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Our Energy Future

April 28, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

Our Energy Future.

4-28-11

The New York Times today reports than a residents of a New Jersey city are up in arms about the installation of solar panels along the bucolic streets of Fairlawn, NJ.

They are upset because nobody in the community asked the utility company to tack these pretty little solar panels on their telephone poles.

Turns out they are being installed because of a mandate imposed on the utility company by the ruling elites of New Jersey. The elites mandated that the utility company get more of its electricity from “renewable sources of energy.” Each of the solar panels produces enough juice to brighten four 60-watt light bulbs for 6 weeks—presuming of course that clouds never appear which would stop the sunrays from reaching the solar panels.   

This gives me an idea…and a surefire way to fix the child obesity problem in America. 

Instead of regulating what kids eat, make them recharge their cellphones with beanie hats.

All they have to do when their cell phone is out of juice is run down the road, make the little propeller on their hat go round and round, and the wind will generate the electricity needed to recharge their cell phones, ipods and ipads.

It’s renewable energy. It reduces global warming. And cuts their cell phone carbon footprint. They will shed their excess fat and parents will no longer have to monitor their cupcake intake.

Now please keep this post to yourself. Because if some green bean left winger in Congress hears about it, next thing you know they’ll be introducing legislation, holding hearings and stealing my idea.

Is Libya our Next Vietnam?

April 27, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

Is Libya our next Vietnam?

4-27-11

 We are now involved in a civil war that is none of our business, in a country that is of no vital interest to the United States.

 When President Obama ordered air strikes and starting raining missiles on Libya, he said he was doing it to protect civilians.

 He also said that Muammar el-Qaddafi had to go, that regime change was required.

 Two things are now clear. Air strikes are not protecting civilians. And old Muammar is still in power and evidently doesn’t intend to give it up any time soon.

 So what now, Mr. President?

 Do we pull out, and admit that you made a mistake? If we do, Qaddafi will most certainly slaughter every rebel involved and nobody in that region of the world will ever take you or the United States seriously again.

 And what if we drop a lucky bomb amid a sea of civilians and get Qaddafi, who is going to stop the slaughter in the ensuing tribal wars as they fight over what remains of the riches in Libya?

 Do we put advisors and troops on the ground to keep postwar order? If not us, who? NATO? If not NATO, the UN? Any of those options still involve U.S. troops and the possibility that more American blood will be needlessly spilled on foreign soil.

 Sometimes Mr. President, the smart thing to do is stay out of wars that are none of our business. President Eisenhower did.

$5 Gas, Soon Headed to $6?

April 26, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

$5 Gas, Soon headed to $6 a gallon?

4-26-11

 Shell oil spent 5 years and $4 billion dollars to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean, right off the northern coast of Alaska. Shell had planned to start drilling this summer.

 Yesterday Shell announced that it is pulling the plug.  The EPA refused an air permit, claiming that Shell did not take into account the global warming that might be caused by the emissions of an ice-breaking vessel. The EPA also feared the emissions might adversely affect the air quality of a village 70 miles from the drilling site—a village that is home to 245 people.

 Shell is now walking away from the project, which the U.S. Geological Survey says contains 27 billion barrels of oil, 2 ½ times the amount of oil that has flowed through the Trans Alaska Pipeline during the last 30 years.

 Meanwhile, Brazil is now using our tax dollars to drill for oil, thanks to a handout recently given to that country by President Obama.  I guess that since there is no ice in Brazil, it’s OK to drill there, since they won’t need to use vessels that cause global warming.

 Meanwhile, here at home, as gas heads to $6 a gallon, and millions of Americans are looking for work, we can all feel better that the EPA is helping to create thousands of new jobs in Brazil.

American Medicare

April 25, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

American Medicare

4-25-11

This past week there have been a lot of stories about Paul Ryan’s plan to fix our Medicare program. Nearly all trash it. Liberals are using it to scare money out of democratic donors.

The editorial board at the New York Times has gone ballistic, proclaiming that the apocalypse is near, now that someone has dared to say that entitlement reform will be necessary in order to preserve entitlements for future generations.

What the critics aren’t talking about is fine print in the Obama plan.

 King Barack proposes to appoint a 15 member commission of “experts” that will “hold down” spending. In other words, the President won’t say how he’s going to do that, except to turn it over to an unelected body that is going to act as a rationing and price control board, deciding who gets what care and what the providers of that care will be paid.

Its decisions cannot be challenged in court. The Congress would have no legislative role, nor would the marketplace, consumers or private carriers. Instead of giving seniors a chance to decide what works best for them, a Soviet style control board will make decisions for our seniors.

Say what you will about the Ryan plan. At least he put something on the table that started a long needed discussion about how to preserve the Medicare program, give future seniors some individual choice and the ability to decide what works best for them.

 The President? He thinks seniors are too dumb to do that, thus his plan to have our medicare decisions made by 15 central planners accountable to no one. Mr. President, the Soviets tried that. It didn’t work there. It won’t work here.

Calling Jesse Jackson

April 3, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

Democrats (yes Democrats!) in Massachusetts have voted to savage the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions. Why no rent-a -riots in the Bay State? Where are the freedom fighters? Who will stop this vicious assault on the civil rights of humankind and all that is good and just?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704463804576291240909536676.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond

 

 

Good God. Boeing invested billions in a state-of-the-art facility in SC to construct its 787 Dreamliner, creating thousands of good jobs. Obama’s Na Labor Relations Board has now asked courts to stop production in SC because SC is a right to work state. You can’t make this stuff up.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703778104576287290266016016.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

 

Obama: How to Piss off Just About Everybody.

April 1, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

Easy. Unilaterally decide to start a third war without Congressional Authorization, (hell, not even a resolution), claim that you got your authority from the UN, or the Arab league, then after ordering that missiles be rained on a country that did not attack us, bop off to Brazil to walk on the beach, watch some belly dancers, and give that nation some American tax dollars to drill for…yep, oil, (which he will not allow in the U.S.) at a time when Americans are groaning under the skyrocketing price of gasoline.Read More

Iowa and Mitt Romney

March 9, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

The caucuses are a strange animal. They are, first and foremost, a ground operation. And they are expensive. Mail and television may persuade, but it takes troops and highly motivated (and often highly paid) organizers to move even those ideologically committed people off their couches in -20 degree weather to spend not 10 minutes in a voting booth, but hours attending caucuses and often several rounds of balloting that can go into the wee hours of the morning.Read More

Walkers Reagan Moment

March 2, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

Newly elected Presidents, Governors and County Executives are often tested early in their terms.

Ronald Reagan’s steel was tested by the Air Traffic Controllers. He won. They lost. And thereafter no one dared challenge Reagan absent consideration of the consequences.Read More

The Politics of Oil

February 27, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

Those who lived through the Carter years find them a painful memory of double digit inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Carter may not have directly caused the oil shocks that rocked the economy. But they happened on his watch, and he was rightly blamed for what many Americans found to be an inept response by a self-righteous man who smugly dismissed those who believed we needed more energy exploration in the U.S. to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of fossil fuels.Read More

Game Change

February 19, 2011 / Jay Townsend / Blog / No Comments

Obama’s efforts to portray himself a centrist got a setback when the Washington Post revealed that White House operatives were behind the public employee riots in Wisconsin. And the left got a black eye.Read More

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