Welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoy my posts, even though they get a bit technical on occasion. Sometimes, I will wax philosophical as the mood strikes. Sometimes my reasoning will wan
a bit, too. Don't hesitate to comment, I can be reached at the following email address: bob@spuriousmissives.com
The Demo's are at it again. Now, they are claiming that former Vice President Dick Cheney is guilty of telling the CIA to not report some stuff to Congress.
Democrats LOVE Dick Cheney. They blame EVERYTHING on Dick. Dick Cheney is intellectually and morally head and shoulders above any Democrat politician you want to name, and doesn't hesitate to call-out morons like Nancy Pelosi and Barak Obama on the stupid things they say, and the obvious lies they are telling.
What is really happening is that Nancy Pelosi has stepped in the poop big-time with her calling the CIA a bunch of liars. The CIA has probably lied to her, as anyone should who wants to keep a secret. Nobody believes her, and they shouldn't.
Big-Boy Barak Obama's financial and foreign relations initiaves are turning out to be disasters. The Democrats disparately need something to take the public's attention off themselves.
FUD. Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. The Demo's have no idea what to do. Their leaders are self-destructing. Their programs don't work. Their poll numbers are taking a nose dive. Their solution is to try to move attention away from their ill conceived ideas.
Not in decades have any of the Democrat's accusations about a Republican Administration worked out to be true. The Demo's are up to the same old stuff.
Democrat credo: If you don't succeed, lie, lie, lie. FUD is good!
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Political cartoons by Chuck Asay (http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/ChuckAsay/2009/07/8)
It is not very often that we can think kindly of the French, after all, they are active opposition in the United Nations for most of the USA's initiatives, they are arrogant, and they are amoral. However, every now and then something cute comes out of the Frog-O-Sphere.
Here is the best commercial I have ever seen about water. Evian deserves an academy award for this one.
Congress is totally intent on passing the most regressive tax in the history of the nation. They are going to tax every source of energy we have, based on carbon emissions. Those of you who pay attention know that carbon emissions are not a present danger to the health and welfare of man or nature. The whole scam is another way for the little people in Washington to cement their power over your lives.
Take a look at this video from YouTube. It tells the story.
Last night I found myself in a bidding war for a little netbook computer. A netbook computer is one of those ultra-light, little-bitty computers that weighs less than 3 pounds. Most netbooks have 9 inch screens, and a keyboard that is probably too small for touch typing.
So, responding to a UBid email, I looked at the re-furbished netbook computer, a CTL 2GO PC, and decided it would be cool to own one.
There were 10 up for bid, and I jumped into the bidding at something less than $200 with eight hours to go. At the end of the bidding, I was sitting at $206, and won one of the little machines. I am not sure if it is such a great deal, but, I thought it was at the time.
Soon, I will have this little-bitty netbook computer, and to justify the purchase, will have to do all my blogging, homework, and surfing on a computer with a too-small screen and too-small keyboard.
If there are more spelling mistakes, more omissions, and less sense (if that's possible) in future blogs, then just blame it on the child size machine I felt so eager to purchase in a competitive bid. After all, the CTL machine is based on the Intel Classmate, which was developed to compete with the XO kid computer.
Where does Letterman get the idea that he can make jokes about someone's daughter without getting some blow back? If Letterman made the wise-crack about my daughter he made about Sarah Palin's daughter, I would whip his ass.
If you are going around calling people names, or making deprecating
slurs about their reputations, you need to be prepared to take some
hits.
It gets real simple, real quick.
Letterman must apologize to the Palin's, and to his audience for being a jerk.
It is a beautiful day in Georgia. Most days in Georgia are in the nice category, and today, Monday, June 15, is nicer than nice. It is getting summer-hot outside, and this is a welcome change to the cool weather we have had for the last year. Right now, all the air conditioners in the house are running, and the temperature is 87 degrees.
Hello, summer!
In the tech classes I have been taking, I have completed the Spring Quarter, and it looks like I may have fallen off the GPA wagon, possibly losing my 4.0 to a "B" in Photoshop. My work wasn't that bad, but it is tough to compete with a bunch of kids just out of high school who have been designing their own graphics since they were about 10 years old. The grades are not out, yet, but we shall soon see the results.
On the computer front, I installed a different distribution of Linux last night, and am doing the blog from within it, now. This one is called, "Mint Linux", and is really neat. My screen is actually a cube, and I can work on several projects, one on each of the four cube surfaces, rotating when I am ready to go to something else. Neat!
I would say, have a nice day, but I am sure you already are.
There are some interesting things you can do with computer programs and YouTube. An engineer who runs a blog, Air Vent, collected decades of data from a government agency and made a time-lapse presentation of the Arctic Ice extent from season to season, year to year, since they started keeping satellite data.
Somebody said the Arctic Ocean would be free of ice LAST YEAR? Yep. That was the prediction of a "scientist" at the National Snow And Ice Data Center, a Federal Government agency to keep up with, well, snow and ice.
Here we are. A time?-lapse presentation derived from data from the NSIDC, the National Snow And Ice Data Center. How about that
I have broken faith with those who don't like to read long blog posts. If the point is worth making, and reading, it can be made with a couple of bullet points and a link to supporting information. I have failed my audience.
So, here it is.
Each Obama green job will cost the economy more than 2 other jobs. The net job growth will be negative.
The cost of each Obama green job will be in the hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars.
Obama's green jobs will contribute to a further wrecking of the US economy. I don't think he cares. He just wants to own the wreckage.
The Obama Administration is budgeting about $110 BILLION to subsidize "green jobs". They think they know what green jobs really are, but, they have no clue to the havoc they are wreaking on the American economy.
Europe is now going through the pains of promoting so-called "green" economies, and, predictably, the results are less than encouraging. Spain, among other EU countries, has gone hog-wild planting electric power generating windmills, and solar cells. Understand that neither method of producing power is currently efficient enough to replace fossil fuels, and the technologies are not mutually supportive from the viewpoint of consistently and reliably producing power 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and 365 days per year.
One of Spain's leading universities, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, has produced an exhaustive study "of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources."
Pardon me while I borrow from Tony Blankley's column to deliver the dismal economic results.
"Most important, it demonstrates
that the Spanish/EU-style 'green jobs' agenda now being promoted in the
U.S. in fact destroys, detailing this in terms of jobs destroyed
per job created."
The central finding of the study is that -- treating the
data optimistically -- for every renewable-energy job that the
government finances, "Spain's experience . reveals with high
confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a
loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4
created."
Despite expensive and extensive green-job policies, a
surprisingly low number of jobs were created. And about two-thirds of
those "green" jobs were just to set up the energy source, in
construction, fabrication, installation, marketing and administration.
Only 10 percent of the green jobs created were permanent jobs actually
operating and maintaining the renewable sources of energy.
Each wind industry job created in Spain required a subsidy
of about $1.4 million. Overall, the average subsidy cost for each green
job was about
$800,000 (571,138 euros). And to create about 50,000 green jobs, Spain
lost 110,000 jobs elsewhere in the economy, principally in metallurgy,
nonmetallic mining and food processing and in the beverage and tobacco
industries.
Each green megawatt brought on line destroyed 5.28 jobs elsewhere in the economy (8.99 by photovoltaics, 4.27 by wind energy and 5.05
by mini-hydropower). The total higher energy cost -- the higher cost of
renewable energy over the market price of carbon-based energy --
between 2000 and 2008 was about $10 billion. Moreover, the report
concluded, "These costs do not appear to be unique to Spain's approach
but instead are largely inherent in schemes to promote renewable energy
sources."
The high cost of green energy predictably drove
energy-intensive Spanish companies and industries out of Spain to
countries with cheaper carbon-based energy, while the cost to Spanish
taxpayers of renewable-energy subsidies was "enormous . 4.35 percent of
all (value-added taxes) collected, 3.45 percent of the household income tax, or 5.6 percent of the corporate income tax."
The study paints a pretty dismal picture of the "green" world. When you look into the green philosophy, you will learn that their major goal is to eliminate human life from the earth because we are supposedly ruining things. That's the mentality of the people with whom we are dealing.
Barak Obama seems no smarter that the dumbest green-weenie. He doesn't understand that by pushing the economy into the inefficient use of alternative fuels, he is damning our future economy to be as moribund as that of some third word country, like Haiti or Chad. It will not be a pretty picture.
The winds blow, and they go calm. The sun shines bright, and then hides behind a cloud.
The Obama Administration is consistently ignorant and will cast a shadow on the nations' economy and social fabric for a long time to come.
Government Takeover Of Business - It's Not Fiction
Just think. All those fiction books, movie plots, and comedy channel jokes we thought were unthinkable have come true. the US Government is in the business of business, and those clowns in Washington can't grab their posteriors with both hands. What a joke.
I now introduce to the American public the newest car company in the country, the re-made General Motors. GM is now, GOVERNMENT MOTORS.
In the recent past I have blogged about the certainty that General Motors was going to declare bankruptcy no matter how much money the US Government poured into the failing auto giant.
I also made the point that the reason Obama was doing a bailout was to keep the United Auto Workers happy, a group that clearly has Barak-Baby in it's collective hip pocket.
The situation was much more complicated than I projected. One of the things the Obama Administration has been doing was interfering into negotiations between the people who have loaned GM money and the company. His object, once again, was to promote the UAW.
The UAW is coming out of this owning a portion of GM, and the US Government will own the majority of the stock.
In what countries would you expect this to happen in the 21st century? If you were to say, Venezuela, you would be correct. Obama is simply a big time replica of Hugo Chavez.
From one communist, tin-horn dictator to another, it takes one to know one. Brother's of a feather, and all that.
