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Charles Bolden chosen to lead NASA
President Barack Obama has chosen retired astronaut Charles Bolden to lead Nasa. Here is the Cliffs Notes version of the Bolden story:
More at the LINK California voters aiming to get revenge via ballot measures
There are also some groups pushing to eliminate the 2/3 budget vote requirement in the State Legislature and others who are attacking Prop. 13. That is not good news. But the voters clearly are ready and willing to keep attacking our awful politicians, from both parties. About a third of the voters have quit the two parties and filed as decline to state voters - and still the stupid politicians don’t get it. Let the tax revolt continue then - until we either boot out these politicians or at least handcuff those who are in power now. Why stop at making them part-time? We should be going after their perks and staffers too! President Obama: Honor veterans this Memorial DayIn his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said people can honor veterans by sending a letter or care package to troops overseas, volunteering at health clinics or taking supplies to a homeless veterans center. He said it could also mean something as simple as saying “thank you” to a veteran walking by on the street. “We have a responsibility to serve all of them as well as they serve all of us,” Obama said. “And yet, all too often in recent years and decades, we, as a nation, have failed to live up to that responsibility. We have failed to give them the support they need or pay them the respect they deserve. “That is a betrayal of the sacred trust that America has with all who wear and all who have worn the proud uniform of our country,” he said. Link Those are strong words of challenge to this great nation’s citizens. So I went to look for some places locally where donations could be accepted to help veterans. Using my pal, Google, to search, I found several links. At one of those links, there was news of multi-million dollar fraud scheme in Santa Ana for a “charity” that scammed donors out of money intended for veterans. The “charity” was comprised of three groups: the American Veterans Relief Foundation, the Coalition of Police and Sheriffs and the Disabled Firefighters Fund, all using the same address were exposed by a crackdown called Operation False Charity.
According to the article, there are more actions to come against false charities in California. Does anyone have a favorite LEGITIMATE Veteran’s support organization that you would recommend to others wanting to give donations? Can the lame Republicans win any council seats in Irvine?
How frustrating must it be to live in Irvine if you are a hack Republican? Year after year Larry Agran finds a way to punk his GOP adversaries - and it is usually not close. Now Red Klownty blogger Allan Bartlett is wondering if his red-faced colleagues will win a council seat or two next year, in Irvine. I don’t think so Allan! Allan waxed poetic in a recent post about some Republican gal named “Megan Barth,” that he thinks can be a good GOP candidate for Irvine Mayor. Who the heck is “Megan Barth?” There is the problem Allan - she is UNKNOWN. Now Allan is impressed that Ms. Barth spoke at the Corona John and Ken rally. That’s great Allan. I am sure there were what, five Irvine voters there? And didn’t John and Ken say, on air, that the Red Klownty blog is a blog for Republican “kool-aid drinkers?” Allan goes on to name Irvine Republicans that he thinks can win Council seats in Irvine:
That looks like a big list of losing candidates! Didn’t Obama win Irvine? What is some McCain dude going to do there but lose? And John Duong? ROFLMAO!!! C’mon Allan. None of your red-faced pals are going to take out Agran. And the fact that Christina Shea is going to term out means that Agran will find a Democrat to replace her. I am no fan of Agran - but he knows how to run his city and he has a powerful grip on the local politics in his town. These loser Republicans have no shot to take him out - and everyone except Allan and his fellow Red Klownty bozo bloggers knows it. Irvine’s Beth Krom @ Barber Park tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. to Celebrate Memorial Day
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Map and Information Link George Giokaris: School Snitch/Team Player. But Which Team Is He On?
Here's what we've gathered from credible sources: Last week, County Supervisor Chris Norby (FHS '68) spoke with former district Superintendent Escalante and current Boardmembers Dutton and Singer. All confirmed their opposition to the $6 million McDonald's move across the street from FHS. Escalante recounted an earlier conversation with Meyer opposing the relocation on traffic and safety grounds. Click here to read more. Congressman Joseph Cao raking in contributions in the O.C. today
Congressman Joseph Cao will be partying hard with his well-heeled GOP Viet friends today Poor Congressman Joseph “Ahn” Cao. He got elected to an overwhelmingly Democratic congressional district in Louisiana. And he is in big trouble. I doubt he will survive reelection. So today he is here in Orange County trying to raise a ton of money by charging $500 to meet with him at a fundraising luncheon in Garden Grove, at the Brodard Chateau, located at 9100 Trask Ave. Interestingly, Quang Pham appears to have played a large role in putting this together - and he recently announced his interest for running for Congress too, against Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and GOP Assemblyman Van Tran, perhaps as an independent. Afterwards everyone is heading to Beverly Hills for the Vietnamese American Gala. We’re in the middle of the worst recession ever and this guy Cao is raking in money hand over fist. I am pretty sure that won’t go down well with the poverty-stricken people that live in his congressional district. Oh well. He may as well have fun while his term lasts. I truly doubt he has even a remote chance to get reelected. He really ought to become a Democrat, ASAP. Mancow: It’s Absolutely Torture! It’s Drowning!Conservative talk show host Mancow (aka Erich Muller) volunteered himself to be waterboarded in order to demonstrate that the technique is not torture. Well, guess what? The guy lasted a whopping SIX SECONDS before he stopped it and declared it…. drumroll…. “ABSOLUTE TORTURE!”. I give the guy credit, he was certain that it was going to be some water on the face for sissies and then he had to admit that it was actually an exercise in drowning. Keith Olberman is sending in $10,000 to Mancow’s choice of charity for this demonstration. You really need to click the video/link to get a few minutes synopsis of the whole “waterboarding is not torture” line of reasoning. This clip nails it, complete with a skilled waterboarding specialist who claims that the average person can only withstand the technique for 14 seconds. Mancow drowned as a child and was revived back to life. He has a unique perspective on what it means……..
to be the victim of drowning. For this stunt, he got the cadillac version of being waterboarded, knowing that he could end the waterboarding treatment at any time by throwing down a plastic cow as a sign for it to stop. He also had a wet towel draped over his nose and mouth left free - which is considerably more comfortable and less threatening than having his head covered in plastic wrap with a slit hole over the mouth. Comments? Is Harry Sidhu a threat to Tom Daly’s supervisorial campaign?
Why is Red Klownty’s Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham trying to discourage Anaheim City Councilman Harry Sidhu from running for Orange County’s 4th Supervisorial District? Jerbal had this to say about Sidhu’s campaign in a recent post: From what I’ve been able to gather from nosing around, the reaction to this fundraiser, and to Harry’s supervisor candidacy in general, has been underwhelming. For oe thing, there’s the carpet bagging issue. Harry lives in the 3rd Supervisor District and has no plans to sell his Anaheim Hills home and move into the 4th District. So he’ll buy or rent a condo there to use as a voter registration address — which is no different from what Tom Umberg did when running for the 1st Supervisor District in 2006-2007. Could it be that Jerbal and his buddy John Lewis are afraid that Sidhu will take votes in Anaheim away from their pet Democrat, Tom Daly, who is also running for the 4th District? That would only help the REAL conservative in this race - Fullerton Councilman Shawn Nelson, who announced in an email today that he is indeed running to replace termed out Supervisor Chris Norby. Here’s Nelson’s campaign announcement: Dear Friends, As you may know, Supervisor Chris Norby cannot run for reelection due to term limits. His district (the 4th) includes part of Anaheim, Buena Park, Fullerton, La Habra and Placentia. Fullerton and Anaheim are the biggest blocks of voters. After a great deal of thought and planning, I have decided to run for Supervisor. With my experience as a business owner and as a City Councilman I know I will be able to work toward continuing the goals we all share for Orange County: * Improving the local economy and job outlook through business-friendly policies. As a conservative who was raised in the Fourth District, and the top vote-getter among Republicans in last November's Fullerton City Council election, I start our campaign with many advantages. I have the love and support of my wonderful wife, Sharon and my entire family. I have been encouraged to run by some of Orange County's leading public servants. But the most important advantage will be the support from taxpayers like you who care about the future of our county and the quality of life in our communities. I invite you to visit my website, www.NelsonforSupervisor.com for information about our campaign and how you can help. We are putting together our list of supporters and I would be honored to include your name on that list. Just click on this link to let me know I have your support. Thank you for your support. Shawn Nelson The Climate Industrial Complex
Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets. The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the might of the “military-industrial complex,” cautioning that “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” He worried that “there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.” This is certainly true of climate change. We are told that very expensive carbon regulations are the only way to respond to global warming, despite ample evidence that this approach does not pass a basic cost-benefit test. We must ask whether a “climate-industrial complex” is emerging, pressing taxpayers to fork over money to please those who stand to gain. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.
This phenomenon will be on display at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen this weekend. The organizers — the Copenhagen Climate Council — hope to push political leaders into more drastic promises when they negotiate the Kyoto Protocol’s replacement in December. The opening keynote address is to be delivered by Al Gore, who actually represents all three groups: He is a politician, a campaigner and the chair of a green private-equity firm invested in products that a climate-scared world would buy. Naturally, many CEOs are genuinely concerned about global warming. But many of the most vocal stand to profit from carbon regulations. The term used by economists for their behavior is “rent-seeking.” The world’s largest wind-turbine manufacturer, Copenhagen Climate Council member Vestas, urges governments to invest heavily in the wind market. It sponsors CNN’s “Climate in Peril” segment, increasing support for policies that would increase Vestas’s earnings. A fellow council member, Mr. Gore’s green investment firm Generation Investment Management, warns of a significant risk to the U.S. economy unless a price is quickly placed on carbon. Even companies that are not heavily engaged in green business stand to gain. European energy companies made tens of billions of euros in the first years of the European Trading System when they received free carbon emission allocations. American electricity utility Duke Energy, a member of the Copenhagen Climate Council, has long promoted a U.S. cap-and-trade scheme. Yet the company bitterly opposed the Warner-Lieberman bill in the U.S. Senate that would have created such a scheme because it did not include European-style handouts to coal companies. The Waxman-Markey bill in the House of Representatives promises to bring back the free lunch. U.S. companies and interest groups involved with climate change hired 2,430 lobbyists just last year, up 300% from five years ago. Fifty of the biggest U.S. electric utilities — including Duke — spent $51 million on lobbyists in just six months. The massive transfer of wealth that many businesses seek is not necessarily good for the rest of the economy. Spain has been proclaimed a global example in providing financial aid to renewable energy companies to create green jobs. But research shows that each new job cost Spain 571,138 euros, with subsidies of more than one million euros required to create each new job in the uncompetitive wind industry. Moreover, the programs resulted in the destruction of nearly 110,000 jobs elsewhere in the economy, or 2.2 jobs for every job created. The cozy corporate-climate relationship was pioneered by Enron, which bought up renewable energy companies and credit-trading outfits while boasting of its relationship with green interest groups. When the Kyoto Protocol was signed, an internal memo was sent within Enron that stated, “If implemented, [the Kyoto Protocol] will do more to promote Enron’s business than almost any other regulatory business.” The World Business Summit will hear from “science and public policy leaders” seemingly selected for their scary views of global warming. They include James Lovelock, who believes that much of Europe will be Saharan and London will be underwater within 30 years; Sir Crispin Tickell, who believes that the United Kingdom’s population needs to be cut by two-thirds so the country can cope with global warming; and Timothy Flannery, who warns of sea level rises as high as “an eight-story building.” Free speech is important. But these visions of catastrophe are a long way outside of mainstream scientific opinion, and they go much further than the careful findings of the United Nations panel of climate change scientists. When it comes to sea-level rise, for example, the United Nations expects a rise of between seven and 23 inches by 2100 — considerably less than a one-story building. There would be an outcry — and rightfully so — if big oil organized a climate change conference and invited only climate-change deniers. The partnership among self-interested businesses, grandstanding politicians and alarmist campaigners truly is an unholy alliance. The climate-industrial complex does not promote discussion on how to overcome this challenge in a way that will be best for everybody. We should not be surprised or impressed that those who stand to make a profit are among the loudest calling for politicians to act. Spending a fortune on global carbon regulations will benefit a few, but dearly cost everybody else. Mr. Lomborg is director of the Copenhagen Consensus, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming” (Knopf, 2007). By the way, if you didn’t check ALL FOUR answers honestly, you don’t believe in global warming. ALL FOUR have to exist for global warming to be real. Black Chamber of Commerce calls out “Cap & Tax”
Well, finally a responsible political organization has come out and called the “Cap & Trade” Obama proposal what it is… a job killer, a tax and spend job, a tariffs bill sure to anger every country who exports to us, a giveaway to big business, and a sure-fire loser! WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, in anticipation of Friday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee vote on the Waxman-Markey legislation, the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) released a new study that determines the potential economic impacts of the federal cap-and-trade system outlined in the bill. Compiled by CRA International, the analysis determines that by 2030 the law would – reduce national GDP roughly $350 billion below the baseline level; Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.
The simple facts are that while there is lots of talk about “new” green jobs, what they dont NBCC President and CEO Harry Alford notes, “These findings add to a growing body of evidence that demonstrates cap-and-trade would make American consumers poorer and the products they buy more expensive.
If the Obama bill emulates the European model, it will be a massive giveaway to the coal industry to “not produce”. And international companies are lining up at the trough for these programs, just like they are nationalized health care… so they dont have to pay for them anymore. Like the big corporate giveaways? Then you’ll love Obama Green. By the way, if you didn’t check ALL FOUR answers honestly, you don’t believe in global warming. ALL FOUR have to exist for global warming to be real. Fullerton Gov't Hates Property Rights - and Kids on BikesWhat's going on in Fullerton? Many city officials seem intent on "redeveloping" a city that has no blight — even as they have wasted $20,000 in bureaucratic expenses to make sure kids don't ride their bikes in a vacant lot. As the economy worsens for everyone, the city just can't get its priorities straight. First, the redevelopment absurdity. The city claims West Fullerton's commercial areas and East Fullerton industrial areas are "blighted" and wants to redevelop them. This could mean using "eminent domain" to forcibly take property from its rightful owners, then give it to other private owners for a supposedly "better" use. And it could mean using our hard-earned tax dollars to "help" the new owners redevelop the property. Click here to read more. |
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