Global warming is allegedly responsible for so many disparate problems around the world.
1. Cannibalism
2. The Death of the Loch Ness Monster
3. Beer Gets More Expensive
4. Pythons Take Over America
5. Kidney Stones
6. Skinny Whales
7. Shark Attacks
8. Black Hawk Down
9. Frozen Penguin Babies
10. Killer Stingray Invasion
Indeed.
IBD comments on global warming and the Las Vegas snow storms. This comment really sums up the GW religion…
>”If the issues weren’t so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it,” said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma.
“The mean global temperature, at least measured by satellite, is the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years, sea level has stopped rising, hurricane and cyclone activity in the Northern Hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980.”
(bold is mine)
Heck even Lou Dobbs is questioning global warming, I saw it myself, last night!
I’m on a dial up connection as I visit my Mom. I’m returning to Boulder on Saturday and posting should pick up a bit then.
The Vegas snow storm could be the worst since 1979, almost 30 years! No wonder the environmental wackos call it “climate change” instead of global warming.
Trading TV’s for intellectual capital.
“It must be a conspiracy. Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America, and saving their wages to buy their kids pianos – making American kids stupider and Chinese kids smarter. . . . Americans really, really don’t have a clue what is coming down the pike. The present shift in intellectual capital in favor of the East has no precedent in world history.”
How are Fannie and Freddie linked to the housing crisis and why did they do it?
By April 2008, according to a document prepared for then-Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd and marked “Confidential — Highly Restricted,” Fannie’s $312 billion in Alt-A mortgages represented “12% of single-family credit exposure.” This book of business, the document notes, “was originated to maintain relevance in market with customers — main originators were Countrywide, Lehman, Indymac, Washington Mutual, Amtrust.” The first four need no introduction; regulators ordered Ohio-based Amtrust to stop lending two weeks ago.
It is funny in a way, or at least amusing, but the zealotry of Obama supporters in their efforts to vanquish the mention of “Blagojevich” is troubling from a big picture point of view. Obama dittoheads, eh?
This is how government auto bailout will work according to IBD…
Here’s the broad outline of what we believe will essentially be an in-place nationalization of a major American industry:
• The government will name a “car czar” to rule over the industry with “veto power” over any Big Three expenditure over $25 million.
• The government will get stock warrants equal to 20% of the bailout — today equal to about half the market value of the Big Three. Basically, the government will own the auto industry.
• Government will control the pay of Big Three executives, limit dividends to shareholders and give government debt priority over private bondholders.
This would be the death knell of American-style capitalism, where Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of “creative destruction” has helped forge the most productive, wealthiest economy ever.
Worse, none of this addresses the Big Three’s basic problem, which is that their costs are completely out of whack with the rest of U.S. industry. The bill asks nothing at all of auto unions, even though they’re a major cause of the industry’s dire condition.
As we and others have noted, U.S. automakers pay their average worker just over $70 an hour in total compensation, compared with about $45 an hour for Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai and other transplants. Same work force. Same country. Nearly a $30-an-hour difference. A “car czar” won’t be able to address this difference.
(bold is mine) Isn’t there a saying about a “road paved with good intentions”?
be careful what you wish for.
Media: Some journalists out there seem to be actually rooting for a new economic depression — the very thing that will hurt them more than it will hurt many others.
“While the state is wallowing in a $28 billion deficit over the next 18 months, newly-elected lawmakers got new cars. From $32,000 hybrids to $46,000 Cadillacs, their new rides will cost taxpayers an estimated $1.3 million.”
These folks need to find new jobs. Tomorrow wouldn’t be soon enough. Then again, I didn’t vote for them and it’s not my tax money they’re spending (yet).
Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California.
Forecaster Cameron Venable is seeing very cold temperatures in the Los Angeles areas as well. Torrance is not usually known for winter weather, thus making this an interesting event for Venable to track.
“Temperatures in Siberia, Russia will be -81 degrees this week, “said Martin. “With those type of temperatures the arctic air mass has to spill somewhere. Our answer of the exact track will become more clear this week. All residents in the mountain communities should prepare this week for very cold, winter weather, with snow.”
Indications are a second, colder storm could hit near the 18th-22nd time-frame. The details on that will have to be sorted out.
Clay Evans weighs in on the 50% increase in speeding tickets issued in Boulder this year. As anyone familiar with Clay’s liberal stances could predict; he claims “it’s not about the money”. Of course, I disagree.
Clay claims/implies that the number of cars speeding has increased dramatically…
Tickets for drivers going 8 to 9 miles an hour over the limit have gone up by about 230 percent, from 288 to 666. Those exceeding the limit by 10 to 19 mph have increased by 46 percent, from 4,021 to 5,901. The lone bright spot: Those blazing along at 20 to 39 mph over the limit have actually gone down by 1.4 percent, from 204 to 201.
I maintain that the enforcement has increased dramatically. Is that necessarily a bad thing? No it isn’t, and goodness knows there are plenty of people who deserve speeding tickets.
What troubles me is I’m busy seeing “setups”. One that particularly comes to mind is sitting through 3 light cycles on Pearl street between 28th and 30th going east. During this space, traffic is throttled down to one lane and just before the light at 30th street is allowed back to 2 lanes. After sitting through 3 light cycles it’s not surprising that folks are a little antsy. Of course, the speed limit on Pearl Parkway (Pearl St. turns into Pearl Parkway after 30th going east) is 35 mph. So being in the 2nd row, I didn’t notice anyone taking off particularly fast, but a little bit of frustration can easily get one over 35 mph on Pearl Parkway.
Who’s waiting for you as your approach the exit to Foothills parkway but a Boulder motorcycle “officer of the law”. No, it wasn’t me that got pulled over, but it left one hell of a bad taste in my mouth. So no wonder I believe it’s 90% about money and 10% about safety.
Also, I wonder how the percentage of warning issued has changed as a function of the number of speeding tickets written.
I’ve read there are a number of liberals that are quite put out with President elect Obama’s recent cabinet appointments.
Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices.
No need to worry, the real Obama is showing through in his reaction to the (former) workers occupation of the Republic Windows and Doors plant in Chicago.
Barack Obama is encouraging laid-off workers who are occupying a shut-down window and door factory to continue their sit-in. Is it the president’s job to endorse criminal activity?
This is a situation where the President elect should mind his own business.
I wholeheartedly agree with the conclusion in the Investors Business Daily editorial…
Our republic would be better served by a stirring defense of the free-market, capitalist system from behind the presidential seal. This nation has become wealthy beyond all others because of its network of laws that protect property, not in spite of them.
Boulder speeding tickets are up 50% this year. Is the Boulder Police Department really making the roads a safer place or simply protecting their jobs and adding money to the cities general fund? I split my vote as 10% making the roads safer and 90% to raising money.
In the next day or two I’ll describe the two speed traps I’ve encountered lately. One is a photo-radar setup and the other took advantage of drivers frustration with road construction. And to curious minds, no I didn’t get caught by either one.
Perhaps everyone should challenge their tickets simply to clog up the court system. Of course, in most cases you WERE speeding and you get a discount on “points” if you simply admit guilt and pay the ticket.
All in all, Boulder is becoming a more and more unfriendly (and stoopid!) place. Yesterday I needed to purchase as HTML book and I was patient and spent my money in Longmont simply to avoid funding the Boulder city government. A small act but a very conscious decision.
Starve the beast I say. In fact, it appears that the BPD speed traps are an initial reaction to a pending budget crunch. Expect it to get worse before it gets better.
Congratulations to Joeseph Cao for his victory over crooked congressman William Jefferson in the contest for Lousiana’s 2nd Congressional District seat.
Indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson suffered what may be the final blow of his storied political career in the most improbable way Saturday, when an untested Republican opponent took advantage of Louisiana’s new federal voting rules — and an election delay caused by Hurricane Gustav — to unseat the nine-term Democrat.
and it seems being a friend of Jefferson is not good for your career…
Among Jefferson allies who have been forced from public office since news of the FBI probe into Jefferson’s dealings broke are: Renee Gill Pratt, the congressman’s former legislative aide who lost her seat on the City Council; close ally Eddie Jordan, who was forced to resign as Orleans Parish district attorney; and Jefferson’s daughter, then-state Rep. Jalila Jefferson-Bullock, who lost a bid last year for the state Senate.
I would to if the evidence of the last few years was against my cause! Thankfully, global warming is NOT my cause. Fighting against these “yahoos” is. But it’s not a “religion” to me either way.
I recycle, have some CFL bulbs and try to do common sense things to reduce my “footprint”. I won’t be an early adopter of electric cars, but I wouldn’t necessarily shun them either when they become a practical choice.
Mr. newsman is speaking his opinion once again. I’m not real sure why people care what he thinks, but I’m sure many do. Don’t count me among them.
How a county in Georgia could beat Boulder county to the punch on mandatory recycling boggles my mind!
From the inbox today…
I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: hsbcbanknewyork18@yahoo.in
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Hmmm, somehow I think these guys are not my friends??? 😉
