Cash for Clunkers: The Bus Version » The Foundry

It’d be much better if TIGGER were just a character on Winnie the Pooh and not a taxpayer handout for bus companies.

UPDATE: Trampling – Not Climate Change or Poaching – Likely Cause of Icy Cape Walrus Deaths « Watts Up With That?

Trampling-related injuries and mortalities are not uncommon at coastal walrus haulouts.
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The cause of the disturbance or disturbances leading to the trampling deaths is unknown. Investigators found no evidence of hunting or other recent human activities near the carcasses.

[Maybe these walruses were startled by one or more polar bears?]

Young animals can be hurt in stampedes when a herd is startled by a polar bear, human hunters or even a low-flying airplane.

Warming framed for squashed walruses | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If the evidence for apocalyptic man-made warming is so clear, why this constant invention of more?

Beware, Rudd's ETS elephant will trash your house | The Australian

IMAGINE if John Howard and Peter Costello had proposed a GST with an indeterminate variable rate, with the "variation" left hostage to the manipulation of clever investment bankers and other main-chancers, and you might begin to understand "Kevin Rudd's GST" -- his Emissions Trading Scheme, or ETS.

"His GST?" If we get the ETS, it is going to add to the price of everything -- not just power and not just carbon-based power in particular. On that point, it's worth noting that it is specifically designed to increase the price of all power -- quite deliberately, to make wind and solar power "competitive". That's to say we pay more for them, but they become "cheaper" than coal-based power.