How much does that straw cost, CK, alright I'll give 1920, but the next 80 some years, is a not a one off, 1999-2000, which popped the tech bubble and 2004-2006, particularly raise my ire, although the Volcker years toad the wet sprocket too

Now strictly speaking CK, leaving out the gold standard for a minute, the FEd's record doesn't seem so hot, when's the last time they called
a soft landing, lets leave out the Great Depression for a minute, how effective has this been.

He's the only commentator on TV, that I know of that even broaches the subject of the carry trade, and most of the other stuff you obsess
on

Actually this sort of thing, would probably make it to the Beck show, it's exactly the sort of thing that leads him to get more duct tape, 'so his head can be put together, after it explodes" He doesn't really believe in the system, anymore, not as it is currently constituted

Except CK, they were closing off a well, not drilling one, which is something quite different altogether. Anyways you are willing to credit
their meme, even coming from someone like Newsom,. who doesn't realize where his mealticket came from, and has shown other poor judgement as well in the past

What's the FOIA's by Mcintyre, Michaels, and a whole host of others about, that one needed the breach at Hadley, to reveal. Well we're talking the fact pattern, you want to credit the patina of objectivity behind Pachauri's IPCC, They have painted almost every skeptic as an oil company shill, have flooded academia from pre K to Ph'd with their
propaganda, it's the scientific equivalent of subprime financing

Consensus is not science, Lindzen, Spencer, Lomborg, a host of others, have proven that. The placement of many of these monitoring stations, in 'heat islands'. The fact they can't prove there's been any warming in the period in question. There are much more verifiable pressing issues that take precedence

Yes it's an 'unforced error' I've admitted that, and I would rather not have to defend BP's record. But they used the 2004-2005 hurricane
season to shill for AGW, they attacked the energy task force, although
all of those recommendations have been born out, including the 2003
brownout. You keep wanting to credit them good will and credibility, whereas they surely don't return the favor. California is capsizing in Hank Johnson's words, and this is what they focus on.

You're being deliberately obtuse, CK, AGW is a fraud, plain and simple, the East Anglia revelations prove it. The fact that we haven't opened
up a new well in 30 years is more than a crime, it is a fiasco, Do not
grant the NRDC, WWC, good intentions, they do not deserve it

Except that the pressure was against close drilling, because it would more likely affect the pristine beaches, now we drill in the middle of nowhere and we still get the business. If tankers collide in the Houston
ship channel, you'd still have same problem, ditto for a hurricane in the Gulf Coast

AS part of the energy bill, there was more reliance on ethanol which made food prices, rise, there was little real new oil exploration, Green jobs are a dodge, introduced by all the usual supects

Except that Beirut was a marker that Mugniyeh took note of, and passed that information on to Bin Laden, the Marine barracks were
followed by attacks on embassy annexes in West Beirut, by the whole
sale kidnapping of reporters, church envoys, et al, that led us into Iran Contra, and downplaying the fact that this was a Iranian proxy operation run by Mohashtemi-pur and behind him, Moussavi

I grant Krugman no points, as his idiocy, passed through the infosphere
like swine flu, has been in large part responsible for this situation

I guess you consider that adhominem, CK, but I think it just shows the
level of his previous misjudgement, and conversely the media's willingness for him to perpetuate the kultursmog

With Newsom, he seems the prototypical 'limousine liberal' that isn't even aware where fortunes are born from. and seems to want to curtail that opportunity to the vast majority of the rest of us, that makes him the perfect candidate for Lt. Governor as a DEmocrat

Mike " Jesus Camp" Papantonio, that Air American TV wannabe who they are relying on, how about it was the this MMS, who gave the approval, not the previous one

25 K, he's aiming kind of low, you think

It does beg the question, CK. how did you end up on his mailing list

I found this little tidbit, from the local paperhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2000/08/11/MN13354.DTL&type=printable
Newsom pere is also tied to Jerry Brown by appointment and to the Pelosi by familial tie. Btw, are they going to something about Chevron
in their fair city,

Didn't his family business really get started with some deals with Getty Oil, I recall that from some alt zine in the Bay Area. just like Arianna's Humble Oil ties through the Huffingtons, Cynicism knowa no bounds