John Himpe, pounding nails of stupidity into guest-hosting John Gormley Live;
“How is private business supposed to make [STC] profitable if the government can’t figure it out?”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
It’s always darkest before the lights go completely out…
With at least seven solar-panel manufacturers filing for bankruptcy or insolvency in the last several months and six of the 10 largest publicly traded companies making solar components reporting losses in the third quarter, public-market investors are punishing the solar sector, sending shares down nearly 57% this year.
Although winners are expected to emerge eventually…
It’s Probably Nothing
Last week, the European Central Bank provided €489 billion ($US633 billion) in three-year loans to cash-strapped European banks, but figures released overnight show that European banks have turned around and deposited a record €452 billion with the ECB. This is stark evidence that the European interbank lending market remains crippled, and that banks would rather earn the meagre 0.25 per cent interest rate that the ECB pays on depots, rather than running the risk of lending to other banks at much higher interest rates.
Related from John Fund;
The 17 nations in the eurozone are now trapped between the unthinkable and the unsellable. Ending the euro is considered so radical a step that there are no backup plans for leaving it behind. But further integration of Europe’s economies is unpalatable because it would have to be sold to populations that, as the Washington Post put it, “were more skeptical about the Eurozone than their leaders to begin with, and have seen their worst fears realized.”
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
h/t Darcy
Related third year college student.
Reader Tips
No one, but no one, knows more about holiday safety than the Russians.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
“Language is the first casualty of politics”
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Repeating certain key words, like “cut”, followed by “Prime Minister Stephen Harper” and the inattentive will begin to think that the PM is advocating a cut. Since it is a common theme in the MSM, as well as the school system, that Conservatives are “cutters” who care more about money than people, it’s a repetitive messaging that dovetails with preconceived notions…
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
The things you’ll never see at the CBC;
Gevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can’t use these materials if it hopes to survive. Instead, it’s going to use corn, a common source for conventional biofuels. What’s more, most of the product from its first facility will be used for chemicals rather than fuel.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
h/t Greg
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t John.
Climategate 2.0: The BBC As Warmists’ Best Friend
“No journalism here, only obedience…”
Roger Harrabin and Joe Smith write to UEA warmist Mike Hulme, ask: “What should the BBC be doing this time in terms of news, current affairs, drama, documentaries, game shows, music etc?”
Related – I’ll let others psychoanalyze the bizarre opposition to such news, and I’ll let the scientists explain the science and the actual number of people on each side of the issue. What I am able to do is show what the mainstream media buries, namely all the red flags surrounding accusations against skeptic scientists.
h/t Russell
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
[T]he New York Times itself did not report the Pentagon’s vindication until Christmas Day, when most people are occupied with family and fun, and buried it on page A20 under the headline “Pentagon Finds No Fault In Ties to TV Analysts.”
Reader Tips
Tonight, a little light seasonal Schlager musik from Sweden, as Towa Carlson entertains us with the half-familiar strains of Bjällerklang.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
The Hollow Words of the Left
Thomas Sowell, through his writing, explains how the Left uses words to misdirect and fool the masses:
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They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum
Giant House of Death on the Prairie;
There is something perverse about building a “human rights” monument in the same country where one human rights commission prosecuted a publisher for reprinting the “Muhammad cartoons” and another banned a preacher for life from quoting “homophobic” Bible verses, even in private correspondence—to cite two of the most egregious cases.
Furthermore, there’s the obvious deduction that Asper really wanted another Holocaust museum to rival Yad Vashem and its Washington, DC counterpart. But Canada being “diverse” and “multicultural,” that simply wouldn’t do, so the project devolved into a more “inclusive” atrocity exhibition.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
USA Today, Dec.27th 2011 – The portion of federal workers earning $100,000 or more grew from 12% in 2006 to 22% in 2011.
Reuters, Dec.27th 2011 – President Barack Obama is expected to ask for authority to increase the borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion, part of the spending authority that was negotiated between Congress and the White House this summer.
What Possibly Went Wrong
David Brooks in the NY Times:
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One hundred years ago, we had libertarian economics but conservative values. Today we have oligarchic economics and libertarian moral values — a bad combination…
Meanwhile, taking advantage of things gone wrong across the pond:
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The Australian navy plans to recruit up to 1,000 Royal Navy sailors facing redundancy under the Government’s defence cuts.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’ve taken up biathlon;
“Increasingly, undergraduates are not prepared adequately in any academic area but often arrive with strong convictions about their abilities. So college professors routinely encounter students who have never written anything more than short answers on exams, who do not read much at all, who lack foundational skills in math and science, yet are completely convinced of their abilities and resist any criticism of their work, to the point of tears and tantrums: ‘But I earned nothing but A’s in high school,’ and ‘Your demands are unreasonable.’ Such a combination makes some students nearly unteachable.”
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for;
The former minister of state for antiquities affairs, Zahi Hawass, campaigned for the return of the country’s treasures. I vote against that. Better they be safe where they are than exposed to the fury of modern-day Egyptians, especially given that Egypt’s mufti recently ruled against the private display of statues, a possible first step toward a state-sanctioned destruction of Egyptian antiquities. In addition, observers rightly worry that the imcomparable Egyptian Museum may be targeted next.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
“It may sound hokey to non-partisan ears, but it works.”
BREAKING NEWS: Bruce Cheadle casts aside the last pretense of objectivity.