UPDATED: John McCain is Out-of-Touch and Anti-Science

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 11:03 AM PDT

2008/04/04 · 11:03

I don't know why anyone considers John McCain to be anything but a cranky out-of-touch windbag. He has shown awful judgement in every decision of consequence in the last decade. Below the fold I go over three of the most egregious examples of John McCain's out-of-touch and anti-science attitude. From associating vaccines with autism, to not knowing that condoms prevent AIDs to randomly mocking sound scientific research John McCain has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not fit to lead.

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Monday June 18, 2007 · 9:24 AM PDT

2007/06/18 · 09:24

Two radical anti-choice groups are looking to honor Paul Hill this July. Hill was executed in 2003 for the murder of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett at an abortion clinic in 1994. The event is sponsored by Children Need Heroes, Street Preach, and of course The Paul Hill Memorial (I'm not going to link). The press release says that:

George L. Wilson of Children Need Heroes and Drew Heiss of Street Preach are planning to honor Paul Hill in a series of events called "Paul Hill Days" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 26th - 29th -- "to honor him as God's man and our hero."

On July 29, 1994 Paul Hill, who sought to set a good example for Christian theocratic revolutionaries, assassinated abortion provider Dr. John Britton and James Barrett one of his escorts, and seriously wounding another, June Barrett, outside an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida.

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 10:14 PM PDT

2006/06/27 · 22:14

Sit right down my fellow Kossacks and I'll tell you tale that sounds like the ravings of a man who's had a bad mixture, of soy milk, insomnia, and right wing base riling votes. But, I assure you I have a point.

Once upon a time there was a town called Whoville. All the Whos down in Whoville liked to whoop it up around Christmas. There was a hermitty Who-ish creature called the Grinch who lived high above Whoville and all the whooping pissed him off because he was a lonely loser who ran away according to the live action movie because he was ugly and no one liked him.

Isn't that why we all run away?

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More Sustainable Ethanol

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 4:38 PM PDT

2006/06/27 · 16:38

Hat tip to The Oil Drum for this catch on sustainable ethanol. The problem with corn based ethanol is that we can currently only get between 1-1.3 times the energy out as ethanol that we put in as fossil fuel. In the end this does not bode well for an ethanol dominated sustainable future. In my Brazil diary I discussed how we can't follow the Brazil model without significant conservation steps and without the benefit of sugarcane ethanol. Well, a company called E3 Biofuels has found an ingenious way to produce grain Ethanol more sustainably in the US.

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Alan Colmes smacks down Santorum UPDATE

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Thursday June 22, 2006 · 1:55 PM PDT

2006/06/22 · 13:55

I just saw this piece over at Crooks and Liars. The good part is a couple of minutes in when Alan Colmes of all people lays the smackdown on Sentorum and Hoekstra. Check out the video for yourself and go below the flip for transcript and commentary... Read More

Biofuels: Butanol

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Wednesday June 21, 2006 · 6:50 PM PDT

2006/06/21 · 18:50

Butanol is a biofuel that corportations in the UK and the US are starting to invest in. Butanol is usually made from petroleum and as an industrial solvent, but with the increasing price of oil and the increasing demand for sustainable fuel sources BP and Dupont have announced plans to sell biobutanol in the UK by next year. A company called Environmental Energy has US patents on similiar technology. Follow me below the flip for the promise of a sustainable fuel requiring no engine modifications... Read More

He's the devil, and here's his due.

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 5:12 PM PDT

2006/06/15 · 17:12

I'll begin with a quote:

This is the best thing the Bush administration has done over the last six years for the oceans and for the environment.
-Ellen Athas, director of ecosystems protection for the Ocean Conservancy and a former Clinton administration official.

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Affordable Solar Power

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 6:57 PM PDT

2006/06/14 · 18:57

I just read about SunEdison over at Treehugger and I thought it sounded like a neat Product Service System(PSS). PSS's are businesses that charge a fee for the usage of a product or service and the consumer just passes them along when they no longer are using them. Since, PSS's continually find homes with new consumers there is far less waste involved, and they can make for great green business models. Follow me below the flip to find out how SunEdison makes solar power affordable for green minded businesses...(Damn, I sound like an ad.) Read More

When anti-scientists attack!

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Sunday June 11, 2006 · 8:59 AM PDT

2006/06/11 · 08:59

Yesterday, I wrote a diary responding to a right wing article trying to discredit Al Gore and the issue of anthropogenic climate change in general. This morning I was lucky enough to receive a reply from Michael Graham. His response is fairly rude, but he cites three actual sources that completely fail to make any real point on the facts behind climate change. Below the flip I've reprinted his letter and my response. Enjoy... Read More

Left hook to the right wing on global warming.

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Saturday June 10, 2006 · 2:07 PM PDT

2006/06/10 · 14:07

Michael Graham is a conservative columnist in Columbia's local free weekly the Free Times. He is best known for being fired for calling Islam "a terrorist organization". In this weeks Free Times Mr. Graham decided to take on Al Gore and global warming. He gives no indication that he actually saw An Inconvenient Truth, so you really can't call it a review, but it pretends to be. Below the flip I take on each of Mr. Graham's arguments and preview the letter I plan on sending to the Free Times.

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More like Brazil

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 3:37 PM PDT

2006/06/08 · 15:37

We've heard quite a lot recently about how Brazil has achieved energy independence. Politicians and the traditional media alike have told us how we need to follow the Brazilian example. Robert Rapier over at Oil Drum tells why the real lessons from Brazil aren't even registering with non-envirogeek Americans. Follow me below the flip for more. Read More

Dependence Day

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Thursday June 01, 2006 · 2:11 PM PDT

2006/06/01 · 14:11

Yesterday, was declared Dependence Day by Environmental Action. As of today, proportionally speaking, all of the oil we use must be imported. The US can only supply 5 months worth of domestic oil for a given year. The site has a lot of interesting information and some action items.

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Alan Colmes smacks down Santorum UPDATE

Biofuels: Butanol

He's the devil, and here's his due.

Affordable Solar Power

When anti-scientists attack!

Left hook to the right wing on global warming.

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Dependence Day