they'd REALLY be screwed:
The vast programme of wind turbines for which the bills are now coming in will not, by the way, avert the energy cut-offs declared last week by the national grid. Quite the opposite: as is often the case, the recent icy temperatures have been accompanied by negligible amounts of wind. If we had already decommissioned any of our fossil-fuel power stations and replaced them with wind power, we would now be facing a genuine civil emergency rather than merely inconvenience.
Yeah, that would be a spot of bother, wouldn't it?
The gentleman also notes another problem with the 'carbon reduction' crap:
There are other portents of impending crisis caused entirely by the political fetish of carbon reduction. As noted in this column three weeks ago, the owners of the Corus steel company stand to gain up to $375m (£234m) in European Union carbon credits for closing their plant in Redcar, only to be rewarded on a similar scale by the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism fund for switching such production to a new “clean” Indian steel plant. That’s right: the three main British political parties — under the mistaken impression that CO2 is itself a pollutant — are asking us to vote for them on the promise that they are committed to subsidise the closure of what is left of our own industrial base.
Which is exactly what Rep. Waxman(Progressive Tyrant Straining At The Ropes-CA) wants to do to us.
Pointed to by the Random Strikes guy; go get his take on the idiocy coming out of the Met on this.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
A discovery
Know those synthetic stoppers they're using in a lot of wine bottles instead of cork? That stuff makes a very good buffer to glue into a primer pocket to make a dummy cartridge.
So the 'peace-loving' people of Code Pink have no problem
working with terrorists and terrorist-supporting groups.
They have a real interesting definition of 'peace', apparently.
They have a real interesting definition of 'peace', apparently.
Hell with scissors, if the Health Care Takeover Bill is 'hanging
by a thread', I've got some very sharp knives.
I love this line:
"If this is all about surviving politically, then we're missing the whole purpose of what we're supposed to be doing," he said.
Coming from Dodd, one of the more corrupt politicians in the Senate, someone who was willing to do anything to stay there, that's rich.
I love this line:
"If this is all about surviving politically, then we're missing the whole purpose of what we're supposed to be doing," he said.
Coming from Dodd, one of the more corrupt politicians in the Senate, someone who was willing to do anything to stay there, that's rich.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Kevin has his take on the latest 'Guns Are Evil!' bit
from the CSM up. He's got the full breakdown, including how the cops in Baltimore are doing a very smart thing:
"No, what the cops in Baltimore are doing now is what the NRA has been advocating for decades - enforcing the laws on the books, and in spite of the title of the CSM article they're not "targeting guns," they're targeting criminals:
Exactly.
I'm just going to say something about this summation of the "We must DO SOMETHING" crap:
Thus, our public policy goal should be to restrict the sale and possession of all handguns to those who can demonstrate a legitimate law enforcement purpose or can guarantee that the use of such guns will be limited to participation in a regulated sporting activity. Handgun ownership that advances reasonable law enforcement purposes must be permitted. Individuals with a professional need to have a licensed gun - law enforcement officers, gun collectors, some business owners and certain other professional groups - will continue to keep handguns on business premises or for use on the job. The rest of us, however, must give them up.
Let's see, where have we heard this before... Oh yeah, every time Obama and Holder and Pelosi and the hypocrites Feinstein and Boxer and a bunch of other politicians and GFWs open their mouths: "You peasants cannot be trusted with arms, only minions of the State and a few approved persons can be allowed to have them. And then only in places and times and manners that we approve of.
Until we decide to disapprove of ALL of them."
Oh yeah, we've heard all this before. Over and over and over. This one is slightly further along than most, of police only those 'licensed' to have one will be allowed; apparently these clowns think the situation in (fG)Britain is just peachy.
And don't you just love that line Handgun ownership that advances reasonable law enforcement purposes must be permitted.
What the HELL does that mean, anyway? Do they even know? Or did it just sound good to them so they threw it in? Or is this their "Only police who we decide can be trusted enough will be allowed to be licensed to carry a firearm" idea and this is how they express it?
Yeah, we've heard all this before.
And I can't pass this up, either:
As this tragedy has unfolded, how has the gun industry responded? It has refused to make guns safer. It has failed to market and distribute its products in a way calculated to keep guns out of the hands of children and criminals. It has reacted to a saturated market by creating new products with greater killing power and by attempting to expand its market to women and children.
Let's see...
'Refused to make guns safer' how? With demands like those of NJ for guns to have features that don't freakin' exist?
They can only sell complete firearms and receivers to federally licensed dealers- NOT individuals- who can only sell to people who pass the NICS check and- in a bunch of places- whatever the local laws call for; which means THEY CAN'T LEGALLY BE SOLD TO CRIMINALS OR CHILDREN, YOU MORON.
'New products with greater killing power'? Facts, please. Maybe they mean the .460S&W Mag, although compared to a lot of rifles- let alone a 12 gauge- it's not of 'greater killing power'.
Yes, a lot more women are shooting now, quite legally, for sport and self-defense. For the idiot comment about 'children', see above about how DEALERS CAN'T SELL TO CHILDREN.
And, for that matter, if the market was 'saturated' there wouldn't be any need for new and improved, would there?
Geez, there's not a damn thing new in this, just- as Kevin says- More leftist language manipulation
"No, what the cops in Baltimore are doing now is what the NRA has been advocating for decades - enforcing the laws on the books, and in spite of the title of the CSM article they're not "targeting guns," they're targeting criminals:
"If you start boiling down the violence in Baltimore – the homicides and the nonfatal shootings – you find that 50 percent of all the people we charge with those offenses have one thing in common: They have gun offenses in their backgrounds," Mr. Bealefeld says. "And we know that when bad guys get out, they get guns again. They don't work for IBM. They don't hand out Bibles. They stand outside with guns waiting to perpetrate another crime."(My emphasis.) Those guys, not "those guns."
And so, Bealefeld says, he has made it clear whom his officers should be targeting.
"I don't aim to make [it] all that complicated," he says. "Find out all we can about gun offenders and focus on those guys."
Exactly.
I'm just going to say something about this summation of the "We must DO SOMETHING" crap:
Thus, our public policy goal should be to restrict the sale and possession of all handguns to those who can demonstrate a legitimate law enforcement purpose or can guarantee that the use of such guns will be limited to participation in a regulated sporting activity. Handgun ownership that advances reasonable law enforcement purposes must be permitted. Individuals with a professional need to have a licensed gun - law enforcement officers, gun collectors, some business owners and certain other professional groups - will continue to keep handguns on business premises or for use on the job. The rest of us, however, must give them up.
Let's see, where have we heard this before... Oh yeah, every time Obama and Holder and Pelosi and the hypocrites Feinstein and Boxer and a bunch of other politicians and GFWs open their mouths: "You peasants cannot be trusted with arms, only minions of the State and a few approved persons can be allowed to have them. And then only in places and times and manners that we approve of.
Until we decide to disapprove of ALL of them."
Oh yeah, we've heard all this before. Over and over and over. This one is slightly further along than most, of police only those 'licensed' to have one will be allowed; apparently these clowns think the situation in (fG)Britain is just peachy.
And don't you just love that line Handgun ownership that advances reasonable law enforcement purposes must be permitted.
What the HELL does that mean, anyway? Do they even know? Or did it just sound good to them so they threw it in? Or is this their "Only police who we decide can be trusted enough will be allowed to be licensed to carry a firearm" idea and this is how they express it?
Yeah, we've heard all this before.
And I can't pass this up, either:
As this tragedy has unfolded, how has the gun industry responded? It has refused to make guns safer. It has failed to market and distribute its products in a way calculated to keep guns out of the hands of children and criminals. It has reacted to a saturated market by creating new products with greater killing power and by attempting to expand its market to women and children.
Let's see...
'Refused to make guns safer' how? With demands like those of NJ for guns to have features that don't freakin' exist?
They can only sell complete firearms and receivers to federally licensed dealers- NOT individuals- who can only sell to people who pass the NICS check and- in a bunch of places- whatever the local laws call for; which means THEY CAN'T LEGALLY BE SOLD TO CRIMINALS OR CHILDREN, YOU MORON.
'New products with greater killing power'? Facts, please. Maybe they mean the .460S&W Mag, although compared to a lot of rifles- let alone a 12 gauge- it's not of 'greater killing power'.
Yes, a lot more women are shooting now, quite legally, for sport and self-defense. For the idiot comment about 'children', see above about how DEALERS CAN'T SELL TO CHILDREN.
And, for that matter, if the market was 'saturated' there wouldn't be any need for new and improved, would there?
Geez, there's not a damn thing new in this, just- as Kevin says- More leftist language manipulation
And at last, we come to the end of real high-level
Reasoned Discourse™.
Seems Rob Russell has another career he hasn’t told anyone about – Magician.
Yep.. His post thanking the “trolls” who disagreed with his wife — POOF, gone.
Yep, his post explaining how he rolls — POOF, gone.
Well, goooolllleee Sergeant Carter, how 'bout that?
Bob S. post linked above, and some other interesting stuff from Linoge("The internet forgets NOTHING!"; you'd think a lawyer and politician would be aware of that) at his place.
I hadn't looked back at either site, "People like you shouldn't carry guns, nobody should!" or "You gun nuts are trying to drive us off the web, and I'll punch you out!" since I posted on this mess; if I want to read pompous threats and hysterical ranting I can find it all over the place(generally, look for the nearest Democrat politician for one or the other- well, it was a Evil Party politician that started the threats here, so you get the idea). Happily, some of the folks involved used the Magic of Google Cache to make a record of the stuff, so when Southern Female Lawyer and Rob Russell made everything disappear from their blogs, it wouldn't actually be lost.
Hehehehehe.
Seems Rob Russell has another career he hasn’t told anyone about – Magician.
Yep.. His post thanking the “trolls” who disagreed with his wife — POOF, gone.
Yep, his post explaining how he rolls — POOF, gone.
Well, goooolllleee Sergeant Carter, how 'bout that?
Bob S. post linked above, and some other interesting stuff from Linoge("The internet forgets NOTHING!"; you'd think a lawyer and politician would be aware of that) at his place.
I hadn't looked back at either site, "People like you shouldn't carry guns, nobody should!" or "You gun nuts are trying to drive us off the web, and I'll punch you out!" since I posted on this mess; if I want to read pompous threats and hysterical ranting I can find it all over the place(generally, look for the nearest Democrat politician for one or the other- well, it was a Evil Party politician that started the threats here, so you get the idea). Happily, some of the folks involved used the Magic of Google Cache to make a record of the stuff, so when Southern Female Lawyer and Rob Russell made everything disappear from their blogs, it wouldn't actually be lost.
Hehehehehe.
Hasan really is a case of "PC at any cost"
While in medical school at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences from 1997 to 2003, Hasan received a string of below average and failing grades, was put on academic probation and showed little motivation to learn.
He took six years to graduate from the university in Bethesda, Md., instead of the customary four, according to the school. The delays were due in part to the deaths of his father in 1998 and his mother in 2001. Yet the information about his academic probation and bad grades wasn't included in his military personnel file, leaving the impression he was ready for more intense instruction.
In June 2003, Hasan started a four-year psychiatry internship and residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and he was counseled frequently for deficiencies in his performance. Teachers and colleagues described him as a below average student.
...
Still, Hasan's officer evaluation reports were consistently more positive, usually describing his performance as satisfactory and at least twice as outstanding. Known as "OERs," the reports are used to determine promotions and assignments. The Army promoted Hasan to captain in 2003 and to major in 2009.You really ought to go read it all. As long as your blood pressure meds are handy.
I don't think this is a good way to choose a TSA head, Updated
and you'd think the administration would be a bit more careful about things by this point.
We know about Erroll Southers, the man Obama wants running TSA, misusing law enforcement databases; seems he has some other interesting, ah, 'quirks' let us say.
But now there is new and far more troubling information about Mr. Southers caught on video. According to Erroll Southers, pro-life Christians and our support of Jews is a bigger threat to national security than Al Qaeda.
Mr. Southers, in 2008, said he was more worried about “Christian identity” terrorist groups inside the U.S. than islamic terrorists. What are “Christian identity” terrorist groups? White-supremacists naturally. The KKK. And the Southern Baptist Convention.
Southers identifies pro-life groups and anti-government activists as particular problems.
Wonderful, isn't it?
Add this to it:
The Obama administration has twice come under fire for linking pro-life advocates to terrorism.
Last May, details emerged about a terrorism dictionary the Obama administration put together in March. The "Domestic Extremism Lexicon," was essentially a terrorism and political extremism dictionary for the Obama administration's internal use.
The March 26, 2009 document features numerous definitions and the headline "antiabortion extremism," appears on page two of the eleven-page manual.
The Obama administration calls pro-life advocates violent and claims they employ racist overtones in engaging in criminal actions.
The problem isn't that Obama can't deal with the enemy; the problem is who he thinks the enemy is.
Update: found this quote at Hot Air:
“Due to connectivity that we have with countries such as Israel, France — countries that are seen by groups, by al Qaeda, as infidels or anti-Islamic — by the true nature of our alliance with them means that we subject to be attacked as well. I do think, however, it deserves to perhaps have some parity with global warming, with education, with the economy, but national security is always going to supercede everything else. I don’t think you can have all of those other entities flourish in a state where the security is not felt to be confident, comfortable, and intact.”
We know about Erroll Southers, the man Obama wants running TSA, misusing law enforcement databases; seems he has some other interesting, ah, 'quirks' let us say.
But now there is new and far more troubling information about Mr. Southers caught on video. According to Erroll Southers, pro-life Christians and our support of Jews is a bigger threat to national security than Al Qaeda.
Mr. Southers, in 2008, said he was more worried about “Christian identity” terrorist groups inside the U.S. than islamic terrorists. What are “Christian identity” terrorist groups? White-supremacists naturally. The KKK. And the Southern Baptist Convention.
Southers identifies pro-life groups and anti-government activists as particular problems.
Wonderful, isn't it?
Add this to it:
The Obama administration has twice come under fire for linking pro-life advocates to terrorism.
Last May, details emerged about a terrorism dictionary the Obama administration put together in March. The "Domestic Extremism Lexicon," was essentially a terrorism and political extremism dictionary for the Obama administration's internal use.
The March 26, 2009 document features numerous definitions and the headline "antiabortion extremism," appears on page two of the eleven-page manual.
The Obama administration calls pro-life advocates violent and claims they employ racist overtones in engaging in criminal actions.
The problem isn't that Obama can't deal with the enemy; the problem is who he thinks the enemy is.
Update: found this quote at Hot Air:
“Due to connectivity that we have with countries such as Israel, France — countries that are seen by groups, by al Qaeda, as infidels or anti-Islamic — by the true nature of our alliance with them means that we subject to be attacked as well. I do think, however, it deserves to perhaps have some parity with global warming, with education, with the economy, but national security is always going to supercede everything else. I don’t think you can have all of those other entities flourish in a state where the security is not felt to be confident, comfortable, and intact.”
So Treasury Secretary Geithner is either a liar, or totally incompetent
Personally, I vote for 'corrupt liar'.
Recall notice from AIM Surplus
To: All Customers who have purchased I.O. Inc imported TT-33 Tokarev Pistol(s)
Re: Safety Warning/Recall
I.O. Inc, the importer of the Romanian made Tokarev TT-33 pistols, has notified us as to a potential safety concern with some of these pistols. It appears that a small number of the pistols imported in October 2009 may have defective safety devices.
This IS a safety concern and we highly recommend that you comply with the attached recall instructions.
More information here; so if you bought one of these in that time period, go take a look.
Re: Safety Warning/Recall
I.O. Inc, the importer of the Romanian made Tokarev TT-33 pistols, has notified us as to a potential safety concern with some of these pistols. It appears that a small number of the pistols imported in October 2009 may have defective safety devices.
This IS a safety concern and we highly recommend that you comply with the attached recall instructions.
More information here; so if you bought one of these in that time period, go take a look.
And we start the day with "We need more handouts!
(and by the way, there's an election coming up and a Democrat politician in trouble, Obama).
Speaking of the People's Republic of MA, how the hell can they call her 'the agent of change' when she's another progressive running for the seat the Kennedy's thought of as 'theirs' for a couple of generations?
The CongressionalBigotBlack Caucus: "Harry Reid can say stuff like that and it's no problem; good thing for him he's not a Republican, 'cause then we'd want to hang him for it!"
As I recall, along with pushing for McCain to pick Lieberman for VP(and wouldn't THAT have gone over well?), this was the clown who told McCain that there was a whole range of things about Obama that "If you bring this up, I'll quit!"? And the asshat STILL can't stop bashing the only reason his campaign didn't crash & burn completely...
Is there any damn thing these bigots cannot inject race into? 'Environmental justice' my ass.
There was a lady I knew a couple of years back who thought John Edwards would be a wonderful President, though she appeared to be thinking with her ovaries("He's so good looking, and that voice..."); from the sound of this he's an even bigger jerk than I'd thought.
Hehehehehehe
Now Nanny Bloomberg has declared war on salt, because you have to eat only foods he approves of. In quantities he approves of. In smoke-free everything because he disapproves of smoking. Why he doesn't just change the office name to 'People's Commissar' I don't know.
‘It beggars belief someone could be of the mindset where they think it’s acceptable to threaten a mum who buried her 18-year-old soldier son six months ago.
A fine demonstration that there are still people in Britain who won't just roll over; now they all need to get together andhang deal with Parliament.
And Choudary? You're a miserable little bastard.
I've got to steal the quote from this post:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
And I think I'll close this with something more cheery:
The Bay State’s congressional leaders, governor and heating assistance groups are calling on President Obama to immediately release millions more dollars in aid as thousands of Hub families run out of money to warm their homes.Here's a scenario I see playing out this week: The most beneficent Obama shows up to endorse Martha Coakley for Senate and then (surprise!) announces to the shivering masses that he's sending them free heating oil and oh, don't forget to go vote for the Democrat, OK?
Speaking of the People's Republic of MA, how the hell can they call her 'the agent of change' when she's another progressive running for the seat the Kennedy's thought of as 'theirs' for a couple of generations?
The Congressional
As I recall, along with pushing for McCain to pick Lieberman for VP(and wouldn't THAT have gone over well?), this was the clown who told McCain that there was a whole range of things about Obama that "If you bring this up, I'll quit!"? And the asshat STILL can't stop bashing the only reason his campaign didn't crash & burn completely...
Is there any damn thing these bigots cannot inject race into? 'Environmental justice' my ass.
There was a lady I knew a couple of years back who thought John Edwards would be a wonderful President, though she appeared to be thinking with her ovaries("He's so good looking, and that voice..."); from the sound of this he's an even bigger jerk than I'd thought.
Hehehehehehe
Now Nanny Bloomberg has declared war on salt, because you have to eat only foods he approves of. In quantities he approves of. In smoke-free everything because he disapproves of smoking. Why he doesn't just change the office name to 'People's Commissar' I don't know.
‘It beggars belief someone could be of the mindset where they think it’s acceptable to threaten a mum who buried her 18-year-old soldier son six months ago.
A fine demonstration that there are still people in Britain who won't just roll over; now they all need to get together and
And Choudary? You're a miserable little bastard.
I've got to steal the quote from this post:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
And I think I'll close this with something more cheery:
"It's a bagpipe!"
'Follow the money' works in a number of cases,
from Globular Warmering True Believer scientists & politicians to just plain corrupt politicians.
What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.
These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’ and ‘sustainable technologies’, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.
And here at home,
The couple accumulated millions in GM holdings in the early 2000s through Debbie Dingell's job, by far the largest portion of the family's personal wealth, public records show. At the same time, John Dingell was Detroit's staunchest ally, fighting against emissions and fuel-economy standards that could have hurt the short-term profitability of automakers. In the past year, he advocated for five bailouts for GM and Chrysler.
Kind of like Rep. Barney Frank(Corrupt As You Can Be-Evil Party-MA) sleeping with somebody on the board of Fannie Mae while he was one of the 'regulators' of FM.
Speaking of FM and Freddie Mac, and Frank insisting "I had nothing to do with the problem!", when was it starting?
Why, yes, it is! And lets' see, 1993... wasn't Bill Clinton President then? And for the next eight years? But Bush & Co. are responsible for all this, huh?
Yeah.
Right.
What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.
These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’ and ‘sustainable technologies’, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.
And here at home,
The couple accumulated millions in GM holdings in the early 2000s through Debbie Dingell's job, by far the largest portion of the family's personal wealth, public records show. At the same time, John Dingell was Detroit's staunchest ally, fighting against emissions and fuel-economy standards that could have hurt the short-term profitability of automakers. In the past year, he advocated for five bailouts for GM and Chrysler.
Kind of like Rep. Barney Frank(Corrupt As You Can Be-Evil Party-MA) sleeping with somebody on the board of Fannie Mae while he was one of the 'regulators' of FM.
Speaking of FM and Freddie Mac, and Frank insisting "I had nothing to do with the problem!", when was it starting?
"[A]s early as 1993." Hmm. Doesn't that put this alleged routine misrepresentation well before Designated Fall Guy Franklin Raines' tenure as head of Fannie Mae--and back into the watch of Getting-Away-With-It-Because-I'm-Well-Connected-and-Spread-It-Around Mondale campaign manager and initial Obama veep-vetter Jim Johnson? I think it does! (Johnson was CEO of Fannie Mae from 1991-1998.) ... P.S.: 'Misrepresented the mortgages ...." Isn't misrepresenation some kind of, I dunno ... fraud or ... crime?"New research by Edward Pinto, a former chief credit officer for Fannie Mae and a housing expert, has found that from the time Fannie and Freddie began buying risky loans as early as 1993, they routinely misrepresented the mortgages they were acquiring, reporting them as prime when they had characteristics that made them clearly subprime or Alt-A. [Emphasis added]
Why, yes, it is! And lets' see, 1993... wasn't Bill Clinton President then? And for the next eight years? But Bush & Co. are responsible for all this, huh?
Yeah.
Right.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
From the place where Great Britain used to be,*
and the police actually served a purpose other than filling out paperwork and harassing the innocent,
The youths approached the kitchen window, before attempting to break into her garden shed, prompting Miss Klass to wave a kitchen knife to scare them away.
Miss Klass, 31, who was alone in her house in Potters Bar, Herts, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, called the police. When they arrived at her house they informed her that she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an "offensive weapon" – even in her own home – was illegal.
Which, considering they can define pretty much ANYTHING as an 'offensive weapon', if she'd waved a frying pan they'd have told her the same damn thing.
*Yes, I'm borrowing Uncle's phrase; it just fits so well
The youths approached the kitchen window, before attempting to break into her garden shed, prompting Miss Klass to wave a kitchen knife to scare them away.
Miss Klass, 31, who was alone in her house in Potters Bar, Herts, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, called the police. When they arrived at her house they informed her that she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an "offensive weapon" – even in her own home – was illegal.
Which, considering they can define pretty much ANYTHING as an 'offensive weapon', if she'd waved a frying pan they'd have told her the same damn thing.
*Yes, I'm borrowing Uncle's phrase; it just fits so well
Some of you may remember the electric car guy who gave me hell
for having trouble believing that just charging the cars at night would deal with the "Where is the electricity going to come from?" question. Well...
The myth that thousands of EVs will seamlessly fold into the power grid by charging at night, using otherwise idle generating plants and power grids, is breaking down. Utilities worry that EV charging could black out the neighborhoods of some early EV adopters and give the emerging technology a black eye. Policy experts worry that the change in the grid's use could unintentionally muck up their green energy plans.
...
EVs need lots of power, especially when charged quickly. Utilities bet that most buyers will want a 240-volt charger that can "fill the tank" of a modest-size EV in 2 to 3 hours, four times as fast as a standard 120-V charger can. Such "AC Level 2" chargers, as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers' emerging J1772 standard, draw up to 6.6 kilowatts. Turning one on is like adding up to three homes to a neighborhood, and that's with the air conditioning, lights, and laundry running.
Turning on two or three Level 2 chargers could burn out the street-level transformers that are the distribution grid's weakest link. Most utilities employ undersized transformers, which are designed to cool overnight. Without time to cool, sustained excess current will eventually cook a transformer's copper windings, causing a short and blacking out the local loads it serves.
So there is indeed a big problem with "Just use the excess capacity at night" idea. Whoda thunk it?
And since, according to the article, CA is planning on using 'smart meters'(as in "You can have the power we say you can, when we say you can") to 'synchronize demand with the state wind farms'. WHich means when it's not windy enough, or too windy and some farms have to be shut down, or there's ice in winter...
This promises to be not much fun. Especially since Californicated will be demanding the rest of the country help save them from the hole they dug themselves into.
The myth that thousands of EVs will seamlessly fold into the power grid by charging at night, using otherwise idle generating plants and power grids, is breaking down. Utilities worry that EV charging could black out the neighborhoods of some early EV adopters and give the emerging technology a black eye. Policy experts worry that the change in the grid's use could unintentionally muck up their green energy plans.
...
EVs need lots of power, especially when charged quickly. Utilities bet that most buyers will want a 240-volt charger that can "fill the tank" of a modest-size EV in 2 to 3 hours, four times as fast as a standard 120-V charger can. Such "AC Level 2" chargers, as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers' emerging J1772 standard, draw up to 6.6 kilowatts. Turning one on is like adding up to three homes to a neighborhood, and that's with the air conditioning, lights, and laundry running.
Turning on two or three Level 2 chargers could burn out the street-level transformers that are the distribution grid's weakest link. Most utilities employ undersized transformers, which are designed to cool overnight. Without time to cool, sustained excess current will eventually cook a transformer's copper windings, causing a short and blacking out the local loads it serves.
So there is indeed a big problem with "Just use the excess capacity at night" idea. Whoda thunk it?
And since, according to the article, CA is planning on using 'smart meters'(as in "You can have the power we say you can, when we say you can") to 'synchronize demand with the state wind farms'. WHich means when it's not windy enough, or too windy and some farms have to be shut down, or there's ice in winter...
This promises to be not much fun. Especially since Californicated will be demanding the rest of the country help save them from the hole they dug themselves into.
More on the idiot 'captain' from Sea Shepherds
and how he managed to be hit by a 13-knot ship(maximum) while in a trimaran that can hit 45 knots. If, as Tim says anyone could be bothered firing up its 1000-horsepower engines.
And, while Pres. Barack Hussein Cartman Obama is making it harder
to explore for/drill for/exploit finds of oil & gas, we have this "Oh joy!":
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.
Ah yes, the 'vanishing sea ice'; how vanished is it?
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
The scientists’ predictions also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.
Just a frikkin' wonderful thought, isn't it?
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.
Ah yes, the 'vanishing sea ice'; how vanished is it?
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
The scientists’ predictions also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.
Just a frikkin' wonderful thought, isn't it?
God-damn these people
The chance to secure crucial information about al-Qaeda operations in Yemen was lost because the Obama administration decided to charge and prosecute Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal, critics say. He is said to have reduced his co-operation with FBI interrogators on the advice of his government-appointed defence counsel.
The potential significance became chillingly clear this weekend when it was reported that shortly after his detention, he boasted that 20 more young Muslim men were being prepared for similar murderous missions in the Yemen.
...
"He was singing like a canary, then we charged him in civilian proceedings, he got a lawyer and shut up," Slade Gorton, a member of the 9/11 Commission that investigated the Sept 2001 terror attacks on the US, told The Sunday Telegraph.
"I find it incomprehensible that this administration is treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue. The president has finally said that we are at war with al-Qaeda. Well, if this is a war, then Abdulmutallab should be treated as a combatant not a criminal."
I repeat, and I'm getting very damned sick of this coming to mind, God damn these people. They're playing PC progressive games while the enemy gathers strength from the protections they're given. We're going to wind up, barring a flat miracle, with some kind of strike that leaves windrows of bodies and it's going to be partly because these bastards don't have the brains, balls, integrity or some combination of them to actually deal with the fact that these people want us all dead and acting nicey-friendly toward them isn't going to change that.
"There is a strategic disconnect between the different parts of our government which are currently engaged in very different conflicts," he told The Sunday Telegraph. "Not everybody is at war and no amount of connecting the dots is going to deal with that issue.
"The president has finally acknowledged that we are at war, the military certainly knows it's fighting a new kind of war, the intelligence community is not sure whether we're at war and is keeping its head down and the justice and homeland security departments are treating terrorism as a crime and do not think we're at war at all."
And damn every asshole and bureaucratic thug who plays games with this. Every moron in the EffingBI who didn't have the balls to even apply for a warrant to search that laptop, every CIA and FBI and Administration shithead who can't stop playing turf games and DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF THE ENEMY. And despite what they seem to thing, THE REAL ENEMY IS NOT EACH OTHER.
I also repeat, there's a bunch of sorry excuses for lawmen and bureaucrats who need to join a lot of politicians in dangling from lampposts. Or a formal gallows. Or something.
The potential significance became chillingly clear this weekend when it was reported that shortly after his detention, he boasted that 20 more young Muslim men were being prepared for similar murderous missions in the Yemen.
...
"He was singing like a canary, then we charged him in civilian proceedings, he got a lawyer and shut up," Slade Gorton, a member of the 9/11 Commission that investigated the Sept 2001 terror attacks on the US, told The Sunday Telegraph.
"I find it incomprehensible that this administration is treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue. The president has finally said that we are at war with al-Qaeda. Well, if this is a war, then Abdulmutallab should be treated as a combatant not a criminal."
I repeat, and I'm getting very damned sick of this coming to mind, God damn these people. They're playing PC progressive games while the enemy gathers strength from the protections they're given. We're going to wind up, barring a flat miracle, with some kind of strike that leaves windrows of bodies and it's going to be partly because these bastards don't have the brains, balls, integrity or some combination of them to actually deal with the fact that these people want us all dead and acting nicey-friendly toward them isn't going to change that.
"There is a strategic disconnect between the different parts of our government which are currently engaged in very different conflicts," he told The Sunday Telegraph. "Not everybody is at war and no amount of connecting the dots is going to deal with that issue.
"The president has finally acknowledged that we are at war, the military certainly knows it's fighting a new kind of war, the intelligence community is not sure whether we're at war and is keeping its head down and the justice and homeland security departments are treating terrorism as a crime and do not think we're at war at all."
And damn every asshole and bureaucratic thug who plays games with this. Every moron in the EffingBI who didn't have the balls to even apply for a warrant to search that laptop, every CIA and FBI and Administration shithead who can't stop playing turf games and DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF THE ENEMY. And despite what they seem to thing, THE REAL ENEMY IS NOT EACH OTHER.
I also repeat, there's a bunch of sorry excuses for lawmen and bureaucrats who need to join a lot of politicians in dangling from lampposts. Or a formal gallows. Or something.
Here's a nice start to a Sunday morning: the Globular Warmering True Believers
who really do want executions- sometimes with the nicety of a trial first- for people who refuse to go along:
A public appeal has been issued by an influential U.S. website asking: "At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers." The appeal appeared on Talking Points Memo, an often cited website that helps set the agenda for the political Left in the U.S. The anonymous posting, dated June 2, 2009, referred to dissenters of man-made global warming fears as "greedy bastards" who use "bogus science or the lowest scientists in the gene pool" to "distort data."
The Talking Points Memo article continues: "So when the right wing fucktards have caused it to be too late to fix the problem, and we start seeing the devastating consequences and we start seeing end of the World type events - how will we punish those responsible. It will be too late. So shouldn't we start punishing them now?"
...
Grist Magazine's staff writer David Roberts called for the Nuremberg-style trials for the "bastards" who were members of what he termed the global warming "denial industry."
Roberts wrote in the online publication on September 19, 2006, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg."
And they wonder why we own guns...
I need to get over to CV more often; he also has a piece on the idiocy classed as 'security' for air travel:
The threshold for requiring a foreign visitor to undergo special scrutiny upon arrival in the U.S. is considerably lower than criteria for stopping a passenger's departure overseas, according to current and former law enforcement officials. That is why border security agencies rely heavily on terrorism watch lists of suspects seen as urgent threats, officials said.
"The public isn't aware how many people are allowed to travel through the U.S., who are linked, who intersect with bad guys or alleged bad guys," a national security official said. "It makes sense from an intelligence perspective. If they are not considered dangerous, it provides intelligence on where they go, who they meet with."
Damn, that sounds wonderful. Right up 'til the time one of the clowns gets the bomb right and a few hundred people die. I'll close this with his words:
Excuse me, but what is this Palestinian who wants to kill all the Jews doing here in the United States chanting in a foreign language and threatening officers? And why is he allowed to fly on our planes? I'd be willing to bet he'd never get on an El-Al flight. At least the Israelis aren't running a social experiment where they let terrorists and their sympathizers fly.
Because the idiots in charge take their cue from the arch-PC idiot Minneta who would rather have seen planes full of people go down than have security accused of, let alone actually do, profiling. And El-Al actually cares more about people getting through the flight alive than about being PC.
Speaking of the Security Theater, that 'Only PC Civil Rights Need Apply' dirtbag Lautenberg can find no fault in the TSA (Fast Food Rejects With Police Powers) union people who didn't do their damned jobs; oh no, they're wonderful people.
I'll bet. There are a lot of those at Newark:
It's a given that Lautenberg is a corrupt jackass; that he'll keep playing 'make the union happy' with a mess like this...
Michael Mann(Globular Warmist High Priest) had a nasty surprise waiting for him after the holidays:
When he turns up to work on Monday, he’ll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research.
Under US law, regardless of whether or not a prosecution results, the whistleblower stands to make very large sums of money: it is based on a percentage of the total government funds which have been misused, in this case perhaps as much as $50 million. (Hat tip: John O’Sullivan of the wonderful new campaigning site www.climategate.com)
Also at WUWT, this on some of the 'save the climate' idiocy involving-, well, take a look. Just wonderful, isn't it? We're supposedly damaging the climate(they think) through our tech(they believe) so they're willing to spend billions(at least, of other peoples money) to do things that they really have no frikkin' idea how would affect the climate; but because it's True Believers pushing this shit, we're supposed to believe
It's a good idea, and
It'll work.
Yeah. Right.
Oh, and how the Norfolk Police are working on the Climaquiddick 'hack':
During the enquiry officers have been working in liaison with the Office of the Information Commissioner and with officers from the National Domestic Extremism Team.
As the gentleman says, words fail me.
It should be noted(again) that Sen. Reid(Land Dealer-NV) is a corrupt political hack.
And it had to happen: Oliver Stone promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context."
"Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy -- these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history," Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena.
Hey, Stone loves Castro and Chavez and every other America-hating tyrant & wannabe out there, so who's surprised? And will it be any surprise that the US is at least partly(largely, if Stone's past is any indication) responsible for Hitler?
Police have identified children as young as seven being groomed for terrorism, with some expressing a wish to become suicide bombers.
Up to 10 primary school pupils, aged between seven and 10, have been placed on a government outreach programme for individuals considered at risk of being radicalised and turning to violence.
Some have taken inspiration from jihadi websites or after viewing extremist material in Islamic bookshops.
One child was referred to the programme by his teacher after writing on a school book: “I want to be a suicide bomber.”
Other youngsters were identified by their parents after suddenly adopting traditional Muslim dress or espousing extremist views.
Where? In Britain. Obama keeps talking about the Taliban and al Queda, and either doesn't understand or doesn't have the balls to state that they're here.
Also from (fG)Britain, under the heading of "You can't do/say/think anything we don't like about a protected species" we have this piece of bullshit:
The 45-year-old IT company manager, who does not want to be named, was arrested in front of his wife and young son, was fingerprinted and had his DNA taken.
It came after staff at Rother District Council in East Sussex declared the phrase “It’s the “do as you likey” attitude that I am against” – sent in an email to their planning department – was potentially racist because “likey” rhymes with the derogatory word “pikey”.
The businessman was held in a cell for four hours until officers established he had nothing to do with the email, which had been sent by one of his then workers, Paul Osmond, from a company computer.
The comment from the localCommissar of the Revolutioncouncil?
A council spokesman said: “As far as we were concerned it was an offensive comment, so we got in touch with the police.”
Got that? Say ANYTHING these miserable little bastards consider 'offensive' and they call the police. Who WILL arrest you and fingerprint you and take DNA samples without even knowing if it was actually you who committed the 'horrible' act. Great going there, coppers, I'm sure this will really give the honest people reason to trust you.
And one last thing from (fG)Britain, an action of truly monumental idiocy:
MI5 failed to alert America to intelligence highlighting the extremist links of the Detroit plane bomber because of concerns about breaching his human rights and privacy.
The spy agency withheld its files on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from Washington until after the near-catastrophic Christmas Day attack because of guidance from its legal department.
MI5 has privately conceded that as early as 2006 its surveillance operations had picked up “multiple communications” between the 23-year-old Nigerian student and suspected terrorists in Britain.
Asked why that information had not been passed to the US, a Home Office official with detailed knowledge of the case said the security service did not pass information to its allies about the thousands of Britons who were merely suspected of having radical Islamic views.
'Merely suspected'. Yeah.
A public appeal has been issued by an influential U.S. website asking: "At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers." The appeal appeared on Talking Points Memo, an often cited website that helps set the agenda for the political Left in the U.S. The anonymous posting, dated June 2, 2009, referred to dissenters of man-made global warming fears as "greedy bastards" who use "bogus science or the lowest scientists in the gene pool" to "distort data."
The Talking Points Memo article continues: "So when the right wing fucktards have caused it to be too late to fix the problem, and we start seeing the devastating consequences and we start seeing end of the World type events - how will we punish those responsible. It will be too late. So shouldn't we start punishing them now?"
...
Grist Magazine's staff writer David Roberts called for the Nuremberg-style trials for the "bastards" who were members of what he termed the global warming "denial industry."
Roberts wrote in the online publication on September 19, 2006, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg."
And they wonder why we own guns...
I need to get over to CV more often; he also has a piece on the idiocy classed as 'security' for air travel:
The threshold for requiring a foreign visitor to undergo special scrutiny upon arrival in the U.S. is considerably lower than criteria for stopping a passenger's departure overseas, according to current and former law enforcement officials. That is why border security agencies rely heavily on terrorism watch lists of suspects seen as urgent threats, officials said.
"The public isn't aware how many people are allowed to travel through the U.S., who are linked, who intersect with bad guys or alleged bad guys," a national security official said. "It makes sense from an intelligence perspective. If they are not considered dangerous, it provides intelligence on where they go, who they meet with."
Damn, that sounds wonderful. Right up 'til the time one of the clowns gets the bomb right and a few hundred people die. I'll close this with his words:
Excuse me, but what is this Palestinian who wants to kill all the Jews doing here in the United States chanting in a foreign language and threatening officers? And why is he allowed to fly on our planes? I'd be willing to bet he'd never get on an El-Al flight. At least the Israelis aren't running a social experiment where they let terrorists and their sympathizers fly.
Because the idiots in charge take their cue from the arch-PC idiot Minneta who would rather have seen planes full of people go down than have security accused of, let alone actually do, profiling. And El-Al actually cares more about people getting through the flight alive than about being PC.
Speaking of the Security Theater, that 'Only PC Civil Rights Need Apply' dirtbag Lautenberg can find no fault in the TSA (Fast Food Rejects With Police Powers) union people who didn't do their damned jobs; oh no, they're wonderful people.
I'll bet. There are a lot of those at Newark:
A bystander waiting for an arriving passenger noticed the breach and told the guard. TSA officials then discovered that surveillance cameras at the security checkpoint had not recorded the breach.
Really? So then what?
That's right – they weren't even recording, sources said, and needed a reboot, which the agency apparently didn't ask for. That set off a chain reaction of even more missteps that caused needless chaos and inconvenience for several thousand hapless passengers.
With the cameras inoperable, the TSA tried to get a second set of surveillance video from Continental Airlines. But the TSA apparently didn't know the correct telephone number and the specific procedures to get the footage.
It's a given that Lautenberg is a corrupt jackass; that he'll keep playing 'make the union happy' with a mess like this...
Michael Mann(Globular Warmist High Priest) had a nasty surprise waiting for him after the holidays:
When he turns up to work on Monday, he’ll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research.
Under US law, regardless of whether or not a prosecution results, the whistleblower stands to make very large sums of money: it is based on a percentage of the total government funds which have been misused, in this case perhaps as much as $50 million. (Hat tip: John O’Sullivan of the wonderful new campaigning site www.climategate.com)
Also at WUWT, this on some of the 'save the climate' idiocy involving-, well, take a look. Just wonderful, isn't it? We're supposedly damaging the climate(they think) through our tech(they believe) so they're willing to spend billions(at least, of other peoples money) to do things that they really have no frikkin' idea how would affect the climate; but because it's True Believers pushing this shit, we're supposed to believe
It's a good idea, and
It'll work.
Yeah. Right.
Oh, and how the Norfolk Police are working on the Climaquiddick 'hack':
During the enquiry officers have been working in liaison with the Office of the Information Commissioner and with officers from the National Domestic Extremism Team.
As the gentleman says, words fail me.
It should be noted(again) that Sen. Reid(Land Dealer-NV) is a corrupt political hack.
And it had to happen: Oliver Stone promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context."
"Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy -- these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history," Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena.
Hey, Stone loves Castro and Chavez and every other America-hating tyrant & wannabe out there, so who's surprised? And will it be any surprise that the US is at least partly(largely, if Stone's past is any indication) responsible for Hitler?
Police have identified children as young as seven being groomed for terrorism, with some expressing a wish to become suicide bombers.
Up to 10 primary school pupils, aged between seven and 10, have been placed on a government outreach programme for individuals considered at risk of being radicalised and turning to violence.
Some have taken inspiration from jihadi websites or after viewing extremist material in Islamic bookshops.
One child was referred to the programme by his teacher after writing on a school book: “I want to be a suicide bomber.”
Other youngsters were identified by their parents after suddenly adopting traditional Muslim dress or espousing extremist views.
Where? In Britain. Obama keeps talking about the Taliban and al Queda, and either doesn't understand or doesn't have the balls to state that they're here.
Also from (fG)Britain, under the heading of "You can't do/say/think anything we don't like about a protected species" we have this piece of bullshit:
The 45-year-old IT company manager, who does not want to be named, was arrested in front of his wife and young son, was fingerprinted and had his DNA taken.
It came after staff at Rother District Council in East Sussex declared the phrase “It’s the “do as you likey” attitude that I am against” – sent in an email to their planning department – was potentially racist because “likey” rhymes with the derogatory word “pikey”.
The businessman was held in a cell for four hours until officers established he had nothing to do with the email, which had been sent by one of his then workers, Paul Osmond, from a company computer.
The comment from the local
A council spokesman said: “As far as we were concerned it was an offensive comment, so we got in touch with the police.”
Got that? Say ANYTHING these miserable little bastards consider 'offensive' and they call the police. Who WILL arrest you and fingerprint you and take DNA samples without even knowing if it was actually you who committed the 'horrible' act. Great going there, coppers, I'm sure this will really give the honest people reason to trust you.
And one last thing from (fG)Britain, an action of truly monumental idiocy:
MI5 failed to alert America to intelligence highlighting the extremist links of the Detroit plane bomber because of concerns about breaching his human rights and privacy.
The spy agency withheld its files on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from Washington until after the near-catastrophic Christmas Day attack because of guidance from its legal department.
MI5 has privately conceded that as early as 2006 its surveillance operations had picked up “multiple communications” between the 23-year-old Nigerian student and suspected terrorists in Britain.
Asked why that information had not been passed to the US, a Home Office official with detailed knowledge of the case said the security service did not pass information to its allies about the thousands of Britons who were merely suspected of having radical Islamic views.
'Merely suspected'. Yeah.
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