Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

Forward! 20 Comments

Don’t attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice;

Today the Environmental Protection Agency released a long-anticipated rule proposal that seeks by 2030 to reduce America’s carbon dioxide emissions 30% from 2005 levels. (The full proposal can be found here.)
The primary mechanism for the reduction will be tough emissions limits on coal-fired power plants. The effect of the rule will most likely be the dramatic expansion of natural gas as a fuel for power generation. When burned, gas emits just half the carbon of coal.
States will have until June 30, 2016 (with the potential for some extensions) to come up with a plan on how to implement the rule and reduce their average emissions per megawatt-hour of electricity. If they refuse to play ball — as Texas Gov. Rick Perry has threatened — the EPA says it will impose its own plan.
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More bad news? Costs. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce figures the plan could scotch $50 billion a year in GDP and prevent the creation of more than 220,000 jobs per year. The hit to household disposable income would be more than $550 billion a year.

After much calm and sober thought

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The opening of a Toronto Star column in which Haroon Siddiqui touts Kathleen Wynne as the best choice for premier:

Destroy the village to save it. That was the American logic during the Vietnam War in burning My Lai and massacring 400 women and children.

Kill 100,000 jobs in the public sector to create 1 million new jobs. That’s Tim Hudak’s plan to save the Ontario economy.

As for the Liberals,

The government is, arguably, less “corrupt” now than it was last year or the year before – if it ever was “corrupt” in the sense most people understand it.

Y2Kyoto: It’s Only Money

Moonbats 11 Comments

Campus Reform;

Columbia University has received millions in taxpayer funds to create games depicting horrible scenarios that could come about as a result of climate change, including a series of mock voicemails of people screaming, gasping for air and being swept away by waves.

Hard to believe they could call out from under the mountain of debt.

Blog Notes

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I have good news and bad news. The good news – I’ll be blogging throughout the summer instead of heading out on the dog show circuit. The bad news – I broke my pelvis yesterday in a fall from my mountain bike. As broken pelvises go, it’s about as good as it gets – just rest, painkillers, crutches, and rehab for the next few weeks. But there may be days when I’m groggy, and there may be days when I’m cranky. Right now, I’m just medicated.

Tu, Tu, Desmond, Good-Bye

Drill, Baby, Drill 30 Comments

F-Series off, eh?

…in 2013 in Canada — this according to veteran auto journalist Jeremy Cato, writing in The Globe and Mail — that Ford’s F-series pickup truck was the best-selling vehicle, outpacing sales of the most popular small commuter car, the Honda Civic, by more than 100 per cent [through March 2014: F-Series 24,383; Civic 12,407]. Yes, that’s right. Highly urbanized Canada, with 80 per cent of its population clustered in cities of varying sizes, and more than two-thirds living in large metropolises, is in love with the good old gas-guzzling pickup…
…Should Tutu, Young, Redford and others not be naming and shaming individual automobile drivers, or pickup-truck aficionados, in hopes of reducing global demand for carbon-based fuel?
But no. It’s so much easier, psychologically, to lambaste the few supposed monstrous evildoers, in this case oil and gas explorers and producers, rather than the much larger cohort that enthusiastically creates a bustling market for the dreaded product…

Maudits hypocrites!

What’s The Opposite Of Diversity? Google

Baiting The Left 15 Comments

A search reveals:

…The ethnic breakdown was limited to Google’s 26,600 workers in the U.S., and showed that 61% are white, 30% are Asian, 4% are of two or more races, 3% are Hispanic, 2% are black and less than 1% are “other”…
The other thing to note amid the hand-wringing over Google’s lack of diversity is that its numbers show overwhelming representation of Asian employees. Whereas the Asian population in the U.S. hovers around 5% to 7%, depending on definition, Asian employees make up 30% of Google’s U.S. workforce. In fact, looking at the data in that light, white people are actually underrepresented at 61%, compared to the wider population at 77%-or-so…

Remedial action definitely required.

There Are People Who Believe They’re Napoleon, Too

Moonbats 19 Comments

“Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman.”

The phenomenon of the transgendered person is a thoroughly modern one, not in the sense that such conditions did not exist in the past — Cassius Dio relates a horrifying tale of an attempted sex-change operation — but because we in the 21st century have regressed to a very primitive understanding of reality, namely the sympathetic magic described by James George Frazer in The Golden Bough. The obsession with policing language on the theory that language mystically shapes reality is itself ancient — see the Old Testament — and sympathetic magic proceeds along similar lines, using imitation and related techniques as a means of controlling reality.

“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”

Military Political Animal 26 Comments

Five terrorists in exchange for a deserter?

“Trading five senior Taliban leaders from detention in Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl’s release may have consequences for the rest of our forces and all Americans. Our terrorist adversaries now have a strong incentive to capture Americans. That incentive will put our forces in Afghanistan and around the world at even greater risk,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.) and the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, James M. Inhofe (Okla.), said in a joint statement.
Lawmakers were not notified of the Guantanamo detainees’ transfer until after it occurred.
The law requires the defense secretary to notify relevant congressional committees at least 30 days before making any transfers of prisoners, to explain the reason and to provide assurances that those released would not be in a position to reengage in activities that could threaten the United States or its interests.

Nope.
Five terrorists in exchange for a shiny thing.
Update: Bergdahl’s father’s deleted tweet a smoking gun?

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