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The earth’s atmosphere has a mass of about 5×10^18 kg with about 1.9 × 10^15 kilograms of carbon dioxide. The world has over a billion (10^9) cars. That means we have 1.9×10^6 kilograms of carbon dioxide per every one car in the world. While gasoline is 87% carbon, that carbon gets combined with Oxygen in the atmosphere to form carbon dioxide, and a 6.3 pound gallon of gas produces 20 pounds of CO2 (or about 9 kilograms). If someone were to suck all of the CO2 out of the atmosphere, each car would have to use only 211000 gallons to replace it. At 15000 miles/year and 30 miles/gallon, we use about 500 gallons a year, or it would take about 400 years to double the CO2 in the atmosphere from the current level. That might sound like a long time, but consider three things.

First, it took the auto industry 100 years to come this far, and we’re basically riding for free on the energy of ancient microorganisms. How much longer will it take us to develop renewable transportation by harnessing the sun’s energy in more sustainable ways? (This is an especially important question in an age of oil subsidies!) We’ve used up at least a quarter of the world’s oil supply already.

Second, we’re slated to have twice as many cars as we currently do by 2020, and without public and governmental pressure to reduce automotive fuel consumption, carbon emissions will scale accordingly.

Third, it doesn’t take a full doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide to spell disaster. Changing the atmospheric carbon dioxide by a few percentage points can be enough to cause significant climate disruptions. I’m not asking anybody to buy into the Hollywood bullshit that the earth’s magnetic fields will reverse (which probably did more harm than good for public education on this topic). What I do know is that the earth’s systems are fragile and sensitive to small changes. The record kept for the last 600,000 years in the antarctic snow proves that the current climate disruptions are not cyclical. The CO2 has never been this high.

August 18, 2011 Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson (columnist – Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: usheredinto and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scoresalong the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in factnearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”) ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:

To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspokenhater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, andtherefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.

Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass — held to a lower standard — because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:

And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon — affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are notqualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.

Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but whywould he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he wasgood enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All hislife, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the nextstep, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth — it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inheritedthis mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

Black people love to “cuss.” It’s like it’s embodied in our DNA. I’m not saying all black people curse but the ones that do can’t go 4 sentences without saying one. The top 3 in order are: 1) B***h , 2) Motherf***er, and 3) S**t. You will hear these out of us a lot. The only thing black people like more than cursing themselves is to hear other races curse. To some cursing shows character and that you’re not too politically correct. If you wanna get a black person’s undivided attention about how you despise a co-worker, refer to that person as a b***h (gender does not matter) and watch his interest skyrocket. Bonus points mentioning kicking his/her ass.

These words are mostly about expression. Black people are all about passion and being outspoken. You may happen across two black people engaging in a rather loud and expletive conversation and they’re not even mad at each other. In fact, it may be the total opposite. This is the case when they are joking around or speaking on a topic they agree on.