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Bravo to the Senate Republicans for blocking the windfall profits tax on oil companies

Posted by Far_view on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:06:48 PM
I was working out at the gym and Fox News Channel was on one of the TVs and I saw that the Republicans in the Senate blocked the Democrat effort to get a windfall profits tax on oil companies levied (story here). Bravo to the Senate Republicans! Are the Democrats actually so oblivious that they don't realize that passing such a tax would only increase gasoline prices further? Can they really be that naive? On FNC, they were interviewing the corrupt Democrat senator from New Jersey (that really all goes without saying, ever since Bill Bradley, every Democrat senator from New Jersey has been corrupt) Robert Menendez. That guy actually had the gall to say "oh no! the oil companies wouldn't pass along the costs of a windfall profits to the consumer." The guy is either a moron or incredibly dishonest. My suspicion is that he is both.
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John McCain for manned missions to Mars!

Posted by Far_view on Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:25:55 AM
There's not many details in this story, but apparently at a townhall meeting in Florida, John McCain said that Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" was one of his favorite novels as a kid and that he'd like to see NASA send people to Mars. There's more discussion with a lot of comments at spacepolitics.com. It is good to hear that McCain is at least thinking about this stuff and if he's read some science fiction that could indicate an open mind to science funding. Encouraging stuff!
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Obama the naive by John Bolton

Posted by Far_view on Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:15:37 AM
Good piece here by former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton pointing out how naive Barack Obama's foreign policy statements are. A couple of key paragraphs:

"Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy's first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the Cold War's most dangerous crises.

Such realities should cause Obama to become more circumspect, minimizing his off-the-cuff observations about history, grand strategy and diplomacy. In fact, he has done exactly the opposite, exhibiting so many gaps in his knowledge and understanding of world affairs that they have not yet received the attention they deserve. He consistently reveals failings in foreign policy that are far more serious than even his critics had previously imagined."
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"Terraforming" the Earth to address global warming

Posted by Far_view on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:33:09 PM
Personally I think any change in global temperatures is part of a natural pattern, but if it is something that people could address, I think the possible plan of action suggested here by Newt Gingrich would be a better way to go than the Byzantine "cap and trade" socialist garbage proposed by the Libs. It is really scary how many people are buying into the global warming hysteria. We'll see how the Summer progresses, but I have this gut feeling that it this summer will be cooler than the last several- if so don't be surprised if the next one is cooler still. Who knows?
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Unbelievable! HiRISE images Phoenix on its descent

Posted by Far_view on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:22:53 AM
I was at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for the Phoenix landing and a Lockheed Martin guy was saying that HiRISE was going to try to image Phoenix on its descent and I thought, "yeah... right that's really going to happen". I mean, HiRISE has a TINY field of view and Phoenix had a pretty big landing ellipse. I don't know how they did it, but they did it! See it here and check out the whole image. The Phoenix lander on its parachute is passing in front of a huge crater. Just stunning.
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Hooray for Phoenix!!!

Posted by Far_view on Monday, May 26, 2008 8:45:59 AM
I was at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science last night for their Phoenix landing event and so got to watch the landing on NASA TV on the big IMAX screen along with hundreds of other locals. It was a tremendously successful landing (nice report here). I was really very impressed by how well things went. They also got a great set of initial images down so that we were able to get a good sense of the nature of the landing site. It definitely looked like the Northern Plains- very flat and covered by polygonally fractured terrain. Kudos to the engineers and scientists of the Phoenix mission for a fabulous landing!
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the Mayan calendar explained: no doomsday in 2012

Posted by Far_view on Friday, May 23, 2008 8:51:20 AM
Good article here that describe the nature of the Mayan calendar and why folks should not get worried that the Mayan calendar (or, as the article points out, one of the Mayan calendars) running out in 2012. Well that's a relief!
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Carl Icahn says an Obama presidency would be "devastating"

Posted by Far_view on Friday, May 23, 2008 8:11:09 AM
I saw this story on the Drudge Report.  I think Carl Icahn has it right.  A key quote from the article: "I don't think Obama really understands economics" and that Obama would go on a spending spree that would crash the dollar.  I hope all the rich people who are contributing to the Obama campaign listen to Carl Icahn.
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get ready for some global cooling

Posted by Far_view on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:14:12 AM
Great piece here from the National Post of Canada about the conclusion of a prominent climate scientist that we're in for 10 to 15 years of cooling before warming resumes. Interestingly, the article also notes that last year was one of the cooler years in over a decade. Check out the following paragraphs:

"Last year, for instance, saw a drop in the global average temperature of nearly 0.7 degrees C (the largest single-year movement up or down since global temperature averages have been calculated). Despite advanced predictions that 2007 would be the warmest year on record, made by such UN associates as Britain's Hadley Centre, a government climate research agency, 2007 was the coolest year since at least 1993.

According to the U. S. National Climatic Data Center, the average temperature of the global land surface in January 2008 was below the 20th-Century mean for the first time since 1982."

Has anyone told Al Gore this?
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what a dangerous moron Obama is!

Posted by Far_view on Monday, May 19, 2008 8:00:28 PM
OK, things are getting scary now. I was just listening to the Hugh Hewitt radio show and he was playing the audio of Barack Obama saying that Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela don't pose a threat to the U.S. because they're "tiny". Is he really that stupid? Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. Who knows... they might even already have a few. They've been really buddy, buddy with the Russians and they could have bought a few nukes under the table. They've also been testing ballistic missiles. All it would take is one nuke on one missile exploded over the Eastern seaboard to cause an EMP (thereby frying all circuit boards on the Eastern seaboard) and the U.S. economy would be crippled for years if not decades. So is Obama really that stupid? I alternate between thinking he really is that naive to thinking that he is just playing to the utopian idealists who support him. This seems to be kind of a pattern with Obama. With regards to the Rev. Wright issue, you either have to believe that he was just oblivious to what was going on in Wright's church (which would make him stupid) or he knew what was going on and is just saying that he didn't know (which would make him a lier).

Either way, the guy is really, really, REALLY scary and if he does end up winning the election, I think we should all be really, really, REALLY afraid because we're going to end up getting hit by the terrorists for SURE.
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Global warming not responsible for more hurricanes... no kidding!

Posted by Far_view on Monday, May 19, 2008 12:22:15 AM
I just saw a story here that a new study has shown that global warming is not responsible for an uptick in hurricane activity.  Oh my God!!!  I don't know what surprises me more, that some climatologists with intellectual honesty finally showed up or that the news agencies would actually run the story.
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It's time that people started blaming the Greens for high gas prices

Posted by Far_view on Sunday, May 18, 2008 10:14:44 AM
On "The O'Reilly Factor" on Friday, the guest host E.B. Hill was interviewing economist Jonathan Hoenig and he was saying that a big chunk of the blame for the high gasoline prices should be laid at the feet of the environmentalists. They won't let us drill for oil in Alaska. They are the ones who have demanded so many boutique blends of gasoline. They are the ones who have put the kibosh on the building of new nuclear plants and gasoline refineries. Now they're trying to restrict our economy even more with restrictions of the production of so-called greenhouse gases. Come on! When are people going to wake up and start getting angry at the right people?
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no rebuke stings so much as the truth

Posted by Far_view on Friday, May 16, 2008 11:31:29 AM
The fact that the Obama camp and liberals in general are flying off the walls in response to President Bush's remark before the Israeli parliament about how going "hat in hand" to tyrannical regimes never works shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. It just goes to show that the old adage that "no rebuke stings so much as the truth" is very much in play here. Obama and the other libs are appeasers and they know it. They also know that the American public will not vote appeasers into office so they go out of their way to deny the charge. Didn't Shakespeare have a line to the effect: "Methinks she protesteth too much"?
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wind power and global warming? not so much...

Posted by Far_view on Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:36:54 PM
I've been on a road trip to the Northwest and thought I'd make some observations. On the drive up here, I went past three or four wind farms and at each of them there were only, at best, 30% of the turbines going. Is that typical? I think from past observations driving past these things that it is. So how efficient is that? So much for wind power. We ought to be building nukes instead.

My destination was Winthrop, Washington on the east side of the Cascades. The weather is rather chilly here and the folks here have been telling me how late their Spring has been in arriving. Also, I was informed that the snow pack was greater than normal with the consequence that the mountain glaciers are building up again (for the second winter in a row). So I don't know that two years make a definitive trend, but this is definitely different from what the "global warming" obsessed media likes to report on.
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Iron Man: Awesome!!!

Posted by Far_view on Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:45:28 PM
I went to see "Iron Man" this afternoon. What a great movie! Ironman has always been one of my favorite Marvel heroes right from the time I got into comics in middle school. So it was really great to see him brought to life on the big screen... and done pretty much right to boot. I think the changes they made from the comic were pretty reasonable. I even wasn't put off by Stark giving up on the weapons business after coming back from Afghanistan. I was afraid they'd put some left wing anti-war spin on it and maybe there was one in a very subtle fashion but as it was done in the movie with Stark's weapons being used against American troops and civilians, I was able to buy it. I was even happy with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark.
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