Monthly Archives: November 2010

A little foolery: motorcitytimes.com 2nd anniversary

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The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

Shakespeare

I can’t believe it has been two years since my first post here (or anywhere) in my quiet corner of the internet.

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Thank you to all the -er’s: The readers, subscribers and commenter’s. Your interest in motorcitytimes.com means a lot to me.

I would also like to extend an extra big tip O’ the hat to all the Bloggers who link to my web page on a regular basis. It is very much appreciated.

I apologize if I missed someone-  I’m doing this from memory.

The EPA Is Working To Indoctrinate Our Youth

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I read this on Greenversations: The Official Blog Of the EPA:

Climate change is a problem that is affecting people and the environment. In the U.S., our energy-related activities account for over 85 percent of our human-generated greenhouse gas emissions, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. If greenhouse gases continue to increase, climate models predict that the average temperature at the Earth’s surface could increase from 3.2 to 7.2ºF above 1990 levels by the end of this century.

I guess the ENTIRE planet could warm from 3.2 to 7.2 deg/f  but in my back yard temperatures will cool by 0.207 deg/f by the end of this century.

The EPA is using the some of the oldest indoctrination tricks in the book:

While adults tend to debate everything to the extreme, younger generations are taking the lead. Chloe Maxmin, now 18, formed the Climate Action Club at her high school to help residents of her rural town fight global warming. In two years, Chloe and club members established a “No Idling” policy on campus, installed smart strips and vending misers in school computer labs and on vending machines, and recycled 4,000 batteries and 20 pounds of cartridges in her hometown. The club recently won a $5,000 community impact award, which they are using to purchase solar panels for the school.

Just in case, if you are like me, and wonder what a ‘Vending Miser‘ is.

Most notably, Chloe’s club launched Maine’s largest student-led reusable bag campaign, which has kept 700,000 bags out of local landfills. The group raised $4,300 from fourteen businesses, purchased 1,900 reusable bags featuring sponsors’ names and logos, and then sold out of the bags soon after they began selling them. The project is ongoing and self-sustaining, with each year’s profits used to fund the next year’s batch of bags. The state’s largest supermarket chain recently came onboard to sell the bags. Additionally, Maine has launched a state-wide reusable bag campaign, using the Climate Action Club’s project as a model.

The EPA is using our tax dollars to create more radical environmentalists.

* By the way, those reusable bags can get really gross if you are not careful.

Why The Democrats Lost

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I think this is the best reason I’ve read.

The Democrats decided to insult the American people leading up the the mid term elections:

Why do the Democrats think they lost? Here’s President Obama’s observation, delivered last month at a Democratic fund-raiser: “Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country is scared.” Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who also knows a thing or two about losing elections, had this to say to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce: “We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in.” Kerry also told reporters: “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on, so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”

Then finally there was one of the great Democratic politicians of our time, Bill Clinton, who said of Harry Reid’s close race in Nevada: “The only reason this is a tough race is because it’s a tough time. People are having a tough time and they’re frightened and confused and they’re mad. It’s hard to think.”

According to Democrats, the American people are not smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand the brilliance of their progressive agenda.

It’s one point of view. Of course, there is another. It could be–it seems just possible–that the “truth and science and facts” that these Democrats talk about are really only schoolhouse theories that have no bearing on reality; that they are tried-and-failed progressive fairy tales that could only continue to be believed by people who have spent most of their adult lives glued face-first to the public tit. It’s possible that the best-informed populace in history has risen up in a truly spontaneous grassroots movement deeply connected to the nation’s founding principles and prudently given the heave-ho to a bunch of spendthrift, incompetent, supercilious, and self-deceived buffoons who mistook their college degrees for wisdom.

That about sums it up.

Video: Newly Discovered Aerial Footage Of WWI Aftermath

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This is very interesting . Via BBC:

Extraordinary pictures of the aftermath of WW1, which have been hidden away for nearly a century, have been discovered in a vault in Paris.

The film is a part of a special BBC One programme that includes unique aerial photographs of the battlefield taken by British pilots.

Nick Higham reports on the footage that gives an amazing insight into history

After Democrat Gary Peters Wins Re-Election He Now Wants To Listen

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According to the Freep (Detroit’s more liberal paper), Gary “I thought I was voting for a jobs bill” Peters is on a walking and listening tour of his district.

He dressed in suit, tie and the lapel pin that marks him as one of the 435 members of Congress.

“How’s it been lately?” he asked Leo’s Coney Island shift manager Lina Abdo, 26, of Farmington. “Is it getting better?”

“Some days it’s better, but not all,” she replied, looking out over the nearly empty Royal Oak diner.

Peters didn’t listen to his constituents when he voted in favor of Obama’s failed stimulus bill. He didn’t listen to his constituents when he voted in favor of ObamaCare and didn’t listen to his constituents when he voted in favor of Cap and Trade.

So why not start now?

Next, Gary Peters tips his hand and shows the partisan tact he is going to take during the next session of Congress.

“The American public and Michigan are frustrated that things aren’t getting done,” Peters said. “There has been this gridlock in Washington and the Republicans are in charge now. They can’t just say no anymore.”

No, Gary we are not frustrated that things aren’t getting done. We are fustrated that too many were done.

And they are all bad for for the economy and personal freedom.

California’s Green Energy Result

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Treehugger is happy that California is sticking with its 2006 ‘clean energy’ mandate:

The best climate and clean energy news to come out of yesterday’s election is that California voters roundly rejected Proposition 23, a ballot initiative sponsored by out-of-state oil companies that would have overturned the state’s 2006 climate law. It serves as a resounding referendum on California’s trailblazing commitment to clean energy and climate action — and is a major victory for clean energy supporters in the face of a well-funded campaign by fossil fuel interests.

With 93% of precincts reporting, Prop 23 has been rejected by a pretty wide margin: 61% voted against it, and 39% in favor

Of course, Treehugger is cheering the ‘green energy’ jobs.

The defeat of Prop 23 allows California to prove to the rest of the nation that having good clean energy and climate laws won’t crash its economy — and show that it’s possible to reduce emissions, stimulate innovation, and create jobs at the same time.

I wonder where Claifornia would be without all those ‘green energy’ jobs…

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California is finding out what Spain knows.

Wednesday Night Links: The Mid Term & Looming Inflation Round Up

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As I was perusing the internet today, looking at the various takes on the last night’s election results, very good friend of MCT (and all around smart guy), theCL (aka Mike) sent me a link to this article discussing the very inflationary move that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke made today:

The key is to realize that supermoney can have a multiple impact on the money supply. In 2008, just before the financial crisis broke out, the multiplier impact on M2 was 10. Got that 10? Although, I don’t necessarily expect it to go that high at this point (there are all those excess reserves). A multiplier impact of 2 or 3 is certainly not out of the question. That would put the M2 money supply increase in the range of $1.6 trillion to $2.7 trillion. In other words, an annualized money growth rate of over 20%. And this is conservative. If the multiplier is higher and money starts to flow out of excess reserves, you could see M2 grow and record high rates, possibly 30% to 40% on an annualized basis.

Folks, the dollar is now securely on the road to major devaluation. Price inflation at the consumer level by the end of 2011 will be well into double digits. Way, way into double digits.

Its like they planned this all along. Spend trillions of dollars, get nothing for it then create massive amounts of inflation to pay for it all.

It’s a move that any Third World leader would make.

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