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Interesting Items <http://www.jiglu.com/tags/interesting-items> 6/29 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Crap & Trade 2. Science 3. Kensington 4. Iran <http://www.jiglu.com/tags/iran> 5. Drone Strike ------------------------------ 1. Crap & Trade. Nancy Pelosi’s House passed 1,200 – 1,500 page Waxman – Markey (or Taxman – Malarkey) Cap & Trade legislation Friday. It is intended to control carbon dioxide emissions<http://www.jiglu.com/tags/carbon-dioxide>here in the US as a way to control manmade global warming. The legislation marks the first time the US government – now completely out of control under the leftists and a fascist majority in congress – has dared to designate a vital part of the environment as a dangerous pollutant. The legislation was not even completely written, as Waxman (D, CA) dropped a 300-page amendment on the table at 3:09 AM Friday morning. As it was, eight Republicans voted for the bill nobody read, and 44 democrats voted against it. It passed 219 – 210 and goes to the Senate for consideration in September. This legislation represents a huge transfer of wealth from working Americans and businesses into the hands of the non-producers. Additionally, tax incentives will serve to increase our dependence on imported foreign energy, as it will be a dime cheaper per barrel to import than produce domestically. The Obama administration is referring to this as a jobs bill that will move people to so-called green jobs. Unfortunately for those of us that work for a living, Spanish experience with green jobs has been awful. Spain currently has draconian environmental laws in effect. They have determined new energy production sources and have heavily subsidized them – think solar and wind. Spain currently has unemployment around 18%. And their experience with green jobs has shown that for every single green job created; around 2.2 real jobs are destroyed. We are following the Spaniards down the rabbit hole. Finally, it appears Pelosi’s leadership and the state-run media pulled a little game with this legislation, as we heard throughout the last several weeks that they didn’t have the votes to pass this POS. But they did. Now they are saying that there is no way this will get out of committee in the Senate. Bet they have the votes in the senate also. Phone calls were running 9:1 against passage in the House, which didn’t seem to matter a lot to members of the 219 House members that voted for the unread and unwritten legislation. If this passes, it will have a huge and incredibly expensive impact on our lives. It must not be allowed to pass the senate and every single congress critter that voted or votes for it must pay a painful, awful price for that support. ------------------------------ 2. Science. The Competitive Enterprise Institute unearthed a 98 page internal EPA document <http://www.jiglu.com/tags/epa> that took exception with their finding earlier this year that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant. The EPA slammed through the finding, which gives the EPA latitude under the Clean Air Act to write rules and regulations controlling carbon dioxide in less than a week, allowing only five days for internal comment. If the author of the opposition report, which the EPA buried until the release of internal e-mails, was able to put this together in less than five days – all 98 pages of it – don’t you suppose that there are significant scientific data in opposition to the notion that carbon dioxide, specifically manmade carbon dioxide is causing global warming? From the Powerandcontrol blog Saturday: The EPA report (designating carbon dioxide as a pollutant) is based on the last IPCC report which is now 3 years out of date. These new findings have not been taken into account: a. Global temperatures have been trending downwards for 11 years b. The consensus on Atlantic Hurricane behavior has changed c. Greenland is probably safe from melting d. The economic downturn has reduced CO2 emissions e. Empirical evidence supports negative feedback for water vapor f. Solar variability may account for 68% of warming Mr. Carlin (the author of the suppressed report) also points out that the EPA has a history of doing its own evaluations of science and does not rely on outside organizations (such as the IPCC) to determine its conclusions. The EPA in this case has not done its own independent investigation. ------------------------------ 3. Kensington. The SCOTUS found last week that a mine near Juneau could proceed with their plans to dump mine tailings – crushed rock – into a lake as approved by an Army Corps of Engineers permit for the mine. The permit also requires the mine to remediate the lake following the end of mining operations, and restore the fish population in the lake afterwards. Southeast Alaska greens as usual were apoplectic, as they were hoping to use the courts to shut down mining throughout the region. The game the greens were playing was with definitions of mining waste. If that waste – normally crushed rock (the same thing that comes off the ends of glaciers and is suspended in glacial runoff streams – is designated as fill, it only has to comply with normal runoff rules. On the other hand, if it is designated as mining waste, downstream water quality must improve to a level approaching distilled water downstream. Greens are pushing the Obama administration and congress to retroactively rewrite the rules for mining and dumping crushed rock. This was a great victory, but will not stop the green assault on mining here in Alaska <http://www.jiglu.com/tags/alaska> as long as one of them continues breathing. ------------------------------ 4. Iran. The revolution in Iran continued last week with the Basji, the Revolutionary Guards, other security and imported thugs beat, chopped, maimed and murdered protestors in Tehran and other cities. The Mullahs<http://www.jiglu.com/tags/mullahs>doubled down, vowing to never give up control of the nation. Interestingly, by weeks end, there were no reports of Iranian military being deployed in the streets, suggesting to some observers that their loyalty to the Mullahs may be suspect at best. This fight is going to be to the death, with the Mullahs and their hired thugs killing and maiming everyone that dares to stand in their way. They have managed to disarm the population to the extent that Basji on small motorbikes with axes are successfully attacking and killing their victims. Should the revolutionaries win out on this one, despite the complete lack of assistance from the US, expect the Mullahs to suffer the same indignities that Mussolini did in 1945. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. ------------------------------ 5. Drone Strike. A US drone strike on a funeral for a Taliban chieftain<http://www.jiglu.com/tags/taliban>in Pakistan killed over 60 last week. Interestingly, there were no claims of women and children killed in the strike. Both the Pakistanis and Taliban were very quiet afterwards, perhaps indicating that the strike may have been much more successful at removing high value targets from the global gene pool than some previous strikes. The war continues, somewhat successfully, even though nobody in the administration is talking about it any more. In a related story, the new US Commander in Afghanistan announced that Rules of Engagement were going to be changed so that Taliban would no longer be engaged in local housing in an attempt to avoid collateral damage. At first glance, this would appear that an Obama General was now in charge and we were chick-ifying the conduct of the war. However, on the Milblogs, the talk is that the new Commander comes out of the Special Forces world, and is one of the nastier pieces of work out there. They suggest that he has done a cost-benefit analysis of killing small numbers of Taliban hiding behind innocents; has determined that flattening a building with 20 non-combatants; and killing a couple Taliban is not the best use of overwhelming force; and is coming up with another way to deal with them. We will see how this works out. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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