Who are we to disagree with FireDogLake as they mourn the Audacity of Hype? Personally, I don't think he's much of a Churchill, either, though I imagine he does fancy himself a Roosevelt of sorts.
The times call for a leader of Churchillian or Rooseveltian magnitude; what we have instead is a cautious risk-averse manager. Bold progressives must fill the leadership vacuum in order to restore and support a vibrant US middle class.


Wow, that entire FDL post is either a raging pile of bollocks or an analytic vacuum; one can't be sure which.
Progressivism _is_the_crisis_, and it should be wasted with a sufficiently large caliber weapon to atomize that zombie.
Posted by: smitty | Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 09:35 PM
Bold Progressives? Support a vibrant middle class? Really?
The upwardly-mobile "middle class" is the Progressives' Enemy #1 and has been for decades.
The irony, it burns...
Posted by: Spiny Norman | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Churchillian? There's another whopper. Progressives despised Winston Churchill throughout his career, even during the darkest days of the War. They may have grudgingly accepted him after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, but were happy to vote him out of office at the first opportunity.
Good grief. "Blinkered ignoramus" barely covers it.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Keep in mind that although she is yelling at Obama, Jane Hamsher is still batshit crazy.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. Nothing more.
Posted by: richard mcenroe | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 01:56 AM
Spiny Norman beat me to it. "Middle Class" must be some kind of code.
Posted by: El Gordo | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 08:33 AM
They're being as disingenuous as ever.
" BHO’s decision to embrace modest stimulus enraged libertarians and conservatives who wanted to let the Free Market reign ."
If, by 'let the free market reign' they mean reducing the burden of onerous taxation and over regulation then sure. But if they aren't interested in letting the markets behave like, well, markets, then why fret over anything intended to stimulate MARKETS.
The concern for the 'middle class' is a dodge because they realize that their usual class warfare rhetoric just isn't going to play with an electorate that is leaning strongly against their statist goals.
Posted by: ThomasD | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 11:06 AM
DEAR FRIENDS OF THE EARTH,
CLIMATE CHANGE & 13 YEARS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
IMMEDIATELY STOP FURTHER ARTIFICIAL ISLAND
DEVELOPMENT ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD:
By: Raveendran Narayanan, USA.
IT IS NOT CO2, because after 1980 Ocean Water pH did not came below 7.9.
The temperature rise around the world started after mushrooming of Sea water desalination in the Middle East States, that is after 1975.
Coral Reef damages also started after 1975.
Arctic Ocean Sea Ice cover decreased below 15% from 1979 and continuing.
El –Nino have emerged during 1997-1998, 2002-2003, 2004-2005 & 2006-
2007 more particularly after artificial Island development in the Arabian Gulf.
Antarctic Ocean Sea Ice and Ice shelves like Price Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller, Jones Shelves and Wilkins Ice Shelf have already been lost entirely just after Artificial Island developments in the Arabian Gulf as below:
Dredging to make land near Abu Dhabi Airport & Abu Dhabi City, U.A.E., – 1979.
Developing Sir Biniyas Island by dredging- 1983.
Dredging to make land in Al-Marryiz, Ras-Al-Khaimah, U.A.E.,-1992.
Artificial island development like Palm Islands & Jumairah Islands, Dubai, U.A.E.,- 2002.
Drilling & dredging to develop floating Apartments near Sadiyet Island, Abu Dhabi- 2005.
Artificial Islands- The World (300 Islands) near Deira Dubai- 2005.
Dredging, drilling, excavation and dynamiting Sea floor had shifted magnesium Chloride, Sulfur, hydro carbons and middle East States sea water desalination units are dumping millions of tons of it and other Petrol chemicals 24/7 days since 1978. Arabian Gulf’s geographical position will only drain it fully every four years.
According to my research study and data collection of Ocean water analysis since 1980 , magnesium Chloride (de-icier) is melting Ice Shelves and Sea Ice even during the months of November, march & April.
This year the calamities like Typhoons and flooding were mostly in South East Ocean. So magnesium Chloride stayed there and starts to de-ice Sea Ice and ice Shelves.
New Zealand faces flotilla of icebergs: A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic Ice Shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest one, measuring about 30 yard tall, was 160 miles Southeast of New Zealand’s Stewart Island, Australian Glaciologist NEAL YOUNG said.
He could not say how many icebergs in total were roaming in the Pacific, but he counted 130 in one satellite image alone and 100 in another.
Narayanan Raveendran’s Climate Change Control Barrier (CCCB) as designed in the picture will protect the environment as follows:
1. Sea ice melt & Ice Shelves collapses .
2. Automatically temperature will come down.
3. There by NO Sea rise, so low lying cities like Manhattan & Countries like Maldives will escape
flooding.
4. Oceans pH will GO UP means more shell formation for sea animals.
5. IPCC's estimate for correcting the Global Climate is US$61Trillions, with my
Technology US$ONE Trillion is sufficient to correct the climate.
6, When CCCB is in position Ice Shelves will not collapse and more Methane will
not escape to the atmosphere.
7. Governments have to do some URGENT remedial works according to my paper
before the next Hurricane season.
8. Projections showed that there will be only ONE ( 1 ) Hurricane this season in Atlantic
and that was correct.
Informed about this by FOUR pages FAX to US President Hon. OBAMA before Four Months back.
CCCB can be constructed at onshore locations with heavy pre-cast concrete interlocking slabs and transported to Southern Ocean. Immediate attention required in Wededell Sea, Graham Land, Alexander Island & Ross Sea.
Other emergency attention required are install Magnesium Chloride recovery units in the Strait of Hermosa, Strait of Gibraltar and closed eddies of the Green Land as Magnesium Chloride is also de-icing Arctic Sea Ice and Ice Shelves. When more ice is in both poles temperature will come down and the Third pole (Himalayas) and Bolivia will have abundance of ice and Glaciers and thereby more fresh water for the inhabitants of the Earth.
Before Seven months back informed the following World ORGANIZATIONS by E- mails but No replies received:
1. UN's Intergovernmental panel on Climatic Change ( IPCC ).
2. Climate Science.
3. CORE Ocean.
4. US Environmental Protection.
5. UNEP World Conservation.
6. National Oceanic Administration (NOAA)
7. Global Marine Assessment.
8. Global Coastal Strategies.
9. International Coral Reef Action.
10. International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA)
11. Scientific Committee on Problems of Environment (SCOPE)
12. Global Ocean Mapping.
13. CCAMLR.
14. UN Antarctic Treaty Committee on Environment.
15. CLIVAR.
16. International Seabed Authority (IAS).
17. US Global Change Research Program Secretariat.
18. Advising Committee on Protection of Sea (ACOPS).
19. NOWPAP.
20. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
I, Raveendran Narayanan, Indian Citizen residing in USA since November 1997, am doing R. & D.
in Water & Environmental Protection since 1992. While I was working in UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES, I had submitted many R.& D. papers to IDA (International Desalination Association)
World Congresses on Water and published it.
During 1997, Kuwait Scientific Research Institution also published my paper in R.O. Pre-treatment
Seminar. Recently, INDACON- 2008, published another paper.
A scientific paper "Connections of Mushrooming of Seawater Desalination Systems in the Middle East and Environmental Disasters Around the World". by Raveendran Narayanan, USA, was supposed to publish in Dubrovnik-2009 Conference in September, at Croatia. But unavailability of a return travel document from US Home Land Security, prohibited the publication and presentation.
The Climate Change Control paper will be publishing soon (Publishers contact me with offer at bestfriend97usa@yahoo.com ; narayananraveen@gmail.com )
My Friends of Earth: DuPont USA & Golden ceremonial swords given by Royal families of Middle East played a great roll in this Global calamities. AIG USA and its three trail lawyers groups even tried to destroy my eyes during September 2003 by a Court ordered eye tests. Because of anti social and anti human elements complaints my approved green card (E1) was terminated and I am not permitted to work since 2003.
I had informed every US political leaders including Respected Al Gore by letter and Court documents and a copy of my full paper to IPCC Chair Dr. Rajendra Pachuri during
October 2009. Nobody cared.
My Friends of Earth: I was compelled to study Human Rights Law as during 1998 invasion of privacy and property took place. Then started coordinated spectacular Economic attack to an independent World Water Researcher. It is also a crime against Humanity and I am trying to fight every one of them in Inter American Commission on Human Rights.
Hoping some body will nominate me for the next Nobel Peace Price & Nobel Science Price.
IMMEDIATELY STOP FURTHER ARTIFICIAL ISLAND
DEVELOPMENT ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD:
OUR PLANT IS NOT SO DAMAGED YET BUT SOME CORRECTIVE MEASURES
HAVE TO DO ACCORDING TO MY PAPER
RAVEENDRAN NARAYANQAN
55-A, East Gun Hill Road,
BRONX, NY- 10467-2103,
NEW YORK, U.S.A.
My E-mail: bestfriend97usa@yahoo.com
narayananraveen@gmail.com
MOBILE- 1-917-208-7581
Posted by: RAVEENDRAN NARAYANAN | Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 01:17 PM