Cruising the Blogs, again
Bensblurb # 500 (that’s five hundred of them since I began these mailings)
* THIS JUST IN: From Breitbart:"There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy," Obama said, a day after the release of a poll showing fewer Americans see solid evidence of global warming--as the world stays cooler so far in this century..
* And from News Busters: NBC's Brian Williams allocated a few seconds Thursday night to how a new Pew survey discovered the percent of Americans who, in his words, “believe there's solid evidence of global warming...has dropped off significantly” while “the number of people who say they don't believe in climate change at all has doubled in that time.”...But instead of crediting Americans for recognizing...reality since global temperatures have not risen an iota since 1998, Williams attributed the change to how “in a down economy, people are less sensitive to the environment.”
* More From :News Busters: Katie Couric has demanded "humility" from Wall Streeters making seven-figure incomes. This from a woman pulling down. . . eight figures [an estimated $15 mil a year] from CBS while cementing her Evening News' caboose status.
* Meanwhile, plenty of energy right here. Instapundit’s Glen Reynolds quotes MIT study::New natural gas discoveries. “Vast amounts of the clean-burning fossil fuel have been discovered in shale deposits, setting off a gas rush. But how it will affect our energy use is still uncertain. . . . Natural gas offers advantages over other fossil fuels. It burns cleaner than coal, producing much less carbon dioxide. Since coal-fired power generation is responsible for a third of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, replacing at least some of that coal with gas could significantly reduce such pollution. And using natural gas to replace gasoline and diesel fuel in vehicles could reduce the country’s reliance on foreign oil.”
COMMENT: Yeah, except the administration is making all such land it can get its hands on off-limits to drilling.
* Victor Davis Hanson (in Pajamas Media): Right now to save America we need some steady leadership that reassures businesses of lower taxes, less government spending, no new regulations, educational reform to improve the work force, and confident expansionary energy exploration and development. Instead, we get a prescription to terrify private enterprise: Mr. President, every time you besmirch someone as greedy, lying, and unduly rich, some business, somewhere, pulls in its horns.
COMMENT: Obama is besmirching a lot nowadays. Fox News, insurance companies, Chamber of Commerce, global warming skeptics. Oh yes, and his White House is disowning the failing Virginia campaign of Democrat Deeds for governor, because Deeds wouldn’t go along with its political advice. Fox’s Chris Wallace rightly labeled White Housers as cry babies recently, perhaps reflecting their chief’s thin skin and the difficulty in making Obamacare the law and his plunging approval ratings.
WHY? Here’s Jose Antonio Vargas, in Hufington Post: Where are the voters under 30 who preferred Obama over McCain by a staggering 66-32 percent margin, the biggest of any age group? ..And now? ..Team Obama is now in governing mode. And the grassroots, tech-powered movement anchored by young voters...has taken a backseat to the back-room, inside-the-Beltway realities of Washington."
And here‘s my published COMMENT: “The young who were so enthralled by Obama are getting older, and hopefully wiser, if they aren't already laid off and facing more immediate concerns of their own...Thus, the pooh has gone out of the youth movement. The real energy and anger now inflame the major voting class: Older Americans. And by the way, we codgers never were hot for Obama in the first place. White Americans, after all, favored old man McCain over the kid. Older Americans, the kind who populate Tea Parties, are motivated by fear as much as anything else--fear that our good health insurance might get frittered away and fear that our youngsters will have to pay what we have largely avoided and won't be around long to care about---the monster deficit piling up that future generations will have to face or become wards of the Chinese.
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* THIS JUST IN: From Breitbart:"There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy," Obama said, a day after the release of a poll showing fewer Americans see solid evidence of global warming--as the world stays cooler so far in this century..
* And from News Busters: NBC's Brian Williams allocated a few seconds Thursday night to how a new Pew survey discovered the percent of Americans who, in his words, “believe there's solid evidence of global warming...has dropped off significantly” while “the number of people who say they don't believe in climate change at all has doubled in that time.”...But instead of crediting Americans for recognizing...reality since global temperatures have not risen an iota since 1998, Williams attributed the change to how “in a down economy, people are less sensitive to the environment.”
* More From :News Busters: Katie Couric has demanded "humility" from Wall Streeters making seven-figure incomes. This from a woman pulling down. . . eight figures [an estimated $15 mil a year] from CBS while cementing her Evening News' caboose status.
* Meanwhile, plenty of energy right here. Instapundit’s Glen Reynolds quotes MIT study::New natural gas discoveries. “Vast amounts of the clean-burning fossil fuel have been discovered in shale deposits, setting off a gas rush. But how it will affect our energy use is still uncertain. . . . Natural gas offers advantages over other fossil fuels. It burns cleaner than coal, producing much less carbon dioxide. Since coal-fired power generation is responsible for a third of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, replacing at least some of that coal with gas could significantly reduce such pollution. And using natural gas to replace gasoline and diesel fuel in vehicles could reduce the country’s reliance on foreign oil.”
COMMENT: Yeah, except the administration is making all such land it can get its hands on off-limits to drilling.
* Victor Davis Hanson (in Pajamas Media): Right now to save America we need some steady leadership that reassures businesses of lower taxes, less government spending, no new regulations, educational reform to improve the work force, and confident expansionary energy exploration and development. Instead, we get a prescription to terrify private enterprise: Mr. President, every time you besmirch someone as greedy, lying, and unduly rich, some business, somewhere, pulls in its horns.
COMMENT: Obama is besmirching a lot nowadays. Fox News, insurance companies, Chamber of Commerce, global warming skeptics. Oh yes, and his White House is disowning the failing Virginia campaign of Democrat Deeds for governor, because Deeds wouldn’t go along with its political advice. Fox’s Chris Wallace rightly labeled White Housers as cry babies recently, perhaps reflecting their chief’s thin skin and the difficulty in making Obamacare the law and his plunging approval ratings.
WHY? Here’s Jose Antonio Vargas, in Hufington Post: Where are the voters under 30 who preferred Obama over McCain by a staggering 66-32 percent margin, the biggest of any age group? ..And now? ..Team Obama is now in governing mode. And the grassroots, tech-powered movement anchored by young voters...has taken a backseat to the back-room, inside-the-Beltway realities of Washington."
And here‘s my published COMMENT: “The young who were so enthralled by Obama are getting older, and hopefully wiser, if they aren't already laid off and facing more immediate concerns of their own...Thus, the pooh has gone out of the youth movement. The real energy and anger now inflame the major voting class: Older Americans. And by the way, we codgers never were hot for Obama in the first place. White Americans, after all, favored old man McCain over the kid. Older Americans, the kind who populate Tea Parties, are motivated by fear as much as anything else--fear that our good health insurance might get frittered away and fear that our youngsters will have to pay what we have largely avoided and won't be around long to care about---the monster deficit piling up that future generations will have to face or become wards of the Chinese.
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
9:59 AM
