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Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Aug 16, 1981

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Ford said that in Canada, the country “can’t afford” their universal health coverage.

“What you guys are doing down there, I just, I can’t get my head around it because it’s costing a fortune, and I don’t know where you guys are going to find the money, except the taxpayers pockets,” he continued.

“And I think people are taxed to death, and I don’t mind two-tier healthcare; if you want healthcare, you pay for it. I understand that. And we have general healthcare up here, or OHIP we call it, but, you know, it’s gonna cost a fortune for you guys to put in this ObamaCare, and I just don’t see how the people are going to be able to afford it, to tell you the truth.”

Ford added that he personally liked Obama but that he did not “like his politics.”

Controversial Toronto mayor slams O-Care | TheHill

US unemployment falls to lowest level for five years as 203,000 jobs added | Business | theguardian.com

What great news! Except that it is complete bullshit. They counted the return of furloughed government workers as “new jobs”

The figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics may have been bolstered by the return of hundreds of thousands of federal employees following October’s government shutdown

Obama told us that the government shutdown would wreck the economy. Now he is taking credit for it.

There is a thin sliver of missing sea ice in the Arctic.

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Scientists have been unable to find this, but fortunately my dogs have located it here in Colorado.

Hansen says that 2ºC warming would be disastrous, but I really need about 40 degrees warming in my neighborhood today.

James Hansen: 2C temperature rise would be “disastrous”

One million Californians who lose their individual plans in 2014 know that’s not true; when many saw their new premiums, they experienced “sticker shock.” Next comes “doc shock” — the revelation that many folks also won’t be able to keep their doctors.

Meet Chico, Calif., attorney Kenneth Turner. His wife found out that she has breast cancer two days before they received their cancellation notice. She’s scheduled for surgery Dec. 20 and will hear the prognosis Dec. 30. Two days later, she loses the doctor who will have operated on her, as well as other doctors she has seen for decades.

Obamacare’s Next Problem: Doc Shock – Debra J. Saunders – Page 1

h/t to Dave G

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Rumor is that Bono is going to hold a concert for the freezing Pine Beetles in Wyoming.

Yellowstone National Park, WY Weather Forecast from Weather Underground

Climate experts tell us that the Arctic is melting, and all the ice is disappearing.

Apparently the same Arctic air gets much colder as it moves south.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

The Obama administration has nearly finalized a rule that would give energy companies lengthy permits for wind farms that end up killing bald and golden eagles.   Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed every year after flying into large wind turbine blades, an issue that became an ongoing saga for the administration this year. The White House finalized its review on Thursday of a rule that would give the farms a 30-year pass for the killings, known as “takings.”

Eagle-killing rule almost done | TheHill

h/t to Dave G