Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Forget global warming, there's a space rock with our name on it - Jonah Goldberg - Los Angeles Times
The year is 2109. Celebrations continue as mankind's heroic, century-long, quintillion-dollar effort to lower the global mean temperature by 1 degree has paid off: It's just as hot as it was in 2009. Few can contain their jubilation.

But even as the carbon-neutral champagne corks fly, the sky darkens. A projectile of a different kind is coming our way. An asteroid streaks across the skies, giving the media just enough time to spread the word. The New York Times, now beamed directly into subscribers' brains via digital-neural networks, fulfills ancient prophecy and warns that women and minorities will be hardest hit by the incoming object.
Investor's Business Daily -- Unable To See Wind's Deficiencies For Forests Of Concrete And Steel
The ads and lobbyists seek new mandates, tax breaks and subsidies. Wind promoters want to quiet opponents long enough to get energy and climate legislation enacted — before Americans realize how it would drive the price of energy still higher, kill jobs, curtail living standards and liberties, and raise the cost of everything we eat, drive, heat, cool, grow, make and do.
YouTube - Policy Translated: Stimulus to Nowhere [mentions Waxman-Markey at the 2:20 mark]
In this episode Ryan Young, Regulatory Studies Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, talks about the economics of federal stimulus spending.

Policy Translated is a comedy channel that focuses on complicated policy issues. We solve that problem by translating lectures about policy with comedic subtitles.
Sarah First!
Sarah’s cabinet included the addition of a climate change sub-cabinet comprised of those whose job was to promote a fallacy upon Alaskans. There is nothing this cabinet has done that has resulted in any plan or direction that benefits Alaskans. Worse, is the fact that Miss 10th Amendment State’s Rights to the death Sarah put a FED in charge of the cabinet. An EPA employee runs a State of Alaska cabinet department.

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