Sep
12
2011
First… Prince Charles, who just the other day said this:
Despite campaigning for years on global warming, he said climate change was not the only problem but merely speeding up the “rapacious” destruction of natural resources like water, land and food that humans need to survive.
Got any proof of that??? Besides the old “it’s obvious things are happening worse now than they were before” thing. Example – Irene is supposed to be proof of global warming, yet it was only a category 1 hurricane when it made landfall. It’s extremely odd to use that as an example… but they do. Oh, the earthquake in Japan was also proof of the effects of global warming, even though no one has ever shown a plausible link to show how global warming causes earthquakes… it just DOES! OK!!!
Not mentioned by Charles in his speech, a recent move by the European Parliament to spend 1.8 million Euro’s on homeopathic research on cows. Prince Charles, the standard barer of all things supposedly science, is a strong advocate of homeopathic medicine. While the European Zone is headed straight into insolvency – Greece is poised to default at any time, the EU decides to throw away 1.8 mil on giving cows magic water. Though Charles strongly promotes homeopathy, and that advocacy does influence the opinion of policy makers in Europe, I’m willing to give him a pass here. Just barely.
Al Gore, on the other hand… Here is what one of his lackeys says will be in the “24 Hours-In-A-Row Inconvienienter Truthier” thing he’s doing on his… Current Channel???? Web site??? Something????…
Wait, I just went to the web site, and I’m unclear how this will all play out. Am I supposed to sit in front of my computer all day for this?
Oh, well, I guess I CAN do that. But to watch JUST ONE THING???…. That Isn’t PORN??????????????
I don’t know! That’s a pretty tall order!!!!
Lost my train of thought there for a moment. I get distracted sometimes when things don’t make sense. Here is what the lackey says of this latest media blitz:
“There will be 200 new slides arguing the connection between more extreme weather and climate change,”
<sarc> New Slides????…. AWESOME!!!!!!!! Consider me converted!!!!!! </sarc>
It would be better if they had 200 peer reviewed papers based on actual observation to bolster their case… But hey, I ask too much. As has been shown over and over again, this all hand waiving by an alarmist sect of science. Real honest science is not what’s really important to them anyway… It’s this:
“There will be a full-on assault on climate skeptics, exploring where they get their funding from.”
Exxon and other Big Oil associates gave President Obama almost $100,000 that we know of during the 2008 campaign… Wonder if he’ll be on the list of bad people?
Yep. it’s not about science, it’s about the same old ad-hom attacks on scientist and bloggers who don’t tow the alarmist party line. (where is my Exxon paycheck btw?) They are going to spend all this time and money, broadcasting to people who are already the true believers! On that – Keep in mind, though this is being labeled as a “broadcast”, it’s nothing of the kind. It is just series of lectures by people that most of us have never heard of, on a topic that most simply don’t care about. Does anyone really think that anyone but the already “very concerned”, who have heard all this before are going to take the time to watch this??? Look at the web site. This is really nothing more than a fund raiser.
PS: From the Reuters article:
The film was criticized by some climate change skeptics for being one-sided.
No. It was criticized for being an Al Gore aggrandizing puff piece and for being scientifically inaccurate, sometimes grossly so.
PSS:
Concern about climate change in the United States, the world’s second biggest emitter, has fallen steadily to 48 percent in 2011, from 62 percent in 2007, an opinion poll showed in August.
Whoa!!!!! We used to be the first!!!! Shouldn’t the new first place holder get some mention in this article? Or is it somehow not important what China and and it’s population thinks about climate change? Also, there are two reasons we Americans don’t care as much about climate change as we used to. Worries like that are a luxury for the rich and well off. That was easy to worry about when you had job security and all. Well, we don’t have things as easy as we did five years ago, and climate change really isn’t very important when you are worried about keeping a house over your families heads. Plus, ummmm… I hate to bring it up… But… you… don’t…. think… you…. may…. have…. a….. problem…. with… the …. messenger? Do you???????
Sep
12
2011
In a bad way! 🙁 Needs new catalytic converters.
Here is Murphy in happier times, up in the Sierra Nevada’s near the little town of Mariposa.
Sep
11
2011
……..
There. That’s it.
I don’t feel the need to do some elaborate post to “celebrate” the day that turned our country down a divided path, a day that heightened the ability of partisan hacks to declare someone “unpatriotic” simply because they have differing views or suggested different solutions to a problem. Instead of people working to reunite and heal the wounds from the 90’s, both parties used 9/11 to ratchet up the finger-pointing and make things worse. It’s disgusting.
That’s all I have to say today on this topic..
Sep
9
2011
The Errors.
It’s been pointed out that Obama screwed up his understanding of Lincoln’s role within the Republican Party. In the grand scheme of things, that’s not that big a deal.
This Is! From Reuters:
Georgia jobs program cited by Obama has big flaws
Quote:
“This jobs plan builds on a program in Georgia that several Republican leaders have highlighted where people who collect unemployment insurance participate in temporary work as a way to build their skills while they look for a permanent job,” Obama told Congress.
But Georgia Work$ is being restructured to overcome significant flaws. Even within the state, it is seen as “not a marquee program,” said state Labor Commissioner Mark Butler, the Republican elected official who oversees it.
More than 30,000 people benefited from the program in the past, but in its current form, Georgia Work$ is tiny. Only 12 unemployed people signed up in August and 92 have done so since February, according to state Department of Labor statistics.
The voluntary program places unemployed people with firms for eight weeks of job training similar to an internship. Participants receive unemployment insurance plus a small stipend and have the chance of a job at the end of it.
Butler said the program he inherited in January was virtually bankrupt and “fraught with problems,” so he is surprised it has attracted so much national attention.
Doesn’t anyone in the White House believe in fact checking anymore?
PS. I do love the way the President demands that we pass the bill before there even is one.. is that so we can see what’s in it?????
Sep
9
2011
If you’re going to go after Palin for her inaccuracies concerning history (and I have, oh have I ever)… What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander!!!
Hat Tip: Althouse
Sep
9
2011
Now that Obama had laid out the latest clarion call to implement the uninspiring and already proven useless same ol’ same ol’, here is my three point Five… Five plan to get us back on the road to recovery:
- Problem One – Lack of Manufacturing Infrastructure. Look at every strong growth economy in the last 300 year. All thrived when manufacturing was at least 20% of the economy. Ours is somewhere around 10 to 12 percent of GDP. That’s not nearly enough.
- Problem Two – Bizaare Tax System. You know things are horrific when the guy you chose as your Treasury Secretary can’t even do his taxes correctly! Stop playing fiddling-faddle with the tax code and just have a three tiered system. Period. That would drop the annual rate down three to ten points, or more. Ditch most all of the deductions and subsidies and just have a simple one page report. That bold dynamic change right there would greatly reduce payroll and accounting expenses, and put a spur into money generation, investment, and jobs creation.
- Problem Three – High Corporate Taxes. This is tied to both problems one and two. If you lower… Or, dare I say, eliminate this tax, that would be a HUGE incentive for companies to bring back many jobs that have been shipped overseas! Lets face it, not all environmental regulation is bad, though much of it needs a review to make sure it is efficient and effectively implemented with out putting undue restraint on business. If corporations could offset those environmental costs with less or no taxes, then they would come back. Maybe we’d see a purely American product like Levi’s 501 Blues manufactured here in the states once again.
- Problem Four – Corporations are NOT people! This is an absurd notion solidified during the Railroad Barron days. Here’s what we should do. Remove Corporations from “person-hood” status. This will have a boon for both political parties. Since Corporations are no longer people, they shouldn’t have extra taxes, which would please Conservatives. Liberals will like that they will no longer be able to claim the free speech right, and will not be able to donate bazillions of dollars to political candidates… Which ties into …
- Problem Five – Campaign Donations. No company OR union should be able to donate to politicians or funding to support legislation. That should only be a strictly human endeavor. Now.. If a bunch of like minded people want to form a PAC and donate that way. No problem… As long as that is completely open to scrutiny.
Look, we can’t keep doing what we’ve been doing for the last thirty years. The economy is immune to it. We need to do something bold, something grand that will capture the collective imagination of the consumers at large – Something that stirs the economic soul!
Thoughts anyone????
Sep
9
2011
The plan.. or what-ever that was? As far as fixing the economy… I won’t do much. It’s will add a few more jobs, but will do nothing to fix the underlying structural problems that are weighing down the economy like an anchor around the neck.
Politically though, it’s a good move.
By throwing everything and the kitchen sink out there, knowing full well there is no way even half of this can get through Congress, Obama now has his campaign weapon against the Republican congress = That they didn’t work hard enough to implement Obama’s wonderful plan, and if the economy is still in the pits, he’ll be able to blame it on Congress.
Sep
8
2011
After a while…. looking at a chicken would have been more interesting.
In a nut-shell:
“We’re going to have tax breaks for people while we raise taxes on people. Corporations are bad because they take advantage of tax incentives we have given them. We’re offering tax incentives for companies to create jobs. We’re going to do three times as much as we did before, with 4/10th less the money than the last stimulus!…. blah blah blah”
I didn’t hear all of the speech; I turned it off somewhere in the middle. In my defense, you can only get so far down the laundry list before you realize there just isn’t enough money at your disposal to do all the things you promise.
We needed bold.
We got nothing more than the same ideas that have gotten us into this mess in the first place.
This was nothing more than the usual State Of The Union, complete with the empty promises that won’t / can’t be done… Just offered up without the lie that “This Union Is Strong” offered up at the beginning.