A free society should love the press, but we don’t because they don’t deserve our love.
This is what an AP report says about the much hyped “Focus on the Family” ad.
Heisman winner Tim Tebow and his mother talk about her difficult pregnancy with him and how she was advised to end the pregnancy—implying an antiabortion message
Huh? Millions of people watched the ad and scratched our heads wondering what all the fuss was about. Then we were smacked with the AP report telling us we didn’t see the whole message. There was a hidden message in there. It was so hidden, that you won’t see it even if you watch it again…and again…and again. The key to seeing the message is special liberal tinted glasses that they hand out in journalism school.
What’s funny is the correction at the end of the article. Maybe this reporter was partaking in too much Super Bowl festivities. Nah…just another liberal that lives in a fantasy world.
I have been a global warming skeptic since the start. So were a lot of other bloggers. It was the work of some diligent bloggers (not journalist) that shined a light on the advocacy nature of the IPCC.
Matt Ridley writes in the Spectator:
Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their sources.
Let’s not forget. The IPCC was created by the UN, a scandal ridden organization of global elites. Who could have ever imagined that the UN would be involved in another scandal? Oh…just about everyone who doesn’t worship at the alter of the elites.
The President needs to spend some prep time with his teleprompter. It’s not Corps Man. The P is silent!
They made fun of Bush for his pronunciation of “nuclear”. They made fun of Dan Quayle for his spelling of “potato”. This is at least as bad as those…worse when you consider he is the Commander in Chief. It’s not like Dan Quayle was commander of all American potatoes or George Bush was the spokesman for the NRC.
The Obama Administration is increasing the budget at the EPA
the Obama administration has proposed a modest cut of $300 million from EPA’s overall $10 billion budget for 2011, the amounts allocated for global warming related regulatory and other activities is up, to $1.1 billion, or about 12 percent of the agency’s expenditures.
A total of $56 million will go to global warming regulations, while another $169 million of the $1.1 billion total will be spent on efforts directly aimed at reducing the greenhouse gases global warming advocates like former Vice President Al Gore claim are responsible for causing dangerous temperature increases in the Earth’s atmosphere.
So let me see if I’m getting this straight. The President is spending millions of dollars to regulate greenhouse gases. He is spending our money in an effort that will cost us more money.
Is he still keeping the Oval Office thermostat high enough to remind him of Hawaii? ‘Cause we are paying for that too.
The EPA was created to protect the environment, but the Administration is using it to regulate energy use in this country. I would say that is mission creep.
The federal debt is huge. REALLY huge. We borrow and borrow and borrow some more. It is generational theft. Not only are we are stealing from our children, but we are also hurting ourselves. Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf explains to Congress:
But even before you hit that crisis point (when investors stop buy treasury securities), of course, what’s going wrong in a more subtle — what’s obvious, but still very damaging way, is that the more of those treasury securities are being held, the less that investors will be holding of shares: the ownership of physical plant and equipment; the sorts of things that make our economy more — workers more productive over time and raises incomes over time.
It is a hidden form of redistribution from capital that produces wealth to the government that doesn’t. We need to get back to producing wealth.
This excerpt is from a journal written by Charles Pierce in 1790 about the weather in Philadelphia.
JANUARY. 1790. The average or medium temperature of this month was 44 degrees. This is the mildest month of January on record. Fogs prevailed very much in the morning, but a hot sun soon dispersed them, and the mercury often ran up to 70 in the shade, at mid-day. Boys were often seen swimming in the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. There were frequent showers as in April, some of which were accompanied by thunder and lightning. The uncommon mildness of the weather continued until the 7th of February.
WindPower Monthly has some statistics from the German Wind/Power industry.
Germany has 21,164 turbines with a rated capacity of 25,777 MW, but the rated capacity and reality are far apart when you are talking wind.
In 2009, power generated by wind in Germany was 37.5 Terra Watt Hrs. That certainly is a lot of power but a closer look shows that it is only 16.6% of the rated capacity.
Let’s examine these numbers as it applies to the United States. The US consumes between 300 and 350 terawatt hours per month.In otherwords, we consume nearly 10 times the power produced by Germany’s 21,164 turbines in one month. As a quick estimate (definitely not scientific, but close enough for me to make my point)…to produce 30% of our power with wind turbines, we would need over 600,000 wind driven turbines!!!
In Germany last year, they installed nearly 1000 new turbines. At that rate, it would take us 600 years to install enough capacity for only 30% of our needs. (assuming don’t increase our power needs and the wind mills installed first never need to be replaced).
To get the job done (30% of our current needs) in 20 years, we would need to install 83 wind mills every single day for 20 years.
Conclusion: Wind won’t make us less dependent on anything. It’s just a nice science project for those who like to spend billions.
NOTE: For those who didn’t pay attention is science class…it goes mega, then giga, then tera. One gigawatt is one thousand megawatts. One tarawatt is one million magawatts.
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