Friday Roundup - short version

Its good for thee but not for me????

Everyone wants to reduce our dependency on oil for our energy needs. Back in the 1970s large wind farms went up in both Northern and Southern California and they provide some energy.
Their main benefit was tax credits but since those are now gone, the machines are still producing electricity. No they are not especially pretty but they do provide energy and do not pollute the air, water or land (the view could be considered to be polluted).

Well, now there is the opportunity to allow Cape Cod and the area Islands to get 75% of their electricity needs from a renewable source. This should be an environmentalists dream. The first community to be powered almost entirely by renewable energy. It won't pollute the land, air or sea. It may spoil the view of some so the Democrats in Congress have been trying to ban the building of the wind farm off the Cape. Some of the claims are that birds will be killed by flying into the blades of the wind machines. But shouldn't the loss of birds be offset by the other animals that will be saved due to the reduction of carbon dioxide released to the air (along with other pollutants) as well as lessoning the needs for drilling and the damage that could cause? To me it does sound more like the folks there are suffering from NIMBY rather then having valid reasons to not have the project in the Cape. No, I do not think NIMBY is a valid reason.

Paul Bremer has been in the news a lot. It seems the press decided to take a sentence or two of his speech and show that he and President Bush had major differences about Iraq. But reading his account in the NY Times, and putting his remarks into context one comes out with a very different view of what he said.

The UN Food for Oil scandal is getting worse. Read about it here.

Jonah Goldberg has a great article about those who oppose the war. He is talented and even if one doesn't agree with his views, he still writes well.