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Monday, March 31. 2008

A few Monday morning links

Surrender by Al Sadr. This kind of thing might explain why.

Global warming is making people crazy? Unbelievable. (h/t, Carnival of the Insanities)

"Hillary flings dirt but it sticks to her." Sullivan. Also, "Obama didn't go to law school for nothing." neoneo/ Also, "Barack Obama: Our new appeaser." Michael Goodwin

Bobby Jindal update. Blue Crab

How over-rated is John Steinbeck? NY Review of Books

Farm Scams. Conspiracy:

Whatever you want to say about the sharpies on Wall Street, they are pikers compared to Max's and Chuck's friends down on the farm when it comes to picking the pockets of taxpayers and consumers, or concocting a system in which the farmers get all the gains while the government assumes most of the risk.

From a letter to the editor by Don Boudreaux:

So I commend you on your "Earth Hour" effort.  Persuading people across the globe to turn off lights for one hour supplies the perfect symbol for modern environmentalism: a collective effort to return humankind to the dark ages.

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Stumbled on to this link thru the trout post. Seems to be the plan for a carbon auction for 9 Northeast and Midatlantic states.
http://www.rggi.org/about.htm

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI or "ReGGIe") is a cooperative effort by 9 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to discuss the design of a regional cap-and-trade program initially covering carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the region. In the future, RGGI may be extended to include other sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and greenhouse gases other than CO2.
snip....

Auction Design Research
In March 2007, the New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), on behalf of RGGI-participating states, engaged a research team led by the University of Virginia and Resources for the Future (RFF) to evaluate regional auction design options and make recommendations to the Staff Working Group and Agency Heads for the specifications of a regional RGGI allowance auction. The outcome of this research will provide recommendations at a level of specificity that would allow participating states to jointly implement an auction platform and administer an auction, pursuant to design requirements and rules specified by RGGI participating states.
#1 Patina on 2008-03-31 11:00 (Reply)
Poor Al Sadr. Just realized he has a bullseye on his forehead.
#2 Meta on 2008-03-31 11:49 (Reply)
Mogky didn't surrender.

He's leading the khutba and Nouri is in the back row sucking wind.

Nouri-without-light is doing the surrender.

Mogky is dictating terms for cease fire.
#3 Leag on 2008-03-31 12:00 (Reply)
"The Rescue of John Steinbeck" by John Gottlieb of the NYT's Book Review where if you say anything good, you're fired.

Book reviewers, unless they are themselves published authors, need a damn good whacking. Gottlieb, wannabe-writer, writes a most puerile exegesis/term paper about Steinbeck and has the audacity to say this about Steinbeck at the end:

"You could say that by the end he had evolved into a kind of minor and irrelevant prophet, both disillusioned and irredeemably optimistic.

And he's become that unfashionable and embarrassing thing, a patriot. "I believe," he wrote at the end of his life,
that out of the whole body of our past, out of our differences, our quarrels, our many interests and directions, something has emerged that is itself unique in the world: America—complicated, paradoxical, bullheaded, shy, cruel, boisterous, unspeakably dear, and very beautiful.

Somewhere along the way, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" had turned into "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."


"...he had evolved into a kind of minor and irrelevant prophet, both disillusioned and irredeemably optimistic." ???? Cool.

Too bad Steinbeck can't come back to town on a feisty red pony to kick the snot out of this little Gottlieb bitch.
#4 Meta on 2008-03-31 12:12 (Reply)
right -- if you're optimistic, why the hell do you need redeeming?
#4.1 buddy larsen on 2008-03-31 12:42 (Reply)
I work for an electronics manufacturer. I sent some stickers over to Afganistan. "say hi to OBL for us!". Here is the proof:
http://phoenixphorum.com/post56395.html#56395

The reason I am posting this here, the "get wired" sticker is on one of those 500lb gift baskets featured in the delivery video on the morning's link. Dig how everyone signs the bombs. Killer.

Those attrition numbers have got to HURT the MA. "don't play, just kill" policy in effect, fully.
#5 Phil on 2008-03-31 14:12 (Reply)
good stuff, phil --

and thanks for the Jindal link -- Jindal is solid gold -- he's the real thing -- no kidding-- really -- president of the US someday if we're lucky (and smart enough).
#6 buddy larsen on 2008-04-01 00:00 (Reply)

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