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Decade in Review: 2001
http://wvgazette.com/News/200912230566

Why I Won’t Drink Bottled Water Again

Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator

What's costing the president are three things: a laissez faire styl

GOVERNMENT INSIDERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE WAR IN IRAQ

leadership that appears weak and removed to everyday Americans, a failure to articulate and defend any coherent ideological position on virtually anything, and a widespread perception that he cares more about special interests like bank, credit card, oil and coal, and health and pharmaceutical companies than he does about the people they are shafting.

The problem is not that his record is being distorted. It's that all three have more than a grain of truth. And I say this not as one of those pesky "leftists." I say this as someone who has spent much of the last three years studying what moves voters in the middle, the Undecideds who will hear whichever side speaks to them with moral clarity.

Recognizing Genocide Denial Against American Indians

Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes. “Crow Dog.” pp. 6-7.

Only when we saw them building roads through our land, wagons at first, and then the railroad, when we watched them building forts, killing off all the game, committing buffalo genocide, and we saw them ripping up our Black Hills for gold, our sacred Paha Sapa, the home of the wakinyan, the thunderbirds, only then did we realize what they wanted was our land. Then we began to fight. For our earth. For our children. That started what the whites call the Great Indian Wars of the West. I call it the Great Indian Holocaust.

For Obama, No Opportunity is Too Big to Blow

No President since FDR has been handed as many opportunities to transform the U.S. into something that doesn't threaten the stability of life on this planet. Is he blowing it?

Blown Opportunity Number 1: The Stimulus Package

public transit was inexplicably short changed while highways that perpetuate car culture won big.

Blown Opportunity Number 2: The Auto Bailouts

found himself in charge of two of the big three automakers, and all of the emissions for which they are responsible. A visionary leader committed to the fight against climate chaos would obviously have used that power to dramatically reengineer the failing industry so that its factories could build the infrastructure of the green economy the world desperately needs.

Blown Opportunity Number 3: The Bank Bailouts

he declared that the government shouldn't tell the failed banks how to run their businesses. Green businesses report that it's harder than ever to get a loan.

Harpocrisy Revealed Yet Again: Same Predictable Pattern

Journalist deaths hit record in 2009
RIP Bastoche

Forget the Tata Nano, Oklahomans can get a new electric car for $865!
http://green.autoblog.com/2009/12/23/forget-the-tata-nano-oklahomans-can-get-a-new-electric-car-for

David Rushton 2:34PM (12/23/2009)

I live in Oklahoma City. Thought about buying one of these for my 7 mile commute to work - hey - you can't beat $865! Problem is - you can't get anywhere in Oklahoma without touching a road with a 40 mph speed limit - so the thing is worthless here - except for going off road - or maybe driving to the mail box to pick up the mail. $865 to go pick up the mail - I decided to keep walking.

David.

Tulsa 9:02PM (12/23/2009)

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The 50% tax credit applies on a Tesla Roadster also. Yes, 50% of your purchase price as an OK credit plus $7,500 in federal tax credit. This isn't an instant rebate -- it's a credit against your state income taxes owed. It carries forwards for 5 years though, which gives you more time to attempt to write off $55-$85k in state income tax credit...

If you're wealthy enough to be thinking about buying a Roadster though, you're probably paying this much over 5 years to the state anyway and you can literally get a car for less than half price! Or... buy it, sell it, and keep the tax credit.

And yes yes blah blah we all hate the 'government' subsidizing stuff. Keep in mind that it's not your tax payer money going to help other people buy a Tesla. It is the purchaser's own tax money that they get back. I still don't really like it all that much, but keeping one's own money is a far cry different from something like welfare or other government programs where it literally is your tax dollars being given to somebody else.

The New Energy Future

GOVERNMENT INSIDERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE WAR IN IRAQ

http://www.voicesofconscience.com

Negotiation to prevent nuclear proliferation is always preferable to military action. But in the face of failed diplomacy, eschewing force is tantamount to appeasement. We have reached the point where air strikes are the only plausible option with any prospect of preventing Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. Postponing military action merely provides Iran a window to expand, disperse and harden its nuclear facilities against attack. The sooner the United States takes action, the better.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/opinion
/24kuperman.html?pagewanted=2&em
Alan J. Kuperman is the director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
( More proof chimpanzees shouldn't be trusted with WMD : and I don't mean Iran)

Mary A. Wright's resignation letter
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0303/032103wright.htm

Students Linked to al Qaeda - WSJ.com

US Cutting Gaza Lifeline

Making an American 'Impenetrable Underground Wall' the Laughing Stock of the World—Leave It to the People of Gaza

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24155.htm

The Carter-Ruck chill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/dec/23/pressandpublishing.comment
The libel lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck, who died on Friday, had a chilling effect on the media. He was a chancer, out for the maximum fee. And he did for freedom of speech what the Boston Strangler did for door-to-door salesmen.

Lord Lester's plan to halt libel abuse
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6936336.ece

UN Security stops journalist's questions about Climategate

The Advent of a New 'Oil War' after Copenhagen
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2009/12/21/advent-new-oil-war-after-copenhagen
Critics of George Bush say he has led us into a quagmire in Iraq during the last decade from which we will never emerge. They say his way of doing business led to all the disagreements visible in the Copenhagen climate talks.

They're wrong. The world has been quagmired in Middle Eastern oil for at least the last 30 years. We have grown old on this one, not just the Americas.