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The Mother Of All Clean-Ups
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How do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up. Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.
Voltwagon
Posted by: | CommentsFredrich Hayek’s 1944 classic Road to Serfdom has become a best seller again. He said that governments tend to plan production for political, rather than market, purposes. Government owned GM’s new Volt costs $41,000, runs on a battery, and gets 40 miles per charge.
You Know The Drill
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The Law-Enforcer-In-Chief responded to two court rulings overturning his deep water drilling ban by ordering a new deep water drilling ban. Here’s the story in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Walking Points
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Posted by: | CommentsPresident Canute
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Obama accepted the Democratic nomination two years ago by remarking that the occasion marked the moment when “our planet began to heal” and the “rise of the oceans began to slow”. Mark Steyn riffs on the subject here.
Daddy Carville
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The president is getting it from all sides on the oil spill. James Carville wants Obama to take charge and tell BP, “I’m your daddy“.
BPtui
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From Top Kills to Junk Shots BP looks like a company without an exit strategy.
Climategate Crasher
Posted by: | Comments(Updated 12/17 partly in response to DeepWheat) The East Anglia CRU scientists inspired this cartoon. The guy with the ”missing data” sign represents them, among the other con men and shake down artists who want to cash in on our guilty consciences due to our abuse of Mother Earth.
But Howard Bloom, in today’s WSJ, says it’s Mother Nature who is “not nice”. Apparently, there are opportunities for much unpleasantness during Mrs. Earth’s 226 million year forced march around the black hole that is at the center of the galaxy. According to Bloom, Earth has experienced 60 ice ages in the last 120,00 years alone, the last one being 12,000 years ago. Temperatures shot up as much as 18 degrees within 20 years in most of the warming periods. I don’t know if he got his information from tree rings, ice cores, or missing CRU scrolls but, if it’s true, it doesn’t look like man’s fault.
Or, as the late Dr. George Carlin theorized in this lecture, “the planet isn’t going anywhere - we are”.
(12/16) My contract with the Greek mob requires me to get Diogenes in a cartoon once every 5 years. I thought Bret Stephens had an interesting take on the Copenhagen conference last week in the Wall Sreet Journal. I also liked this from Kevin O’brien in the Plain Dealer.





