Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize

I've taken the time to actually think about President Obama's Nobel Peace prize award.

As far as I can see this was a particularly absurd and premature decision on the part of the Norweigan Nobel Peace prize committee. As was most congently stated by the London Times.

There are far more worthy potential recipients out there for the Nobel Peace Prize than President Obama. If they wanted to award a symbol why not award it posthumously to Neda?

Obama has yet to accomplish any of the goals he set out to do. I would far rather the Peace Prize be awarded for actually accomplishing something for world peace rather than for the illusion of the hope of peace in the Middle East and Nuclear disarmament.

In the long run this award will prove to be a millstone around President Obama's neck. And it will inevitably set an impossible to exceed yardstick to measure whatsoever he accomplishes in office.

Sunset photos

Sunset photos, originally uploaded by werehawk.

Some susnsets are more spectacular than others...

It has been a while since I posted something here so I will be making an attempt at posting more or less regularly in the future...

Jerry Pournelle on U.S. Ethanol policy idiocy

Jerry Pournelle has some well worth reading thought and comments on U.S. energy policy as related to Ethanol that is well worth reading see his current view from his long running daybook (blog)

"The ethanol imbecility continues"

Some musings on political blogs and feedback loops...

Right wing and left wing blogs currently seem to be caught in self reinforcing loops in which some of the more extreme memes are becoming dominant . And as far as I can tell the more out in the far ends of the right-left(see note ) of the spectrum seem to be getting further and further apart. When reading the comments in reaction to blog posts in for example daily kos and little green footballs (Although I'll observe that Michelle Malkin would make a better example than lgf in this case) I've noted that over time that the views of the bloggers and those posting comments seem to get more out in the extremes of both the Right and the Left.

And in more than a few cases are getting to a point where I find myself seriously wondering if they won't go off the deep end. See the downright hysterical hyperbole used by both sides of the issue has not inspired me to trust either extreme in fact exactly the opposite. For some bloggers it has become a my way or no way type of mindset to the point some blogs have become breeding grounds for outright nutty conspiracy theories.

I'm afraid there are enough wingnuts on both ends of the political spectrum to make me uncomfortable. And some of the Democratic blogs strike me as being utterly way off the deep end. Not that the same doesn't apply to some of the Republican Blog as well.

Side note Right, Left and Center as a means of describing where one individuals political ideologies stand is one of the most idiotic legacies of the French revolution. Give me Pournelle chart any day of the week.

Ah yes the initial starting post of a blog. Which will hopefully be followed by many more.

I'll probably leave this post as it is for now. Later posts will be hopefully more substantial and of far more interest to people.

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