or 'keeping our corporate masters happy'
I repeatedly read people's blogs, posts, rants and implications that blogging doesn't matter. You don't matter unless you are standing on a street corner protesting or preferably rounding up a militia to gun it out with ZOG.
What utter crap.
It would be real nice if you quit voting too and we could all wake up every morning to the words 'President Palin' on NPR because no person in their right mind believes John McCain can wipe his own ass anymore. The man is well into age-related dementia and it's been obvious for years.
Three ways the internet matters:
1. Climate Change: It's real and the mainstream media does everything possible to confuse the issue and promote corporate lies. If you don't think climate change isn't kicking your ass already go to the grocery store and look at food prices. Read the real news about how New Orleans is ultimately doomed.
2. Biochar: The addition of charred biomass to soils may be as important as learning that we could save the seed from this melon and grow new melons next year. Far more important than industrial fertilizers and pesticides because the needed tools are a hoe and a machete. This technique is the only known method of reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and harvesting a net energy gain.
3. Corporate Corruption: If you want to go on thinking that you're the ONLY person your (insert: bank, insurance company, doctor, credit card holder, home builder, employer, etc., etc, etc,) is ripping off you are entitled to that opinion. You are probably wrong and a quick Google search will show you how you are wrong. Corporations hold no goal more dearly than eliminating easy anonymity on the internet. So they can attack those who snitch on their bullshit.
If you want to keep believing that your problems are all your fault go for it. Get off the internet and sulk in your corner. Make a CEO happy.
Chances are your problems are like somebody else's problems. They might have a solution for your's and you might have something to offer them. But you have to find each other first and then you have to communicate. Your stupid little blog is an opening where somebody can find you. Their stupid little blog might point you to the herb that saves you from heart surgery that does nothing to extend your life. So you only get 10 hits a day. So what? You don't know which day it is that you're post will matter to somebody else.
Finally, all this back and forth on blog comments nurtures and maintains the art of written discourse. If you can write clearly you can think clearly. It's a skill that is only developed and improved by use and criticism. Watching TV and listening to your I-pod isn't doing you a bit of good once you are faced with a new problem to puzzle out. Your life will depend on being able to think for yourself. You can't rely on doctors, lawyers or your congressman to cover your ass here. When it comes to thinking; you're on your own bub.
Keep blogging.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Reality Check: Global Food Crisis
These charts over at Global Research make clear that there are going to be many, many people in the world looking at empty porridge bowls in the next year. Far too much of the grain growing regions of the world are experiencing drought in a time when grain production is falling behind consumption a little bit each year.
Some years ago the world had surplus grain. Now, each year every silo is emptied at some point of the year. Remember the lesson of the bible in that a nation without full grain silos is in grave danger. A world with empty grain silos can be a typhoon or two away from disaster.
I can walk to a rice field in a long morning and glean if I want. Most of us don't have that luxury. Look at your grain consumption and maybe consider buying that one or two months security blanket in the form of extra hundredweights of rice, oats or wheat.
Some years ago the world had surplus grain. Now, each year every silo is emptied at some point of the year. Remember the lesson of the bible in that a nation without full grain silos is in grave danger. A world with empty grain silos can be a typhoon or two away from disaster.
I can walk to a rice field in a long morning and glean if I want. Most of us don't have that luxury. Look at your grain consumption and maybe consider buying that one or two months security blanket in the form of extra hundredweights of rice, oats or wheat.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Bring On the Suicide Booths
I know a secret. It's an ugly secret. The US is engaged in the practice of Eugenics. Specifically we are killing, through exposure and neglect, our excess population. The Greeks and Romans would "expose" babies born with defects on cold nights. They would put visibly deformed children out in the weather where cold and/or scavengers would kill them. This practice continues to this day in some parts of the world although people are reluctant to admit it. The US does this to it's "homeless" population. We push them out of available shelter in the hopes that they will die.
Let's be absolutely clear; there is shelter available. In the US there is likely a vacant bedroom for every single homeless person in the nation in housing already built for the rental market or for sale. There are tens of millions of "second homes." There are millions of permanently vacant hotel and motel rooms. There are fleets of boats and motor homes that have "live-aboard" capability. We just refuse to make these resources available for people who don't have access to sufficient cash money.
Homelessness kills. It's a death sentence as sure as some cancers. More so than prostate cancer. Without access to regular shelter and hygiene people die in far higher numbers than comparable populations. This has been proven in multiple studies by epidemiologists controlled for drug and alcohol abuse, presence or lack of various illnesses and other such factors. Preventing people from having regular shelter kills a fat percentage of them. (google your own damn cites you lazy bastard, ok check the footnotes)
We do this on purpose. OK not you, or maybe your small circle of friends but unless you have somebody living rent-free in your garage you are part of the problem. You, too, refuse to shelter these people. You're an Eugenicist just like the Nazi's. You pretend, like good Germans of the 1940's, that everything is ok when your eyes tell you it's not. Constantly dirty people with teeth falling out and open sores aren't going to live long sleeping on concrete. Call it a wild guess.
Add another factor; a huge number of newly employed people are about to lose their benefits. A certain percentage of these people will end up with post-traumatic stress disorder and for all economic purposes be useless as potential employees. Another huge chunk already have addictions and borderline mental illnesses that will become full on cases due to stress. It's a surplus population that isn't going away and we aren't going to find tax money to support.
Why not let them die? We aren't going to support them. Our elites say nasty things about chronically unemployed or they say nice things but refuse to provide the means for minimal needs. We expect them to die if they don't get better. We just don't admit it. Let's give them a break.
Let's build some (ok lots) suicide booths. A recurrent feature in science fiction dramas from Star Trek to the cartoon, Futurama, the idea of suicide booths refuses to go away. Because it's more humane than forcing somebody to sleep on a steam grate until they can catch an appropriate virus. Because it would be cheaper. Because it would be cleaner. Because it would be kinder. Because it WOULD BE MORE HONEST.
OK, there is the problem that somebody YOU care about might make use of one but what's that say about your care of loved ones? Maybe we would take better care of the people in our lives if we knew they had other options than to put up with your shit. Maybe employers would fear the loss of training investments just that little bit more. Maybe families would give weird Uncle Bob that extra call every month. Maybe some of the folks in nursing homes are tired of being left alone.
Finally, in keeping with the theme of this blog; we have a few excess humans on this planet. About five or six billion extra if you ask some biologists. While reductions in birth rates can temper that number an increase in death rate is the only way to bring the human population in balance with the ecosphere. While we're doing a great job of promoting War, Famine and Pestilence deaths are just not keeping up with births. Offering people a clean and painless exit can't hurt matters.
Finally, I'll take the first booth for a test drive. I have a chronic pain problem and the US medical hash-up has no interest in helping it. I'm offered Zombie pills and a firm boot to the curb, thank you. Nobody's going to pay me for writing this shit. As far as our corporate masters are concerned I'm surplus meat waiting to die. Or worse, a subversive who spreads the word that there are alternatives to their game.
I don't really expect to see suicide booths in the near future. I also don't expect that we will be honest about dealing with these people. We're going to punt. Again.
Because we punt on everything these days.
What happens the day all these balls drop?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
http://www.euvolution.com/articles/ancient.htm
http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Population.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide
The Nine Stages of American Autogenocide (http://www.whale.to/b/crow.html)
*http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Z7RgB-ARGT8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=homeless+eugenics+&ots=uXoQUivoA2&sig=w5cqAqPVVaYV80IXC4LEnA8jHPE
http://www.informaworld.com/index/713662815.pdf
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=info:mxcZrwTnxqUJ:scholar.google.com/&output=viewport&pg=1&hl=en
Let's be absolutely clear; there is shelter available. In the US there is likely a vacant bedroom for every single homeless person in the nation in housing already built for the rental market or for sale. There are tens of millions of "second homes." There are millions of permanently vacant hotel and motel rooms. There are fleets of boats and motor homes that have "live-aboard" capability. We just refuse to make these resources available for people who don't have access to sufficient cash money.
Homelessness kills. It's a death sentence as sure as some cancers. More so than prostate cancer. Without access to regular shelter and hygiene people die in far higher numbers than comparable populations. This has been proven in multiple studies by epidemiologists controlled for drug and alcohol abuse, presence or lack of various illnesses and other such factors. Preventing people from having regular shelter kills a fat percentage of them. (google your own damn cites you lazy bastard, ok check the footnotes)
We do this on purpose. OK not you, or maybe your small circle of friends but unless you have somebody living rent-free in your garage you are part of the problem. You, too, refuse to shelter these people. You're an Eugenicist just like the Nazi's. You pretend, like good Germans of the 1940's, that everything is ok when your eyes tell you it's not. Constantly dirty people with teeth falling out and open sores aren't going to live long sleeping on concrete. Call it a wild guess.
Add another factor; a huge number of newly employed people are about to lose their benefits. A certain percentage of these people will end up with post-traumatic stress disorder and for all economic purposes be useless as potential employees. Another huge chunk already have addictions and borderline mental illnesses that will become full on cases due to stress. It's a surplus population that isn't going away and we aren't going to find tax money to support.
Why not let them die? We aren't going to support them. Our elites say nasty things about chronically unemployed or they say nice things but refuse to provide the means for minimal needs. We expect them to die if they don't get better. We just don't admit it. Let's give them a break.
Let's build some (ok lots) suicide booths. A recurrent feature in science fiction dramas from Star Trek to the cartoon, Futurama, the idea of suicide booths refuses to go away. Because it's more humane than forcing somebody to sleep on a steam grate until they can catch an appropriate virus. Because it would be cheaper. Because it would be cleaner. Because it would be kinder. Because it WOULD BE MORE HONEST.
OK, there is the problem that somebody YOU care about might make use of one but what's that say about your care of loved ones? Maybe we would take better care of the people in our lives if we knew they had other options than to put up with your shit. Maybe employers would fear the loss of training investments just that little bit more. Maybe families would give weird Uncle Bob that extra call every month. Maybe some of the folks in nursing homes are tired of being left alone.
Finally, in keeping with the theme of this blog; we have a few excess humans on this planet. About five or six billion extra if you ask some biologists. While reductions in birth rates can temper that number an increase in death rate is the only way to bring the human population in balance with the ecosphere. While we're doing a great job of promoting War, Famine and Pestilence deaths are just not keeping up with births. Offering people a clean and painless exit can't hurt matters.
Finally, I'll take the first booth for a test drive. I have a chronic pain problem and the US medical hash-up has no interest in helping it. I'm offered Zombie pills and a firm boot to the curb, thank you. Nobody's going to pay me for writing this shit. As far as our corporate masters are concerned I'm surplus meat waiting to die. Or worse, a subversive who spreads the word that there are alternatives to their game.
I don't really expect to see suicide booths in the near future. I also don't expect that we will be honest about dealing with these people. We're going to punt. Again.
Because we punt on everything these days.
What happens the day all these balls drop?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
http://www.euvolution.com/articles/ancient.htm
http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Population.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide
The Nine Stages of American Autogenocide (http://www.whale.to/b/crow.html)
*http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Z7RgB-ARGT8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=homeless+eugenics+&ots=uXoQUivoA2&sig=w5cqAqPVVaYV80IXC4LEnA8jHPE
http://www.informaworld.com/index/713662815.pdf
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=info:mxcZrwTnxqUJ:scholar.google.com/&output=viewport&pg=1&hl=en
Monday, July 13, 2009
Kunstler Weighs in As Optimist.
James Howard Kunstler is still holding out for a last minute conversion of the PTB to his train-centric view of the world. He starts with this:
The cat coming out of the bag this week -- a frazzled, flaming, rabid, death-dealing cat -- is the news that Goldman Sachs will announce impressive second-quarter profits, and set aside $18 billion or so for employee bonuses averaging $600,000 per head (though, of course, not evenly distributed among them). There probably are not fifty-three people in the USA who can explain how this development figures in with last fall's bailout gift from the US treasury, or the $13 billion GS received on the backside of US gift payments to the failed AIG insurance company, plus the reams of necrotic securitized debt paper rotting in the back of the GS vaults. This is a company playing with the fire of world history.
And somehow ends up here....
I'm not ready to capitulate to cynicism. There is something in the political wind this summer. I think events will force Mr. Obama to assert some real leadership and take the national debate on our predicament in another direction, even if it is an uncomfortable direction for him and everybody else. Despite the massive disappointment being expressed by so many Obama voters these days, I believe the president will redeem himself before long.Attorney General Eric Holder announced over the weekend that he will commence an investigation into the Bush regime's misconduct with terrorism suspects. His department is capable of running more than one investigation at a time. Why doesn't President Obama direct him to open an investigation of Goldman Sachs's behavior in the area of securities fraud, insider trading, and misuse of goverment funds? Without an official inquiry into financial misconduct of this company, and others, I believe public anger will overwhelm any attempts to transform our contracting economy and the president's ability to manage it.
James is correct in that he hasn't given in to cynicism. He is incorrect in his assumption that when the outrage comes to a boil it will assume any sensible shape.The american people are in a word: morons. (see California govt., fiscal crisis, yearly) Individuals may be intelligent but our collective decision making ability is insufficient to make toast without an automatic toaster and sliced bread. This is by design.
For over fifty years the formative years of the american populace have been corrupted by High Schools and Colleges. These institutions, as known in the US, practically guarantee that no brain will be corrupted by the words of somebody whose hands get dirty every day. Sixteen years of the U.S. school system and your average citizen can't change out a light switch, balance a budget or understand any of the contracts they sign every day.
To quell the hopes that somehow walkable communities will fix something....what are we walking to? We don't make anything anymore. Will we all walk to our offices and wait for the genies to bring us food and fix our houses?
We're going to collapse. People are going to point fingers wherever Rush or DailyKos tell them to and then proceed to destroy the tools needed to help them survive. Then they will attack those folks who actually know how to grow food or fix things just out of frustration.
GM is NOT going to be put to work making trolleys. Obama and the corporate-bankster, congress are not going to finance a massive energy overhaul. We are not suddenly going to all get a reasonable health care system and find new jobs installing solar panels and growing organic vegetables. We're going to squander our wealth bouncing rocks in Afghanistan that the Soviet's bounced in the '80s.
The rich, despite setbacks, still own most of what is worth owning in this country and they aren't giving up control of land, wealth, housing or other assets because they hope to keep up with the Gates and the Buffets someday. The middle class are simply too occupied with keeping themselves firmly on the the treadmill by means of social posturing. (skills don't matter; who you know rules all) The poor are just hoping that they can hang on and avoid eviction for another month and maybe get drunk, stoned, or laid enough mask the pain.
That doesn't leave very many people. The people actually trying to turn things around represent the equivalent effort of a guy with an oar in the bow of the Titanic preparing to fend off the iceberg. A bigger oar isn't going to cut it nor is the whole-hearted assistance of your dubious best buddy and spouse.
We're screwed. If we should somehow manage the banking crisis, the health care crisis, the education crisis there are still the mega-bergs of Peak Oil and Climate change mysteriously following in our wake. Just barely glimpsed now these last two will grind human civilization into dust unless every passenger on this boat starts converting the ship to lifeboats.
Which isn't going to happen. Whether stoned, Prozac'd, religiously whacked or just too preoccupied with the dress for the ball tomorrow most passengers don't know, don't care, and aren't willing to listen to your scary tales.
Build your own lifeboat; get as far from the wreckage as you can. Organize your tribe, save seeds, get paper copies of any information you might need for survival. If you're a loner; join a tribe and expect to be on shit-bucket duty when things get bad. Don't complain; known and useful is better than unknown, cold and hungry.
I'm probably going to change my mind about this and post something positive later but to honest it's just me taking my turn trying to push the iceberg.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
GoDaddy.com commits Fraud.
Hey there,
For anybody who's reading this just on general principles or who might have tagged this when they googled GoDaddy.com I would just like to point out that Godaddy's fraudulent practices have really pissed me off.
I registered the domain names PUTCARBONBACK.US, PUTCARBONBACK.NET, PUTCARBONBACK.ORG, PUTCARBONBACK.COM thinking that I might set up a web site. Time, energy and health constraints prevented me from seeing this through. I held on to these domains in 2007 and 2008.
In 2009 Godaddy.com sent me repeated e-mails urging me to re-register my credit card information as they could not charge me for renewals. This was fine with me.
Of course the bastards charged my card anyway AFTER I made repeated attempts to disable the account renewal function and AFTER they had sent me multiple e-mails claiming that I wouldn't be charged unless I re-registered the changes to my credit card.
To make matters worse when I saw a $15.00 charge on my credit card account and tried to cancel on the GoDadddy.com website they charged me another $60 or so. Try as you might you cannot delete your credit card information from their site.
Plus they have no direct e-mail address so you can't just contact them.
DO NOT GIVE GoDaddy.com your credit card information under ANY circumstances. They WILL charge you and then you have to go through a hassle to get the charges deleted.
GoDaddy.com is a FRAUD and CHEATing company. Check out these sites committed to exposing that fraud.
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Lets End GoDaddy Fraud
Pangolin.
For anybody who's reading this just on general principles or who might have tagged this when they googled GoDaddy.com I would just like to point out that Godaddy's fraudulent practices have really pissed me off.
I registered the domain names PUTCARBONBACK.US, PUTCARBONBACK.NET, PUTCARBONBACK.ORG, PUTCARBONBACK.COM thinking that I might set up a web site. Time, energy and health constraints prevented me from seeing this through. I held on to these domains in 2007 and 2008.
In 2009 Godaddy.com sent me repeated e-mails urging me to re-register my credit card information as they could not charge me for renewals. This was fine with me.
Of course the bastards charged my card anyway AFTER I made repeated attempts to disable the account renewal function and AFTER they had sent me multiple e-mails claiming that I wouldn't be charged unless I re-registered the changes to my credit card.
To make matters worse when I saw a $15.00 charge on my credit card account and tried to cancel on the GoDadddy.com website they charged me another $60 or so. Try as you might you cannot delete your credit card information from their site.
Plus they have no direct e-mail address so you can't just contact them.
DO NOT GIVE GoDaddy.com your credit card information under ANY circumstances. They WILL charge you and then you have to go through a hassle to get the charges deleted.
GoDaddy.com is a FRAUD and CHEATing company. Check out these sites committed to exposing that fraud.
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Ok, it's off topic but I hate getting ripped off as much as anybody else.Pangolin.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Briar Patch Economics
David Roberts, editor at Gristmill, thinks we shouldn't use a Carbon Tax and rebate system because nobody in Washington thinks it's a good idea except most progressives and a few conservative columnists playing B'rer Rabbit and the Briar Patch. (see "Carbon tax is a poison pill")
""I guess I'm going to be barbecue this day." Brer Rabbit sighed. "But getting barbecued is a whole lot better than getting thrown in the briar patch." He sighed again. "No doubt about it. Getting barbecued is almost a blessing compared to being thrown in that briar patch on the other side of the road. If you got to go, go in a barbecue sauce. That's what I always say. How much lemon juice and brown sugar you put in yours?"-from mythfolklore.net
Yeah, those poor conservative shills or the Coal'N'Oil industries suddenly want anything but "Cap'N'Trade."
On Noes!! B'rer Obama! You gots us now and we know we have to change our coal burning ways. We'll do whatever you like just don make us deal with a "Cap'N'Trade"system; oh my think of the paper work.
Now B'rer Obama he knows how tricksy Coal'N'Oil can get and he surely is tired of getting kicked by them so he thinks he just might toss 'em in a sack of Carbon Tacks where the more they kick the more they get poked. Yep, it's a little bit of the hike over the hill to the shed where he can get a good strong sack and them Carbon Tacks but to be rid of Coal'N'Oil he jus might do it'. Yer gone git the Carbon Tacks in a nice tight sack he tells Coal'N'Oil.
Coal'N'Oil he surely don't want no Carbon Tacks in a nice tight sack so he thinks quick looks around and sees the crazy Sierra Club bird hanging out on a nearby tree limb. Throwin his voice he sings out like it's the Sierra Club bird... "Give 'em to the Carbon Off-sets" he sings, "they'll tear him to pieces and starve him to death those Carbon Off-sets will."
Well those Carbon Off-sets will fill my mouth with fur, bite me like a thousand house-flies and tear out my nails but surely that will be better than throwing me to the Cap'N'Trade system. Whatever you all do jus don' throw me there.
B'rer Obama thinks about this and decides that Carbon Off-sets won't hurt nearly enough and tell's Coal'N'Oil it might be fun to tie Coal'N'Oil up in front of his pump house and feed everyone who comes up to the pump house door with Sun-power seeds, Wind-turbinados and Geo-powershakes that he's going to pay for with Coal'N'Oil's tab down at the treasury. Coal'N'Oil let's go a mighty shudder and sings out.. "Well that's a relief because for a minute there I thought you were going to throw me to the Cap'N'Trade"system where I'd be cut to pieces by all those long Wall Street knives."
We all know how this story is supposed to end but remember what happened when California tried to throw Coal'N'Oil's big Uncle Enron into the Power'N'Trade system which was pretty much the Cap'N'Trade system with free drinks and skittles. Uncle Enron managed to steal California's paycheck and the deed to the house on the way in and things haven't gone right there since.
If B'rer Obama listens to a word Coal'N'Oil is singing or the confusion caused by the voice throwing and wailing by the Wall Street ravens who rely on Coal'N'Oil to feed them a steady supply of dead and dying economies to feed on the rest of us are sunk. It will be way over four years before anybody gets their hands around Coal'N'Oil's throat again because nobody's gonna trust B'rer Obama if he screws this one up and it could be twelve years of doing nothing useful before the winds blow the right way again. We played this game with B'rer Clinton and health care and people are still paying for that bungle.
Push the carbon tax now and rebate now and structure it so the first rebate checks arrive in mailbox's March 2010 and there won't be a whimper from the GOP. Nobody complains about their Social Security checks arriving despite the fact that THAT'S an income redistribution system. A per capita rebate system advantages the very people the GOP would try and rally against any kind of carbon fee; the rural middle class. I'm pretty sure that given the choice between God in the pulpit and Mammon in the mailbox they'll choose mammon.
""I guess I'm going to be barbecue this day." Brer Rabbit sighed. "But getting barbecued is a whole lot better than getting thrown in the briar patch." He sighed again. "No doubt about it. Getting barbecued is almost a blessing compared to being thrown in that briar patch on the other side of the road. If you got to go, go in a barbecue sauce. That's what I always say. How much lemon juice and brown sugar you put in yours?"-from mythfolklore.net
Yeah, those poor conservative shills or the Coal'N'Oil industries suddenly want anything but "Cap'N'Trade."
On Noes!! B'rer Obama! You gots us now and we know we have to change our coal burning ways. We'll do whatever you like just don make us deal with a "Cap'N'Trade"system; oh my think of the paper work.
Now B'rer Obama he knows how tricksy Coal'N'Oil can get and he surely is tired of getting kicked by them so he thinks he just might toss 'em in a sack of Carbon Tacks where the more they kick the more they get poked. Yep, it's a little bit of the hike over the hill to the shed where he can get a good strong sack and them Carbon Tacks but to be rid of Coal'N'Oil he jus might do it'. Yer gone git the Carbon Tacks in a nice tight sack he tells Coal'N'Oil.
Coal'N'Oil he surely don't want no Carbon Tacks in a nice tight sack so he thinks quick looks around and sees the crazy Sierra Club bird hanging out on a nearby tree limb. Throwin his voice he sings out like it's the Sierra Club bird... "Give 'em to the Carbon Off-sets" he sings, "they'll tear him to pieces and starve him to death those Carbon Off-sets will."
Well those Carbon Off-sets will fill my mouth with fur, bite me like a thousand house-flies and tear out my nails but surely that will be better than throwing me to the Cap'N'Trade system. Whatever you all do jus don' throw me there.
B'rer Obama thinks about this and decides that Carbon Off-sets won't hurt nearly enough and tell's Coal'N'Oil it might be fun to tie Coal'N'Oil up in front of his pump house and feed everyone who comes up to the pump house door with Sun-power seeds, Wind-turbinados and Geo-powershakes that he's going to pay for with Coal'N'Oil's tab down at the treasury. Coal'N'Oil let's go a mighty shudder and sings out.. "Well that's a relief because for a minute there I thought you were going to throw me to the Cap'N'Trade"system where I'd be cut to pieces by all those long Wall Street knives."
We all know how this story is supposed to end but remember what happened when California tried to throw Coal'N'Oil's big Uncle Enron into the Power'N'Trade system which was pretty much the Cap'N'Trade system with free drinks and skittles. Uncle Enron managed to steal California's paycheck and the deed to the house on the way in and things haven't gone right there since.
If B'rer Obama listens to a word Coal'N'Oil is singing or the confusion caused by the voice throwing and wailing by the Wall Street ravens who rely on Coal'N'Oil to feed them a steady supply of dead and dying economies to feed on the rest of us are sunk. It will be way over four years before anybody gets their hands around Coal'N'Oil's throat again because nobody's gonna trust B'rer Obama if he screws this one up and it could be twelve years of doing nothing useful before the winds blow the right way again. We played this game with B'rer Clinton and health care and people are still paying for that bungle.
Push the carbon tax now and rebate now and structure it so the first rebate checks arrive in mailbox's March 2010 and there won't be a whimper from the GOP. Nobody complains about their Social Security checks arriving despite the fact that THAT'S an income redistribution system. A per capita rebate system advantages the very people the GOP would try and rally against any kind of carbon fee; the rural middle class. I'm pretty sure that given the choice between God in the pulpit and Mammon in the mailbox they'll choose mammon.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Reality Challenged Congress
crossposted from a Gristmill thread on the lack of transit funding.
Face it; this congress isn't that different than the last congress and reality seems to be a bit of a challenge for congressional delegates.
Climate change is real, very dangerous and accelerating. Congressional proposals at best will merely slow the rate of acceleration and do absolutely nothing to mitigate. There are no viable bills proposed to get GHG emissions to zero and then sequester atmospheric CO2 on a massive scale. None.
Oil imports have grown as a percentage of use every year but possibly 2008 in the US and technologically viable standards that would make every single car, van, SUV and light truck produced plug-in hybrid vehicles aren't anywhere to be seen. We're still trying to manage with the completely discredited ethanol industry.
The fastest way to reduce petroleum costs would be to convert homes and businesses and the entire state of Hawaii from heating oil and propane use to ground-loop heating and solar power. Congress is totally crickets on the issue even though it's a proven money producing investment.
State, local and federal government agencies can't afford asphalt and can't find it if prices stray into the affordable range. Interurban and rural rail connections, a standard feature of life in 1910 rural america, are completely off the boards as a viable solution.
A Congress that gives our clown college bankers free cash in fire-hose quantities and nickels and dimes food stamp recipients isn't going to suddenly bring a third neuron to the party. We're pretty much stuck with sitting back and watching the beatings continuing till morale improves.
Face it; this congress isn't that different than the last congress and reality seems to be a bit of a challenge for congressional delegates.
Climate change is real, very dangerous and accelerating. Congressional proposals at best will merely slow the rate of acceleration and do absolutely nothing to mitigate. There are no viable bills proposed to get GHG emissions to zero and then sequester atmospheric CO2 on a massive scale. None.
Oil imports have grown as a percentage of use every year but possibly 2008 in the US and technologically viable standards that would make every single car, van, SUV and light truck produced plug-in hybrid vehicles aren't anywhere to be seen. We're still trying to manage with the completely discredited ethanol industry.
The fastest way to reduce petroleum costs would be to convert homes and businesses and the entire state of Hawaii from heating oil and propane use to ground-loop heating and solar power. Congress is totally crickets on the issue even though it's a proven money producing investment.
State, local and federal government agencies can't afford asphalt and can't find it if prices stray into the affordable range. Interurban and rural rail connections, a standard feature of life in 1910 rural america, are completely off the boards as a viable solution.
A Congress that gives our clown college bankers free cash in fire-hose quantities and nickels and dimes food stamp recipients isn't going to suddenly bring a third neuron to the party. We're pretty much stuck with sitting back and watching the beatings continuing till morale improves.
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