I believe Bird Dog and the missus have taken off for the famous Annual Two-Seed-In-The-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist Revival And Used Gun Sale in Woostah, Mass (only true New Englanders will know where that is), so I'm doing today's morning links.
Interesting News
First off, here's an official 'scoop' for ya. Sites like PJ Media and Hot Air are always linking to the latest Solyndra-type 'green' company going belly-up, with the most recent one being Ecotality, a maker of electric car charging stations. Here's a fresh one hot off the press:
Going Green: EPA Puts Brakes on Chevy Volt's Battery Manufacturer
According to the original press reports, the company was supposed to hire over 400 workers, and start producing Lithium-ion batteries for the combustible Chevy Volt as early as 2012 – two years after they scrapped together some environmental fools willing to invest taxpayer dollars in their project. Serving as living proof that Liberals misunderstand the concept of business, the company then paid their workers... well, to do nothing.
That 'do nothing' link contains this gem:
Only half of the 400 job have been filled, and those workers were paid about $842,000 to do other things in late 2012, including watching movies and playing board, card and video games. More civic-minded workers used the work day to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, at animal shelters and outdoor nature centers.
So, if I'm reading the gist of the article correctly, it's better to be civic-minded than sit around playing video games. I think we can all agree with that sentiment.
Speaking of religions, here's a great article demolishing the whole 'sea levels rising' meme:
Sea Level Rise: Climate Change and an Ocean of Natural Variability
And two articles on the EPA's war on coal:
EPA’s New Rules for Coal Accelerate Obama’s Agenda on Climate Change
Will Coal Survive the EPA’s New Carbon Rules?
At the hearing, both McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz answered "Yes" when asked whether they thought coal had a future in the U.S. energy mix. But it was hard to see how new coal plants could actually fit into the picture.
The new 'green-friendly' 2014 Honda Civic takes to the streets
Speaking of religions, good news for atheists. A few weeks ago I noted how the Pope is pushing the gay agenda, and now you don't even have to be religious to get into Heaven:
Pope Francis Assures Atheists: You Don’t Have to Believe in God to Go to Heaven
Stay tuned next week when the headline reads, "Pope Francis Assures Abortionists: Don't Worry, I've Got Your Back!"
No, wait, I got that backwards. The Pope is asking Catholics not to get all worked up about such trivialities as abortion, gay marriage and contraception.
Pope Says Church Should Stop Obsessing Over Gays, Abortion
Pope Francis said the Catholic Church shouldn’t be “obsessed” with preaching about abortion, gay marriage and contraception and should instead try to reach out to a broader congregation.
Since atheists are now included in the congregation, I presume he's talking about fringe groups like disenchanted Two-Seed-In-The-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. Look out, Mr. & Mrs. Bird Dog — the Pope is gunning for you!
Speaking of religions, you might have read how the professional grievance-mongers want to do away with the Washington 'Redskins' name, because of its obvious horrific racist overtones. You know, along with the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and, especially, the Cleveland Indians, because there's no more horrid and racist word for an American Indian to be called than 'Indian'.
Here's the best article I've read yet on the subject.
"My kids are really afraid we're going to lose the Redskin name. They say to me, 'They're not going to take it from us, are they, Dad?'"
Too late. White America has spoken. You aren't offended, so we'll be offended for you.
The last line of the article is one for the books.
Speaking of religions, the professional racemongers at CNN are still hard at work. After the Zimmerman trial, I noted CNN's top headline a few days later here. Well, an India-Indian woman won the Miss America pageant last weekend and a couple of lunatics came out of the woodwork making racist comments.
Blaring from the CNN headlines the next morning:
What's to note is that not one other news agency mentioned racism in their own articles that day. I'd be willing to bet even money that CNN staffers wrote a bunch of them in order to fit the preordained headline.
Speaking of religions, there's crushing news for environmentalists. While they eagerly await the next mishap by Big Oil to further their cause, imagine how chagrined they must feel to see Big Molasses beating Big Oil to the punch:
The Worst Thing About Hawaii’s Molasses Spill Isn’t Even the Thousands of Dead Fish
And, speaking of religions, a terrible tragedy was narrowly averted in Arizona the other day.
Arizona Highways Magazine Accidentally Describes Mushroom as Edible
As I write in Of The Moon And Mushrooms, the mushroom in the above article, 'fly agaric', aka Amanita Muscaria, in conjunction with other natural phenomena, might have been the first building blocks of religion. Imagine all those Arizonans eating the things and inventing 225 new religions!
On the galactic scene, I mentioned this bad boy about six months ago and here's an update:
If The Sun Doesn’t Blast It, Comet ISON Will Soon Light Up The Sky
A comet looping behind the sun could emerge this fall as a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, or it may not. Mike Schuh has more on what he calls the “intergalactic snowball.”
Stay tuned.
Political News
Think you have good eyes? Think you can spot a photoshopped picture when you see one? The following image of Putin and Obama is obviously photoshopped, but the question is, what obvious telltale sign gives it away?
President Obama rides sidesaddle.
Ancient 
Sultan: