Little Timmy promises financial reform next year. Right.

Just headlines for now, paraphrasing Geithner’s comments in the House Budget Q&A. We are confident the package will be offered only if perpetuation of the Ponzi scheme is safe and sound.

Whoops, looks like there’s nothing under any of the shells. I guess they must have stolen all of it.

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Walmart to cut GHG in supply chain by 20 million tons by 2015

“Carbon is a cost. If we can remove carbon from a supply chain, ultimately they become more competitive. If they can use less energy in the manufacturing of the product, or if the consumer uses less energy, they are certainly reducing their costs or putting dollars in the pockets of their customer,” said Walmart [...]

I’m more Millenial than Boomer

Even if I am a Boomer. (My tragic lack of tattoos and piercings dinged my score.)

Take the Pew Research “How Millenial Are You” quiz and discover your score!

A message to the students of Timberland High School

From the Team McCandless Facebook Page:

“[Because of censorship] Coach Mac has tendered her resignation and as far as we know, no effort was made to retain her in this position. The job has now been posted as open for the next school year. Several students on both the newspaper and the yearbook staff [...]

Banana-eating Germany vs. cheating Greece

You just can’t make this stuff up…

Germany has been loathe to bailout Greece. The conflict between the two nations is escalating.

To wit:

A German magazine, Focus, says Greeks are the “cheats of the eurozone” and portrayed Venus de Milo flipping off Greece.

Greek media responded by invoking the previous Nazism of the [...]

The climate movement is dead: Long live the climate movement

Click to download their 24 page pamphlet

Detail from the cover

Rising Tide North America on their free publication, which is absolutely worth reading.

“A particular model of dealing with climate change is dying. It is revealing itself before the world as nothing more than a final scramble for the remaining resources of [...]

Screw health care for those irresponsible poor people, says Obama

From SocialismOrBarbarism on the Left Business Observer listserv

Obama at his “health care forum”–live, right now

“Those people who go to emergency rooms aren’t getting ‘free care.’ They are being paid for by people with insurance. Their ‘free care’ makes other people’s care go up, uh, $1000. So we are paying for those [poor, [...]

Economics of taller wind turbines

Renewable Energy World has an authoritative, detailed explanation of the economies of scale from building taller, more powerful wind turbines.

Example of 100-MW onshore wind farm:

25 towers @ 4 MW 25 towers @ $500k/tower = $12.5 million in structure + foundation 10 miles roads @ $1.5 million/mile = $15 million Total infrastructure cost [...]

Decision to stop making Hummers saddens assholes

General Motors’ decision yesterday to stop manufacturing Hummers has struck at the heart of the group who loved the vehicles most: America’s assholes.

Across the nation, leading assholes spoke of a sense of loss and sadness caused by the decision, and suggested that they would now be searching for new ways to compensate for their [...]

How genetics works

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