Posted on 12/10/2008 3:22:06 PM PST by twistedwrench
Just think of it this way we get a climate nut who will know how to work Dick Cheney’s hurricane machine.
We are in deep trouble
My thoughts exactly, with these 2 we get
Laser beams and Attitude
And Browner, Heaven help us.
Oh, Boo.
We, in Michigan, heard that our Governor was going to Washington today to interview for the position. We would have given anything to get rid of her.
We understand your pain.
Was he the Director when the hard drives with top secret information were flying out of the Lab, and the Chinese Commies were looting our secrets, or was that somewhere else? (I seem to recall another Cabinet choice involved in that.)
“As global warming warnings grow more dire, Chu is currently pushing his scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change.”
Great, another over-educated psychopath.
Of course we are the neanderthal troglodytes. Mr Chu who wants to “revert climate change” is a freakin’ genius and the greatest thing since sliced bread. Spare me the crapola.
I’m sorry, but I don’t trust a chinese guy with our nuclear secrets. We learned this the hard way during the clinton admin...
Do you have a source for the claim that Hillary is choosing Obama's cabinet? (or did you mean Bill... or Chelsea??)......
Climate changes. Liberals can’t accpet it.
I for one will do my part to counteract this idiot’s damages to our climate.
Given that it is going to be an Obama administration I’ll take a technology guy over a carbon-tax guy any day. And the guy is in the pocket of BP (oil company).
Just curious, but what kind of person would you feel more qualified to run the DOE, assuming of course your first choise wouldn’t be to disband the DOE.
For too long we over-educated mad scientists have been under-represented in the halls of power. Sure, you'll support us when there's an alien invasion, you need a doomsday weapon to stop the Russians, or when a deadly asteroid is hurling towards the planet, but whenever we ask for the most reasonable demands like plutonium subsidies or low cost Fannie Mae loans for our secret underground lairs in volcanoes we get nothing but scorn.
who is trying to “reverse global climate change.”
Just induce a meltdown in a small fission reactor and drop it in one of the methane hydrate pools off the coast. The additional methane released into the atmosphere will stave off the coming ice age.
Lisa Jackson to lead the Environmental Protection Agency
EPA is more important than Energy Dept. imo (in terms of which one could eff up the economy more I mean). Never heard of this lady.
I don’t know enough about him yet to have a strong opinion, but I do note that as Director of Lawrence Livermore he has a lot more senior bureaucratic experience than many/most cabinet appointees:
[Wikipedia on Lawrence Livermore Labs}:
Operations and governance
The site consists of 76 buildings (owned by the U.S. Department of Energy) located on 200 acres (0.8 km²) owned by the University of California in the Berkeley Hills. Altogether, it has some 4,000 University of California employees, of whom about 800 are students. Each year, the Lab also hosts more than 3,000 participating guests. There are approximately two dozen DOE employees stationed at the laboratory to provide federal oversight of LBNL’s work for the DOE.
The Laboratory’s 17 scientific divisions are organized within the areas of Computing Sciences, Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, and General Sciences. Many research projects are staffed and supported by multiple divisions, with computational and engineering integrated across the biosciences, general sciences and energy sciences.
Berkeley Lab is a multidisciplinary national laboratory located in Berkeley, California on a hillside directly above the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. The site consists of 76 buildings located on 183 acres, which overlook both the campus and the San Francisco Bay.
The Lab, which conducts unclassified research, employs about 4,300 people, including nearly 1,000 staff scientists, 1,000 undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and more than 1,500 technical and support personnel. In addition, each year the Lab hosts more than 2,000 participating guests.
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