Month: May 2006

Securing America’s Energy Future report out at House

New House of Representatives energy policy report out, see details at NEI, excerpt below of key findings — please note the finding that current prices are demand driven and note the wake-up call regarding catastrophic supply shock, emphasis mine:

  • the current period of high, volatile oil prices is demand-driven, “and not caused by supply restrictions instituted by producers or political upheaval”
    • given today’s tight global markets with little excess capacity, the United States is vulnerable to “catastrophic supply shock” in view of current geopolitics
    • the United States must pursue production and conservation; these are not “either or” options Continue reading “Securing America’s Energy Future report out at House”

Great news from Iraq

Gateway pundit has an excellent piece about 200 tribal leaders signing an anti-terror pact, please take a stop by there this morning. Here’s a quote from the article:

A foundation speaker said that the conference will be attended by heads of Tribes from all of Iraq, Arab Kurd and Turkmen tribes. The speaker added that the conference will also discus political, security, and social issues in the country. We hope to come up with ideas and plans to cooperate in stopping terrorist activities affecting the citizens. He pointed out that the honor compact to fight terrorism and denounce sectarian violence would be the main results of this conference

An update on Acton Gordon who got fired for publshing those cartoons here.

AFL-CIO starts the get out the vote drive early

The AFL-CIO is starting early on the get-out-the-vote campaign. In many states they are running ballot initiative petition drives for raising the minimum wage after failing last October at the Federal level, and in many legislatures.

This is in hopes of turning out Democrats to vote in November, and also many of their contracts have minimum wage riders in them that raise their pay as minimum wages go up without them having to actually bargain the increases. They are doing these drives in Ohio, Missouri, and other Red States where they can’t win in the legislature.

Updates – MS security bulletins, Nuclear news

Windows Security Bulletins 

Microsoft released three new security bulletins today, please don’t wait around, if you have “Gates Gear” go get patched tonight at windows update. The cycle time from bulletin release to exploits in the wild is now extremely short, expect worms that use these flaws tonight or tomorrow. There are botnet drivers out there building code as I write — don’t become part of their herd. Speaking of botnet drivers, Ancheta gets 57 months in jail. Sordid tale here.

Continue reading “Updates – MS security bulletins, Nuclear news”

Welcome visitors from American Thinker

Welcome to readers of American Thinker, I am posting this because one of the links in my article is broken, no fault of the great editors, but mine instead. If you are trying to get to the link labeled “ultimate evil end” here is the article.

I’ve sent them email to correct, hopefully they get it soon. Update: Link in the main article is now fixed. Thanks

Iraqi Government possibly today or tomorrow

The Iraqi government is getting close to final formation, see this article from the Turkish Press:

Nuri al-Maliki, assigned to establish the new National Unity government, said the new Iraqi government will be formed “today or tomorrow.”

Appointed as prime minister in April, al-Maliki announced the government is almost ready; cabinet members include Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish group representatives.

The candidate ministers of particular offices, such as oil, defense, interior, foreign, and finance have been determined and the process will expectedly be completed by Thursday.

In the same edition, Iran is presenting Turkey with “evidence” that the US is meeting with with the PKK, Kurdish Communist separatists/terrorists that neither goverment is fond of.

I am taking the night off

After a long day at work, and some indulgence in my guilty pleasure, 24, I am going to take the night off from the blogosphere. Just a few musings before I locate that bottle of Hennessy that’s my other guilty pleasure… Why the guilt? Hennessey is from the country that gave us Jaques Chirac, and in 24 why does it have to be people in our government who are the bad guys half the time? Anyway, don’t expect any deep thinking or substance here tonight. Continue reading “I am taking the night off”

KOS gears up for elections

 

KOS is starting the campaign, see this. Grassroots efforts to support lesser known candiates starts, check the “requirements” & “positives” sections at bottom.

Also note my earlier recommendation to conservatives:

We are six months and change out from mid-terms, so I”ve added a new tag “elections” and request that all conservative bloggers do so as well, & flag things that can impact elections, articles about election tracking etc. with it. That way it will be easier to hunt friend and foe.

 

It’s also very important that you give your local candidates who are true to cause some national limelight, and point out the foibles and follies of their foes. You know your regional issues better than the Mega-bloggers, you know your candidates better, you know your local periodicals and info sources better. Please surface the important stuff, we can’t focus on just national, war, and immigration and expect to win this November.