For McKibben and the Kool-Aid drinkers

For those of you that missed the next to the “Greatest Show on Gaia”, here’s another reason for the Azalea to get out the hankie.

Wow, no goals scored with that hockey stick unless sticking in someone’s  ear counts.
This just in: in third period play in Copenhagen, it’s Skeptics 5, Frauds 2
Lets [...]

Your tax dollars at work

The Progressive plan and solution is here.

Vermont’s statewide property tax is expected to go up next year.
If the statewide levy goes up as expected, it would be the first time since the statewide portion of the property tax system was created in 1997 that it has done so. [snip]

We have fewer students attending therefore we [...]

This is for the children too

Vermont’s newest office, the Progressive Office for Sustainability, declared that all of the increase will go toward Whirligigs and rooftop hotplates. Oh yeah, and subsidies too.

Vt’s Largest Electric Utility Seeks To Raise Rates
CVPS Wants 5.9 Percent Rate Hike
RUTLAND, Vt. — Vermont’s largest electric utility is asking for permission to raise its rates by 5.91 percent.
Central [...]

Help from strange places

This Senator will save the US from a sure fiscal collapse; the government take over of more private sector economy which, thanks to LBJ, has cost the consumer and is bankrupting health care.
HE’S CERTAINLY DOING MORE THAN VERMONT’S PAIR OF INEPT BOZOS!
Sometimes you have to like a man’s spine!

Joe Lieberman: I’ll block vote on Harry [...]

Uncivil Engineering

All photos by J. Kirk Edwards-courtesy of the Eagle newspaper, Addison County- All rights reserved
I thank Mr. Edwards for sending these photos of the Crown Point (Champlain) Bridge to me and graciously allowing their use.

The ominous heavy flapping of gallinaceous wings bodes ill for the remnants of Vermont taxpayers.

Scrawny starved AOT chickens coming to [...]

A matter of scale

Over at the Vermont Tiger there’s a bit of discussion ongoing about wind turbines, measurements and such with the usual words tossed around without meaning. Perhaps this posting will knot some knickers, one can only hope.
One individual, self titled “The Gooch” who has a more than passing grasp of he terminology; he used the slip [...]

Forecast for the Dynamic Duo of Shummy & Shap

Warning over US cash-for-clunkers scheme
The popular US cash-for-clunkers programme may be drawing money from other consumer purchases and could also undermine future car sales, US economists have warned.
Add these payments to the monthly budget and we see how retail spending shapes up for the next 1½ years.
Layoffs, foreclosures and bankruptcies are rising still and forecast [...]

Baked Air = HOT AIR

Baked air is the Dutch word for BS.
With Global warming/Climate change that’s all we get from the District of Criminals. The Vermont Legislature isn’t doing any better in the thinking department.

Government monopsony distorts climate science, says SPPI

The Science and Public Policy Institute announces the publication of Climate Money, a study by Joanne Nova revealing [...]

How Obamacare will work

This short video is quite explanatory.
Doctor Bob leads you through the simple steps.

Vermont’s Green Machine

A CAP & TAX winner from P-O-R!

This is soooooo retro. Why it will make you lust for metal edged Formica countertops in the kitchen.
Think Metropolitan and cement mixer in the same image. Conjoined!