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Solar Industrial Complex

It's happening in cloudy Germany.

Some are bawling about solar subsidies being too successful, that solar adoption is happening so fast it could end up adding eight Euros a month to electricity bills (but of course you pay less if you've installed solar on your roof).

Somebody points out that's one third of the subsidy to coal at the moment.

All energy is subsidized.  We spend most of our treasure and blood fighting over the last prime oil fields.

Yes, let's subsidize green energy.  It'll be a huge payoff in the long run.

Germany's beating us!  America's losing! 

A Horrible Symmetry

Millions of foreclosures in America.

Three million homes destroyed in China.

Blocked rivers now rising, million of refugees flee impending floods.

What a disaster.

Welcome to our overpopulated world, where there are so many people in harm's way that everything that goes wrong goes wrong in a huge way.

Huck to Barak: "Sorry if you interpreted my comments as offensive, Jigaboo."

Ha ha, just a little assassination joke.  What's the big deal?  Huckabee apologized.

Ever notice how hilarious some righties find jokes about violence toward liberals?

Good Luck, Teddy

Looks like a stroke.  Hope you recover, old man, but it's hard not to be pessimistic (he's 76 and has lived hard, to say the least). 

One drunken night as a young man skewed his life forever, and maybe deservedly so.  A young woman died and he panicked, and his powerful family protected him from the consequences.

But he fought for the right things after that (though sometimes getting rolled, as with NCLB). Good for him.

Will we hear the slapping sound of righties high-fiving each other?

Political Sin #1

Is telling the uncomfortable truth, prematurely.  Howard Dean learned that when he commented that "it remains to be seen" whether Saddam's removal is good or bad for the Iraqi people.

Now, John McCain has committed the same sin, letting slip that -- stop the presses -- we attacked Iraq over oil.

He's backtracking now, but what a doozy.

I think we can look forward to more slips from the old gent.  I look forward to it. 

War Made Easy

The new doc is up at Google Video here.

70 minutes well spent.

Never believe the lies that come before war. 

War is a Racket

Today, the anniversary of Mission Accomplished day, is a great time to reread the immortal speech of Smedly Butler, perhaps America's greatest military hero (to learn why, read about his refusal to go along with a plot to overthrow Roosevelt by a cabal of Industrialists):

War is a Racket.

h/t Kcubrats.