The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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– Henry Kissinger
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when you negotiate with the devil: NYT
Time for the Dems to step up to the plate. Didn’t Harry Reid claim this would never make it through? Or is that just more happy talk?
How does one compromise on two bad proposals?
Shameful says John Dean. “Democrats have been remarkably silent.”
“Frankly, this proposed legislation is shameful. Even the much-heralded opposition of a few Republicans – Senator John Warner of Virginia, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Senator John McCain of Arizona – does little to correct the many deep flaws in this proposal.”
Climate Change Update:
British mogul Richard Branson pledged Thursday to spend three billion dollars in the next 10 years on a variety of projects to combat global warming and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. The founder of the Virgin Group of companies made the announcement in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative headed by former US president Bill Clinton and aimed at tackling key global problems.
The biggest case in the new but fast-growing area of climate-change litigation is now under way, although a fog of uncertainty surrounds the outcome. On Thursday, the state of California slapped a lawsuit against the Big Six automakers — General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Honda, Chrysler and Nissan — to demand compensation for damage inflicted by their vehicles’ greenhouse-gas emissions. California says it is having to spend a fortune to deal with shrinking snow cover on the Sierra Nevada mountains, raised sea levels, the increasing threat of forest fires and many other effects from man-made global warming. For their part, the auto industry says “cleaner vehicles are on the way.”
By churning the sea surface when their swarms surface each evening to feed, krill may influence global climate. The mixing may bring nutrients to the surface, fertilizing the plankton on which the krill feed.
You know you’re a lame duck when… Britain’s foreign secretary said Thursday the next U.S president should quickly get involved in global negotiations to slow global warming, which she warned was fast becoming a crucial foreign policy issue.
Something unusual is going on in the Beaufort Sea, a remote part of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. Over the past six weeks, a huge “lake” bigger than the state of Indiana has melted out of the sea ice.
… the Rest of the Science Headlines:
An international team of astronomers have discovered a supernova more massive than previously believed possible.
Over 70% of broiler chickens grown in the US are fed roxarsone, an arsenic compound, and some are starting to ask questions. It is banned in the EU.
The U.S. government approved new air pollution standards Thursday, promising “cleaner air to all Americans,” but health and environmental groups said the revised rules are too weak to protect against lung disease and other pollution-related ailments. Meanwhile, groups that represents U.S. electric power companies — one key source of the particle pollution addressed by the standards — said the new rules were too stringent.
The controversial closure of EPA libraries is moving ahead, but Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Energy & Commerce and Government Reform are calling for a Government Accountability Office investigation.
Relations between US and Pakistan have hit downward spiral. Today’s WH meeting warm-up.
To be aired on CBS’ 60 minutes on Sunday. How to win friends at the point of the gun, um bomb.
Musharraf, president of Pakistan was told after 9/11“Be prepared to be bombed. We’ll bomb you into the stone age if don’t cooperate.”
“On Wednesday, President Bush, in an interview with CNN, said that he would not hesitate to authorise immediate American military action inside Pakistan if he had intelligence of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts. Asked if he would give an order to kill the al-Qaeda leader, Mr Bush said “absolutely”.
President Musharraf was clearly angered by Mr Bush’s declaration that the US would act independently of his authority inside Pakistan.”
Lawsuits unsealed: Four government auditors who monitor leases for oil and gas on federal property say the Interior Department suppressed their efforts to recover millions of dollars from companies they said were cheating the government.
Let’s go to court for a different type of sermon. Liberal Church members, threatened with loss of tax-exempt status over an anti-war sermon just days before the 2004 election voted unanimously to resist IRS demands for documents.
The issue is joined: “Religious leaders on the right and left have expressed fear that the dispute could make it more difficult for them to speak out on moral issues such as gay marriage and abortion during the midterm election campaign.”
Globe and Mail, POSTED ON 22/09/06
What is wrong with regular ID, like a driver’s license?
book publicist? Independent
Looks like Chavez isn’t the only one who’s disenchanted with the way things are going…
Gets busted lying to the press: video via Bluejersey
Globe and Mail, POSTED ON 22/09/06
So, are they trying to keep you out or us in? Creepy either way.
Seriously.
Someone fowarded the links to me, saying “Our relationship with them has changed. It’s only a matter of time before we’re at war with them.”
It certainly is difficult to imagine anyone from Canada wanting to emigrate to the US under the present conditions…
Not being the type to read a poem all the way through to see what it’s really saying, they’ll justify this with a pretty TV speech, quoting Robert Frost: “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Mending Wall
Robert Frost
SOMETHING there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
“Stay where you are until our backs are turned!”
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
“Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down!” I could say “Elves” to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Soon like 2010, we’ll not need ID cards except internally. That’s if the march to a North Anerican Union – illiminating Canadian and Mexican borders with the “Amero” replacing the dollar and peso blends into one large Republic of Fear.
So what’s behind the SPP.gov website, formal integration or dialogue – without congressional oversight?
More than tin foil or a far-right conspiracy theory? One year ago I read in The Telegraph UK (can’t find now) on the new currency for the NAU- the amero.
Virtual or physical fencing won’t work along the Canada-US border. In my little village in Northern Vermont – we share common services with our Canadian counterpart; water, library, electricity, schools. Many houses/properties straggle the border with living room in Canada, garage and kitchen in Vermont is not a joke. It’s for real.
Sen. Pat. Leahy: “It is clear to me that those who want to build an enormously costly barrier across it have no clue about the character, the history and the day-to-day commercial importance of the northern border and the needs of the states and communities that would be affected.
“It is best to nip this foolishness in the bud before Congress wastes more tax dollars in another boneheaded stunt.”
Amen.
CBC, Fri, 22 Sep 2006
CBC, Wed Sep 20, 2006