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Tuesday, April 1. 2008

Tuesday Links

Link to Maggie's Farm or we will drown these puppies. (Thanks to Sipp for this brilliant blog marketing concept from his I'm the only serial killer in MA)

"I'm just so sick of this world, and Obama can fix it." Cinnamon. Also, Obama busted.

What the clean energy scam is doing to Brazil. Heartbreaking

Media "selling us on fear and recession for years now." Speaking of which, The Independent declares with glee: US heading for a great depression. That is ridiculous, but schadenfreude sells papers.

Speaking of schadenfreude, Leftists claim that the GOP coalition is terminally broken. Our friend Right Wing Prof takes a look.

Something in Rick Moran wants to walk away from Iraq. And something else in him doesn't. As Never Yet Melted notes, nobody is saying about Europe, "After 60 years they still can't stand up for themselves." I hope we will still have troops in Iraq in 10 years. Tiger has a good take on the Basra deal.

Zimbabwe "election" update: The Independent (h/t, Norm)

"Poll shock: America not like Hollywood." Steyn

Crime update, in the UK

A quote from the always-interesting Mediocracy:

The idea that we should seek to equalise outcomes between the "highly motivated" and the "less well motivated" is interesting. It suggests that giving everyone the chance to do well means (in the minds of people like Baroness Blackstone) neutering "doing well" to the point where everyone does well, regardless. Demanding that all universities have resources "concentrated" on them, across the board, is equally vacuous.

Man-made global black holes: Be very afraid. Al Gore should take this crisis on: The End of the World

Picking a VP for McCain. Blackburn? (h/t, Insty)

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Turns out that the photo The Independent chose to illustrate the "depression" is a 2005 coat give away in the Bowery: http://tinyurl.com/yvhr9a
#1 chuck on 2008-04-01 10:23 (Reply)
All this fuss, not just Brazil, over what amounts to a trace element ( man made CO 2 ) in the atmosphere. I always thought the 'rainforest' was sacred to the eviro-weenies. Now it's the villain. I love it when leftists get caught between a rock and a hard place. Rain forest or renewable fuels, hmmm.. When eviro-market goes bust after the scam is exposed, it will be those nasty capitalists on Wall St's fault, not Al Gore's sustainable, socially responsible investment firm.
#2 sean on 2008-04-01 10:37 (Reply)
"Link to Maggie's Farm or we will drown these puppies."

Ha Ha Ha........... Way to go NJ. MF might get a blog award for best blog ad. haahahha oh, man, I laughed so hard I'm crying.
#3 Meta on 2008-04-01 10:43 (Reply)
McCain says he's weak, ( Sun Su always let your opponent know your weakness, ah so wise strategy ) on the economy. So why not pick Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell for the VP. Better yet, why don't he abdicate and let them run together alternating for the top position. M,W,F, Williams- Pres., T, Th, Sat., Sowell -Pres. Sunday flip a coin or just close down shop.
#4 sean on 2008-04-01 10:56 (Reply)
Speaking of Gore:
McCain should pick him for VP.
Seriously.
Last night McCain on talk radio when pressed about "global warming" stated that more and more science is pointing to a man made disaster.

His two examples were a) "a huge chunk of Antarctica broke off" and b) "a sad report that you can now grow crops again on Greenland."

This is crazy talk. He hasn't been updated on the news that this winter is cold, Antarctica is frozen solid and growing (ice), and that crops are good.

I pay pretty close attention to this issue, so do you all. When did Greenland becoming warm enough for crops get into the news? Why is this a tradgedy- if true?

Now think ahead, what's he going to say about the border?

We get shafted is the answer. There isn't a candidate running this time worth voting for, only against.

McCain-Gore 2008. Has a ring to it, eh?
#5 Phil on 2008-04-01 11:34 (Reply)
No candidate is perfect, and there are definitely subjects about which McCain appears ignorant or, to be generous, uncurious. Or maybe he is just being political...
#5.1 BD on 2008-04-01 12:03 (Reply)
Phil ... um, McCain-Gore 2008 has a horrible, grisly ring to it, especially to those of us who are aware that manmade global warming is a vast con game, perpetrated by those who don't know very much about science but an awful lot about con games.

Marianne Matthews
#6 Marianne Matthews on 2008-04-01 12:01 (Reply)
The carbon market is big. Looks unstoppable even though the "science" is so unsettled. I have no clue as to how this mess will sort itself out if people refuse to acknowledge that there is nothing more efficient than oil, gas, nuclear, hydro. Think that Gore and Branson and the Clintons and Obamas etc. will likely gain and core industries, infrastructure and taxpayers will likely lose. Reminds me of the Oil for Food scam in Iraq. Sold to the taxpayer with good intentions, twisted and tweaked until the end result is unrecognizable and the damage is done.

http://www.co2-handel.de/article160_7934.html

Also RE: the bank and credit loses.
Suppose it is possible that Western systems are under attack in several ways including tax, welfare fraud and real estate fraud. Just anecdotal but, a few years back, knew of a well to do Saudi immigrant who collected several months rent from a city apartment. The tenent then got notices from the bank that the mortgage was unpaid and to remit the rent to the bank and the apartment was then sold in default. The man was a respectable community member. He worked at the local credit union. Told the tenent something about his sister and her husband had moved back to Saudi Arabia. They held the title and they had received the rent but now were broke.
#7 Patina on 2008-04-01 12:02 (Reply)
"Media "selling us on fear and recession for years now."
Yes, but oddly enough the sale starts every four years and usually closes after the election.
This year however things might be different, corn for cars instead of people might prolong the sale.
#8 jim O'Neil on 2008-04-01 12:46 (Reply)
National Post has this article on the carbon tax "quagmire", that concludes...

"As noted in this space last week, all this is a recipe for global trade wars. It would mean, in effect, blowing up the WTO trade system to create a parallel Carbon Trade System that would be based on the opposite principles. The objective would be to restrict trade, not increase it; to control trade, not liberate it; to increase trade conflict, not reduce it; to weaken the economy, not strengthen it."

Snipped from...
Blowing up the WTO
Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
Published: Tuesday, April 01, 2008
#9 Patina on 2008-04-01 13:01 (Reply)

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