Sea-Scraper

From sea to shining sea, environmentalist wackos have for years been whipping up panic about dying ocean reefs. But now a cbs News story indicates that their hysteria is mere fanta-sea.

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute recently discovered a monumental coral reef off the coast of Australia. Its size made scientists’ heads swim, because at more than 1,600 feet it is taller than the Empire State Building. When they explored it last October, they measured the reef at more than a mile wide, rising up to 130 feet below the waves.

Said Schmidt Ocean Institute co-founder Wendy Schmidt, “The state of our knowledge about what’s in the ocean has long been so limited. Thanks to new technologies that work as our eyes, ears, and hands in the deep ocean … [n]ew oceanscapes are opening to us.” Will this increased knowledge keep activists from calling you shellfish when you run your air conditioner or drive your suv? No, they will cry an ocean. Just ignore the pier pressure and enjoy your life!

Obama Beach

Something’s fishy in Waimanalo, Hawaii. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser gives the “pacifics” in an article titled, “Oceanfront Property Tied to Obama Granted Exemption from Hawaii’s Environmental Laws.” Turns out, Honolulu officials gave a sweetheart loophole to a luxury estate controlled by the Obama Foundation. They want to renovate a century-old seawall that fronts the property, which will someday include a house for Barack and Michelle “My Belle” Obama.

Shoring up seawalls is against the law, because the structures “essentially cause beaches to drown.” Yes, the little people have to follow the rules, but not a Big Kahuna like Obama. Locals are angry that this exemption sets a “dangerous precedent” and will end up destroying more beaches. But the Obama Foundation people said the $3.2 million seawall fix is “necessary in order to protect the property from erosion and ocean-related hazards.”

Barack Hussein O said in June 2008 upon winning the Democrat nomination, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” Guess not.

Home Office Privilege 

White privilege, male privilege, Hawaiian beach privilege — now Deutsche Bank is adding one more to the list: “home office privilege.” And it’s taxable. The bank has proposed new pandemic measures, notably an additional 5 percent income tax on people who have the “luxury” of working remotely from home, as reported by the libertarian magazine Reason.

Deutsche Bank says the money taken from remote employees would be “given” to service workers, who have lost most of their income this year. In his report, Deutsche Bank strategist Luke Templeman wrote, “A big chunk of people have disconnected themselves from the face-to-face world yet are still leading a full economic life.” He thinks that’s unfair. Because “[t]hat means remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits. That is a big problem for the economy.” What Mr. Templeman conveniently ignores is that when you tax something, you get less of it. There goes your golden “privileged” goose. Oops.

Liberal ideas infect everywhere, and do not doubt me: this is coming soon to a blue state near you.

Sea-Scraper, Talk to the Hand, and Snake-Oil Spacemen illustrations for The Limbaugh Letter ©2020 Allison Smith; Obama Beach screenshot Google Maps; No Thanks, Karen ©2020 Shutterstock/Kaspars Grinvald/HBRH; Home Office Privilege ©2020 Shutterstock/Yuliia D; Robo-Call of the Wild Screengrab NY Post Video