October 7, 2018 Fred Grimm The Sun Sentinel

October 7, 2018

Fred Grimm

The Sun Sentinel

RE: Doomed, and not a damn thing we can do about it, right? A comment or two about your “fundamentally transformative” Jeremiad Op-Ed in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel which tells us not to worry about Social Security/Medicare going bust or pay8ing our mortgages because Neptune is coming, and damn soon, and we’re all going to drown, don’t you know?

Mr. Grimm,

“The real problem is global warming, which scientists expect

will raise sea levels in Florida 2, 3 feet maybe more, over 

the next four decades.”

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At the very least can we get the government out of the water front insurance business? Forget “red lining” in mortgages> Are we to give new meaning to “Underwater mortgages”? Shouldn’t we ban Fannie Mae from purchasing mortgages on littoral properties? [If you don’t know the literal meaning of littoral send a SASE]

Speaking of “global warming”, do you have any idea of what ended the last Ice Age? Hint: It sounds a lot like global warming. Look it up.

Do you like Dante? Have you ever heard of him? [Make the SASE a big one] Do you have any feelings for the Renaissance? Jeepers, all the Eye-Ties can’t be gangsters, can they? Borrowing from the pseudo-science so favored by modern American Liberals, the confusing conflation of causation and correlation, the logical construct that proves, conclusively, that Plainfield State [You’re a journalist. You must remember them. If not, stick it in the SASE] could beat the ‘85 Bears, that global warming caused the Renaissance.

Follow the bouncing ball.

About 1,050 years ago there was a significant – and I am using the word “significant” with surgical precision – upward spike in temperature. Here’s where it gets tricky. I’ll type slowly so you can follow, stay with the convoy, so to speak. Warmer temperatures mean more land becomes more arable. More arable land means more protein. More protein means people get smarter. Can you see where I’m going here? A century later we had – Ecco! – the friggin’ Renaissance. Unless you have a problem with Petrarch that rice is cooked and that case is closed. Sort of like “Move On”, right?

You say that Mike Huckabee, “the Fox News commentator”, and why does that

 sound like a 4-letter word, led the fight to keep beach access from the “lesser breeds”, and both the hoi and the debased polloi. Since you don’t like Dante, you probably aren’t aware of the Trivium and the Quadrivium is probably a word too far. The next thing you will read is an example of tu quoque.

Did he learn from the still dead Senator Lard Kennedy, who led the fight, indeed fought like the drunken churlish lout that he was, to keep windmills far from the Hyannis beach front so prized by arrogant, elitist 1%ers?

Jeeszus Haitch Keerist, but you are a putz.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – I read this morning where the con men, scam artists, grifters, poltroons, and ohmadahns who make up the “Sky if Falling” Climate Bureau of the UN said we have 10 

years before the Earth turns into goo, aspic, and non-organic Trump bobble head dolls. Yet again we have to face the inconvenient truth that 30 years ago the first 10year warning was issued. I immediately switched my 30-year fixed mortgage to a 30-year balloon. Then, 20 years ago, the next 10 year warning was issued.   I did it again. But wait there’s more. Nothing succeeds like excess so, 10 years ago, I did it again. 10 years from now I will look into a reverse mortgage and a one-way ticket to the “undiscovered country”. 30 years of interest deductions, a pot full of tuition bills paid, and I still have an asset increasing in value. Who says you can’t make buck in bad times? To those who believed such nit-wit, moon-bat folderol 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and today, you are condemned to being an hour late and a buck short forever. Of course, as modern American Liberals, buffoons who believe that this time Sisyphus is going to get the rock up the hill where he will find the “smoking gun” evidence that Kavanaugh really was a serial rapist and a predatory ice flinger, all things are possible. Step this way for the express train to the horizon.