Ray Stevens, composer, comedian, singer.

We’re printing money

Obama Money

Let’s do what the government does, it works for them, it might work for us, so I forgot my ethics and morals and swallowed my pride We took out every credit card we could get and took out the maximum debt we borrowed from friends and family and even took out loans overseas I borrowed at work and had credit at the store – until folks just wouldn’t give us credit any more I said Honey, the next step was clear to me.

We’re making money, Obama money we’re printing it in the basement just as fast as we can We’re living the Obama budget plan

We didn’t use the money to reduce the debt, there was a whole lot of things we still wanted to get…

Go buy his latest album: It’s called Spirit of ’76

The man deserves a reward.

h/t Matt Thompson.

Is CO2 mitigation cost-effective?

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley monckton@mail.com Lecture to the Prague School of Economics May 2011

Is CO2 mitigation cost effective? (PDF file, 12 pages)

Hitherto, the economic literature has chiefly addressed the cost-effectiveness of climate mitigation globally. A simple yet comprehensive metric, derived from methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, here taken as reliable), is intended to enable even non-specialist policy-makers to determine not only how much global warming any proposed CO2-reduction policy may be expected to forestall but also the policy’s mitigation cost-effectiveness and the abatement cost of forestalling a given quantum [...]

Millions to be ‘better off’ under carbon tax

Think of the possibilities! If it works on a national scale, why not go international — how much richer would we all be if we buried our  five cheapest sources of energy in a pit under Maralinga, forced everyone to use the sixth, seventh, and eight best sources of energy, AND we took the profits from the most efficient successful operations around the globe (known henceforth as “polluters” (sic))  and gave them to all the world’s poor and needy?

Where do Gillard and Combet think the “Big-Polluters” get their money from? Would it be from:

(a) giant Swiss-bank-accounts held by Nazi war criminals, (b) ancient Saxon wishing wells, or (c) pots at the end of the rainbow?

Do they think the big-polluters pull money out [...]