Saturday, April 4, 2009

Gore Has A Problem: Why Biofuels Are the=?UTF-8?B?IFJhaW5mb3Jlc3TigJlz?= Worst Enemy

 
"...amid the hype, problems have emerged. Biodiesel emits less than one-quarter the carbon of regular diesel once it's burned. But when production—and the destruction of ecosystems in the developing countries where most biofuel crops are grown—is factored in, many biofuels may actually emit more carbon than does petroleum..."

"…According to Greenpeace the destruction and degradation of Indonesian peatlands releases 4 percent of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions."

The Master of Misdirection - How Obama Retains His Popularity

 
"Obama is the master of misdirection. His skill in using this tactic is a key to his success as a candidate and to his popularity as president. He is a great salesman, marketing his product--the liberal agenda, plus a few add-ons--in a manner that disguises what he's really up to.

Misdirection isn't the same as exaggeration. Everyone understands that politicians inflate their accomplishments. So their self-puffery is discounted. Misdirection is different. It is meant to deceive."

[More at above title link.]

 

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Daily Strangelove: How the Media and the Left Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Terrorists

Another thread leads back to the innocuous first twists from the moment that a child realizes that they aren't going to be fitting in with the dominant forces of modern culture—math and science. And since grade schools do not teach principles of business then you're not going to get any real foundation in the other mode of modernity, unless your folks own a successful business. It's an odd and frightening feeling that you are moving through life without a solid path under your feet, and resentment builds towards math and science—a resentment that ends up being the bedrock of the environmental movement.

Moving forward along this thread, several years later, in middle school, it could be in high school, the talent for art or writing emerges—one of the main draws (no pun intended) of these courses is that there is no objective measurement of right and wrong, as opposed to the dreaded and clearly practical sciences. By the time you hit your stride in high school you've learned the art of bullshitting your way to an A, that simply making the words sound good will get you the good grade, and it will get you into college, where you can be completely immersed in writing papers and essay tests—where truth resides with the person who can make their words sound like truth, where the message now is crystal clear, there is no objective truth.

[More at headline link.]

[Reposted from Feb. 19, 2009]



Monday, February 16, 2009

Obama Truth

(Click title link for Soros expose.)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Busybody Dems trying to bail out auto industry, after trying to destroy it

By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 9, 2008

With the nation's automotive industry hemorrhaging cash, congressional leaders called on the Bush administration yesterday to offer government assistance to the car companies as part of the Treasury Department's $700 billion emergency rescue program.

The call came one day after General Motors, the nation's largest auto manufacturer, announced another multibillion dollar loss for the third quarter and said it was running out of money fast. Ford, the second-biggest car company, also reported heavy losses. Unless the government steps in, analysts warned, GM could face bankruptcy, endangering the livelihoods of about 100,000 North American autoworkers and hundreds of thousands of others whose jobs depend on the industry.

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) asked Paulson to "review the feasibility . . . of providing temporary assistance to the automobile industry during the current financial crisis."

The letter notes that Congress granted Paulson broad discretion to use the bailout money to "restore financial market stability. A healthy automobile manufacturing sector is essential to the restoration of financial market security," the letter continues, as well as to "the overall health of our economy, and the livelihood of the automobile sector's workforce."

If the request is granted, it would expand the federal government's role in private enterprise far beyond the financial sector. Critics have warned that a bailout of GM would attract a long line of other companies to Washington to argue that their survival, too, is critical to the economic health of the country. The move would push the Bush administration to decide winners and losers in yet another huge sector of the economy, and it would force President-elect Barack Obama to manage a complex restructuring of the ailing automotive industry.