We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Alternative Subsidy 21 Comments

OMG! Does SaskPower know about this?

Slowly, information is leaking from nations that have spent heavily on wind and solar, such as Germany. This information should give pause to those touting solar and wind, including politicians. England is pulling back from wind, Germany has announced drastic cut-backs on its subsidies to solar, and Spain has announced the elimination of subsidies for renewable power. These actions are not the result of success.

Someone must get this information to the people planting giant fans in the middle of our oil fields before it’s too late. Who has a horse?

We’re From The Government

Roadkill 4 Comments

And we’re here to prey upon you…

[Freddie Mac’s] charter calls for the company to make home loans more accessible. Its chief executive, Charles Haldeman Jr., recently told Congress that his company is “helping financially strapped families reduce their mortgage costs through refinancing their mortgages.”
But the trades, uncovered for the first time in an investigation by ProPublica and NPR, give Freddie a powerful incentive to do the opposite, highlighting a conflict of interest at the heart of the company. In addition to being an instrument of government policy dedicated to making home loans more accessible, Freddie also has giant investment portfolios and could lose substantial amounts of money if too many borrowers refinance.

h/t Jason

Two Peas in a Pod: Islamic Fanatics & Secularist Fanatics

Baiting The Left 47 Comments

Dennis Prager has just published a most interesting column. Here’s a snippet:

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
Both seek to dominate society and to use state power to do so. Both seek to eliminate the Other — for Islamic fanatics, that means non-Muslim religions and secularism; for secular fanatics, it means Christianity and virtually any public invoking of God. The Islamists impose Sharia law; the American Civil Liberties Union and the left generally impose secular law. The Taliban wiped out public vestiges of Buddhism in Afghanistan; the ACLU and its allies seek to wipe out public vestiges of Christianity in America — as it did, for example, in Los Angeles County, when it successfully pressured the County Board of Supervisors to remove the tiny cross from the county seal. A city and county founded by Catholics — hence the name “The Angels” — was forced to stop commemorating its founders because they were religious.

Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation

entitlement generation 52 Comments

Orphaned again.

Friends and relatives said Susan Poff and Robert Kamin of Oakland were the perfect pair to adopt a foster child.
They had dedicated their careers to helping others escape poverty, she as a physician assistant in a city-run clinic in the Tenderloin and he as a clinical psychologist for inmates in the San Francisco County Jail system.
But now, less than a decade after they adopted, their 15-year-old son stands accused of strangling both Poff, 50, and Kamin, 55, then hiding their bodies in the back of the family’s PT Cruiser.
[…]
Co-workers said Poff and Kamin were having some arguments with their son, some of it having to do with him spending too much time in the Occupy Oakland encampment….

2012 Presidential Election Map

2012 35 Comments

Via reader Reginald, who explains;

Republicans have the edge thanks to a shift in electoral votes from the 2010 Census. If they win back the usual Republican states, they will win by exactly one electoral vote.
But Obama has a solid grasp on many states, and the Midwest is the key to victory. If he scores an upset victory in Florida, North Carolina, or Ohio, the election is over.
If the Republican gets an upset victory in Michigan, Minnesota, or Pennsylvania without losing FL, NC, or OH, that will wrap it up.

Play with the map here.

Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation

entitlement generation 62 Comments

Occupy #Fail;

It was a swing and a miss for the Occupy movement planning to protest at the Monsanto Research Centre northeast of Saskatoon on Saturday night. […]
Activist and key Occupy Saskatoon organizer and owner of alternative bookstore Turning the Tide Peter Garden explained what happened.
“I got a call about noon [Saturday], saying that the people from Regina weren’t showing up,” he said.
“Apparently there wasn’t enough people, and they had a car that broke down.”

Of course, none of that stopped CKOM radio from reading their anti-Monsanto propaganda on the air.

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