1 Got some change?

2 I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

3 http://tinyurl.com/ycd29qu Ayman al Zawahiri hideout captured!!!!!!

4 No.  I have some HOBO beans though.

5 Cheers to Humpday M&Ms!

6 I need money for my hungry children back home...

Just some change! I hope you can give me change!

7 Death to Daylight Savings Time!

8

Well, what do you know.  The unexpected has now become the unsurprising.

http://tinyurl.com/ybe5v6p

 

9

I am absolutely stone-cold certain that Al Gore and his Regression Equation Clown Posse can predict the average temperature of this to with a tenth of a degree fifty years hence.

And no, you can't see the data.  Deniers.

10

Re sidebar: Harvard: to meet Obama's GHG targets, you'll be paying $7/gal for gas. In other unrelated news, pitchfork, tar and feather futures opened sharply higher today

 

To meet the Obama administrationÂ’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

 

When Harvard and the NYT says $7.00/gal for gas you can hold on to your socks. In actuality the Heritage foundation picked much worse and based it on the administrations own numbers.  Anyone who downloaded and read that massive POS crap and tax bill can readily see why I call it a litmus test for conservatives and Republicans. You donÂ’t have to be a “purity Republican” to say that anyone who voted for that POS is an outright Communist. ALL should actually read that thing. There are things in that bill that will terrify you.

 

The Heritage Foundation said electricity prices would rise between a factor of 2 and 5 based on congressional numbers. Hahahahaha, that means the most likely thing would be a minimum 5 and a maximum of 10.  I have been using app 600KW/week during this period of globull warming we are having.  At the current rate of 7.2 cents/KW and throw in all the BS taxes and fees that will run about $200/month for electricity alone.  Multiply that by a factor of 5 and it goes to a $1,000/month.  Are they going to raise my retirement income by a factor of 5???  I donÂ’t think so.

 

As for gas, it will easily increase by over a factor of 5 because THAT was the target Obama wanted to get rid of. I would say gas will go to over $10.00 gal in the short term and in the long term much higher IF you can get it at all. 

 

Of course Obama and the Democrat apparatchiks will be riding around in their armored SUVs and living in the heated gov building at 75°F at taxpayer expense.

11 "After being admonished by an ethics panel for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that he will take a leave of absence from his chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee"
He made the announcement on Capitol hill this morning.  He would answer no questions.  CNBC carried it right away stressing that this is "temporary".   Link from drudge.

12 @8: I'll second that...death to daylight savings time!

13 Fuck greenhouse gas emissions. There is no AGW

14 Is anyone else uncomfortable seeing the surreal picture of the mushroom cloud on the front page of drudge?

15

Prolly true as long as self interest rules over e pluribus unum, but it needn't be inevitable, imo.

Sucks none-the-less:

http://tinyurl.com/yhm4ex3

via HotAir headlines

16 @15:  I used to have a poster of that on my wall when I was a teenager

17 Vic, you forgot to include Lindsey Grahamnesty in that Obi/Dem apparatchik cabal.  Lindsey is BIG on carbon taxes it seems and visits Rahmbo quite frequently to discuss ways to make it happen.  And let's not forget how close Lindsey is to (current) conservative (running for re-election) Juan McLame.

18 Is it just me or has this week sucked massive moose members?

19

Death to Daylight Savings Time????

Fuck that! Make DST permanent and year round! I HATE standard time. Go to work in the dark, come home in the dark.

20
These Democratic Sinatras will do it their way. President Obama is expected to endorse reconciliation in remarks this morning.

The goal is to permanently expand the American entitlement state with a vast apparatus of subsidies and regulations while the political window is still (barely) open, regardless of the consequences or the overwhelming popular condemnation. As Mr. Obama fatalistically said after his health summit, if voters don't like it, "then that's what elections are for."

In other words, he's volunteering Democrats in Congress to march into the fixed bayonets so he can claim an LBJ-level legacy like the Great Society that will be nearly impossible to repeal. This would be an unprecedented act of partisan arrogance that would further mark Democrats as the party of liberal extremism. If they think political passions are bitter now, wait until they pass ObamaCare.

21 and in the long term much higher IF you can get it at all.

Hell, when cap-and-tax destroys the transportation industry you won't be able to get much of anything at all*.  People in cities that get winter are going to starve to death after they eat all the pets.   Don't think that's an "unintended" consequence.

* I like to think this is where we lose all but the most hardcore hippie commune whackos--when they can't organic pomegranate latte, they'll start to rethink how much they really hate post-industrial society.  But I think by then it's too late to undo.

22 @8: I'll second that...death to daylight savings time!

Posted by: CanaDave at March 03, 2010 09:37 AM (EEuJO)

Daylight savings time and the NFL's "tuck rule" are two of the dumbest fucking things that have ever been foisted off on people unfortunately too willing to uncritically accept things.

23 Vic,

I sat and read that whole Cap and Trade bill, too,  and you are exactly right.   It is full of all sorts of horrible things (the least of which is the way in which GE will make boatloads of money from being a provider of favored appliances and energy systems).  Inspectors for homes,  which will get energy ratings (new homes first,  then existing ones to follow).  Cash for appliance clunkers, killing the used appliance and repair businesses.  Rules on appropriate lighting, with exemptions for brighter light  (like for surgery) being granted through the energy secretary. Ten university energy think tanks all over the country,  with the power to rate practices and energy using items.  Etc. etc.

I will not vote for anyone who supports Cap and Trade.  And if I can do so,  I will do what I can to remove such people from office (Lindsay Graham, are you listening?).

24 "ADP: January Job Losses Were Actually TRIPLE What We Thought, And No, We Won't Blame The Snowicane""Nonfarm private employment decreased 20,000 from January to February 2010 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report®. The estimated change of employment from December 2009 to January 2010 was revised down, from a decline of 22,000 to a decline of 60,000. The February employment decline was the smallest since employment began falling in February of 2008."

25 Another new day, and hundreds more have died on our planet. How high will you denialists allow the toll to climb? Global warmening will kill billions more unless you do exactly as I say. Pay attention to me. ME.

26 Last night one of Batchelor's guest said that cap and tax seemed dead as a door nail and that he was upset because it seems it is being resurrected by the republicans "who suddenly want to compromise".  He said this was very disturbing to have the republicans do this and not recognize that the bill was dead.  The guy was pretty angry.  Why would the republicans be doing this and which republicans?

27 Miss Marple, I think GE sold their appliance business months ago.  They will wholly benefit from their medical devices and equipment business though both through the cap and tax and the health care debacle.

28

Vic:  To meet the Obama administrationÂ’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

Of course Obama and the Democrat apparatchiks will be riding around in their armored SUVs and living in the heated gov building at 75°F at taxpayer expense."

Amen to that.  Double-standard, anyone?  Can Al Gore say "Private jet"?  Sure he can.

Asshole politicians--mostly but not exclusively Dem/leftist/socialists.  Fuck 'em all.

I have no idea how to fix this country--and we're definitely running out of time to find one.

29 @20: Well, we'll compromise with you...let's set it in the middle and leave it.  The Clock is something you organize your whole life around and it shouldn't be messed with on a whim by people who like to change things for the hell of it.

30 The sun expectedly rose in the east today. It was quite unprecedented.

31 Lindsey Graham has said that although he's not going to vote for the Kerry cap and tax bill, he does believe global warming is real, and so he's going to help put together a new, "bipartisan" bill.

Now again we see the importance of primary challenges.

32

Re sidebar: Harvard: to meet Obama's GHG targets, you'll be paying $7/gal for gas. In other unrelated news, pitchfork, tar and feather futures opened sharply higher today

Gas is only the start - power generation will also be affected.  Especially the numerous coal plants.  If those bastards get crap and tax it's going to destroy everything.  Let's say that household power cost was unaffected.  That wouldn't matter because every industrial job in America will be destroyed and no one will have an income to pay the bill anyway.  Contrary to popular belief the US still has a very large manufacturing economy.  It, combined with agriculture, props up the service economy.  Industry and agriculture will be decimated by this kind of energy cost increase.  The entire structure will fall, and it will fall fast.  If the power bills, already a large fraction of the cost of production, were to go up to the degree the Libs want, every producer in the US would be done.  Unemployment numbers would be truly epic, and the reduction in consumption would hit every industry and intensify the death spiral.

For a short while we would have the biggest trade deficit in the history of time, up until now and forever after, and then trade would essentially stop because we couldn't afford to make ANYTHING.  Americans will die of starvation if these loons get what they want.  If they do this they will literally be threatening our lives.  The words of the Declaration of Independence come to mind.

Instead of wasting our time on this bullshit we need to be investing in making more energy, and cheaper, rather than less energy. 

 

 

33  Why would the republicans be doing this and which republicans?

Posted by: curious at March 03, 2010 09:47 AM (p302b)

The McCainites, of course. McCain is lying like the old weak shitbag he is and trying to fend off his conservative Primary opposition while Graham is pushing this forward..

34

Vic, you forgot to include Lindsey Grahamnesty in that Obi/Dem apparatchik cabal.  Lindsey is BIG on carbon taxes it seems and visits Rahmbo quite frequently to discuss ways to make it happen. 

Well, I posted a thing yesterday where I hoped he would get caught in a tryst at a rest stop on I-20 so we could get rid of him and everyone went ballistic so I haven't included him.

As far as I am concerned he is rapidly approaching DIABLO, not based on his ACU rating, but on his willingness to side with the Dems on communist stuff like crap and tax.

35

NASA thinks the Chile earthquake shortened earth's day: http://tinyurl.com/yhzb5qf

 

36 Fuck greenhouse gas emissions. There is no AGW

Posted by: dagny at March 03, 2010 09:37 AM (g6POu)

Succinct, to the point, and dead-on balls accurate. Nice

37

"Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns (R) says the US should look into banning Japanese car imports until all the safety issues have been worked out. But says Johanns: "I'm as free-trade as anybody here." Yeah, sure."

38

Instead of wasting our time on this bullshit we need to be investing in making more energy, and cheaper, rather than less energy.

That's just crazy talk.  next you'll be telling em that we can get energy equal to mass times the speed of light squared by splitting uranium atoms or something.

39 What is the argument FOR crap and tax? Is it just to diminish greenhouse emissions? Because they contribute to the fake AGW? I'm sure it really is just more communism, but they can't say that.

40

Hell, when cap-and-tax destroys the transportation industry you won't be able to get much of anything at all*. 

I think that is where we will be headed if the Republicans do not take back at least the House this fall.

The 2010 elections will be the most consequential elections this country has had since 1860.

This country simply can not take 4 complete years of the shit that has gone down in the past year.

Yes, people will be eating dog and each other when the dogs run out.

41

Mike Johanns is apparently an idiot since Japanese "imports" do not really exist any more.

42

Anyone who downloaded and read that massive POS crap and tax bill can readily see why I call it a litmus test for conservatives and Republicans. You don’t have to be a “purity Republican” to say that anyone who voted for that POS is an outright Communist.

The green movement is big into "smart growth" urban planning, which comes directly from the Soviet Union. One of the goals of smart growth is concentration of the population into multi-family housing in dense urban areas. It makes sense that you can probably cut down on electrical useage if you cram people into small apartments: fewer rooms to light, fewer rooms to heat/cool, units above and below help to maintain the temperature of other units around them, etc. So how do you acomplish this? Jack up energy rates and encourage the construction of high rises while adding in draconian zoning restrictions designed to prevent "urban sprawl."

Plus, forcing people into urban areas encourages the use of mass transit, and massive excise tax increases on gasoline make it too expensive for most people to own a vehicle. So now you have people living where you want and with limited ability to pack up and move out because they don't have cars, and high interest rates will make it extremely difficult to buy or sell homes anyway. Throw in cradle to grave medical care and you have total control.

43

I had always heard this guy was a RINO.  Now I think he has brass, conservative ones.  Chris Christie says "The time has come where we have to hold hands and jump off the cliff."

http://tinyurl.com/ydydzql

 

 

44 Toy Recalls.

http://tinyurl.com/yhvqbg7

Including the:

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

45 Chris Christie can do math, RushBabe.  Unlike most politicians and all lefties.

46

Hump day? Hmmm....

Last night, I observed a 13 year old, three-legged, blind-in-one-eye chihuahua - with elephantiasis - desparately struggling, (but determined), to lick the backside of his grizzled ballsack. And I thought to myself, "My God. This is probably what LauraW looks like when she grooms her hump."

True story.

Oh wait, this isn't the flame war thread?  Nevermind.

47 38

"Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns (R) says the US should look into banning Japanese car imports until all the safety issues have been worked out. But says Johanns: "I'm as free-trade as anybody here." Yeah, sure."

Posted by: curious at March 03, 2010 09:59 AM (p302b)

That action will sure help our export market.

Of course, everyone is now just going to kiss our weakened, comically indebted ass while we, incidentally, owe them trillions and are currently begging for more.

48

Mike Johanns is apparently an idiot since Japanese "imports" do not really exist any more.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 03, 2010 10:01 AM (B+qrE)

Exactly.  This guy is a full-on brain dead retard.  He and his kind have no idea how many thousands of Americans owe their jobs to the Japanese transplants.  At least 10s of thousands.  Not to mention the fact that it was the Japanese competition that got our domestic companies to improve, rather than just keep on cranking out shit cars year after year. 

And the fact is that this Toyota problem is small potatoes - and I'll bet that 4 out of 5 of the so-called "related deaths" were due to pure, simple driver dumb-assery rather than any sticking gas pedal.  That's how it was when Audi had the gas pedal complaint some years back.  I'm sure there are at least 10 other comparable safety problems right now that we don't even know about, that take out a couple people each year, and they're totally under the radar. 

 

49

He and his kind have no idea how many thousands of Americans owe their jobs to the Japanese transplants.  At least 10s of thousands. 

I read or heard somewhere that Toyota was directly or indirectly responsible for somewhere near 250,000 jobs in the US.

50

Here in Indiana, we've only been stuck with DST for a few years.

It sucks ass.

51 46 Chris Christie can do math, RushBabe.  Unlike most politicians and all lefties.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 03, 2010 10:04 AM (B+qrE)

Not only can he do math, he's brave enough to follow through with the tough medicine rather than perpetuate the cycle.  AND, he's willing to pi$$ off the union members ---- in Joizy!

52

I was intrigued by the sob brigade in Congress last week.

Of course, the 99.99999999% other percentage of us who have driven Toyotas for many years and who actually know the difference between the accelerator pedal and the fucking brake pedal  were not called upon.

53

well, I found it funny

Doug Stanhope - Sodomy is "Eco-Friendly"

http://tiny.cc/IdIkM

54 More and more I'm thinking that these congress men and women and Senators and top government officials need to open up their private stock accounts for public scrutiny.  I'm thinking this might explain why a bunch of republicans all of a sudden want to compromise on the cap and tax bill that was essentially dead.  And, we need term limits and a flat tax.

55

Here in Indiana, we've only been stuck with DST for a few years.

LOL, the last time I was in IN I had flown into South Bend for trip to Benton Harbor, MI.  First we had to allow for going from EDT, to CDT, then to CST because South Bend did not do DST, then back to CDT in MI because they did.

I was confused.

56
wow spammers are a strange breed

they don't speak English yet they think they can entice you into buying their crap with a clever hook.

here's what's on the subject line of the email:  "Hey I am not online for bit, but have a look at this"

wtf?

57 I can tell none of you Morons followed the link about the drug dealer.  I've never been so attracted to a drug dealer in my entire life.

58
wow that fortune cookie ad looks like a shaved hoo-hoo

59 44

I had always heard this guy was a RINO.  Now I think he has brass, conservative ones.  Chris Christie says "The time has come where we have to hold hands and jump off the cliff."

http://tinyurl.com/ydydzql

 

 

Posted by: RushBabe at March 03, 2010 10:03 AM (LKkE

Major Man-crush on Chris Christie. NJ.com has great coverage of what's going on it the state. That POS Corzine f**ked NJ over royally. Spending like a mofo.

60 A new Fifty Dollar bill?

61

Posted by: Mike H at March 03, 2010 10:25 AM (cvvNY)

Mike, put me some knowledge.  Do you think Christie is turning out to be a better choice than the other guy (forgot his name) who was considered the real conservative?

62

61 A new Fifty Dollar bill?

Tha is a lot better than that corrupt drunken idiot Grant.

63 48 38

"Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns (R) says the US should look into banning Japanese car imports until all the safety issues have been worked out. But says Johanns: "I'm as free-trade as anybody here." Yeah, sure."

Posted by: curious at March 03, 2010 09:59 AM (p302b)

That action will sure help our export market.

Of course, everyone is now just going to kiss our weakened, comically indebted ass while we, incidentally, owe them trillions and are currently begging for more.

Posted by: TexasJew at March 03, 2010 10:08 AM (eJZU3)

I was reading an article in Car & Driver. This all started when a CA State Trooper crashed a Toyota loaner car. Supposedly, someone made an emergency call before they crashed. I find it hard to believe the a Trooper would not know how to stop a run-away car. Stinks to high heaven.

64 61 -- I'll take Ronaldus Magnus over U.S. Grant any day.  This'll never happen while Bam's in office.  Lib heads would go 'splodey everywhere.

65

@the new $50 - NICE.

After inflation, though, we should probably put him on the $5,000 bill.

66 "Detroit Public School officials are evacuating Phoenix Elementary on the cityÂ’s southwest side, after a homemade explosive brought in by a student went off there this morning."
Wow, show and tell aint what it used to be.

67 62

Posted by: Mike H at March 03, 2010 10:25 AM (cvvNY)

Mike, put me some knowledge.  Do you think Christie is turning out to be a better choice than the other guy (forgot his name) who was considered the real conservative?

Posted by: RushBabe at March 03, 2010 10:28 AM (LKkE

Yes, for a couple of reasons. He's squeaky clean no corrupt backstory (this is a supposition - if the Dems could have found something it would have turned up by now).

He also knows how to work the NJ Senate & Assembly. Lots of B.S during the transistion between administrations. Christie was able to get the right people in the right posisitons.

68 From TIME:
A similar strategy for managing a growing mountain of debt on this side of the Atlantic might work, with Washington increasing the top tax rate, say, from 35% to 45%. At the same time, rates could be increased by a smaller amount in lower brackets.

From a historical perspective this makes a great deal of sense. Consider that the top marginal rate peaked at 94% in the final years of World War II. It remained above 90% for most of the 1950s, and held steady at 70% during the 1970s. Republican Ronald Reagan emerged as the great tax buster, shaving the top bracket to a mere 28%. (During his presidency the rate in the bottom bracket increased by a point to 15%.)

Put Reagan on ALL the bills.

69 67 -- Religion of pieces strikes again?

70 "I couldn't let it be an empty hulk," Landy said. "The preservation of my neighborhood -- I live right there -- to protect that is why I bought it."

71

I had always heard this guy was a RINO.  Now I think he has brass, conservative ones.  Chris Christie says "The time has come where we have to hold hands and jump off the cliff."

That speech right there is pure Tea Party stuff. For anyone who still doesn't get the Tea Party, read that link. A lot of people are still mad at the Republican party and are waiting to hear them say something that would indicate that they understand. Christie articulated very well what a lot of people are pissed off about and it would be nice if Michael Steele or someone with national exposure had the courage or intelligence to start talking this way.

72

"Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns (R) says the US should look into banning Japanese car imports until all the safety issues have been worked out. But says Johanns: "I'm as free-trade as anybody here."

More rocket scientists on display here. Many Toyotas are made right here in the USA. And we have no export market for cars. Anything the big makers sell overseas are made overseas.

73 It's humpday, and time for a contest. How many BTUs are contained in lauraw's hump fat, and is it carbon neutral? The winner gets a weekend at Charlie Rangel's digs in the Caribbean and a jar of hobo jerky.

74

"I find it hard to believe the a Trooper would not know how to stop a run-away car."

I find it hard to believe that ANYONE would not know how to stop a runaway car.  Granted, I can appreciate the sheer panic invoked by the situation, but it shouldn't take too much thought in the moment to nudge the transmission to neutral...

75 Here in Indiana, we've only been stuck with DST for a few years.

Ah, I remember the good old days, when people begged for it because Indy was the only TV market outside of Mountain time that didn't get to see the "live" episode of ER live.  I had a lot of trouble adjusting to the sun coming up at 3:30 a.m. in the summer, but I loved that it was still light at 6 in the winter.

Turns out Indiana proved DST uses more  wastes energy.

76

Don't bash Grant too much.  All in all he was not a bad President during a difficult period. 

Posted by: polynikes at March 03, 2010 10:44 AM (m2CN7)

Screwed the South pretty good on Reconstruction.  Led to a lot of bad feelings and bad conditions over the next ~80-90 years.

77 Debra Medina saying she won't endorse Perry.

Might run third party.

Shocker!!!

78 75

"I find it hard to believe the a Trooper would not know how to stop a run-away car."

I find it hard to believe that ANYONE would not know how to stop a runaway car.  Granted, I can appreciate the sheer panic invoked by the situation, but it shouldn't take too much thought in the moment to nudge the transmission to neutral...

Posted by: reason at March 03, 2010 10:43 AM (kZVsz)

Another interesting note from the Car & Driver article. They were able to stop the same model car with a stuck throttle in only TWENTY feet more. That is, even if someone didn't slip it into neutral, it is possible to stop the car in a safe distance.

This happened to me once, my accelerator pedal got stuck under my floor mat (car wash guys didn't hook it after cleaning the car), I was able to stop my car with the brake only then shift to neutral.

79 Is it merely sweet paranoia, but does anyone else think we finally have a Congress that will go fully retard? Apart from what is in a Constitution carefully interpreted to give Congerss maximum power, are there any procedural traditions they won't violate to force socialized medicine upon us? If the President of the Senate can override the parliamentarian, what stops him from dispensing with every tradition of Senate process not spelled out in COTUS? These are the guys to do it. They are jihadis for socialism, and deterrence isn't working.

80 While doing some research on how currency is designed or changed, I ran across this curious statement.

I didn't know we have a "vision loss epidemic" on our hands.

81 81 Is it merely sweet paranoia, but does anyone else think we finally have a Congress that will go fully retard? Apart from what is in a Constitution carefully interpreted to give Congerss maximum power, are there any procedural traditions they won't violate to force socialized medicine upon us? If the President of the Senate can override the parliamentarian, what stops him from dispensing with every tradition of Senate process not spelled out in COTUS?

These are the guys to do it. They are jihadis for socialism, and deterrence isn't working.

Posted by: George Orwell at March 03, 2010 10:55 AM (AZGON)

Everybody knows you never go full retard.

82 79 Debra Medina saying she won't endorse Perry.

Might run third party.

Shocker!!!

Posted by: AmishDude at March 03, 2010 10:52 AM (T0NGe)

In other news, I going to set in the West tonight.

83

I had a lot of trouble adjusting to the sun coming up at 3:30 a.m. in the summer, but I loved that it was still light at 6 in the winter.

It would have been light at 6 in the winter anyway (assuming you mean 6 p.m.). Winter is when the clocks sync with the sun; summer is when they're off. Noon on the clock in July is 11 a.m. on a sundial. I know because DST screwed up all the "Movies in the Park" events and fireworks displays that start at dusk -- they had to wait 'til 10 p.m. before it was dark enough to see the show, when before they started at 9.

And yes, it does waste energy. My favorite theory is that the people in charge of these decisions like having the extra time to play golf in the evenings.

84 I didn't know we have a "vision loss epidemic" on our hands.

Posted by: franksalterego at March 03, 2010 10:56 AM (+6fgE)

Note that the proponent of the "epidemic" was "Tara Cortes, president of Lighthouse International, another advocacy group for the blind..."  If there is one, I'll bet it tracks the epidemic of old people we're suffering.

85

And yes, it does waste energy. My favorite theory is that the people in charge of these decisions like having the extra time to play golf in the evenings.

What light was gained in the evening is offset by the darkness in the morning.

Yes they do play golf. Let them play at night and charge extra for the lights, not us.

86

Another interesting note from the Car & Driver article. They were able to stop the same model car with a stuck throttle in only TWENTY feet more. That is, even if someone didn't slip it into neutral, it is possible to stop the car in a safe distance.

Popular Mechanics did it with one of those high powered Mustangs. Took three times the length but it did stop.

87 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/education/03ravitch.html Apparently one progressive republican "taking a U-turn" means that our educational system needs more government. Don't get me wrong, I too agree that No Child Left Behind is bunk, but most failed legislation had good intentions and poor execution.

88 Meanwhile, this is an awesome graph.

Yes they do play golf. Let them play at night and charge extra for the lights, not us.

Or play nine holes before breakfast.  Easy to do when it's full daylight at 4 a.m.  I had a boss in Iowa who would play a full 18 before work every day in June it wasn't raining.

89 Wow, this morning Beck is playing clips of the SEIU guy who is camped out in BO's office.  IT is just a little frighting when someone is talking about a global economy and a global government and a re distribution of the wealth and saying that this president is going in that direction.  I mean I know some of you think Beck is bonkers but sheesh he is playing this guy, the closest human being to BO saying this stuff and saying BO is going to do it.    I mean people, doesn't hearing this stuff make you pause with trepidation at all?

90

What light was gained in the evening is offset by the darkness in the morning.

Actually there has never been any way that DST could have saved anything, even IF somehow it resulted in us using out lighting in homes less.

The sinple fact is that residential lighting is a very tiny fraction of the electricity usage in most American housholds.  On top of that, residential electricity usage is only a small fraction of overall electricity usage.

The overwhelming majority of electricity usage in this country is from industrial and commercial.  It does not matter what time of day there is for the lights. They burn those lights 24/7 in most buildings.  But still the major loads in commercial are HVAC and the major loads in industrial are heavy motors. Again, the time of day makes no damn difference whatsoever.

Any politician that tells you DST saves electricity is damn liar.

91 I mean people, doesn't hearing this stuff make you pause with trepidation at all?

Posted by: curious at March 03, 2010 11:25 AM (p302b)

I assure you, I was full of trepidation long before Beck's work confirmed for us what we all suspected.  They're full on commies who will do everything in their power to destroy the US and freedom in general.  If Beck is finally driving this key point home into the brains of the average American, then may he prosper and his efforts be blessed with great success.  And I hope he gets dirty, stinking rich in doing it.  It is sometimes too easy to confuse righteous zeal with lunacy - thanks mainly to the efforts of moonbat leftist crazies.  People should be angry about this crap - and I mean really, really angry and moved to action.  Whatever agitation is necessary to drive people into a frenzy of hatred for the current administration is well justified.

92 Vic 7.2 cents per kw? I'm over 18 in ct. If my electric rates multiply by 5 my anger is going to multiply by 223. Never mind $10 gal gas.

93 MSNBC reporting that the earthquake in Chile affected the earth's axis and has made our day shorter.  Also warning of the threat of a major earthquake in the Pacific North West.  Wow, this stuff is on the MSM now?

94

I love DST.  My work place isn't going to change operation hours to match the seasons, and I want every scrap of daylight I can get AFTER working hours when I can use it to work on all the stuff I can't work on during the long dark of winter.  And no, I don't want to start a project in the morning, work for a half hour to an hour, and then take it back up again after work.  DST provides the maximum uninterupted daylight for my activity outside work.  Daylight in the morning is wasted.  I wish Michigan would keep it in place permanently - that would suit me fine.  If it saves electricity in homes that's fine, but I wouldn't care if it wasted MORE energy.

95

Vic 7.2 cents per kw? I'm over 18 in ct. If my electric rates multiply by 5 my anger is going to multiply by 223. Never mind $10 gal gas.

I'll bet that you don't have a heat pump (or all electric house) so the increase in cost would not be as dramatic to you.

But anyway was that a factor of 223 or .223? LOL.

96 Is this thread dead? Because I read Thomas Friedman's column this morning and it scared me. Chief of Intel says America is losing competitiveness so fast he's all but given up on it and gone Chinese.

97

My work place isn't going to change operation hours to match the seasons, and I want every scrap of daylight I can get AFTER working hours when I can use it to work on all the stuff I can't work on during the long dark of winter.

My old work place used to allow flexibility in work hours for most employees around a core block of time. The noraml day shift work hours were 8 to 4 with a half hour for lunch but you could come in as early as 6 or as late as 9 and then work your 8 hours.

That is what you should be pushing for. Hell, during the summer here if we went in at 6 and got off at 2:30 you could get a full 18 holes in before dark. And yes, a lot of people did that.  

98 This is the best summary of a SCOTUS transcript evah:
http://tinyurl.com/yfywojy

from Politics, Guns &Beer

Hilarious--

99

"Medina saying she won't endorse Perry.  Might run third party."

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, strategically.  I would venture to say that a pretty healthy portion of those voting for her would have a hard time voting for Perry; they'd either stay home or vote for White.

She'd be a spoiler, but IMO more of a spoiler for potential White voters than Perry voters.  I dunno...

100 Just to be clear, I'm not opposed to either using Standard Time or Daylight Standard Time per se; I'm just against the nonsense about moving between them twice a year.

101

Vic at March 03, 2010 11:30 AM (QrA9E)

I agree that residential lighting is a small amount overall. That's just the way it was sold to the public. Industry doesn't care. Farmers could care less. Amusement park owners, golf course owner, etc. are the ones it benifits the most.

102 102, I leave my watch and clocks unchanged all year. Wolverines!

103

Here in Indiana, we've only been stuck with DST for a few years.

I recall as a kid we had it and then stopped using it.

 Joanna at March 03, 2010 11:04 AM (7+WuG)  Just curious. What part are you in?

104

I heard on the radio the bit about the earthquake making our days slightly shorter.  Sounds like it is in the range of seconds, though, and even though "our" (North Hemisphere) days are shorter, that would mean that somewhere else (South Hemisphere), "their" days are longer.

So basically, by having a massive earthquake, the Chileans stole a second of every day from us...  Jerks.

105 106  That was in microseconds. Damn!! The earths going to stop spinning and one side will burn and the other freeze. Invest in sunscreen and carbon credits NOW!!!!!!

106 Everybody is missing the point on DST.  It is not a question of whether the evenings should stay light longer or shorter or whether you want to get up in the dark.  What is needed is more light.  We should save light in the summer and use it during the winter.  We could store it in mirrored boxes.

Geez.  Do I gotta explain everything?

107 That was in microseconds. Damn!! The earths going to stop spinning and one side will burn and the other freeze. Invest in sunscreen and carbon credits NOW!!!!!!

Posted by: harleycowboy at March 03, 2010 12:02 PM (JKGfQ)

I have one of those radio setting clocks that is supposed to be accurate to within one second every 50,000 years.  If this means I lose or gain a second every 20,000 years, I'm going to want a refund.

108

Shorter days mean the surface of the Urf will spend more time in darkness, away from those harmful warming rays of the sun!

WE'RE ALL SAVED!

109 OMG!

Nat Enquirer says a Grand Jury is ready to indict John Edwards!!

ELEVENTY!!!

/couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

110 Is everyone over at Malor's post, arranging themselves in a circular firing squad?

111 105: Indianapolis (north side). You?

112 Is everyone over at Malor's post, arranging themselves in a circular firing squad?

I'm guessing so. I'm avoiding it.

113 Trying out the hyperlink button--please don't smack me too hard--

This is the best summary of a SCOTUS transcript evah:
http://tinyurl.com/yfywojy

from Politics, Guns &Beer

Hilarious--

114

Hi fellow Hoosier.

South Central part.

115 Trying out the hyperlink button--please don't smack me too hard--

This is the best summary of a SCOTUS transcript evah:
http://tinyurl.com/yfywojy

from Politics, Guns &Beer

Hilarious--

116   112 - seems kind of benign so far.

Congress man wants Reagan on $50 bill.  I would recommend the $100 for 2011 only for his 100th birthday.

If an earthquake can shorten the time, can't a future earthquake lengthen the time?

117 Finally!

118

I'm guessing so. I'm avoiding it.

Me too; I just get tired of those 1000 post gay bashing/pushing screeds.  It all boils down to "you suck" back and forth in the end.

119 Taking off the socks, barefootin it, baby.

120 This is the best summary of a SCOTUS transcript evah: http://tinyurl.com/yfywojy SCOTUS translated into IRC.

121

"Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns (R) says the US should look into banning Japanese car imports until all the safety issues have been worked out. But says Johanns: "I'm as free-trade as anybody here." Yeah, sure."

Posted by: curious at March 03, 2010 09:59 AM (p302b)

Another recall.

122 Condo...all electric. It costs over $.40 per sq ft to heat to a comfortable 64-65 degrees. And yes .223

123 122

+1

124

"If an earthquake can shorten the time, can't a future earthquake lengthen the time?"

Yes.  If I'm thinking about how this works correctly, then all the earthquake did was lean the earth over a little more.  A subsequent earthquake (I guess it would need to be of equal magnitude, but somewhere up in Russia / China / Korea, not sure if there is a fault line up there, or where it runs), might counteract the shift and pull the earth a little more upright.

I'd be interested to know if the earthquake shifted the magnetic poles any, or if the change is only the planet's physical axis.

125

The sockpuppet is settled!

126

comfortable 64-65 degrees.

Comfortable???? My wife would scream. She squawks when it gets below 72°F.

127 When summer comes and it's 95 with 80% humidity I'm making my wife stay outside til she admits it's hot.

128

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