Category Archives: The Economy

The climate change that isn’t

Posted on September 8, 2014 | 2 comments

Global Warming (TM) a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, is now officially nevermind.

“The climate-research establishment has finally admitted openly what skeptic scientists have been saying for nearly a decade: Global warming has stopped since shortly before this century began.”

As for the refurbished moniker, Climate Change, it’s been downsized, too.

“…the climate-research establishment…have made their predicament worse by implying that man-made climate change is so slow and tentative that it can be easily overwhelmed by natural variation in temperature—a possibility that they had previously all but ruled out.”

So, tell us again, Barry, why do us flat-earthers have to give up cheap coal-fired electricity so your EPA can declare carbon dioxide a pollutant? The science obviously isn’t settled.

Via WSJ.

UPDATE:  Even the first species said to be extinct because of GW/CC isn’t really, after all.

MORE:  Meanwhile, guess who hasn’t gotten the message?

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Climate warriors at play

Posted on August 30, 2014 | Comments Off on Climate warriors at play

MEANWHILE

Wormtongue is doing his part, planning another end-run around Congress to sign a UN treaty on Global Warming (TM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party.

Via Sean Linnane.

UPDATE:  Hurry, Al. You’re falling behind.

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Ready to freeze in the dark?

Posted on August 17, 2014 | 4 comments

“The U.S. is already facing the loss of 60 gigawatts of power over the next three years, the result of older coal plants’ being forced to shut down because they cannot comply with the EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards enacted in 2012. At the time, the EPA claimed that only four gigawatts of capacity would be lost.

“Those of us familiar with the industry knew better, and the agency now does not contest that 60 gigawatts of coal-generated electricity will be lost. Ninety percent of the plants slated to close due to the MATS rule were needed to provide power during the polar vortex and other periods of severe weather last winter. Is the EPA willing to gamble that we won’t have another harsh winter in the next five years?”

Sure they’ll gamble, they don’t care about us peasants. WeatherBell Analytics, which has an awful good record, is forecasting this winter to be colder longer than last. Not that the federal Democrats give a rat’s. They got theirs, sucker.

Via WSJ.

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Gaza: Rat’s nest or Singapore

Posted on July 18, 2014 | 1 comment

Look at all that ocean-front property. Look at that border with the Middle East’s most vibrant economy. The economic prospects are intriguing.

Instead? A rat’s nest of sniper positions, tunnels and knock-off rocket launchers run by bloodthirsty religious fanatics who scarf up the charity they depend on because they produce nothing anyone wants to buy.

Gaza could be a Singapore. Instead, it’s a basket case with 40 percent unemployment. And whose fault is that? Not theirs, oh no. Never theirs.

Guess whose? The Jooz.

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Thank Big Oil

Posted on July 10, 2014 | 2 comments

Still able to buy gas for the vehicle and put groceries on your table in the continuing Democrat Depression? Thank Big Oil.

“The U.S. will remain the world’s biggest oil producer this year after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation’s economic recovery, Bank of America Corp. said….

“’The U.S. increase in supply is a very meaningful chunk of oil,’ Francisco Blanch, the bank’s head of commodities research, said…. ‘The shale boom is playing a key role in the U.S. recovery. If the U.S. didn’t have this energy supply, prices at the pump would be completely unaffordable.’”

The “nation’s economic recovery,” is a little economist’s joke, based on the statistical lies the feds tell. Ninety-two million Americans out of work is not a recovery.

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Like minds: Obama and Rodriguez

Posted on July 5, 2014 | 1 comment

Officially, President Choom is coming to Austin next week to raise yet more money for his political party, which is seeking re-election despite intentional policies that are prolonging the worst economy since the 1930s.

Unofficially you have to wonder why the great champion of amnesty for illegal aliens (“reform,” don’t you know) would choose to do his begging in the home of filmmaker Robert Rodriquez. R. is best known for “Spy Kids,” a successful string of kiddie action-adventure movies starring his own children.

Well, it might have more to do with Rodriguez’s lesser-known series of super-violent Mexploitation flicks called Machete and Machete Kills which some reviewers consider racist and anti-American. These “revenge” flickers, which include such well known Leftists as Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson, are unsubtle calls for revolution. They champion the slaying of Americans—in Arizona and elsewhere—who dare protest illegal immigration from south of the border.

Yep.

The Worm’s visit possibly has more to do with Rodriguez’s money than with his politics. The Mooch has expensive tastes, after all, and, as corrupt as the Democrat party is, some of those donations are bound to settle in her account. But you never know. It might be wise to keep an eye on the yard man. Those hedge trimmers are sharp.

UPDATE: Well… protests of illegals bused to one California town soon will be confronted by armed feds in riot gear. Obamalot will have its way.

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You will celebrate independence today

Posted on July 4, 2014 | 2 comments

Independence of what? IRS harrasment? Watch how you vote. Illegal immigrants? They’re swarming over the border with federal complicity, then flying and busing to a neighborhood near you.

The Democrat Depression? Be thankful if you’re employed. Ninety-two million are not and the ruling Democrats don’t care. Vote for them again and you might get beer with your food stamps. As Andrew Klavan says: “Trading welfare for power is the second oldest profession.”

Clear skies above your town? Except for the government drones and their cameras. Be thankful they’re not armed. So far. Privacy on your Internet account? Unless you use Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. The National Security Agency is watching, listening, recording it all. The FBI is seizing websites when it pleases them.

Wanna shoot off fire crackers for old times sake? Not in Austin. Too dangerous. Too individual. Same thing.

Attention, comrades! You will celebrate today. It takes a village, you know, as the presumed next Democrat president is famous for saying. Have another helping of government cheese. Mmmm. So good.

UPDATE: It wasn’t supposed to be this way: “In a time when government mandates what you can eat and how much of it, only one of the ways it seeks to regulate every aspect of daily life for the greater good—the declaration that started it all declares that the purpose of government is not social justice, a minimally obese population, universal tolerance or even equality. Equality is acknowledged as a fact, not as a goal.”

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