Death Star

This station is now the ultimate power in the universe. I suggest we use it. [from Star Wars]

That's what Obama is thinking about his new Death Star, the EPA. His Death Star went on line yesterday, declaring that all human and animal life is a pollutant. Yes, that is what they did. All humans and animals breathe. That is pollution being created. Exhalation pushes that newly deemed deadly poison, carbon dioxide, into the air. Human and animal life are aerobic creatures. They use oxygen to produce energy for warmth and motion. Carbon dioxide is one by-product. YOU are a deadly polluter and must be regulated.

Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!
[The Emperor in Return of the Jedi]

American jobs and lifestyle are the target for Obama's Death Star. He doesn't need Congress now. He can rule by the bureaucracy and enforce his will with the EPA, court injunctions and Federal marshals.

YOU, the American polluter, are guilty and must be punished. You shall be cold in winter, suffer in heat in summer and work with your hands in hard labor, without labor saving tools. Living in remote areas will now be nearly impossible, except in a naturalist lifestyle as the pioneers did. Travel will be restricted - planes and long distance car travel will likely become uneconomical.

American jobs will go in a new wave to China and other emerging markets as those nations will receive US tax dollars as compensation.

The Green movement will need a continual stream of victims to punish to ensure its power. Anyone or any job that is deemed to use energy inefficiently [i. e., not "needed" as they deem "need"] will be suffer opprobrium first, then the Death Star will strangle them/it with permits and bans.

I suppose you think I jest. Not really. All this will happen if the public continues to vote stupidly, for the same old ruling classes. We all might have to re-live the 1970s stagnation, or much worse.

Addendum

What is not a polluting environment ? That would be one dominated by anaerobic processes which do not produce that newly designated poison, carbon dioxide. Read the recent Book of the Week, Black Sea by Neal Ascherson. The lower layer of the Black Sea is an anaerobic environment. and completely lifeless.

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Je ne fais rien.
Ich machte nichts.
Nic nie robię.
Estoy haciendo nada.
Non faccio nulla.
Nihil facio.
I am doing nothing.

I plan to short stocks higher, or buy lower. Here at these levels, the risk-reward profile is poor, in my opinion.

Word of the Day

"Brio" - noun [$10] from Italian
Brio means dash, vigor, vivacity
Sentence: Obama's Death Star will crush the brio of the American people and economy over time, reducing them to serfs on manors of the ruling classes