Eagle slaughter: Wind farms kill 67 eagles in 5 years – Washington Times.
A new study by government scientists says wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the number could be much higher.
What’s Boulder going to do when their municipal utility is buying electricity from an Eagle slaughtering wind farm? Turn the lights out?
This Is What Happens When Citizens Get Fed Up Over Speed Cameras | Video | TheBlaze.com.
Some commenting on the post seem to agree. Here are a few:
- Everytime I drive past one, I secretly wish someone would do that. I would gladly donate to their bail if they get caught.
- I love it then the top it off 1776 nice touch
- Next, surveillance cameras for the surveillance cameras.
But others noted that this would be considered vandalism and disagreed with the destruction of the cameras, which take photos of license plates that get mailed with citations to offending drivers.
“Good for them? This is VANDALISM. Drive the speed limit and stop with the ‘patriot’ hogwash. This is criminal behavior, and it should be punished,” one commenter wrote.
There’s little doubt it’s vandalism.
Taxpayers Turn U.S. Farmers Into Fat Cats With Subsidies – Yahoo! Finance.
This sums it up quite nicely…
The arrangement is a good deal for everyone but taxpayers. The government pays 18 approved insurance companies to run the program, pays farmers to buy coverage and pays the bills if losses exceed predetermined limits.
Wow, government cheese for everyone except the taxpayers.
The backfill information…
A Depression-era program intended to save American farmers from ruin has grown into a 21st-century crutch enabling affluent growers and financial institutions to thrive at taxpayer expense.
Federal crop insurance encourages farmers to gamble on risky plantings in a program that has been marred by fraud and that illustrates why government spending is so difficult to control.
And the cost is increasing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture last year spent about $14 billion insuring farmers against the loss of crop or income, almost seven times more than in fiscal 2000, according to the Congressional Research Service.
A SEVEN times increase in 13 years. Houston, we have a problem!
Silly me, I thought the issue with the farm bill was only food stamps. No doubt that’s a serious and costly issue but to be “rubber stamping” the farm bill that contains an out of control crop insurance program is something our politicians should NOT be doing.
We need a version of “Government Cheese” for farmers.
Daughter of Reverend “God Damn America” Wright and 12 other Democrats are charged with embezzling $16 million in Federal health grants that should have gone to AIDS charities and other programs for the poor and needy.
Source article from Chicago Sun Times can be found here.
Breath of fresh air compared to the pseudo-intellectual msm drumbeating about how a recall is not the “correct” way to address these issues: Democracy in Colorado Springs | National Review Online.
I am the first person from the national press that Knight has spoken to directly. “This is not about us,” he explains. “The new gun laws were just the catalyst. A lot of people are very upset about being ignored, so finding vocal moral support hasn’t really been a hard sell. There’s a lesbian couple that’s been very happy in helping us.” I raised my eyebrows at this. “I start there,” he adds, “because people say to me, ‘Well, they couldn’t possibly be interested in helping you.’ Well, sure they can! They care about protecting themselves, too.”
Luke Wagner, one of Knight’s five brothers-in-arms at the Basic Freedom Defense Foundation, set up to fight back against the new gun-control measures passed earlier in the year, explains the wide appeal of the movement to the people of this area. “John Morse couldn’t have given us a better gift than to have thrown something in everybody’s face,” Wagner tells me. “He decided that rural Coloradans aren’t as important as urban Coloradans. He doesn’t like gun owners. He wants to take money from outside of Denver and bring it into Denver for schools. There’s something for everyone!”
“We’ve had a lot of signatures here from people who voted for John Morse,” Knight adds. “He’s made everyone mad. Whether it’s the issue of not listening, or the energy issue [the state has set energy requirements that rural areas say are impossible for them to meet], or the police department coming out against the new gun laws. Even the marijuana people have come out against him for trying to suspend legalization until he could tax and regulate it.” Indeed. The advocacy group the Marijuana Policy Project is so angry with Morse that it has named him the “Nation’s Worst Pot Politician.” In response, many legal-pot advocates have got behind the recall effort at the last minute.
Money, what about the special interest money?
The recall has certainly become a national story, although contrary to the insinuations of the press, the anti-recall side has benefited significantly more from the influx of out-of-state cash and attention than have its champions. The NRA has sunk $361,700 into its own efforts in the state, and Americans for Prosperity is spending here too. This is not an insignificant sum, certainly. But it pales in comparison to progressive efforts. Michael Bloomberg has written a $350,000 check to an anti-recall group, Taxpayers for Responsible Democracy; the entreptreneur Eli Broad has contributed $250,000; and, in total, more than $2 million has been collected to defend the lawmakers fighting the recall. Meanwhile, former Obama staffers are flooding into the state to help with the ground game.
By my tally, the pro-recall coalition is being outspent by a little under 8 to 1, adding to a structural disadvantage that is rendered worse by the establishment’s evident wariness of the recallers’ tactics. “This was an interesting sword that was given to the people of Colorado — the recall sword — and nobody wants to go near those of us who are drawing it,” Knight says. “The gun groups are fractured” and “the Republicans don’t want anything to do with us because they think, ‘Next they’ll recall us.’”
Global cooling: Arctic ice caps grows by 60% against global warming predictions | Mail Online. The Church of Global Warming needs to rewrite their book of worship.
A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.
The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
In March, this newspaper further revealed that temperatures are about to drop below the level that the models forecast with ‘90 per cent certainty’.
The pause – which has now been accepted as real by every major climate research centre – is important, because the models’ predictions of ever-increasing global temperatures have made many of the world’s economies divert billions of pounds into ‘green’ measures to counter climate change.
Those predictions now appear gravely flawed.
The BBC predicted that there would be no arctic ice by 2013…
Only six years ago, the BBC reported that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by 2013, citing a scientist in the US who claimed this was a ‘conservative’ forecast.
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The BBC’s 2007 report quoted scientist Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, who based his views on super-computer models and the fact that ‘we use a high-resolution regional model for the Arctic Ocean and sea ice’.
He was confident his results were ‘much more realistic’ than other projections, which ‘underestimate the amount of heat delivered to the sea ice’. Also quoted was Cambridge University expert
Professor Peter Wadhams. He backed Professor Maslowski, saying his model was ‘more efficient’ than others because it ‘takes account of processes that happen internally in the ice’.
He added: ‘This is not a cycle; not just a fluctuation. In the end, it will all just melt away quite suddenly.’
Of course, what does the BBC know?
And in a few years we’ll be able to ask what the Washington Post knows (and the IPCC): A warming warning.
These boys and their global warming models. Of course there’s always the next new and improved one. Somewhere along the line they need to admit they have been inaccurate at best. Global temperatures are about to drop out of the 90% certainty range, eventually this becomes
amateur hour”.
In regards to CO2, plans like the food and bring on thorium reactors.
So Boulder, So Progressive:
Take, take, take, wind industry — I have few doubts that what started as a five year exemption will be extended, and then extended another time after that, and another after that…
A perfect fit for Boulder and their municipalization effort.
Thorium One ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tons of uranium and 3.5 million tons of coal, according to the former director of CERN
And how many square miles of solar collectors or wind farms?
Thorium has lots of positives. Read the whole thing.
Campus Leaders Call Conservative Women Unimpressive, Unworthy.
Conservative female investigative reporters Katie Pavlich and Ann McElhinney are unimpressive nonacademics whose speaking honorariums are too high and credentials too unremarkable to pay to have them give talks at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill this fall, members of the school’s student government have agreed.
Despite pleas from College Republicans to finance the speeches, which would have cost about $8,000 from UNC’s student programming coffer of $124,000, a majority of student government members voted Tuesday night against funding the campus visits, with several members voicing concerns that Pavlich and McElhinney aren’t worth the price.
On the same night, UNC student government representatives tapped the anarchist group “UNControllables” to receive $4,000 to fly in a social justice crusader/academic from South America to speak on campus, and the feminists group Siren Womyn Empowerment Magazine was allocated $5,100.
A little horizon broadening might be a good thing.
Why can’t the Obama administration admit this? AFL-CIO President Trumka Admits Obamacare Making Employers Cut Hours.
Three More Pieces Of Evidence That Prove Global Warming Is A Fraud – Investors.com.
Piece #3:
The third event that completes our triad is the story of an international team of activists that set out to raise awareness of global warming but ended up bumbling into a truth it can’t overcome.
“Climate change is transforming the Arctic and the world,” Kevin Vallely, lead rower of Mainstream Last First, told the Climate News Network in explaining his team’s effort.
“By traversing the Northwest Passage completely under human power in a rowboat, without sail or motor, the Mainstream Last First team will be able to demonstrate firsthand the dramatic effects climate change is having on our planet.”
Mainstream, of course, didn’t make it.
“Severe weather conditions hindered our early progress and now ice chokes the passage ahead,” Vallely wrote in the team’s final log. “Our ice router Victor has been very clear in what lies ahead.
“At many Eastern places of NWP, locals have not seen this type ice conditions. Residents of Resolute say 20 years have not seen anything like. It’s ice, ice and more ice. Larsen, Peel, Bellot, Regent and Barrow Strait are all choked. That is the only route to East. Already West Lancaster received -2C temperature expecting -7C on Tuesday with the snow.”
Vallely said the team was “disappointed” that it was “unable to reach” its intended destination, but failed to concede that his team was on a crackpot’s mission.
He assured all who cared to listen that “our message” — bringing “awareness to the pressing issues of climate change in the Arctic” — “remains unaffected.”
IBD concludes:
We predict there will soon be a fourth incident that contradicts the alarmists’ warnings. Then a fifth, then a sixth, then a seventh, then … .
The Democrats’ ‘Smart Power’ Lies in Ruins | National Review Online.
…They looked out at the world at the end of the Bush years, and didn’t see tough decisions, unsolvable problems, unstable institutions, restless populations, technology enabling the impulse to destabilize existing institutions, evil men hungry for more power, and difficult trade-offs. No, our problems and challengers were just a matter of the previous hands running U.S. foreign policy not being smart enough.
I can’t help thinking there’s lesson for the “smart power” of Boulder Municipalization here too. Somehow they are smart enought to do green energy better than all of these European countries that are backing off due to expense.
Better think twice Boulder Muni supporters. You won’t always have a Democratic controlled legislature to provide cover with unrealistic green energy goals.
…Public interest seldom plays much of a role.” Notes Glenn Reynolds.
Sales Of Public Data To Marketers Can Mean Big $$ For Governments « CBS Denver.
Eric Meer is a small business owner who works out of his home in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood. Meer says he was deluged by direct mail after registering his small business with the Colorado Secretary of State. He says many of the ads he received were deceptive asking him to pay fees that he wasn’t required to pay.
Meer had a hunch the Secretary of State was selling his business information to marketing companies. CBS4 confirmed his hunch was right. Last year, the Secretary of State brought in $59,000 for business registration data.
Be careful out there.
In the not too distant future the anti capiltalist left will be running the worlds financial capital. That’s a disaster for everyone that wants a prosperous America.
Pawn Shops Boom as Consumer Retail Banking Retreats | The Volokh ConspiracyThe Volokh Conspiracy.
Here’s the New York Times article as it’s not linked in the Volokh post. Platinum Card and Text Alert, via Pawnshop
The Huffington Post, commenting on the NYT article, concludes…
So, five years after the failure of Lehman Brothers, the mega banks have rebounded, community banks that serve vulnerable niches of American consumers, and which played no role in causing the Financial Crisis, are failing, and non-traditional lenders are expanding. This is clearly not the outcome that the authors of Dodd-Frank intended. We need to fundamentally rethink our approach to financial services regulation and reverse the tide of community bank failures and mergers, a completely unintended consequence of Dodd-Frank. If we can’t (or don’t), then traditional credit and banking services will be eliminated or become more expensive for small businesses, those living in rural communities, and millions of American consumers and businesses that are challenging or less profitable for large banks to serve.
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End the obamacare guessing game – chicagotribune.com.
Ahem. More than 4 in 10 Americans still don’t have a clue that Obamacare is coming and that coverage is mandatory, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released in August.
Illinois is gearing up to launch a massive marketing and information campaign to explain Obamacare, to be orchestrated through a $35 million contract with FleishmanHillard. The company has a huge job to do.
Our suggestion is simple: If you want to persuade people to buy something, tell them how much it will cost and what they will get.
In Illinois, that’s still anyone’s guess.
That’s the case in all the states where the Federal Government is running the exchange (whoops, “Marketplace”)
Is this anyway to run a business or a government?
Oh, and by the way, federal officials dumped another 300 pages of Obamacare rules on states and insurers just last week.
“How the heck can anyone (individuals, carriers, businesses) make any plans and stay compliant if they issue a rule just one month before it takes effect?” independent insurance agent Robert Slayton in Naperville said to us.
I can answer that. No way. This is called “AMATEUR HOUR”.
Prediction: CHAOS
Consensus? What Consensus? | Power Line.
Here in Colorado at the moment the League of Conservation Voters is running a carpet-bombing TV ad campaign against Republican Congressman Mike Coffman (and three other Republicans elsewhere) for the sole sin of not signing up the for the environmentalist climate agenda. There are two fun parts of the Coffman ad: first, the factoid that he accepted $300,000 from “big oil and gas” interests. Whoa! I note that the LCV ad campaign will spend something like $800,000 on these spots against Coffman. Pot, meet kettle. (Make sure they are lead-free, and heated by renewables.) Clearly Coffman hasn’t taken enough campaign contributions from oil and gas, and I hope they step up to defend him.
But much more fun is to take in the current climate campaign mantra in the ad that “97 percent of scientists agree” about human-caused global warming. The only notable thing here is that the survey doesn’t find that 100 percent of all scientists agree …
Hmmm. The global warming crowd along with a complicit media, including the Boulder Daily Camera, continue to run down this dead end road.
The DiploMad 2.0: Ted Mack! Calling Ted Mack! Please Pick up Your Royalty Check at the Rose Garden!.
Diplomad does a “take down” on Obama’s Syrian strategy. I’ll leave our with the concluding paragraphs…
If you are going to do a limited, “warning shot across the bow” sort of operation you do it in the middle of the night, no warning. The “warning” comes the next day, when you tell the miscreant, that the attack was the warning and is just a taste of what is to come. Will it work? Maybe. It didn’t work when Clinton launched his 23 cruise missiles against some empty Iraqi government buildings. It did work, for a bit, when Reagan hit Qaddafi after the Berlin disco bombing.
More important, if this crisis gets complicated, who trusts Obama and Kerry to be resolute leaders? Nobody. Is there any doubt that Obama would cut and run?
This is rank amateurism. Obama has no idea what to do, so he punts. He has kicked the ball to Congress, hasn’t called them back to the game, just told them you guys debate it, and let me know. Oh, and, of course, this is more important than defunding Obamacare, investigating Benghazi, looking into the IRS or Fast and Furious. No hurry. We can leave our ships out there for months if need be. Joe, let’s head for the links!
For those of you who don’t know, Ted Mack was the radio & television host of the original amateur hour.
