Tuesday, February 02, 2010

My Way News - Sioux reservation struggling after winter storms
EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. (AP) - Sonny Brave Eagle and his family spent six days in the dark without a phone or working radio before law officers found them in their home after a fierce winter storm cut power across South Dakota's impoverished Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.
Rock Icon Andy Fraser Champions Global Warming Issue with Powerful Song “This is the Big One” - Music - News
(SkyNewswire.com)--- Andy Fraser, founding member of the influential 1970’s rock group, ‘Free,’ and writer of their mega-hit “All Right Now,” continues to spread the message about global warming and resulting catastrophic climate change through his powerful song and video, “This is the Big One.”
Mobility versus the “Congestion Coalition” (freedom versus planning revisited) — MasterResource
...there is a congestion coalition of powerful interests that wants to reduce our mobility. This coalition includes:

1. Big city officials who view the suburbs as rivals;
2. Downtown property owners who similarly would like to limit the growth of edge cities;
3. Rail contractors who make far larger profits building;
4. Subsidized rail lines than from roads paid for out of highway user fees;
5. Urban planners who think Americans should be happy to live in cramped, European-like cities;
6. Natural area advocates who think no one should be allowed to live in rural areas except for an elite few who know how to appreciate nature; and
7. Environmentalists who argue getting people out of their cars is critical to stopping global warming.
American Thinker: Pelosi's Last Hurrah
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has spent or authorized spending at least $3.2 million on trips, hotels, food, high-priced liquor, and military jet rides in the past two years.
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House Speaker Pelosi is one of the fifteen richest members of Congress, with a net worth between $33 million and $95 million. (So why does she charge us for her family's Grey Goose martinis on Air Force three? Nancy can afford to BYOB.)
Liberal Policy removes rewards for bankers « JoNova
Abbot still panders to the fake carbon scare, but takes the bankers and futures traders right out of the equation by ditching emissions trading:

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