Daily Archives: December 28, 2012

AP: Obama Offers Same Craptastic Fiscal Cliff Deal

If you run around the news sites, you’ll see lots of stories of “optimism” regarding a fiscal cliff deal, which kinda is belied by the long faces (and Nancy Pelosi being unable to find her car) post meeting. Ah, but a barely publicized story comes from the AP via WRAL A person familiar with the […]

So, The Palestinian Intifada In 2000 Was Premeditated

Inconvenient information for the Leftist Palestinian supporters/Israel haters (Daily Caller) Suha Arafat, the wife of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, admitted in a TV interview earlier this month that the Palestinian terror campaign against Israel launched in 2000 was a premeditated act orchestrated by her husband, not a spontaneous “intifada,” or uprising, as many […]

Surprise! 70K British Jobs Could Disappear Due To Hotcoldwetdry Legislation

But, you know,we’re saving Gaia from getting a fever (Daily Mail)Up to 70,000 British jobs are at risk as a direct result of European carbon reduction targets, according to a report. The policies have pushed up the cost of energy, threatening the vital mineral industries which deal in materials such as cement, chemicals, glass, ceramics […]

If All You See…

…is snow that can only occur because of fossil fuel usage, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is The Hockey Schtick, with a post on a paper noting that climate models exaggerate projected warming

If Only Wind Turbines Could Be Built Where There’s Wind

..But, people don’t want it there (unmentioned in the article), and there’s already viable power where they want to build (NY Times) As I note in Friday’s paper, construction of new wind farms is going to grind to a halt with the end, at least temporarily, of the wind production tax credit. What’s next? The […]

Feinstein Posts Proposed Law Abiding American Gun Owners Disarmament Act

No mention as to whether she will forgo all armed security for herself (The Blaze) Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein promised to on the first day of new the Congress introduce legislation that would ban so-called assault weapons and certain types of ammunition. Now, the Californian senator has posted a summary of this legislation that […]

New Hawaii Senator Who’ll Take Many Fossil Fueled Air Trips Pledges To Tackle Hotcoldwetdry

If he was really serious, he’d have the Senate install a two way monitor which would all him to see and hear what’s going on as well as speak. Alas, no, he’ll surely have plenty of excuses why he’ll take plenty of unnecessary fossil fueled trips from Hawaii to D.C. and back (The Hill) The […]

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