Climate Change Dispatch on Spring Vacation
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Where is Tom headed?
Antarctica?
Hey Tom! Good luck with the fleeing! We want pictures of you playing with the endangered penguins.
Why on earth would one "rent" their roof to some corporation for a period of 25 years no less? Things happen, one might need to relocate for employment purposes, one might need to resurface the roof in 10 of those 25 years, many things can happen.
How much additional expense would having the roof resurfaced now be when the panels have to first be removed, then reinstalled? What type of penalty or financial issue could be assessed upon the home owner during that period while the panels were no longer "producing"?
This entire thing sounds like the stupid waking up to the realization that they did something stupid.
They must be so proud to be part of the "green thing."
I can't feel badly for them, they did it to themselves for all the wrong reasons.
"President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.
President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…
President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir." abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/president-obama-asks-medvedev-for-space-on-missile-defense-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility/
Just who's side is this clown on?
Obama has screwed Canada, Poland, Czech Republic, the UK and Israel. He's undermined what few friends America has in the Middle East for ABSOLUTELY NO GAIN.
The man is in over his head... he's just to stupid to realize it.
Q1. Who is America's closest friend and ally?
Q2. Who punches "above their weight"?
Answers... everyone. (see video)
The man has turned the Presidential Office into nothing more than a PR firm.
Please America, regain your dignity. The free world needs and can't do without you.
I can't understand who votes for these clowns.
This time around he can't rely on his not being Bush and being a black man. He may still win, plenty of factual data regarding the Democrats and voting fraud is available. We can also expect the media will be his sycophantic cheerleaders as they were last time.
But this time around there are a much higher number of people who don't buy his b.s. anymore. We can only hope they aren't apathetic stay at homes who don't bother to vote.
How embarrassing.
I guess when you are more focused on golf and reelection, original thought and speech suffers.
Arrogance is ignorance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE4Hpvow2lY
We have generations now who believe the world owes them a free ride, and they will use any excuse to get their way.
Beyond disgusting.
If the Supreme Court overturns the individual mandate based on the theory argued by Paul Clement, the attorney representing the 26 states that filed lawsuits against Obamacare, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign could get a big boost from the ruling.
Clement told the court, just as Romney has told Republican primary voters, that states have the power to enact individual mandates wheras the federal government has no such authority.
"I do think the States could pass this mandate," Clement said today in response to a question from Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "[T]he States can do it because they have a police power, and that is a fundamental difference between the States on the one hand and the limited, enumerated Federal Government on the other."
Romney has argued throughout the presidential primary that Massachusetts has the ability, under the 10th Amendment, to enact an individual mandate for health insurance...
If the Supreme Court agrees that states can enact mandates, but rules that Obama's mandate is an unconstitutional infringement on individual liberty, then Romney will have a solid rebuttal.
Plus 'Romneycare' did not abolish private insurance, it was designed only to cover those who had no insurance, not replace what private citizens chose on their own.
Too much 'spin' from the media, trying to make something from nothing.
In the newest Obamaspeak "Fisker is also extending the warranty period from 50 months/50,000 miles to 60 months/60,000 miles in the U.S. and from 48 months/100,000 km to 60 months/100,000 km in Europe. Fisker calls this a "significant upgrade to the VIP Customer Care Coverage" that all 2012 Karma buyers get."
Is "significant upgrade to the VIP Customer Care Coverage" how you now say recall?
"(GM's Randy) Fox would not disclose how much this replacement program would cost GM, but extra 120V cords cost $360 and up"
Again using E-Obamaspeak for the word 'recall' "GM engineers saw the update as something that could be done to "enhance the customer experience.""
If I told you that Iran was one of those beneficiaries would you believe me? I didn't think so.
But you'd be wrong. "...the State Department in its fiscal year 2013 budget request Monday identified 11 specific targets... (including) one whose government has shown no sign of meeting citizens’ demands for change (Iran)."
Question... did Obarmy at least make them give the drone back?
Mind you under Obarmy...
-youth unemployment has hovered at nearly double the national rate. Currently, it’s at 15.8 percent
-in 2010, the Labor Department recorded the lowest youth labor force participation rate in history
-The Young America Foundation’s Youth Misery Index — a combined measure of youth unemployment, the national debt per capita and average graduating student debt — has grown 17 percent while Obama has been in office.
I counted between 16 and 19 teleprompter glances!
Look out Walgreens, the Gen44'ers are coming! Red light special!
The kids readily admit to, and identify THEMSELVES in the surveillance video!
Their excuses?
1. "We didn't mean to tear up the store"
2. "They weren't being malicious, they were in the moment" see quote 7
3. "They was so angry"
4. "Cuz I was mad"
5. "I was jus' angry"
6. "I was jus' tryin to make a point for Trayvon"
7." I don't want people to consider us as untamed children because thats not what we are. We're better than that we're bright kids" from the person quoted @#2
It's sad. It's not that they can't decide between right and wrong, it's that they don't know the difference anymore.
Interesting that the shooter is a registered Democrat tho'.
Apparently dozens of wrongs can eventually make a right, for somebody.
We have a cultural issue here that is rotten to the core, and it is incapable of self policing.
You honestly have to wonder about peoples gullibility when they get swept up in corporate profiteering while protesting corporate profiteering!
BOULDER, Colo. -- With grand designs on minimizing their housing footprint, Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller have spent the last 10 months building the tiny home of their dreams.
"It's 19 feet long wall to wall,” Smith said. “The interior square-footage is about 125 square feet.”
“The interior looks a lot bigger than the exterior,” Mueller said.
Their design incorporates several sustainable elements, including: reclaimed windows, beetle-kill lumber, solar power and a composting toilet.
"It’s just a five-gallon bucket that you put peat moss and sawdust in,” Smith said. “You'd be surprised how well it works and how much it doesn't smell.”
"We are really interested in learning more about how the innovations of tiny houses can be scaled up to larger structures," Mueller said.
"What makes a space into a home is all the stories that get built into it over time,” said Mueller. “And when we spend our first night in this house, it's already full of all these stories."
Those stories have also been documented for a film called “Tiny: A Story About Living Small", which is scheduled for release this spring. The pair is also planning an open house in Boulder in the coming months. For more information, visit Tiny-TheMovie.com.
How much it does not
smell? I don't recall hearing anything about a shower.
www.thedenverchannel.com/print/30765076/detail.html
They get a free shower every time it rains:-)
Let's hope Chris and Merete s*it this next election out.
Nice round up from Tony.
Hope you are well and have a great weekend.How is the UK these days no water, no petrol and no pasties?
best wishes,
Mark
Via Sheffield " The scramble for eggs is forcing him to charge £2.20 for a dozen large eggs – an £1 increase on what he normally charges. Paul said: “I paid 30p per dozen more for the eggs I bought this morning than I paid for the same-sized eggs yesterday, it’s crazy. I have to pass that cost on to my customers who simply can’t pay those kind of prices." humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/egg_shortages_hit_europe._soon_to_hit_america/
In an utter twist of irony "Britain, where politicians and farmers' groups have urged the EU to take a tough line against non-compliance with the ban, could itself face legal action after the latest compliance data revealed some producers there had also missed the deadline." www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-eu-hens-welfare-idUSTRE80M1IY20120123
If you get a moment have a look at this link to Australian Climate Madness and Bob Brown's latest spoutings-http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2012/03/fellow-earthians-greens-bizarre-psyche-revealed/
You can not make this stuff up. Calling all Earthians!! I don't understand how these people can be taken seriously.
Oh and Al Gore only eats warm Pork Pies with vat and then tells Pork Pies afterwards. Ho Ho!
Not to be outdone, he'll be replaced with Eliot (Callgirl) Spitzer!
Olby has promised a story about "the ethics of Al Gore"! I can't wait!!!!!
GM's funding was paltry per the numbers listed, and the only people this will appease will be the greens who are already enamored with GM's 4 wheeled electric fire hazard.
Rational people on the other hand are examining GM's ethics, the government handouts they grovel for, and their lack of backbone with the result they will be buying from someone else.
GM can't survive without the government bailouts so what else can they do but cave to green-pressure groups.
I don't mind, it shows them for what they really are and reinforces my decision to never buy another of their vehicles again.
Olbermann says Current TV wasn't the home for him
By LYNN ELBER
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Keith Olbermann is explaining his split with Current TV in decorating terms.
In an interview Tuesday with David Letterman for CBS' "Late Show," Olbermann compared himself to an expensive chandelier that ended up without a good home because of problems at Current - and his failure to see them.
"It's my fault that it didn't succeed in the sense that I didn't think the whole thing through. I didn't say, `You know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in,'" Olbermann said, according to a CBS transcript.
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I'm guessing that with Olderwoman, it was more like a strobe light in an outhouse!
"White House press secretary Jay Carney goes it at with FOX News' Bret Baier in an interview that aired on the network's news program "Special Report."
Bret Baier, FOX News: Democrats put forward a budget that failed in the House, a version of the president's budget was voted on in the House and Democrats said it was a stunt, but it fell 414-0. Senate Democrats have not passed a budget resolution in 1,070 days. Why?
Jay Carney, White House: Come on, Bret. You can sight, and I know you often do the statistics that represent, you know gimmickry and stunts --
Baier: Wait, what's gimmickry about not passing a budget in the Senate?
See the rest and video here...
www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/04/03/baier_vs_carney_press_sec_says_leadership_is_not_presenting_a_budget.html
If you watch or read this exchange, and think the Obama administration is living up to their promises of 'transparency', dial 911 as you are seriously delusional and a danger to yourself, and others.