Reflections From a Murky Pond

Western society has over the years produced and appreciated some great works of fiction, some of the best being flights of pure fantasy.

Some authors, such as: Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, and J.R.R. Tolkien produced works of fantasy that have survived the test of time and which have become classics.

Others are neither so skilled or fortunate. President Obama’s 2012 Budget Proposal is a perfect example of such a failure.  It has surpassed fantasy and entered into the realm of farce. 😉

Liberal vision is a stark contrast in Black and White. Their requirements for vision are based upon race and they’re completely different, antithetical even,  for Blacks and Whites respectively.

Blacks

Insofar as the Liberals are concerned a Black must always look back to the past. Blacks must always look back six generations – 147 years – to when one or more of their ancestors might have been a slave. Every iota of racism and prejudice that their ancestors ever experienced must be always kept in the forefront of the Blacks’ minds and vision.

Whites

Conversely, any White who looks back to past when America was strong and largely unified in vision is derided. Whites must always see the past as both gone and worse than today and the future. There can, in the Liberals’ minds, be no excuse for any White that doesn’t believe that America is “progressing” in the correct direction.

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Where these Liberals are consistent is in their belief and proselytizing that America’s past was bad, wrong, and immoral. The contrast is that they demand that Blacks dwell upon it while the Whites turn their back on it.

The term “Steampunk” may have been coined by science fiction author K. W. Jeter in the spring of 1987 but the actual origins of the genre have remained obscure and a matter of some debate in fandom … until now.

The crew of the Enterprise never could resist a bit of time travel and it’s not surprising that they’d eventually end up in Victorian England or that they’d be the root cause of Steampunk. 😉

We’re just all very lucky that Retronaut unearthed these images of Capt. Kirk and crew by Rabbit Tooth. Otherwise, the true origin of Steampunk would still be lost to history.

Obama and/or his “uncoordinated”  Super PACs do love them some green energy and black lies. Their latest afront to Americans and reason is their the recent ad which glibly fosters the impression – they are too nuanced to lie outright – that Obama created 2.7 million jobs in the “green energy” sector of America’s economy.

Damn! They Said The Cord Would Reach To November, 2012

Once Americans are unplugged from the fantasy, however, they’re forced to realize that it is nothing but a fantasy – a pack of lies and misinformation meant to save one singular job, Obama’s.

That 2.7 Million jobs figure that Obama and his die-hard cultists are shopping is, from all appearances, loosely based upon a report by The Brookings Institution. That report bears only vague surface level resemblance to their claims.

The clean economy, which employs some 2.7 million workers, encompasses a significant number of jobs in establishments spread across a diverse group of industries. Though modest in size, the clean economy employs more workers than the fossil fuel industry and bulks larger than bioscience but remains smaller than the IT-producing sectors. Most clean economy jobs reside in mature segments that cover a wide swath of activities including manufacturing and the provision of public services such as wastewater and mass transit. A smaller portion of the clean economy encompasses newer segments that respond to energy-related challenges.

The clean economy grew more slowly in aggregate than the national economy between 2003 and 2010, but newer “cleantech” segments produced explosive job gains and the clean economy outperformed the nation during the recession. Overall, today’s clean economy establishments added half a million jobs between 2003 and 2010, expanding at an annual rate of 3.4 percent. This performance lagged the growth in the national economy, which grew by 4.2 percent annually over the period (if job losses from establishment closings are omitted to make the data comparable). However, this measured growth heavily reflected the fact that many longer-standing companies in the clean economy—especially those involved in housing- and building-related segments—laid off large numbers of workers during the real estate crash of 2007 and 2008, while sectors unrelated to the clean economy (mainly health care) created many more new jobs nationally. At the same time, newer clean economy establishments— especially those in young energy-related segments such as wind energy, solar PV, and smart grid—added jobs at a torrid pace, albeit from small bases.

Working backward from the numbers leading up to the 2003 – 2010 time-frame of the report, only 500,000 “green economy” jobs et al were created during 2003-2010, a small fraction of which were in “green energy.” Since Obama didn’t become POTUS until 2009, that means that only 125,000 “green” jobs were created during his regime, once again only a small fraction of which were in “green energy.”

So, even if Americans give Obama and his cultists the handout of accepting any “green” job for the purposes of the veracity of this campaign ad, that still shows the reality is only about 4.6% of the fantasy that they’re promulgating.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

One of the more egregious failings of America’s schools systems is that they don’t teach applied mathematics. As a result most Americans can’t understand simple math concept or even see them except in the broader context of society.

Equality does not necessarily equal congruency. Two equally valued individuals or groups could be quite dissimilar. Trying to believe or claim otherwise is bad math and worse thinking.