Monthly Archives: July 2008

Tumbling oil prices

Could it be the oil sellers were more impressed by President Bush’s elimination of the executive order banning new coastal drilling than they were on the Dems refusal to follow it up? The former was not widely reported but the oil business heard about it. Or could it be simply a reaction to Americans driving less and buying smaller cars? Something is pushing oil below $130 a barrel for the first time in months. If it keeps dropping, gas prices have to follow. I’d hoped to see what the Seablogger, who follows the market closer than I do, had to say, but he’s busy blogging from his passage on a 160-foot tri-mast sailing yacht off the northeast coast.

UPDATE:  The Seablogger thinks the oil price has peaked and the only question now is how far its price will fall. 

Unsleepy lagoon

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In fact, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light years away towards the Milky Way’s center. 

Global warming not human fault

Oops, another dissenter. This time the dean of hurricane forecasters, Colorado State University storm prognosticator William Gray, who says not only are we unlikely to be causing global warming, but what there is of it is unlikely to foster stronger hurricanes or destroy the earth.

Quick, Al, find someone to shut him up before he imperils your scheme. Unless you’re already too busy answering other dissenters. Maybe Barbara Boxer can handle this one.

Via Fresh Bilge, which led me to this lengthy, but readable, scientific argument against Anthropogenic (human-caused) Global Warming, which led to the link above on Gray.

UPDATE:  Oops is right. Now many of the American Physical Society’s almost 50,000 physicists also are out of Al’s and Barbara’s box. Oh, where will it end?

MORE:  Then, mirabile dictu, the physicists changed their minds, again, sort of. So the scheme is still, sort of, safe for now, Gorebot. But watch the gas guzzling, okay? It’s bad for your image, oh sainted one.

Old Media honks for Baby Barry

Their readership/viewership declines every year, in part because they’re widely and quite correctly perceived as politically skewed Democrat. But, as usual, the Old Media is deaf to the criticism, so they’re suffering no shame at their announced plans to staff BB’s upcoming "world tour" big time, while continuing to shoo Mac away as, uh, too old, too boring, too Republican.

Afterall, now that the Iraq campaign is essentially over (no thanks to them or the Dems), they can safely leave the Green Zone hotel to have a look around as BB sings his get-out-now tune. The Old Media poobahs also gave preferential treatment to John Kerry, their ersatz war hero, in 2004, and we all saw how well that worked out–for him and for them–but my guess is they really didn’t catch on. They’re insulated by their exorbitant pay and the adulation of their peers, which makes them pretty slow when it comes to reality.

Mac: the surge is the key to Afghanistan

It’s the way to win the Afghanistan campaign, McCain says, logically enough…

"…if I’m elected President, I will turn around the war in Afghanistan, just as we have turned around the war in Iraq, with a comprehensive strategy for victory."

…versus Baby Barry’s unserious preference to abandon Iraq in favor of hunting down (the quite probably already dead) Osama bin Forgotten.

Via Belmont Club.

Remember Danny, Einat, Yael & Smadar Haran

Better not to dwell on the terrorist scum the Israeli government released to get back what they hoped–until they saw their coffins–might be two living soldiers. But the child (and father) victims of the terrorist creature known as the baby killer are worth remembering. Lone Star Times has a moving memorial.

Dems to drivers: Suffer

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No hope or change there.