“The hardest thing to believe is the abysmal depth of human stupidity.”

I can almost hear the panties bunching on these people from a state away.

Three Los Angeles City Council members want city, state and federal groups to look into whether hydraulic fracturing and other forms of oil and gas “well stimulation” played any role in the earthquake that rattled the city early Monday morning.

They passed a motion to direct city departments to team up with the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, the USGS and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to report back on the likelihood that such activities contributed to the 4.4-magnitude quake that they just had.  If only the citizens of LA could get the City Council to be this concerned about traffic and crime.

I can save the city council the time on this one so that they can get back to the important business of not approving permits, doing nothing about traffic and ignoring crime; the answer is that “fracking” had nothing to do with your earthquake.  In fact, it had about as much to do with the earthquake as the time of day you started work, the sun rising, the kind of coffee you drank this morning, Justin Bieber being in town, the tide being high or low, the moon was in the 7th house, Jupiter aligning with Mars, Al Gore getting an Oscar, or Jay Leno retiring.

I am long past the point where I can tolerate the level of arrogance and self centered mental retardation that people of this particular brand of liberalism possess.  Call me “intolerant” if you want, but these are supposed to be the smartest people in the world (according to them, just ask–they will tell you) and they think that somehow, man made anything can affect what happens on this planet to such a degree that we are going to erase ourselves from existence.

I know this because if you turn on your cable and surf on over to any of the Discovery Networks or Nat Geo, you can see the awesome power of nature on display.  If you don’t want to wait, head over to You-Tube and type in something like “Icelandic volcano eruption.”  See what you get and have a gander at what is there. After that, find yourself a liberal and show it to them too.  Then ask them what their plan would be to prevent humanity from causing these things and see what their answer is.

The problem with the non-thinking of these kinds of liberals is that they live in a society that has truly run out of problems, so they are making up their traumas and existential threats.  And because they have no enemies to focus on, they have decided to focus on themselves. They talk about the sun and wind as energy, but that is what humanity used to generate energy in the 15th century.  Using these outdated and unreliable types of energy are like starving to death while inside a Costco.   If we have the technology to be self sufficient in energy production, then we should use it in order to extract those resources from the Earth.  The idiots that believe that somehow, humans can affect the climate of the planet to the degree that we will kill ourselves off are off the charts on their level of delusion.  We can no more stop earthquakes than we can stop volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes or droughts.  The idea that humans could affect the climate by starting or stopping anything, and therefore put an end to other natural phenomena is on par with sacrificing virgins.  It is the worst kind of narcissism and the pinnacle of stupidity.

Should we recycle?  Sure.  Great idea.  Gets the most use out of something we created using materials from the Earth.  Should we look at better technology so we can use the energy we have more wisely? Without a doubt.  Is there eventually going to be an electric car I will drive?  Absolutely (I am pretty fond of the Tesla).  Should we be panicked that plastic bags are going into landfills?  No.  Should I adjust my thermostat because my A/C is melting the polar ice caps?  No.  And the reason is because the Earth doesn’t care.  The Earth is a bad-ass.  The Earth has survived meteor showers, asteroid strikes, forest fires, cataclysmic tectonic shifts, the magnetic shifting of the poles, thousand year ice ages, volcanic eruptions larger than Krakatoa, glaciers forming and receding, tidal shifts, and electromagnetic solar flares.  I think some plastic bags and a couple of oil spills can be handled by the earth between stirring its morning coffee and deciding on breakfast without a calorie burned.

And I don’t get my view on this from just looking out my window, I get it from the easily and often disrespected world of religion.  They aren’t called “acts of God” by the insurance industry for no reason.  But ask the liberals about that world and “acts of God” and I am just some dumb redneck hick who shows up to church on Saturday night to get the best parking spot for Sunday services who couldn’t possibly understand science.  My belief in God makes it so that I already know that we humans could no sooner start or stop earthquakes by using wind power than we could stop the sun from rising by rubbing the planet in sunscreen.

So the next time the LA City Council is in the mood to find out why they had an earthquake, they would have better luck finding out why it happened by rounding up some virgins (sketchy process in LA to be sure) and heading for the altar.

Or maybe, they could just Google “Plate Tectonics.”