You Can Stop Paying for Al Gore's Mistake

[Geee]

Townhall:

In Greece earlier this month, Al Gore made a startling admission: "First-generation ethanol, I think, was a mistake." Unfortunately, Americans have Gore to thank for ethanol subsidies. In 1994, then-Vice President Gore ended a 50-50 tie in the Senate by voting in favor of an ethanol tax credit that added almost $5 billion to the federal deficit last year. And that number doesn't factor the many ways in which corn-based ethanol mandates drive up the price of food and livestock feed.

Sure, he meant well, but as Reuters reported, Gore also said, "One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president."

In sum, Gore demonstrated that politicians are lousy at figuring out which alternative fuels make the most sense. Now even enviros like Friends of the Earth have come to believe that "large-scale agro-fuels" are "ecologically unsustainable and inefficient." That's a polite way of saying that producers need to burn through a boatload of fossil fuels to make ethanol.

Gore also showed that most D.C. politicians can't be trusted to put America's interests before those of Iowa farmers. But there is one pursuit in which homo electus excels: spending other people's money.

Beware politicians when they promise you "the jobs of the future." Last week, the Washington Post ran a story about a federal grant program in Florida designed to retrain the unemployed for jobs in the growing clean-energy sector. Except clean tech isn't growing as promised. Officials told the Post that three-quarters of their first 100 graduates haven't had a single job offer.

[Pepper]

Geee

 

Gore also showed that most D.C. politicians can't be trusted to put America's interests before those of Iowa farmers. But there is one pursuit in which homo electus excels: spending other people's money.

 

homo alarmus - AlGore

 

homo pedisequus - John Kerry

 

homo dictatotus parvus - Obama

 

homo erectus - Bill Clinton

 

homo dejectus bardus - Harry Reid

 

homo repulsus - Julian Assange

[Pepper]

homo nondetectus - Eric Holder

 

homo gropus - Janet Big Sis Incompetano

 

homo stretchus botoxus - Pelosi

 

homo scotus bipedalis - Kagan

 

homo scotus latinus - Sotomayor

[NCTexan]

Pepper! My meager contribution to the collection:

 

homo homo - Barney Frank

 

homo invectus - Alan Grayson

 

homo electus - Marco Rubio

 

homo non-electus - Charlie Crist

 

homo suspectus - Alvin Greene (SC)

 

homo non-intellectus - Sheila Jackson Lee

 

homo obesitus - Jerrold Nadler

 

homo switcherus - Arlen Specter

 

homo 'nomo' - Notorious Mr. B.I.G.

 

homo non-erectus - Bob Dole

 

[Pepper]

NCTexan

 

homo invectus - Alan Grayson

 

 

[AceRimmer]

Bob Dole is still alive?! Good for him!

 

Homo-Incompetus-Obambi

[Geee]

You guys have really hit a Homo-run

[Rheo]

You guys have really hit a Homo-run

[Pepper]

dats 'cause we're Homo sapiens mulus

 

 

You guys have really hit a Homo-run

[SrWoodchuck]

Homo-nymus barackus----------Looks like a duck...........quacks like a duck.....but is a lyin' crap-weasel.

 

Homo-cidius pelosious----------blob of plastic that kills nations.

 

Homunculus mortuus piscis piscis---------Rahm Emannuel.

[Pepper]

Hey, dead fishy fish, SrWoodChuck

[SrWoodchuck]

Hey, dead fishy fish, SrWoodChuck

Pepper!

 

"Dwarf" dead fishy fish!

[NCTexan]

Pepper! and SrWoodChuck!

 

Sitting through a boring conference call this morning... I had time to gave birth to a few more:

 

Homo Corruptus - Charlie Rangel

 

Homo Buffoonimus - Joe Biden

 

Homo Africanus Insanitus - The whole CBC... your pick of the litter

 

Homo Non Gradus Anus Rodentum - David Axelrod

 

Homo Ignoramus - Maxine Waters

 

Homo Satanus - George Soros

 

Homo Blasphemous - Jeremiah Wright

 

Homo Blowhardimus - Robert Gibbs

 

Homo Supportus POTUS Maximus - TOTUS

 

Homo Gluteus Maximus Maximus - (better left unsaid)

[Pepper]

NCTexan

Sitting through a boring conference call this morning... I had time to gave birth to a few more:

 

Oh, so you're the reason nothing gets done at the White House - when Obozo and Biden are calling for assistance, when they finally seem to get it, the real business world is at play?

[NCTexan]

Oh, so you're the reason nothing gets done at the White House - when Obozo and Biden are calling for assistance, when they finally seem to get it, the real business world is at play?

Pepper!

 

Don't ever under-estimate the ability of NCTexan to multi-task. I have two distinct cranial lobes... the "titan of industry" side and "evil and catty creative side".

 

Both are powered by OS/2 which fully supports dual thread processing without any performance degradation.