If the Chilean Mine Had Been in Colorado….

‘…….Day 19:  EPA Director Carol Browner reports that the construction of a road to the proposed bore location will require an Environmental Impact Statement.  She promises an expedited review, one that perhaps could be completed within 60 to 90 days.

Day 21:  Germany offers to provide the most advanced high-speed drilling equipment to expedite the rescue process.  The White House consults with labor union officials and then declines the offer.  There are no union members trained to operate the equipment and its operation round-the-clock would be in violation of the union’s collective bargaining agreement….’                                                                                 source

On leftist dimwits:

The most common complaint concerning Crusader Rabbit I see around the blogs concerns the fact that we adamantly refuse to give leftists a voice here. Apparently, the note at the top of the sidebar which says “leftists not welcome” is both ambiguous (because they keep trying to leave comments) and an affront to free speech–“free speech” being, in their case, the freedom to leave obscene and abusive comments promoting their obscene and abusive ideology, in a space paid for by other people.
So once again, for the perpetually aggrieved, the endlessly whining masturbatory entitlement-ridden useful idiots of the parasitic left–you are the enemy. We have no interest in engaging in discussion with you, no desire to change your way of “thinking”, no wish to compromise, find some “middle ground” or moderate our stance on liberty. You are the enemy of those things we hold dear and as such we want to see your rotten ideology consigned to the cesspit where it belongs.
Some of you may be merely naive, some of you willingly misguided useful idiots, but the effects of your naivety and stupidity have been lethal in the service of an evil cause. So you’ll get no voice here. Not now, not ever.
Our cause. Our dime. Our voice.

islam’s friends..in the U.S. military?

A stunning admission yesterday at the evidentiary hearing on Major Hasan’s Islamist terror attack at Fort Hood. The Houston Chronicle:

‘A Fort Hood soldier testifying in an evidentiary hearing Friday for an Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly rampage last year said he erased a cell phone video shot during the incident on the orders of his commanders.

Socialist NZ–like swimming in sewage.

‘”An out-of-work artist is setting up a taxpayer-funded “beneficiaries’ office” in downtown Wellington to promote the virtues of being unemployed.
Wells’ installation, The Beneficiary’s Office, urges people to abandon jobs they don’t like rather than suffering eight hours of “slavery”…’

Oswald Bastable has more on this effing outrage.

subsidising lunacy:

‘Germany led the world in putting up solar panels, funded by E47 billion ($66bn) in subsidies. The lasting legacy is a massive bill and lots of inefficient solar technology sitting on rooftops throughout a cloudy country, delivering a trivial 0.1 per cent of its total energy supply.’