This Is Awkward

Let them eat windfarms;

As Premier Dalton McGuinty prorogued the Ontario legislature and announced his retirement last month, he would have known that some of the darker secrets of his government’s handling of energy policy would soon come to light. Today, those secrets — until now buried in 56,000 pages of released but unreadable documents — are appearing in the open.
In sordid and alarming detail, the documents show that the McGuinty government’s cancellation of gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga are likely to cost as much as $1.3-billion, possibly more. Killing the Oakville plant and moving it to Bath will alone burden Ontario ratepayers and taxpayers with costs that exceed $1-billion.

More here: The government didn’t care about the magnitude of the costs, only the visibility of the costs.

“We do not lie”.

John Gormley interviews Dr. Helen Caldicott…

“Okay, so let’s look at it very clearly. Mining uranium will lead to proliferation of nuclear weapons and possible nuclear war. Mining uranium will lead to epidemics of cancer, leukaemia and genetic disease for the rest of time.
I’m sure, you know, when Hitler produced the gas ovens, he said this is good for employment. Mining uranium could induce the global gas oven and the end of all life on earth. That’s immoral. There are many other ways to employ those people if they need employment by getting into renewable energy, all sorts of things, or maybe they could be supported by the government because we have exploited these people and their lands and we’ve done the same in Australia.
So you don’t do immoral things to produce employment for very, very poor people who need help.”

She’s doubly effective when defending her scientific credentials.

SDA Gets Results!

The creepy pro-Obama ad featuring the child singers chastising adults has suddenly been removed by its creators from both YouTube and Vimeo. Even the host website – www.futurechildrenproject.com – has disappeared.
But the Internet never forgets, and the video can still be found, even though Obama et al no longer wish you to see it.
Perhaps future historians will be able to figure out how a political advertisement so missed the mark. That’ll be the first step in determining how a 4-year presidency turned out to be the absolute worst in modern history.

Blog Notes

We’ve cracked half a million visits here at SDA for the month of October, and the day is not yet over.
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One of these days, I’ll have to add a Facebook button here for you to “like”. Or not. Heh.

This Is Awkward

ADP “cancels” 365K private sector jobs.

… according to the revised methodology, the US has generated only 1.172MM jobs in 2012 through September, or in other words, a statistical “fix” magically eliminated over 30% of what the market had previously expected were job gains, a number which the incumbent president has certain taken advantage of on more than one occasions while campaigning.

Unhappy Democrats

Richard Cohen is a devout Leftist. He’s also a columnist for the Washington Post. And he’s not happy with Barack Obama.
Cohen’s latest piece is well worth a read because it vividly demonstrates how profoundly Leftists across America invested in their New Messiah and how they projected so many of their Hopes & Dreams onto a man they barely knew.
To be clear, Obama relished this attention, this devotion, this love, this adoration of him as a God-like figure thought to float above the great unwashed masses. But much like the Wizard of Oz, he turned out to be a rather puny fellow when the curtain was pulled away. If his track record is any indication, Barack Hussein Obama is a below average politician, in terms of intellect, wisdom, ideas, and even work ethic. He has very good teleprompter reading skills and is a slick salesman who could probably sell sand to a rube in the desert, but other than that, what discernible skills does he have to give anyone confidence that he should be President of the United States of America?
Richard Cohen no longer has that confidence:

… somewhere between the campaign and the White House itself, Obama got lost. It turned out he had no cause at all. Expanding health insurance was Hillary Clinton’s longtime goal, and even after Obama adopted it, he never argued for it with any fervor. In an unfairly mocked campaign speech, he promised to slow the rise of the oceans and begin to heal the planet. But when he took office, climate change was abandoned — too much trouble, too much opposition. His eloquence, it turned out, was reserved for campaigning.
Obama never espoused a cause bigger than his own political survival. This is the gravamen of the indictment from the left, particularly certain African Americans. They are right. Young black men fill the jails and the morgues, yet Obama says nothing. Bobby Kennedy showed his anger, his impatience, his stunned incredulity at the state of black America. Obama shows nothing.

These Democrats have lost their faith too.

Hurricane Sandy

Storm damage photos at the Daily Mail, and more at the Weather Channel.
I’ve long said that the three rules of buying real estate aren’t “location, location, location”, but “elevation, elevation, elevation”. Much of the worst damage shown is not due to the storm, but the idiocy of parking permanent structures in the path of the inevitable.

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