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The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats
by Tammy on June 10, 2010I’d rather be mocking Obama but this is all we get so far. (Warning: some kitty language not safe for kids).
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Proof Obama Isn’t Resting During the Oil Disaster
by Tammy on June 3, 2010Obama vows ‘we will not rest’ until oil spill cleaned up. Hey, it takes a lot of energy to go to a party! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Oil Field of Dreams
by Pat_S on May 23, 2010A post by Pat The petroleum engineers aren’t having much luck in shutting down the oil spurt despite some novel ideas. Bob Woodward thinks we should hand the problem over to Google. They’re smart people. …it is a potentially giant disaster of the — I mean, most disasters come and go. 9/11 came and went, okay. This continues. …Why don’t they call in Google? Why don’t they call in some of the people who have these great minds? Not everyone thinks the disaster of 9/11 is gone, but that’s another matter. Woodward goes on to explain why the oil companies make so much money. ..I think the one thing we’ve learned about oil is—it’s kind of answered the question why...
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Don’t Hold Your Breath for More Offshore Drilling
by Pat_S on March 31, 2010A post by Pat You shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for the new offshore drilling. You may have to hold your breath after the EPA declares CO2 a regulated pollutant. Today’s news will be about the President announcing approval for more offshore drilling. Has he succumbed to the Power of Palin? Not exactly. For one thing Alaska is losing leases. The details hardly matter though because the announcement today will not see fruition for many, many years. That’s the optimistic outlook. If you’re like me, you have a strong suspicion it’s never going to happen until there is a seismic shift in government. The approval is part of a deal to get some kind of cap-and-trade legislation out of Congress...
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Polar Bear Tea Partiers Successful!
by Tammy on February 24, 2010Somehow they got Big Government to leave them alone, at least a little bit. Feds acknowledge that implementing a new rule to protect Polar Bears from “Global Warming” won’t really won’t protect the bears any more than they already are. From warming weather. Which there hasn’t been for at least 15 years. Obama Interior Secretary Decides Not to Use Polar Bear to Force Global Warming Policies The Obama administration on Friday let stand a Bush-era regulation that limits protection of the polar bear from global warming, saying that a law protecting endangered species shouldn’t be used to take on the broader issue of climate change. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that he will not rescind the Bush rule, although Congress...
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Someone Opened The Flying Pig Barn Door!
by Tammy on December 8, 2009Wow, not just one Flying Pig story today, but two! Well, I suppose when there’s one, there could be more. Or was that just about Tiger Woods? What? In this sighting of a second Flying Pig, the Washington Post offers up a…Sarah Palin op-ed! Sweet, and if I may say, baconny-good. But wait, how much Co2 do Flying Pigs emit anyway? Copenhagen’s political science With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue… “Climate-gate,” as the e-mails and...
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Forget Pie, Have Some Danish
by Pat_S on November 30, 2009A post by Pat Why settle for a slice of the economic pie when you can get 1% of the world’s GNP for saving your own life? We’ve all heard how the planet is doomed to catastrophic events of Biblical proportions because of human recklessness and greed, i.e., Western capitalists. (Pay no attention to the CRU scientists behind the curtain.) The big climate conclave is about to begin in Copenhagen. Despite the fact—don’t you dare try to deny it—that poorer nations will suffer most from climate change, they are holding out on an agreement to save the planet for the other precious green—money. Lots of it and paid upfront. There will be a bunch of financiers and industrialists looking to...
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Crossing the (clothes)line
by Pat_S on October 10, 2009A post by Pat For those who have hang ups about looking at other people’s laundry, be prepared for a flap. There’s a trend in the wind to override homeowners association rules in favor of making your whites greener. Debate Follows Bills to Remove Clotheslines Bans (links to NYT article) In the last year, however, state lawmakers in Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have overridden these local rules with legislation protecting the right to hang laundry outdoors, citing environmental concerns since clothes dryers use at least 6 percent of all household electricity consumption. Florida and Utah already had such laws, and similar bills are being considered in Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia, clothesline advocates say. There’s a lot of...
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Obama Zombies Under Attack
by Tammy on July 2, 2009Looks like the scourge of Global Warming is causing Obama Zombies to shrink. Horrible.
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How *I* Would Implement Cap and Trade!
by Maynard on June 29, 2009Maynard solves everything Bear with me. I’m about to save the nation. We’ve got to do cap and trade. The world demands it. If we don’t do cap and trade, we’re worse than Hitler. (We’re worse than Hitler anyway, but if we don’t do cap and trade, we’re much worse than Hitler.) We need more than a minimal framework. Since we’re in the world’s spotlight, Congress has got to deliver The Real Thingâ„¢. Anything less would diminish Mr. Obama’s image, and we can’t have that. We’re going to mandate CO2 emissions to be no higher than in 1492, when Columbus arrived and made his first campfire. We’ll pass a strong law, a law that will tell everyone we’re serious this...
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What is “Cap and Trade”?
by Maynard on June 28, 2009A post by Maynard As the nation debates “cap and trade”, I wonder how many people understand what we’re contemplating. Let me try to set down the basic situation as I understand it. Of course I have strong opinions, but I’ll try to put these aside for this post. We’ve long had laws and regulations against dumping pollutants into the environment. Nobody is debating whether people have the right not to be poisoned, but we may reasonably question what constitutes a threat requiring government intervention, or whether the contemplated form of intervention will do more good than harm. When you burn fuel, you initiate a chemical process in which a carbon-based material combines with oxygen from the air. The result...
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Mandated Fuel Efficiency
by Maynard on May 24, 2009A post by Maynard You've probably heard about Obama's plan to command automobile fuel-efficiency of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. First, let me acknowledge (and I annoy some of my conservative brethren in saying this, but it's what the...
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$500 Million To Take The Kids Outside?
by Pat_S on May 17, 2009A post by Pat It's the No Child Left Inside Act of 2009. Oh, there's a lot more to it than getting the kids outside. We have recess for that. It's federal funding for environmentalist propaganda. $500M Teaching 'Environmental Literacy'...
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Earth Day!
by Maynard on April 22, 2009Maynard's tribute to a pioneer in recycling We've been having Earth Days since April 22, 1970. (That date being, by odd coincidence, the centennial of the birth of Vladimir Lenin.) I think this is a fine occasion to recall the...
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Obama to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
by Maynard on February 19, 2009A post by Maynard The FoxNews report: The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing senior Obama administration officials. In...