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BOONE, N.C. Western Illinois edged Georgia Southern, 1-0, Sunday afternoon, garnering the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center Appalachian Classic title.
The Eagles fall to 1-1 in the early season, while non-conference opponent WIU, seeking to defend their 2006 Summit League title, remains undefeated with a 2-0 record.
The Leathernecks fired six shots in the first half, but were unable to convert their shots to goals as GSU's sophomore keeper Joey Ralph (Martinez, Ga.) made three stops.
Though the Eagles tallied three corner kicks in the first stanza, they struggled to threaten offensively, failing to get a shot off until the second half.
It wasn't until the 48th minute that GSU fired its first shot on goal, which came by way of Austin Steele (Kennesaw, Ga.). Steele's shot was stopped by WIU keeper Charlie Sales.
Steele tallied another shot in the 59th minute which was followed three minutes later by teammate Matt Crowell (St. Augustine, Fla.) who registered a shot on goal, but it was saved by Sales.
The game remained scoreless until Western Illinois snapped the drought in the 72nd minute. Leatherneck Luke Greenwell converted a pass inside the box from teammate Martin Browne, Jr. into a winner, giving WIU the 1-0 advantage.
Georgia Southern's next best opportunity to score came in the 81st minute when David Leonard (Augusta, Ga.) unleashed a shot on goal, but Sales was there to make the third of three saves on the day and claim the victory.
Western Illinois held the advantage in the shots category, 9-6, but the Eagles had a 7-3 edge in corner kicks.
"I was overall pleased with the way we played," said head coach Kevin Kennedy. "We were able to possess the ball and I felt that we played very good defensively. They capitalized on the opportunities, but the opportunities we had, we didn't capitalize. It was a tough loss, but I was pleased overall with the way we played."
With only two games down in the record books, second-year coach Kennedy sees the improvement in just a short amount of time.
"I think that although the results didn't go our way, we are playing better," added Kennedy. "I really thought we showed a lot of maturity and character. I was pleased with the effort."
Earning All-Tournament Team honors were Kim Kroken (Blystadia, Norway), Jon Kinsler (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Joey Ralph.
"I think Kim, Joey and Jon all had a great tournament. I think Joey had some great stops. Kim gave us composure and control in the back. Jon went 90 minutes in both games and his work rate at midfield was excellent."
Georgia Southern will look to bounce back as the team next travels to Macon, Ga. to compete in the Mercer Invitational. There the Eagles will first battle Alabama A&M, Friday, Sept. 7 at 5 p.m. Two days later, the Eagles will face tournament host Mercer with the match kicking off at 5 p.m.
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The turnaround started after Gene Singletary intercepted an Antonio Henton screen pass and raced 31 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter. On the Eagles' next drive Chris Collins forced a fumble on Lee Chapple - the sixth turnover of the game - but the Eagles quickly bounced back.
Redshirt-freshman Brett Layson blocked Blake Cain's punt and the Eagles were in business on Western's 27. Four plays later Chapple found Raja Andrews for a 12-yard score. It was the first TD reception by Andrews this season... 31-10 with 10:43 remaining.
Another 3-and-out by the defense eventually set up the Eagles on their own 49. Chapple rushed for 14 yards, Zeke Rozier had a 13-yard scamper and Chapple got down to the one on a 6-yard run. Jarrell Crawford scored his first collegiate touchdown from a half-yard out and Adrian Mora nailed the extra point... 31-17 with 6:39 left.
On the ensuing kickoff Patrick Bolen tried the onsides kick. As the coverage team sealed Western on the block, Bolen was able to recover the ball on the GS 41.
Chapple hit Tim Camp for 24 yards then the redshirt-freshman quarterback rushed for another 13. After a sack, GS faced 3rd-and-19. Chapple hit Terence Hall for 18 yards, down to the 13. On fourth down, Henton came back to the field. On a double-reverse and pitch back to Henton, the sophomore QB found Andrews wide open in the endzone for another TD... 31-24 with 4:39 left.
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Chapple rushed for six yards and hit Andrews for another eight and a first down. On his 1-yard run, Chapple suffered an ankle injury and Henton entered the game. He was sacked for an 11-yard loss, then an incomplete pass set up 4th-and-20.
Henton threw a bomb down the right sidelines for Andrews that fell incomplete, but pass interference on Antoine George gave the Eagles a first down on the WCU 46. Two plays later Henton found Hall over the middle, and he raced down to the six. Two plays later Henton rolled to his left. As the coverage closed in on him, Henton threw a shovel pass to Camp wide open in the endzone. Mora's kick split the uprights... 31-31 with 32 seconds remaining.
Western was forced to punt on fourth down with five seconds left. Andrews muffed the punt return - the Eagles' seventh turnover of the game - but Andrews tackled Joe Clark-Dear on the Western 25 to send the game into overtime.
The Eagles lost the coin flip and went on offense first. For the second time in his freshman year, Adam Urbano took a pitch on the first play of overtime, received key blocks and raced 25 yards down the right sidelines for the score... 38-31 Eagles.
Jaynes tried hitting Andrerius Thomas in the left corner of the endzone, but Wiggins was right there to break up the pass. Dakota Walker sacked Jaynes on second down, then the redshirt-freshman quarterback just overthrew Kyle Garland on third down.
"I am extremely proud of our team, they overcame adversity throughout the game and never quit for a minute," said Hatcher. "We lost a couple of close games recently. I hope this game is a good foreshadowing of the good things to come for this program."
Not only were the Eagles able to overcome seven turnovers, the most since seven during the 1998 National Championship game against
The defense held Western to a 3-and-out on the opening drive, keyed by a 9-yard sack by Chris
On 3rd-and-long, Dion Dubose made the stop on the pass play but the defense was called for roughing the passer to set up 1st-and-10 from the 14. A pass interference call in the endzone spotted the ball on the two. Jaynes found Adam Hearns on a 3-yard touchdown reception but Larry Beard blocked the extra point attempt.
Blake Bostic hit a 37-yard field goal, making it 9-0 with 11:36 left in the second quarter.
Western got a 40-yard TD pass from Jaynes to Thomas with 5:20 left in the first half, and after an interception, Warley scored from nine yards out less than two minutes later as the Catamounts took a 24-0 lead into the locker room.
Mora put the Eagles on the board with 2:52 left in the third nailing a 34-yard field goal. That marked the fifth straight game (in all five games of his collegiate career) the redshirt-freshman converted a field goal, this time for the team's first points.
"Offensively we came out very dead, which was disappointing because I thought we had one of our best weeks of practice ever," said Hatcher. "Our team showed their true colors today... They never quit, never stopped believing."
In the fourth quarter and overtime, the Eagles rolled up 241 yards of offense and no penalties while holding Western to -2 yards.
Henton finished the game 14-of-26 for 154 yards and two touchdowns but committed three turnovers. He also rushed for 69 yards on 21 carries. Chapple finished 10-of-14 for 140 yards and a score through the air while rushing for another 14 yards. However, he also committed three turnovers.
Urbano rushed for a season-high 83 yards on 11 carries and his fifth rushing TD of the year.
Andrews caught eight passes for 121 yards and matched a career-high with two touchdown receptions. Those eight pass receptions give him 99 in his career, breaking Monty Sharpe's all-time receptions record (93). It was also the third time this year Andrews recorded 100-plus receiving yards - setting a GS season record and tying Sharpe's career record for most 100 yard games.
"Raja is a real good leader. He has been battling an injury all season but he keeps making play after play. Raja is really deserving of the honor," said Hatcher.
Hall caught three passes for a season-high 66 yards. Camp caught his fourth TD pass this year, finishing with 40 receiving yards on three receptions.
GS rolled up 503 yards of offense, compared to Western's 236.
True-freshman Dubose, making his first collegiate start, led the team with eight tackles. Brandon Echols also made seven tackles.
Warley rushed for a game-high 102 yards on 22 carries, but the Catamounts only recorded 92 yards overall on the ground. Jaynes completed 13-of-35 passes for 144 yards and two scores. Every one of Western's scoring drives was 53 yards or shorter.
Michael Shaw led the defense with 16 tackles and Adrian McLeod finished with 15 stops.
The Eagles travel to The Citadel next Saturday (Nov. 1), kickoff scheduled for 1 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Beard blocked his second extra point attempt of the year and the fourth time the special teams blocked a kick... The Eagles were stopped on 4th-and-1 from the Western 31 late in the first quarter. GS entered the game 11-of-16 converting fourth downs this year but would finish 2-for-4... GS out-gained Western 45-25 in total yards in the first quarter but was flagged five times for 63 yards (eight times for 89 yards in the first half alone compared to Western's four times for 31 yards)... Andrews tied the career receptions record on a fourth down catch early in the third quarter. He set the record on the Eagles' next drive, a 31-yard reception... Garryon Taylor made his first catch of the year during the first quarter. The junior wide receiver also made his first collegiate start... The 24-point halftime deficit matched the largest of the season (24-0 in season-opener at #1
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Liberals Don't Understand How Agricultural Subsidies Work
To be fair, they don't understand how most things work, especially when there's math involved, but this particular quirk is quite annoying.
I remember the first time I came across this general ignorance (see the comments), in a West Wing episode:
Actual dialog from a recent West Wing rerun:
Josh: What do I say to people who ask why we subsidize farmers when we don't subsidize plumbers?
Farmer's daughter 1: Tell 'em they can pay seven dollars for a potato.Yes, I know it's a TV show, but do people actually think like this? I always assumed that the reason we couldn't get rid of farm subsidies was rent seeking by the farmers, but if people actually believe this, that could be part of the problem.
Yes, people actually do believe this. Indeed, here is David Sirota spouting the same ignorance:
GOP meat eaters aren't free market – they want everyone to subsidize their eating via taxes that fund meat subsidies.
Among best ways to reduce meat consumption is to end ag subsidies so that the cost of meat is a true free market price – think: $9 burgers
David also makes the correct point that some GOP congressmen vote to keep these subsidies in place (particularly those in states with farms that benefit the most from them), but that doesn't alleviate the complete misunderstanding of what these subsidies do.
In short: agricultural subsidies don't reduce consumer prices, but instead raise them.
In fact, the entire point of these subsidies is to set minimum price levels (often called "price supports") or trade barriers that create an artificial monopoly. The entire milk industry, as an example, is propped up with such subsidies. Why else do you think it costs about as much for a gallon of milk as does for a gallon of gas?
Although there had been several different forms of subsidies in the U.S. prior to the 1930′s, most were simple tariffs. When the Great Depression began, the Roosevelt Administration sought to prop up the nation's farmers by raising their incomes. How did they propose to do that? Mainly by setting minimum prices and production quotas (remember Wickard v. Filburn?):
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated president in 1933, he called Congress into special session to introduce a record number of legislative proposals under what he dubbed the New Deal. One of the first to be introduced and enacted was the Agricultural Adjustment Act. The intent of the AAA was to restore the purchasing power of American farmers to pre-World War I levels. The money to pay the farmers for cutting back production by about 30 percent was raised by a tax on companies that bought farm products and processed them into food and clothing.
The AAA evened the balance of supply and demand for farm commodities so that prices would support a decent purchasing power for farmers. This concept was known as "parity."
AAA controlled the supply of seven "basic crops" — corn, wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco, and milk — by offering payments to farmers in return for farmers not planting those crops.
The AAA also became involved in assisting farmers ruined by the advent of the Dust Bowl in 1934.
In 1936 the Supreme Court, ruling in United States v. Butler, declared the AAA unconstitutional. Writing for the majority, Justice Owen Roberts stated that by regulating agriculture, the federal government was invading areas of jurisdiction reserved by the constitution to the states, and thus violated the Tenth Amendment. Judge Harlan Stone responded for the minority that, "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern."
Further legislation by Congress restored some of the act`s provisions, encouraging conservation, maintaining balanced prices, and establishing food reserves for periods of shortages.
Congress also adopted the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, which encouraged conservation by paying benefits for planting soil-building crops instead of staple crops. The rewritten statutes were declared constitutional by the Supreme Court in Mulford v. Smith (1939) and Wickard v. Filburn (1942).
During World War II, the AAA turned its attention to increasing food production to meet war needs. The AAA did not end the Great Depression and drought, but the legislation remained the basis for all farm programs in the following 70 years.
The entire point of these subsidies is to increase the incomes of farmers. It has never had anything to do with making the price of a potato or a hamburger cheaper for consumers. By design, these programs intend to raise the price for agricultural products, as well as to transfer dollars from taxpayers to farmers.
How liberals like David Sirota and Aaron Sorkin came to think the exact opposite is puzzling. As Ronald Reagan said: "It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so."
Is policy killing red-state women?
I see some on the Left passing around this map showing that female mortality worsened in many counties between the early/mid-'90s and the early/mid-2000s. (Meanwhile, male mortality only worsened in 3.4% of counties.)
They noticed red states doing worse than blue states, and thought that this must, of course, be due to the Republican war on women™.
The mortality rate of females [worsening] in 43 percent of U.S. counties from 2002-2006 is eye-opening. This map from health researcher Bill Gardner helps you see where the worst results are typically coming from — red states and the redder parts of blue states.
It apparently did not occur to these partisans to control for a fairly simple, innocent phenomenon: old people just die more frequently than younger people.
- Rural areas are aging faster as they have fewer kids who stick around – and it's mostly women left behind, since women have a longer life expectancy than men in the US. So the mortality rate of a county could go up even if people are as healthy for their age as ever.
- On the other hand, when you have an influx of young people (like in high-immigration counties), the mortality rate drops.
As evidence for this, look at the overlaps between the above map and two others:
More old people combined with fewer people in the prime of their health tends to mean a higher death rate, and vice versa. It's not a perfect correlation, but at very least it's something that should be taken into account before blaming policy for deaths.
It certainly seems like less of a stretch than trying to blame the trend in female mortality on suicides connected to expanded gun ownership:
[A]nother study suggests that red states' high levels of gun ownership make them especially dangerous:
With few exceptions, states with the highest rates of gun ownership — for example, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Alabama, and West Virginia — also tended to have the highest suicide rates.
How big of a stretch is this as a contributor to female mortality? Two little hints:
- suicide is not even close to a leading cause of death among women
- men commit suicide almost four times as often as women in the US, and seven times as often with guns, yet male mortality dropped in almost all counties even as gun ownership expanded
And then there's this bold prediction:
With red states rushing to turn down the Medicaid expansion, these results will likely only get worse.
That's not outlandish as guesses go, since women consume two thirds of medical care in this country, but there's not an obvious nationwide relationship between Medicaid dependence and changes in women's mortality (though controlling for ethnicity might be a start):
Blaming the party elected by older people for higher mortality in the areas they govern is like blaming Democrats for young urbanites being more prone to violent crime than old rural farmers. If you're not controlling for other causes, you're just trolling for partisan causes.
Obama's Middle East policy is a disaster
Do you remember the promises? When Obama took over, the Middle East would come to love the US again. As Obama, famously declared in his 2009 Cairo speech, his election meant a "new beginning" with the Muslim world.
The truth, however, is much uglier:
President Obama's first journey to Israel as president comes amid earth-shattering change in Middle East, much of it for the worse. The Arab Spring, which once raised hopes of freedom and dignity, has diverged onto the dark path of Islamist authoritarian rule. In Syria, tens of thousands of people have died in a bitter civil war that might have recently seen its first use of chemical weapons. And Iran continues its march toward nuclear weapons capability, heedless of international condemnation. Obama's effort to seek peace between Palestinians and Israelis is in tatters.
And Libya? One word: "Benghazi".
How about the much anticipated and promised love fest that would occur after that mean old George W Bush was retired and The One waved his mighty hand and blessed his own Middle East policy? Yeah, it hasn't quite worked out that way:
According to the latest survey by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, confidence in Obama in Muslim countries dropped from 33% to 24% in his first term. Approval of Obama's policies declined even further, from 34% to 15%. And support for the United States in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Pakistan is lower today than it was in 2008 in the closing year of George W. Bush's administration.
Israel, our closest and most important ally in the area isn't much enamored with Obama:
Of all the strained relationships in the Middle East, the partnership with Israel is the most important and potentially the most easily repaired. Obama is not popular in the country. A poll released last week showed he had a scant 10% approval rating in Israel, with an additional 32% saying they respect but don't like him.
And, if the tactic of stiffing Israel had the intent of winning popularity among Palestinians, that too hasn't worked:
If Israelis don't like Obama, Palestinians are even less favorable.Washington's perceived failure to take a harder line with Israel over the final status of Jerusalem, and U.S. opposition to President Mahmoud Abbas' successful campaign for higher Palestinian status in the United Nations, have engendered a deep sense of frustration. Passions spilled over in Bethlehem this week, when young Palestinians defaced a billboard with Obama's image and burned pictures of him in the streets. Obama's symbolic nods to Israel's history are likely to raise Palestinian ire even further.
In fact, none of the administration's policy initiatives have had any positive impact, or, for the most part, any impact at all (despite a fawning media telling us how wonderful a SecState Hillary Clinton was, this is her legacy too).
So, what will Obama do today in Israel? What he usually does. Make a speech:
The hope that Obama will say the right things in Thursday's speech at Jerusalem's convention center is negated by doubts he will follow through. The president has to assure Israelis and Palestinians that he is still engaged if the peace process has any chance of moving forward. In part, this means convincing them that he still matters.
Key point emphasized. If you've watched Obama even casually over the past years, you can't help but have noticed that he's very strong on "talking the talk", but hardly ever "walks the walk". He doesn't know how.
And there's absolutely no reason this particular issue will see him even attempt it now. Oh, he'll say the "right things". That's what he does. His problem is he never then does the "right things". Rhetoric is his action. It's for the history books, not as a guide to leadership. He's not a leader.
But you know that. And the results of that lack of leadership are evident for all to see in the Middle East.
Obama claims credit for something he hasn't done
I'm sure that doesn't surprise anyone particularly. A) it's Obama and B) he's a politician who has yet to quit campaigning (mostly because he hasn't a clue how to govern).
What am I talking about? His attempt to claim responsibility for the fact that fossil fuel production is up under his watch and he's somehow responsible for that.
Yes, it is, but that has absolutely nothing to do with him or his policies. The Congressional Research Service has apparently made that official now:
The Congressional Research Service has released a report finding that, as was already generally known, U.S. oil and gas production has increased substantially over the past four years, but on private lands only, while it's actually declined on federal land.
Or said another way, where Obama had control and the opportunity to do what he is claiming, he declined that opportunity and in fact impeded further exploration and production with his policies. Where he had no real control, production boomed. Federal lands – nada. Private lands – bunches and bunches.
What has he sacrificed with his anti-fossil fuel polices? Revenue and jobs.
Again, you have to wonder anymore what it takes to be fired.
Keystone XL pipeline: How long will Obama delay this time
In the wake of sequestration, an opportunity to do the right thing for this country arises. Unfortunately, it arises within an administration ideologically, and therefore adamantly, opposed to the idea of more fossil fuel:
Today the State Department released yet another positive environmental review for the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline project. The State Department approved the original pipeline route through Nebraska, which was supposedly less environmentally friendly, without any problems.
It is no surprise, then, that the State Department also seems to look favorably on this second iteration of the project in this fourth report—a report that should have been unnecessary. For the record, the pipeline also received a stamp of approval from Nebraskans.
Yes, that's right, the Obama State Department has given the Keystone XL pipeline favorable reviews before. It has been the executive, in this case, arbitrarily overruling the reports, inserting himself in a process he really has no business in and delaying the project.
IER senior VP Daniel Kish sums it up pretty well:
"This is, as President Obama says, 'a teachable moment.' It teaches us why our government's policies continue to stifle job creation, investment and new energy sources and instead spends valuable time and increasingly limited resources studying things to death.
"While we welcome this report, we also note this is the 4th such environmental report on the Keystone XL pipeline proposal and since it is only a "draft" there will be at least 5 federal environmental studies before a decision is made by our government on the pipeline. The Canadian government made a decision in 6 months; our government has taken 54 months so far. This is an abject lesson in why – when it comes to energy – no one wants to deal with our government. This is evident also by continuing falling production on federal lands at the same time U.S. oil and gas production on non-federal lands makes historic gains. It is time for our Leaders to make a decision….Canada's did a long time ago. Too many are hurting and too much is at stake for any more time or money to be wasted on trivial matters and long addressed and re-addressed chimeras advanced by opponents of any and all affordable sources energy."
The project will accommodate up to 830,000 barrels of oil per day, create some 179,000 jobs on American soil, and continue good trade relations with a close ally. The benefits won't stop with the oil sector, though—the Keystone project will have a positive ripple effect even in areas without the pipeline that will provide goods and services to support the pipeline.
Before any real decision is made, there will be a 45-day comment period and some time for the State Department to consider the comments. Then the notably anti-carbon Secretary of State, John Kerry, will give his recommendation and the final decision will lie with the President.
The politics – and failure – of going "green"
"Going green" and "climate change" certainly are interlinked parts of a political agenda that have nothing to do with public opinion or will. In fact:
Seventeen years of continuous surveys covering countries around the world show that people not only do not care about climate change today – understandably prioritising economic misery – they also did not care about climate change even back when times were good. The new information comes in a study released by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago – a large, long-standing and respected non-profit. The NORC spokespersons said that decades of climate alarmism have had basically no effect on people's attitude around the world.
Part of that has to do with the fact that they've heard it all before. Dire predictions about population growth that have come to naught. Warnings about using up the earth's resources which have proven to be false. Ozone holes. Melting icecaps. Yatta, yatta.
Climate change is just the latest among the apocalyptic prophesies and as the real science – not Al Gore "science" – comes out, fewer and fewer people are staying on the bandwagon.
Of course the promise was a "green economy" in which everyone would benefit. How's that worked out? Well we know how it has worked out in Spain. Germany is now finding out how mistaken they were to go in that direction. In fact:
Energy, manufacturing and agriculture are playing a major role in the corridor states' revival. The resurgence of fossil fuel–based energy, notably shale oil and natural gas, is especially important. Cheap U.S. natural gas has some envisioning the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge as an "American Ruhr." Much of this growth, notes Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, will be financed by German and other European firms that are reeling from electricity costs now three times higher than in places like Louisiana.
Interesting. It is another reason why they're also putting manufacturing plants in the US, mostly in Red States. Skilled labor, right to work and cheap energy. Obviously neither the "right to work" nor cheap energy are part of any Obama administration design.
And how is it going for green jobs more locally? Well, the usual state can be consulted for an update on what such a move has wrought and demonstrate for all to see why "going green" is a foolish road to travel – at least in the near future.
It was supposed to be the next big thing. California built decades of broad-based prosperity from the Gold Rush, then Hollywood, then aerospace, and later Silicon Valley. At the turn of the century, "green jobs" were supposed to be the wave of the future. How is that going for them? According to the best numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fewer than 2,500 green jobs have been created in California since 2010.
Wow … bask in the success! Government again demonstrates how poorly it does picking winners and losers. Not that such failures ever hinder the central planners from using your dollars to try again. What's Einstein's definition of insanity?
Meanwhile, the "success" of green energy has brought California to a point where it will have to fish or cut bait very soon:
California is weighing how to avoid a looming electricity crisis that could be brought on by its growing reliance on wind and solar power. At Tuesday's meeting, experts cautioned that the state could begin seeing problems with reliability as soon as 2015.
Of course, had we heeded the experience of others, we likely wouldn't see California going through this nonsense:
The former chancellor Lord Lawson has urged the Government to keep Britain's coal-fired power stations working for as long as was needed to avoid any short-term power shortages. In a House of Lords debate on energy policy and electricity generation Lord Lawson also called on ministers to give "every encouragement it can" to the quickest possible development of shale gas supplies. Lord Lawson urged energy and climate change minister Baroness Verma to assure the House that "if the need arises our coal-fired power stations will be kept open as long as is necessary, regardless of the European combustion plants directive".
But our dauntless leaders never learn from others. Just as with healthcare, they seem bound and determined to recreate the failure of others.
We have abundant fossile fuel resources. They would generate both jobs and revenue for government. Wind and solar, while great in theory, have in practice been shown to be woefully inadequate to our needs. We even have communities wanting wind turbines taken down due to health concerns.
Yet our government and this administration continue to pursue an "energy policy" which is detrimental to the welfare of this nation despite a state that has done everything they want to do nationally and is a dismal failure because of it. They are bound and determined to make all 50 states Californias.
Why won't this administration look at this revenue source?
Because of their false agenda, that's why. They're still convinced that, despite 17 years of no warming (as recently admitted by the head of the IPCC), oil is bad and "green" is good and that they're doing something to save the world. Disregard the fact that green is still unviable. Disregard the fact that everywhere it has or is being pushed, energy costs are skyrocketing. Nevermind the fact that we are sitting on a sea of fossile fuel products that we only need to access. Screw the fact that science can find no discernable warming. Their minds are made up.
That said, there's also the fiscal side of the house. The debt. The deficit. And the demand by Democrats to raise more revenue.
Unfortunately, because of their agenda, they're likely to completely screw up a golden opportunity to bring in much more revenue and drive energy prices down, because their agenda is against fossile fuel. And we all know the party agenda comes before what is best for the country.
Enter the administration with a renewed plan to tax oil companies instead of opening access to the vast natural riches we enjoy. The result? Well this chart will help you comprehend the vast differences in the two policy choices (full size here):
So the either/or is "tax 'em or open access". The difference:
According to a 2011 study by Wood Mackenzie, increased oil and natural gas activity underpro-access policies would generate an additional $800 billion in cumulative revenue for government by 2030. The chart puts into perspective the size of these accumulating revenues – enough to fund entire federal departments at various points along the timeline. By contrast, Wood Mackenize also found that hiking taxes on oil and natural gas companies would, by 2030, result in $223 billion in cumulative lost revenue to government.
It only proves the old saw -"If you want more of it, reward it and if you want less, tax it". Think about it – money to help run government and pay down the debt (not to mention the thousands, if not millions of jobs created) being passed up in the name of false science and agenda politics.
Meanwhile, we'll be left in the cold and the dark, thanks to agenda driven policies with no foundation in reality.
Speaking plainly about force
One of the most useful things I've learned about communication is the importance of stating things plainly and concretely.* But thinking about that lesson frequently makes politics maddening.
Euphemisms are the health of politics. If a government really wants to get away with murder, even secrecy can be less useful than making that particular murder sound unremarkable, justifiable, sensible, or even dutiful.
Just in cased you missed it, our problem STILL isn't revenue
I continue to be stunned by the apparent willingness of all involved on the left to whistle past the graveyard when it comes to understanding what our fiscal governmental problem is and how to fix it. Here … let's try a picture:
Oh, look … it's spending. Specifically, spending on entitlements and interest on the money we've borrowed to do so. And what are we talking about cutting? The military, of course. Because, you know, it is in the blue slice of the pie. Make sense?
Pac Man's revenge. By 2050, he will have swallowed all of the blue.
But, hey, it's "absurd" to argue about raising the debt limit. By the way, does anyone remember when Sen. Obama declared that raising the debt limit signaled a failure in leadership?
Ahem …
And now the "rich" will pay…
I hate to say "I told you so", but it isn't just the rich who will be paying increased taxes. And what should be clear to anyone with the I Q of a turnip, is that this will cost people their jobs.
The compromise called for taxes to rise to 39.6% from 35% on personal income above $400,000. In a 2011 study, the Treasury Department found that raising taxes on incomes over $500,000 would affect roughly 750,000 small businesses organized as S-Corps, partnerships and other small entities.
Of course, you remember the Democrats claiming that this wouldn't affect small businesses. Well, that was a flat out lie. But then we live in an era of lies which, if there political apparently, we're willing to overlook. While most of us are. I just had to be one of those who isn't. Not that Democrats are the only political liars, but they seem to be the most prolific and the most blatant. Especially when it comes to budget, deficit, and financial matters. They are the quintessential "snake oil" salesman.
And they have sold us are huge bottle of snake oil.
Couple these tax increases with the Obamacare taxes that kicked in on the 1st, and you have two reasons for 750,000 small businesses not to hire. And you can bet none of them will go over 50 employees, and some may even reduce staff to get under that number.
These are your "rich". They happen to be the "rich" would generate jobs, or what have, if they hadn't been hit by two new taxes this year.
Your government at work.


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Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
This volume presents a complete inventory and documentation of the Graeco-Latin fable tradition from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages, including references to many other older and contemporary Oriental and Western languages. The book is usefully concluded by elaborate indexes.
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados. Translated by Leslie A. Ray
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados. Translated by Leslie A. Ray. This edition has been revised and updated by the author and Gert-Jan van Dijk
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This volume gathers studies and documentation on Bonaventura Vulcanius, a versatile philologist and writer who in 1581 settled in Leiden as a Professor of Greek and Latin. It includes many unpublished texts pertaining to this mysterious figure Dutch Humanism.
Terence J. Hunt
This book performs for the Academici Libri what P.L. Schmidt achieved for the De legibus - it studies the entire tradition of the work, including its original publication, its influence in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, manuscripts and printed editions.
Edited by Olivier Hekster, Gerda de Kleijn and Daniëlle Slootjes
This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the development and functioning of the Roman Empire from the Republic to Late ...
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
A History of the Greek Language is a kaleidoscopic collection of ideas on the development of the Greek language through the centuries of its existence.
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Revenge of the Electric Car
In Revenge of the Electric Car, filmmaker Chris Paine visits Nissan, GM and Tesla Motors to examine the resurgence of the electric car and the race to build the next generation of automobiles.
In 2006, as many as 5,000 modern electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. That automotive massacre was documented in Chris Paine's documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?
Today, the electric car is back with a vengeance. In Revenge of the Electric Car, Paine is back, taking his crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, General Motors, the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors, and an independent car converter named Greg "Gadget" Abbott to find the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. With the goal of weaning the country off of foreign oil, this new generation of automobiles promises to be America's future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever.
With almost every major carmaker now jumping to produce new electric models, Revenge of the Electric Car follows the race to be the first, the best, and to win the hearts and minds of the public around the world. We watch as these cars are developed from a concept into a working product, and see the car makers themselves struggle with the economy, the press, each other, and the car-buying public.
Tune in Tuesday, April 24 at 11:00 p.m. on WCVE PBS/WHTJ PBS
In order to save renewable sources of energy the car makers had started to built electric cars after getting the concept of that.But due to their decrease in the sales of other cars they started to dismantle the electric cars.In the year 2006 it has crossed the limits and it was documented by Chris Paine.Now again the cars have evoked in the name of "The Revenge of Electric Cars".


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- Will They Really Go Nuclear? The New York Times's David Sanger evaluates. "It is unclear how long it would take Iran to enrich the fuel to the levels needed for the medical reactor, or whether it has the technology to fabricate that fuel into a form that could be put into the reactor. But the declaration appeared intended to convince the West that Iran was prepared to move closer to bomb-grade quality, while stopping short of crossing that threshold. Even if Iran proceeded with a plan to build 10 enrichment plants, it is doubtful Iran could execute that plan for years, maybe decades."
- Allow Peaceful Enrichment The India Hindu's Siddharth Varadarajan argues that the U.N. should only sanction enrichment for the creation of weapons. "Since existing sanctions -- and the impending threat of more punitive measures -- have had little impact on Iran, the U1+5 need to seriously rethink their approach. One way out of the current impasse is for the UNSC to suspend sanctions for a finite period, to begin with, during which time the Iranians once again voluntarily abide by the AP and step up cooperation with the IAEA over the alleged weaponisation studies. This mechanism would allow the agency to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear activities in Iran, following which U.N. sanctions could be lifted."
- Sanctions Won't Work Posting to the Middle East Strategy blog hosted by Harvard, Raymond Tanter explains. "Unilateral steps short of blockade will have only a marginal impact," he writes. "Because of the low likelihood of success of another round of sanctions, the breakdown in nuclear talks, and the absence of a regime-change alternative focusing on the Iranian opposition, the West is moving toward having to decide between accepting an Iranian nuclear bomb or bombing Iran."
- End of Iran's Islamic Revolution Thomas P.M. Barnett says that what began in 1979 ends now. "[O]nce Iran negotiates with the Devil, the revolution is dead. And that's when we get to start seriously messing with that place. Iran seeks regime security with nukes, and will most definitely avoid an invasive war on that basis (even as Israel is likely to strike), but Israel's loss of its regional monopoly on WMD will set in motion all manner of events and dynamics beyond Tehran's control. In the end, it will be the worst thing that ever happened to the mullahs and the Guard and the revolution."
- The Japan Option Juan Cole thinks this is about deterrence.
Iran's leadership is seeking whatis sometimes called the "Japan option" or a "rapid breakout capability." Unlike North Korea, India and Pakistan, I think Tehran genuinely does not want to actually construct and detonate a nuclear device. India and Pakistan are such large and important countries that they defied the First World nuclear club successfully and so joined it. North Korea, much smaller, weaker and poorer, has made itself an international pariah in this way, and is suffering more and more severe UN sanctions. I think most senior Iranian leaders wish to avoid those heavy sanctions, having seen what they did to Iraq.
But having a rapid breakout capability-- being able to make a bomb in short order if it is felt absolutely necessary to forestall a foreign attack-- has a deterrent effect. So Iran would have the advantages of deterrence without the disadvantages of a bomb if it could get to the rapid breakout stage.
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Microsoft Turns Attention to Facebook
With Microsoft apparently walking away from any potential love-in with Yahoo; reports have suggested that the Redmond-based software giant has now got its eye on social networking site, Facebook.
With Microsoft apparently walking away from any potential love-in with Yahoo; reports have suggested that the Redmond-based software giant has now got its eye on social networking site, Facebook.
The Wall Street Journal reported on its All Things Digital site that Microsoft has been communicating 'subtle signals' to see whether Facebook would be open to a full acquisition. Apparently, Microsoft investment bankers contacted Facebook, when it seemed unlikely that Yahoo's resistance would continue to hold firm.
First moves
Citing an unnamed source, the news site said that an informal approach had been made by Microsoft but it was not yet known whether Facebook would consider selling. In the past, the California-based social networking site has resisted selling the company, opting instead for a public offering. A recent number of high-level hires show signs that this trend looks set to continue. However, with possible fallout from a weaker economy, advertising revenue could drop, pressuring Facebook to look at over potential investments.
Microsoft already has a vested interest in Facebook, having paid $240 million in October last year for a 1.6 per cent stake, thereby valuing the social networking site at around $15 billion. Microsoft's apparent interest in Facebook is the first indications that it has looked at alternatives to Yahoo, which walked away from a potential $47.5 billion offer last week.
Why Facebook?
At only four-years old, the deal would mean a huge payout for founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. With 70 million users, Facebook has become one of Internet's hottest properties and continues to attract a huge following. In March, Facebook had around 110 million visitors, 240 per cent up from the same time last year, according to comScore. Revenue is also expected to double from last year to between $300 million and $350 million in 2008.
Beacon of doubt
Despite the impressive figures, Facebook has often struggled to monetise its huge potential. Its Beacon advertising platform has met fierce criticism and half of its revenue last year actually came from Microsoft itself.
Any potential deal has already met resistance from Facebook users. At the time of writing, there are at least 30 groups opposing any such deal - not to mention the countless general anti-Microsoft groups.
Deal unlikely
Duncan Parry, Director of Strategy at Steak Media does not believe that an acquisition would make sense for either party.
"A takeover would be expensive and may not please Microsoft shareholders. I think its more likely Microsoft are looking to strengthen their existing arrangement with Facebook, maybe by extending it and adding a Live.com search box," said Parry.
"This would gain them additional web search volumes and pay per click revenue and it could use Facebook profile information to demographically target adverts - Microsoft AdCentre already has some demographic targeting functionality, limited as it is. Facebook's new IM platform could also merge with MSN IM, too. So if this is happening, I think the motive is to safeguard and expand a relationship - and not acquire. Facebook's owner has said several times he won't sell - including saying that to Yahoo," he continued.
Hedley Aylott, managing director of Internet marketing company, Summit Media agrees that a full take over is unlikely. However, Facebook's data on its users would be extremely useful to advertisers, which is why there has been the interest.
"Facebook collects information about individuals and their activities that can't be 'crawled' by search engines and the community aspect of the site is also complimentary to search. Search engines target users who are actively looking for certain products or services, but social networking offers opportunities to seed messaging before active looking starts," he commented.
"However, the most salient point is that Microsoft has released a statement to say it plans to grow organically with no major acquisition, so Summit doesn't believe the acquisition will actually take place," he continued.


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Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:09 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:17 UTC (Wed) by cmm (guest, #81305) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:26 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
If you'll recall that "right .so" is called /opt/google/chrome/chrome and includes not just Flash but also the whole 70MB browser… well, it's tricky indeed…
Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:33 UTC (Wed) by cmm (guest, #81305) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 17:31 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]
There's a 17 MB libgcflashplayer.so in /opt/google/chrome (at least on my box). I'm wondering if Firefox could load in that file...?
Posted Feb 22, 2012 20:57 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 23:16 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]
Interesting... I'm curious, does Chrome help itself to all available NPAPI plugins found on the local installation? When I navigate to chrome://plugins I see all the MPlayerPlug-In media player plugins I had compiled/installed for Firefox (but obviously, Chrome found them and chose to use them). Weird... (or maybe not)
Posted Feb 23, 2012 4:28 UTC (Thu) by vapier (subscriber, #15768) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:46 UTC (Wed) by slashdot (guest, #22014) [Link]
Pretty bizarre situation though, maybe either Google or Adobe will actually make proper standalone releases.
Posted Feb 23, 2012 18:35 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
That won't work. Chrome will use Flash through the Pepper plugin API, a new API that is only in Chrome (not Gecko, not WebKit, and nowhere else).
Posted Feb 24, 2012 2:03 UTC (Fri) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]
Posted Feb 24, 2012 2:54 UTC (Fri) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
I hope Mozilla funds Gnash development
Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:19 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:23 UTC (Wed) by Kit (guest, #55925) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:28 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
I am hoping, personally, that the newer Pepper API will be much better then the old Netscape API. Allow it to be secured properly, interact with X better, get acceleration easier, and all that happy stuff.
Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:39 UTC (Wed) by loevborg (guest, #51779) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:54 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 17:10 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
How very true :-)
One Man's Feature is Another Man's Bug ages old adage stays as current today as it ever was...
Posted Feb 22, 2012 18:10 UTC (Wed) by slashdot (guest, #22014) [Link]
Otherwise, you couldn't implement a game using Ctrl+W for a game action.
Posted Feb 22, 2012 18:42 UTC (Wed) by marm (guest, #53705) [Link]
Which is worse? Breaking a couple of Flash applications which use strange key combinations, or breaking ALL keyboard shorcuts for users of ALL Flash applications? The choice should not be hard :)
Besides, you can always add a "forward all keystrokes to this applet" toggle, which can be used in the exceptional cases.
Posted Feb 22, 2012 23:04 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
which is better? having some portions of the app unavailable? or having some portions of the browser unavailable?
in my case it's more annoying to have the portions of the app unavailable, but I can understand how other people would want it the other way.
the particular command-line app that I run into trouble with most frequently pre-dates the start of firefox, let alone chrome, so you can't blame the app for using a 'reserved' key combination.
think about this a bit more, how can a browser know what key combinations are reserved by the Desktop Environment? what should happen if you have a conflict there?
Posted Feb 23, 2012 20:26 UTC (Thu) by marm (guest, #53705) [Link]
I meant that the user should be the one to make the choice, not the application.
> in my case it's more annoying to have the portions of the app unavailable, > but I can understand how other people would want it the other way.
Then make it an option in browser preferences.
Posted Feb 23, 2012 11:38 UTC (Thu) by loevborg (guest, #51779) [Link]
Posted Feb 23, 2012 14:54 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Probably you're thinking about ctrl-alt-del?
Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:43 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]
And smartphones are to the PC what the PC was to minicomputers, and mainframes before that. Plug your phone into a USB docking station and install a native compiler, and who needs a PC anymore? (Yeah yeah, "That commodore 64 will never displace my VAX" and so on... Been there, done that. Nobody needed to visit The Computer Room when they had their own computer on their desk, and nobody needs the computer on their desk when they have one in their pocket 24/7. And Flash gave up there already.)
This whole article boils down to "Adobe abandons flash support on another platform". This is not a Flash success story, this is Flash receding in importance as HTML5 ramps up...
Posted Feb 22, 2012 19:10 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]
Adobe is re-positioning all their content editing tools around HTML5. Flash on the client is on the way out, so their new plan is to convert Flash developers into developers who use newer versions of the same toolset to make HTML5.
Posted Feb 23, 2012 10:50 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 23:44 UTC (Wed) by motk (subscriber, #51120) [Link]
People keep saying this. I'd need a lot of convincing to believe that Android and ios and WebOS can realistically take the place of a desktop OS, even if a PC eventually ends up being a 24" ipad.
Viz Flash vs HTML5 - yep, complete agreement.
Posted Feb 23, 2012 0:12 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
with something like the Ubuntu/android combination, I see a good possibility of this happening for many people (not everyone by any means)
the PC didn't do everything that a minicomputer could do, let alone do it as fast, but it was easier to get going, and far cheaper (again making it far easier to get going with)
With the ability to use a keyboard with your phone, and use a random TV as a display, it becomes very convenient to use your phone for many of the things that a laptop can do. think of it as the next step from a netbook, but you don't sacrifice screen size when doing real work.
Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:22 UTC (Wed) by Ford_Prefect (subscriber, #36934) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:28 UTC (Wed) by kmike (guest, #5260) [Link]
I would think they'd be interested on extending and improving the (almost decade old) NPAPI interface. Oh well.
Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:34 UTC (Wed) by oliwarner (subscriber, #81320) [Link]
Hopefully Adobe's move will put more emphasis on the importance of a single cross-platform, cross-browser plugin architecture, and Mozilla will change their minds.
Posted Feb 22, 2012 17:20 UTC (Wed) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715) [Link]
Posted Feb 23, 2012 5:22 UTC (Thu) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link]
Whether Flash really loses to HTML5 and how fast remains to be seen. But that desktop Linux drastically would gain market share seems even less likely (unfortunately).
Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:43 UTC (Wed) by jacktanner (guest, #70122) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:02 UTC (Wed) by bawjaws (guest, #56952) [Link]
Posted Feb 22, 2012 17:38 UTC (Wed) by kragil (subscriber, #34373) [Link]
"Mozilla is not interested in or working on Pepper at this time. See the Chrome Pepper pages."
Posted Feb 22, 2012 17:40 UTC (Wed) by kragil (subscriber, #34373) [Link]
Posted Feb 24, 2012 17:30 UTC (Fri) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]
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Babcock - P. 1 Railroads in Chgo. Ridge Dated l976 . . . . . . . . . . h a n d l i ng this interchange, and also for the Western Union, United States mail and the wells Fargo Railway Express business , as well as a waiting room for passengers boarding a Wabash, train for Chicago or St. Louis. Also at this tine, the Chicago Terminal Transfer crossed the tracks. A small watchman's shanty was constructed at the intersection, where, by meens of colored flggs and lanterns, trains were si palled to stop or proceed. In 1910 theChicago Terminal Transfer Railroad came under the direct control of the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad. In 1915, the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad constructed the present 2- story traffic control tower next to the old watchman's shanty, thus eliminating it. The new tower had 57 interlocking levers which controlled the switches, derails, and semaphone signals, thus eliminating all trains from stopping at this intersection. Also, during this era, numerous section men, known as " gandy dancers", lived in camp oars that were set on a separate brack directly behind the new condominiums on Marshall Ave. at 103rd St. Employees with head-quarters at Chicago Ridge were : about 30 section men, 3 track foremen, 3 maintainers, 3 car inspectors, 3 tower men, 1 station agent, and 1 clerk. Also, around 1916, the Indians Harbor Belt Railroad negotiated for trackage rights on the Baltimore * Ohio Chicago Terminal's tracks between Blue Island and Argo. The Indiana Berbor Belt being directly affiliated with the New York Central System and the Milwaukee Road or an equal basis made Chicago Ridge a very important interchange between these railroads and the Wabash. The Wabash
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