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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m 72 goin\u2019 on 73 and I\u2019ve heard the expression \u201cthis crazy weather\u201d since I can remember.\u00a0 Before the atomic age it meant the \u201ccomin\u2019 o\u2019 th\u2019 Lord was near.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201cold wives\u201d along with their favorite preachers even had Bible verses to prove it.\u00a0 The most common quote was \u201cthere will be earthquakes in divers sic<\/em> places\u201d.\u00a0 I am a Bible fan and respect most religions that try to abide by it.\u00a0 I take exception to seeing it misquoted and blatantly misapplied. \u00a0I wondered what the aforementioned quote had to do with rain,\u00a0snow\u00a0and wind, or lack thereof.\u00a0 It was a time when someone as young as I was not allowed to ask questions of my elders and betters, so I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 One did not want to be accused of \u201cbacktalk\u201d or \u201csass\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, not everyone bought into it, but few of those thought it worth an argument.\u00a0 By the time I was 11 or 12 years old, \u201cthis crazy weather\u201d was still around, but with a different cause.\u00a0 It was now all those Atomic bombs we were putting off.\u00a0 Soon it became Hydrogen bombs.\u00a0 Among the more reasonable newspapers, some effort was made to dispel the myth, but it was uphill all the way.\u00a0 My favorite protest was an editorial cartoon in the Wheeling News Register (I think).\u00a0 It showed a pair of old Indian Squaws; \u201cWe never had \u2018this crazy weather\u2019, one was saying, \u201cuntil they started using those darn bows and arrows\u201d.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We still had \u201cthis crazy weather\u201d in the 50s and 60s, but the Atomic argument was losing favor to flying saucers with their little green men.\u00a0 There was no use arguing with that.\u00a0 Way too many people had seen them and they knew all about the government\u2019s attempts to cover it up.\u00a0 Little green men and flying saucers were still around in the 70s, but they no longer had any interest in causing \u201cthis crazy weather\u201d.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was the 70s when all of the scientists, all of them, agreed that we were headed for another ice age and would have to plan for it with their help in cooperation with some sort of world government.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It would be redundant to tell you what has happened since then.\u00a0 Global warming has been replaced with \u201cclimate change\u201d, which is just another way of saying \u201cthis crazy weather.\u201d\u00a0 There is no use arguing with this new religion.\u00a0 They call themselves scientists.\u00a0 I call them \u201cClimatites.\u201d\u00a0 Their zeal is that of Theocrats and they are determined to tax the very air we breathe.\u00a0 Carbon Dioxide is now declared by our government a pollutant.\u00a0 No matter that we create it when we exhale. No matter that neither we nor plants would exist without it. The Climatites eagerly point out that too much of it could kill you.\u00a0 \u201cAnd how is that different from water?\u201d I ask.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oops!!\u00a0 Sorry!!\u00a0 I know better than to argue.\u00a0 After all these years, it\u2019s probably not worth it anyway.\u00a0 As a Christian, I need to accept that I am saved by grace through faith.\u00a0 I find that believable and comforting.\u00a0 As a Climatite, I would have to stop breathing. Screw that!!<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recently, in my barber shop that subject came up.\u00a0 I had come for a quiet hair cut because it\u2019s cheaper than buying myself a dog license.\u00a0 I held my tongue until time to leave then blurted, \u201cI blame the Indians for it\u201d.\u00a0 They all looked at me.\u00a0 \u201cWe never had this crazy weather until they started using those damn bows and arrows.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THIS CRAZY WEATHER \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m 72 goin\u2019 on 73 and I\u2019ve heard the expression \u201cthis crazy weather\u201d since I can remember.\u00a0 Before the atomic age it meant the \u201ccomin\u2019 o\u2019 th\u2019 Lord was near.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201cold wives\u201d along with their favorite preachers even had Bible verses to prove it.\u00a0 The most common quote was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}