This seems a little overblown to me, certainly currently.
I agree that it’s a special place in terms of radio silence, and would be a great location for very large radiotelescopes. But I don’t know many people who would want to live there, and never see the home planet. And they could do comm via lasers — no need to pollute the local “air” waves with spurious RF communications.
Is it a crime to threaten to publish them? Thoughts from (First-Amendment Professor) Eugene Volokh.
It has a right to block “hate speech,” but here’s why it shouldn’t (from a former insider).
As I noted on Twitter, it’s neither new, or green, and you know these morons aren’t serious about CO2 reduction when they try to shut down nuclear as fast as possible. Mike Shellenberger relates the history of this insanity in Vermont:
The Green New Deal Excludes Nuclear And Would Thus Increase Emissions — Just Like It Did In Vermont
My latest column @Forbes — please share!
https://t.co/LRJKeLZGDk— Mike Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) February 7, 2019
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The ten most insane requirements of it:
It is not hyperbole to contend that GND is likely the most ridiculous and un-American plan that’s ever been presented by an elected official to voters. Not merely because it would necessitate a communist strongman to institute, but also because the societal cost are unfathomable. The risible historic analogies Markey and Ocasio-Cortez rely on, the building of the interstate highway system or moon landing, are nothing are but trifling projects compared to a plan [that] overhauls modernity by voluntarily destroying massive amounts of wealth and technology. That is the GND.
These people are out of their minds. And Markey has always demonstrably been an idiot.
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This whole document is hilarious and if it were turned in by an undergraduate I would write a lot of “Hmm”s in the margins. https://t.co/DY85ODEE2D
— Cheese For Everyone! (@CheeseForEvery1) February 7, 2019
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Pelosi to AOC and Markey: It’s a “suggestion,” of which they’ll receive many. Translation: She’s not as stupid as they are. It’s DOA.
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More from Tyler O’Neil.
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The “Green New Deal” represents everything that is wrong with “progressive” environmentalism.
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If you can mix a mai tai, you can redesign the laws of economics and physics
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 7, 2019
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This is hilarious. It’s OK, Occasional Cortex, we’re laughing at you, not with you.
[Evening update]
The “Green New Deal” FAQ is now available for download, despite the fact that it was “taken down.”
I’m thinking I should come up with some other ideas left on the cutting-room floor. It could be fun. And these people are now officially unable to be parodied.
She didn’t do the Democrats any favors yesterday with her support of infantacide.
She’s never been the sharpest knife in the block.
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Margaret Sanger would be very proud of today’s Democrat Party.
Now they want to treat meat and sugar like tobacco.
Sugar is terrible, but the solution is education. And there’s nothing wrong, nutritionally, with meat. It’s the best source of protein.
Roger Simon: I was too easy on her. She’s an awful human being. And yes:
After all all this–although, as most readers know, I favor Trump–I still very much want Schultz to run, and not just for the benefit of Donald. Call me an old timer who is sentimental about the two-party system, but I don’t want to see the Democrats turn into an American version of the Labor Party of Albania with a soupçon of anti-Semitism thrown in, as they now seem hellbent on doing. Even if they careen off a cliff from their left-wing lurch, it’s bad for all of us. And if they don’t, it’s worse.
The one thing we don’t need (nobody does) is socialism–quasi or otherwise. How many more lessons do we have to have? Weren’t the tens, maybe hundreds, of millions of deaths ascribed to that system in China, the Soviet Union and Cambodia enough? There’s nothing remotely like it in human history. But no. Students–indoctrinated in socialism by their professors who pay no attention to what’s happening in front of their noses in Venezuela–are being turned out of our schools by the millions. What that’s going to do to our society in the future, no one knows. But it doesn’t look good.
It’s frightening.
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How far left will the Democrats lurch next year?
I hope far enough that they get blown out. Make it 1972 again.
Let’s see … what else happened in the busy world of crazy … excuse me while I flip through my files … Ah yes, there was congresswoman Ilhan Omar, parroting the Kremlin-Havana-Tehran line on the democratic uprising in Venezuela, calling it “a U.S. backed coup.” A few days later, Omar, a supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement whom the Democrats have awarded with a place on the House Foreign Relations Committee, said she “almost chuckles” because “we still uphold” the Jewish State of Israel “as a democracy in the Middle East.” I chuckle—and begin seriously to worry—that someone who cannot distinguish between tyranny in Latin America and democracy in the Middle East commands such acclaim and receives such attention. Omar has former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett in her corner. When Omar dismissed Congressman Lee Zeldin’s criticism of her views by Tweeting, “Don’t mind him, he is just waking up to the reality of having Muslim women as colleagues who know how to stand up to bullies!”, Jarrett replied, “Shake him up!” Zeldin is a Jewish Republican.
Finally, as the week came to a close, the Democrats went beyond their support for partial-birth abortion to defend—the very fact that I have to write the following words saddens me to no end—post-birth abortion. This practice has been known throughout history as infanticide, and it flourished widely in the ancient world before being condemned in the Judeo-Christian tradition. As we “progress” from that tradition—a progression that is in fact a reversion—the morals and values that bind us to a culture of life slowly fade away. They are still there, of course, gossamer-like and tenuous, which is why Kathy Tran, the Fairfax County delegate to the Virginia Assembly who sponsored a bill lifting all state restrictions on abortion, hesitated before admitting that her legislation authorized the termination of a pregnancy up to the moment of delivery.
I’m not sure that this is anything new as much as Trump has simply made it much more obvious.
Gee, now Kathy Tran says she regrets not condemning it. Well, I guess condemning infanticide is a pretty right-wing thing to do.
They’re not even pretending to want abortion rare any more.
[Via Instapundit, who has more]
I would love to see that hate group lose its tax-exempt status. I wonder if people (like Twitter) would still use them to vet others if that happened?