“Oh, hell! Shut up about my light bulbs. Just. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.”

Ann Althouse commenting on this NY Times light bulb commentary.

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Flush 8 million gallons of water because of 250 ml of urine?

Portland did. Would Boulder do the same? Inquiring minds want to know.

More here.

I suspect Boulder’s water treatment is after the reservoirs so it couldn’t happen here but I don’t know for certain.

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It’s not nice to fool with mother nature

Sex selective abortions. A book review of “Unnatural Selections” by Mara Hvistendahl

Natural ratio: 105 boys to 100 girls

India: 112:100
China: 121:100
Azerbaijan: 115:100
Georgia: 118:100
Georgia: 115:100
Armenia: 120:100

The 2nd half of the review regards how to address sex selective abortions. My intent is not to directly address the abortion issues (although it’s not clear how to ignore it and address this problem) but simply to highlight the issue.

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Deadly Indifference

Met Michael Brown, author or Deadly Indifference at his book signing at the Boulder bookstore this evening. I missed him speaking as I had family duties I had to attend to.

Other books on the active reading list:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (about 2/3 the way through)

Your Teacher Said WHAT?! by Joe and Blake Kernan

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IPCC taken out to the woodshed

James Delingpole takes note of the unusual relationship between the IPCC and Greenpeace and their latest climate change report.

I love this paragraph..

The Man Made Global Warming industry is a crock, a scam on an epic scale, fed by the world’s biggest outbreak of mass hysteria, stoked by politicians dying for an excuse to impose more tax and regulation on us while being seen to “care” about an issue of pressing urgency, fuelled by the shrill lies and tear-jerking propaganda of activists possessed of no understanding of the real world other than a chippy instinctive hatred of capitalism, given a veneer of scientific respectability by post-normal scientists who believe their job is to behave like politicians rather than dispassionate seekers-after-truth, cheered on by rent-seeking businesses, financed by the EU, the UN and the charitable foundations of the guilt-ridden rich, and promoted at every turn by schoolteachers, college lecturers, organic muesli packets, Walkers crisps, the BBC, CNBC, Al Gore, the Prince Of Wales, David Suzuki, the British Antarctic Survey, Barack Obama, David Cameron and Knut – the late, dyslexic-challenging, baby polar bear, formerly of Berlin Zoo.


Read the whole thing.

You see, the latest IPCC report on renewable energy powering the planet has a problem…

An official IPCC report bigging up renewable energy as the power source of the future turns out to have been lead-authored by an activist from Greenpeace and based not on solid science but a wish-fulfilment fantasy scenario devised by, you guessed it, Greenpeace.

And then the Daily Camera has Clay Evans telling us it’s all water under the bridge and you’d have to be a neanderthal to be a global warming denier.

Except that Will, the Freakonauts, Rush, Gray and all the other naysayers are, in all likelihood (what in life, after all, is 100 percent?) dangerously, selfishly wrong.


Oh and Clay sites the IPCC from a previous report and uses that once meaningful phrase, peer reviewed…

But unlike the naysayers, most of whom seem to shout their certainty, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change`s fourth report, issued in 2007, a massive examination of virtually all available peer-reviewed climate research, “was very honest in saying what uncertainties there were going into the future,” Trenberth says.

And what did that report say that some 43 percent of Americans find so hard to believe?


LOL! The IPCC needs to reclaim it’s credibility. I figure that will take about 10 years and by then it will be obvious to everyone that isn’t a life members of the Church of Global Warming like Clay is, that the first quotation in this post is true.

h/t to Instapundit, The Conservatory and American Digest.

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Glenn Reynolds takes Apple to the Woodshed

Apple turns ‘Big Brother’

A phone that’s designed to be remotely disabled is a phone that doesn’t really belong to its user, but to its manufacturer and the manufacturer’s “partners” in media and government.

When you have a tool that’s controlled by someone else, that’s not ownership. What it is, in my opinion, is un-American.

My message to Apple and others of its ilk: Give the power to the users. That’s what the 21st century is supposed to be about.


They did make this commercial, didn’t they?

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Companies Leaving California in Record Numbers

Who is John Galt.

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Oh good grief

“I see the sadness and worry that’s creasing his face,” she said to a crowd of about 500 at the Pasadena luncheon organized by the Southern California Women For Obama. She described his worth ethic as “tireless,” according to pool reports.

Cry me a river.

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Global Warming, where is it?

….The increase in emissions “should shock even the most jaded negotiators” at international climate talks currently taking place in Bonn, Germany, the UK Guardian reports. But there’s only one problem with this storyline; global temperatures have not increased at all during the past decade.

The evidence is powerful, straightforward, and damning. NASA satellite instruments precisely measuring global temperatures show absolutely no warming during the past the past 10 years. This is the case for the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, including the United States. This is the case for the Arctic, where the signs of human-caused global warming are supposed to be first and most powerfully felt. This is the case for global sea surface temperatures, which alarmists claim should be sucking up much of the predicted human-induced warming. This is the case for the planet as a whole.

If atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions are the sole or primary driver of global temperatures, then where is all the global warming? We’re talking 10 years of higher-than-expected increases in greenhouse gases, yet 10 years of absolutely no warming. That’s 10 years of nada, nunca, nein, zero, and zilch.

(emphasis added – Ed)

More here.

h/t and more analysis over at Hot Air.

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FBI snooping

Can you spell troubling?

Of course, it’s on Faux news so it’s probably just BS anyway.

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Coming soon to Boulder…

Consumers’ electric bills likely to spike as coal plants close

No need to worry, Boulder has consultants! Don’t worry, be happy (or fill that medical MJ prescription!)

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NRC and executive thuggary

Boulderites, I’m sure you’re against the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository site. Is this the way you want to achieve your goals?

Do the ends justify the means? Unfortunately, I already know the answer.

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“I completely fail to understand why any Republican would call for Weiner’s resignation.”

I agree completely with John Hinderaker over at Powerline. Anthony Weiner, please stay in office.

This is, I hope, my last comment on the Anthony Weiner digital raincoat scandal. I completely fail to understand why any Republican would call for Weiner’s resignation. Are you kidding? I want him in Congress forever, if possible! I want him representing his party on every other cable news show, as he has done for the last several years. I want people to snicker every time they see a “D” behind a Congressman’s name. Anthony Weiner is the gift that keeps on giving, the twit that keeps on tweeting! (emphasis and highlighting added – Ed)

Resign? Hell no! I want Anthony Weiner to be the face of the Democratic Party. I wonder: has he looked into the possibility of a primary challenge against President Obama?


Touche.

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Corn inventories at lowest level since Dust Bowl days

Wonder why?

The problem here is the mandate, which assumes that corn — which is used in pretty much everything from plastics to baby powder to animal feed — will continue to see record yields. I live and grew up in Kansas, the heart of the Farm Belt, and the idea that every year will be a bumper crop is what we call urinating into a moving air mass.

Hey, you can even blame President George W. Bush for this…

Before that particular fight was over, however, former President George W. Bush had signed legislation which required 40 percent of the U.S. corn harvest to be slated for ethanol production, and for massive subsidies to make corn economically viable.


Cut the subsidies, get rid of the 40% mandate. Problem solved.

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Chicken’s coming home to roost

We’re talking operation Fast and Furious, the ill conceived (to put it mildly) gun running program sponsored by our very own government to supposedly expose the entire gun smuggling operation.

But now the casualties are coming in.

Mexican officials estimate 150 of their people have been shot by Fast and Furious guns. Police have recovered roughly 700 guns at crime scenes, 250 in the U.S. and the rest in Mexico, including five AK-47s found at a cartel warehouse in Juarez last month.

A high-powered sniper rifle was used to shoot down a Mexican military helicopter. Two other Romanian-made AK-47s were found in a shoot-out that left 11 dead in the state of Jalisco three weeks ago.

The guns were traced to the Lone Wolf Gun Store in Glendale, Ariz., and were sold only after the store employees were told to do so by the ATF.

(emphasis added – ed)
This is beyond sickening and pathetic. Budget cutting, I know where to look first. As punishment perhaps ATF management should become “boots on the ground” in protecting our border. On 2nd thought, they would turn and run anyway. Perhaps a one way ticket to Northern Mexico is in order.

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Daily Camera takes a stand on Anthony Weiner

The Daily Camera half heartedly comments on the Anthony Weiner affair.

I have plenty to say on this editorial but it can wait until tomorrow.

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Instabummer!

Self explanatory…

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Deja Vu all over again….

Of course the study was “highly influential,” because it fit the narrative of environmental doomsayers, whose default position is always to accept an alarmist finding, no matter how thin or incomplete the evidence is. The story goes on to recount the weaknesses in the original research and the various critics of the original alarmist study. The critics were always ignored or shouted down by the alarmists or the “precautionary principle” types who argued that we needed to regulate more contamination threats right now because “we can’t take a chance,” etc. Remind you of any other particular issue? (Yes, this could be a multiple-choice question, with several right answers.)

Nothing to see here, just don’t stop believing.

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Newsflash to Boulderites

More Than 9 in 10 Americans Continue to Believe in God

It’s that 25 square miles surrounded by reality thing.

h/t to Hot Air.

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Obamacare and Moral Hazard (Screw Obamacare)


President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.


Way to incentivize productivity.   This has got moral hazard written all over it.  If you’re a progressive who believes everyone should have “free” healthcare can you at least admit the unintended consequences of such a law combined with the philosophy expressed by the Solicitor General could be bad for the future of our Nation?

Nah, what was I thinking?

Ya know, my income is a small percentage of what it used to be.  Yet, I’ve struggled to make the insurance payments for our family as I deem it very important to have this type of protection against a medical “catastrophe”.  Well, it happened, not to my wife or myself but to our daughter.  Our insurance company has easily paid out over $100,000 in medical bills since November.  Before this ordeal is over, it will most likely be in the $200,000 to $250,000 range.

To think I could be getting free healthcare from Obamacare.  Yet I rebel and I’m proud of it.  Screw Obamacare.

Added 6/3@09:27A
Glenn Reynolds says what I was thinking. Going Galt. (yeah, I know, he said it, I didn’t! 😉 )

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