Natural Disaster
Herman "Con Man" Cain: Keeping it Simple!
We have all heard Herman Cain's plan to strengthen the U.S. economy if elected as president. Nine! Nine! Nine! Nine percent income tax. Nine percent corporate tax. Nine percent federal sales tax. (on top of state & local sales tax)
It does sound simple. Doesn't it? It's almost cute. However, the reason Herman Cain would be an awful, destructive president is even more simple. He laid it all out with one simple answer to one simple question.
From the GOP/Tea debates on September 12th:
What will you do to ensure that energy independence will finally become a reality?
Cain: Remove barriers by the federal government. I would start with an EPA that's gone wild.
There you go. Herman "Con Man" Cain says the EPA has gone wild. Simply put, he's just another puppet for Big Coal & Oil.
That brings us to our latest installment (from NOAA) of why the EPA does not have enough regulations as it is. (below the fold)
The reports are out for September from NOAA.
Original Author:
Progressive86
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Dominion VA Power met with officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Monday to discuss the NRC's report on the impact of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake at Dominion's North Anna Power Station.
A public meeting with Dominion and NRC officials was also held on Monday afternoon at North Anna's nuclear information center in Mineral.
After the August 23 earthquake, the NRC's inspection team spent 3 weeks at the plant.
According to Dominion, North Anna's two nuclear reactors were shut down by seismic vibrations.
Dominion says that it has found no "significant" damage to structures, safety systems, pipes, valves, or the Lake Anna Dam over the course of numerous inspections.
Nonetheless, the earthquake brought to light the serious possibility of natural disasters causing unforeseen damage to VA's nuclear facilities.
In the wake of Japan's own nuclear disaster, the question of risk, of cost versus benefit, is more prescient now than it has been in decades.
For those that would claim that nuclear power is safe, they probably would not have predicted that an earthquake would have been able to shut down operations at North Anna for as long as it has.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
The earth is going to get a lot hotter (see: Texas, Russia wildfires, for example) without
Arctic ice to reflect sunlight. That's what it does.
(Do Oklahomans think state employees, including teachers, are overpaid and get too many benefits? You may be surprised what a new survey shows. Read DocHoc's latest post on SoonerPoll.)
It's not often I agree with U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe or Gov. Mary Fallin, but both are supporting tax incentives for storm shelters, and that's a good thing for Oklahoma.
Inhofe's push to give $2,500 in tax breaks to people who install storm shelters, which can cost up to $10,000, seems especially poignant given his own stormy rhetorical relationship to weather. Inhofe, pictured right, has said he believes global warming is a political "hoax," or, in essence, a huge conspiracy among leading world scientists.
When Republican Kids Imitate Their Elders, This Is What You Get
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
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not-so-funny college bake sale, though I am sure Rush and his local mini-clones will slap the kids on the back:
-- Campus Republicans at the University of California Berkeley have cooked up a storm of controversy with their plans for a bake sale.
But it's not your everyday collegiate fundraiser they've got in mind. They've developed a sliding scale where the price of the cookie or brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin.
During the sale, scheduled for Tuesday, baked goods will be sold to white men for $2.00, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1.00, black men for $0.75 and Native American men for $0.25. All women will get $0.25 off those prices.
"The pricing structure is there to bring attention, to cause people to get a little upset," Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis, who planned the event, told CNN-affiliate KGO. "But it's really there to cause people to think more critically about what this kind of policy would do in university admissions."
Lewis says it's a way to make a statement about pending legislation that would let the California universities consider race or national origin during the admission process.
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