Follow the Money

 When crimes are committed, three things are taken into account: means, motive and opportunity.  Means are the tools used in the crime; rope, firearm, gasoline, knife, ladder, hammer, etc, are means. 

 

Opportunity is the ability to commit a crime, and often involves an alibi.  No one was home to witness the burglary, it was too dark to see or identify the assailant, the suspect claims he was out of town and has witnesses to vouch for that fact.

 

Motive, on the other hand, is not necessary to successfully prosecute a crime, but helps with swaying a jury to convict.  Often the motive is something of value, for instance stolen items, revenge, or money.  Hence the saying “Follow the money.”  The perpetrator is usually somewhere on that trail.

 

Money has been the great motivator in life since before The Bible was written.  Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot for 30-pieces of silver.  Paul Getty was kidnapped and held hostage for $17,000,000.   Charles Lindberg’s 20-month old son was kidnapped in exchange for ransom in the amount of $50,000, only to be found dead after the money was paid.

 

These are but a few examples of following the money that can be seen as instrumental in solving crimes thereby leading to apprehensions and court prosecutions.

 

Money is that great motivator that can make a good man turn bad.  The King James Bible contains a line, “The love of money is the root of all evil.”  This is where we will begin today’s story.

 

For decades the world, but especially the United States, has been snookered by science.  As of late, “follow the science” has been the popular catchphrase that goes hand-in-glove with the “science” that has been bastardized by people who don’t, but should, know better.

 

Flat Earthers is the term used by the anointed among the smart people in our country.  Those smart folks are the ones who insisted we, as a nation, get to work recycling old cans, bottles, papers, and anything else they deemed dangerous to our environment.  And we did.  For decades.

 

And for those decades we toted special recycling bins to the curb with plastic bottles, Styrofoam, glass jars, and beverage empties.  After all that we were instructed to stop recycling glass bottles.  Now!  Was the bottle crisis over?  No, it was because glass was too expensive to process.  Good ‘nuff.

 

Clearly someone along the way realized the money was flowing in the wrong direction to make it cost effective.  No actual problem was solved, and no other solution was created or substituted; it was suddenly too expensive for the guvment to recycle glass.  Damn the environment!  Follow the money.

 

For years, we’ve been hearing from experts from places such as Green Peace, the Sierra Club, and The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, all of whom have their hands deep inside the pockets of taxpayers and politicians alike.

 

Each year we fork over billions of dollars to these environmentally-conscious organizations that piously tell those benevolent politicians that this year, with only another modest eight-figure grant, the problems-at-hand will likely be solved.

 

Of course they’re not solved and never will be as long as that bottomless pit o’ cash keeps spewing money like Mt Etna spews lava.

 

One of the big years-long scams that continually need lots of your and my money is renewable energy.  Renewable energy is that stuff from which dreams are made.  If you want to challenge me, feel free.  But here are the facts that have been contorted to get access to more funding.

 

A quick internet search for bird deaths found this: “While it is true that wind turbines do kill some birds, they are not even close to the primary cause of death to the avian population.”  This appears to be the standard line used on every site concerning wind turbines, so we know it is manufactured for general consumption as a uniform response.

 

So I checked with the Audubon Society, an environmental organization known for its conservation of birds and their habitat.

 

Efficient bird murderer

The Audubon Society uses figures that an estimated 140,000 to 500,000 feathered friends succumbed to wind turbine deaths in 2020.  Of course they are quick to point out that those numbers are far less than their number of 2,400,000,000 killed by cats each year.

 

A website called EV Wind states that wind power accounted for 8.3% of electricity in 2020.  That’s not much to kill nearly 500,000 birds.

 

Unfortunately, cats don’t normally stand 60-feet in the air, and feral cats use birds as food.

 

So it was with interest that I read a newspaper article that appeared to squirt out from the liberal newsroom unnoticed.  It seems a though that pooh-poohed bird death figure may not be as insignificant as first presented.  Naughty kitties.

 

Its headline read:  “Energy firm to breed condors to replace birds killed by turbines”.  Uh, oh.  Appearing in the March 10, 2021, Tampa Bay Times, this article was written by Louis Sahagún, from the Los Angeles Times, and goes on to paint a bloody picture of the efficiency of this form renewable energy.

 

Subject to avian death have been California condors, eagles, hawks, and bats.  But none of this really disturbs environmentally conscious people who see death as an acceptable price over the environment.  My question is how much does each bird cost?

Perhaps someone should follow the money.  Wink, wink.