Photos: Brave locals take the Polar Bear Plunge - Boston.com

About 60 people took a frigid dip into Walden Pond on Dec. 6, 2008 as part of the Polar Bear Plunge. The event was planned to raise awareness on global warming.

The Washington Three? - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...Taxpayers may think restructuring auto companies means making them more competitive, but the radical green crowd now in power in Washington thinks restructuring means making them more moral.

“They do not have a sustainable business model right now, and if they expect taxpayers to help in that adjustment process, then they can’t keep on putting off the kinds of changes that they should have made 20 or 30 years ago,” said Barack Obama Sunday.

But by “sustainable” he means environmental sustainability. By “adjustment process,” he doesn’t mean axing his union labor allies’ contracts to make them competitive; he means forcing automakers to drop lawsuits against California’s emissions rules mandating a pie-in-the-sky 44-mpg average fuel economy by 2016. And by “changes that should have happened 20 or 30 years ago,” he means investing in expensive battery technology, not affordable internal combustion engines that actually sell.

To this end, Washington Democrats are floating the idea of an oversight board that would include five cabinet agencies including — wait for it — the EPA. In return for a short-term loan to resist bankruptcy, in other words, Detroit’s Three are sacrificing their future to a government-imposed, politically-correct business model.

This is a recipe for nationalization of the domestic auto industry.