Dear Matt Drudge, Does that anonymous Republican lawmaker play tennis?
0 Comments Published by jcwinnie on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 10:16 AM.
Worst Heatwave in 100 Years Scorches Australia, Haults Australian Open : EcoWorldly
Eleven of the last twelve years have been the hottest in Australia's recorded history, and this summer sets the pace for this year to be the continent's hottest.
Re: "Drudge Report: Gore hearing on warming may be put on ice"
Remember that huge spill of coal ash at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston coal-fired power plant on December 22nd? New measurements by Duke University scientists confirm not only the presence of toxic metals like arsenic but also dangerous levels of radioactivity. "Tennessee Coal Ash Tainted with Arsenic and Radioactivity"
The Public Trust, "We are all dodos on this bus" Version
0 Comments Published by jcwinnie on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 1:08 PM.
"Only with the complicity of Congress have we become a nation of preemptive war, secret military tribunals, torture, rejection of habeas corpus, warrant-less searches, undue government secrecy, extraordinary renditions, and uncontrollable spying on the American people."
Ron Paul
Halliburton wants to pay $559 million to end investigation
0 Comments Published by jcwinnie on at 11:29 AM.
DOJ: Let me see your general leger.
Cheney: [with a small wave of his hand] You don't need to see Hailburton's general leger.
DOJ: We don't need to see their general leger.
Cheney: These aren't the bribes you're looking for (Hands them $559 million).
DOJ: These aren't the bribes we're looking for.
Cheney: They can go about their business.
DOJ: You can go about your business.
Cheney: Move along.
DOJ: Move along... move along.
Cool Green Science ยป Why Cap-and-Trade is Better Than a Carbon Tax
James Handley
Time January 27, 2009 at 1:16 pm
SPEED: Immediate reductions are needed to avert climate disaster. That's a strong reason not to fall into cap-and-trade. It took half a decade to implement in the EU. with no effect. And the NE states' RGGI program took five years to sort out free allowances, offsets, banking, etc, etc. British Columbia passed and implemented a carbon tax in just five months!
COMPLEXITY: Cap-and-trade far more complex and subject to price volatility and gaming. See the presentations by NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen, economists Gilbert Metcalf and Robert Shapiro at http://www.pricecarbon.org.
Cap-and-trade is a hidden, volatile and regressive tax. A revenue neutral carbon tax is an honest way to price carbon and pump the funds back into households and wage earners' hands. "Tax what we burn, not what we earn."
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way; stop participating in it." ~ Noam Chomsky
Torture degrades not only the victim, but the person who engages in it. It degrades our society; it destroys our sense of right and wrong. No excuse, no rationalization can change such effects. Torture is wrong. -- paraphrase of Lane Baldwin's response to What If Torture Works?
The Job of U.S. Attorney General
0 Comments Published by jcwinnie on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 8:34 PM.
Criminal investigation into practices of torture by the Bush administration and how do you arrest an entire Congress
0 Comments Published by jcwinnie on at 8:17 PM.
With George W. Bush's head of state immunity now terminated, the new government of Barack Obama was obligated by international law to commence a criminal investigation into Bush's torture practices. http://is.gd/hl2B
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee want Eric Holder to commit to not prosecute Bush administration officials for their involvement in acts of torture.
Never, never trust that it is safe to ride a bicycle in automobile traffic
0 Comments Published by jcwinnie on at 9:07 AM.
http://is.gd/hgiB Sheesh! All the motorist, who last put me down on the pavement in pain, did was go get her lunch at McDonald's, while waiting to see if the ambulance would take me away. Mass makes right.
