NC Media Watch

Obama, "The One" playing Marie Antoinette

Russ Steele

"The president will spend the next 10 days holed up at a tony, 28-acre elite playground called the Blue Heron Farm as the country plummets toward a double-dip recession," according to an article in the New York Post.

Not the common touch: With its million-dollar buses, the Obama “jobs” tour of the Midwest failed to strike the intended populist note.

Does nobody in the White House realize how poorly this act is playing?

Hitting three Midwest communities in two sleek, specially outfitted, Canadian-made million-dollar campaign buses, the president came off like a visiting Marie Antoinette, out among the besieged peasantry for a few days to preach his newfound religion of jobs.

The Black Caucus wants to know how come that bus never made it to a black community?  They have a higher unemployment rate than the communities than the ones "The One" visted with his bus tour. This whole tour is coming off as one big bust!   No one is happy. Only 11% are happy with the way things are going. This becoming a let them "eat cake" situation for "The One."

Prop 23 Update: Shutting down the Green Energy Sector

Russ Steele

The UK Climate Policy Newwork points to an interesting story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Don  Hopey: Corbett quietly turning off the lights on renewable energy.

Quietly but systematically, the Pennsylvanian administration has all but shut down the state Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Energy and Technology Deployment -- the state's primary energy office -- and removed directors and reassigned staff in the Office of Energy Management in the Department of General Services and the Governor's Green Government Council. It has also forbidden state executive agencies from signing contracts that support clean energy supply. One former DEP employee said of the Energy Office, "it's being taken apart piece-by-piece and the pieces are being thrown away.

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Pennsylvania is not the only state reassessing or reducing green policies. Governors and legislators have voiced similar concerns in Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, according to the Pew Research Center

While other states are folding up the green energy tent while California is prompting a dangerous dependency on renewable energy. This dependency will drive up energy costs for business  and citizens. As California energy prices climb higher and higher, those states with lower costs will begin to attract California business and those with high paying portable jobs. 

I find it interesting that Pennsylvania is benefiting from extensive shale gas drilling, which is producing cheap easily transportable fuel for power plants and the heating of homes and factories. This is exactly what the EPA and the environmentalist wackos were concerned about. They are trying to shut down shale gas drilling by banning "fracking" which an essential tool for securing this cheap energy.  The sooner we put EPA in a political coma the better off we will all be.

Oh my, Obama had better have a really great jobs plan

Russ Steele



I am hearing rumors that “The One’s” jobs plan is just more stimulus spending. His basic political philosophy will not allow him to do what really needs to be done, lower taxes, reduce small business regulations, put the EPA in a coma, turn on California water, and start drilling for oil in the US.  We can drill and grow our way out of the econmic hole we have dug for ourselves, but first we have to put the EPA in a political coma.

Finally, A Republican candidate with a strong opinion on AGW

Russ Steele

It is on every radio station news update.  Texas Gov. Rick Perry does not believe that climate change is caused by human activity. He even goes farther in New Hampshire today, when he stated that scientists are using phony climate change data to make a buck.

"A substantial number of scientists manipulated data to keep the money rolling in," said Perry.

This statement was reported by  the New Hampshire Union Leader editor Drew Cline in a tweet. Before that, Cline quoted Perry saying, "I do believe the issue of global warming has been politicized."

More can be found at TMPDC

I have to agree. There are billions of tax dollars being spent to study anthropogenic global warming. If scientist were to admit warming and cooling is a natural processes, and the most that CO2 emissions double can warm the planet is about 1.5 Fº, the government's global warming money tree would die. To protect their grants and money tree, scientist continue to promote the myth of AGW and the need to stop it by controlling CO2 emissions. Details on CO2 emissions here.

On the other hand, the RINO Mitt Romney believes the world is getting warmer and that humans are contributing to that pattern.  Just like I could not bring myself to vote for Meg Whitman because she would not take a strong position against AGW, I will not vote for Romney should be become the GOP Candidate. God for bid.  While Perry may not be the perfect candidate, he would take action to bring the EPA under control, and put an end to job killing regulations. If Perry is elected we can get back to drilling for gas and oil and shut down the bird shredders that are wiping out the American Eagle, and create jobs in the process.

Marketing insight from "The One" -- Gas Prices are going up

Russ Steele

President Obama has some guidance for US auto makers.

The country’s automakers should ditch their focus on SUVs and trucks in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, President Obama said Monday.

“You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks,” Obama said during a town hall forum in Cannon Falls, Minn. “There is a place for SUVs and trucks, but as gas prices keep on going up, you have got to understand the market. People are going to try to save money.”

I wonder how it is that "The One" knows gas prices are going to continue to go up, up and up? 

Oh My, Lowest Yet?

Russ Steele


Overall, only 43% of likely voters approve of Obama’s performance, while 55% disapprove.  Note the upward trend of strongly disaprove. This cannot be a good re-electon trend.

More details at Rassmussen Reports.

Government is incapable of protecting citizens from evil

Russ Steele 

How do you defend yourself from evil, when the government proves it is incapable of defending it’s citizens?  The British Government made a commitment to the citizens when they took a way their means of self protection, and they have clearly failed.   

John Hinderaker writing in the New York Post:

Traditionally, looters have been shot -- and not with plastic. Napoleon’s “whiff of grapeshot” always works. The first volley goes over the heads of the rioters; the second is never needed.

But nowadays, there seems to be an implicit admission that rioters are entitled to take over the streets and wreak destruction in revenge . . . for what?

What makes the present such a frightening time is that a number of nightmarish phenomena that we had thought consigned to the dustbin of history are reappearing. Rioters in the streets. Burning buildings. Plunging markets and the threat of depression. The scent of socialism in the air.

Who, as of, say, 1989, could have imagined that in barely 20 years, what was then known as the Free World could sink so far?

What we are seeing in London and other English cities is an outpouring of evil. To try to explain evil as the result of something else is almost always a mistake.

I think this growth in evil was inevitable. The British government mandated gun registration and they they force the people turn in their handguns, as many liberals want to do in the US. England's political leaders criminalized the possession of handguns — the final deadline for turning them in was Feb. 27, 1998. These hoodlums know that citizens have no means of defense, so they rob, rape and rampage with immunity. The police have proved they are incapable of defending the citizens of London and other British cities.

We need to take a lesson from what we are seeing in the burning of London. We must resist every attempt of liberals to take a way our means of self defense. When the police are incapable of defensing us from evil, we must have the means to do it ourselves.  Do not let liberal political leaders take away our guns, our means of self defense.

Wisconsin Republican's won 53 percent of recall vote

Russ Steele

While the local left are stumbling all over themselves, the GOP won by comfortable margins in Districts that went for Obama in 2010. It must have been those pesky Tea Party folks who are responsible again for defeating the Democrats.  According to the Democrats they were responsible for the rating down grade, so with that much power they must have been responsible for swinging  the Wisconsin vote to the Republicans as well.  Or, it could have been just the wisdom of Wisconsin voters. Either way, it is bad news for Obama in 2012.

Barry Pruett has some thought on this election here worth your consideration. 

California's High-Speed Train Wreck

Russ Steele

Cynthia Ward writing at the City Journal has a very interesting and insighful article.

California’s multi-billion-dollar bullet-train boondoggle was predictable—and predicted.

In October 2008, Joseph Vranich, a preeminent authority on high-speed rail in the United States,
testified before a hearing of California’s State Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. Vranich,
the best-selling author of Supertrains and a 40-year advocate of high-speed rail, had come to offer his thoughts on the state’s plan to build a high-speed rail line from Orange County to San Francisco. “This is the first time I am  unable to endorse a high-speed rail plan,” he told the senators, saying that he found the California High Speed Rail  Authority’s work to be “the poorest I have ever seen.”

It’s fair to say that the vast majority of California voters never heard what Vranich had to say. Instead, they relied on faulty and unverified information on their ballot statements, where high-speed rail proponents touted the environmental advantages and fiscal benefits of the state’s plan. Less than a month after his testimony, voters approved Proposition 1A, authorizing Sacramento to sell a few billion dollars in bonds for a project most experts, now including the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office and the University of California, say will cost tens of billions of dollars more than the official $43 billion estimate.

Read the rest of the article here. I have written about these issues on this blog many times.

Over the e-mail transom: The Door Bell

Russ Steele

The Powerline Door Bell Video has gone viral.

Doorbell started to take off on a trajectory that roughly doubled the number of views each day.
Over the last 24 hours on Power Line, Doorbell has been viewed 38,235 times, or, on the average,
once every 2 and 1/4 seconds. Traffic on YouTube has been similar.

Check out the Door Bell for yourself HERE. It only takes 59 seconds of you time, but the message
will stay with you until the problem is fixed, 2012 cannot come soon enough.