She Came, She Saw, She Glowered - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit — Nancy Pelosi toured the Detroit Auto Show this week, surveying her new domain: the auto industry. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been lavished on Detroit to keep the Democratic unions happy and to develop the electric cars Washington has picked out for the peasants. Of course, upstart automakers from Pelosi’s home state of California are also on the taxpayer-funded gravy train, in an attempt by Golden State pols to shift America’s auto center from the Midwest to Silicon Valley — but Tesla and Fisker don't make cars for the common folk.

Burgenland man latest freeze victim - General News - Austrian Times Online News - English Newspaper

His death came after an 81-year-old man froze to death by the side of a road on Tuesday after his car broke down in temperatures of minus 15 centigrade near Obritz in Lower Austria’s Hollabrunn district.

And on the same day, a 75-year-old man froze to death after he fell on ice-covered stairs and knocked himself out outside his home in Lannach in Styria’s Deutschlandsberg district. His lifeless body was found an hour and a half later.

[Are these variations caused by carbon dioxide?]: North Wales farmers remember freezes of the past

“THE worst winter for a generation”, newspaper headlines have screamed. But for grizzled farming veterans, the current cold snap is a cakewalk compared with the bone-numbing winters of 1963 and 1982.

The 1963 winter was the coldest since 1740. A blizzard over England and Wales at the end of December left villages cut off for weeks, telephone lines down and food stocks running low.
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Older farmers sniff at the winters of ‘63 and ‘82. For they insist nothing compares with 1947, ominously remembered as the “black winter”.

The Prague Post - News - Country in grip of big freeze

Police confirmed there have been at least three deaths related to the weather. A driver in Klenovka, east Bohemia, was found frozen in his car, and another man froze to death in Kladno, central Bohemia. Police also confirmed a homeless man was found frozen to death in Prague.

President Barack Obama has not helda press conference in many months - ABC News

President Obama has not held a full news conference at the White House since July 22, the night he said that the Cambridge Police "acted stupidly" in the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.

Insane air board's new role: Tire Nazis - SignOnSanDiego.com

However (the) regs. CARB’s pushing through (released this week and subject to a 15 day comment period) ... provides that the only times that consumers may decline a check and inflate service—they can never decline the service if it’s offered for free—is when they are charged for services AND if they can PROVE (with DOCUMENTATION!) that they’ve had their tires checked and inflated in the last 30 days, or if they WILL do so within the next week. It is unclear, but possible, that CARB could take enforcement action against the consumer if they don’t follow through with their promise?!

Note that even the Department of Consumer Affairs opposed the last draft of these rules—letter attached (and I’m guessing these amendments won’t remove their opposition). CARB’s not messing around with these either—the potential penalty for violating the regulation is at least up to $1,000 per violation and six months imprisonment. The enforcement section referred to by CARB states that a violation of the regulation shall be “deemed to result in an emission of air contaminants,” potentially leading to even harsher penalties.