The President likes to quote “My brother’s keeper” from the Bible. You have to wonder if he knows the story of Cain and Abel.
He has said it more than once…Again. He said it again this week.
Why would the President do this? Cain asked God, “Am I my brother’s keeper” when he was trying to conceal his murder. I can only think of two reasons.
He doesn’t know the Bible very well
He is trying to distort the teachings of the Bible into some kind of socialist propaganda
I can’t believe the first one. He has used this phrase many times. Someone in his circle must know the reference, so it must be #2. This fits with his arrogance and his faith…that is his faith in the press covering for him.
If you can think of a better explanation, I’d love to hear it.
Long term ownership of electric vehicles have a major hurdle to clear:
…one of the big arguments against buying most new cars, regardless of power plant, has been that they lose a good chunk of their value as soon as you drive them off the lot.
And
While an engine that has been maintained properly can easily exhibit most of its original performance after 100,000 miles – and many can often go 200,000 miles or more – the same cannot reliably be said (yet, as far as we know) of a battery in an EV. The reality is that no one really knows how much value a battery will retain after 50,000 or 100,000 miles. It’s a hard number to calculate. Nissan has said that the Leaf battery might only hold 80 or 70 percent of its original charge after ten years, for example, which will make it worth less.
Dee Dee Myers explained to Bill O’Reilly tonight that conservatives see things in black and white. That they don’t understand complex issues.
The corollary to this must be that Progressives on the other hand make the simplest things complex. Take the Cash for Caulkers program. It was to use federal stimulus money to improve the efficiency of homes. It has noble ideals. Give jobs, lower energy dependence and slow the destruction of the planet.
Except the Progressives who love complexity made the whole thing so complex that it didn’t work well. It took over a year to wade through all the prevailing wage rules to make the unions happy…and then shotty work was provided. In the end, money was taken from you and I, so that a few could get thousands of dollars to save very little energy. The Wall Street Journal’s review of the numbers suggests that the payback on the investment will be 15 years. In truth, it will be much worse than that. Many of those homes will site idle due to foreclosure. Some will be torn down. Others will have work in the next 15 years that makes this investment meaningless.
Well, there I go getting all into the complexity of the program. What I meant to say is its not good therefore its all bad…cause I’m just a simpleton.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Economics on September 30th, 2010
They are Tax and Spend Democrats. They are Spend and Tax Democrats.
Real Clear Politics has posted a video of Nancy Pelosi in a press conference broadcast on CSPAN. She explain that:
Using TARP funds to pay down the debt is a good idea. (TARP should be renamed SLUSH)
She then says we need to grow the economy and we need to create jobs in order to do that. Huh? She has it all ass-backwards. We need to grow the economy in order to create jobs. We could create a 100 million jobs tomorrow if we just all set fire to our homes. That wouldn’t grow the economy. It would just shift resources to something we already had before the houses were set on fire.
She says the more jobs we create, the more money that comes into the public till and therefore reduces the deficit…except in practice, the stimulus spends billions to bring in millions. The evidence is the exact opposite of what the Speaker claims.
She then claims that it is appropriate to use TARP funds to reduce the deficit. TARP funds were authorized to shore up trouble assets. They were given the green light so that our financial institutions wouldn’t collapse. Now Nancy Pelosi wants to use the funds for an entirely different purpose. It is a typical liberal tactic of twisting a precept to achieve a goal.
The fact is she want a global transaction tax….ah great…ceding power to foreign nations now.
She says that the tax will have minimal impact on the transaction but a tremendous impact on helping us meet our needs. How can that be. Either it is a lot of money or it isn’t. The U.S. government has the largest budget of any organization ever created on earth. How can the money be insignificant to others but be significant to funding the U.S. government. And if we have a global tax, how much of the tax will be used to help the need of other countries.
We are all participating in the economic prosperity of our country…it’s patriotic to pay taxes.
The goals of this Congress are truly scary. The arrogance of the Congress is truly scary. The stupidity of this woman is truly scary. PLEASE….vote to take the gavel out of Nancy Pelosi’s hand.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Congress,Taxes on September 30th, 2010
According to a source in Pennsylvania who tracks television advertising by political campaigns, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee bought only $260,000 in TV ads this week in Pennsylvania–about a 50 percent drop from the $500,000 or more the DSCC has been spending on TV ads each week for the past five weeks in the state.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in PA Politics on September 29th, 2010
According to the Arctic Sea Ice, summer is over. The Arctic ice is returning at a rapid rate.
Al Gore predicted that we would see an ice free Arctic by 2014. That’s because Al sees a trend and make huge leaps into the ridiculous.
Notice that the graph above doesn’t start at zero and all the traces return to approximately the same place. Even if the trend is to less see ice…Al Gore is making a huge leap…a ridiculous leap. But pay no attention to the Republicans who worry about terrorism. They are just fear mongers.
Hear in America, anger grows over lost freedoms. In Europe, anger grows over lost dependence.
Painful cuts by overspending EU countries come head to a head with mounting social anger on Wednesday when labour leaders call angry workers onto streets right across the continent…read more
Freedom is the key. That is why I am hopeful for my country.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Economics on September 28th, 2010
The oceans have cooled. Surface temperatures have declines. What is global warming alarmist to do? Seek the “missing heat”
“The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later,” says NCAR scientist Kevin Trenberth, the lead author. “The reprieve we’ve had from warming temperatures in the last few years will not continue. It is critical to track the build-up of energy in our climate system so we can understand what is happening and predict our future climate…read more
Could it be that your global warming theory was wrong? It doesn’t even get a glance. Global Warming is more of a religion taken on faith than it is science.
To find the heat, Global Warming “scientist” are searching the deepest parts of the ocean. The search for the missing heat reminds me of the search for Noah’s Ark.
America is very close to a destructive tipping point…We must change how we conduct our politics and economics…or we will inevitably go the way of all once-great nations and suffer an irreversible decline.
Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, joined Dan Gross and I to discuss the “major structural imbalances” facing America, chief among them being the government’s profligate spending.
I believe we are in decline, but I don’t believe it is irreversible. There is too much pent up energy and spirit in the American people to count us out for long.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Economics on September 28th, 2010
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