Injun Summer

Yep, sonny, this is sure enough Injun summer. Don’t know what that is, I reckon, do you?

Well, that’s when all the homesick Injuns come back to play. You know, a long time ago, long afore yer granddaddy was born even, there used to be heaps of Injuns around here – thousands – millions, I reckon, fas as that’s concerned. Reg’lar sure ‘nough Injuns – none o’ yer cigar store Injuns, not much. They wuz all around here – right here where you’re standin’.

Don’t be skeered – hain’t none around now, leastways no live ones. They been gone this many a year.

They all went away and died, so they ain’t no more left.

But every year, ‘long about now, they all come back, leastways their sperrits do. They’re here now. You can see ‘em off across the fields. Look real hard. See that kind o’ hazy, misty look out yonder? Well, them’s Injuns – Injun sperrits marchin ‘ along an’ dancin’ in the sunlight. That’s what makes that kind o’ haze that’s everywhere – it’s just the sperrits of the Injuns all come back. They’re all around us now.

See off yonder; see them tepees? They kind o’ look like corn shocks from here, but them’s Injun tents, sure as you’re a foot high. See ‘em now? Sure, I knowed you could. Smell that smoky sort o’ smell in the air? That’s the campfires a-burnin’ and their pipes a-goin’.

Lots o’ people say it’s just leaves burnin’, but it ain’t. It’s the campfires, an’ th’ Injuns are hoppin’ ’round ‘em t’ beat the old Harry.

You just come out here tonight when the moon is hangin’ over the jill off yonder an’ the harvest fields is all swimmin’ in the moonlight, an’ you can see the Injuns and the tepees jest as plain as kin be. You can, eh? I nowed you would.

Jever notice how the leaves turn red ’bout this time o’ year?” That’s jest another sign o’ redskins. That’s when an old Injun sperrit gits tired dancin’ an’ goes up an’ squats on a leaf t’ rest. Why, I kin hear ‘em rustlin’ an’ whisperin’ an’ creepin’ ’round among the leaves all the time; an’ ever’ once’n a while a leaf gives way under some fat old Injun ghost and comes floatin’ down to the ground. See – here’s one now. See how red it is? That’s the war paint rubbed off’n an Injun ghost, sure’s you’re born.

Purty soon all the Injuns’ll go marchin’ away agin, back to the happy huntin’ ground, but next year you’ll see ‘em troopin’ back – th’ sky jest hazy with ‘em and their campfires smolderin’ away jest like they are now.

NOTE: John T. McCutcheon’s “Injun Summer” was first published in 1907. The original of the cartoon hangs in the museum of the Chicago Historical Society.

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“It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.” — Sigurd F. Olson

Well, well, a renowned scientists is not happy with the global warming crowd and has made his final stand. Non-scientists and those scientists who like their grant money have finally gotten under his skin.

Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that “global warming is occurring.”

The official position of the American Physical Society (APS) supports the theory that man’s actions have inexorably led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of carbon dioxide.

Giaever does not agree — and put it bluntly and succinctly in the subject line of his email, reprinted at Climate Depot, a website devoted to debunking the theory of man-made climate change. “I resign from APS,” Giaever wrote.

Giaever was cooled to the statement on warming theory by a line claiming that “the evidence is incontrovertible.”

“In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?” he wrote in an email to Kate, executive officer of the physics society.

“The claim … is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this ‘warming’ period,” his email message said.

“The word ‘incontrovertible’ … is rarely used in science because by its very nature, science questions prevailing ideas. The observational data indicate a global surface warming of 0.74 °C (+/- 0.18 °C) since the late 19th century.”

Giaever has since become a vocal dissenter from the alleged “consensus” regarding man-made climate fears, Climate Depot reported, noting that he was one of more than 100 co-signer of a 2009 letter to Barack  Obama critical of his position on climate change.

Here are a selection of quotes from the emails stolen from computers at the University of East Anglia. Many involve Phil Jones, head of the university’s Climatic Research Unit that demonstrate the lies behind much of the “global warming/climate change” so-called science.

My, my, it’s a terrible thing when you lie and even worse when you get caught. Al Gore’s pants have been on fire so long I’m surprised he isn’t in a burn unit at a hospital.

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Can America be saved? As we know, many American’s don’t like America as exceptional, one of a kind, a Constitutional Republic. Many American’s want us to look more like Europe, maybe even Eastern Europe during the Iron Curtain days. Maybe our cities and towns should resemble East Berlin before the “wall” came tumbling down.

Those so-called American’s are Marxists, Bolsheviks who are constantly playing the race card, the class warfare game, the anti-rich, anti-prosperous, anti-successful bunch who want redistribution of wealth, they want the so-called rich to pay up with their sweat equity.

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Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, would change all that. Rick Perry isn’t a Beltway, status quo, DC parrot. Rick Perry has contempt for the politico’s in Washington and his record is one of success in Texas that hopefully would translate into success in all 50 states.

From the UK Telegraph:

It is a pocket of rural America that has changed little in a century and is about as far removed from the bustle and marble monuments of Washington DC as one could imagine.

But Paint Creek, where ranches and wooden homes, some now abandoned, are dotted beside cotton and wheat fields, is the place that defines the man who some Republicans believe could unseat President Barack Obama next November.

Governor Rick Perry was part of the fifth generation to work the land at Paint Creek, some 200 miles west of Dallas on the flat expanse of plains known as “the Big Empty”.

It was here that he was imbued with the country values of church, family, neighbourliness, thrift and hard work that now seem part of a bygone America beyond places like West Texas.

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You won’t read positive stories about Gov. Perry in the United States press. They fear Rick Perry like they fear Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin.

“There were three things to do in Paint Creek: school, church, and Boy Scouts,” Mr Perry said last year, looking back on the late 1950s.

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