean. With the amount of crap which is being spewed today, they can clog up very easily. And that is no whopper.