Quick.  For anyone over 30, what was the big boogie man of the 80s?  Anyone?

Well, for those of us around, and objective enough to understand what happened during the 80s, the answer is easy.  It was Thermonuclear war, and a Cowboy in the White House that was going to bring it about.  Except that Cowboys name was not Bush (not even Bush41), but Reagan.  And so in 1983, we were blessed with the 80s version of "The Day After Tomorrow" and "An Inconvenient Truth".  The Name?  "The Day After".  With A and H-bombs rising into the Midwest sky, and then raining down from the other side.

We were told this was inevitable, and Reagan was going to cause it.  We had the Algore's of that day yelling we were all going to perish in a nuclear holocaust.  Fire and Brimstone type of stuff.

There was and is just one problem with that doomsday scenario.  It never happened.  In fact, the exact opposite happened.  Duck and Cover became a trivia piece with the demise of the Soviet Union.  Due to the Arms race they could not afford to pay for brought to you by that humble Cowboy, Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Next Question:  When did Global warming become the buzzword of the day.  Anyone?

If you said in the early 90s, go to the head of the class!  In the 70s, we were headed for a new ice age (cause:  The same thing that is now going to fry us).  By the 80s, when it was clear that we were not headed for an ice age (probably due to the hottest temps recorded in Virginia in the last 30 years to use anecdotal evidence), the doomsayers retreated to lick their wounds and plot a new way to terrorize the world.  In the mean time, those Wascally Democrats would keep our nerves jangled with repeated warnings that we were headed for a Nuclear war.

Once the 80s, and Reagan was gone, they sprung anew from their crevices and cracks to proclaim, not an Ice age, but now Global Warming!  Leading the charge as a lone (loony?) voice in the wilderness was none other than - Algore! (Earth in the Balance anyone?).  And we are off to the races again.  Except now we have a new cowboy (do not mind that man behind the curtain who did nothing for 8 years in the 80s).  This one's name is Bush.  And what has he done that is causing Global Warming?  The exact same thing his predecessor did.  Nothing.  But don't tell that to the kooks.  They need a villain, and any one right of Mao Tse Dung is fair game.  Facts don't matter.  Actions don't matter.  Just if you are a bleeding heart or a rational mind.  The former gets a pass on anything, the latter blame on everything.  Kooks need their boogie man, and they finally have one.

But unfortunately for the kooks, eventually a democrat will again ascend to the white house.  And what will he (she) do about Global Warming?  nothing.  Because that is all that can be done (we can and are doing a lot about pollution).  But will that president be vilified?  No.  They wont be a conservative.

That is how kooks work.  I am sure that the next catastrophe for the kooks will be the planet being over run with mammals or some such doomsday event (after they finally realize that man's actions on this planet are like a flea on a dog.  An itch, nothing more).

For now, the best thing to do is grab some popcorn and a soda and watch the flick.  Not an Inconvenient Truth - that is just Algore's Mickey Moore piece - so is total fiction.  No the picture most of us will watch is the kooks turning 10 different shades of purple and red when they realize that the sky is not falling, and no one cares for Chicken Little any longer.