Joplin Tornado Marked The 120th Anniversary Of Another Devastating Missouri Tornado

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Washington Post Advises Palin Not To Run

The Dems are terrified at the prospect that they might not be able to choose the Republican candidate this time.

By Eugene Robinson, Monday, May 30, 4:47 PM
My advice to Sarah Palin, not that she would take it, is that she’d better be careful. If she keeps pretending to run for the presidential nomination, people might take her seriously.

The former half-term Alaska governor’s “One Nation” bus tour has made the Republican establishment nervous. If her aim is just to get back in the news, reinflate the Palin brand and boost her speaking fees, then party leaders have every reason to be pleased. In the unlikely event that she’s actually running, they have every reason to order another Scotch.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

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Congratulations To Swansea

Is everything going to have to be bilingual now? How do you spell “relegation” in Welsh?

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Global Warming Is The Acid Test For Politicians

Anyone willing to fund this blatantly dishonest power grab – is simply not fit for office.

The climate was much worse at times in the past, and even if you naively believed the climate models – they tell you that the ungodly, murderous political proposals under consideration won’t make a noticeable difference to the climate.

Do your homework. If you are governor of New Jersey, you better get on the phone with your top scientists Freeman Dyson and Will Happer.

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Carbon Tax To End Millions Of Years Of Droughts And Floods In Australia

THE Gillard Government will need a new bureaucracy with three separate bodies to administer its carbon price, its climate change adviser Ross Garnaut said.

Under the proposals, emissions targets could be expanded and more industries hit by the carbon price once the carbon tax is replaced by an emissions trading scheme.

But Labor faces new warnings from key Independent Tony Windsor that he may not support the carbon tax unless he can be convinced Australia is not acting ahead of other countries. And the National Farmers Federation warned costs for grain farmers could soar by more than $36,000 a year under a carbon price of $36 per tonne.

A diverse range of other groups, including scientists and former Liberal leaders John Hewson and Malcolm Fraser, yesterday backed the carbon tax.

The Government will today receive two major reports that will help it finalise its carbon tax.

http://www.news.com.au/

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Sound Familiar?

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

 

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NRC Wants To Make Fuel More Expensive

WASHINGTON — “Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”

So says the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the country’s preeminent institution chartered to provide scientific advice to lawmakers.

In its report, “America’s Climate Choices,” a panel of scientific and policy experts also concludes that the risks of inaction far outweigh the risks or disadvantages of action.

The most sensible and urgently needed action, the panel says, is to put a rising price on carbon emissions, by means of a tax or cap-and-trade system.

http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/18486/

 

 

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I’d Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me, Than A Frontal Lobotomy

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He thinks he is being smart, not realizing that he is exactly who PT Barnum was talking about.

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Climate Change As A Verb? Noun? Cause? Effect?

The verbage of alarmists has become completely incomprehensible.

The climate has changed – due to climate change.

A symptom of climate change is a changing climate.

Climate change is making the weather wetter/drier/more variable/more extreme.

The climate hasn’t changed for 12,000 years, but now climate change is making the climate change at an unprecedented rate.

Incidents of extremely rapid climate change in the past were due to CO2.

The climate never changed in the past.

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Glacier Electric Toasts A Raptor

http://www.nps.gov/glac/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

 

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