The politics of Madeline Albright’s pins.
New California auto regulation aimed at energy conservation will block cell, GPS, radio signals.
The life of a skunk.
Activists say Pennsylvania man on death row convicted on same phony arson expertise that helped convict Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas.
Tim Carney on who’s sending checks to ex-GOP leaders who have come out in support of Obamacare. It’s odd how most people just assume the motives of Obama’s supporters are pure, while those of us opposed to a more socialized health care system are on someone’s payroll. Okay, maybe not odd. Frustrating.
This kid is good at the hockey.
Canadian trucker fined for “smoking in an enclosed workplace.” That is, the cab of his own truck.
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The life of a skunk.
I thought it would be a presidential bio, (past or present).
Follow the money and assume everyone is full of shit. Why is that so hard?
Madeline Albright’s writing style is like sawdust…too bad, because it sounds like an interesting subject.
But..but…but… I only use air conditioning (car or house) every coupla years, the last 2 cars I’ve owned haven’t even had air conditioning in them. Instead of playing games with the glass why doesn’t California just outlaw air conditioning in CA cars to save gasoline?
It’s my understanding that the california law may effectively ban Jeep Wranglers, as the metallic coating doesnt work with plastic windows. Hmm.
I have a windshield on my wagon that is made from the stuff that CA is mandating (even though in Oregon, where I live, it is only slightly legal) and it doesn’t block signals, radio, cell, radar etc.. my radar detector works great from front or back, cell phone works fine etc.. could be leaching thru the side and rear windows but I think the signal blockage hype is… well… over hyped.
http://corporateportal.ppg.com/NA/OEMGlass/10_Products/high_kroma.htm
link to the first of its kind and the same one I have installed on my vehicle.
maybe CA is mandating something different?
The nine year old’s stickhandling is TEH AWESOME!
So, let’s say I’m a Canadian, sitting in my own home, having a cigarette. Work calls. Do I have to extinguish my cigarette before I take the call?
Albright is a war mongering witch.
I adore skunks. Even though I have dogs. I didn’t know they needed it “rough” to ovulate.
California needs to stop passing laws. Just…stop.
Yes.
But don’t worry. The Ministry of Health doesn’t have SWAT teams.
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Yet.
So this means Canadian patrol units don’t smoke in their vehicles, ever, right?
Right?
Wrong! Laws are for little people.
Are all CA politicians and bureaucrats deranged?
Love the skunks story, cute critters, don’t mind the smell if it is faint (it does smell like really good Indica or vice versa), don’t they use it as a fixitive in perfumes?
I’m sure Dudley Do-Right doesn’t.
Can’t speak for the rest of the force, however.
My husband thought you would like this:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/10/15/jvm.cutting.in.line.jailtime.cnn
California’s regulatory environment has resulted in a state where there is a substantially lower consumption of energy per unit of GDP than the rest of the country. THis makes it more attractive and cheaper for employers and results in a net increase in standard of living for its citizens. The CARB was created because the smog was so bad in LA that illness and death rates were much higher than average (smog became a “tax” on the length of your life), and there were significantly increased costs of living and doing business (rubber tires for instance had to be replaced much more frequently due to deterioration from the sulfates in the air).
CARB and related regulations have clearly increased both the wealth and health of the average CA citizen -
Air conditioners are more efficient than leaving the windows open at highway speeds, so outlawing AC would have a negative effect.
What if I work from home? Is smoking banned in my house all the time, or just during normal business hours?
The windows block radio and sat radio?
Since when are antennas on the INSIDE of the car?
My portable satellite radio’s antenna is inside. I have mine on my dashboard.
The portable satellite radios. I forgot about those.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/40082.html
Chicago police hired to help in Pittsburgh for G-20, details on the kid made to kneel in front of the pigs for a group photo
Speaking of the great state of California…
Schwarzenegger set to ban ‘energy-guzzling’ big screen TVs in California
Ah yes. “Follow the money.” Good advice.
The recent Price-Waterhouse report tells me that the insurance companies surely don’t like the current Senate bill. And what Dole, Frist, Sullivan, and Thompson did, tells me that the insurance companies would dearly love it if some Republican Senators would join hands with some of the Blue Dog Democrats and re-write the bill.
First Saddam outs Albright as a reptilian, and today Drudge outs Hillary as a reptilian. Gotta love David Icke and the interdimensional E.T theory. Alan Greenspan and Larry King enjoy paring wine with mealworms, as they take instructions from our overlords who lie just beyond normal frequency
California’s regulatory environment has resulted in a state where there is a substantially lower consumption of energy per unit of GDP than the rest of the country. THis makes it more attractive and cheaper for employers and results in a net increase in standard of living for its citizens.
—Only after the regulatory costs have been capitalized. Of course this also means that it’s much harder to start a business in CA as well.
The CARB was created because the smog was so bad in LA that illness and death rates were much higher than average (smog became a “tax” on the length of your life), and there were significantly increased costs of living and doing business (rubber tires for instance had to be replaced much more frequently due to deterioration from the sulfates in the air).
CARB and related regulations have clearly increased both the wealth and health of the average CA citizen -
—The whole state must submit to burdensome regulation because LA has an environmental problem? Because trees are scarce in the desert no one in the forest shall be allowed to cut down trees?
I have no doubt that LA is a cespool of pollution but applying the solution to the problem seems a better route.
How can you save fuel in California if car radios are blocked and you cannot get traffic jam reports, and GPS signals are blocked so you cannot get help with alternate routes? Do the idiot politicians believe that electronic devices like radios and navigation systems burn too much fuel?
Surely any car built to the standard would come with an external antenna for the radio?
Radley:
here’s a story that’s similar to the one about the Canuckistani trucker
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8290882.stm
The LA Times says this can happen as soon as November 4th -
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bigtvs14-2009oct14,0,4908205.story
I’m expecting the Sunday paper to be crammed with big-screen TV ads…
ALthough it was worse in the LA basin, Air quality is a problem for a large part of the state, pollution from the SF bay area visibly degrades the air in Yosemite, and the central valley now has some of the least healthy air in the country, much of it because CARB has little authority over agricultural sources… The CAFO’s in the southern part of the central valley create a yellow-brown twilight over large areas.
Business startup rates in CA would compare favorably to most other parts of the country.