For shit's sake!
When, during the recovery process, do we begin to create wealth again? Anyway...so the fed is giving states a bunch of money to subsidize home appliances continuing the greenerizing of the country. Of course this will not happen for months down the line. So now everybody is going to know about it in weeks and if they were thinking of buying new appliances will hold off until this plan takes affect. Merry Christmas home appliance dealers!
My personal favorite snippet...
"The states are required to estimate how many jobs their programs will create. California, which will receive $35 million, preliminarily estimated that it will create 350 jobs. This was based on the assumption that for every $92,000 expended, one job would be created."
I hear they reported the 350 jobs straight into the one's teleprompter. Tragically, it was transmitted at dinner time in the middle of the blessing. Michelle reportedly did not even notice.
In related, predictable, and unavoidable news... The EPA has rendered it's endangerment finding regarding carbon dioxide (among other pollutants) allowing them to regulate at will. The interesting part of the AP story is that they don't say the EPA does not need congressional approval. The only way congress could rein them in is to cut funding, but that would mean the one would have to sign off on it.
Oh fuck it why stop now... Did you know..."The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in almost 100 years."
“The sun has been at an extended minimum for the past two years,’’ said Leon Golub, senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics and a leading sun scientist. “But only about 10 percent of climate variation is due to the sun. That means 90 percent isn’t.’’
Wait Wait Wait, What the fuck did you say?! I need help with this one. It would just make far too much sense to think the thing that affects the weather more than anything is the Sun. So when they say...
"If the solar lull lasts, history suggests it could conceivably stall global warming by years or even decades. During the so-called Maunder Minimum - an 80-year stretch of low sunspot activity in the 1600s and 1700s - Europe and North America suffered brutal winters and truncated summers in what came to be known as the Little Ice Age."
they are telling me the Little Ice Age was caused by a ten percent variation of our climate due to the Sun? That would beg a question about what the fuck, presumably on earth, could account for the other ninety percent?
Ugh....quick, I need a kitten.
