Ash Jogalekar (himself a scientist) reports at his website on a scientific editorial, “The Nonsense of Biofuels”, written by Hartmut Michel, who won the Nobel Prize for his own research into biophysics. The gist of Michel’s editorial (which is not accessible, Jogalekar’s link notwithstanding) is that there just isn’t enough efficiency in biophysical processes. Open it up for an extended quote from Jogalekar’s post.
All these hurdles lead to a rather drastic lowering of photosynthetic efficiency which gets watered down to a rather measly (but still staggeringly efficient by human standards) 4% or so.
Until Coulter came out for Romney, I thought she was a stalwart conservative. Boy was I wrong. And disappointed. As soon as she said she supported Mittens Romney, I knew there was something wrong. Then she goes out of her way to defend Romney’s liberalism by stating that because Massachusetts is liberal, he had to play the liberal to get elected. He didn’t stop there. His liberal steak leaks out of him at every turn. Peter Ferrara goes to town on her skinny ass and lets her have it with both barrels. Too late, but excellent none the less. I fear that Ann has jumped the RINO…
Sorry, Ann. I have adored you as a commentator, as you know, and appreciate your kind words about me in the past. But in discussing the individual mandate in your piece last week, “Three Cheers for RomneyCare,” you honestly don’t know what you are talking about. In the process, you are transgressing on my own work and past policy achievements, and grossly undermining the policy and political case against Obamacare. Read on, and I will explain in full.
It was me, working for and with conservative health policy guru John Goodman, who first rang the alarm bell for conservatives over the individual mandate in the early 1990s. As I explained recently in this space, it was we who led the fight to kill the Heritage Foundation health bill at that time.
That bill had been introduced by Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK) because he thought it was the conservative alternative to HillaryCare. Leaving Heritage over the matter and working for Goodman’s National Center for Policy Analysis, I went through the bill line by line and wrote up all the conservative objections, which primarily stemmed from the individual mandate. I then got my critique signed by 37 major conservative leaders.
It was the only time you could find Phyllis Schlafly and Ed Crane signing on to the same document. Others who signed included Paul Weyrich, David Keene, and Grover Norquist. It was a Who’s Who of conservative leaders.
When I delivered the document to Nickles’ office, he had the good sense to pull the bill. Stuart Butler was furious with me, and it has ruined our previously close friendship to this day. I received awards for this work from the American Conservative Union and the Eagle Forum. That is because the Heritage health plan with its individual mandate was detested throughout the conservative movement, and there was broad approbation for my work in practically figuring out how to pull them back.
This video fromCAGW says it all when it comes to the tax and spend culture we are currently living through. It will only get worse if we don’t stop the madness now.
This should open your eyes a bit. If you’re not paying attention that is, or you’re a liberal moron, or a RINO.Yes, I’m talking to you idiots in the OWS crowd and their supporters just in case you missed the inference.
This pretty much goes without saying, but it needs to be put out there more and more these days, because Democrats love to give money to others, just as long as it isn’t theirs. Along with their meme that Republicans are greedy and the like, this actually paints liberals as the greedier individuals.
Greed: Rich businessman Mitt Romney gave more than 16% of his income to charity last year. A few years back, Barack and Michelle Obama gave less than 1% of theirs. Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the heartless ones?
According to their tax returns, the Obamas gave to charitable causes just $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004. In 2005 and 2006, they boosted their giving a bit to 5%.
How about Vice President Joe Biden? Surely he could top the Obamas and save some face for the party that purports to be all about helping the poor. But no.
Biden and his wife gave an average of $369 a year to charity for the decade preceding his vice presidency, according to USA Today. That amounted to 0.3% of their income. They haven’t been much more generous since Biden became veep. In 2010, they gave $5,350, or roughly 1.4%.
Mark Levin is definately on to something here. I believe that America is lost. The only way back is to stop liberalism in its tracks and repeal the many laws that violate the Constitution. Otherwise, we may see another 1775.
(CNSNews.com) – In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark R. Levin said he believes America has already largely become “a post-constitutional country.”
The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid out by political philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes with the vision of natural law, God-given rights, and individual liberty that inspired the Founding Fathers when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Guess I found something that caught my attention today.
Diversity is divisive and has done the exact opposite of what the morons on the left tried to achieve with it. I think at its core, it is racist and should be shunned at every opportunity.
Pretty much tired of putting up with this crap myself.
Here’s an article from the Nuge…
Diversity is America’s greatest strength, according to the left and its socialist, Marxist, commie cohorts and co-conspirators running rampant across the country.
If you listen carefully to these America-hating, social-engineering liberals, virtually all behavior, conduct, morals and beliefs make America stronger.
This, of course, is toxic, brain-dead logic that leaves ordinary Americans shaking and scratching their heads in confusion and disgust. We recognize bull dung when we hear, see and smell it, and we have no desire whatsoever to embrace it.
The left’s definition of diversity does not make America stronger. It is weakening and destroying America. Let’s be bold and honest: The left’s version of diversity is repugnant.
It’s rampant. It isn’t going anywhere. It’s part of the reason why this country is so in debt. Did I mention that? I’m quite sure I have. Yet the left wants this fraud to continue unabated. The right won’t touch it because they don’t want to scare granny, or put a lot of pressure on the providers for fear of losing even more of them.
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