The Zombieslayer

The Supreme Court today did the right thing and reaffirmed that the Right to Bear Arms is a personal Right, not some collectivist group think crap that certain folks on the Left think it is. Finally. Now, let’s roll back some of these anti-gun laws.

Like always, uber-hypocrite Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that because of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the country will be less safe. Keep in mind Feinstein has a California Concealed Weapons Permit, yes, a gun, that she keeps on her at all times because she said that if someone wanted to take her out, she’d take “that bastard” out with her.

Now, doesn’t that sound like something that I would say? Sure does. Amazing how someone could be that hypocritical. Well, what do you expect from the anti-gun crowd? They have no respect for our Constitution.

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We have a serious energy crisis, my friends. Now is not the time to point fingers but the time to take action. It’s time we started taking Solar Energy seriously. Get the ball rolling. Start putting out massive Solar Power projects.

It’s not just about the environment any more. It’s about slavery. Do we want to be slaves to foreign oil? No. $400 billion over 40 years is chump change. It’s less than we spend on farm subsidies and much less than we’d spend on foreign wars because of oil. If I had my fingers on the budget, I guarantee you I could cut $10 billion a year in pork, easily.

If you want to hear more about what I’m talking about, read the January 2008 issue of Scientific American. It has all the details, and shows that your energy bill will actually go down, not up. Plus, we won’t have to worry about foreign oil at all.

Imagine, telling the Middle East where they can stick their oil. Following the plan detailed in Scientific American, we can ditch foreign oil altogether.

Did you see the market today? The Dow dropped around 350 points. Why? Because of the price of oil. We need to kick this crack habit.

As for extra drilling here, no. Why not? Because there really isn’t that much. Certain lobbies would like you to believe it’s the greenie meanies who are holding us back but in reality, it’s the scientists. They know it’s not enough to be even worthwhile.

Solar on the other hand is limitless. Twenty years ago, I would have dismissed this concept as a bad joke but technology changes. Solar has grown leaps and bounds in the past decade and has become not only a lot more efficient, but much cheaper, and will continue to be more efficient and cheaper. Unlike oil, there’s an unlimited supply. Well, I take that back. We only have five billion years left of it.

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I’m proud of this last shot. No, I do not have a telephoto lens. I was really this close to the squirrel. By request, I’m going to start posting more pictures that I took.

One serious problem with American politics is we have too many lawyers and businessmen running this country and not enough scientists and doctors.

Whether we like it or not, energy will be quite possibly the biggest problem in the next twenty years. We cannot continually depend on foreign oil, especially with the continual wars in the Middle East, and China and India entering the picture.

Scientific American (January 2008) proposed a solution how to solve our energy crisis with Solar Power. We build a giant solar infrastructure in the Southwest, and route the energy nationwide. If you haven’t gotten a chance to read the article, you can read it here.

Not only would solar power solve our dependency on foreign oil, it would cut carbon dioxide emissions significantly.  For those of you who believe in global warming, our CO2 emissions would drop from 6.1 billion tons (2007 estimate) to 2.3 billion tons in 2050 with the solar plan in place.  If you don’t believe in global warming, fine, but let’s just say you’ll be breathing cleaner air.

Amazingly, the price of electricity would drop because solar power is continual.  Currently, we’re paying around 20c per kWh, whereas in 2050, it would be 9c per kWh.   Yes, we’ll still have to use oil, but our consumption would drop significantly, from 6.9 billion barrels to 2.7.  The scientists who wrote the article stated we have the oil reserves to supply our own oil at this rate, and won’t need to use foreign oil.

The catch? Well, there are 2:

1) It will cost $420 billion over the next 40 years.  As big as that number sounds, it’s really nothing when you consider that we’ll have no reason to be in the Middle East EVER AGAIN.  And as I’ve already mentioned, the price of electricity would be less than half of what we pay today.  Imagine taking your energy bill and cutting it in half.

2) We’ll need a politician to put this through who isn’t owned by the oil companies.  That there’s the stinger.

I know Energy is about the most unsexy political issue today, but I guarantee you within twenty years, it will be our most important.

Do It Yourself Home Energy

Are you a redneck with some land and a bit of extra cash? Does your land get either sun or wind? If so, you’ll love this website:
http://www.homepower.com/

It reviews everything from solar panels to wind generators. Me personally? My anti-zombie compound will have both. Imagine having a $0 energy bill because your house is that efficient. Yes, some months you’ll achieve that.

Like it or not, energy will be a problem in the future as this country gets more and more overpopulated and illegals come in and breed like rabbits, thus increasing the energy demands. Also keep in mind that China and India, the two most overpopulated countries in the world, are now economic powerhouses and everyone in their middle classes will want cars. The days of gasoline under $2/gallon may be over for good.

Don’t quote me on that though because my crystal ball is broken. Science may or may not keep up with demands. Predicting the future’s not a safe business to get into, but at this rate, it’s more than likely our energy problems will just get worse.

So if you have the means, do something about it. Me, I’ll be going back to biodiesel shortly (which that website also explains how to do) and I’ll have both solar and wind on my anti-zombie compound. Plus, as a Capitalist, I like things for free.

The Man You Love to Hate

Like it or not, Barry Bonds is now the greatest home run hitter ever in the history of baseball. He has the record. Some of you may want to put an asterisk by it, but remember these 2 things:
1) He’s never been caught. That may change. Someone may speak up. In this country, you’re innocent until proven guilty. Or, he might be innocent. I don’t know one way or another, and frankly, I don’t follow baseball enough to care.
2) Baseball is a cheating game. In hockey, you have fighting, like it or not. In baseball, you have cheating, like it or not.

As a San Francisco Bay Area resident on and off for thirty years, I have personal stories of Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco that would make you hate them. They both now admit to steroid use. Sammy Sosa got caught with a corked bat when an inside pitch snapped his bat in two. Pitchers do a million things to cheat, from spit balls to wiping their greasy hair then wiping the ball to sandpaper. Baseball players cheat all the time, and get away with it. It’s part of the game, like it or not.

I used to care. Today, I don’t. I stopped being a baseball fan with their last baseball strike. In football, some ungodly percentage of NFL players retire legally crippled. In baseball, you may have a bad shoulder or a torn hamstring when you retire. Go cry me a river.

So if you want to put an asterisk by Bonds’ 756, more power to you. Me? I put my Barry Bonds action figure high up in the office just to piss off Dodger fans. It’s so easy (and fun) to do.