April 14, 2010
— LauraW Fiscal sanity. How refreshing.
Gov. Chris Christie is taking $65 million, the entire allocation, from the state's global warming fund, and $5.9 million, from the toxic waste site cleanup program, to help close the over $10 billion deficit in his $29.3 billion 2010-11 state budget, the state environmental protection commissioner said Monday.
Hah! We all know his thought process.
“This is total bullshit anyway, so let’s just completely defund it and move that money over here…”
Think of all the people that $65 million represents. People who were supposed to basically hassle businesses and individuals to be in compliance with regs that address a nonexistent environmental disaster.
They are going to have to find something productive to do now, those people.
"Governor Christie has announced that he will cut money (the $65 million) for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and $68 million in programs funded by RGGI will be eliminated,'' Tittel said.RGGI, a compact with multiple states in the Northeast, was established to create programs that reduce the greenhouse gas footprint. Programs help pay for clean energy programs that reduce carbon and create jobs.
Programs create jobs? The Hell you say!
Let us take an informal poll in the comments:
If you had $250 burning a hole in your pocket, and you could either use it to buy a haircut, some groceries, movie rental, and pay a kid to mow the lawn
*OR*
Pay a bunch of blowjobs to sit around a conference table in the shape of a big leaf, talking about how they're going to force XJC Corp. to pay $X gajillion for the pleasure of disposing of paper they used to just cart away in a dumpster like everybody else,
Which would you rather buy?
Yeah.
Tittel charged that by cutting the fund, the governor is hurting the environment and keeping green jobs out of the state.
You dodged a bullet, New Jersey. Check out Michigan to see what a 'green job' economy looks like. These green jobs, they may be chic, but they have an alarming propensity for destroying all the other, conventional non-green (ie., efficient and productive) jobs.
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If you had $250 burning a hole in your pocket, and you could either use it to buy a haircut, some groceries, movie rental, and pay a kid to mow the lawn
*OR*
Pay a bunch of blowjobs to sit around a conference table in the shape of a big leaf, talking about how they're going to force XJC Corp. to pay $X gajillion for the pleasure of disposing of paper they used to just cart away in a dumpster like everybody else,
Which would you rather buy?
I'm sorry. All I read was "blowjobs" so I pick #2.
Did I win?
Posted by: AmishDude at April 14, 2010 07:25 AM (T0NGe)
I live here, and I voted for him in hope that just once, one of these pols would do at least some of what they promised.
Big Guy is delivering in a BIG way. ( Pun intended )
Gives me a little hope, just sayin'
Posted by: BIG ROB at April 14, 2010 07:27 AM (K2iC2)
As an aside, I can die happy with an official first on my record here in moron land.
( need to get a life.........................
Posted by: BIG ROB at April 14, 2010 07:29 AM (K2iC2)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 14, 2010 07:30 AM (mR7mk)
Posted by: exceller at April 14, 2010 07:30 AM (jx2Td)
I take it by your tone, Tiger, that you think this is too much.
You foolish, foolish man.
In the end, all you have is blowjobs.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 14, 2010 07:31 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: DrewM. at April 14, 2010 07:32 AM (9B5OK)
Posted by: alexthechick at April 14, 2010 07:32 AM (8WZWv)
If you had $250 burning a hole in your pocket, and you could either use it to buy a haircut, some groceries, movie rental, and pay a kid to mow the lawn
*OR*
Pay a bunch of blowjobs to sit around a conference table in the shape of a big leaf, talking about how they're going to force XJC Corp. to pay $X gajillion for the pleasure of disposing of paper they used to just cart away in a dumpster like everybody else.
Tough one, hump-girl,
. I'd pick the former if I also have the option of buying some Skinemax flicks and/or Mass Effect 2.
Speaking of global warming, check out this nonsense story, and take-down, posted at JWF.
Climate scientists at East Anglia University cleared by inquiry.
Bottom line - you can fail to store data records (science is based on reproducibility!), berate "deniers" in e-mails to your collegues, and not use the best statistical methods for climate modeling, but that's okay. Some jackass panel will still call you "objective and dispassionate".
/In the end, there will be only chaos.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 14, 2010 07:32 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: joncelli at April 14, 2010 07:33 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 07:33 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: runningrn at April 14, 2010 07:33 AM (CfmlF)
It is a problem.
The globe is too cold, dammit.
Where were these people this winter? North America had the coldest winter in forever and even Novosibersk, Siberia had a particularly long winter.
And they should know.
Global warming? I'm all for it!
Posted by: AmishDude at April 14, 2010 07:33 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: ChristieTheMan at April 14, 2010 07:34 AM (0RhaJ)
17 Yeah, I'm guessing that option #3, buy the blowjobs, is going to win in a landslide.
Only because that phrase pulls in most of the Ace nation like a moth to the flame.
/There's an option 3?
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 14, 2010 07:35 AM (9hSKh)
Bigger is better in just about everything except government. But it's nice to have a big governor.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 07:35 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: DrewM. at April 14, 2010 11:32 AM (9B5OK)
No doubt. Christie is the model for the GOP this year, particularly gubernatorial candidates. Fiscal sanity, no distractions.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 14, 2010 07:36 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Jake at April 14, 2010 07:36 AM (pjJBn)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 14, 2010 07:37 AM (SB0V2)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 11:33 AM (mHQ7T)
Gruntwhore is term limited so she's gone gone gone after this year; which is why she's been giving it away all over Washington to find another gig to completely fuck up. The big question is will Ohio send Twitch Strickland back to whatever bumfuck turdhole he came from in November.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 14, 2010 07:37 AM (V5s1P)
what do they talk about?
Posted by: nine coconuts at April 14, 2010 11:34 AM (DHNp4)
Probably sounds like this...
I know! The children will sing a song that goes "Barack Hussein Obama... mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm."
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 07:38 AM (mHQ7T)
$65 mil? Gone. Now get your fuckin' shinebox.
Posted by: grognard at April 14, 2010 07:38 AM (v0kvW)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 14, 2010 07:38 AM (VY5KX)
Posted by: Mjim at April 14, 2010 07:39 AM (V8B//)
Posted by: runningrn at April 14, 2010 07:39 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: Dave at April 14, 2010 07:39 AM (Xm1aB)
Did someone just say Fatso 2012?
I shouldn't laugh but......
Seriously, he's the first person that's ever made moving to Jersey looking attractive (sort of).
Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 14, 2010 07:40 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Vic at April 14, 2010 07:40 AM (QrA9E)
Gruntwhore is term limited so she's gone gone gone after this year; which is why she's been giving it away all over Washington to find another gig to completely fuck up. The big question is will Ohio send Twitch Strickland back to whatever bumfuck turdhole he came from in November.
I saw an article where she and Janet Napolitano as well as a couple of other scrunts are on the short list for Teh Bamster's Supreme Court nominees.
Posted by: runningrn at April 14, 2010 07:40 AM (CfmlF)
Gruntwhore is term limited so she's gone gone gone after this year; which is why she's been giving it away all over Washington to find another gig to completely fuck up. The big question is will Ohio send Twitch Strickland back to whatever bumfuck turdhole he came from in November.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 14, 2010 11:37 AM (V5s1P)
Ohio should post signs outside the booths that say "Please remember to flush." But that might be considered electioneering.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 07:41 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: alexthechick at April 14, 2010 11:33 AM (8WZWv)
Reeeeeeeelly?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 14, 2010 07:42 AM (VY5KX)
Posted by: Nick at April 14, 2010 07:42 AM (lletU)
$65 mil? Gone. Now get your fuckin' shinebox.
Posted by: grognard at April 14, 2010 11:38 AM (v0kvW)
My freinds, I've offered to name names even though I have no intention of offending my fellows on the other side of the aisle. Governor Christie means well but my friends in the media will never let him get away with that...
Posted by: John McCain (RINO-AZ) at April 14, 2010 07:43 AM (V5s1P)
I don't care if he merely defeats his opponents on their insane state spending or just eats them outright.
I'll leave that choice to him.
...
the second one would be cooler though.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at April 14, 2010 07:43 AM (WvXvd)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 07:43 AM (mHQ7T)
Scary thing is... $65 million is a huge amount of money for all intents and purposes in the real world and it's great to see such a huge chunk get cut in one fell swoop.
But then you realize he's facing an $11 billion shortfall, and $65 million suddenly seems depressing and puny.
Not that I don't give the man props, because I sure as hell do, but damn, what an uphill battle.
Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at April 14, 2010 07:44 AM (8uZ8A)
Posted by: Weeping Gaia Loving Libtard at April 14, 2010 07:45 AM (CfmlF)
To think we were just coming up with cool nicknames for him a few weeks ago. Either someone paid him off or someone slipped salt peter in his lunch at the Congressional cafeteria.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 07:45 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Dave at April 14, 2010 07:46 AM (Xm1aB)
I really am digging Christie; go fat man, go. Who loves ya baby?!
As for the choice -- gee, I'd have to go for some groceries and a haircut.
Posted by: unknown jane at April 14, 2010 07:48 AM (5/yRG)
they are surviving because a lot of jobs are in manhattan but nj really has nothing left to offer. Everyone talks about CA being the next greece, but At least CA has tech, aerospace, Hollywood, Agriculture, sun,...
NJ has the stench of corruption and landfills. You can spray cinnamon and vanilla to hide the landfills, but the stench of corruption will take more than one fat man can ever do.
Posted by: nine coconuts at April 14, 2010 07:48 AM (DHNp4)
Ohio should post signs outside the booths that say "Please remember to flush." But that might be considered electioneering.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 11:41 AM (mHQ7T)
I think Strickland's toast one way or another. He's made every dumbass move possible and the state is completely in the toilet as a result. If the economy was doing ok or even somewhat poorly I'd give him a bit of a chance, but no fucking way he survives the meltdown that's happened under his watch.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 14, 2010 07:48 AM (V5s1P)
Onto another man I adore, Pence on his facebook page:
Since January of 2009, President Obama and Congressional Democrats have enacted into law gross tax increases totaling more than $670 billion, or more than $2,100 for every man, woman and child in the United States. The list of tax increases includes at least 14 violations of the PresidentÂ’s pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning less than $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for married couples.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 14, 2010 07:48 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Dave at April 14, 2010 07:49 AM (Xm1aB)
It wouldn't be cool.
It would be fucking awesome.
Especially if he ended up shitting out tax refund checks and government cuts..
Posted by: conartcritic at April 14, 2010 07:49 AM (lV4Fs)
But then you realize he's facing an $11 billion shortfall, and $65 million suddenly seems depressing and puny.
Not that I don't give the man props, because I sure as hell do, but damn, what an uphill battle.
Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at April 14, 2010 11:44 AM (8uZ8A)
Yup. Maybe it's time for the welfare scum in the US to consume a little more bread and water and a lot less steak and pizza. All government dependents need a pay cut, and down sizing. Oops - I mean "right-sizing" as we say in the business world. If it were up to me, those responsible for budgets at every level of government would be put on a diet of hard bread, government cheese, beans, and water until such time as the budget deficits were closed.
Posted by: Reactionary at April 14, 2010 07:49 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 07:50 AM (mHQ7T)
I love gaming. That does not translate into being good at it. This is why Plants v Zombies is really my speed.
I'm still stunned that actual fiscal responsibility is coming from New Jersey of all places. What's next, cats and dogs lying together?
Posted by: alexthechick at April 14, 2010 07:50 AM (8WZWv)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at April 14, 2010 07:51 AM (i3AsK)
from yesterdays Christie thread...
here maroons, its ok to tell them when they done good too!
Posted by: dananjcon at April 13, 2010 04:43 PM (pr+up)
Posted by: dananjcon at April 14, 2010 07:52 AM (pr+up)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at April 14, 2010 07:52 AM (I1/U/)
Posted by: koopy at April 14, 2010 07:53 AM (ctR4U)
Pay a bunch of blowjobs to sit around a conference table in the shape of a big leaf, talking about how they're going to force XJC Corp. to pay $X gajillion for the pleasure of disposing of paper they used to just cart away in a dumpster like everybody else,
Can I lock the door and forget about them...forever?
Posted by: Mama AJ at April 14, 2010 07:55 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 14, 2010 07:55 AM (mHQ7T)
For example, there is the law that requires 10% of electricity to be from renewable sources. This means wind and solar - nuclear would qualify but high cost and long lead times rule it out because the law takes effect in just a few years.
In their scramble to ramp up, Michigan power companies are letting contracts to buy solar and wind power at rates 5-8 times rates currently charged to consumers. To boot, this is calculated at the source and does not include the cost of transmission to the grid.
Even at the optimum scenario, 10% of electricity at 5X yields a net cost increase of 40% overall. And you wonder why the economy of Michigan is in the tank.
A recent German article suggested that certain solar producers in Spain were producing electricity at night. It seems that folks were using diesel generators and WWII era aircraft landing lights to shine light on their subsidized solar panels.
Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2010 07:55 AM (cd6Ip)
Posted by: progressives at April 14, 2010 07:56 AM (ctR4U)
My brother works for the state of NJ. He has one of those 55 and out, pad the last year, 80% pensions, so he will likely be able to double his salary when retired by working OT the last year, etc.
Here's the kicker -- If he gets a divorce his pension is automatically divided and they each get to keep something like 80% of the original.
Now this is what he tells me, and he is an accountant so he should know (but then again, if he was a competent accountant he would not have gone through jobs like cheap shoes until he found a place that would never fire him,...) but I do not have proof other than his understanding of it all.
Can the fat man fix this stuff?
Posted by: nine coconuts at April 14, 2010 07:57 AM (DHNp4)
O/T -- Glenn gave a preview of his continuing budget revamp for the US: "Tonight, we cut the Department of Education. We cut congressional salaries from $174,000 to the national average of $41,000. We're also cutting their healthcare." A candidate for 2012 should go all in with the Beck budget for her platform.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 14, 2010 07:58 AM (LKkE8)
Posted by: MelodicMetal at April 14, 2010 07:59 AM (x4S2a)
Posted by: Lunatic Fringe at April 14, 2010 07:59 AM (uFdnM)
Posted by: RushBabe at April 14, 2010 08:00 AM (LKkE8)
This is why Plants v Zombies is really my speed.
That game gave my oldest nightmares! We play a lot of what are known as "casual games" around here.
Posted by: Mama AJ at April 14, 2010 08:00 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: Jim_from_NJ at April 14, 2010 08:00 AM (GxYkw)
76 And that last paragraph of yours beautifully sums up the hypocrisy and outright idiocy of the "green" movement.
And I'm very pro-conservation and an intelligent, practical "green" initiative (which we will never see, unless we can get the commies, snake oil salesmen, and eugenicists rooted out).
Posted by: unknown jane at April 14, 2010 08:00 AM (5/yRG)
Lest we lose sight of the key point here:
NEW FRAKKIN' JERSEY has a global warming fund.
For those of you who think state legislatures are inherently better than the federal version, I give you exhibit A for my "Prevalence of Deranged Monkeys" Postulate concerning elected legislative bodies in general.
Holy hell.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 14, 2010 08:00 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Learflyer at April 14, 2010 08:03 AM (5aVOy)
If I were looking to generate electricity, solar power in Michigan would not be my first option. Sunny days per year is 75 for Detroit and 77 for Duluth (not technically in the state but close enough).
I'll put this as delicately as I can: Granholm is stupid.
Posted by: Zimriel at April 14, 2010 08:04 AM (9Sbz+)
Posted by: nine coconuts at April 14, 2010 11:48 AM (DHNp4) "
Except Santa Claus!
But seriously, thinking gov't is Santa is what got them into this place, I'm sure.
Posted by: Randy at April 14, 2010 08:04 AM (zQKSr)
Governor Palin's Boston Tea Party Speech
Or were you looking in the legacy media?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 14, 2010 08:05 AM (mR7mk)
Posted by: curious at April 14, 2010 08:07 AM (p302b)
Off-topic but needs to be noted:
From today's Chicago Sun-Times:
Three children and an adult were killed early this morning in ChicagoÂ’s Marquette Park neighborhood, and a relative from Madison, Wis., whom police believe was the shooter was later taken into custody.
Sources said the shooter told police “Allah” had told him to kill his family.
Since it's unusual for the truth to come out in a media report of this kind, better see it now before it's rewritten. Just ignore all the idiotic comments at the link about how more gun control would have saved the lives of these poor souls. Chicago has the most strict gun control in the nation, and is still enforcing its handgun ban.
http://tinyurl.com/y4w6c8g
Posted by: Boots at April 14, 2010 08:07 AM (06JTY)
FTFY
Posted by: Vic at April 14, 2010 08:07 AM (QrA9E)
So-called "green jobs" are a last-gasp attempt by the statists to skew the miserable employment figures in their favor, and that's proved to be an epic fail.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at April 14, 2010 08:08 AM (554T5)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 14, 2010 11:31 AM (T0NGe)
No. In the end all you have are memories of blowjobs...........and a limp dick.
Posted by: harleycowboy at April 14, 2010 08:08 AM (JKGfQ)
Posted by: Reactionary at April 14, 2010 11:49 AM (xUM1Q) "
But then the only people going into public service would be those who wanted to serve the public (well, that and exercise petty power, but those will always be with us).
By the way, have I subscribed to your newsletter yet?
Posted by: Randy at April 14, 2010 08:08 AM (zQKSr)
Wisconsin is getting one.
Employment is still too high, apparently.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 14, 2010 08:09 AM (mR7mk)
Christie is awsome, his Morning Joe interview was fantastic. I wish we had him here in Washington. I hope conservatives run on his model.
OT: Bush 46- Obama 48 in the democratic PPP poll. Ha!
Posted by: robtr at April 14, 2010 08:10 AM (fwSHf)
Wasn't listening so closely to Beck today but caught a caller who said she found out she was Ron Bloom's neighbor. She then said her kindergarten kid came home with a project to color a "prayer rug for allah". Needless to say, she has started fighting the school, she wanted to know why religion was suddenly ok in the school?
Posted by: curious at April 14, 2010 08:10 AM (p302b)
If you had $250 burning a hole in your pocket, and you could either use it to buy a haircut, some groceries, movie rental, and pay a kid to mow the lawn
*OR*
Pay a bunch of blowjobs to sit around a conference table in the shape of a big leaf, talking about how they're going to force XJC Corp. to pay $X gajillion for the pleasure of disposing of paper they used to just cart away in a dumpster like everybody else,
Which would you rather buy?
Umm, can I vote for "hookers 'n' blow" instead?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 14, 2010 08:11 AM (Gk/wA)
link to article about Spanish reprocessed diesel energy.
I could hardly believe it so i googled. Found this from watts up with that.
Posted by: nine coconuts at April 14, 2010 08:12 AM (DHNp4)
Posted by: curious at April 14, 2010 08:14 AM (p302b)
----------------
Hydroelectric isn't green. It's more of a turquoise.
Posted by: Greenie at April 14, 2010 08:15 AM (3K4hn)
I think you missed the joke. Hint: think like a moron.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 14, 2010 08:16 AM (VY5KX)
So what is stopping the environmentally minded of NJ from voluntarily reducing their carbon footprint and putting their investments into green technology? Besides the fact they don't believe in AGW either, that is?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2010 08:16 AM (7BU4a)
Suddenly? Gaia-worship has been taught in schools for decades.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 14, 2010 08:16 AM (mR7mk)
NJ has the stench of corruption and landfills. You can spray cinnamon and vanilla to hide the landfills, but the stench of corruption will take more than one fat man can ever do.
Posted by: nine coconuts at April 14, 2010 11:48 AM (DHNp4)
Have you ever smelled the "buttered Pine-Sol" scent near Elizabeth and Newark? I'm fairly positive that's the only way to describe it.
Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at April 14, 2010 08:17 AM (8uZ8A)
Sure there is. Just think about guy with the hand up Kermit's ass.
I think you missed the joke. Hint: think like a moron.
Oh, I didn't miss the joke, I was trying to pretend that I'm a good girl, I am and have no idea what you could possibly have meant.
Posted by: alexthechick at April 14, 2010 08:19 AM (8WZWv)
Posted by: joncelli at April 14, 2010 08:22 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Jean at April 14, 2010 08:23 AM (PjevJ)
The Republicans had better damn make a campaign issue of the massive pay raises Obama has given the federal bureaucracy.
How about a flat 10% cut FROM 2008 LEVELs of every non-DOD employee?
If we really need the bloated staffing of the federal government that Obama, and Bush, have given us, it is time for them to make do with a little less - like every single company has been forced to do in the private sector.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2010 08:24 AM (7BU4a)
I used to commute to DC down the turnpike every two weeks and I found that each landfill had a different scent. They have misters that pour masking odors into the air but it only makes it worse i think
Posted by: nine coconuts at April 14, 2010 08:24 AM (DHNp4)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at April 14, 2010 08:27 AM (z4es9)
Posted by: Jean at April 14, 2010 08:28 AM (tJF9l)
Posted by: curious at April 14, 2010 08:29 AM (p302b)
Posted by: Jean at April 14, 2010 12:28 PM (tJF9l)
Um, I don't get the problem. These pioneers were finding ways to make renewable energy even better.
Why do you hate science?
Posted by: Some Brilliant Liberal at April 14, 2010 08:32 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: FUBAR at April 14, 2010 08:33 AM (1fanL)
And look SNL is playing along....they brought ole tina back this weekend jsut in time for the new Sarah Palin talking points...
Posted by: curious at April 14, 2010 08:35 AM (p302b)
Posted by: madtechie at April 14, 2010 08:35 AM (nT869)
That's probably the fenugreek processing that you're smelling. It tends to waft over NYC at times, too.
Posted by: Gran at April 14, 2010 08:36 AM (xmjMj)
Posted by: FUBAR at April 14, 2010 12:33 PM (1fanL)"
All the guys I know tell me you don't have to pay for them. So it is a trick question.
Posted by: curious at April 14, 2010 08:36 AM (p302b)
I was trying to pretend that I'm a good girl, I am and have no idea what you could possibly have meant.
On a thread where the actual topic is being locked in a room and having bj's...
Good luck with that.
Posted by: Mama AJ at April 14, 2010 08:36 AM (XdlcF)
Did they complain so bitterly about Obama's book royalties? Dreams was a flop until he ran for POTUS.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 14, 2010 08:37 AM (mR7mk)
You realize that with the Spanish Solar Scam, there's no need (and in fact it's greatly inefficient) to actually shine lignts on the mcguffin and try to make it generate power. The real scam is that you simply buy some portable diesel generators, plug them into the grid underneath your mcguffin, and then SAY that all the power you're selling to the State at high rates is Solar. The payoff rates for solar, by law, are so high that this is profitable.
And the coup de grace is that in the end, this means that the Spanish Green Laws actually produce *MORE* air pollution (from all the hidden generators) than would have been the case if there were no laws at all! BRILLIANT!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2010 08:39 AM (T1boi)
We need to get mean. When they punch us, we need to kick their fucking balls in.
Playing nice got us ass raped.
Posted by: gus at April 14, 2010 08:39 AM (Vqruj)
With Green recycling, instead of carting the trash off, they get the lowest bidder who says they will recycle the trash. The community then gets federal funds for being green.
That lowest bidder then quietly carts it to the dump. No one investigates because that could cause the federal money to dry up.
They won't use the expensive high bidders, the only ones who will actually sort the stuff and recycle it. Ideologically committed towns in CA who actually track what happens to the trash have to pay an arm and a leg for real and actual recycling.
So ... just a colossal money waste fed into an outright fraud.
Posted by: Kristopher at April 14, 2010 08:43 AM (kCEOg)
Posted by: Jean at April 14, 2010 08:43 AM (tTdaQ)
Pay a bunch of blowjobs to sit around a conference table in the shape of a big leaf, talking about how they're going to force XJC Corp. to pay $X gajillion for the pleasure of disposing of paper they used to just cart away in a dumpster like everybody else...
I know I shouldn't pick this option. Intellectually, I understand that blowjob in this sense is a perjorative for something undesireable. Intellectually, I understand this.
...
Look, do I really have to answer? Can't I skip this question, or could you phrase it differently?
Posted by: Cautiously Pessimistic at April 14, 2010 08:44 AM (30xKW)
We need to get mean. When they punch us, we need to kick their fucking balls in.
Playing nice got us ass raped.
Posted by: gus at April 14, 2010 12:39 PM (Vqruj)
In 2008 the Republican establishment argued that we were too mean and conservative and we would only win if we were nice moderates.
Well, moderate, bipartisan McCain led the Republicans into the worst losses of a party in my memory. He lost to a failed community organizer who the public knew nothing about when they voted for him.
It is time we learn from that...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2010 08:44 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: Warden at April 14, 2010 08:45 AM (TIGTh)
Posted by: Cincinnatus at April 14, 2010 08:47 AM (euuyg)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 14, 2010 08:54 AM (SB0V2)
Dumb asses are willing to pay more 'for the environment'.
The co$t of any good/service very strongly correlates to the resources which go into it.
All these dumb assholes are doing is causing harm and paying more for it.
Posted by: Druid at April 14, 2010 08:55 AM (Oe01r)
Ok, he's nothing like Obama.
He's 100% pure awesome.
Posted by: Warden at April 14, 2010 08:56 AM (TIGTh)
18-1. Steny Hoyer should be ripped to shreds by the Republicans.
It won't happen.
Hoyer is a piece of shit.
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Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at April 14, 2010 09:17 AM (W6mpX)
Ok, so they were in a park, the guy had a gun, and he made a reference to an Almighty? Yup.. must have been a racist tea-bagging redneck I'm sure.
Amazing though, you'd think a guy who was about to murder his entire family in cold blood would stop and say to himself, "Hmm, wait, I could get in serious trouble if they caught me with this gun. It's illegal after all".
I mean all the armed robbers, drug dealers and thugs in Chicago all settle their disputes in the liberal approved "Westside Story" gang dance off method now, don't they?
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at April 14, 2010 09:24 AM (e8T35)
Re informal poll: My first impulse is the first one. (I really need a haircut right now.) The second option, however, carries with it some benefits you didn't list.
You see, these jagoffs do wonders for one's self-esteem. In this scenario, they'd continuously be telling me how great I am: smart, caring, and by golly I'm making a difference. And they'd be right.
(Of course, I'd be saying the same things about them but I wouldn't mean any of it. I'd just say that to stroke their egos from time to time. They'd be easily manipulated that way. Because in that situation, choice #2, that would be my management style.)
So, LauraW., you can rephrase the question in your poll, or you can just put me down as saying "the first one."
Posted by: FireHorse at April 14, 2010 09:24 AM (cQyWA)
Umm.. well, no, actually we can't now that the only cars that car companies are allowed to build are only big enough to fit one person in thanks to the new fuel economy standards.
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Posted by: ThomNJ at April 14, 2010 09:33 AM (Z6jGw)
"$65 mil? Gone. Now get your fuckin' shinebox."
haha, Exactly, that is what I like about the guy. He's prepared for the sob stories. Like from the teachers, when they said its about kids getting a good education, he said no it's not, its about teachers wanting to put more money in their pockets.
"outta here! now get your fuckin' shinebox" should be the Republican mantra for 2010.
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Posted by: ford at April 14, 2010 09:51 AM (Ki7fm)
Not only is this a wise move in every way, but it has the added bonus of making leftists go full-tilt psycho retard.
What I wouldn't give to see the looks on the faces of the Watermelon Marxists when they get news of this.
Cutting the funding for destructive "programs"....hmmm...I wonder if this might work for other Marxist nonsense....
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He's the man
Posted by: BIG ROB at April 14, 2010 07:24 AM (K2iC2)