Fred: You are absolutely right. Follow the money is the name of the game. Some would have us believe that it was a complete coincidence that so many of the people who opposed Operation Iraqi Freedom were either being bribed by Saddam or otherwise had a financial interest in seeing that Iraq remained as it was.

But it’s worse than that. I am fully convinced that one reason that Global Warming is so popular is that it forms a basis for outfits such as insurance companies to request a government bail-out. After all, if hurricanes cause billions of dollars in losses to them and the cause is NOT an “Act of God” but is accepted to be due to “all of us”, well, who ya’ gonna call? Or blame? The bail-outs of the bad housing loans is a precedent. Next, I could see farmers asking for Global Warming bail-outs, and retailers, and so on. It just never stops. And they intend to see that it never does.