Bohemian Conservative

If O decides not to run

2011-12-02T20:39:00.000-08:00

Via The Armorer at Argghhh!!!

2011-12-02T10:31:00.000-08:00

Michael Rameriz

Sigh!

2011-11-29T10:10:00.000-08:00

Breen

JFK Would Be So Proud

2011-11-23T17:26:00.000-08:00

History Repeating

2011-11-19T11:07:00.000-08:00

H8trs!!!

DougM from The Porch

Tea Party vs Occupy

2011-11-04T08:32:00.000-07:00

Jawa

2011-10-15T08:33:00.000-07:00

Exurban Kevin Via Ace

Diversity gives us the appearance of variety, unity gives us strength

2011-10-02T12:57:00.000-07:00

2011-10-02T12:49:00.000-07:00

2011-09-25T14:47:00.000-07:00

HOPE-NOSIS 2012

2011-09-13T08:51:00.000-07:00

From Zappatrust

2011-09-11T10:24:00.000-07:00

Holger reminded.

THE REAL STORY BEHIND CHINA’S ENERGY POLICY—AND WHAT AMERICA CAN LEARN FROM IT --UNITED STATES SENATE REPORT

2010-12-08T10:22:00.000-08:00

Executive Summary

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The facts about ―clean energy‖in China are clear: non-hydro renewables, despite considerable government support, make up less than 1 percent of China’s energy portfolio—a fact that will change little over at least the next two decades.

 China is not leading a green energy revolution: it is leading a global race for oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear power—energy sources fueling China’s growing population and economic growth.

 Rare earth minerals are necessary to produce wind turbines, solar panels, advanced batteries, energy efficient lighting, and many other energy technologies. China produces about 97 percent of the world’s supply, while the U.S. produces none. China’s dominance in developing rare earth minerals provides enormous trade leverage over American manufacturers. We should reduce this dangerous dependence by encouraging more domestic mineral production.

 A clean-energy manufacturing sector must have stable, affordable, energy costs to thrive and expand. Renewable energy mandates and cap-and-trade make energy more expensive, and would send manufacturing jobs overseas.

Facts on China
Coal

 China is both the largest consumer and producer of coal in the world. China is using more coal than the United States, Europe, and Japan combined.

 China could account for 50 percent of global coal demand by 2035.

Oil and Natural Gas

 China is the world’s second largest oil consumer, behind the U.S., and the world’s fourth largest oil producer.

 China is investing in oil development projects in Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Argentina.

 China will become the top natural gas consuming country in the Asia Pacific region, overtaking Japan by 2015.

Nuclear

 China aims to at least quadruple its nuclear capacity from that operating and under construction by 2020.

Renewables

 The vast majority of China’s 15 percent renewable energy target will be met with new hydropower (dams) and new nuclear power plants.

The Bottom Line

Point #1: Activists and the Obama Administration believe a ―price on carbon‖ and government mandates are essential for the U.S. to produce innovations in wind, solar, and other energy technologies. But in truth, such policies would be ruinous to jobs, new energy technology, and the global competitiveness of America’s manufacturers.

Point #2: China is rapidly expanding by embracing the reality that fossil fuels, along with nuclear power, are the engines of economic growth and prosperity. Policymakers in the U.S. must also embrace this reality—and resist the misguided and unfounded temptation that government mandates are the pathway to America’s economic resurgence.

Point #3: America has an array of clean energy technologies that are readily deployable. Their development can create thousands of jobs, provide affordable, reliable electricity, and keep America’s manufacturers globally competitive, especially with China. But environmentalists oppose nearly all of them.

Full pdf of the report here. Via AmSpecBlog

219 Years Have Passed

2010-12-05T10:32:00.000-08:00

Mozart's presumed burial place at St. Marx Cemetery

Joyeux anniversaire m. Buckley

2010-11-24T09:29:00.000-08:00

Picture from this Ross Douthat essay

Repose in quiescence.

American Thinker Blog: The Liberal's Guide to the Non-Right to Health Care

2010-11-05T21:20:00.000-07:00

American Thinker Blog: The Liberal's Guide to the Non-Right to Health Care

Therapy

2010-11-03T14:27:00.000-07:00

Falling Obama

Click here to play this game

From the folks at Y8

Just In Time For Halloween

2010-10-27T10:53:00.000-07:00

Witchtrial by AntiAntiUnderground

This Makes Me Want To "Put On Some New Shoes"

2010-10-23T13:30:00.000-07:00

Every now and then, my longed controlled Trent Reznor fetish breaks free.

Is There a Dif "tween Ho and Whore?

2010-10-16T13:51:00.000-07:00

Chip Bok:

More Bok here.

NOW: National Organization for Whores

2010-10-15T13:14:00.000-07:00

American Glob bringing the funny!

Dame Joan Sutherland & Marilyn Horne - The Flower Duet

2010-10-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

Heaven's newest angel.

The "Teat" Party

2010-10-03T14:30:00.000-07:00

By Sooper Mexican via POWIP

O-Baggers

2010-09-16T12:17:00.000-07:00

Update:

Good work Nice Deb

Ohhh Noeees! What Have We Done?

2010-09-07T10:26:00.000-07:00

Glozell

And now, An Important Message From the CDC

2010-08-27T09:04:00.000-07:00

By ShortBusGuy on the Front Porch

So Many

2010-08-20T10:32:00.000-07:00

No Sheeples Here

"Those Voices Don't Speak for the Rest of Us"

2010-08-16T09:56:00.000-07:00

RepublicanStudyComm via Ace

"...the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished"

2010-08-15T11:27:00.000-07:00

9/11 Families Stunned by Presidents Support of Mosque at Ground Zero

New York, NY, Aug. 14 — "Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America’s heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see. Since that dark day, Americans have been asked to bear the burden of defending those values, again and again and again. Now this president declares that the victims of 9/11 and their families must bear another burden. We must stand silent at the last place in America where 9/11 is still remembered with reverence or risk being called religious bigots.

Muslims have worshipped in New York without incident both before and after the attacks of 9/11. This controversy is not about religious freedom. 9/11 was more than a “deeply traumatic event,” it was an act of war. Building a 15-story mosque at Ground Zero is a deliberately provocative act that will precipitate more bloodshed in the name of Allah. Those who continue to target and kill American civilians and U.S. troops will see it as a symbol of their historic progress at the site of their most bloody victory. Demolishing a building that was damaged by wreckage from one of the hijacked planes in order to build a mosque and Islamic Center will further energize those who regard it as a ratification of their violent and divinely ordered mission: the spread of shariah law and its subjugation of all free people, including secular Muslims who come to this country fleeing that medieval ideology, which destroys lives and crushes the human spirit.

We are stunned by the president’s willingness to disregard what Americans should be proud of: our enduring generosity to others on 9/11–a day when human decency triumphed over human depravity. On that day, when 3,000 of our fellow human beings were killed in barbaric act of raw religious intolerance unlike this country had ever seen, Americans did not turn outward with hatred or violence, we turned to each other, armed with nothing more than American flags and countless acts of kindness. In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished. No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country’s loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act of peace.

We will honor the memory of our loved ones. We will protect our children, whose lives will never be the same. We will not stand silent."

9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America
Co-founders Debra Burlingame and Tim Sumner
Contact: http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/?p=4829

Les Couples Royaux dans le Modèle de la France

2010-08-08T10:04:00.000-07:00

A little art from the charming Prof. Reynolds.

And Now, A Moment of JournoList Reflection

2010-07-28T10:53:00.000-07:00

Via Moonbattery

Limbic Brains & Racists

2010-07-16T10:46:00.000-07:00

From Mad, Right, Now! via Dan

Finally Found A Cubicle-worthy Obama Picture

2010-05-23T13:25:00.000-07:00

From the good folks at Freedom Boards Across America

Dat's Who!!!!!!

2010-02-08T09:46:00.000-08:00

Talk About "Big Pharma"

2009-11-22T13:58:00.000-08:00

From Redstate

"The Power of Conservatism Compels You!"

2009-11-14T08:39:00.000-08:00

Created by BigFurHat, found by TUA of the Porch

Can't we all just get along?

2009-10-24T09:33:00.000-07:00

GM's Place

The Real Enemy

2009-10-23T10:45:00.000-07:00

William Warren

Visual Metaphor

2009-10-07T09:38:00.000-07:00

Via Ace

The Government Can

2009-08-30T12:20:00.000-07:00

From Tim Hawkins via Doubleplusundead

Mmmmmmmm, Pie!

2008-11-07T13:54:00.001-08:00

From 4-Block World

Joan Sutherland's Day

2008-11-07T11:02:00.000-08:00

Although there are other operas that I prefer to Lakme, "Viens Mallika/Flower duet" is my absolute, most favorite aria and the 1967 Monte Carlo Opera with Joan Sutherland is my most favorite recording of said song. I know, there are better quality and probably better sounding recordings but this one has very special family memories attached to it so it will forever remain the closest to my heart.

Property Taxes Are For Losers...

2008-11-06T13:02:00.000-08:00

...and the hoi polloi. Not for the playas on the inside!

Appears to be the signal that Rahm Emanuel is sending.

via Jawa

UPDATE: 11/07/2008...Operative word in above post being "Appears."

As noted by commenters, there is contradictory data disputing the original source of this post. And now the original source has gone all HTTP 404.

Isn't it cool how a little digging here and a little digging there by a multitude of interested parties can get to the bottom of issues and clear up the matter? Too bad we didn't see more of that in the past few months.

Note To John McCain and His Minions

2008-11-06T10:42:00.000-08:00

This is what the election would have been had you not picked Sarah Palin.

If you are really so honorable Senator, get out there and vociferously refute your campaign staffer's aspersions!

Redstate's Operation Leper

HeadMissy SondraK is wondering about the "thanks she gets"

Ace is POed, and here, and here.

American Thinker weighs in.

A Beminder of the Past 8 Years

2008-11-05T15:33:00.000-08:00

The Progressive American Flag:

Dissent is Patriotic!

DAMN; Now This Day Really Sucks!

2008-11-05T11:51:00.000-08:00

God bless you Michael Crichton

My Plans For This Evening

2008-11-04T12:40:00.000-08:00

No Other Explanation

2008-11-01T13:31:00.000-07:00

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From Here Out, Biden To Only Speak With Top Tier Journos (DNC-MSM)

2008-10-30T12:30:00.000-07:00

...or with ones he can spank if they get off message.

From JammieWearingFool

Dirty, Dirty Laundry?

2008-10-29T10:12:00.000-07:00

If Doug Ross' source is reliably correct, is it any wonder the LA Times does not want to release the Obama-Khalidi videotape?

Happy Birthday Archie!

2008-10-28T13:52:00.001-07:00

On Oct. 28, 1965, the Gateway Arch was completed in St Louis, Missouri

Obama's Law

2008-10-21T15:09:00.000-07:00

Say anything non-positive about Sen. Barack Obama, and the probability of being called a racist approaches one.
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Yeah, yeah; I know...
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What The Weathermen Had In Store For Unrepentent Capitalists

2008-10-21T12:30:00.000-07:00

The video in its entirety here.

And check out this 1975 story from Time magazine.

Another interesting bit at The Claremont Institute.

I wonder why all the reporters stalking JTP have never seen fit to talk to Larry Grathwohl?

¡No Pasarán! and fubarmedia

UPDATE: 10/28/2008 Someone finally decided to talk to Larry Grathwohl; to bad it is only Pajamas Media.

"Potatoe" 2008 Part II

2008-10-19T08:02:00.000-07:00

Joe Biden Can't Count - Three Letter Word "Jobs" - Joe The Deceiver

Hot "Potatoe"

2008-10-16T13:57:00.000-07:00

Ya know, forget Ayers, forget ACORN, forget lack of any experience, forget Tony Rezko, forget Rev. Wright, forget Fannie/Freddie, forget troop defunding, forget spreading the wealth, forget the misogyny, forget the bitch-slapping of Hillary, forget Frank Marshall Davis, forget Iran/no preconditions, forget voting against Born Alive Protection Act(4 times), forget ghostwritten book?, forget Annenberg Challenge, forget sex ed(and I mean SEX ED) for kindergarten children, forget 57 states, forget the 2005 Energy bill, forget tire pressure gauges, forget voter fraud......................Ad infinitum

The fact that Barack Obama picked Joe Biden to be his Vice-Presidential running mate should render him ineligible to be POTUS.

I'm just saying...
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Yeah, yeah, I know.....

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

2008-10-16T12:30:00.000-07:00

Well, maybe not so much.

November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793

Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Madame Vigée-Lebrun

Plumbing For Cash

2008-10-16T09:48:00.000-07:00

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Brought to you by Another Rovian Conspiracy; available here.

And Now A Word From Lord Tanker von Buckley

2008-10-15T07:56:00.000-07:00

Oh, Christopher; he was always such a quisling. Dear Uncle Bill, God rest his soul, was ever indulgent with his recreant progeny. I suppose it is not surprising that le fils would strike out at le pere. As our good friends at Jawa observe, “your father was prescient for not naming you William F. Buckley III.” Alors, what family is not populated with an obsequious malcontent or two?

I Can't Believe It's Not Earned

2008-10-14T12:51:00.001-07:00

Red Square of The People's Cube

Via Michelle who also had this lovely loBAMAgo:

Mmmmmm. DP for everyone

2008-10-13T11:35:00.000-07:00

Call me a cynic, but I highly doubt it will have been worth the wait.

Via Karol

PuppetMasters

2008-10-12T10:44:00.000-07:00

Jerry Breen ...very well worth the clicky clicky!
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Quid pro quo Iran? Not So Much!

2008-10-12T10:16:00.000-07:00

Directly from "the One's" website.

"Vice President for Media Affairs Mehdi Kalhor said on Saturday that Iran has set two preconditions for holding talks with the United States of America."

"In an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency, he said as long as U.S. forces have not left the Middle East region and continues its support for the Zionist regime, talks between Iran and U.S. is off the agenda."

Kind of embarrassing for you there Barry, n'est-ce pas?

via LGF

Palin On O's "Previable Fetus" Votes

2008-10-10T12:12:00.000-07:00

Scoffery has audio of Gov. Palin on the Laura
Ingraham show.

Via Gateway Pundit

If Ya Get It, Ya Get It!

2008-10-09T14:27:00.000-07:00

Direct Diplomacy WITHOUT Preconditions

2008-10-03T10:05:00.001-07:00

Screen shots of Obama's website this morning:

Let's take a closer look:

Not only did He say it, He wrote it!

How long before this gets scrubbed. Ehhh; why bother? The MSM will never latch on to this.

Via Ace

This Should Be Updated Weekly!

2008-10-02T12:39:00.000-07:00

A very trenchant point by The Anchoress:

"...this election has been co-opted by something dark that has too many tentacles, and too many mindless ant-workers, in too many places. McCain can never beat it back because he - like Bush, I’m sorry to say - is still trying to hold on to what America has always been, instead of dealing with what it has become." (my emphasis)

C'est la guerre !

Nina Burleigh Has Officially Rescinded Her Offer!

2008-10-02T09:04:00.000-07:00

San Fran Nan: Failage

2008-09-29T20:00:00.000-07:00

It appears that FailExpress made a large overnight delivery of fail muffins to Speaker Pelosi.
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40% of her own party underlings voted nay!
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She has the nerve to blame Rs when she can only deliver 60% of her own?
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Guess that double dealing to save vulnerables has turned around and bit her in her arse.

Obama vs. Putin

2008-09-27T12:01:00.000-07:00

"It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship."

Barack Obama

Yeah! Good luck with that one Barry.

Biden: Here Come the Bus?

2008-09-22T08:56:00.000-07:00

Rumors are building

The Dems "Go Green"

2008-09-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

From Mike's America

WAPO Does Not (Linky) Luv Vets For Freedom

2008-09-20T09:39:00.000-07:00

This is a screen shot of the Sept. 18, 2008 Wapo story that actually reports about a study that shows "the one" has run more negative advertising than the Maverick; 77% vs. 56% in fact.

I was a bit surprised to see this and was going to grudgingly give them some credit. However, that credit was completely lost and then some when I noticed this little bit in the last paragraph. Mr. Kurtz brings up the 527s and mentions that up until now, there has been scant interest group advertising, only 4. He then lists them; 3 pro-"the one," 1 McCain. See next screen shot.

Notice how the only one not hyperlinked is Vets For Freedom?

It's not like a reporter has to wade through a bunch of Google search results to get their URL.

More non-linky luv at Jawa.

Does plausible deniability explain away patterns?

Did Obama Write His Own Book?

2008-09-19T13:40:00.000-07:00

Given the paucity of published material by "The One," it would not seem to be an unreasonable question.

A theory from Jack Cashill...via Vox Popoli

4 TIMES SENATOR

2008-09-19T08:56:00.000-07:00

Your own words....page 32

Lookin For Biden Photoshops?

2008-09-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

Sobek's gotum

That crafty croc is back (well, kinda) and he's bringing on the funny!

MMMMMM...K thru 12

2008-09-16T08:53:00.000-07:00

Guidelines
for Comprehensive
Sexuality Education ....page 25

Byron York has a pretty in depth analysis of the whole “...rancid, race-baiting ad based on [a] lie. Willie Horton looks mild by comparison” meme.

It appears that the ad was (g)spot-on.

Change You Can Line Your Pockets With

2008-09-15T09:42:00.001-07:00

That's pretty good for not even a full first term Senator!

Via LGF

Yeah, Yeah, I know:

WAPO Priorities

2008-09-10T11:47:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard of Grove Parc Plaza?

Well, apparently, neither has The Washington Post.

But thank goodness, the good ol'WAPO is all over Sarah Palin's per diem:

Thanks to e-Claire for beminding me of this.

Because...When The "ONE" Says It Is So....

2008-09-08T09:23:00.000-07:00

It is so...................

via ACE

The Mendacity of Hope

2008-09-07T13:45:00.000-07:00

The fact that anyone takes anything that this man has to say seriously is getting harder and harder to justify.
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Community Organizer?

2008-09-06T15:44:00.001-07:00

The divine Head Missy reminds us........

Mr. Darcy Sunday

2008-08-31T10:51:00.000-07:00

Can You Say SPINAL TAP?

2008-08-28T10:19:00.000-07:00

Mr. Darcy Sunday

2008-08-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

No To Born Alive Infant Protection Act

2008-08-21T11:15:00.000-07:00

"As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child - however way you want to describe it - is now outside the mother's womb and the doctor continues to think that it's nonviable but there's, let's say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they're not just coming out limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved."

BARACK OBAMA

From Redstate

Transcript here

Because doctors would never cover up a botched procedure.

D'Ohbama's Most Important Administrative Leadership Experience

2008-08-21T10:32:00.001-07:00

American Thinker

Kill It? YES WE CAN!!

2008-08-17T08:43:00.000-07:00

"The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right."

Through the Arch

Sakartvelo On My Mind

2008-08-13T10:18:00.000-07:00

S A K A R T V E L O - G E O R G I A

Cheneybama

2008-08-06T10:16:00.000-07:00

Can you name the Senator who voted for the energy bill that Hillary Clinton coined “Dick Cheney lobbyist energy bill.”

Yeah, I know, I know....

Phuck The Plebes

2008-08-01T09:48:00.000-07:00

Well, I suppose we will at least be safe from extra pork for 5 weeks.

UPDATE: Interesting little graphic.

From Freep via St. Louis

Change?...Same As It Ever Was....

2008-07-31T09:13:00.000-07:00

Duh'bama is to:

...what Jimmah

...was to sweaters

Change?

2008-07-29T09:26:00.000-07:00

" 'Economic justice' simply means punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It's a euphemism for socialism."

Such as:

• "Universal," "guaranteed" health care.
• "Free" college tuition.
• "Universal national service" (a la Havana).
• "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families").
• "Free" job training (even for criminals).
• "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels).
• "Free" child care and "universal" preschool.
• More subsidized public housing.
• A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."
• And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.

We'll do it right this time....no wat i'm say-n.....This time around it will be much kinder and more gentle....yeah, economic justice....Obamastyle!

Stealth Socialism via ATB

I Want To Be Your Commander

2008-07-25T10:10:00.000-07:00

very bad form, sir!

Mean Old Rethuglicans Are At It Again....

2008-07-14T10:53:00.000-07:00

I blame Karl Rove!

UPDATE:

Some good banter at Protein Wisdom(here, here, and here)

my fav quote:

"No one would be happier than me to see O! go down in ignominious defeat. Except that that would leave us with…McCain. Mr. cap-n-trade, Mavericky, appoint-another-Souter-or-two, amnesty-promotin’, “obscene profits”, “force-his-own-party-to-confront-climate-change”, McCain.
Generally I prefer a wine buzz, but come Nov., I’m gonna have to start early with cocktails and maybe some shooters to get myself to vote for him. And then I’ll have to face myself the morning after. And then realize there’s a used condom in my butt." Kelly

Credit Where Credit Is Due

2008-07-10T09:46:00.000-07:00

"pragmatication"

Hasn't This Been Done Before?

2008-07-07T09:05:00.000-07:00

buzz..buzz

Happy Independence Day!!

2008-07-04T09:36:00.000-07:00

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."

Samuel Adams (more at Flopping Aces)

We May Now Know Why........

2008-06-27T12:21:00.000-07:00

John Pritchett

...the Obamassiah has pragmatticated his thinking on the DC gun ban......

More Carnage Under The Bus

2008-06-23T12:44:00.000-07:00

That shortbus is running out of room.....

ACE

The More Things Change........

2008-06-19T08:48:00.000-07:00

......the more they stay the same!