Rick Strahl just wrote an excellent and timely post – now that oil prices are “back to normal” – about energy, alternatives to oil, peak production, and the impact of an unstable supply on the daily lives of most westerners. The first step in any attempt to change our energy consumption habits is to really…
Category: Society
A More Correct Definition of Tolerance
The International Herald Tribune reports that the Netherlands’ Labor Party is moving toward a more realistic definition of what it means to accommodate Muslim immigrants, many of whom have refused to do the one thing necessary to deserve it – assimilate. Lilianne Ploumen, Labor’s chairperson: Ploumen says, “Integration calls on the greatest effort from the…
Gays’ Entitlement and Incivility
The aftermath of Proposition 8’s passage in California has put the spotlight on the glaring incivility of homosexual activists in the state. Understandably disappointed, they’ve gone too far by staging high-profile personal attacks on individuals who sided against their cause. It seems that everyone in America mistakenly believes that they are entitled to have their…
McCain, Rabble Rousers, and the Future
There’s been a lot of unwarranted, cheap talk about John McCain being a coward, that he’s poisoning the aftermath of an inevitable Barack Obama victory, even some commentary that he’s inciting mobs to violence against his Democratic challenger, and even that a McCain loss – a near lock at this point – could end in…
Stocks Plunge, Inevitably
The Dow Jones lost 778 points – a record – and I personally lost about $8000 in paper/play money today after the House failed to approve the compromise banking bailout plan. Thanks for nothing, guys. Loren Steffy says that things may get really ugly now: This long ago stopped being about mortgages, and it’s no…
Presidential Debate Review
Here are my comments about the first McCain/Obama debate: Obama: “although we’ve heard a lot about Wall Street, those of you on Main Street I think have been struggling for a while, and you recognize that this could have an impact on all sectors of the economy. And you’re wondering, how’s it going to affect…
Bailing Out the Greedy
If the Powers That Be follow through with their plan to spend $700B dollars to buy up some of the bad debt that is dragging financial companies down, the net effect will be to bail the greedy and the stupid out of the consequences of their greed and stupidity. This sort of dramatic rescue may…
Dissecting Obama’s Acceptance Speech
24 hours ago Democrats were salivating all over themselves after Barack Obama gave his speech accepting their nomination for president. Since then I’ve been waiting to have a go at some of his statements. It almost seems pointless now that John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate has blown Obama out of…
Draft Indicates Failed Policies
John McCain may not advocate re-instituting the military draft but when given an opportunity he didn’t disagree with the idea either: At a town-hall event in New Mexico today…a woman in the audience told the presumptive Republican nominee, “Senator McCain I truly hope you get the opportunity to chase Bin Laden right to the gates…
Purpose
After a grueling spring and early summer I’m on vacation with my son this week. Yesterday we hopped a jet and within 3 hours were 1000+ miles away from the baking sun of central Texas – nice. The flight was smooth and on-time and everything about the experience was exactly as it should be, with…