I can picture it now… Susan J. Demas (MLive’s bitter and angry liberal columnist) is sitting alone in a darkened room. Shaking with rage.
‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ Shatters TLC Ratings Record:
Sarah Palin’s documentary / travelogue / reality / biopic shattered TLC ratings records Sunday night.
The debut of Sarah Palin’s Alaska delivered a whopping 5 million viewers.
The first episode of the eight-part series was the most-watched program launch in TLC’s history.
I’ve seen a few different versions of the air inflated / poured concrete shelter concept floating around the internet, but this one takes it to a new level:
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Former Michigan Gubernatorial candidate Democrat Virg Benaro (Democrat) loyalty to Big Labor only goes so far.
Concise and to the point: The smartest post you will ever read!
Its not as hip as the writers at Engadget think: Universal Remote Pillow
Nanny State: City official calls police on children selling cupcakes without a license
Paul Krugman Seems to Favor the Supposedly “Nonexistent” Death Panels
Land of the Formerly Free and the Home of the Erstwhile Brave
Hack turns Kinect into 3D video capture tool
Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe to do battle over earmarks
Cynical Synapse fights the Invasion of the Body Scanners
Why raising taxes are not the solution – unless the problem is not the deficit
The electric vehicle is not living up to the hype.
Even with a $7,500 tax credit, Obama’s favorite car, the Chevy Volt, is not selling all that well.
The Automotive Engineer in Chief — our polymathic president — says there will be a million plug-in cars in America by 2015. This will require much higher gasoline prices (perhaps $9 a gallon) and much bigger bribes: GM, which originally was expected to produce as many as 60,000 next year, now says 10,000 for all of North America.
GM says that, battery powered, the Volt has a 40-mile range.
Popular Mechanics says 33.
Thomas R. Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, the trade association of the electric utility industry, is, understandably, a Volt enthusiast: This supposedly “green” vehicle will store electric energy — 10 to 12 hours of charging on household current – produced by coal- and gas-fired power plants.
Only 10,000 Volts in one year.
To put the 10,000 unit sales figure in perspective, consider that Chrysler sold 12,721 of the decidedly un-eco friendly Jeep Grand Cherokees in the month of October.
Not only the is the Chevy Volt selling poorly. Nissan is having a tough time selling the Leaf (their plug in EV) as well. Even the Toyota Prius is not selling in Japan since their government cut subsides for the Hybrid.
Sure, there is a small group of people that want an electric vehicle. However, most Americans want mid or full size cars and SUV’s. Not glorified golf carts.
It makes me wonder who is going to buy the ‘Advanced Batteries’ that Obama and Jennifer Granholm were hyping last summer?
Via Gadling.com:
The theme park was in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, one of the hardest hit areas during Katrina and the flooding after the storm. Though many of the rides still stand, Six Flags says that saltwater from the flood has corroded them to the point that they cannot be saved.
The only ride to survive the flood – Batman: The Ride, which was elevated above most of the floodwaters – was refurbished and moved to Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 2008.
After viewing this video of the rotting theme park, I’m wondering why the City of New Orleans, which owns the land, isn’t renting it out as a location for horror movies. Louisiana photographer Teddy Smith shot this video in October, with permission from the City of New Orleans.
Looks creepy…
The reusable shopping bags the environmentalists are pushing (Reuse! Recycle! Save the ENTIRE planet) are really nothing short of a menace.
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York is seeking a federal investigation after a newspaper’s report of lead content in some reusable grocery bags.
The Democrat told The Associated Press that many of the reusable grocery bags sold nationwide are manufactured in China. Schumer plans to announce Sunday that he is contacting the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
There is less concern that the lead would easily rub off on food when the bags are new, but there is a concern that as bags wear down lead could accumulate in landfills, creating a potential environmental hazard.
Last week, the Tampa Tribune found some bags had lead levels that concerned health officials.
The Tribune found that lead appears to be in a form that’s not easily extracted or “leached” out. But over time, lab experts note, the bags wear down and paint can flake off.
“When our families go to the grocery store looking for safe and healthy foods to feed their kids, the last thing they should have to worry about are toxic bags,” Schumer said in a statement.
First it was E. Coli contamination and now it’s lead poisoning.
If you wash the bags to prevent E. Coli contamination, you run the risk of wearing out the bags and releasing lead and increase the risk of lead poisoning.
This brings brings new meaning to the saying ”pick your poison.”
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Its weird. The Detroit Zoo has trees they are calling “Holiday Trees”
As part of our Wild Winter celebration, the Detroit Zoo will once again feature its annual “Holiday Trees” display from November 20, 2010 through January 3, 2011. Sponsored by local businesses and individuals, “Holiday Trees” bring holiday spirit to the entire Zoo! If you would like to become a “Holiday Tree” sponsor you must respond quickly because sponsorships are limited and the deadline to become a sponsor is November 5, 2010.
This is what a “Holiday Tree” at the Detroit Zoo looks like:
Meanwhile, Campus Martius in Detroit is going to light (as in illuminate using light-bulbs) a tree.
They are even going to hold a tree lighting ceremony.
To me these trees, “holiday” or or otherwise, look suspiciously like Christmas Trees.
These videos are great:
Typically, the writers at Treehugger.com cheer on the growth of the nanny state. They are happy every time a new, draconian regulation is passed by our government to ostensibly protect us from ourselves.
Today, the Treehugger.com crew are straight up giddy with the idea that our government is working overtime to become our nanny.
Giddy Treehugger article #1:
If you’ve spent time in Europe, you’re probably accustomed to seeing forceful health warnings on cigarette packs. If you’re like me, you’ve wondered why American products can’t pack the same punch as the French classic, Fumer tue (smoking kills). Well, thanks to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed into law last summer by President Obama, the FDA has the power to take cigarette health warnings to the next level. And it’s going to get graphic.
The law calls for larger and more visible health warnings, and the FDA has responded by proposing nine new textual statements, including “cigarettes cause cancer,” “smoking can kill you,” and “tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in non-smokers.” These warnings will be backed up by color images (some photographs, some cartoons), and will take up half a cigarette pack, and 20% of advertisements. Some of the images are pretty jarring- a toe tag on a corpse, a little girl wearing an oxygen mask- and are designed really to hit home.
This new Obama law is not going to change things. No smoker will quit due to new labeling. If insane levels of taxation on cigarettes will not stop people from smoking, I doubt labeling placed by an overreaching nanny state designed to harangue smokers to quit will work.
Blame Canada
Giddy Treehugger article #2:
The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) recently updated the laws regarding organic beer. Hops must be organic in order for the beer to be sold under the USDA certified organic label. According to EcoCentric, the exemption was not motivated by microbrewers but rather larger brewers that wanted to be able to sell their product under the organic label without having to pay for organic hops. Budweiser lobbied vigorously to ensure that organic hops would not be required.
The watered down standards were enacted because at the time most organic hops was grown in New Zealand and Europe and flown back to the US. Today, organic hops farmers are popping up across the country so it’s an ideal time to tighten the requirements (which seemed downright misleading in the first place).
Really? Our nation is broke and our government is wasting time regulating whether a beer with out ‘organic’ hops can still be considered ‘organic.’ I’m sure there is a corresponding regulation defining what an ‘organic’ hop is as well. When push come to shove there is no difference between a hop grown on an organic farm and one that is not. And the typical beer drinker could care less.
I'll drink to that regulation
When you boil down these Treehugger articles, it illustrates how the green movement isn’t about clean air and water. It’s about creating an all encompassing and all pervasive federal government.
Deep down, they know a graphic warning label is not going to stop smokers from smoking. These regulations are about establishing a precedence.
When the nanny statists decide they want to put warning labels on your pizza boxes telling you that eating greasy pizza will contribute to heart disease they will point to the cigarette labels as precedence.
A little Friday night rock and roll.
TSA “grope vs porno shoot” t-shirt
Good! The American people are starting to fight back! The TSA backlash.
Is Facebook e-mail being announce Monday?
Actually, shouldn’t we call them Non-Gender Specific Beings made of Gingerbread?
Supercomputers ‘will fit in a sugar cube’, IBM says
Yet another great provision of Obamacare
Thank You to all Veterans from a fellow Veteran.
Veterans Day: Thanks for My Freedoms
London’s new double-decker bus unveiled [w/video]… I like the old ones better.
Christmas Lights Tour Bus In Singapore
True Story: Liberal Teacher Told me to Stop Spreading ‘Propaganda’ of Liberty
Study: People spend ‘half their waking hours daydreaming’
