Quote of the day
Zing! Sarah Palin at the Gridiron Dinner in D.C., skewering the saboteurs in the McCain camp with Ginsu wit:
“The view is so much better from inside the bus than under it.”
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Meanwhile, in Iowa:
The line is starting to form outside of Barnes & Noble for Sarah Palin’s book signing on Sunday.
People started lining up as early as 7:30 a.m. this morning to get a copy of Palin’s book, “Going Rogue,” signed. Palin will appear at Barnes & Noble from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Sunday.
About two dozen chairs are lined up outside the bookstore with about seven people holding spots in the line.
Victoria Boote, a University of Sioux Falls student, was one of the first in line early this morning. It’s not the first time she’s lined up early for events.
“I do it for fun, but this is for passion,” she said.
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Sarah Palin was hot! hot! hot! in Plano, TX on Friday.
I’m so glad I made the trip.
I’ve already printed it and e-mailed the link to everyone I know. Another must-read is Christopher Monckton’s November 30 43-page dissertation on this fraud. Moncton has been leading the criticism against this fraud in Britain as a PM.
The AGW crowd is already showing shell-shock and are so desperate to salvage anything that will win the day for them that they don’t even bother reconciling the politics to the science anymore. The concept of “weakest link on a chain” is completely lost on them. They seem to believe that there is still residual value in a political framework that lost all legitimacy.
“But we were winning!!!”
“Yeah but only because you were lying and cheating!!!”
“Sorry, does not compute.”
I know Sarah Palin weighed in on Climategate on her Facebook webpage.
They can’t state they are sorry because there is no innocent reason for the fraud. This was going to cost trillions who was going to benefit The UN they were going to be the redistributers. When does the World figure out the UN isn’t helping.
This wasn’t incompetence that led to the manipulation of data it was intentional that’s Fraud on a whole new scale. This isn’t going away and many will sink from their involvement Brown is trying to play it down. The Damning Hacked E-Mails. How much longer does Brown have as PM?
The real tragedy of ClimateGate (among many tragedies) is to consider “what if they were right?” If they are, they should have been proving it scientifically. Instead, they wasted almost 30 years and untold millions (billions?) of dollars perpetuating a grand fraud that is opening not only science to extreme scepticism but also government, religion, corporations, academia and everyone else who blindly allowed themselves to be corrupted one inch at a time. A celebrity/fame obsesses culture corrupting integrity of everything to the celebrity/fame issue of all time: AGW.
We may very well end up back in the Dark Ages with all of the damage this has caused to public trust of all institutions that support modern society. In the end, expediency in grasping for power trumped all else.
Time to go back to basics. We don’t need global anything. We need to rebuild the concentric circles of society starting with family, friends, community and building outward.
IF Man Made Global Warming were true. The strategy of wealth redistribution from 1st world to 3rd world still wouldn’t fix the problem. This isn’t not letting any crisis go without being exploited – this is creating a crisis to exploit. But the Global Warmest Jumped The Shark. Turns out people are not as stupid as they wish them to be.
My Friend David suggest we invest in Uranium if possible (Think Energy Independence) he thinks it’s a better investment than Gold. Not Windfarms……
http://dai-strategicconservativealliance.blogspot.com/2009/12/well-well.html
Back from my trip a bit late (snow) but had so much fun. Last night we played Bolderdash with friends. It’s a word game where a moderator reads aloud an odd term and everybody has to guess at the definition by making up their own and submitting them on paper to the moderator. Then the moderator reads the definitions aloud and you have to guess which is real and which is fake. Some of the made up definitions/analogies are more hilarious than the real ones. Reminds me of some trolls here.
There are several excellent books explaining why your suggestion is not a solution. Try “Out of Gas” by CalTech’s Dr. David Goodstein for starters. It is a very readable analysis that reduces the science to layman’s terms. Uranium and the current nuclear power technology would only carry us for maybe 30 years.
The problem is that the modern civilization was build on the abundance of cheap oil. Those days are gone forever. There is no one single substitute and there is nothing on the near horizon that will solve the problem, not “drill here, drill now”, not solar, not wind, not hydrogen, not natural gas or coal. Cheap oil is simply irreplacable. It will take more of a process to transition over 30-50 years as we buy time to develop new technologies (nuclear fusion is the most promising but still very far off).
What we need is an honest public discussion free from the cacophony of cynical, self-serving, power-hungry politicians. We can survive this but we need to grow up and face reality.
I haven’t written a book yet, but I did retire from a nuclear power plant after 30 years. The 30 years until uranium runs out is absolutely not true. It is no different from saying we are going to run out of oil in 30 years….which they have been saying since we began using oil……in other words, it’s BS.
And…there is no reason we should continue to use “current” nuclear technology. There are ways to use nuclear power that will make it literally last for 1000′s of years.
The climate-change travesty
Well this is George Will, from the Washington Post Piling On, This Can’t Be Good! GRIN.
Golden Oldie Nancy and Newt on the Sofa from “We Can Solve It Together”
Who feels like they need a shower?
Bob: No one is saying that we are going to run out of oil. We are ALREADY out of CHEAP oil.
Whether we run out of uranium depends on whether you or not you assume nuclear will become our primary fuel for generating electricity. If so, we will run out in around 30 years. Whether that is true or not, I don’t know but those who have to put up the billions and billions of dollars of long-term investment many years in advance aren’t willing to take the risk and, for all practical considerations, makes it the most likely case. We can definitely generate much more nuclear electricity in the US or we wouldn’t be seeing so many new plants ready to come on line.
I also listened to a environmental scientist yesterday who made the point that there is more than enough potential wind power in the US to meet the entire electrical demand for a very long time. I put wild statements like that in the same folder that I put statements claiming that we should be driving hydrogen cars that produce nothing but water. Although it makes sense in a world that doesn’t have to work around the inefficiency economics they are conveniently ignoring, these statements are monkey wrenches thrown into the machinery of practical discussion.
In 2000, the USGS published the results of an extensive 5-year project to determine how much oil was in the ground in the beginning and how much is left. It is a very difficult science that is further complicated by the reality that most of the world’s known oil reserves are located in enemy countries. How much oil is left underground is less important than the cost of getting at it and bringing it to market at a sufficiently low price to maintain our current global economy. How much it costs is based on politics, the geology of permeability/porosity, quality of the crude and expected demand. It is a very inexact science to say the least but as imperfect as the science may be, the projected consumption numbers are so vast that it is impossible to defend the low price of oil.
We need a 30-50 year period where we bring ALL technologies into production and evolve our way into solutions.
Another good read (very technical though) though is “The Hydrogen Economy”, not the one by Jeremy Rifkin but the academic research paper that I link to. It does concludes that hydrogen is very unlikely but presents a very interesting critical path analysis that makes a strong case for diversifying first to spring loose the various technologies onto the problem and evolving as we go.
Actually, back in the 70′s they said we would run out of oil. I remember hearing that scaremongering when I was a kid.
Fraud alright. 30 years of perpetuating a hoax in order to get as many as possible to believe in it is quite a significant ordeal. And to roll it back and call it ‘quits’ may be an even bigger deal. Since the fraud has been exposed, it has not stopped the steamroller from rolling along.
The end game is this – they will not quit, spent too many years and dollars brainwashing the masses. Stay on guard, be vigilant. Hell takes no vacation.
Yep, even at 50 cents a gallon, they were having a fit.
We’re going to run out of air. Anyone interested in a lifetime supply of air can contact me at: 1-800-DUM-BA$$
Actually I thought the issue was running out of American oil. It was in the 70′s we started imported more oil than was domestically produced.
2 weeks worth of AGW theory shot all to hell and we still get stuff like this:
UN Holds Out Hope For Climate Deal
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34298135/ns/us_news-environment
I think someone needs an update..
If there has been an update, Aloha, I’d be happy to read it.
The world reserves of oil have been around 30 years for as long as I can remember and I am 66. Just like uranium, oil reserves vary a lot depending on price.
With uranium especially, there is no way anyone knows what the reserves actually are. However, with reprocessing there is enough spent fuel sitting around at the various reactor sites to make a whole lot of electricity, even if they didn’t mine another once.
Make “once”, “ounce”.
I really need an edit function…lol
Bob: the problem I have with what you are saying is not that your points are factually incorrect but that they are beside the main point.
There is certainly enough uranium and other nuclear fuel to produce much more electricity that way than we currently do. But not enough to replace coal, natural gas and other carbon-based fuels.
As for oil, it is impossible to argue such a complicated issue in this space.
If you’re interested, I wrote an essay at my Townhall blog “TheWayWeAre” a while back called “The Bigness of Big Oil” that addressed this issue. You might want to read it. It doesn’t take an expert, and I’m not expert, to see the obvious. Many of the commentors provide very good links to support their points.
Article from August 12.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-08-12-palin-email_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-TechTopStories+(Tech+-+Top+Stories)
huh. Well there you go. I did need an update. I can’t figure out how the court jives that with public disclosure law, unless they were to say that public officials have to disclose all relevant private emails as well…but so be it.
Sarah worked hard to clean-up corruption in the Alaska government.
That might have come back to bite her later because she was hit with a barrage of ethics complaints, all of which she was eventually cleared from.
At least that’s the general impression I’ve gotten from the news.
Plus, after her VP run, she had plenty more people who were out to get her.
That’s not what I heard. When I was in school, we were told that the WORLD was going to run out of oil by the 1990′s. Then the 90′s came along, and nothing happened. That’s why I rolled my eyes when I first heard about AGW.
Ethics complaints against politicians before an election are standard procedure. They cost the politician some money and a few votes and the truth isn’t known until after the election. Effective most of the time.
Lucky for you, WE82 isn’t around right now.
I do remember that, as well as the real or manufactured “oil shortage” resulting in Jimmeh’s national 55 MPH speed limit. There were indeed alarmists like the AGW folks today. Back then it was global cooling though – ice age. I’m so confused. Do I need to buy sweaters or T-shirts?
The bottom-line fact is that thanks to Barack Obama, the Media-Government-Academia complex, and a dreg of a Republican Party, a Sarah Palin run for President is now possible and doable, despite her lack of x years of hard political experience (that would be normally be expected in any other time for a Presidential candidate).
If Chappy doesn’t like that, he should have used his powers of lawyer-speak to implore his Democrat Party not to pick Obama…that would have been fun to read
If Sarah Palin makes it to the White House in 2012, she can thank the ascendency and subsequent decline of Barack Obama.
Piling on Is Fun.
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/global-warming-liars-of-climactic-research-unit-exposed-doctoring-data/
Private emails and private cell phones are a happy refuge for politicians and share similar functions .
Well 30 years is significant if you go back and look at the Progressive Movement aka The New Left.
They don’t like religion and they don’t like tradition and they really don’t like Industry. That’s why Ayn Rand wrote a book about them titled “The Return of the Primitive, The Anti Industrialist” they don’t just exist in this country they look to have taken root at the UN where I think this Climategate will eventually culminate in many folks being outed. Just like Oil for Food Scandal. They think they can bluff there way through but those days are over we are mass communicatin;)
Is Chappy offering pro bono for KSM and pals in NYC??–I’m sure Odumbo and Eric the Red Holder have contacted him–they are monitoring the blogs aren’t they!!
Only if you want them to have grounds for a mistrial. I would be a horrible trial lawyer. If you want them to get off on the merits, you’d have to hire to my wife. She is a far better attorney than I.
Piling On Some more. Dear Climatologist your not mathematicians are you?
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/12/dear-experts-dont-bother-auditioning.html
Just thought some might want to see what the lady herself said about the stupid manufactured “jetgate” non-controversy.
Trying to use this to undermine her appeal to the middle class voters that like her is really splitting hairs, and says more about the person clinging to that than it does her.
If she started arriving at these events in a 2010 Ferrari, it would not hurt her image as “one of us”. People keep saying it like “self described hockey mom”, like that is not what she has always been. Most people instantly get it, but some who wish to tear her down by any means necessary refuse to accept the obvious truth. She is who she is, period. It does not matter what she wears or what she rides in, she’s authentically American middle class, and some of you, to your disappointment, are not going to be able to change that.
Physically impossible to reach the same location by bus that said bus has just driven to?
Does she know the meaning of “physically impossible”?
Are you still doing this?
Do you know the meaning of “travel”?
A distance of several hundred miles covered by the bus takes quite a bit of time. You do a string of stops in a row in one particular region, after the last stop the bus takes you to the airport, you hop a jet and fly ahead so you can get into a hotel and rest up, or take care of some other commitment like local media or something like that.
When the bus gets to town, the bus picks you up at the hotel, then you hit another string of stops in that region, usually covering a couple of hundred miles at a time.
What is so complicated about this?
People do this all the time. There is nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
You are grasping at straws, and sounding silly trying to change the rules for this one individual.
GO SARAH!!!
Which she says is “physically impossible” despite the fact that the very bus she eschews is doing it.
Do YOU know the meaning of “physically impossible”?
So, rather than “physically impossible”, you concede she means “I have better things to do, like rest up in a hotel rather than a tour bus. Unlike my staff.”
I am not changing any rules. I am just wondering why she is changing the definition of “physically” and/or “impossible.”
Um, Chap, she didn’t say impossible, she said impossible ON TIME. C’mon, man, you know there’s a difference there.
How’s the egg nogg this year?
Yeah, you’re a damn lawyer alright.
You mean the bus arrived late to the stops on the bus tour?
Um, no. At every stop, Palin stride off the bus (you know… the one that somehow defied quantum physics and made the physically impossible trip to the next stop), Trig in hand (at least for a minute or two, so all the cameras catch Trig in hand before Trig is then handed off to a staffer) and dutifully signs all of the books for all those that were promised (well…unless you were in Noblesville.)
lgm didn’t stop commenting here; he’s just using the nic “chapoutier” on a full-time basis now.
You are splitting hairs, picking nits, digging for things that just don’t matter.
This tour is a spectacular success, even MSDNC had to grudgingly admit that.
As far as Noblesville Indiana, Sarah Palin addressed that too.
Logistics for an undertaking like this are always going to hit a snag from time to time, particularly in the early going when you may have to work a few kinks out. That is the one and only negative story from any of these stops I’ve heard of, and I have followed it closely.
Hey don’t let any fairness get in the way of trying to make something out of nothing, never stopped you before.
Um (again), Chap, what exactly are you traying to say?
After looking at the quote you placed in your comment, then looking back where you took it from, my read is that she was saying it would be physically impossible to make it to her stops at the appointed times, not that it would be impossible at all. And even then she is only saying it as a speculation of a possible news story.
Now, you probably are better at analyzing words than I am, as that is part and parcel of being a lawyer, but that statement is pretty plain. As a lowly instructional writer myself, I really can’t see your interpretation in her words.
Nice use of the passive voice there. By ALL accounts, it was her side that pulled the plug on that event early. Have you seen the video of all the people outside her bus screaming that they were denied their chance to see her? Do you think Palin was deaf to it or just didn’t care? In either case, it was disingenuous to claim she had “just been told”. Unless, of course, she wasn’t on the bus at all. Which, according to prior practice, was a distinct possibility.
Well, you really nailed her to the wall, counselor.
Case closed.
She is a liar, a hypocritical manipulative harpy who is also dumb and incompetent, and a fake mother who only has children to use a photo props, then throws them aside to an assistant because children mean nothing to her really.
You have opened my eyes. How could I have been so misled?
Thank you, thank you for being such a paragon of truth and justice, Mr. Attorney. Without your insights, I might have been tricked into having some respect for this woman.
Glad you cleared that up for me.
/sarc
Not what I said at all. But she is using him as a prop. Otherwise, why haul Trig off the bus for a whole 2 minutes before handing him off? It is entirely obvious.
If she left the kid at home with family, she would be neglecting the special needs child.
She is PROUD of that child. The people who are showing up to see her are happy to see him there, and her parents, her Aunt Katie, and Todd also. There is video of one woman who brought her DS toddler with her to the event, right up to the table and handed her child to Sarah, who took him happily. They pulled her aside and she talked to Todd and the grandparents for awhile about special needs children. Does that make them “props” too? It is well documented that the Palins always have made time for the Downs children and their families. I think that is a good thing, but you obviously do not.
I wonder why that is.
Why must this be a negative? Why can’t this be a positive, that she has her family around her? Does the child bother you, do you think she should have not had that child at all?
Or, as I said earlier, are you grasping at anything to try and undermine the powerful connection to people that she naturally has, because this bothers you in some way.
It doesn’t really matter. She will be just fine despite the kind of carping about nothing that some like you persist in. It won’t matter in the end at all.
This is interesting, from C4P:
Why not just leave her on the bus…I mean back at the hotel/jet in the first place with the same staffer she hands him off to after the cameras have gotten their shot?
And using him as a prop.
The child doesn’t bother me and it is none of my business whether or not she had him. Doesn’t change the fact that she is using him as a prop.
The only thing that bothers me is the obvious cult of personality that has developed around her.
In my opinion, she is being a mother to a Downs Syndrome child in a public way to show that these children are worthy of not being killed before they are born.
Guess what. It is a powerful image that resonates deeply with many millions of Americans, not a cheap PR “prop”, as you continue to opine.
Do realize that this “prop” thesis of yours is in fact opinion.
Why don’t all of you try posting on Sarah’s Facebook page?
Be prepared to be censored.
You were “censored”?
What did you say?
Brian72
Why would I say I was censored?
Geez, I wouldn’t know.
BTW, who are you?
I asked what you said that led to this censoring you are claiming.
I am me, and you are you.
Don’t want to talk about being “censored”?
Oh well. I’m gone.
Peace out!
Does the “obvious cult of personality” surrounding Obama bother you as much as the one that has developed around Palin? I’m just curious.
Don’t go!
Yeah, I don’t see the media full of Sarah Palin “halo” pictures and “adoration art”.
And I don’t see anyone calling for a national holiday in Palin’s honor. But I didn’t see you complaining about this:
Chap–what are the merits?—that they killed 3000 innocent people I guess, or maybe it was that bug they put in with KSM that scared him in to a confession. Merits—we don’t need no stinkin merits.
Uh, that’s not called a “cult of personality”, because if Palin became a big government, bowing-to-kings, big spender, we’d drop her like a hot potato. Our support for her is conditional, unlike the sycophantic, unconditional adoration the Obamatons hold for Dear Leader.
You would be a lousy trial lawyer. Your critical thinking skills stink.
Thanks Flyover – I got busy yesterday..
What it does show is how persistent false news stories are, and why the MSM stooges keep repeating lies in order to further their agenda. Chap, you’re well read and fair-minded, but the media know that constant repetition is a plan that works…
Somebody forgot to refrigerate it.
Chap, you’re beating a dead horse here. Harper Collins would use time travel or rocketships or “beam me up Scotty” to get her to more events if they could, because they are making money hand over fist. The demands on her time are not the same as the demands on the bus driver’s time. She does interviews, TV shows whatever, while the bus rumbles on, and they pop her in a plane and get her to the next destination on time.
I vaguely know a world-class touring musician who has agents that keep track of everything and zoom her around to wherever, by bus, limo, jet, commercial, whatever it takes. Time is money. Not so much for the guy driving the bus.
Sorry, I was looking at too many different threads last night.
I posted a comment on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page knocking Levi Johnston.
That got deleted. Some kid was posting juvenille hate-speech from an iPhone. Those got deleted which I understand.
Chaps, cult of personality around Sarah Palin??? I don’t think so!
The people who like Sarah can explain why they like her.
Obama’s sheeple just worship him.
Sarah doesn’t have some left-wing artist in the NEA (arts) making pinko-commie signs promoting her.
There’s just no comparison.
Chaps, it’s another one of those no-win political situations.
If she’s never seen with the child, some people will say she’s not a good mother because she isn’t spending time with him.
If she is takes him on the road, some will say she’s using him as a prop.
The two younger girls seem to like being with their mother also.
Piper almost shadows her. Are they props also?
+1
***** PDS ALERT *****
Palin Derangement Syndrome alert at the Mall of America in Minnesota
***** PDS ALERT *****
Very impressive. Cannot even hit target.
Oooooo scary.
Sarah Palin said we have a right to ask questions about Obama’s eligibility.
She’s right.
And Leo Donofrio is helping to lead the charge…