Of course this is from TreeHugger on a post labeled Efficiency is important, but it is time to get serious about sufficiency where the theme on the post how to decrease overall energy use and just not make things more efficient in their use of energy (because we keep making more and more things that use energy).  This snippet pretty much covers it (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Sufficiency can involve a reduction of services (less light, less travelling, less speed, lower indoor temperatures, smaller houses), or a substitution of services (a bicycle instead of a car, a clothesline instead of a tumble drier, thermal underclothing instead of central heating). Unlike energy efficiency, the policy objectives of sufficiency cannot be expressed in relative variables (like kWh/m2/year).

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No, not my words but I do think they fit:

Yet, I’ve always suspected that Obama has a gear in reserve, one he’s never been called on to display given the desire of so many to anoint him on sight (I assume his Harvard law professors called on him to display his full intellect, but we don’t know his law school grades). First gear will suffice with David Letterman and his audience. Second gear was always good enough for the mainstream media.

But after the Letterman interview and his chat with Prince Harry, perhaps it’s time for me to conclude that Obama has no gear beyond second. Perhaps it’s time for me to accept Rich Lowry’s assessment:

[T]he deepest truth about Obama is that there is no depth. He’s smart without being wise. He’s glib without being eloquent. He’s a celebrity without being interesting. He’s callow.

And that of Kevin Williamson:

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When Doug and I first started the ‘Grok in May, 2006, we just wanted a place to put our opinions and figured that we might, at BEST, get 4 or 5 people to read our musings.  Now almost 12 years later, we’ve had millions of visits, more than our share of Instalaunches and posts that went national, and I’ve had fun doing it!

RightWingNews was one of the national blogs that linked to us in that early time – something that I’ll always be thankful to John Hawkins for because that linking meant we weren’t as nuts as sometimes we thought we were. Someone actually thought we had ideas sufficiently intriguing to spend time with us. Now, years later, John has announced, like many other blogs that we have outlasted, that RightWingNews is shutting down.

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Steve Negron Announces Conservative Endorsements Across NH-02

Nashua, NH – Steve Negron, a Republican candidate for Congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District, released some significant conservative endorsements for his campaign this week.

NHCMP Endorsement:
“New Hampshire Conservative Majority Project (NHCMP) is proudly endorsing Steve Negron in the NH-02 Republican Primary to take on and defeat tax-and-spend liberal Congresswoman Anne Kuster.

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Just because the new consensus among climate cult “scientists” is that freezing cold temperatures are a feature of ‘Global Warming’ don’t expect their worshippers to stop protesting fossil fuel delivery systems.

They piss and moan about moving natural gas by rail. They moan and groan about moving gas by pipeline. So where is the moaning and groaning about having to rely on oil, which produces 40% more CO2 per BTU when the so-called global warming derived freezing comes to call?

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It never seems to end, does it?  If you are white (which the majority of Americans still are, and even afterwards will be the majority minority), you are guilty of all kinds of sins and evils simply because, not of your character, but by simple dint of your skin’s tint.  It seems from politics to the arts to the media and academia, if you are low on melanin, you are automatically The Oppressor regardless of what you haven’t done (or your ancestors – after all, what kind of a guilt party is to be had if SJWs can’t haul in your entire family tree into their fiery rage?).  Conscious, unconscious, be outright like the Klan or polite as all get out, “you will be made to care” (H/T: Erick Erikson) and be guilty because DIVERSITY!  And SOCIAL JUSTICE!  And POSTCOLONIALISM! And RAGE! And….you get the picture. The SJW chains of Oppression are out for anyone that disagrees with them.

And here comes this screed by a “chip on her shoulder” Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt who has decided to provide a list of  “tails you lose, heads you’re guilty” observations,

Are You Supporting White Supremacy?

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Given that Monday is Martin Luther King Day, today’s WMUR’s CLOSE UP had a segment on race relations here on NH.  Most of it was the expected verbiage from Adam Sexton’s

Sidenote: Congrats to Adam on his promotion to Political Director. In my dealing with Adam, I’ve always found him to be fair and balanced and generally has kept his politics (which I really don’t know how he leans) to himself and not in his reporting.

questioning of his two guests: Dr. Dottie Morris and Rogers Johnson.  I don’t know Dr. Morris but I do know Rogers Johnson for being a blogger on the Right side of the aisle, we have spoken a few times in the past.  Thus in watching the piece, I was absolutely flabbergasted that this self-described Conservative on something he said that sounded outright out of the Progressive Identity Politics bible:

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This week, President Trump was accused of referring to Haiti and some African countries as “shi*t holes”.  According to the Oxford dictionary, this is defined as “an extremely dirty, shabby, or otherwise unpleasant place.”

This definition includes nothing about race, although every mouth-breathing, window-licking Liberal wants to exploit the rumored comments and make it so.

If you did a little research on Haiti and some African countries, you would have to agree, on technical terms, with Trump.

Setting the way-back machine a few years ago, President Barack Hussein Obama said that Libya had become a “sh*t show” thanks to Great Britain and France’s ISIS policies.  Of course, he was trying to deflect blame away from his own failed policies – but let’s let that one go for now.

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To The Daily Sun,

Reviewing his 1/9/18 column, one has to wonder if E. Scott Cracraft intentionally tries to mislead readers, if he just doesn’t care about children getting a decent start in life, if he’s blind to public education’s failures, or if he is afraid that children, educated outside of public schools, might learn to think for themselves and reject his progressive beliefs … or all of the above.

Cracraft suggests that the public hasn’t adequately supported public education, but that’s false! Public education costs have skyrocketed. Citizens have responded to public education demands for decades: more money, more teachers, computers, smaller class sizes, etc. Nevertheless public education fails to deliver decent educational opportunities to many students.

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“Inclusive” – that’s the word that is tossed around by the Left to describe the world as they want it to be.  Kumbyra and all that – a glorious Utopian place to be.  There’s a hitch in all that and Jennifer Abbott shows the true face of the Left – and why their usage of “inclusive” really means “as long you you submit to our philosophy” (sorta like with militant politico-Islam, which means “submission”). Feeling “the love” – just read her own words and guess what is dripping from them.  I love the predictions as well…

BY 2020 ANGRY MEN WILL BE DINOSAURS, WOMEN AND MINORITIES WILL RULE

To The Daily Sun,

Yawwwwnn……

I am tired of the Trump rants, you’re not convincing anyone that this fraud should be president. Bashing liberals and Democrats? Really, boys, it’s pathetic — what exactly has chump done for us? Nothing. You wanted to drain the swamp? You stocked the swamp, you elected a TV personality slash supposedly successful business man, who refuses to show his taxes. Why is he dismantling everything that keeps us safe from greedy corporations? A man who bragged about assaulting women — a coward, who thinks he’s a hero.

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I forgot about these morons while on hiatus bathing in the warmth and the sun with good company and cocktails. But now that I’m back and settling into the groove, I’m reminded that we’re surrounded by misguided, ignorant hyperventilating morons.

Check out this video and remember the dumb in the country and hope that you don’t have the misfortune of actually meeting any of them. These people have no shame and no self-respect. They’re hanging a sign on themselves and can’t even define what it means.  They’re Anti-fascists that can’t define… fascism!

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