Friday links: TIME’s 100, Americanizing Shelley, ethanol, bulbs and more
posted at 11:28 am on May 4, 2007 by Bryan
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Right. So TIME magazine seriously thinks that the leader of the free world, POTUS himself, is less influential on the world stage than Leo DiCaprio or Omar al-Bashir? Who are they kidding? Not Don Surber.
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When Hot Air gets the company jet, I’m going to change all my lightbulbs and then tell everyone else how to live while I zip about above the clouds. Hey, it works for envirohypocrite Laurie David!
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Hugo Chavez looks more like Castro every day.
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Next president: Optimism, schmoptimism. I’m with Andy McCarthy: We need a brawler.
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The pro-American film Americanizing Shelley opens today. Check local listings on Yahoo Movies or your aggregator of choice. We profiled the film in a Vent a while back. It looks like a fun film made by an unapologetically patriotic group.
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Ethanol: Not a panacea. It reduces oil use but may kill the rain forest. Poor women and children hit hardest. The corn god will not be appeased.
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Jules Crittenden gets down on the ground in Iraq. Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Abscam) gets some deserved blowback from Gen. Petraeus.
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One more: The answer to keeping Iran from medding in Iraq: Show a little skin?
Links: The New Editor, Moonbattery.
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Absolutely correct. Not only will switching to ethanol actually be counterproductive pollution wise, it would require 100% of current US corn crops to meet the Bush admins goals of production. Doesn’t sound too viable, does it. I’m all for energy independence, but not at that cost.
Additionally, creating land for palm oil is responsible for a huge amount of deforestation in Malaysia (87% if I remember correctly).
Really? That’s an interesting factoid. I do know that the Indy car series has switched to ethanol exclusively. I wonder how that works.
SouthernDem on May 4, 2007 at 3:34 PM
But the dems have been openly signaling defeat WAY before they took power in that razor-thin election we just had.
The dems have been bleating defeatism for a long long time now. And the attitude of the Iraqi people and their leadership and the fighting factions among them are preparing themselves for when we unwisely abandon them.
honora, do you not see that the actions of the dems have really made a bad situation just that much worse? Pu aside the contrarian attitude for just a second and consider what I’m saying. Lamenting we’re there, and in the situation we’re in doesn’t move us closer to effectively solving the problem. Rhetoric without contributing ideas for solutions is a meaningless excercise. We could use some well thought out solutions, rather than expending all this energy on vitriol and hyperbole (both sides!).
Enjoy that martini, mighty gnat-swatter. Looking forward to the end of the day myself, but I’ve gotta get some work done. After all… I are the knuckle-draggin’ boss ’round these parts. I should be kickin’ my own ass into action instead of playing here with all of you. Duty calls. ;)
techno_barbarian on May 4, 2007 at 3:38 PM
It’s a Catch-22.
If we stay we control the stability of the Middle East. If we leave Iran will control the stability of the Middle East.
What we are doing right now is acting as a barrier between Arab, Syrian, Persian, and North African Muslims who want to eradicate Israel, and Israel who would respond with overwhelming force in self defence. This would be an extremely ugly thing, much much worse than the tiny war we are currently waging.
If we just up and leave now, we would be coming right back in the near future fighting a much larger scale conflict on the side of Israel.
Lawrence on May 4, 2007 at 3:38 PM
Someday you’ll have to tell me what it is about the Mavs that you so dislike.
Gotta run all–techno, I will catch you later. Sorry is I was mean. I’m such a sheer delight in person. Oh shut up…
honora on May 4, 2007 at 3:38 PM
So much to say:
- Because this is HotA**, let me first say of American Shelley: nice cupcakes!
- JaHeyDere: Love the instant stats BS post; stfu.
- Hiraghm: you’re probably right. They have her in the tight sweater (which I love), miniskirt. Slutting her up for the rappers.
- Laurie David: Hey, let’s all take the Hot Air pledge! I hereby pledge to burn less fossil fuel each year than the David family has burned on average over the last ten years. I suspect that this slut has burned more petrol in the last three years than I will in my life. (JaHeyDere: instant stats! Gotta be true!)
Time: whatever. Bush animates every waking moment of every leftist in America and half of Europe (instant!), but he’s less influential than Elizabeth Edwards? Too funny.
Jaibones on May 4, 2007 at 3:39 PM
If I may add:
While I can burn petroleium/oil in my car and eat corn. And I cannot burn corn/ethanol and eat the oil.
I’m all for developing alternative fuels, but not at the expense of starvation.
Lawrence on May 4, 2007 at 3:44 PM
I never said that. We have never been and never will be the “toast of the town in the Arab world”, but the fact of the matter is that the Dems have Islamic militants that are happy they won the elections, and have voiced this as a victory for them. When it comes to what is said over there, we have to read between the lines. And you know that what is said publicly doesn’t always coincide with what is said privately (and that’s always the case with our conversations with countries over there).
So what you are saying is option 2 is better - even if we dragged into a much larger war later? I don’t understand that way of thinking - it’s like you are just saying “out of sight, out of mind.” It’s not going to just vanish when we leave, honora. Just because CNN and MSNBC stop reporting from a certain part of the world doesn’t mean news isn’t happening there.
Rick on May 4, 2007 at 3:46 PM
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Two words: SPURS FAN.
Rick on May 4, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Honora - you’re a Martini girl!?! How do you fix ‘em?
RushBaby on May 4, 2007 at 3:49 PM
You have swallowed the MSM propaganda, hook, line and sinker.
Now you can go ahead and believe the Iraqis are not inclined to favor this democracy thingy over Saddam’s reign of terror, that’s your perogative. Polling data from the insurgent neighborhoods surrounding the Green Zone is by no means reflective of the Iraqi people as a whole. I’d like to know how the MSM correspondents are capable of conducting a poll of the people, since they are fearful of venturing beyond the Green Zone, and to the other regions of Iraq - where peaceful co-existence abounds, the actions of our troops are appreciated, business goes on as usual and Iraqi’s citizens are basking in the glow of freedom.
Don’t bother to ask how I would know this, or who are my sources - I’ll spare you the trouble. My source is reliable, truthful and currently serving his second tour in Iraq. His specialized training takes him to every corner of Iraq, so he’s well qualified to provide a more dynamic overview of conditions in their struggling democracy. He has told me how the Iraqi’s appreciate what we have done, are doing, but they also look forward to the day when our troops leave and they can manage and control their own destiny. Sure doesn’t sound like the bullcrap fed to us from the MSM, does it?
You don’t want to call my son a liar, do you?
fogw on May 4, 2007 at 4:06 PM
Hey foggy,
Tell your son I’m very thankful and grateful for his service.
I agree with you. All the news coming out of Centcom isn’t rosy and wonderful, but there’s no way you can read the massive number of stories they post every single day and not see that we are making huge positive strides in Iraq. At great cost, yes, but still a great deal of progress is being made.
So damn much just goes un-reported on this side of the pond. It’s a disgrace what passes for news these days.
Back to work…
techno_barbarian on May 4, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Hey foggy,
Tell your son I’m very thankful and grateful for his service.
I agree with you. All the news coming out of Centcom isn’t rosy and wonderful, but there’s no way you can read the massive number of stories they post every single day and not see that we are making huge positive strides in Iraq. At great cost, yes, but still a great deal of progress is being made.
So damn much just goes un-reported on this side of the pond. It’s a disgrace what passes for news these days.
Back to work…
techno_barbarian on May 4, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Sorry for the double post.
techno_barbarian on May 4, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Let’s see now…
Murtha is a proven liar concerning the briefing.
Murtha is a proven CROOK via ABSCAM.
Why is Murtha still a Congressman and not a federal prisoner awaiting completion of his sentence, again?
Vote Democrat, vote traitor.
georgej on May 4, 2007 at 4:40 PM
Also not on any list of most influential anything…
TIME MAGAZINE
If a lefty rag prints something ridiculous and nobody reads it, did it really matter? I’m at a point now where Time Magazine not including the leader of the free world as one of its most influential people doesn’t surprise me. The media hate their own President above all else for some time now.
Welcome to any newcomers who still hoped that the drive-by media was at least somewhat “objective.” Well, it’s not.
bigbeas on May 4, 2007 at 6:26 PM
Hooray for cleavage! More please!
Neo on May 5, 2007 at 11:23 PM
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