Chuckie, aka Prince Charles, is typical of the Tranzi Progressive elites. He preaches the so called Green Agenda, taking less baths and other silly environmental extremist ideas. He clearly would love to go back to the caste based feudal system that his ancestors benefited from. In a hypocritical move he travels in a luxury train to promote the Green Agenda.
As a mode of transport, the royal train suits Prince Charles down to his hand-made brogues: resolutely old-fashioned, rather costly for the taxpayer, but just possibly ahead of its time.
The locomotive this afternoon hauled the prince out of Glasgow station, furnished with the prince’s bespoke study, a grand dining room and bedroom suite, complete with bath and his and hers beds, on the start of a four-day tour of Britain that will cost the taxpayer at least £50,000.
The contrast between the train’s opulence, which seemed worthy of an oligarch, and the purpose of its journey was, to some, jarring. Charles has begun a week-long trip to persuade his “subjects” to go green, and the train from which he has chosen to assert his voice in the climate debate has been converted to run on cooking fat, which, its suppliers estimate, creates just one-eighth of the carbon dioxide of oil-based diesel.
The Environmentalist movement is Fascist and has lead terrorists like James Lee taking action. Chuckie’s fear mongering on the Global Warming scam is responsible and he should be ashamed.
The hypocrisy here is astounding. Chuckie is asking his subjects to cut back on their standard of living, while he enjoys a luxurious lifestyle. He should put his money where his mouth is and sell some of the assets of the royal family. He wants to live well while others struggle. This is the true goal of the Progressive agenda.
Only one side is tarred with its nutjobs — the 50 million Americans who oppose abortion in any form are somehow all responsible for Dr. Tiller’s death — while we should not judge Islam by an organization that trains thousands of terrorists for hits all over the world, including the destruction of the World Trade Center.
IOW, if muslims at large aren’t responsible for the WTC, and environmentalists aren’t responsible for Lee, are pro-life people responsible for the guy who killed Tiller? Maybe they guy I linked above can come here and explain why that is.
Also, maybe he can explain why the entire Tea Party movement is responsible for the handful of LaRouche nuts and other assorted kooks and opportunists who always crash their events.
The door’s open, Mr. Green Blog. Pull up a chair and enlighten us.
A study from Switzerland referred to but not linked here is causing some messy diapers.
Some fuel-sipping combustion-engine-powered cars have a smaller environmental impact than battery-electric cars because of both the metals and chemical process required to produce lithium-ion batteries and the electricity required to recharge the cars, according to a report by Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, or EMPA.
There are several issues here (and a look at the actual report would be helpful, but I gather it’s behind some paywall somewhere), having to do with how the electricity is made (coal is still king), and some oddball elements used to make motors and power electronics.
The greenies aren’t happy, as is evident from the comments in this article. Needless to say, the dingleberries making the comments are from the Ludwig van Quixote school of Magical Thermodynamics where there’s no such thing as a Carnot efficiency. The unicorns take care of all of that stuff.
Is the study and it’s assumptions valid? Probably, but again, I can’t read the source document. The rare earth thing, IMO is a solvable issue. The other issues get progressively harder. In the end, it doesn’t matter what some study claims, what matters is how the market shakes out.
But if I were going to buy a new econobox with the intention of putting a lot of miles on it, I’d be leaning toward the new diesels. Too bad there aren’t that many choices in the US right now (because the automakers got burned so badly in the ’80s).
Allow me to inform you that this proposed new vehicle sticker was in response to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which was enacted by a Congress controlled by the Demo☭rats and signed by President George W. Bush. We all know how independent and secure our national energy resources are as a result of this magnanimous act, don’t we.
We’re all on the same page…good.
This pisses me off. It offends me to know that the Government assumes that I can’t make the decision for myself and for my family what kind of vehicle we should be driving, and that all the research I would do before hand, especially with the Internet available, isn’t good enough either.
Y’know, I was at the Ford Dealer yesterday afternoon having them check out my battery, which wasn’t cranking enough cold amps. They ended up replacing it at no charge and suggested some maintenance is coming up for the Official Car (and yes, since we’ve been married, that means there’s also an Official Truck too!). I was sorely tempted to go out onto the lot and ask to test drive either an Escape or Edge. I held off on that for now.
Still, this bullshit is leading me down to actually purchasing an SUV as our next Official Vehicle, just to flip the Government off!
The EPA is seeking comment on a rule to ban lead bullets. Yes, you heard that right. I’ve been saying for quite some time now that the administration can cause a lot of mischief without the involvement of the congress through the agencies, and here’s a perfect example of agency activism reaching well outside of the purview of the EPA, and IMO into conflict with the Second Amendment.
It’s true that anything as dense as lead won’t be as soft, or as cheap. So this, if implemented, would have the practical effect of repealing the Second Amendment, and make the US less gun-friendly than many nations on earth including Russia.
If you care about your right to have reasonably prices ammo, go here, and follow the instructions to comment. It’s your right, and your responsibility.
Charles is at it again with his madness. The Prince of Wales is urging his British subjects to cut back on bathing. His excuse is that too much bathing hurts the environment. Cutting back on bathing is actually very anti-hygienic and can lead to the spread of diseases. But it doesn’t matter, it’s all about the sacrifices we must make to save the Earth.
Prince Charles has told British families to take shorter showers to help protect the environment.
The instruction came at the end of a list of 20 lifestyle changes recommended by the Prince of Wales for his new green campaign, Start.
In separate advice endorsed by the Prince, he was more detailed – urging people to give up baths in favour of ‘short, refreshing’ five minute showers.
His campaign website reads: ‘Snub the tub. If everybody in a four-person family replaced one bath a week with a five-minute shower, you could save between £5 and £15 per year off your energy bill.’
However, the 61-year-old Prince might need to tackle his own family’s washing habits before telling the rest of the country how to behave. His father the Duke of Edinburgh, 89, takes baths.
What is it with Charles? This man is crazy and anyone who takes him serious needs their heads examined. If people take his suggestion seriously, this could lead to an outbreak of diseases. Maybe this is the goal, population control. Charles, like his namesake blogger, is just to be laughed at.
These guys are nuts. Just plain freeking loony tunes nuts. Scientific American, a magazine that once upon a time was respectable, and once upon a time was about science, has turned into a snuff porn rag.
I’ve seen the “after humans” stuff on TV, which is mildly entertaining because the focus is on how natural processes would slowly undo human infrastructure. This is different. This is a really, really bad animation showing (!!!) elephants roaming Central Park (because of global warming ).
So there you have it; SciAm is into human extinction, and they think that elephants will roam Central Park because we’ve been a bad, bad species.
Not to be outdone, National Geographic, another formerly respectable magazine, matches SciAm, and raises them psychedelic:
The Blogmocracy is going down, but not in a bad way. At 4AM Eastern, the admins are taking it offline for about an hour to upgrade the awesomeness and move to a new server. Bummer for the late nighters here on the left coast, but as a consolation, Rose’s Table 9 will be up for fun while you wait for your favorite blog to come back online.
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Aside from that, the photo above belongs in someone’s calendar instead of in an Overnight Open Thread.
so thats 1/3 of the US oil refining capacity closed by bureaucrat fiat.
Obama is at war with the Southern States that didn’t vote for him. This is Chicago politics gone mad and national. Texas must ignore this, keep refining and FORCE Obama to try to call out the troops because the bureaucrats can’t enforce this on their own. They need firepower to pull this off for real if Texas says, “BITE ME”. Gov Perry can use those words if he likes, as long as we get a hat tip
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HOUSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday officially overturned a 16-year-old Texas air permitting program it says violates the Clean Air Act, leaving some of the country’s largest refineries in a state of limbo.
The move comes after years of backdoor bickering, negotiations and public arguments between the EPA and Texas. The argument recently escalated from a battle over environmental issues into a heated political dispute over states’ rights.
Gov. Rick Perry has been using it to drive home his contention that President Barack Obama’s administration is overreaching, saying in a statement Wednesday that “Texas will continue to fight this federal takeover of a successful state program.”
The EPA’s decision, announced in a statement, will force some 125 refineries and petrochemical plants to invest millions of dollars to get new permits. Many of the plants may also have to invest in updates to comply with federal regulations.
The decision did not come as a surprise to Texas or the industries. EPA regional director Al Armendariz has said for months he would disapprove the permits if Texas did not comply with the Clean Air Act.
“AL GORE is a pervert and sexual predator,” declares MOLLY HAGERTY, 54, the massage therapist who told Portland, Ore. police that the ex-VICE President sexually assaulted her.
“He’s not what people think he is – he’s a sick man!”
I think we’ve all been hearing rumblings about the incident in Portland, but the evidence was questionable. If these claims are true, the Multnomah County DA will have to re open this case. The accuser – a loyal democrat – claims to have preserved DNA evidence.
You heard it right, while Bill was busy staining Monica’s blue dress, Wooden Al was sexually assaulting this masseuse in Portland in a most clumsy manner, but he managed to squirt some of his own DNA out of his wooden spout.
As an aside, one thing about this story that’s ironic to the extreme is the way Gore talked about “chakras“. This guy is supposed to be a symbol of science, no? Doesn’t Al Gore fit in right between Galileo and Einstein?
And he uses this cheap hippy new-age gimmick to try to get some nooky. Major manque, Al!
Following a masseuse’s allegations that Al Gore behaved like ‘a crazed sex poodle’ and groped her, the police have re-opened investigations into the case.
Now, why is it that this was reported first in the Hindustan Times???
Personally I get the impression that The One is not even interested in the job. He sees his presidency as one of those trans-formative events and that all he should do is be above the clouds giving spiritual direction to this sinful nation and not getting his clothes dirty by the actual nuts and bolts on laboring on the day to day problems of America and the world. He seems to be completely disengaged from the actual job of governing and I suspect in his heart of hearts (despite his manifest arrogance) there is a part of him that knows that he will be exposed as an unqualified neophyte if he actually tries to do something that might fail and have consequences for his presidency.
Btw – “defenestration” means to be thrown out of a window to ones death (as was Jan Masaryk the Czech Foreign Minister in 1948 after the Communist coup).
by Mark Steyn
What do Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and BP have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic Party supporters.
Or they were. Gen. McChrystal is a liberal who voted for President Obama and banned Fox News from his headquarters TV. That may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general to be lost in combat while giving an interview to Rolling Stone. They’ll be studying that one in war colleges around the world for decades. The managers of BP were unable to vote for Mr. Obama, being, as we now know, the most sinister, duplicitous bunch of shifty Brits to pitch up offshore since the War of 1812. But, in their “Beyond Petroleum” marketing and beyond, they signed on to every modish nostrum of the eco-left. Their recently retired chairman, Lord John Browne, was one of the most prominent promoters of “cap-and-trade.” BP was the Democrats’ favorite oil company. It was to Mr. Obama what TotalFinaElf was to Saddam Hussein.
But what do Gen. McChrystal’s and BP’s defenestrations tell us about the president of the United States? Mr. Obama is a thin-skinned man and, according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, White House aides indicated that what angered the president most about the Rolling Stone piece was “a McChrystal aide saying that McChrystal had thought that Obama was not engaged when they first met last year.” If finding Mr. Obama “not engaged” is now a firing offense, who among us is safe?
Only the other day, Sen. George LeMieux of Florida attempted to rouse the president to jump-start America’s overpaid, overmanned and oversleeping federal bureaucracy and get it to do something about the oil debacle. There are 2,000 oil skimmers in the United States; weeks after the spill, only 20 of them are off the coast of Florida. Seventeen friendly nations with great expertise in the field have offered their own skimmers; the Dutch volunteered their “superskimmers.” Mr. Obama turned them all down. Raising the problem, Mr. LeMieux found the president unengaged and uninformed. “He doesn’t seem to know the situation about foreign skimmers and domestic skimmers,” the senator reported.
He doesn’t seem to know, and he doesn’t seem to care that he doesn’t know, and he doesn’t seem to care that he doesn’t care. “It can seem that at the heart of Barack Obama’s foreign policy is no heart at all,” Richard Cohen wrote in The Washington Post last week. “For instance, it’s not clear that Obama is appalled by China’s appalling human rights record. He seems hardly stirred about continued repression in Russia. … The president seems to stand foursquare for nothing much.
“This, of course, is the Obama enigma: Who is this guy? What are his core beliefs?”
Gee, if only your newspaper had thought to ask those fascinating questions oh, say, a month before the Iowa caucuses
Did you all get the memo? Well, according to the EPA, it is, yes indeed.
From the land of IrishRose, here is the news blurb…
GRAND RAPIDS — Having watched the oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, dairy farmer Frank Konkel has a hard time seeing how spilled milk can be labeled the same kind of environmental hazard.
But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is classifying milk as oil because it contains a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil.
The Hesperia farmer and others would be required to develop and implement spill prevention plans for milk storage tanks. The rules are set to take effect in November, though that date might be pushed back.
“That could get expensive quickly,” Konkel said. “We have a serious problem in the Gulf. Milk is a wholesome product that does not equate to spilling oil.”
But last week environmentalists disagreed at a Senate committee hearing on a resolution from Sen. Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, calling for the EPA to rescind its ruling.
“The federal Clean Water Act requirements were meant to protect the environment from petroleum-based oils, not milk,” he said. “I think it is an example of federal government gone amuck.”
But Gayle Miller, legislative director of Sierra Club Michigan Chapter, said agricultural pollution probably is the nation’s most severe chronic problem when it comes to water pollution.
“Milk is wholesome in a child’s body. It is devastating in a waterway,” Miller said. “The fact that it’s biodegradable is irrelevant if people die as a result of cryptosporidium, beaches close for E. coli and fish are killed.”
Miller said “big agriculture” is constantly trying to be exempted from environmental regulations at the state and federal level. She was disappointed to learn the EPA told The Press it “expects shortly to issue a notice to extend the date for milk storage tanks to comply with SPCC (Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure) regulations.”
A corporation mails a disassembled bomb to a professor warning that next time, it’ll be assembled. An “attack on science” from the “deniers” on the right, no? Not exactly. The corporation was the Spanish “Thermotecnic”, a maker of “green” solar panels. The professor, Dr. Gabriel Calzada, the author of a report showing why “green jobs” are a hoax. Chris Horner is breaking this story in the US here, and the Spanish media reporting is here. Recall that Spain was being held up by the Obama administration as a model to follow for green job creation. Until this report came out, anyway. But there’s an even stranger twist to the story.
Additionally, the head of Spain’s renewable energy association and the head of its communist trade union wrote opinion pieces in top Spanish newspapers accusing Calzada of being “unpatriotic” — they did not charge him with being incorrect, but of undermining Spain by daring to write the report. Their reasoning? If the skepticism that Calzada’s revelations prompted were to prevail in the U.S., Spanish industry would face collapse should U.S. subsidies and mandates dry up.
IOW, it’s economically unsustainable unless you can get more suckers people to follow you in. This is the primary characteristic of a Ponzi scheme.
Take away question: 1) why do you think a corporation is so comfortable engaging in open criminal terrorism like this, and 2) what do you think the odds are of them getting any kind of punishment for this? And the other question to ponder is, can this happen here?
UPDATE: There is a second report out now, that claims that the parts were auto parts being shipped by Thermotecnic to someone else, and they were accidentally delivered to Dr. by complete coincidental mistake. This is a little hard to square with this sentence, which was machine-translated from the earlier Spanish report:
At the other end, said Gabriel Calzada, an employee of the company immediately known which package and said it was without doubt a second that this “is our response to the articles on Mr. Calzada energy expansion.”
Rodan, or someone else who reads Spanish, is there a better translation for that sentence, at the end of the first paragraph?
In my previous article, I laid out many of the most common misconceptions of how the electrical grid is built, operated, and maintained, and just precisely what is meant by the term “smart grid.” This leads to a number of questions and choices regarding the future — specifically, how telemetric load control (what “smart grid” really is) works with wind power and electric cars.
Wind power has been heralded by its proponents as the future of electrical power generation. I specifically am not going to discuss the merits of wind power vs. coal, nuclear, solar, or any of the other possibilities. I am decidedly not advocating any particular source. What I am doing is noting the time scheduling characteristics of wind, why that’s a problem, and how telemetric load control — particularly if a significant penetration of electric cars catches on — might work together to mitigate one of wind’s major drawbacks, and why that’s probably going to have a limited effect.
Aside from concerns over bird kill, economics, and aesthetics, wind power suffers from a problem with reliability. Not reliability of the machines themselves (though maintenance is a significant operating cost), but the reliability of the wind itself.
You know Obama’s in trouble when the morons who have been continually kissing this inept imbecile’s ass for the past three years, such as Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and Howard Fineman at MSLSD, are turning on him and are calling his inaction and his speech Carter-like.
Of course, the good news for Obama is that hardly anyone, and certainly no one with a functioning brain, watches that God-awful network of bottom-feeding dolts.
MSNBC Trashes Obama’s Address: Compared To Carter, “I Don’t Sense Executive Command”
Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama’s Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the lowlights of what the trio said:
Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.”
Matthews compared Obama to Carter.
Olbermann: “Nothing specific at all was said.”
Matthews: “No direction.”
Howard Fineman: “He wasn’t specific enough.”
And in other news, that idiot Cato the Elder, over at the washed-up ukulele playing, bike riding, comic book reading pony-tailed douchebag’s shithole finally got something right:
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