The Capital Cities Curmudgeon -- All Criticism, All the Time

We are dedicated to ridiculing big government as best we can. We honor an ancient truism: "There are people who can slap you on the back with one hand and pick your pocket with the other." We assume they are all politicians.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Green Energy





Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the success of the alternative energy movement is hampered by a lack of financing.


Sorry, Bill ... no.  If the alternative energy movement made sense, wise capitalists would be investing in it so they could make more than the banks' 1.5% passbook rates.


But most of the "Green Movement" is a collection of scams.  Solyndra, anyone???


Catch Slick Willie's pitch here:


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLINTON_GLOBAL_INITIATIVE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-20-19-46-51

Don't buy into his "green" nonsense.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Crooks at the White House?

When a big Obama campaign donor had an idea for a wireless system at his company, LightSquared, he needed radio spectrum -- access to some frequencies to use.  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was reluctant to approve the spectrum requested, since it was near in frequency to the US Air Force's GPS system (same one we also use for our car navigation).

LightSquared contacted the White House for assistance.  Good move, since the FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, is one of Obama's buddies from their days together at Harvard Law.  (Genachowski doesn't know much about communications.  He probably picked up a few tidbits along the way but he's a lawyer first, nothing much second.)

Of course, the FCC fast-tracked approval for LightSquared, despite potential interference to GPS, which operates in a nearby frequency block.  Initial tests showed the new system did interfere.

The White House wanted to keep that news suppressed.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/15/lightsquared-did-white-house-pressure-general-shelton-to-help-donor.html

We need to get new people in positions of authority.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Paul Krugman Hates Republicans

This is apparent from his latest blog post at the New York Times.  For no good reason, he used the occasion of the 9/11 Anniversary to call Rudolph Giuliani and George W. Bush "phony heroes."  Everybody else had something appealing to say.  Not him.

If you think you want to read what Krugman said, you'll figure a way to find it.  He's not getting any extra readers from the Curmudgeon.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

The Government Hates Gibson Guitars

Obama's Justice Department [sic] has attacked Gibson Guitar on the basis that they're using the wrong wood in the wrong country or countries.

Wood crime.  Wood crime?  Yes, wood crime.

Gibson is non-union.  Apparently that's the real "crime."

Read about it from Fair and Balanced Fox News by clicking here.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

More of the Same

The Jobs Bill to be presented by President Obama early next month in a national address, will have nothing new in it.  He has nothing to offer except more of the same -- ideas that have already failed, many of them more than once.

The reason jobs are scarce is that most businesses are scared silly about the future and will not be committing to enlarge, modernize or expand to new locations.  They fear there will be no profit in it -- or worse, that the government will kill the business altogether with more nutty regulation or schemes like ObamaCare, the Socialized Medicine clone from Europe and Canada.

With the speech, Obama is wasting his time, he's wasting your time and he's stealing from the TV networks, who would rather be presenting profitable programs.  It's a shame they're made to feel obligated to give their valuable time to Obama for a free political campaign speech?  That's all it is.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Total National Debt Hypocrisy

... adding $4 trillion to the national debt, [is] “unpatriotic” and also “irresponsible” to saddle future generations with such a large national debt.


You can't argue with it.  Obama agrees.  He said it about Bush but then proceeded to do it again, himself -- and in a lot less time.


See him say it here.

Don't Be Fooled By the "Green Energy" Scam

Like everything else with the word “green” attached to it, renewable energy is just another massive scam like the all the lies that kept global warming going until that enormous and costly hoax was finally discredited.


Read more here.