On left, a photo taken during the 2010 Great Lakes Cyclone
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In a stunning move, the U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled another "conference" on a legal
challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office, but officials there are not answering questions about whether two justices given their jobs by Obama will participate.
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The House voted Thursday to dethrone nine White House “czars.”
Republicans successfully added an amendment to the continuing resolution that would leave President Barack Obama’s senior advisers on policy issues including health care, energy and others out of a job.
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The House passed an amendment Thursday that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from using any funding to implement the network-neutrality order it approved in December.
The amendment, approved on a 244-181 vote, was offered by Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman
Greg Walden, R-Ore., to legislation that would fund government agencies for the rest of fiscal year 2011.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/house-passes-amendment-to-block-funds-for-net-neutrality-order-20110217
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he Daily Caller opines: There’s a peer-reviewed paper about to be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and in the press release about the paper, they don’t even
mention the word “climate.” Simply put, a rogue
storm system, part of the normal
chaotic nature of weather on this planet, was the cause of last summer’s devastating floods. Nothing else.
This paper was presented on Tuesday at the annual American Meteorological Society meeting in Seattle.
From
Eurekalert:
“We looked through 10 years of data from the satellite and we just never saw anything like this,” he said.
[Wow! A whole ten years of data! Let's make a prediction based on that, okay?]
This comes on the heels of the debunking of other claim about climate change-caused weather. The debunker this time? None other than the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a.k.a. NOAA.
A number of people, including Secretary Clinton, have suggested that last summer’s Russian heat wave and forest/peat fires around Moscow were a direct result of “climate change,” a.k.a. global warming. It turns out to be, surprise,
just weather.
NOAA says:
The extreme surface warmth over western Russia during July and early August is mostly a product of the strong and persistent blocking high.
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The indications are that the current blocking event is intrinsic to the natural variability of summer climate in this region…
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The Washington Post opines: Count me among the many thousands of Washington area residents who spent Wednesday night
stuck in traffic as a
snowstorm sowed chaos all around us. Being car-bound in sub-freezing weather for six hours can make a guy think. I counted my blessings. The situation could have been worse, I realized: My fellow commuters and I could have been trying to make it home in electric cars, like the ones President Obama is constantly promoting, most recently in his
State of the Union address.
It is a basic fact of physical science that
batteries run down more quickly in cold weather than they do in warm weather, and the
batteries employed by vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf or the Chevy Volt are no exception. "Alongside the negative impact on the batteries cold also has a negative impact on the driver as well. Drivers need to be warm to operate the vehicle effectively so on top of the reduced range and power of the batteries just from the temperature they also must operate the car heater to keep you warm. This will further reduce the range of the car.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR2011012706170.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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American Thinker writes this about lightbulbs: Hoard. Incandescent bulbs are going for a buck or two a package these days. You won't be able to get them for love or money a couple years down the line. Or do you like the idea of being ordered to fill your home with fragile glass objects requiring an eight-hour decontamination procedure if broken? [ I have seen it suggested that we all send our burned out bulbs to Congress for disposal. This might wake them up. Or would they pass a law making doing so a misdemeanor?] http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/outwitting_lethal_government_p.html
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Daily Caller writes: For more than a few years environmentalists have fueled a movement to ban or significantly reduce consumer use of
bottled water. Dozens of universities and municipalities have already taken action to curb bottle water use. But the impact of such a ban on the U.S. economy, especially in the current economic climate, could be significant.
“It could be massively destructive for the industry,” said Tom Lauria, spokesman for the International Bottled Water Association.
More than 150,000 jobs in the water bottle industry could be at risk, and billions of dollars of exports of polyethylene terephthalate, a primary ingredient used to produce water bottles, could also be at risk.
The
National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) said 1.4 billion pounds of PET were collected for recycling in 2009. Of that, 780 million pounds was exported, mainly to China, which purchased 726 million pounds of PET.
[OK - aren't we enriched by each dollar China spends on American products?]
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American Thinker opines: The secret to instant wealth is to spot a mass delusion and bet against it. The Tulip Craze. Florida swamp land. There is the Chevy Volt, a fantasy "hybrid," financed in part by thirteen trillion tax dollars from Obama. There will be huge government subsidies for electrical charging stations to juice up your golf cart every forty miles. So invest in golf cart technology. When Bill Clinton federalized Utah Lands, Senator Feinstein's billionaire husband shifted his money to Chinese mining. Why? Because Clinton took known Utah minerals off the market "to protect the environment." Chinese minerals were bound to go up because there are only so many identified mineral sources. The eco-ninnies were manipulated, but they still adore Bill for playing to their batty beliefs. It's happy time for all, especially the Bernie Madoffs of this world. http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/how_to_get_rich_from_liberal_d.html
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Townhall writes: We all understand why the Environmental Protection Agency was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose.
In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that,
since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file "emergency management" plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train "first responders" and build "containment facilities" if there is a flood of spilled milk.
Does anyone seriously believe that any farmer is going to spill enough milk to compare with the Exxon Valdez oil spill or the BP oil spill?
Do you envision people fleeing their homes, as a flood of milk comes pouring down the mountainside, threatening to wipe out the village below?
It doesn't matter. Once the words are in the law, it makes no difference what the realities are. The bureaucracy has every incentive to stretch the meaning of those words, in order to expand its empire.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2011/02/01/spilled_milk
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