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Monday, February 6, 2012
‘Will Seaweed be the Biofuel Solution?‘
 Energy piece by Dennis T. Avery
(2/6/12)
Churchville, VA - Researchers may have broken the biofuel barrier. A new biotech discovery enables ethanol to be made from a common variety of brown seaweed. This would by-pass the biggest problem with corn ethanol and biodiesel - the world’s shortage of cropland. The new ethanol process uses the familiar E coli bacterium working on kombu, a variety of edible brown kelp, which is common in the world’s seas and oceans. It has been grown and harvested commercially by such countries as China, Japan, and Korea for hundreds of years. If you like sushi, it is the brown wrapping on your favorites.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Mitt Throws a Fit
Election 2012 piece by Aaron Goldstein
(1/24/12)
Mitt Romney is mad. - Wouldn’t you be mad if you had double digit lead in the polls in South Carolina only to squander that lead in a matter of days and then lose to Newt Gingrich by twelve points?
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
‘Can Freedom Survive or Is the Fix In?‘
Election 2012 piece by Robert R. Owens
(1/17/12)
The Republicans have a habit of nominating moderates who have served the Party well, or as the Soviets called them apparatchiks, or as they are called in Chicago Ward Heelers, or as they are called everywhere else Hacks. That is how they ended up with Bob Dole and John McCain. They had run for the nomination before and lost. They were loyal soldiers who then went on to support the nominee. And now, it was their turn. That is not a very convincing campaign argument: “It’s my turn.“
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Cut Loose at Fifty: Chapter Eleven - Telling An English Joke in Chinese
Asia piece by Guest:
Chris Clancy (1/15/12)
The second semester got off to smooth start – a good job as well - because the first half of it proved to be a very hectic affair.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Consideration for Cooperstown Revisited
Sports piece by Aaron Goldstein
(1/12/12)
Shortly before the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) voted in Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven into the Baseball Hall of Fame last year, I wrote an article about players I believed deserved greater consideration for Cooperstown. (1) Well, the BBWAA has just voted to induct Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin. In July, Larkin will be inducted along with Chicago Cubs legend Ron Santo who was given posthumous, if not bittersweet approval by the Veterans Committee last month. So here are three more players who I think worthy of baseball immortality.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Faith In Fairy Tales And Willful Ignorance
Elitists piece by Thomas E. Brewton
(1/3/12)
An evolutionary psychologist asserts that evolution in the ways humans use their brains, influenced exclusively by external, materialistic conditions, has made our era the least violent period in history.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Some stuff from the news desk
Society piece by John David Powell
(12/29/11)
Here at the world blogcast headquarters of ShadeyHill Ranch, we still do some things the old-fashion way. Take the way we cover the news, for instance.
Owens’ Law Of Oscillating Pyramids
History piece by Robert R. Owens
(12/29/11)
Which explains The Cyclical Rise and Fall of Bureaucracy While at the same time answering the age-old question: “What happened to the Maya?” OR I’M NOT GIVING YOU ANYMORE CORN TO BUILD PYRAMIDS
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Imaginary benefits, extensive harm
EPA piece by Guest:
Craig Rucker (12/27/11)
EPA mercury rules for electricity generating units are based on false science and economics - The Environmental Protection Agency clams its “final proposed” Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rules will eliminate toxic pollution from electrical generating units, bring up to $140 billion in annual health benefits, and prevent thousands of premature deaths yearly – all for “only” $11 billion a year in compliance costs.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Thou shalt not question UN ‘experts’
ClimateGate piece by Guest:
Kelvin Kemm (12/22/11)
Inconvenient questions will not be tolerated in Durban or other climate crisis conferences - British Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley parachuted with me into Durban, South Africa, to challenge UN climate crisis claims, attracting numerous journalists and onlookers. A 20-foot banner across our press conference table gave the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow further opportunities to present realistic perspectives on the science and economics of climate change.
Putting the Paste Back in the Tube
History piece by Robert R. Owens
(12/22/11)
We all know that trying the same thing over and over expecting different results is a popular definition of insanity. And we also know that putting the paste back in the tube is a popular illustration of an impossible task.
A new strategy to feed the world
Food piece by Dennis T. Avery
(12/22/11)
CHURCHVILLE, VA - Can we successfully grow more plants per acre as a future strategy for increasing our crop yields and food production? Sixty thousand corn plants per acre - twice Iowa’s current average - could be one route to higher productivity. The world will need twice as much food in 2050, and we’ll need to triple the crop yields on the best land. Doubling would be a very good start.
Cut Loose at Fifty: Chapter Ten - Something Completely Different
Asia piece by Guest:
Chris Clancy (12/22/11)
January 2006. The first semester at ZUEL finished. - I was told that the department was very happy with my performance. As a reward I was given a pay rise of 500 RMB per month. I was now earning the same as I had got at DJK, but for a lot less hours. I was happy with this considering that I didn’t think my performance had been anything to write home about.
My Twelve Favorite Christmas Songs
Holidays piece by Aaron Goldstein
(12/22/11)
Although I do not celebrate Christmas I do enjoy many of the songs that have been written about it. Granted, I think it’s a bit much when I start hearing Christmas songs in October. If it were up to me, the playing of Christmas songs would begin after Thanksgiving. With that, here are my twelve favorite Christmas recordings.
Executive Orders
Social Engineering piece by Robert R. Owens
(12/22/11)
The problem with social engineering is that the engineers don’t know how to drive the train. More like a complicated machine than a single celled organism society is a collection of individuals. Human nature decrees that freedom of choice is an inherent part of our social DNA therefore a healthy society is one built upon the choices and decisions freely arrived upon by the individuals who make up the whole. It is the self-interest and self-direction of these choices which build into the productive life of a free society.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Skills gap hobbles US employers
EdukShun piece by Offsite
(12/14/11)
Drew Greenblatt has been looking for more than a year for three sheet-metal set-up operators to work day, night or weekend shifts.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Cut Loose at Fifty: Chapter Nine - Not Much Beats a Good Story
Education piece by Guest:
Chris Clancy (12/7/11)
Here’s a question for those of us in the West who went on to higher education. When you look back to your time at university, no matter how long ago it was, what are the first thoughts that come to mind?
Battling the forces of darkness in Durban
ClimateGate piece by Guest:
Craig Rucker (12/7/11)
CFACT is there – challenging climate chaos claims, and protecting our economy and liberty - CFACT - the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow - is at COP17 in Durban, South Africa, as the main negotiating team that is representing those like you who challenge the UN’s claims of man-made global warming cataclysms ... and the ruinously expensive (and wholly ineffective) solutions being forced upon the free world’s economies at this conference.
Smoke and Mirrors
Elections piece by Robert R. Owens
(12/7/11)
Like a sleight-of-hand-artist on a busy street with a briefcase that turns into a table, three walnuts shells and a pea the perpetually re-elected and their town criers in the Corporations Once Known as the mainstream Media appear to be perennially able to fool the perpetually distracted by pulling a metaphorical quarter out of their ear.
Egypt’s Sham Election
Middle East piece by Daniel Pipes
(12/7/11)
According to Egypt’s elections committee(1), the Muslim Brotherhood won 37 percent of the vote of the first round of voting in Egypt; and the Salafis, who promote a yet more extreme Islamist program, won 24 percent, giving them together a jaw-dropping 61 percent of the vote.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial
Police State piece by Offsite
(11/28/11)
The Senate is set to vote on a bill today that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.
Add Herbicides to Africa’s Rescue Plan
Africa piece by Dennis T. Avery
(11/28/11)
CHURCHVILLE, VA: Africa is the only continent where food production per capita is falling as its population continues to expand. Three-fourths of Africa’s food is produced on small farms that get radically lower crop yields than its experimental farms.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns
Euro piece by Offsite
(11/27/11)
British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Arabist Snobs
Elitists piece by Daniel Pipes
(11/26/11)
Is knowledge of Arabic necessary to write about Arabs or make policy toward them? Yes, sniff some of those who have learned the language, known as Arabists.
We Can Trust Us
The Republic piece by Robert R. Owens
(11/26/11)
Listening to the lies of the politicians as presented by the prattle of the biased it is easy to lose hope in a secular sense. My hope in an eternal sense is founded on the rock of an unshakable faith in Jesus and so it cannot be shaken. However, in the secular resting, as it must upon the shifting sands of man in America today, hope as a measured commodity is all too often hopeless. Seeking for hope in current events, a diamond among the discards and a point of light in a sea of darkness, is seeking something positive among the gathering gloom of an empire in eclipse.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Organized Anarchy Leads to One Last Question
The Republic piece by Robert R. Owens
(11/18/11)
In the topsey turvey world of 21st century America those who live by the kindness of strangers wish to dictate how much kindness they deserve changing the strangers from benefactors to victims. We have reached a point where our national motto should be “Stand and Deliver” as a runaway government devours everything in sight in an effort to satisfy the growing demands of their pre-programmed supporters.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Palestine - UNESCO creates its own Palestinian Problem
Middle East piece by David Singer
(11/17/11)
Palestine’s membership of UNESCO could be under serious legal threat - as the vote approving such admission comes under increasing scrutiny.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Let’s Conversate about the Argubate
Politics piece by Robert R. Owens
(11/12/11)
A negotiation is the formalized give-and-take side of a conversation. The blending of the two, a negotiation with the less formal tone of a family discussion, is aptly termed in the dictionary of the way we speak as “to conversate.“
Friday, November 11, 2011
The KinderCare Generation
Nanny State piece by Guest:
Michael R. Shannon (11/11/11)
For those in two–income households who have been wondering what the long–term effects of parking children in daycare would be, the results are in and the news is not good.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Palestine - War Monger Not Peace Lover
Middle East piece by David Singer
(11/10/11)
Amid all the hogwash that passes for political commentary - it is apparent that the 15 members of the Security Council are facing a huge dilemma in deciding whether to recommend the admission of Palestine to the United Nations as its 194th member - after deliberating on the application now for more than six weeks.
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