Net Neutrality Will Increase Government Regulation - WSJ.com

So it turns out that Google's enthusiasm for government-imposed "net neutrality" is qualified. The Internet giant wants cumbersome network management rules applied to everyone—except Google.

Net Neutrality, like "health-care reform" and Global Warming initiatives have become religions. People are for them, without actually knowing what they consist of or what might fall out of them.

Google founders, like all libtards in modern academia have learned to question all that is traditional, while at the same time setting up new traditions that can't be questioned.

To put a positive spin on it, for the companies involved, I'd say that it's all about big companies encouraging new regulation to hold back the upstarts, and that is certainly true, in its effect.

But as religions, which these things have become they represent not competitive advantages, but a modern form of Luddism that simply desires a return to the "god old days" of five, ten, or fifty years ago (depending on your age).

Don't be surprised if Google (and other new companies) regularly act against their own best interest in the name of these modern replacements for religion.

An Inconvenient Frost | The Real Revo

"Does global warming scare you? Has Al Gore made you nervous every time warm winter day? Does the possibility of an increase of one degree Centigrade over the next century keep you up at nights? If yes, you are worrying about the wrong things. One aspect of the AGW hoax is the argument that a little warming is a bad thing. In reality, warming has been a boon to human societies resulting in increases in health and populations throughout history. A little warming is unlikely to be much of a problem.

If you want to be terrified, imagine a hard frost five weeks earlier than normal across the growing regions of North America. Imagine a early September frost two years in a row. We aren’t talking about a new ice age here. Just imagine a few hours below freezing across the farm belt one night early in September. The destruction of crops would be devastating. Two years in a row would cause world wide famine. It is pretty easy to imagine a wide ranging frost a few weeks early. It has happened before. Could it happen again?":

For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend "climate change". In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.

Year without a summer

"According to Long Range Expert Joe Bastardi areas from the northern Plains into the Northeast will have a 'year without a summer.' The jet stream which is suppressed abnormally south this spring is also suppressing the number of thunderstorms that can form. The ones that do form in areas of the Ohio Valley and West are forming in places with very cold temperatures which can lead to more electrified thunderstorms than normal this year."

Washington Times - CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul

"President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday."

Will: U.S. Better Off After Economy Recovers | Newsweek Voices - George F. Will | Newsweek.com

The stimulus legislation is a strange response to the president's inaugural call for "a new era of responsibility." State and local governments, which in the five flush years 2003–07 irresponsibly increased spending five times faster than population growth, will get hundreds of billions. Forty-nine states have governors better than California's, but as that state sinks into insolvency (its budget deficit is 40 percent of the sum of all the states' deficits) Arnold Schwarzenegger is merrily saving the planet.

Last week the president gave California permission to impose, for vehicles sold there, one of Schwarzenegger's many dubious achievements—fuel-efficiency standards even more burdensome than the federal standards. California's market is so large, its standards will force upon Detroit's insolvent manufacturers (actually, upon taxpayers) the additional costs of hastening production of cars people do not want to buy (which is why government coercion is "necessary").

Global w-wa-warming.

'Anyone who sends their kid out today is out of the running for parent of the year ' said Eric Friedman a spokesman for Mad River Glen ski area in Fayston Vt. A frostbite caution sign was posted at the ticket office but few skiers were there to see it because of the 5-below-zero cold Friedman said.

Flat-screen TVs to face energy-efficiency rules in California - Los Angeles Times

"Sales of television sets are growing by 4 million a year, the vast majority of them flat-panels. LCD -- liquid crystal display -- sets use 43% more electricity, on average, than conventional tube TVs; larger models use proportionately more. Plasma TVs, which command a relatively small share of the market, need more than three times as much power as bulky, old-style sets."

News to me, and a bit hard to believe, but there is no explanation given for a statement that contradicts everything I've read on the subject thus far. thank-you in-depth MSM reporting!

But maybe it's not just bad reporting. The graph which pictorially restates the above is taken from a state energy commission web site that has lots of links to "useful information" mostly consisting of dead links, or in some cases presentations not of facts on energy use, but instead on high level self promotions for the commission selling the importance of continuing to measure things at taxpayer expense.

I can only assume that the value of CRT TV sets over the newer LCD models has to do with the relative size of the two. I can believe that someone replacing an old 27-inch CRT set with an LCD that is at least twice that size MIGHT be consuming more power. I find it still very hard to beleive that inch for inch the energy used goes up.