A useful compendium of second thoughts

Snark, too!  Here.  (Recent posts start about 4 screens down.)

Via: “Miss Orange,” commenting at Pajamas Media.

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“The benighted rubes who constitute so much of our so-called ‘base...’ ”

T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII laments the sad state of the conservative movement.

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Ice loading + high winds = not cool

Ka-Runch!

Yep, it’s a TV tower... folded over

One of News Channel 7’s main broadcast towers has collapsed due to ice and high winds, hitting the main back-up tower as it fell. Both towers are on the ground ...

The road up to Hogback is still being cleared of snow and ice. Crews have made very good progress but still have another mile of road left to scrape.

The analog ch 7 antenna is in Landrum and the crew is getting ready to haul it up the mountain around 4pm. It will most likely take the rest of today just to get it up the hill. We are speculating that they should have the antenna and transmission line up by this weekend but all of this depends on when the truck gets up the mountain.

Another crew is trying to get up to Hogback to install a temporary TSL (transmitter to studio) dish which will get phones and data connections back up and operational.

Don’t envy them that job!

« Snapped off! What a mess! »

(Last time we had something like this happen around here, it was a 500-or-so footer that belonged to the local university FM station. Summer thunderstorm:  Big tree in the adjacent woods blew down and fell across one of the guy wires. Tower fell within the guy circle- as they’re supposed to- disassembling itself into sections on the way down.  No report as to whether any of the occupants of the studio/transmitter building at its base had to change underwear afterward.)

Photo gallery at the link.
Tom Crabtree’s blog entry.

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Hey “Atlas:” Three words for ya

Lot of brave talk around the web about “going Galt;^[1]” with productive people making noises about easing off so they can duck Obama’s tax increases.

Not so fast, Atlas. Three words: Cap And Trade.

The cost of energy for consumers would be driven higher in Presiden Barak Obama’s proposed budget by a cap-and-trade carbon system that is projected to raise $80 billion a year starting in 2012...

The budget assumes a starting price of $20 per ton for carbon emissions, an amount that Mr. Obama’s aides say is conservative and would likely rise.

The budget projects raising $645 billion from the auction of emissions credits between 2012... and 2019.  Mr. Obama would use some of that money to pay for about $120 billion of spending on various low-carbon technologies...  The rest of the money– about $525 billion– would be returned “to the people, especially vulnerable families, communities, and businesses...”^[2]

Well guess what, Atlas, “vulnerable” ain’t you.

So while the Democrats’ clients and buddies get paid, you get to absorb an $80+ billion/year hit.  And it won’t make any difference what your income is, or how much your 1040 taxes are.

Ready for $15 a gallon gasoline?  Ready for you electric bill to quadruple?  Ready for those costs to work their way through the rest of the economy, into the food, and clothing and rents?  Oh, and don’t forget those state and local taxes: It’ll cost more to keep the lights on (and the politicians comfortable) down at the statehouse, and you'll get to pay for it.

Yep, you’ll pay, my pretty.  And you’ll pay more.  And you’ll pay again.

Or you’ll freeze in the dark.



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Just like Pravda in the old days

Instapundit:

The [Chicago] Tribune covered the anti-protest smear, but didn’t cover the protest itself, leaving that to blogs, etc.  And we’re supposed to cry for the disappearance of newspapers?  Maybe if they actually did what they claim they do, people would miss them more when they were gone.  Heck, maybe if they actually did what they claim they do, people would actually subscribe now.  You never know.

John O’Sullivan^[1]:

They often denounced “anti-Soviet lies.” These “lies” had never been reported by them.  Nor were they lies.  And their exposure was the first that readers had been told of them.  By reading the denunciation carefully, however, intelligent readers could decipher what the original story must have been.

In Today’s America, you find out what’s going on by noting what gets denounced in the establishment press.

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Sites linked - February, 2009

43 posts in February– would have done more except for a busy (with other things) final weekend.  Oh, well...

You’ll find the February linklist below the break.

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