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It’s almost like teacher’s unions are bad for education or something.

Who Knew?

There may not be a religious test for public office, but apparently, there's a secular humanist / evolution test administered by a self-indulgent, whiney, religious bigot with his own TV show.

Of course, there's always those humorless Darwinists in comments, scornful of any challenge to their pillars of Faith, who cannot distinguish between sarcasm and a literal reading of Constitutional mandates. But, whacha gonna do?

Hate Cold Weather? So Do Electric Cars.

"In a car where all power is supplied by a battery pack you can see where this would be a problem. The batteries don't produce as much power so the car has less power. The batteries also have to work harder so the effective range of the car is also significantly reduced. Charge time will also be longer. Cold has a negative impact on all aspects of battery operation."

"Alongside the negative impact on the batteries cold also has a negative impact on the driver as well. Drivers need to be warm to operate the vehicle effectively so on top of the reduced range and power of the batteries just from the temperature they also must operate the car heater to keep you warm. This will further reduce the range of the car."

And if the power grid goes dark, like during the recent snow storms which pounded the U.S. East coast , these vehicles cannot be recharged.  FYI.



Because that electricity has to come from someplace.

Despite these facts, coupled with the limited battery range (40-90 miles), even under the best of conditions; limited recharging options on the road; expensive recharging options at home; the pricey purchase price tag ($35-40k) when compared to traditional gasoline models ($20k); expensive battery replacement costs ($15k); and fizzling U.S. sales (down 5.8% from previous year; poor sales figures hold true for S. Korea and other Asian nations, as well. Japan was the exception.), during his recent SOTU address to Congress, Obama set a target of putting one meeelllion electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015.

(is "target" allowed in the new civility?)

No doubt advances in technology will bolster battery efficiency, and improved production processes will lower unit costs, but instead of allowing market forces to determine the efficacy of this new technology, the Obama administration will use - you guessed it - your tax dollars.

For instance: $300 million for GSA's purchase of 3,100 hybrids in 2009;  $2.4 billion in grants awarded during 2009 for advanced battery and vehicle manufacturing;  personal tax credits of up $7500 for the purchase of new EVs, which Congressional Democrats are already proposing to expand (naturally);  increasing the White House vehicle research budget to $590 million (you did know the W.H. has a vehicle research budget. Of course you did); a competitive grant program offering up to $10 million apiece to 30 communities to build public recharging infrastructure for EVs; etc.

Vice President Joe Biden was on the road last week talking up this massive tax dollar give away for electric vehicle technology (me thinks V.P. Biden was conveyed about by petroleum fueled planes and cars to tout the need for electric vehicles, but I could be wrong).

"We have to create whole new industries in the 21st century,” Biden told a crowd of workers, company officials and politicians at Ener1's car battery plant about 25 miles east of Indianapolis."

Naturally, "We" means "your tax dollars."

Ener1's received $119 million grant from the Feds in 2009.

I like electric / alternative technology. I really do. But not when an entire nation is demonized by the federal government for killing the planet, and arm twisted to park this fledgling, nearly impractical EV technology in our driveways, or instructed as to what light bulb we can use in our house, or how much corn liquor is in our gasoline, or how much salt is on my french fries. I'm fed up with this smug bunch in D.C. informing me about their superior way for me to live my life, and then demanding I pay more for the privilege.

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted." - Sen. Barack Obama, Jan. 2008

Something tells me this smug bunch hasn't thought this through very well.

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The Barack Obama Channel

EM over at HA asks us to "Imagine, if you will, an entire cable channel dedicated to entertaining America with all things Barack Obama. 

Okay, okay, another cable channel other than MSNBC, and one that actually entertains."

The Hemorrhoid Party

Pain in the ass or the Ass is a pain?

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Settled science: Congress is female.

You're doing it wrong.

SOTU Plagiarism? Perhaps Obama received pointers from Biden...

"President Obama's second State of the Union address contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of others to make historians wince," writes Felzenberg. "Had the president submitted the text of his second State of the Union Address in the form of a college term paper, he would have been sent forthwith to the nearest academic dean."

Up next, Bachmann’s TV Blunder Not A Blunder. Steve Gilbert comments, "Still, wasn’t it thoughtful of CNN to let the misrepresentations stand for so long?"

Related: Sins of omission more than commission. A Brief History of Left-Wing Media Narratives.

A disappointing State of the Union address. Even Obama's devoted stenographers at the Washington Post were not impressed.

Word

(this is a re-post)

Two hundred and thirty-four years & counting. Just what, exactly, are we passing along to the younger generation?

Update: I thought an excerpt from Ronald Reagan's 1989 farewell address appropriate:

"An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over thirty-five or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family, you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed, you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the midsixties.

But now, we're about to enter the nineties, and some things have changed. Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs [protection]."

How does your child's education measure up?



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This Either Proves Evolution, or Charlie Sheen Got Really Blitzed Again

How did a grand piano end up on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Fla.?

Occam's razor votes the former, as no battered wives were found in the vicinity.

Update: Mystery solved. And the local authorities are not amused (go figure), threatening the teen prankster "with orders to remove it in 24 hours or risk a fine."

Probably the Same Tune Obama & Minions Have Been Whistling these past 2 Yrs.

Chinese Pianist Plays Anti-American Propaganda Tune at White House.

I wonder if Obama bowed afterwards?

DA: Missed chances to shut Philly abortion clinic abounded

"Missed chances?"

Oh, well. The Associated Press always has been a bunch of pandering propaganda pussies when it comes to headlines.

"We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities and because the subject was the political football of abortion," the grand jury wrote...

Complaints about Gosnell to state regulators went nowhere, even though 46 lawsuits — including one over the death of a 22-year-old woman in 2000 — had been filed against him.

In its report, the grand jury said the department's chief counsel, Christine Dutton, defended the department's indifference. "People die," she said."

"Indifference." Is that what it's called?

It sounds to me more like criminal negligence and accessory to murder.

Could it be this "indifference" was fostered by the climate of hate & violence against the unborn by the pro-abortion lobby?

Or is that type of mind control magic only the property of right wing radio?

Update: The Philadelphia Horror: How mass murder gets a pass

Updated update: Wizbang's own KP has two excellent, in-depth posts here and here about this fetid Philly "physician" who made millions of dollars murdering babies.

Where's that "Pay Czar" at, Mr. President?

Shouldn't They All?

 Abortionist Arrested for Murder in Philadelphia.

"Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, faces eight counts of murder in the deaths of a woman following a botched abortion at his office, along with the deaths of seven other babies who, prosecutors allege, were born alive following illegal late-term abortions and then were killed by severing their spinal cords with a pair of scissors."

Apparently, murder is like real estate: location, location, location. In the womb, good; out of womb, bad.

EM over at HA argues that no decent Progressive would defend this "doctor" for these ghastly, botched procedures, for which he made millions of dollars.

I would simply add, "At least not in public."

But, secretly, I believe that in any dedicated Progressive's heart of bleeding hearts, this butchery is justified, if not to complete the serious services contracted for, then certainly so the woman will not be punished with an unwanted baby.

No word from the unwanted dead as to the wisdom of this 'choice.'

My guess is the Progressives have all breathed a collective sigh of relief in this matter, though - thankful no coat hangers were damaged during the commission of these murders.

Priorities.  

Looney Toons is, As Looney Toons Does

Fortunately, not all of them murder people. Although some do advocate murder...  and some simply tinkle on their own leg - then advocate murder, all the while cashing pay checks from their employer, whose parent company got bailed out by the Feds to the tune of 126 billion dollars.

But they don't contribute to a climate of hate.

See how this works?

Don Douglas, over at American Power, highlights "The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Left-Wing Attacks on U.S. Conservatives Following the Arizona Shootings."  Douglas rightly points out that the list is incomplete, compiled a day before the self-indulgent, hate-mongering, religious bigot Bill Maher chimed in with his defamatory screed about the Tuscon tragedy.

 Uh, oh. Now this.

If you've lost Charles Blow...: Calling a 'witch hunt' a 'witch hunt.'

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