Scientists Discover Renewable Energy Bug!

Welp, it seems we do not have to clutter the landscape with windmills and solar panels to get renewable energy. We can get it from the backside of a bug!

“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.”

He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.

Unbelievably, this is not science fiction. Mr Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant Lexus SUV next to us. Not that Mr Pal is willing to risk it just yet. He gives it a month before the first vehicle is filled up on what he calls “renewable petroleum”. After that, he grins, “it’s a brave new world”.

Of course, the environmental elitist will ignore and downplay this breakthrough - after all their goal is not to have us use renewable energy, but rather to CONTROL what energy we use and how much we consume. They like cap and trade - and ADORE "conservation" because through these policies they can further expand the control they have over our economy - and more importantly - over us. Remember: with the left, it's always about control.

Mass Extinction?

More than 56,000 species of animals and plants have been scrubbed from the rollcall of marine life after it was realised that they had been counted twice — or more.

Almost a third of all the named species in the seas turn out on renewed inspection to have been “discovered” at least twice by naturalists.

One species, the breadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea (left), has been named 56 times since it was first described 242 years ago in 1766.

Other lifeforms identified several times include the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, with 21 Latin names, a type of sea squirt, Cnemidocarpa verrucosa, with 19 names and the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, which was named 40 times.

Rest assured that the left will spin this and count these duplicates as extinctions due to global warming in the future and will most likely blame Bush for it as well!

Labor Union Tactics Laid bare.

Obama's Monkey Business

"Bhama claims that while he has always been a supporter of Obama, the Democratic candidate’s devotion to Hanuman has strengthened his backing. "Barack Obama is a Hanuman devotee and so am I — hence I thought I should gift him the idol," said Bhama. "

And here we were thinking the Rev. Wright was the only thing funny about Obama's religious beliefs!

Supreme court makes another bad ruling

Once again we see a prime example of why we need a good conservative in office. With three members of SCOTUS in their dotage and on the verge of retirement or death, we have the opportunity to return the constitution as the primary source of US law. These twisted and engineered decisions based on feelings, the personal preferences of the justices, and in complete denial of the Constitution need to be stopped. Fred Thompson once again demonstrates why he was the best of the Republican field for president with his latest column on Townhall.com:

They could have saved us all a lot of time if they’d told us what was clearly on their minds.

They don’t trust military tribunals to deal with those accused of being enemy combatants, even if the tribunals are following guidelines established by Congress.

That the government has probably detained some prisoners at Guantanamo for longer than they should have.

And that Guantanamo should just be closed.

Though they are willing to give it lip service, they don’t really believe we are at war … at least not a “real” war.

Therefore, they should create a new right for our nation’s enemies commiserate with the displeasure that they and the rest of the “enlightened” people have with this “war,” Guantanamo and the Bush Administration.

Once again another gotcha moment engineered by the left in their long standing crusade against the "real enemy" George W. Bush - After all, he is the greatest threat to freedom in the world according to lefti-pundits. But Fred sums up things up wonderfully:

At this stage, no one can really tell the extent to which this decision is going to add to judicial confusion, additional administrative difficulty, time and attention of military personnel or how many more prisoners will be mistakenly released to join the at least 30 who were released from Guantanamo only to return to fight the United States.

In reading the majority opinion I am struck by the utter waste that is involved here. No, not the waste of military resources and human life, although such a result is tragically obvious. I refer to the waste of all those years these justices spent in law school studying how adherence to legal precedent is the bedrock of the rule of law, when it turns out, all they really needed was a Pew poll, a subscription to the New York Times, and the latest edition of “How to Make War for Dummies.”

It is truly stunning that this court has seen fit to arrogate unto itself a role in the most important issue facing any country, self-defense, in a case in which Congress has in fact repeatedly acted. This was not a case where Congress did not set the rules; it did. But the court still decided – in the face of overwhelming precedent to the contrary – to intervene. This decision, or course, will allow for "President Bush Is Rebuffed” headlines, the implication being that the Administration was caught red-handed violating clearly established Constitutional rights when in fact the Administration, and the Congress for that matter, followed guidelines established by the Supreme Court itself in prior cases.

Media ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ about Key Ruling

By Robert Knight and Julia Seward
Culture and Media Institute
June 12, 2008

When it comes to reporting on court rulings about the military’s ban on homosexuality, the media seem to have their own “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

A case in point was Monday’s ruling by the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Cook vs. Gates upholding the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, established by Congress and President Clinton in 1993, which enables the military to remove open homosexuals from service.

There was no coverage by the TV networks, nor by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today or the Washington Post. The Associated Press (AP) ignored the story as well. Only the Boston Globe and Boston Herald carried brief articles on it, because the case originated in Boston.

Another prime example of media bias. They cover what they want from the angle that best supports their own held beliefs and they claim to be impartial?

Make the Election About Iraq

We know Obama hasn't been to Iraq in more than two years, but does he not read the papers? Does he not know anything about developments on the ground? Here is the "nothing" that Iraqis have been doing in the past few months:

1. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent the Iraqi army into Basra. It achieved in a few weeks what the British had failed to do in four years: take the city, drive out the Mahdi Army and seize the ports from Iranian-backed militias.

2. When Mahdi fighters rose up in support of their Basra brethren, the Iraqi army at Maliki's direction confronted them and prevailed in every town — Najaf, Karbala, Hilla, Kut, Nasiriyah and Diwaniyah — from Basra to Baghdad.

3. Without any American ground forces, the Iraqi army entered and occupied Sadr City, the Mahdi Army stronghold.

4. Maliki flew to Mosul, directing a joint Iraqi-U.S. offensive against the last redoubt of al-Qaeda, which had already been driven out of Anbar, Baghdad and Diyala provinces.

5. The Iraqi parliament enacted a de-Baathification law, a major Democratic benchmark for political reconciliation.

6. Parliament also passed the other reconciliation benchmarks — a pension law, an amnesty law, and a provincial elections and powers law. Oil revenue is being distributed to the provinces through the annual budget.

7. With Maliki having demonstrated that he would fight not just Sunni insurgents (e.g., in Mosul) but Shiite militias (e.g., the Mahdi Army), the Sunni parliamentary bloc began negotiations to join the Shiite-led government. (The final sticking point is a squabble over a sixth cabinet position.)

The disconnect between what Democrats are saying about Iraq and what is actually happening there has reached grotesque proportions. Democrats won an exhilarating electoral victory in 2006 pledging withdrawal at a time when conditions in Iraq were dire and we were indeed losing the war. Two years later, when everything is changed, they continue to reflexively repeat their "narrative of defeat and retreat" (as Joe Lieberman so memorably called it) as if nothing has changed.

There is a reason why everyone else shuts up when Krauthammer speaks on Fox . . . . And here we see a perfect illistration. Now ask yourself how much of this have you seen covered in the Main Stream Media . . . .

Eliminate or Scale Back Corn Ethanol Mandate

76% of Americans Want Ethanol Law Changed; 41% Want Mandate Repealed Entirely

Washington, DC - Most Americans - including those in the Farm Belt - want Congress to reduce or eliminate the corn ethanol mandate, according to a new poll released today by the National Center for Public Policy Research.

The poll, published by the Public Opinion and Policy Center of the National Center for Public Policy Research, found that 41% of Americans want Congress to repeal the corn ethanol mandate entirely, while 35% want Congress to repeal the law it passed last December to double it. Just 6% want the mandate to increase as planned while 5% want it to be even expanded further.

"With grocery prices up 1.5% in April alone, or 18% on an annualized basis, Americans don't appear to be in the mood for anything that would push food prices up even further," said David A. Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. "While there is more than one reason that food prices are rising, diverting one-third of the U.S. corn crop to produce fuel rather than food is a significant factor and the American people know it."

The survey also found a majority in the Farm Belt want Congress to change the ethanol policy. Twenty-five percent want it repealed entirely while 30% want it scaled back.

"Senator Charles Grassley recently called on Iowans to protest what he called a 'smear campaign' against ethanol,'" said Ridenour. "Don't look for that massive protest any time soon. Ethanol is drawing criticism from the Senator's own backyard."

WELL IT'S ABOUT TIME! Food as fuel has got to be about the dumbest idea ever.

A Father is for life, not just conception

Fathers 4 Justice staged another brilliant protest, scaling the home of British feminist minister “Ms.” Harriet Harmon, who has been brashly destroying marriage and fatherhood in Britain for years. If feminists such as Ms. Harmon want to be known for standing firm for equality (which the larger body of organized feminists loudly suggest), they need to finally turn their feet in the same direction as their mouths.

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The moral quandary faced by half of British and American men today, and stodgy inbred politicians, emanate directly from F4J’s new slogan “A Father Is For Life, Not Just Conception”. Only legislators can break the impasse on this moral quandary to finally put Britain and America back on solid paths to economic and social security.

The war on marriage and fatherhood is now at least forty years old — the longest-running war in American and perhaps British history. Responsible father’s and men’s rights activists have been fighting this war diligently and peacefully at least as far back as 1968.

Both countries can declare an end to this unjustified and immoral war, and preclude terrorism in the future, by openly giving legitimate men’s rights and pro-marriage activists a seat at the center of the table.

Those who think Fathers For Justice is radical climbing buildings and hanging banners from them must be reminded that the suffragette movement in Britain was not politically recognized until suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst attempted to burn down the homes of two ministers who opposed “votes for women”. Pankhurst was later convicted and imprisoned for burning down the home of British Exchequer David Lloyd George in 1913.

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