OOOOooooo, Cat fight in Kennedyland! Neo-Neocon to Kennedy: "Watch out for those women scorned, Ted." She quotes from a "statement" put out by the petulant women of New York NOW:

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[Note: Last seen 1 year ago this week. Still a plan I pray is put into place to save us from our fast approaching DOOM! ]

Hybrid government issue cars for all Americans, Free! (Well, almost)

The Didik: Rejoice! Your Government's Car is Here to Help You Kill Global Warming. Varoooonk!

"That we may once again breathe the clean, clear, and downsized air of freedom." -- Jenna Bush, 46th President of the United States

I KNOW SATURATION POLLUTION first hand. I was born in Los Angeles in the smog of the late 40s. Electric cars were either long forgotten or not yet envisioned.LA was Smogville for Angeleans at that time. I can remember walking to school in smog so thick it seemed that my father would march in front of us with a machete. Black flakes of soot settled on the white enamel of my mother's stove as she cursed the black streaks in the collars of my father's starched white Hathaway shirts. The air, on the clear days, was best described as "ocher."

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Prosperity Anxiety and Racial Romanticism: 80 Years Ago

RING ANY BELLS? A cover from a 1928 magazine, SURVEY GRAPHIC, that I came across this morning in one of my bottomless image collections. Surprising how the concerns of 80 years ago seem parallel today. But then, the habits of the liberal ("progressive") mind haven't changed all that much....

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Electile Dysfunction: "The inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year."

Quick, break out the Soma!

"Awful? They don't find it so. On the contrary, they like it. It's light, it's childishly simple. No strain on the mind or the muscles. Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?" -- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

HT: The Homchick Report

As the 1930s drew to a close with global depressions, wars and rumors of war, there were a few people in charge of the future, the utopian future. And those people saw that maybe, just maybe, coal and oil might play themselves out and other sources of energy might have to be found. And in England it would seem that some creative editors and artists at Modern Wonder magazine looked up into the sky and decided it might be wise to catch the wind. They were publishing a magazine for boys and they didn't have to be right, they just had to be inspiring. It was an era in which publications for kids routinely tried to inspire them.

And they weren't small minded about it as these pictures will attest. They thought big... very BIG. And believed in the far future. Which was a good thing because, in September of 1938, much as it is now at the beginning of 2008, the immediate future was looking grim. Indeed, when this issue was published in September of 1938, War in Europe was only one year away.

Legos would have to wait until after the war, but most boys had Erector or Meccano Sets, so that became means by which these behemoths of the breeze would be built.

Here's the less than modest wind-farm plan of 1938:

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Change? Okay. Change what? Change my mind? Change my socks? Should I change my tires or can I get away with just rotating them? Is it okay to change the future or should I work harder at changing the past? Change for a dollar? Change for a quarter? How do you really make change when there's no cash register to tell you what the answer is? Should I call the doctor if there's any change in the condition my condition is in? What happens if life pitches you a change up? Can I be the change or can I slide through by being the ball? You see, I had two wives who went through the change of life and they didn't seem to enjoy it, nor did I at the time.

For, lo, it is truly said, "The only person on earth who really likes change is a wet baby."

Hope? Okay. What should I hope for and where shall I hope it? In a town called Hope? Shall I watch "Hope for Tomorrow?" Shall I shit in one hand and hope in the other and see which one fills up first? Is there hope for the future or is hope in vain? If I hope you don't get elected am I hoping against hope? Is it better to "hope and pray" or can I slide through on hope alone? And if I can cut out the praying and stay with the hope, can I also dump faith and charity thus saving both time and money? If so, shall I hope for the best or hope to avoid the worst? Does hope float? I mean, really float? Like Ivory soap? And why is hope the thing with feathers in the first place?

For, lo, it is truly said, "Live in hope. Die in despair."

Another step towards the totally surveilled society... will arrive soon -- for your own good, of course. It is always "for your own good" except when it is "for the children."

Robert and Andrew Munro at Duke University in South Carolina, US, say it is possible to increase [the frequency of hand washing by restaurant workers] by ensuring that washroom facilities, such as sinks and towels, are fitted with RFID card readers.

If healthcare workers are carrying RFID tags the number of times they wash their hands can be monitored.

Keeping a tally would make it possible to reward or punish workers according to their compliance with the hand-washing regulations, and that should improve hygiene and reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infection, say the inventors.

Now I hate contaminated restaurant food as much as the next person, but this sort of monitoring gives me the creeps. Especially the "rewards and punishment" part of the equation. If experience is any guide there will be plenty of punishment and damn few rewards.

Back when the seatbelt argument was going on, those who objected to it said it would lead to government intruding in your bedroom. Most people thought this was too far-fetched to credit. But here we are decades later and you can bet your biffy that handwashing monitors in restaurants for the staff are just a question of time. For the public good and all that. And after, well, why not install them in the home. After all, are your hands clean enough to hug your kids? Are your kid's hand clean enough to hug you? Shouldn't there be something in your home that enables your government to help you with these questions? No? What's the matter with you? Do it for the children.

"The more things change, the more they stay insane."

May, 1978

Recently: Never Shut Up, New York, October, 2001

Rudy Giuliani poking around the rubble looking for his unconstitutional term extension and for sheiks to scapegoat for the loss of liberties that he was already busy eliminating himself. of Donald Trump calling for us to build new phalluses into the sky where David Rockefeller's twin vanity towers stood; and of New York bankers lobbying in Washington so that the hunt for the terror money trail looks under every rock except theirs.

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"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -- Abraham Lincoln

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Iraq -- Pssst... we won... keep it on the down-low: "the next time I come across an Iraqi War veteran, I'll not only thank him or her for their sacrifice in defending my freedom, I'll also offer congratulations for winning a war." News & Observer - Raleigh, NC -- You heard it here first: We won the war

Well, first if you mean reading it in an actual tree-based newspaper. Mas vale tarde que nunca.

Is it just me or has the panic over gas costs gotten utterly out of hand?

On the other hand, some people have no sense of proportion.

Call me old-fashioned but I question their patriotism!

"Grim Milestone" airlifted to Afghanistan:

"With grim crocodile tears, grim the MSM grimly reported that the grim United states grimly passed the grim milestone of grimness in the grim war in grim [Afghanistan] as grim American grim casualties of grimiosity grimly reached the grim number of [500].

"When grimly asked why the grim MSM grimly gives grim front (grim) page grim-prominence to such an out-of-grim-context number while grimily ignoring non-grim grim-type other grim news about grim-positive grim developments since the grim surge grimly started working with grimness or, indeed, why the grim MSM never reports on grim grim milestones of any other grim conflicts or grim armed grim forces (especially those of the grim enemy), the grim MSM just looked grim." - Ephemeral Isle: Grim Reporting

Shamelessly quoting out of context for the cheap joke:

"I'm not home a lot, so Michelle is usually willing to give it up." - Barack Obama in Entertainment Weekly

Barry, you got some 'splaing to do:

Michelle Obama ... on their upcoming vacation: "We're going to Hawaii to visit Barack's grandma" -Playbook 24/7 - Politico.com

"The Oil Has Hit the Fan:"

"When Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats spent a week holding the people's chamber under house arrest, they made plain a political vulnerability beyond drilling. To achieve greenhouse gas goals in the out-years, they are willing to risk a slowdown now in the American economy. How else can you interpret what happened this week? These Democrats aren't environmentalists. They're enviromaniacs." -Wonder Land - WSJ.com

Made it ma, top of the world!

How many votes does Switzerland have?:

Academy award winning actor George Clooney is set to host a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Switzerland next month. - CNN

Giving you the skinny on race:

"White people spend a significant portion of their time preparing for the moment when they will be offended. They read magazines, books, and watch documentaries all in hopes that one day they will encounter a person who will say something offensive. When this happens, they can leap into action with quotes, statistics, and historical examples. Once they have finished lecturing another white person about how it's wrong to use the term "black" instead of "African-American," they can sit back and relax in the knowledge that they have made a difference." - Being Offended - Stuff White People Like #101

Defining racism down:

25 Reasons You... Might Be a Racist

Spirit Airlines current email campaign:

We Believe in Offshore Drilling and Fares from $9* Each Way

The death of 7,000 cuts: SF Chron to Lay Off 125 People

"The Chronicle's announcement pushed the number of layoffs and buyouts this year above 7,000. (There are more, of course, because some papers have not said how many people have been laid off or have accepted buyouts.) Adding in the cuts at the Chronicle and the Modesto Bee, about 17 percent of all layoffs/buyouts this year have been in California."

File under "Who says there's no good news?"

Shibboleths of our time:

"The shamans of contemporary linguistic taboos have adopted nigger, faggot, cunt, and the other forbidden words as passwords, emblems of group membership -- and membership, as American Express has been at pains to remind us, has its privileges. No one outside the shamans' circle is permitted to speak the password; it's an arrogation of a jealously guarded status. He who dares must be cut down, ground into the dust, and forbidden ever to speak at all, to any effect, in any context. For as in all systems of nymic magic, the word is deemed congruent with the thing: the taboo words are at the root of the shamans' power. Failure to enforce the taboo would risk the loss of the group's privileges and immunities, laboriously amassed over the decades of exploitation of others' guilt." -Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road

Need to fill up? Get in line at Missouri Gas Prices - Find Cheap Gas Prices in Missouri Sinclair at 1109 E Battlefield Rd & S National Ave(Randy's - In front of bowling alley) in Springfield, Missouri where gas is selling at $3.35 a gallon. (If you just can't wait, hit the "Kum & Go" at Battlefield Road just across from Taco Bell and pay $3.36.)

Catfight!: Lesbian bigamy battle unfolds

The two women married in Canada, obtained identical tattoos and picked out adjoining burial plots with the expectation that they would be together till death and beyond. Then one of them fell for someone else, and without getting a divorce, entered into a Vermont civil union in Stowe with the new woman. Now the woman who says she was left behind -- Laureen Wells-Weiss -- is alleging that her estranged spouse committed bigamy.

How the mighty have fallen:

"On the official website of the United Church of Christ, where there's something called UCC FIRSTS: A Journey through Time -- a list of the historic achievements of the various Congregationalist and German Reformed churches that joined to form the denomination in 1957. The items run from John Winthrop's 1630 prayer that the Massachusetts Bay Colony "be as a city upon a hill" to the 1995 publication of "the only hymnal released by a Christian church that honors in equal measure both male and female images of God." - The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline by Joseph Bottum

Price Of Gas Rises To Four Expletives Per Gallon

HOUSTON -- Gasoline prices rose to a record-high four expletives per gallon Monday, a rate of fuel-price-related cursing not seen since the 1979 energy crisis sparked a nationwide obscenity boom.

Just which side is Pakistan on anyway?

What is there about Obama that renders previously intelligent writers dumb as dirt?

"My point is that any discussion of Obama's "skinniness" and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race." - When "skinny" means "black." - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine

"Windfall profits" is just breaking wind:

"If Senator Obama is as exercised about "outrageous" profits as he says he is, he might also have to turn on a few liberal darlings. Oh, say, Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett's outfit pulled in $11 billion last year, up 29% from 2006. Its profit margin -- if that's the relevant figure -- was 11.47%, which beats out the American oil majors. Or consider Google, which earned a mere $4.2 billion but at a whopping 25.3% margin. Google earns far more from each of its sales dollars than does Exxon, but why doesn't Mr. Obama consider its advertising-search windfall worthy of special taxation? - What Is a 'Windfall' Profit? - WSJ.com

And that's the way it is: New and Upcoming Revenue Sources for Seattle via The Naked Loon

Orwellian California:

"It's clear that in Marin and its environs, Republicanism has become thoughtcrime. This is serious stuff. This is -- if I may use a phrase that has become tainted with controversy -- Un-American. And the only way I can think of to combat it is for individuals to speak out and come out. They may find, as I did, that there's some unpleasantness but that the vast majority of friends and family stick by them, and the ones that don't aren't the finest of the lot. - neo-neocon - A plea to the closet Republicans of Marin: come out, come out, wherever you are

"We can't drill our way out of this problem." As in:

1. The bank account is about to be overdrawn. We can't deposit our way out of this problem.

2. Your bedroom is a mess. You can't tidy up your way out of this problem.

3. I'm hungry. I can't eat my way out of this problem.

4. We're out of food. We can't go grocery shopping our way out of this problem.

5. We are disgusting, fat tubs of goo. We can't exercise our way out of this problem. - Etcetera and so forth @ House of Eratosthenes

One good thing:

"When we are incapable of finding "one good thing" to say about Bush or Pelosi or even someone in our personal lives, we've surrendered reason to repellent hate; the hate owns us. At that point, we are no better than the person we abhor; we may be worse."- Eizabeth Scalia Let's Debate, Not Dehumanize

Seculariasm - A Utopia of Dunces:

"When such an overarching absolute standard is rejected -- as it has been by aggressive secularism, atheistic, reductionist, and materialistic to the core -- we can only enforce a form of unity through coercion and power. Inner moral dictates must be subjugated to coerced conformity. It is "acceptable" to hold "values" which are at odds with the secular societal standard -- as long as these "values" are never acted upon in speech or behavior. We may believe abortion to be morally abhorrent -- but must never act to restrain it; we may hold homosexuality to be morally wrong and believe gay marriage to be a threat to a core foundational institution of society -- but to verbalize thus is "hate speech", and "intolerance", and "ignorance." Our unity is the unity of the gag, a multicultural muzzle which celebrates the superficial, elevates the insignificant, tolerates the intolerable -- and punishes the moral. Our unity is the unity of relativism, a superficial solidarity where everything is acceptable but absolutes, where anything is tolerated but truth. Such unity strives for the lowest common denominator, maintaining its forced cohesion by the will to power, destroying in its enslaving solidarity the very soul of freedom and the heart of true human harmony." - The Utopia of Relativism | The Doctor Is In

More to this than meets the eye. Much more. Zombietime took a little stroll through a San Francisco Street Fair and reports back with many pictures from Up Your Alley 2008. So, if you wish to see what passes for acceptable pubic display in San Francisco these days, click the link. Warning. Not work safe. Not child safe. Not safe at all. It is far beyond anything you can imagine. Pretty damning, actually, on all levels: Up Your Alley 2008

Death from Above:

"You might not think that dealing with the ongoing plague of disintegrating parachutists might not be the most important problem of our modern age, but it is one that will grow in size and intensity as the baby boom generation ages. This generational cohort, stuck as it is in a perpetual adolescence, will refuse to grow gracefully as previous generations did and will spend an inordinate amount of time doing things any normal person would think beyond the physical capacity of someone of that advanced age. But the baby boom, for whom life means never really having to grow up, will try to deny the biological effects of time passing and as a result of this denial the skies over this our Great Republic will soon fill with dentures, limbs, pacemakers, walkers, bifocals, AARP membership cards, and the occasional veteran of the Summer of Love raining down upon an unsuspecting populace like so much unwanted space debris. Things will definitely get uglier hereabouts before they get any better, folks." -The Passing Parade: Cheap Shots from a Drive By Mind

The edge:

"Obama should know that for all his own talents, it is rare to have someone with his meager law record selected as Harvard Review Editor, or hired at the University of Chicago Law School, or after a mere two years in the Senate, a presidential candidate. The point is not that his race explains his success, but in America alone it either was irrelevant to it, or, more likely, a great force multiplier. - Works and Days

Making your state-sponsored prison rape just that much safer:

Calif. Prison Giving Inmates Free Condoms A union representing prison guard supervisors is opposed to the distribution of condoms. The union said that condoms can be used as places to hide drugs or weapons. "They can put stuff in them and use them to throw at staff or other inmates," said Chris Gold of the Prison Supervisor's Union."

Ah, isn't that sort of the idea?

Room to grow!

Jobless rate rises to 4-year high of 5.7 percent

Still somewhat behind the 75 year unemployment high of 24.9 percent set in 1933. But where there's Obama there's hope.

Poor Richard says:

"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin 1735

Change they believed in:

"When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said "Praise the Lord." And when the young leader said, "I will be for change and I'll bring you change," everyone yelled, "Viva Fidel!" - Letters To The Editor - Letters to the Editor - inRich.com

Nothing to see here. Move along: Last tenant 'found decapitated'

A man who was found with his head severed by a chainsaw was fighting to stay in a block of 70 flats in Hampshire cleared for redevelopment. David Phyall, 50, was the last tenant at the Atlantic Housing Ltd housing association flats in Eastleigh. His body was found by police on 5 July, who said his death was not suspicious.

Politics among the brothers: The Vote Reaper

Check it out and blog it on.

Learn the 3 Varieties of Post-post-modern bullshit. There is always a test:

"You have your sub-bullshit, your opti-bullshit and your supra-bullshit. We get snookered by this blend time and time again, because we have a tendency to say: I know the sub-bullshit is true; I do not agree with the supra-bullshit, but compared to that the opti-bullshit is believable. And so we believe the opti-bullshit, the bullshit calibrated to the optimum degree of self-reproduction. We will repeat the opti-bullshit to people we know. And if anyone dares challenge it, we will treat the challenge as a challenge to the sub-bullshit. Anytime the sub-bullshit is demonstrated to be true, which it will be, we will take that as further proof of the opti-bullshit, and become more convinced of the validity of the opti-bullshit ... which we haven't even tested, or observed anyone else testing." - House of Eratosthenes

Learn this well:

"As much as legislators and founders of states ought to be honoured and respected among men, as much ought the founders of sects and factions to be detested and hated; because the influence of faction is directly contrary to that of laws. Factions subvert government, render laws impotent, and beget the fiercest animosities among men of the same nation, who ought to give mutual assistance and protection to each other." - David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part I, Essay VIII, OF PARTIES IN GENERAL

John Edwards to high school hopefuls, "Screw you."

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is pulling the plug on a scholarship program he started at an Eastern North Carolina high school -- a program he once promised would be a model for the nation under an Edwards presidency. - newsobserver.com | Edwards ending college program

Now we know he knows he's kaput. No use throwing good money after good.

Clearly a case of the pot calling the kettle black:

"Obama Launches LowRoadExpress.com" - Advertising Age - Campaign Trail

John Edwards Calls the Cheat Team

Smashing through the boundries of the new paradigm beyond the dreams of previous blatherfests!

Time managing editor Rich Stengel said he was proud of the Obama puff piece, and that he hoped it would help to redefine the boundaries of journalistic drivel. "When the American people cast their vote this November, this is the piece of fluff they're going to remember," Stengel said. "Not the ones by Newsweek, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Economist, Nightline, The Wall Street Journal, or even that story about lessons Obama learned from his first-grade teacher we ran a month ago." -'Time' Publishes Definitive Obama Puff Piece

Suburbia Yes!

"I don't share the beautiful people's revulsion for suburbia. It's just decent people making a living for themselves, and maybe having a patch of grass to play touch football on. Many people do hate suburbia, the whole idea of it, and wish we were all living in concrete urban human dovecotes, where they can keep their eye on us." -Sippican Cottage: Gettin' Used To It

When they came for the drinkers and smokers, I didn't care...

"What we're looking at, essentially, is the beginning of food zoning. Liquor and cigarette sales are already zoned. You can't sell booze here; you can't sell smokes there. Each city makes its own rules, block by block. Proponents of the L.A. ordinance see it as the logical next step. Fast food is bad for you, just as drinking or smoking is, they argue. Community Coalition, a local activist group, promotes the moratorium as a sequel to its crackdown on alcohol merchants, scummy motels, and other "nuisance businesses." An L.A. councilman says the ordinance makes sense because it's "not too different to how we regulate liquor stores.... Supporters of the moratorium call this state of affairs "food apartheid." - Banning fast food in poor neighborhoods. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine

Rich whites to poor blacks in South Central L.A. - "Shut up and eat your vegetables."

To dream the impossible dream:

"Not a few designers are pushing men to expose more of the bodies that they have spent so much time perfecting at the gym. "We have all these self-imposed restrictions" about our dress, said Ben Clawson, the sales director for the designer Michael Bastian. "As men's wear continues to evolve and becomes a little more casual without becoming grungy, it's not impossible anymore to be dressed up in shorts.... "The idea of being threatened by the objectified male body has gone, the process is complete," explained Aaron Hicklin, the editor in chief of Out magazine. "Men are the same as women now."" - Shorts Crack the Code - NYTimes.com

Thomas McEntee in a shorts suit by "Obedient Sons"

The Candidate Who Would Be King:

"Come to think of it, maybe the best status for Obama would be that of monarch, of the type reigning in present-day England. After all, it's the ultimate symbolic position: no accomplishments necessary, no policy commitments involved, once you're in you're in for life, you get to go on all those fine world tours, the clothes are classic, and speeches are heavily featured." - neo-neocon - On acting Presidential (or kingly)

Ronald Reagan Returns from Grave to Slam Republicans

"Republicans have been in control of either Congress or the Presidency for eighteen of the twenty years since I left office, and yet in that short time you've managed to double the size of the federal budget, add hundreds of new federal agencies, and destroy the optimism of the American people," ranted Reagan. "Good going, geniuses."

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

EARTH—Former vice president Al Gore -- who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save -- launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope that his only child would reach the safety of another world.

Question:

"How many hours is Michelle Obama actually putting in at her $200,000 hospital administration job these days? Does she still work there? Or, let's not ask about "work" per se -- does she continue drawing a salary?" -Ace

Answer: She's on Obamaternity leave!

"Look out kids they keep it all hid..."

One of the intrinsic problems in being a liberal is that you can never reveal your first principles, because if you explicitly articulate them, people will be repelled at what a contemptuous and supercilious asshat you are. Therefore, you must always couch them in terms of "compassion," or "helping the little guy," or "healing the planet," or "unity," or some other such blather. So in that regard, Obama is dealing with a more general problem that is intrinsic to liberalism, which is How to Fool the Idiots. One must be very cautious, because even the idiots are only so stupid. - One Cosmos: Evolutionary Creationism

Collegiate theme parks:

"Housing students by race seemed to me an odd approach to ending racial division. During my freshman year, I lived two floors below the African American Theme Program floor. Other such floors included the Asian Pacific American Theme Program, the latino-centered Casa Magdalena Mora, and the Unity House, a gay-themed housing unit that allows you to have a roommate of the opposite sex. From what I remember, black students were the only ones participating in the African American Theme Program. Though students of all races and ethnicities are allowed to live in any of the available themed housing units, rarely did I see students living in housing centered on a culture different from their own." - Am I Diverse Enough Now? (Originals)

Global Warming Now Racist:

House Majority Whip: Climate Change Hurts Blacks More

Of course. After all, everything is racist. Right?

While Nancy Pelosi is "Saving the planet. Saving the Planet"...

"The US Congress, which prevents the US , doubtless the greatest hydrocarbon province in the world, from producing much more oil, gas and coal than it does at present. The U.S. has the resource base, the capital, technology and management capability to increase oil, gas and coal production by 15% within 5 years and by 50% within 10 years. Such an increase would bring fossil energy and food prices down by a quarter to a third worldwide , greatly strengthen the dollar, create a boom in good jobs, generate a tidal wave of federal, state and local revenues, propel the stock market to new highs, more than restore housing prices, and substantially enhance national security. Congress is the friend of despots in Iran and Venezuela and the worst enemy of consumers, globally. It's not the fault of the speculators or the Saudis or the Chinese that Congress so likes to blame but of itself (i.e., Congress) and of course, We the People who vote Congress into power. Oil at $175 will not be imposed by some Other on us; it will be freely willed by us as a sovereign people. We are responsible for the consequences of our choices. We may not like them but we cannot evade them nor shift the onus on the Other." -Vinod K. Dar Oil Prices

Fools of the West:

"Carbon control is what the West talks about. Carbon consumption is what the Non-Western Nations seek. Electricity efficiency and avoided generation is what the West talks about. Electricity supply is what nations big and small outside the West seek. Transportation efficiency is what the West talks about. Increased, greatly increased, mechanized mobility is what the nations of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America seek. The West wants to orate about wind, solar, geothermal and wave energy. The rest of the world wants more oil and natural gas, coal and uranium. The West worries about carbon control. The rest of the world, especially Asia, worries greatly about energy and food control. - Vinod K. Dar Earth Cools

The "Ideal" Energy:

"As for renewable energy to meet electric needs, the preferred technology for Eucaliyork is always one that is not commercially ready and as soon as it is ripe, it is no longer favored. The ideal project is an invisible windmill transporting power via buried, non-existent, superconducting cables." - Coal and Nuclear

A Tale of Two Worlds:

"There are two parallel energy worlds today -- The world as seen from Eucaliyork (EU, California, New York) and RealWorld. Included in the former are New England, Eastern Canada and Japan while the latter embraces most of the U.S., India, China, much of the Pacific Rim, part of Eastern Europe, much of Latin America, Russia, Africa and the rest of Asia. About 600 million people live in the former world and about six billion in the latter. The RealWorld has 10 times as many people as Eucaliyork; it accounts for 100% of the world's population growth and, perhaps, 90 % of the world's economic growth; it has almost 100% of the world's reserves of conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas, coal and uranium, and much of the world's agricultural land." - Vinod K. Dar - Coal and Nuclear

He shoots. He scores!

"Conservative issues don't attract me as much as liberal idiocy repels me." - AVI: Postliberal

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