Archive for June, 2012

TWITTER FEED OF THE DAY: 50 Sheds Of Grey. It’s about sheds.

THE PROBLEM IS, THE WAY WE DID IT PROVIDED INSUFFICIENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT: US Carbon Output Forecasts Shrink Again.

Much to the surprise (and, one suspects, the chagrin) of the deranged doomsaying wing of the environmental movement, new forecasts of US CO2 emission are out and they point to an even steeper drop than the last set of predictions.

No cap and trade, no huge new taxes on oil, no draconian driver restrictions, no air conditioning bans, no rationing — and the US is on track to cut its CO2 emissions 17 percent below the 2005 levels by 2020 — and to keep cutting our emissions levels beyond that.

And this news doesn’t come from embattled climate skeptics banished to the fringes of the scientific community; these numbers come from the Obama administration and are sitting right up on Don Lashof’s well respected blog at the National Resource Defense Council website. Take a look for yourselves.

So, to summarize, the United States of America basically blew the global greens off completely, trampling all over their carbon tax and cap and trade agendas, and earning wails and shrieks of hatred at the Rio+20 Summit — while making huge strides toward reducing CO2 emission levels.

It’s almost as if there is no connection between the green policy agenda and environmental progress.

Next you’ll be telling me that Solyndra was a scam.

A POSSIBLE NEW LOGO FOR THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN — artwork by Zombie.

RIC LOCKE SAYS THANK YOU: “My normal response to donations is to reply to each one with a ‘thank you’. In this case, that won’t be very practical — several thousand such replies would be necessary, and having to wade through them one at a time (the only way I can do it with my email program) would sort of cancel the good effects.”

IS THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE A “TAX” UNDER THE ORIGINAL MEANING?

DAVID BERNSTEIN: Is This 1936?

BUT OF COURSE: “You were just held in criminal contempt of Congress, Eric Holder. What are you going to do next?” “I’m goin’ to Disney World!”

AT AMAZON,