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At a time when new car sales are as high as they have been in some time, Chevy dealers are resisting GM’s determination to foist the electric vehicle on a car buying public that clearly doesn’t want it. I wonder if all of the Volts have been sold to quasi-government organizations? The only Volt I have seen in person apparently belongs to TVA, as it sits in the Summer Place parking garage most days, connected to its charging station.

Iran, the U.S. and the Strait of Hormuz Crisis | STRATFOR.

As U.S. and European nations step up sanctions against Iran, the Iranian regime once again threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway that is vital to oil shipping from the Middle East. Despite the fact that the aircraft carrier U.S.S Abraham Lincoln entered the Strait without incident, the area is still a strategic choke point that has the potential to be shut down, which would disrupt world oil supplies and lead to skyrocketing oil prices.

Thirty-three Year Temperature Update – Well Below Computer Model Predictions – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine.

Hurricane predictors admit they can’t predict hurricanes.

Sounds Like Keith Olbermann Is Already On The Outs With Al Gores Current TV.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. I never understood how Keith Olbermann went from being just another face on ESPN to such a large media presence in the first place. He has a snarky style which I assume is supposed to make him come across as “ironic” or “edgy”. It has always been annoying to me. And, why his political opinions should matter to anyone but himself has also been a mystery to me. It is apparently a mystery to most TV viewers as well, for the article states that “his large MSNBC audience has not followed him to Current TV”.

I think this requires some perspective. First of all, Current TV is not available in as many homes as MSNBC. But also, was his audience truly “large” to begin with? His MSNBC shows were never a threat to Fox News, and barely edged out whatever CNN program they opposed.

To sum things up, I and apparently most of the cable news and opinion viewing world, will not miss Keith Olbermann if his gig at Current TV ends just like his stint at MSNBC did.

Let’s Face It: Jesus Railed Against The ‘Archbishops’ Of His Day : The Other McCain.

I agree. When Jesus disputed with authorities, it was the church of his day that he took exception to. He called the temple “a den of thieves”.

The American Platoon: Marking the Seventh Anniversary of the Battle of Fallujah.

I wonder if these will be the Stonehenge or Easter Island monuments that future generations discover. You must believe that, if wind power was truly valuable on its own, without the government subsidies, these structures would not be abandoned in such numbers. Even in the Netherlands, the land of the iconic windmill, it seems the price of being green is too high. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration has delayed approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, effectively sending Canadian oil to China instead of the U.S. Gulf Coast. It’s almost as if they want the U.S. economy to fail.

Obama bows to the Emperor of Japan, 2009

Apologies Not Accepted – Investors.com.

It has now been revealed through a leaked diplomatic cable that the Japanese government refused to accept President Obama’s apology for the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II.

President Obama was wrong to offer an apology to the Japanese. He has no right to judge the actions of President Truman, who made the agonizing decision to unleash the most terrible weapon ever crafted by mankind. Truman’s options at the time were limited to using atomic bombs for the first time, or sending over 1 million Allied troops into near certain death in an all-out invasion of the Japanese home islands. The fighting on Okinawa alone cost the lives of 24,000 U.S. troops and over 100,000 Japanese.

The American people do not owe an apology for using the only weapon available that possessed the power to end the war that Imperial Japan started. The facts are that the atom bombs not only ended World War II, but through the fear of annihilation, ironically prevented World War III. The Cold War aside, the U.S. maintained peace with a belligerent and expansionist Soviet Union for 50 years due to the unspoken threat of nuclear retaliation.

The desire of our most recent leaders to apologize for the actions of their predecessors is disturbing. It’s as if no decision of a U.S. President is safe from the 20-20 hindsight of those who would sit in judgement, far removed from the unprecedented, historic events that led to those decisions. We certainly should not apologize for the actions that were taken to restore freedom to captured lands, or to remove tyrants from power, to advance the cause of human liberty in the world.

Al-Qaidas No. 2 reported killed by US in Pakistan | General Headlines | Comcast.net.