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“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”


Friday, May 6, 2005

Nobody Expects the Republican Inquisition!

Via Kos via Atrios, I found out that a Baptist church in Georgia has excommunicated its Democrats. OK, did ya hear that one right? They excommunicated members of a political party. Even the Catholic Church hasn't done that (yet).

First is was the Schiavo mess. Then Justice Sunday, where Democrats were attacked as against "people of faith". Now this. Kids, this isn't a joke, it isn't a bunch of isolated incidents, it's a plan to erradicate the two-party system and the American way of life.

The video is here; please download from my site, so ya don't use up my bandwith.

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posted by Tlachtga, 9:20 AM

Monday, May 2, 2005

The End of Cheap Oil Gets More Press

Via the WaPo:

So, here's the deal, America: Your days of living with the developed world's cheapest gasoline prices are over. They probably never will return. The rest of the world is developing; and it needs fuel, too.

You want examples? By 2014, according to global auto industry estimates, North America will be the second-largest growing car market behind China. Europe will be a very distant also-ran. An estimated 57 percent of the global automotive market's growth will occur in the Asia-Pacific region alone between now and 2014, according to industry estimates.

That means people in China, Malaysia, India and Korea are beginning to drive; and that means they are driving from somewhere to somewhere -- to new housing developments and shopping centers in Shanghai, to new middle-class communities in India; and that all means new roads, buildings, more energy to build roads, buildings and transit systems. It means new industries in new factories producing more products for the new middle class to buy at new shopping centers with new parking lots.

Are you getting any of this?

Unfortunately, no, they're not.

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posted by Tlachtga, 2:56 PM