THE ARTS SUFFER in a bad economy.

But not in an Obama economy.

AND THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL


is an oncoming train.

NUCLEAR POWER: think small.

Hyperion-style reactors can’t melt down, and are designed to be buried in small plots. Why not use that easy portability to distribute your power plants all over the place? Put a couple near your city’s main hospital, a couple more in your industrial zone, with single units scattered around the suburbs and residential cores, and you’ve got a redundant system that’s far less susceptible to, say, blackouts during bad weather, as opposed to running power across hundreds of miles of transmission lines.

It's an obvious solution; it's a correct solution; and it's in the back yard. For that reason alone, it'll never happen.

Unfortunately.

A BRAILLE TEST for taxi drivers. What’s next? Braille speed limit signs?

I SAW David Axlerod on television arguing that the government has “created or saved” millions of jobs by injecting the stimulus funds into the economy. Maybe, but where did/will those stimulus funds come from?

Uh, the economy? How many jobs were lost/will not be created when that money was/will be removed from the economy?

I have to say that the pharmaceutical company that is supplying the Obama administration with stupid pills must be raking in the cash.

[Update & bump to top] Thomas Sowell explains the economy.

OVERREACTION: Atheists outraged over a stamp honoring Mother Teresa.

Some ego reduction surgery is called for ....

SOME THOUGHTS ON HAITI (from my email):

I just returned from Haiti .....

Port o Prince is in ruins. The rest of the country is fairly intact.... There are easily 200,000 dead, the city smells like a charnal house. The bloody UN was there for 5 years doing apparently nothing but wasting US Taxpayers money. The ones I ran into were either incompetent or outright anti American.

USAID, when in control of all inbound flights, had food and water flights stacked up all the way to Miami, yet allowed Geraldo Rivera, Anderson Cooper and a host of other left wing news puppies to land.... Pulled all the security off the rescue teams so that Bill Clinton and his wife could have the grand tour, whilst we sat unable to get to people trapped in the rubble.... Stacked enough food and water for the relief over at the side of the airfield then put a guard on it ... and wouldn't release a drop of it to the rescuers.

I watched a 25 year old Obamite with the USAID shrieking hysterically, berate a full bird colonel in the air force, because he countermanded her orders, whilst trying to unscrew the air pattern. " You don't know what your president wants! The military isn't in charge here we are!"

Bad place, bad situation, but a perfect look at the new world order in action.... Haiti doesn't need democracy, what Haiti needs is Papa Doc. That's not just my opinion , that is what virtually every Haitian we talked with said. "The French run the UN treat us the same as when we were a colony, at least Papa Doc ran the country."

Pretty rough. I can't vouch for the email's authenticity, but it is consistent with what I've seen and heard before about the UN and other international "development" agencies.

SAVE THE CANADIANS - don't adopt Obamacare.