Uh Oh – Obama looks in to Climate Engineering

Apparently the Global Warming alarmists are convinced that the situation is so dire that we need to darken the skies or something.

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say that probably won’t be a good idea. If I’ve learned one thing from Hollywood movies it’s that scientists always try to do something to save the world, but ultimately end up creating a problem much larger than what they were ultimately trying to stop. Seriously though, this is just one more thing that the Obama administration is trying to push on people in order to expand the size of government.

If the blotting out the sun technique doesn’t work they can always just try and make, wait for it, artificial trees!

Another geoengineering option he mentioned was the use of so-called artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide—the chief human-caused greenhouse gas—out of the air and store it. At first that seemed prohibitively expensive, but a re-examination of the approach shows it might be less costly, he said.

Ahem, just for the record, CO2 levels rise at a rate that follows temperature increase and not the other way around. So, if the temperature was dropping then, and only then, would CO2 levels drop by the vaccuum trees. I guess what I’m trying to say is that the trees would do nothing but gobble up CO2 from the air that actual trees would absorb and convert back in to oxygen so that humans could continue, you know, breathing.

Just sayin’.

Mad World – I now have an excuse to post this again.

If you watched American Idol last night then you heard Adam Lambert sing a song titled “Mad World”.

Some people actually remember the original Tears for Fears version, but the most popular cover of the song was done by Gary Jules and was featured pretty heavily in the cult favorite “Donnie Darko”. I personally think that the songs popularity helped rocket Gears of War to fame with it’s use in the promotional video.

Personally, I love the song and considering I look at my governments current actions as nothing but an exercise of insanity the song holds a different meaning for me. Either way, watch the video that inspired the idol singer and enjoy.

TARP problems: Financial Crisis is “far from over” even though Govt plans to spend up to 4 trillion dollars.

Boy, that $700 billion ballooned awfully quickly didn’t it?

“We still have a long way to go. A very long way,” Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor who chairs the panel, said in an interview today with Bloomberg News.

The panel reported that the government has spent, lent or set aside more than $4 trillion through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

When the government first started throwing around this word “bailout” and began creating the TARP fund I knew that this was going to turn in to one giant mess. I told all of my friends and family that there was no way that $700 billion dollars would fix the problem, and when I even mentioned that the incoming administration was planning on injecting up to TRILLIONS more I was told that the “people wouldn’t stand for it”.

Well, here we are, 700 billion has ballooned up to 4 trillion and that’s just the TARP fund. That isn’t including the President’s bloated budget that was passed, the “stimulus” package”, or the 900-item pork project filled Omnibus bill that was passed either. Yet, even after all that money they have planned to spend (which will actually increase the deficit exponentially up until the year 2019 and not cut it in half like our glorious teleprompter told us) we’re still in a “crisis” and it’s far from over?

Sounds to me like the administration is just trying to drum up more social dischord so that then they want to spend more money they’ll just convince the people, again, that the country is in a “crisis” and that unless they spend millions/billions/trillions more of the taxpayers hard-earned money that it’s only because they are trying to do the right thing. When, in reality, the government spending is doing nothing but impoverishing our future generations.

Project P.U.M.A. – This is why GM is failing

So, the Hummer model is being removed from the market, but this tiny piece of crap is getting a green light?

GM has slashed product-development programs, advertising and spending on auto-show events. But it will take to the streets of Manhattan on Tuesday to show off a prototype of the vehicle, called PUMA, for Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility

Its even got a stupid acronym for a name, and one that falsely advertises that the car might actually be relative to an actual Puma. This abomination can barely reach 40mph and it looks absolutely ridiculous, but in GM’s quest to be “greener” they are tossing out car models that actually sell and are trying to force this garbage at consumers.

Sorry, but this is absolutely infuriating. Is it any wonder why foreign cars like Audi, BMW, and the Japanese car-makers are constantly beating us in the markets?

Russia in Defiance: Still has Troops in Georgia

Hey, remember that conflict between Russia and Georgia a while back? Remember how Russia made a deal to keep troops out of Georgia when it was over?

Yeah, looks like they decided that the deal was off.

The Russian military, working with the governments and the small military forces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two separatist regions in Georgia, has stationed forces in two large swaths of territory that were under Georgian control before the war. Observers and diplomats say Russia has also used attack helicopters and stationed tanks in areas where none existed before the war.

So, instead of fulfilling one of the basic requirements of the cease-fire and agreement between Russia and Geogia, it looks like the Soviets Russians are just going to station troops, tanks, and heli’s within the reason anyways. Woo, those Russians really go out of their way to look like total douchebags don’t they?

In other news: The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, has recently hailed American President Barack Obama as his “new comrade”. Aww, isn’t that sweet?

Anyone else getting that sick feeling in their stomachs yet?

Like a Thief in the Night: Congress passes 3.5 Trillion dollar budget.

Apparently Obama hasn’t figured out that to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term he’s going to have to stop spending money like it’s going out of style.

Not only does this bill increase the 2009 spending over what the final year of the Bush Administration was spending, but this is compounded on top of ALL of the other spending that Obama has waved his pen and made possible this year. The Stimulus Bill + Omnibus bill + the new budget bill will pretty much put us in to the poor house for the next 12 years and there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight for more government spending.

Oh, as if to make matters worse lets see some highlights from this horrendous budget:

Voting along party lines, the House and Senate approved budget blueprints that would trim Obama’s spending proposals for the fiscal year that begins in October and curtail his plans to cut taxes. The blueprints, however, would permit work to begin on the central goals of Obama’s presidency: an expansion of health-care coverage for the uninsured, more money for college loans and a cap-and-trade system to reduce gases that contribute to global warming.

“Expansion of Health-care for the uninsured” seems to be the big ringer in that last statement, but the Cap and Trade system will do nothing but cause energy costs to skyrocket. So, it looks like not only will the government spend more of our hard-earned money like the generational thieves that they are, but they plan on making life almost unsustainable for us by imposing riduculous energy costs upon us and possibly a universal healthcare system that will do nothing but dismantle one of the best healthcare systems in the world.

Things aren’t looking good, folks.

Hopefully they will get better, but if I had to wager a guess what the rest of this President’s term will look like by looking at his last 72 or some odd days? Yeah, not looking at all like a bright future ahead for America.