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Mukasey To Pelosi: I’ve Got Your Contempt Right Here

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 7:05:35 PM
From Hot Air;

Attorney General Michael Mukasey has informed Nancy Pelosi that he will not enforce the contempt citations issued by the House last week. He informed the Speaker that neither Josh Bolten nor Harriet Miers committed any crimes, and therefore the Department of Justice didn’t really see the need to prosecute    them . . .

The next step will be for the House to file a lawsuit against the DoJ to force them into prosecuting the citations. That gets into some sticky areas of the law. The concepts of executive privilege have not fully been tested in the courts, and until now both elective branches have done their best to avoid an all-out legal confrontation.

In this case, though, the House has been itching for a fight. The White House has offered to meet the committee members partway, but they have insisted on demanding that the Bush administration give up its claim on executive privilege instead — which no one ever believed they would do. Mukasey found that Bush’s use of executive privilege meets legal requirements.

Now the courts will have to make a decision that will make one branch or another very unhappy, and for a very long time — all over terminations that were obviously in the purview of the executive, and after a fishing expedition that produced nothing more than an incompetent AG. Thankfully, we have a much more talented replacement at the helm.


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Dutch Public Broadcasters Dump Bible-Koran Violence Relativism

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:57:54 PM
From our friends at Hot Air;

Our friend Robert Spencer reports that the Dutch public broadcaster KRO has given up on its planned production to show that the Bible contains just as much potential for violence as the Koran. NIS News states that the reason that KRO put this project in turnaround is that the producers couldn’t make the case . . .

An “insufficient basis”? What does that mean? It means that context is everything. While no one doubts that the Bible contains plenty of violence, it comes in the context of history, not commands. Geert Wilders, the inspiration for this idea, understood the difference. KRO — which according to NIS is nominally a Christian broadcaster — didn’t have enough knowledge of the Bible to understand it themselves.

This is the silliness that accompanies moral relativism. In their quest to prove that all cultures are equal, they rush to excuse barbarity by discovering barbarity in our own religion. Only, we don’t see significant or even fringe “jihadi” movements in Judaism or Christianity, or for that matter in Buddhism or Hinduism either. Only one major religion has that kind of movement, and as Wilders demonstrated, it is based on the core scriptural texts of their belief. That doesn’t mean the vast majority of its practitioners are jihadists, but it does mean that there really are quantitative and qualitative differences between the two texts — which really should be an obvious point.

Perhaps “Christian” broadcaster KRO should familiarize itself better with the Bible. That way, it won’t have to issue embarrassing press releases that reveal their ignorance of its own scriptural texts.



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Are Polar Bears Edible?

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:30:04 PM
My 2008 New Year’s resolution was to stop haranguing about weak-kneed politicians and corporate executives who worship at the appeasement altar every time a group of activist nannies demands tribute. I concluded that whether or not I pontificated about the benefits of capitalism and freedom, the trend toward corporate socialism, cleverly veiled as the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement, would be ultimately reversed by the economic forces converging toward the end of 2007.

According to a Business Week article published this week, a recent survey of 527 MBA students at 12 top-ranked business schools found that, “a company’s record on environmental issues ranked at the bottom of factors MBAs are using to select employers,” and that “also close to the bottom were other so-called company value issues such as corporate ethics, social responsibility, and community involvement.”  This news contradicts the propaganda spewed by the eco-socialists who want companies to believe that if they don’t cave and capitulate to every new environmental whim, no one will want to work for them. 

Corporate social responsibility advocates have long claimed that companies that fail to jump on the CSR bandwagon will suffer the consequences when it comes to recruiting new talent.  They conjured up this red herring to divert attention from the fact there is no evidence that appeasing the activists benefits the bottom line.  Now, thanks to Business Week, we can rest easy knowing that the vast majority of MBA students still consider salary and career opportunities as the most important factors in selecting an employer.  They haven’t all joined the Green Party!

According to Adweek Magazine, since 2005 BP has spent over $100 million a year to convince U.S. consumers that it is greener than ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and Texaco.  The article provides no solid evidence that consumers are rewarding BP at the pumps for what may be the greatest hoodwink in the annals of advertising.  To be sure, sales have risen thanks to $100/barrel oil but every petroleum company has benefited from skyrocketing crude. 

The Adweek article also fails to address how BP could justify spending all that money on a campaign to puff up its image when the company’s poor safety and maintenance practices apparently resulted in a fatal explosion at its refinery in Texas, and the forced shut-down of a highly corroded BP pipeline in Alaska.  These two events contributed to the expedited resignation of BP CEO John Browne, the person who jumped in bed with Greenpeace and drove the company beyond petroleum and toward corporate socialism.  Poor John Browne; he found out that it’s not easy being Green!



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A Total Crock of Doo-Doo!

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:22:05 PM
. . . How many parrot the environmental slogans du jour and spout platitudes about corporate social responsibility because they would rather appease the activists than fight to protect their companies and shareholders from the scourge of eco-socialism? I will be keen to watch these corporate Neville Chamberlains squirm when manmade global warming takes its place in the Guinness Book of World Records under the category “Biggest Fraud Perpetrated on Mankind.”

The author of the National Post column, Lorne Gunter, noted, “It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.  But if environmentalists and environmental reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter’s weather stories to wonder whether the alarmists are being a tad premature.”
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Time To Go Nuclear

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:18:11 AM

Reuters Summit - Execs Say US Must Consider New Nuclear Plants

CHICAGO - The roughly 100 nuclear power plants in the United States are approaching the end of their useful life, and manufacturing executives say the nation cannot rule out building new ones if it wants to keep up with electricity demand.

"If you want to talk about energy availability and the environment in the same paragraph, you have to be talking about nuclear," John Rice, a General Electric Co vice chairman who heads up the conglomerate’s infrastructure arm, told the Reuters Manufacturing Summit in Chicago this week.
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Oil Prices

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:16:39 AM

What’s Really Driving the Price of Oil?

By Beat Balzli and Frank Hornig, Der Spiegel

The price of crude oil has doubled, from $50 to $100, within months. The increase cannot be attributed to the fundamental data, which have hardly changed. And the looming recession ought to drive the price down. So why is oil getting more expensive?

Petrol price to rise as oil giants get ‘cheeky’

Well what does anyone expect, that businesses won’t pass on added costs?
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Wind Power Problems

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:14:56 AM

Wind Farms May Threaten Whooping Cranes

(AP) — Whooping cranes have waged a valiant fight against extinction, but federal officials warn of a new potential threat to the endangered birds: wind farms.

Down to about 15 in 1941, the gargantuan birds that migrate each fall from Canada to Texas now number 266, thanks to conservation efforts.

But because wind energy has gained such traction, whooping cranes could again be at risk - either from crashing into the towering wind turbines and transmission lines or because of habitat lost to the wind farms.

Loss of wind causes Texas power grid emergency

Uh-huh… and it was just last Saturday that the New York Times ran: Move Over, Oil, There’s Money in Texas Wind. There might be money in subsidy farming but there surely is no reliable energy supply in it.

Loss of wind causes Texas power grid emergency
Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:11pm EST
 
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A drop in wind generation late on Tuesday, coupled with colder weather, triggered an electric emergency that caused the Texas grid operator to cut service to some large customers, the grid agency said on Wednesday.
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Public Transportation Cost To Much, Just Tax The People

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:13:30 AM

Oops! Zero-emission buses more than 30 times dearer to run

So, if you make public transport fares 30 times higher, will that encourage people to abandon their cars and flock to public transport?
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Candidates Fail Energy Independence Test

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, March 01, 2008 12:58:18 AM
Candidates Fail Energy Independence Test - All the presidential candidates say they’re for energy independence. So why didn’t they do something about it when they had the chance?

Hillary Clinton rails on her web site about Americans sending “billion of dollars to the Middle East for their oil.” Barack Obama warns that Middle East oil is the “lifeline of Al Qaeda.” Republican hopeful John McCain says that, if elected, his energy policy will “amount to a declaration of independence from our reliance on oil sheiks and our vulnerability to their troubled politics.”

But Clinton and Obama recently voted for a bill that can only promote dependency on oil from the Middle East . And John McCain, went AWOL, not voting on the bill at all.
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