Posts about How Liberals Destroyed California as of October 24, 2009

I have been a California resident for the past 23 years.  During that time, I have seen the best of times and worst of times.  Prior to this economic disaster, the only serious recession in those 23 years was in 1991-1992.  At that time, myself and many others in similar situations faced economic turmoil.  However, nothing comes close to what is happening now in what used to be the greatest State in the union.  According to the most recent reports, the unemployment rate in California has

Here are some interesting environmental news links I’ve come across recently: Today, October 24, 2009, is International Day of Climate Action, organized by 350.org . Science Magazine has an interview with Bill McKibben—the founder of 350.org: Writer Bill McKibben has built an international climate activism movement around a concentration: 350 ppm. Two years ago he launched  350.org after NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen told him that was the carbon dioxide concentration needed to prevent dangerous man-made warming ( pdf ).

Let’s thank Congressman Anthony Weiner, our single payer champ, for taking to the streets of New York again, this time to protest the Social Security Administration’s policy decision to freeze the cost of living adjustment (COLA) on Social Security benefits. Unlike last year, when seniors and the disabled received a 5.8% increase in their monthly benefit checks, Social Security checks in 2010 and 2011 will remain stagnant.

“Dialectical thought is the attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.” – TW Adorno, “Bequest” in Minima Moralia (150) For example, we can break into a crow bar factory using a crow bar. Dialectical reasoning, far from the stale old formula of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, traffics in contradiction . “Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. It expels from movements all hesitation, deliberation, civility.

Even liberals have begun to come to the conclusion that Barack Obama has been a bust on creating jobs , as evidenced by a recent New York Times piece.  The Russian and formerly communist Pravda has likewise recently excoriated Obama as quintessentially bringing the “change” of economic destruction rather than job creation and prosperity. Barack Obama and his team assessed the economic conditions, and proposed that the answer was his giant $3.27 trillion stimulus package .  The Obama administration claim was that unemployment – then at 7.2% – would be held under 8% if he got his stimulus.

China’s push for oil in Gulf of Mexico puts U.S. in awkward spotA Chinese company’s gambit to drill for oil in U.S. territory demonstrates China’s determination to lock up the raw materials it needs to sustain its rapid growth, wherever those resources lie. The state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, reportedly is negotiating the purchase of leases owned by the Norwegian StatoilHydro in U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the source of about a quarter of U.S. crude oil production.