Timothy P. Carney: Congress gives your money to T. Boone Pickens

T. Boone Pickens, like any good businessman, can read changing economic conditions. While he spent the 1980s as a “corporate raider” and oilman, in this age of Barack Obama and Henry Waxman, he has shifted his focus to lobbyists, feel-good green messages, and technology that depends on government subsidies.
The result: Taxpayers will now be subsidizing T. Boone Pickens, a billionaire—and Republicans and Democrats in Congress tell you it’s for your own good.

Climate Research News » Al Gore Suffers Memory Loss after Cycling from USA to Oz

Well, surely the Goron wouldn’t have travelled by plane (the Devil’s wings) to Oz. Anyway, apparently, according to Gore, the UK AIT court case went in his favour.

The Lady Doth Protest too Much… — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

As we have argued here on Climate Resistance, climate change has become the means by which journalists and politicians alike have sought to reorientate their moral compasses. Accordingly, the world is increasingly seen through the prism of climate change. But by grounding themselves in ‘facts’, rather than in more philosophical commitments to principles, values, or even political ideas, politicians and journalists make themselves vulnerable. It means that if the ‘facts’ are challenged, their entire perspective on the world crumbles, and their value as journalists/politicians disintegrates. This is why we find journalists and politicians reacting so angrily to even the merest hint or whiff of ‘denial’.

In case you missed it: Why we should love James Hansen… « Green Hell Blog

Apparently Hansen’s meddling in politics was OK as long as the greens found him useful. Now, he’s just a thorn in their side.

Go Jim, go!