Monday, February 02, 2009

Instapundit » YEAH, THOSE LIMITS WORKED OUT GREAT IN CHINA
I think all “green gurus” should be sterilized first. As an example.
Many pleading for faster response
MARION, Ky. (AP) — A crippling winter storm has plunged about a million customers into the dark from the Midwest to the East Coast, and thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky have sought refuge in motels and shelters.

Dozens of deaths have been reported and many people are pleading for a faster response to the power outages. Some in rural Kentucky ran short of food and bottled water, and resorted to dipping buckets in a creek.
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Smith said FEMA was still a no-show days after the storm.
Has the U.S. lost its passion for green? - Jan. 29, 2009
Frances Beinecke, the head of New York City-based environmental group the National Resources Defense Council, threw some cold water on Stern's optimism, pointing out the economic crisis in America has made any sort of climate change agreement in the U.S. - at least for the time being - politically untenable. "Americans don't want to hear about climate change," says Beinecke, "they want to hear about jobs."

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