The license to peek.

It would if you didn't lower costs. Which is what drives the investment in improvements in efficiency and, thus, enables the abundance.

I don't believe I said "everyone." I am pretty sure I named a specific category of people.

And getting its act together meant loosening the screws and allowing capitalist enterprises to emerge. That's moving to the right. Oh, and my words may offend you, but they are not dumb. Just honest. And the only reason they are dissonant to your ears is that you are too used to the hearing the leftist serenade which, just as the original serenade, is meant to trap you into a lull, Odysseus.

missed the whole point about the left not meaning what it says, did ya?

AT&T was a state-sponsored monopoly (until it wasn't). It is the court-ordered end of the state-sponsored monopoly which precipitated telecom Renaissance.

Right. Because state regulation is what causes venture capitalism (ie, investment in creative disruption). GIve me a break.

If you still haven't heard, the actual scientists (you know... the ones concerned with facts and numbers) don't see green energy as a net-positive in energy gain. Chu stated the fact that he was forced to defend technology which is not mature enough as the reason for his resignation. And that's just on the generation side. On the storage side? Storing energy as covalent bonds is the most stable way of transporting it between disconnected paths which are not effected by gravity.

Do read your Steinbeck. Just don't stop at the Grapes of Wrath. Read on to East of Eden. The very premise of the book is personal responsibility for one's choices. And that's the book that Steinbeck wrote (according to him) for his children.

The left is not what's responsible for not having the scarcity. Leftist governments always create the scarcity. The drive to succeed is the drive to outproduce your competition. It is the constant improvements in the efficiency of production which creates lack of scarcity. What the left seeks to do is to destroy the abundance and return to the scarcity(and mass murder). It is evil.

Ok, let's do. How much in federal grants has been awarded to scientists wishing to conduct inquiries into why AGW may be wrong? What's the dollar figure? What's dollar figure of the amount awarded to scientists conducting inquiries with intent of supporting AGW?

As opposed to the checks given to IPCC by government (you know... the people who kill people for a living).

No, they are not optimistic. They left is the archetype of evil. They commit mass murder in the name of good intentions. Why would you think, even for a second, that their excuses have anything to do with their intentions? The right only puts up a good fight to defend civilization (the intricate fabric of interdependencies which keeps us alive).

Shhh. You are ruining the narrative. Quickly, dump something on Fox News or Sarah Palin or you'll lose all credibility.

No, that's up north in the Emerald City.

A politician lied. What are the odds?

No, that wouldn't be cynics. That would be his ardent supporters. Cynics would say that he is just another lying politician.