Friday

Our King/President and World leaders tell the Earth's temperature not to rise. "They are so cool, those world leaders."

Its the Chicago way - America's health-care CEOs are being taken for a ride by Congress and their own lobbyists. "But I thought lobbyists worked for their clients interest ? Maybe they are, the client is Obama and the Democrats."

Obama is Our Foreign Policy Neophyte. "Obama needs another 4 years to rise to the level of neophyte. He's giving empty suits a bad name."

On a team of rivals, Obama is a ball hog -Unlike Predecessors, Clinton Left Behind on Presidential Foreign Travel.

"I believe the central parts of the [EPA] chart are that U.S. action alone will not impact world CO2 levels," EPA Administrator Jackson said. "All pain, no gain. Those EPA scientists are so dope."

2 World leaders demonstrate 2 ways to gawk at a woman ...

Embryonic Stem Cells ...

Lets get some facts out first:

$0 Federal dollars were spent on ANY stem cell research prior to 2001 - ZERO ...

Billions of dollars have been spent by States and private investors on Embryonic Stem cell research since 2001 with not a single cure for a single disease being discovered.

Embryonic Stem cells will NEVER cure Diabetes, AIDS or Parkinson's Disease ... NEVER ... it is impossible because making "new" organs will not cure those diseases ...

Pluripotent stem cells (aka Embryonic stem cells) can now be made from adult stem cells eliminating the need for embryonic stem cells ...

Please read this from US News: Why Embryonic Stem Cells are Obsolete

and Please read this from the NY Times: Rethink Stem Cells? Science Already Has

More wasted federal tax dollars for bad science ...

The Ghost
Updated on 03/10/09

Dennis Miller and the Rented Mule Reid ...

The Buck Starts Here with Dennis Miller

Heh folks tonight I'm gonna talk about Harry Reid Now it is one of life’s most pronounced ironies that the Senator who represents Vegas is such a dim bulb ... I have had it up to 10 feet above my head with Reid's projectile nay-saying and so I present the following ... With no due respect sir ... First off, the appearance ... I'm bemused by the fact that the Libs fancy themselves as young idealists that are going to shake it up ... And then are forced to fall in behind Dorian Grays lighting stand in ... Whenever I see Reid speak I half expect to see Marg Helgenberger and the CSI team run out and put a chalk outline around the podium ... Next ... The voice ... If its possible to make Mr. Limpet sound like Demosthenes ... Reid does it every time he opens his ashen pie hole and haltingly forces out that tremulous pale grey oratory that sounds like its oozing from a stuck caulking gun ... Third ... to quote the great Steven Boyd ... The constant bring down ... From we killed the Patriot Act to we'll gain House seats to his magnum opus ... We've lost the war ... Reid has been unrelentingly bleak in his appraisal of the conflict of our lifetime ... I think he believes that getting his negative comments in early could be the one chance that a non-entity like he has at a place in history ... His is a mediocre mans Thermopoli ... Senator, only in the off-the-rack culture that we currently have could a whiny hack like you somehow rise to a position of leadership ... The bad guys look to you to reinforce their belief that we are the weak horse and eminently conquerable ... You are making that assertion so easy for them that they no doubt view you as the derriere of said horse ... Now the first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club ... Harry I hate to be one to break this to you but trust me ... there are many millions of people who concur with this and don't have the opportunity that I do ... You are a VAGUE, TRANSLUCENT LIVING SHADE who barely matters ... and if you really want to serve the country that affords a trifle like you the opportunity to delude himself into to thinking that he matters you must NEVER ... EVER speak out loud in public again ...

The Plan ...

The Plan

• Freeze Federal spending to inflation ...

• Freeze all personal tax rates ... reduce if possible ...

• Reduce corporate taxes, eliminate all tax subsidies over a 5 year period ...

• Stop using SS revenues for general Federal spending over a 10 years period, 10% per year ...

• Streamline the US Military ... no overseas bases in Europe ...

• Stop trying to overturn Roe v. Wade and never spend Federal dollars on abortion ...

• No cloning ... ever ...

• Increase spending of diabetes research ...

• Drill, explore, drill ... Repeat ...

• Nuclear power ... now ...

• Stop all current Federal alternative energy research, spend the budgeted money on battery research, clean coal and coal-to-fuel research ...

• Protect the weak (stopping at a woman's choice), help the disadvantaged, once ...

• Equal opportunity for all, equal pay for equal effort ...

• Pro Choice heath care, return health care choice to the individual, eliminate state mandates ...

• Total embargo of Cuba, North Korea, Syria and Iran ...

• Let losers lose ...

• Let winners win ... no cheating ...

• Balance the expected benefit of any Federal regulation against the worst possible unintended consequences when doing the cost benefit analysis ...

• One generation of 100% handouts per family ... 50% for the next generation ... 25% for the third ...

The Ghost ...

The Benefits of Pumping Domestic US Oil ...

For every additional million barrels of oil we pump per day we gain:

• a 6% reduction in our trade deficit
• 500,000 new US jobs
• 45 Billion dollars stay in America which strengthens the dollar

If we were to double our domestic production from 5 million to 10 million barrels per day we would:

• reduce the trade deficit by 30+%
• create 2,500,000 new jobs
• 220 Billion dollars stay in America

Any reduction in the price of gasoline at the pump would be icing on this wonderfully beneficial cake ...

The Last Ethanol Post

The purpose of this article is to put to rest once and for all the fantasy that ethanol can have a major impact in energy independence. It can't and here is why.

Land ... Land ... Land ...

It doesn't matter if it costs less than a gallon of gas to produce, which it certainly does not. It doesn't matter if it emits less CO2, which it doesn't. What matters is that we cannot grow enough of any crop to produce enough ethanol to cover more than a fraction of our fuel needs.

Its not that we are incapable of growing things, its that we don't have enough land to grow it on.

Simple math with undisputed numbers will show that its is pure folly to consider ethanol for more than a fraction of our fuel needs.

So, lets get to it. First, the basics. Current output per acre is 150 bushels per year. At 2.7 gallons of ethanol per bushel we get 405 gallons of ethanol per acre per year. You all still with me ?

Our current gas and diesel consumption is 500 million gallons per day. Given the energy difference between ethanol and gas/diesel of .7 we see that 100% ethanol fuel would require 714 million gallons of ethanol per day, 257 billion gallons per year.

10% of that, 25.7 billion gallons would require 92,000 square miles of farmland at 697 acres per square mile. 25% would require 230,000 square miles. 100% would require 920,000 square miles.

Lets talk about that in terms of Iowas, 10% = 1.6 Iowas, 25% = 4.12 Iowas, 100% = 16.49 Iowas. Or in terms of Californias, 10% = .56 Californias, 100% = 5.6 Californias. That is every square inch of land in use, no land used for anything else, like housing or roads and such.

Now lets compare that to the current amount of land used for all farmland, including feedstock, is about 500,000 square miles. We currently farm 72,000,000 acres of corn (103,000 sq. miles), 80%of which is used for feedstock.


So to get to about 50% ethanol fuel supply we would have to stop growing all other agriculture. Imagine what food prices would be then. We could of course farm new acerage for this corn but given that farmland has been shrinking I don't see how that would be possible.

Now given that it requires trucks to move the corn from the field to the plant 50% ethanol would require 145,000 extra trucks on the road every day of the week, 52 weeks a year. All burning something, ethanol or diesel, all producing CO2.

Anyone that believes that ethanol can be anything more than a boutique vehicle fuel is either a fool or in the pocket of big corn.