This is where the world is gone completely wrong.  There is no HUMAN CAUSED global warming.  There is climate change.  Repeat that until you get it.

So, now a badly needed power supply is held up by a myth propagated by a false religion.

We are in so much trouble if we don’t reign in these crazies now!  We should be building 100 cleaner coal plants and 100 nuclear plants today.  That will take a lot of pressure off, create jobs and help our energy problems.  Just think, you can plug your plug in electric car and drive on nuclear power.

Makes sense to me.  Too much sense for the nuts in Georgia who made this stupid decision.

Powell, who last month in British Columbia hinted that he might vote for Obama, met with the all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee in Powell’s Alexandria, Va., office on June 18.

Some were hoping McCain would select Powell.  That would be adding insult to injury.

Meanwhile, look for more and more social pressure, and possibly laws, to limit the number of children couples can have. Elimination of the unfit (mentally ill, physically handicapped or simply old) will be examined, and seen as a humane solution to many of our problems. Suicide will be regarded as a sacrificial act. We are in danger of being brainwashed into a culture of death.

Mary Harrison
Newport News, Va.

From the Wall Street Journal July 3, 2008 letters section

A young woman owns a hair salon and is sued for $8000 and has to pay because she didn’t hire a Muslim woman who wouldn’t remove her head scarf.

There is a law, the treaty of Lisbon, that has as part of it’s concept:

Everyone has the right to engage in work and pursue a freely chosen or accepted occupation.

So the question is, does everyone have the right to a job even if the job giver doesn’t want to hire you?

I guess in Britain (coming soon to a country near you) you do.

From Chicago Boyz Smitten Eagle:

Perhaps we ought to redefine what sustainability is. It ought not mean organic soy milk, fair-trade coffee, the Toyota Prius, or voting for Obama along with the rest of your sorority. It should be more radical than that. It should be an unabashedly pro-human philosophy, as we should recognize that sustaining humanity is our top mission, not sustaining nature. This means using nature for human benefit, not Gaia’s. It means giving economic vitality to humans by creating trade pacts where they can export to the world market. It means opposing autarky. It means recognizing that human life is more important than nature, and affirming humans’ mastery of nature. This sustainability is really humanism, and is the stuff of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the Globalization, where in each case people have created systems to increase fertility, wealth, and freedom.

And Victor David Hansen’s take on Liberal Sustainability:

I spent some time speaking in San Francisco recently… There are smartly dressed yuppies, wealthy gays, and chic business people everywhere downtown, along with affluent tourists, all juxtaposed with hordes of street people and a legion of young service workers at Starbucks, restaurants, etc. What is missing are school children, middle class couples with strollers, and any sense the city has a vibrant foundation of working-class, successful families of all races and backgrounds. For all its veneer of liberalism, it seems a static city of winners and losers, victory defined perhaps by getting into a spruced up Victorian versus renting in a bad district, getting paid a lot to manage something, versus very little to serve something. All in all, I got a strange creepy feeling that whatever was going on, it was unsustainable–sort of like an encapsulated Europe within an American city. The city seems to exist on tourism, and people who daily come into the city to provide a service, get paid–and leave….

I remember SF in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a kid visiting with his parents. A much different place altogether of affordable homes, vibrant docks, lots of construction—and children everywhere.

While I agree with VDH I think its tragic that a whole artificial culture has devolved into this.  Let’s hope for sanity.  Growth and Development of our internal creative ability will get us out of this, not artificial sustainability.

International Court of Justice

These august justices who sit there are busy indicting Mexico for not being nice to drug dealers, Israel for retaliating against missles from Gaza and our own George Bush as a war criminal.

I guess the docket must be pretty full right now.  I searched Google News and didn’t find much about the world court and Sudan, Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Mirimar after the storm, North Korea and it’s treatment of it’s people and a dozen other thugocracies. 

I guess that doesn’t qualify.  These are hopeless organizations.  GET OUT OF THE UN TODAY!

God has supplied everything we need to do the work, to dream the dreams, to solve the problems this country faces if we just will tap into what he has already supplied.

Our creator filled our souls with this energy and filled the resources for us to discover and exploit.  We just need the will.  The courage.  We have everything we need to solve our energy problems except the will to do it.

Vote for ________________________.

This will be filled in by the candidate who really wants to quit pandering and clearly solve the central Issue in America today.

Hat Tip to Art Gara

Thank you sirs.  (the madam voted against it)

I feel better already.

We will rue the day that George W Bush leaves office. 

Thank you Mr President for standing firm. 

Good News.

Too good not to pass along.

It’s enough to make you wonder when we’re finally going to wake to up to this scam. The OPEC oligarchy is well and truly awake to it. They know they’ve got a couple of decades of mugging the West at increasingly extortionate rates before they all go back to eating sand and cutting each other throat’s for a living.

Okay, they never really gave up on the latter.

But that’s some sweet, sweet action getting your boot on somebody’s throat and forcing them to cough up a lazy trillion or two, and the boss hog of OPEC, Chakib Khelil, has signalled that he doesn’t see any reason why it should change. The current ‘crisis’ meeting in Saudi Arabia, isn’t going to drop the price of crude by a single cent. Not for more than a day or so anyway. Begging OPEC to lay off the gouging is like asking the Mafia to go easy on racketeering.

Read the whole thing.