Tag Archives: Obama

The Green Jobs schuck

"…here in CA the Bay Area is the reputed leader, with some supposed 30K plus ‘Green Jobs.’ So, what is a green job? The kid driving the curb side recycling truck – ‘green job.’ The bum off the street hired to sort garbage on a conveyer at the ‘transfer facility.’ Green job. Meanwhile, auto workers are laid off due to a plant closure, because complying with draconian CO2 caps is more expensive than shutting down and opening a new plant in Texas or overseas."

As Steve Sadlov at Fresh Bilge concludes: Point pistol at foot. Pull trigger.

Change you can believe in

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Meanwhile, Barry says nevermind the busted national debt ceiling. We must create a whole new and expensive health care bureaucracy for the government to avoid going bankrupt. Got that?

EPA: air is a pollutant

Corruption and elitism is steadily undermining the populace’s respect for the federal government. Stupidity won’t help:

"Carbon dioxide, which has existed as a major component of Earth’s atmosphere for billions of years — and which is necessary for plant growth — is now a declared pollutant."

Let the lawsuits and judicial stays begin. This one is going to be very hard to enforce. We may finally see widespread refusal to obey, as the feds seize the means of production and the national economy grinds to a halt. Cash and barter, anyone?

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Let me make this perfectly clear

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Barry’s sort of, half-hearted surge

I’ve said it before, if we’re going to dither, we should leave Afghanistan immediately. The government is more corrupt than the one in Iraq (and that’s saying something) and the Afghans don’t seem to want to fight. (Reminds me of South Vietnam.) We can always go back if we have to, or leave a few spec-ops behind to direct any necessary smart-bombings.

But Barry’s new half-in, half-out strategy is pathetic. Especially his setting of a timetable for departure, which will only serve to put the Taliban and Al Q on notice that they can do all the free-killing of American troops they desire in the meantime. President Pantywaist has done the next worst thing to failing to decide at all. "America – we are passing through a time of great trial." No kidding. Will the last soldier out of the GWOT please close the door? Meanwhile, keep your heads down out there.

UPDATE:  Military analyst Ralph Peters agrees: "Our president is setting up our military to fail." Yep and, meanwhile, sending the enemy more American targets to shoot at.

How are Barry and GWB alike?

Let me count the ways. But just take one for instance, the one you might not have expected from the former community organizer, Mr. Social Justice his own self: Despite 1,200 pleas for slate-cleaning pardons from ex-offenders who have served their time, and even more seeking sentence reductions, Barry has approved exactly none. Too much work, apparently, when he’d rather par-tay.

Via Radley Balko.

There is no law of averages

As Barry prepares to jet off to Copenhagen to promise to continue our descent to the poorhouse by cutting our carbon emissions to make the dictator’s club (i.e. the UN) happy, the climate naysaying is mounting.

Statistician, AMS member and blogger William M. Briggs shows the illogic in Barry’s logic:

"Diminishing glaciers did not prove AGW; they were instead a verification that ice melts when it gets hot. Fewer polar bears did not count in favor of AGW; it instead perhaps meant that maybe adult bears prefer a chill to get in the mood. People sidling up to microphones and trumpeting ‘It’s bad out there, worse than we thought!’ was not evidence of AGW; it was evidence of how easily certain people could work themselves into a lather."

Briggs is the self-published author of an amusing book on the law of averages that isn’t.

Meanwhile, Canadian businessman Stephen McIntyre, the famous blogger debunker of the infamous hockey stick "proof" for AGW gets a timely writeup in the WSJ.

Even (gasp) cBS is weighing in objectively (what will they think of next) on the hacked emails.

And blogger Megan McArdle, who (cough, spit) actually believes in AGW, notes the real problem with those emails: the major climate model predicting doom ahead could be rubbish. A little item financed in part by (you guessed it) the American taxpayer.

Oops, now there’s more climate science faking in New Zealand.

So will Barry notice any of this stuff and unbutton if not completely remove his climate hairshirt and spend more time trying to get our economy back on track? Naw. That’s above his pay grade. Apparently.