Ballot Measure Boondoggle – High Speed Rail Costs Balloon to $100 Billion
Posted on November 4, 2011 - Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Cronyism, Delusional Dupes and DUmmies, Democrats, Economy, Fiscal Responsibility, Government corruption, Government incompetence, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, News, Politics As Usual, State Government, Taxes, corporatism, government waste, pork spending, transparency/accountability | Comments Off
By Steve Maggi
Nearly $100 billion. That’s what High Speed Rail is now going to cost California taxpayers – more than double the costs initially promised by the proponents of Prop 1A, which contained the initial taxpayer financing for the project.
2033. That’s when the HSR project is now expected to be completed – [...]
Model Vanessa Hessler fired for praising Gaddafis
Posted on November 4, 2011 - Filed Under News | Comments Off
We read:
“A German company has cancelled a major advertising contract with an Italian-American model after she described her passionate relationship with Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Muatassim, and praised his family.
Telecommunications firm Telefonica Germany and its subsidiary, Alice, will stop working with 23-year-old model Vanessa Hessler and remove her face from its website within hours, spokesman Albert [...]
CO2 Equals Temperature – Even If It Doesn’t
Posted on November 4, 2011 - Filed Under AGW hyposterics, Agenda based science, Collapsing Science, Fraud/misrepresentation, Global Warming, News, Science/pseudo-science | Comments Off
The theory that CO2 rise causes temperature rise is no longer a theory to Warmists. It is an axiom: An unquestionable truth. That it is false is impossible for them to see. Their minds just cannot handle the equation being wrong, even when it obviously is. They have a sort [...]
Read More..>>Letting children get dirty reduces the risk of them getting sick?
Posted on November 4, 2011 - Filed Under Healthcare, News, Research/surveys, Science/pseudo-science | Comments Off
Prof. Bisgaard has written a lot in this area so one can understand that he might be reluctant to let go of his theory but it is disturbing that he seems to have misled the journalist writing below.
As far as I can tell, the relevant journal article is “Reduced diversity [...]
CO2 Output Jumps As Temperature Correlation Refuses To Comply
Posted on November 4, 2011 - Filed Under AGW hyposterics, Collapsing Science, Global Warming, News | Comments Off
I blame Warmists for taking unnecessary fossil fueled flights to attend conferences that blame people taking unnecessary fossil fueled flights
(Yahoo News) The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.
The [...]
Will the Media’s Attack on Cain Be Successful?
Posted on November 4, 2011 - Filed Under Elections, Journalistic Malpractice, Journalistic Prostitution, Journalistic incompetence, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Politico, Polls | Comments Off
Update: As we await the release of the accuser’s statement via her lawyer…her lawyer gives another drip of info that seems to substantiate Cain’s side of things.
The settlement agreement between the National Restaurant Association and a woman who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment was reached in September 1999–and was not signed by Cain himself, [...]
Petulant President Gets Petulant After Another Vote Goes Against Him
Posted on November 4, 2011 - Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Economy, News, Politics As Usual, Senate, Taxes, Union Mafias/Thugs, economic stimulus, public employee unions | Comments Off
Mr. Obama had one hell of a day Thursday. First, he saw yet another piece of his pork barrel “scratch some campaign donors backs” stimulus plan go down
(Politico) The widely anticipated defeat of the Democrats’ Rebuild America Jobs Act, which would have provided $60 billion for transportation infrastructure projects, marked the third blow to President [...]
Help Stop The High Cost of Federal Regulations
Posted on November 3, 2011 - Filed Under Anti-Capitalism, Barack Obama, Congress, Economy, Fiscal Responsibility, Government incompetence, House, News, Representative Government, Senate, Separation of Powers, Taxes, Video, government waste, transparency/accountability | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
One of the reasons that our economic recovery has been so slow is that the Obama administration has opened a continuous avalanche of regulations affecting jobs, hampering businesses, and costing all of us billions in lost revenue, taxation, and waste. But there is a bill in the House called the REINS Act [...]
Don’t teach standard English to foreign language students, linguist urges
Posted on November 3, 2011 - Filed Under Australia, Education, News, Political Correctness | Comments Off
The guy below is off his head. He is right that English is used in many nations in a way that diverges from standard English — but have you ever tried to understand (say) Indian English? It can get close to impossible. I have even seen signs up outside shops in [...]
Read More..>>Ricin “terror plot”: Four in Ga. accused of planning “militia” attacks
Posted on November 3, 2011 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, AP, Anti-Americanism, BATFE, DoJ, FBI, Law Enforcement, Militias, News | Comments Off
This will give Leftists a horn but will probably go the way of the Hutaree Militia case: A government setup. The Hutaree case is so poor that the Feds keep postponing a trial — hoping for a plea bargain, no doubt
Four men in Georgia intended to use an online novel as [...]
UN: “If You Don’t Believe in Tackling Climate Change (Hoax), You’re Immoral and Hate Those in Poverty”
Posted on November 3, 2011 - Filed Under AGW hyposterics, Agenda based science, Anti-Capitalism, Authoritarianism, Collapsing Science, Fraud/misrepresentation, Global Warming, Government corruption, Government incompetence, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Hypocrisy/Situational Ethics, IPCC, Journalistic incompetence, Liberal Media/Bias, New York Times, News, Science/pseudo-science, Social Engineering, Socialism, Taxes, Totalitarianism, UN, environmental activists/terrorists, government waste, liberalism, paternalism, social parasites | Comments Off
Yet another breathless report from the United Nations (which is going to be holding it’s latest conference in the lovely vacation spot of Durban, S.A., at the end of the month, of which Anthony Watts writes “I’m not sure what it celebrates, perhaps they are celebrating being given prepaid tickets and receiving a salary [...]
Read More..>>Oakland’s Liberal Mayor Sends In Police Against Liberal Occupiers
Posted on November 3, 2011 - Filed Under AFL-CIO, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Communism, Communist Front groups, Crime, Delusional Dupes and DUmmies, Democrats, Law Enforcement, Liberal World, Marxism, Mobocracy, News, Occupy Wall Street, Rent-A-Mob, SEIU, Sedition, Socialism, State Government, Taxes, Union Mafias/Thugs, Wall Street, class warfare, environmental activists/terrorists, liberalism, paternalism, public employee unions, social parasites | Comments Off
I’m not sure what Oakland mayor Jean Quan was thinking. The protesters were completely peaceful
(MSNBC) Police in riot gear clashed with protesters in Oakland in the early morning hours on Thursday, firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators lingering in the streets after a day of mostly peaceful rallies against economic inequality and [...]
Obama’s Regulations So Far Cost Us $84.8 Billion And Climbing Weekly
Posted on November 2, 2011 - Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Barack Obama, Communism, Dept of Labor, Government incompetence, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Government tyranny, News, Politics As Usual, Property Rights, Taxes, Union Mafias/Thugs, anti-Liberty/Freedom, government waste, liberalism, public employee unions | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
There is a lot of talk about the high cost of regulations (in fact, a lot of talk from me about them). But how do you put a number on that cost? Well Sam Batkins of the American Action Forum has been keeping a running tab not only on the high cost [...]
Let the Children Vote? What Lunacy From Think Progress?
Posted on November 2, 2011 - Filed Under Child Exploitation, Communist Front groups, Constitution, Democrats, Elections, Liberal World, News, Stupidity, Voter/Election Fraud, liberalism, progressivism | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Matt Yglesias of Think Progress apparently feels it’s a good idea for kids to vote in U.S. elections. No, not just 18-year-old kids. All kids regardless of age. It is ideas impossible to take seriously like this that makes one wonder why liberals are ever listened to about anything by anyone.
I have [...]
House GOP Will Subpoena Illegal Immigration Data From DHS
Posted on November 2, 2011 - Filed Under Amnesty/Immigration reform, Barack Obama, Border Control/Homeland Security, Congress, Constitution, Crime, DHS, Fast and Furious/ Gunrunner, Fed Immigration Law, GOP, Government incompetence, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, House, ICE, Illegal Aliens/Immigration, National Security, News, Republicans, liberalism, transparency/accountability | Comments Off
Solyndra, Fast and Furious, now illegal immigration. The House GOP are busy little bees
(Washington Times) House Republicans are moving to subpoena a list of all immigrants whom the Obama administration has flagged under its secure communities program but failed to arrest for deportation, after the Homeland Security Department missed a congressionally imposed deadline to produce [...]
