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Friday, June 26. 2009Friday morning links"Green jobs" is a complete scam Cap & Trade is a job-killer...but not for government jobs. The Chinese are praying that we will pass this bill - it means jobs for them. Related, via the hard-working Insty:
It's over 1000 pages of...what? Related: Climate skepticism goes global It's 7 inches long, girls - and it tastes good Mr. Pastor, tear down this church. Please. The building sucks and, trust me, God hates it too. ObamaCare: Not inevitable. But they feel they have to pass something, or they will lose their momentum for their laundry list. Related: Who will run your medical care if the bill passes? (You can be certain it won't be practicing docs - it will be policy wonks and economists - the same geniuses who invented HMOs.) Related:
Related: Government medical programs always ration care Related: If you call everything a crisis, people begin to think the word means "one more issue we ought to think about some time. Viking:
74% Trust Their Own Economic Judgment More Than Congress'. No kidding. What's the UN for? To protect states. Undocumented journalists? There's a future there When did the US renounce "Leadership of the Free world"? The Left rarely speaks of freedom, or seems to value freedom, except when it's about abortion "choice." Otherwise, standing up for freedom is evil, un-nuanced cultural imperialism, right? Self-censorship and the "see no Islam" mindset. Brussels J If you have a few minutes, Sauron himself is but an emissary Colleges don't graduate enough students? I always thought it was up to the students to graduate. But most college degreea are already a joke. Markets and pencils. Feminist Standpoint Theory is a cover for pure political opportunism. Just like A jug of water, a loaf of bread, and Thou The comet that hit us A lefty mourns his disappointments in Chavez. CSM On Iran etc, from Ace (I agree with this):
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I have always been a climate skeptic not only because of the science involved but also because of how the science has been presented.
Stop and think for a moment. The earth's climate and weather is a complex system with a multitude of variables (e.g. solar activity, plate tectonics, volcanic activity, variations in orbit and oceanic variability to name a few). How can anyone believe that one factor alone (i.e. CO2) is the sole determinant of climate change? It is simply laughable. Of course, there is the inconvenient truth that the earth's temperatures have been flat since 2001 (and declined since 1998), despite increasing concentrations of C02. So how does that work again? And I am supposed to agree with the largest tax increase in the history of mankind, concentrate more power with inept government and permanently lower our standard of living? This is ridiculous on so many levels, it boggles the mind as to how we are even have the discussion in the first place. ...which in turn is about paying people to become serfs.
BD and Buddy,
Absolutely and without question. My point and what amazes me is that the facade used to promote such a huge charade is so flimsy. You're right --it is SO flimsy, so roundly ridiculed away from the corridors of power (the only place that counts, it seems) --that there's something crazy about it --otherworldly, sinister, beyond normal experience.
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A 300 page amendment has been added to the cap & trade bill this morning so it looks like they wil be voting on a bill mostof them haven't read. Again.
Retread ... Most of the legislators don't read the texts of the bills up for voting. They have their own cadre of recent college grad aides who do the reading for them and summarize what 'they' think the bills are about. That's how Nancy Pelosi gets a chance to be on the House floor, instead of in her office reading the texts of the bills she is trying to bully through the House. {Already at this point the legislators are moving away from reality.} But this move, forcing the bill through the voting process in such a hurry after adding hundreds of extra pages at the last minute, sends up a warning flare that there is something secret and especially damaging that the Democrats want to force through because it won't survive the light of day or a sober analysis.
I wonder what this latest rascality is ... Marianne Oh and I forgot to mention what we've often said before. CO2 is an essential gas [all green plants need it] not a pollutant. And increase of it follows climate warming, not causes it.
It's so simple. Why won't people listen to me? Marianne Not that Congress is listening -- yet -- but I do get the impression that public opinion has turned on the issue of AGW. Polls on the subject are looking more sane, as are the patterns I see on a lot of comments boards, and not just the right-wing ones.
I'm not sure all this is going to save us from a preposterous bill this year, but it just may help us bring about some change in the 2010 elections. Yes, Texan99, but how do we get rid of the damn law after it's been forced on us? Getting rid of something as toxic as this is always lots harder than letting it slip through in the first place.
Marianne No kidding. I'm just struggling to find a pony underneath all the poop, in a desperate attempt to avoid a paralyzing political depression. At least the crazy Democrats in Congress picked a horrible bill that was truly unpopular and may prove even more unpopular in the near future, instead of one that had a lot of superficial near-term appeal and will take years to blow up in our faces.
Gawd, that church is ugly. I thought our seventies-era liberal churches in Silicon Valley, which I not-so-affectionately refer to as "heresy hangars," were bad, but that is an offense both to deity and humanity.
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