His first big role:
How Many Mo?
Thoughts on a guy named Mohamed Mohamud.
“The main thing was the way he said he hated Americans,” Stull said. “It was serious. He looked me in the eye and had this look in his eye, like it was his determination in life — ‘I hate Americans.'” Now that we have lots of guys named Mo, it probably makes sense to wonder how many of them share this Mo’s “determination in life.”
It’s a question that the multi-cultis don’t like to ask.
The Dead Green Treaty
…stinks up the room in Cancun. Which makes the economy-killing legislation passed by the morons in California (including moron-in-chief Schwarzenegger) even more pointless.
[Update a few minutes later]
An excerpt:
Our genius environmentalists came up with the idea that in order to make the treaty more palatable to US public opinion and therefore to the Senate, the US would assume an open-ended and eternal obligation to pay tens of billions of dollars a year to various developing world governments, however corrupt, incompetent, dictatorial and unfriendly these might be. Iran, Cuba, and North Korea would get money just like Yemen, Syria and Sudan. In exchange, these countries along with India and China would accept restrictions on their carbon output that are significantly less drastic than those to be imposed on the US.
Who could possibly object to a smart plan like this? What US Senator wouldn’t love to defend a vote to force taxpayers to subsidize Iran while giving China permanent business advantages over the US? Surely Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh would find nothing to attack here. Getting two thirds of the Senate to ratify a no-brainer like this would be a cakewalk.
This is the fruit of the gigantic brains of the Great Gurus of Green. This is the bright shining idea at the core of the UN process: that US opposition to Kyoto could be overcome by requiring the US to pay tens of billions of dollars in Green Danegeld to the third world every year. And the people who thought of this had Big Degrees from Name Schools! We know, because they keep telling us, that they are smarter than the rest of us and they understand complex systems better than we do. These are the geniuses to whom we are to entrust ever greater control over ever larger swathes of the global economy because, after all, they see so clearly and so far.
The world’s in the very best of hands.
Grow The Pie
Apparently, the maximum revenue from income taxation is 19% of GDP, regardless of tax rate. The implication is that a) this should be the maximum size of government spending as well and b) that we should have rates in place that maximize economic growth. But that doesn’t satisfy the class-envy warfare mentality of the left, including the president.
Two Legs Good
Shut up, they explained. The EU Parliament shows its true Supreme Soviet colors. I hope that this is the beginning of the end of this undemocratic institution.
[Update a few minutes later]
The EU’s future lies, ominously, with Spain.
[Update mid morning]
Erin go bust: the Euro did it. Thoughts from Daniel Hannan on why Ireland has to leave the currency.
Dennis Wingo
…has started a blog.
“Who The Hell Do You Think You Are?”
Talking truth to tyrannical fecklessness among the Eurocrats. It sure looks like the beginning of the end for the European project. Good riddance.
[Update a few minutes later]
The European Parliament is not about freedom.
Flying Back To LA
Literally. We have WiFi on the plane. What an age of miracles in which we live.
More South Koreans Will Die
How Does Greenhouse Explain This?
Lake Tahoe’s surface temperature is rising faster than the air temperature. I haven’t read the underlying paper to understand their postulated mechanism, but if the study is valid, it seems to me that an increase in insolation is a more plausible mechanism than AGW. I also think that the concern about the increase creating a dead zone is overhyped.