pettyfoggery

It sometimes amuses me how I can go thru my jeans pockets before I throw them in the washer and surmise from the results what I was doing when I wore them.

Our hope and change candidate should try it.. he’ll come up with a lot of interesting stuff. Not the least interesting is his indirect ‘lint’ from Illinois Super Corp: Archer Daniels Midland, ADM. If Obama wants change, maybe he’ll go against the grain {heh} and denounce corn ethanol as the fraud and waste it truly is.

I’m sure even my liberal friends will acknowledge I’ve been posting against grain ethanol for years.. and not because I’m an expert, because no one with any rudimentary common sense knowledge of the agricultural process can fail to see it. In other words, no MBA needed!

If conservatives, even Investors Business Daily point this out, where is the outrage from the left?

I dont think McCain is totally on point, either. Certainly, though, he is not as deeply in ADM’s pocket.

Hope.. always, no matter what. Change.. not so much.
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As far as Cane and Switch Grass/ ‘agricultural waste’ ethanol though… I say again: there is NO SUCH THING as ‘agricultural waste’. Any kid who grew up on a family farm and paid the least attention knows that.
Any such use of crop growing land, no matter how poor for other crops, and no matter what residue is used for growing fuel is absurd and ultimately unsound for the environment the lefties claim to be protecting!

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Update on Teflon Obama and Methanol:

heh.. Even the Guardian has seen the light.  There’s always good reason for putting up with Liberal Publishing idiocies.. and Protein Wisdom points out that reason.

If you dont want to read a ‘Conservative Blog’, just consider that a Lib will only listen to his own choir.

Well, kids.. today we have a surplus of idiocies to share:

Juan Cole repeats Ahmadinejad’s ridiculous claim that the US planned to kidnap or assassinate him on his recent trip to Baghdad.

Even Cole’s commenters found that to be just a little too far out.

Pat Buchanan claims the Holocaust was preventable.

If Britain had only not guaranteed Poland’s safety, of course. Because then there would have been no larger war. Never mind he had started terrorizing Jews from the outset.

Finally Rep Hinchey retracted what he said here:

Link: sevenload.com

- sorry, I dont buy the retraction. First Maxine Waters threatened it, now Hinchey. When under stress you say what you really mean. I do, dont you?

Thanks to ‘fulhamag’ on the FulhamUSA non-soccer subforums, we get to see this little gem of a PowerPoint presentation on the state of our country’s economy and dire warnings on the future, if something is not done about curbing entitlement legislation.

Suicidal Spending

- Perot’s foreword is here: Perotcharts{dot}com

Watch the entire thing… and please think about what you are seeing there, before you grab onto a single kernel of truth. Consider it in its entirety; The truth is not always able to slap you in the face.
I fully expect some to use that presentation selectively as fodder for their views on particular administrations, but the presentations do not reflect the true states of the economies, should changes not have been enacted.

Example: The late nineties budget surpluses.

This has been used to show that the Clinton Administration with the Republican fiscal conservative congress produced what we all want. True.. and False. Dont forget that a large part of the economy at that point in time was based on speculative gross product…i.e; the Internet Boom which fueled huge growth in the IT and Commercial Real Estate sectors. In the end much of the ‘Product’ was vaporware, much of the taxable income based on jobs which were a result of that boom.

The conclusions I draw are simple:

1. We cannot tax ourselves out of deficit. It LOOKS like we could if you accept one or two charts at face value, but the entirety of the piece shows otherwise.

2. The proposals for a National Health plan must be very carefully considered in the light of what we can see as a result of current limited programs.

In a practical sense, attempts to curb mandatory Health and Retirement spending growth suffer the inevitable backlash from the ‘entitled’, who object to any change which might reduce their expected standards of support.

On this father’s day, my son and I went to my wife’s store to pick her up for lunch. Not finding her, I went to the service desk and had her paged. She didn’t respond.

A few minutes later the girl at the desk went on break and saw my wife in the employee lounge.

“There was a gentleman looking for you to take you to lunch.”

“Oh, what did he look like?”

“He was a fairly tall elderly man…”

The wife just couldn’t wait to tell me about that.

Added:
I should also have noted that the same kid ALSO gave me my own Domain name.. thus this blogspot based rant-fest also appears on ‘Pettyfoggery{dot}com’.

In the future, I’ll probably use the Wordpress module he installed as well, but for now the blogger edition is reflected on the site.

- from BarcePundit, which adds:

Anyway, those guys should be protesting at the Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, UAE embassies, and not create a mess for everybody, not turning the whole country upside down in the hope thatt he government gives them some subsidies. Why don’t they raise their prices, as we all do when our costs raise? Yes, it would hurt the consumer eventually, since the increase would pass along the chain, but it would allow us to either clench our teeth and pony up, or change our habits. Neither of the two possibilities sounds as holding the whole country hostage, does it?

Not very helpful, I’m afraid. Some estimates are that the top thirty percent of the market price per barrel is speculative.

If the Europeans paid attention, they’d recall those taxes were always there and it’s not going to help by shifting net tax revenues over to some other economic sector in order to subsidize transportation fuel costs

What they SHOULD be looking at is the failure of the US to address its part in easing the speculation.

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