…Steven Chu is a great scientist. But there’s nothing in his experience or education that would equip him for running a federal department, or to be a competent venture capitalist with other peoples’ money, and with billions of losses to the taxpayer and energy prices going through the roof, it shows. The notion that he deserves anything short of an F is laughable.
Don’t Know Much About History
In attacking his critics as “flat earthers,” Obama screws up.
Yes, people who, unlike him, actually understand the math and physics (and business prospects) of alternative and conventional energy are “flat earthers.” Once again, the man is impervious to irony. And how insufferable this kind of thing is.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Heh: “Obama in Tucson & today: “Make sure we talk with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds, you Flat-earthers.”
[Update a few minutes later]
Where Obama gets his history.
Doesn’t explain the Rutherford B. Hayes slander though. And against a man who was wounded four times freeing Obama’s ancestors. Wait, what?
[Update a while later]
Don’t know much about energy, either. The US has sixty times as much oil as Obama claims.
It’s almost as though he just makes stuff up.
[Update mid afternoon]
#BarackObamasPresidentialFacts:
“Purple Hayes” was the first Jim Hendrix song about a president.
They’re hilarious. I think I’ll steal MfK’s from comments and add it to the mix.
Renting A Home
Is it about to get very expensive? Just one more catastrophic result of decades of horrible government policies.
“It Would Be Cool To Be Born On Earth…”
“…and die on Mars. Hopefully not at the point of impact.” Quote du jour from Elon Musk.
Grad School
…and the career lies.
I think this bubble is starting to pop.
Un-Manned
The Journal takes on the Jerry Sandusky of climate science:
…for all his caviling about “smear campaigns,” “conspiracy theorists” and “character assassination,” Mr. Mann is happy to employ similar tactics against his opponents. Patrick Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists and a past program chair of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Applied Climatology, is introduced as “a prominent climate change contrarian at the University of Virginia primarily known for his advocacy for the fossil fuel industry.” (Nowhere does Mr. Mann explain why a scientist might be more easily corrupted by a check from, say, a coal company than by one from a politically controlled institution.)
Instead of molesting children, though, he molests the data and his critics. But unlike Sandusky, Penn State continues to whitewash it.
That Latest Meat Study
Gary Taubes comments on the pseudoscience behind it.
The Beatings In The Not-So-Golden State Will Continue
…until morale improves. California tax revenues have plunged. And Sacramento’s solution? To increase tax rates, of course.
Incitement To Murder
The descent of Bruce Springsteen. I was never much of a fan.
They Want Us To Shut Up
…and we want them to keep talking. Seriously, WTF difference does it make if a majority of people want Rush Limbaugh fired? It’s not their decision to make. As long as he has listeners and sponsors, he’ll stay on the air.