The Convery Press

I wrote the following quick e-mail  to Sen. Stabenow on August 25, 2009 after learning of her plan to travel to Alaska:

Dear Senator Stabenow:

It is beyond my comprehension why Sen. Mark Begich would host three other democratic senators and an independent on a “climate change” tour this weekend in Alaska. To say that I am disappointed in your choosing to attend this trip would be a gross understatement. If your stated position was that global warming does not exist, I might apprehend your need for convincing evidence that global warming might exist–but you are on record to the contrary. I can only reach several logical conclusions:

• You are blatantly deceitful and do not believe that global warming is or even may be real. If you did, you certainly would not waste your time and taxpayer money on a trip that will add many tons of CO2 emissions to an already struggling environment thereby compounding ‘global warming’.
• You believe that receding glaciers, drying wetlands, and forests damaged by invasive species which have been documented in reports and on film by government, academic, and independent studies are a vast conspiracy backed by Hollywood film-makers much like the bogus Apollo moon landing which we all know was filmed in Hawaii.
• You are an insufferable leach bleeding the hardworking taxpayers of the United States to death under the pretense of a cure as you head off on a boondoggle to Alaska.

I prefer to believe that the last of these is true. That would make you only incredibly unethical while either of the other choices would compound that offense with stupidity. Senator Begich is a fellow Democrat. I should hope that his testimony and a large body of scientific evidence would be enough proof of global warming (or its possibility) and of evidence of other environmental concerns to keep you from uselessly creating tons of greenhouse gases on a trip to the glacial shelf and from wasting time better spent forging policies which protect the environment.

STAY HOME!

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