Political correctness is that we should not drill for oil, for more oil will not solve the problem of high and rising fuel prices. Which political correctness the mainstream media firmly endorse. There are multiple bans on oil drilling. Bush ended one of them, which had no immediate effect on oil drilling, for other bans in place. But it had immediate psychological effect. Oil prices immediate dropped about eighteen dollars, …
Not Science
Recently the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization) dressed itself in the robes of high holy science, and portentously announced that the wrath of Gaea was upon us. Other scientists asked for the details of the evidence, but alas, the highly scientific scientists of the CSIRO found themselves sadly unable to provide the evidence.
Vote Cthulhu for US president
Or if not Cthulhu, Obama. When I started writing this, McCain had the the most violently anticapitalist program of any presidential candidate, his cap and trade policy. Obama, having started out at lunatic left in the primaries, is heading rightwards at high speed, and his “cap and trade†policy had become a mere pigovian carbon tax, making him considerably less anti capitalist than McCain. McCain, finding himself outflanked, quietly dropped …
“Governance in the Wildernessâ€
“Governance in the Wilderness†is merely a retranslation of the same Al Quaeda document earlier translated as “the Management of Savagery†or “the Management of Barbarism†The author concluded that 9/11 was unsuccessful, in that it failed to intimidate Americans, and the American retribution was severe. He correctly predicted that the attempt to set up a new Caliphate in Bahgdad was much premature, and would be defeated, as it was. …
American empire is not working
I have long argued that the US should focus on destroying its enemies and not attempt to hold ground. Global Guerrillas observes that it was only when the Army/Marines attempted to hold ground that the US military ran into trouble. These advocates maintain that the US military should never hold ground in the future Who are “these advocates�
Britain falls
When the Roman empire in the west fell, it was decades, nearly a century, before Romans realized it had fallen. Falling is a process, which is hard to recognize at the time. A recent post in Gates of Vienna leads me to believe that in decades to come, future historians will date the fall of most of old Europe to Islam to 2008, or not long after. The first step …
Predicted … observed
In 1988 the warmists issued their first prophecy of doom. Repent of your sins against Gaia, abandon the industrial civilization that allows us to feed far too many people, or the wrath of Gaia will manifest in massive global warming, with the wrath setting in around the year 2000. The Blackboard checks on how that prediction went In 2001 they issued a new prophecy of doom, this time with the …
Solution to the energy crisis
Newt tells it how it is: This crisis was caused by politicians. He tells how to reduce fuel costs in the short run, and the long run. “you want energy now†he tells us. And then he tells us how to get it. How do we solve the energy crisis? Answer. Let businessmen extract oil. Drill here. Drill now. Pay less.
Court appointed lawyers
Texas Child Protective Services wishes to “protect†Teresa Jeffs from being sexually abused – which “protection†has a curious resemblance to charging her with practicing polygamy while white. The courts have appointed Natalie Malonis to supposedly represent her and two other polygamist “childrenâ€, which lawyer has been conducting trial by media against her supposed client: “I believe that [Teresa Jeffs] was avoiding service because of coercion and improper influence from …
One mode, and it is secure
Ian Grigg correctly argues that any internet protocol that has an insecure mode can never be made secure, thus if security is introduced as after thought, will never be secure. Https is exactly such a bolted on afterthought, and to use it one must pay money, and suffer substantial inconvenience. Further, it is a woefully inefficient protocol, so people always try to minimize their use of it to only what …