Has Earth Day really Helped?

Yes, it is Earth Day again.  We can masturbate about the different sub-species that have disappeared.  The brown owl is fine, but the spotted owl is in trouble, so let's destroy all infrastructure development.  Are you a little tired of this reasoning.

Now with the real crash of the economy hitting, can we afford this malarky anymore?  Global Warming stories abound, then we hear that NASA admits that the Arctic is freezing up more than ever.  This is the ice age of human sanity I think.

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The Energy Game and Behavioral Economics

Global Warming has been the battle cry for a while. It has been used as a battering ram of behavioral economics, as seen in the Obama Administration, and the new book called "Nudge" written by a close adviser the administration. Now we learn that
a continued low in solar activity and a disappearance of sunspots is to blame, for already ushering us into a cool phase. It doesn't have to be a new Ice Age, but it could be. The sunspot activity has not returned after 11 years. This is very serious, though I hear the polar bears are celebrating. That reminds me of the recipe for Global Warming Fudge... Anyway, this is just to beastialize people, that's all.

Rustic Furniture and a Down Home Feeling

Have you looked at some rustic furniture? You really get a comfortable down home feeling. It is nice and homey and it can give your home or "log cabin" a very authentic look. Liked a piece on the Scenicfurniture.com site called Rustic Carved End table, it is very nice. The Claro Walnut coffee table is even nicer. It is a big low table with the top made by one large piece of wood that is slightly irregular at the edges. This is fully handcrafted and admittedly it is not cheap at $1,999.00 but quality and fine design seldom are. This table has a 17 inch height and a top dimensions of 45 inches by 31 inches.

In fact, I don't think I have ever seen such homey, authentic and nice furniture like this before in my life. Another item to check out is the Rustic Log Cabin bed. It's part of the Eastern Red Cedar bedroom, so take a look.

Green Banana Leaf Currency

Maybe there is really a shortage of money to cover all those derivatives. What if no country not even the USA can get its tax payers to openly fund all this. Why not have the IMF make the Banana Leaf a currency, shall we say. That ought to get the greenie vote. A banana leaf over the debt bubble of 30 years is where it's at!!!

Isn't time to give up the United States dollar, and become a banana republic? This may seem far fetched, but it is part of the discussion at the last G-20 meeting. Don't blame this on Obama or even G. Bush. It's the system, and we have to have the courage to break with the system, or else. After all, Larry Summers is "an honorable man."

Will a green banana leaf currency be good for the environment? The plan is not explicitly about the environment but it calls for $250 billion worth of SDRs or Banana Leaf currency.: Italy's Il Foglio, a paper owned by Berlusconi's wife, features a similar analysis, primarily by reprinting an April 1 article from the Wall Street Journal, which was entitled The G20's Funny Money, under its own headline "The G20 and Bananalandia." ( Perhaps Ecuador or Costa Rica can cash in on their Banana skins.) The Journal article lambastes the SDR proposal, as "bits of paper printed by IMF officials in the basement," which nonetheless would commit the U.S. taxpayer to come to their support. In explaining how the SDRs work, the Journal notes that so far Congress has had to be consulted and that the last decision to increase the issuance of the pseudo-currency, taken by the Clinton Administration in 1997, has been blocked by the Congress. That proposal called for a doubling of SDRs from about 21 to 42 billion. The current proposal is looking towards 250 billion in SDR's as the first shot. Green is where it's at.