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If He Wants To Destroy The Country….
…..wouldn’t nukes be quicker?
The Obama Energy Tax Game Plan
The Foundry
In February of this year, after Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-MA) victory put Obamacare on life support, health insurer Anthem Blue Cross announced a 39% rate hike for its individual market subscribers in California. Despite the fact that the President’s health care plan will only drive health insurance rates higher, the White House seized on this story to revive the government takeover of the health insurance industry. Two months later when the President’s financial regulation plan was stalled in the Senate, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman Sachs with fraud in marketing some of its subprime mortgage investment products. Again, the White House pounced on this news to get its preferred legislation through Congress.
“The Day Freedom Died”
The Senate just claimed the title of the world’s most delusional body by refusing to strip unelected EPA bureaucrats of the power to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. This was the day freedom died.
One wonders why we have a Congress at all. The 53 profiles in cowardice that could not get a cap-and-tax bill through the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to let the Environmental Protection Agency keep the unprecedented power Congress did not expressly give it. It is power that the EPA arrogated to itself through regulation to control every aspect of the American economy and our very lives.
They might as well have taken the Constitution out on the on Senate floor, and started a fire, with what little we have left of it now.
All 41 Republicans, including newbie Scott Brown of Massachusetts, voted not to shred the Constitution. The motion attracted, for various reasons, the votes of six Democrats — Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor, the departing Evan Bayh and even Jay Rockefeller, who for once chose jobs over ideology.
Perhaps there is a drop or two of common sense in a few of the Dems, and the Republicans KNOW they would get shredded. The first thing the new Congress, under Republican control, needs to do is dissolve the EPA. One less bloated bureaucracy is not a bad thing. We already have laws in place that deal with environmental issues. The arrogance of this Congress is mind boggling. They shouldn’t be surprised when they find themselves standing in the unemployment lines with the millions of Americans they’ve put out of work!
This is a Congress full of hypocrites who complain about executive branch power under Republicans but are willing to give the EPA unprecedented power because they don’t have the votes for cap-and-trade. “Who elected the Environmental Protection Agency?” asked Wyoming Republican John Barrasso. It is a question we, and the voters, ask too.
That’s a question they better find an answer to before the ‘peasants’ come to the Capital with pitchforks, and find a way to undo the damage they’ve done.
Tax The Hot Air Escaping D.C.!
Yeah yeah….I’m late on this, but I have a real good excuse! 
What’s Worse Than Energy Taxes? Renewable Electricity Standards
The Foundry
On March 15th, appearing with labor and environmental leaders, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled a new alternative energy plan that he said would ensure the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power would meet his goal of securing 20% of its energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by December 31st. At the time, he claimed it would create 16,000 jobs and only raise consumer electric bills between 8.8% and 28.4%. But less than two weeks later those energy rate hike estimates had skyrocketed with the DWP saying it needed to raise rates by 37% in order to meet the renewable energy standards. Los Angeles’ already shrinking business community revolted and by April Mayor Villaraigosa’s plan had been soundly defeated.
Another Stupid Giverment Idea!
I want a nice sun room, environmentally sound, of course. Gimme some of dat “Obama money”!
Cash for Caulkers: Another Subsidized Clunker
The Foundry
This week The House of Representatives is set to vote on a, $6.6 billion home energy efficiency bill commonly referred to as “cash for caulkers.” The plan would give rebates to homeowners willing to green their homes by installing new windows and retrofitting homes energy efficient upgrades. The legislation, H.R. 5019, is being sold as a win for the economy, the planet and consumers. Its supporters of say it will create jobs and lower both greenhouse gas emissions and electric bills through less energy usage. But the old “If it’s too good to be true” adage holds up again. Cash for caulkers is nothing more than a $6.6 billion, taxpayer-funded government program that of wealth that will be fraught with fraud and is another step in the direction in the creating a green bubble.
What Part Of ILLEGAL………
Immigration Advocates Vow to Fight Arizona Law
Arizona’s governor vows the state’s tough new law targeting illegal immigration will be implemented with no tolerance for racial profiling, but at least two advocacy groups were preparing legal challenges and Mexico has warned that the law could affect cross-border relations.
Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill that supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation’s busiest gateway for human and drug smuggling from Mexico and home to an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants.
The law makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally. It also requires local police officers to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants; allows lawsuits against government agencies that hinder enforcement of immigration laws; and makes it illegal to hire illegal immigrants for day labor or knowingly transport them.
With hundreds of protesters outside the state Capitol shouting that the bill would lead to civil rights abuses, Brewer said critics were “overreacting” and that she wouldn’t tolerate racial profiling.
“We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act,” Brewer said after signing the law. “But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation.”
Let’s get this out there, right off the bat. I’m not a racist. Mexican is not a race. I do not hate Mexicans.
What I have major problems with is the fact there are people, sneaking into my home, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. I’m suppose to pay for their room and board, their health care, their children’s education, and get nothing in return. Well, I’m tired of it. I’m tired of reading about LEGAL citizens being murdered by these slime balls, while the federal government, sits on it’s thumbs and spins to the tune of their “advocates”. We see people killed by drunk drivers, no license, no right to be on the roads, with numerous offenses. We read about kidnappings in Phoenix, the “kidnap capital of the world”. We see the violence growing on the border, and that moron they call the Secretary of Homeland Defense is telling us all is well. Really? What planet is she on?
Government IS The Problem
EPA stands in the way of recovery
By Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
Not far from my district the Spring Hill plant sits idle. GM pulled out of Spring Hill, once the proud home to the Saturn line, in the wake of its bankruptcy last year. Reopening the plant, either for the production of cars or anything else, will be critical to jobs growth in Middle Tennessee. At a listening session with constituents who live in the 7th district and used to commute to work in Spring Hill, the message was clear: to get the plant up and running again, Washington is going to have to do … less.
Save The Earth – Kill The Babies!
An excellent post by Alan Caruba:
The Naked Communism of Earth Day
Just a snippet.
It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic who invented communism as an alternative to capitalism.
Earth Day is naked communism.
To begin, it substitutes a worship of the Earth, Gaia, for the worship of God, creator of the universe and the instructor of moral behavior for mankind.
The Earth does not demand a moral code of personal behavior. Indeed, the lesson it teaches is “the survival of the fittest “and an indifference to suffering. The “natural events” mankind fears most all involve the potential for significant loss of life and for injury.
The Earth is a beautiful place, but it is utterly merciless. Man has learned to adapt to it and, by adapt, I mean to use its resources to build shelter and protection from it, to plant and harvest crops from it, and to domesticate some of its species while hunting and fishing for others for food.
I don’t, and WON’T, worship a planet. I worship God, Who created the planet!
Exodus 20:1-5
1 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Pagan Power
Obama’s climate of fear
Earth Day hysteria is based on lots of phony science
The purported science behind the global-warming fad is in full retreat these days, but word has yet to reach the White House. President Obama is determined to promote the alleged climate crisis as a lever for pushing through his big-government agenda. The O Force doesn’t believe in wasting a crisis, even if it’s a mirage.
If there is no crisis, why, let’s just create one!
In mid-March, the White House Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force did its bit for climate terror. “Climate-change impacts are pervasive, wide-ranging and affect the core systems of our society: transportation, ecosystems, agriculture, business, infrastructure, water and energy, among others,” its report stated. The panel also expressed concern that “Climate change already is affecting the ability of federal agencies to fulfill their missions,” which – if true – many Americans would view as a positive development.
Oh yeah! Shut ‘em down flat! That WOULD be a positive development. 
Ok, who comes up with these ridiculous names? White House Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force? WHICCATF? Is that kind of like Wicca the f…? Or….WTF? Ok, I’ll try to behave.
Pagan Day
The High Holy Days of the Environmental Religion
Earth Day… a Celebration of the New Paganism
by J. D. Longstreet
We are about to witness a worldwide pagan rite – the worship of the earth, the worship of Gaia, (Earth Mother). Earth Day is the worship of nature — rather than Nature’s God.
Though touted as, somehow, NEW, worship of the earth is likely the oldest religion on earth. Born of child-like ignorance, it has survived centuries and is, once again, robust and thriving among those people of earth who have lost their way and have reclaimed this form of paganism at the risk of their eternal souls.
I must tell you, I question whether one who subscribes to the Christian faith can take part in a pagan rite without committing sin. The Earth Day celebration is, in my opinion, a pagan rite. Celebrants of paganism can only be in league with the forces of evil.
But here we are, this week, celebrating the annual, global, orgasmic, daisy chain of paganism — Earth Day.
Read the whole post here.
So, how did all this grass groveling start? Well, it seems this man, Democrat – Gaylord Nelson, (booted out of office by a Republican during the 1980 anti-Carter/anti-Democrat sweep in D.C) wanted to do what Democrats do….control the masses. He decided to focus on the planet. Considering the planet has survived for BILLIONS of years, without the help, or interference, of humans, I’m not real sure what he hoped to accomplish.
Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous response at the grassroots level. We had neither the time nor resources to organize 20 million demonstrators and the thousands of schools and local communities that participated. That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day. It organized itself. (source)
(But the Tea Parties are ‘astroturf’? *shakes head* Well, of course, we didn’t have the public indoctrination system, or the helping us out. We were told where to be on a certain date, all over the country, and we came! No one gives us credit for being a REAL grass roots effort. We didn’t have the alphabets, schools, and opinion spewers at all levels of media talking up our efforts. Reckon cuz we just want our country back?)
Now, I’m all for clean air, water, and earth. We actually need these things to survive, although humans have managed in the past to survive without them, they weren’t exactly a healthy bunch. Think Black Death, that decimated an estimated 30% to 60% of the world’s population. But turning the desire for a clean environment into a religion is, well, blasphemy, to be perfectly honest. And that’s what these folks have done. I’m sure that many of the participants aren’t even aware they are worshiping Gaia, or that they have been manipulated into buying the Gaia “theory”.
Fertility goddess, that overtime, developed into earth goddesses.
While not exactly surprising, even so called churches are promoting this pagan worship. Don’t the pastors remember the 10 Commandments? Exodus 20:3 clearly states “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” That includes Mother Earth. He made it, only He can destroy it! They even have their own ‘Vatican’ in the form of the EPA.
EPA’s Mission
The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.
Since 1970, the EPA has been taking more and more control over what you can do with you own property. If it rains real hard, and you get a ‘swamp” in your front yard, the EPA can decide it’s a ‘protected wet land’. Doesn’t matter if it dries up in a few days, they have spoken, so you can’t plant those trees, or put in a flower bed, etc. This isn’t an elected body, so how did they become so powerful they can regulate what you do with your own property? The property YOU bought, YOU paid for, and YOU pay taxes. Well, it IS in their bible, Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2: Abolition of private property. What better way to abolish private ownership of property than to regulate what a person can do with said property?
It’s nice of folks to go out and pick up garbage on the sides of the roads and such, thrown out by the feckless weasels that always assume someone else is going to take care of it for them, proving they don’t given a flying flip about the environment. Since I’m one of those people who never throws garbage out of my car, I have no guilt. I don’t even throw cigarette butts out the window. Like good citizens, we take our household garbage to the dump, and never allow it to fall out of the back of the vehicle, to smash on the road and cause a nasty mess. We keep our vehicles in good working order so they they don’t spew black crap out the tail pipe. We make efficient trips into town, there by saving gas.
On Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings, and Wednesday evenings, I am usually (if we aren’t out of town) sitting in my seat at Carmel Heights Baptist Church, worshiping the One True God! So, I guess that means I won’t be worshiping Planet Earth on April. 22.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Gorebal Whining Even Bigger Winner
Global warming’s biggest winners
The greatest scandal connected to global warming is not exaggeration, fraud or destruction of data to conceal the weakness of the argument. It is those who are personally profiting from promoting this fantasy at the expense of the rest of us.
The fraud is pretty big stuff, and should be addressed, HONESTLY! In my personal opinion, those who are getting rich off this farce are WORSE than any pimp that ever hit the streets with a ‘stable’ of what amounts to sex slaves.
Al Gore is the most visible beneficiary. The world’s greatest climate-change fear-monger has amassed millions in book sales and speaking fees. His science-fiction movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Academy Award for best documentary and 21 other film awards. He was co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
And, there he is….the BIGGEST pimp in the whole “global warming” scam! If the man had ANY honor….any integrity whatsoever, he’d not only return the Oscar (along with any other movie *choke* “award” he was given), and the Nobel Peace Price. He should be bowing and scraping in apology to the public, in general, and to those he duped out of money, specifically.
Meanwhile, Mr. Gore was laying his own foundations. As he was whipping up hysteria over climate change, he cannily invested in “green” firms that stood to profit in the hundreds of millions of dollars (if not more) from increased government regulations and sweetheart deals from connected politicians and bureaucrats. The multimillionaire climate dilettante was given a free pass by reporters, who refused to ask him hard questions about the degree to which he was profiting from the panic he was causing.
PIMP!
With the global-warming story line unraveling, the New York Times allowed Mr. Gore to run what amounted to an unpaid advertisement for his brand of climate-change hysteria. This screed, published Saturday, reiterated his claim that the world faces an “unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.” That’s pretty good rhetoric for the person with the largest carbon footprint in the world.
BIG PIMP and little pimp.
Mr. Gore is not the only one profiting from climate fraud. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace prize with Mr. Gore, is also the director general of the Energy and Resources Institute. The New Delhi-based research group has received substantial financial grants to examine the issue of the world’s vanishing glaciers, a purported crisis that was highlighted in the 2007 IPCC climate-change report. The glaciology unit is headed by Syed Hasnain, who in 1999 claimed that Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035, which became a noted scare quote in the IPCC report.
PIMP, and PIMP, Jr.
I’d like to present an award to ol’ Al of my own.
Letter From Marsha
If you are in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, you may have received one too.
Friends,
Today the EPA announced that they would postpone the implementation of their proposed carbon regulations until next year. As you know, I believe those regulations would have a devastating effect on the economy-especially in the 7th District of Tennessee.
I believe that their decision is directly related to growing bi-partisan opposition to the idea that the EPA could regulate carbon emissions without the authorization of Congress. That is why I introduced H.R. 391 to stop them, and why so many of my colleagues from both parties have joined me in the fight.
America needs new, clean, domestic sources of energy. Allowing unelected bureaucrats to punitively cap carbon emissions from cars, farms, and factories won’t get us there anymore than taxing Americans out of house and home will.
It is important to note that the EPA has only given us a temporary reprieve. Unless we continue the push to pass H.R. 391, they can resurrect these regulations at any time. That’s why we’ll continue to fight.
My best,
Marsha
Not only should the EPA postpone, the EPA should be shut down. Completely. They are taking liberties that don’t belong to them.
The bill mentioned here, H.R. 391, has been floating around in committee for way too long. It’s co-sponsored by 152 representatives, all Republicans, of course.
A BILL
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the Act, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATION UNDER CLEAN AIR ACT.
Section 302(g) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7602(g)) is amended by adding the following at the end thereof: ‘The term ‘air pollutant’ shall not include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride.’.
SEC. 2. CLIMATE CHANGE NOT REGULATED BY CLEAN AIR ACT.
Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.
This seems pretty cut and dry to me.
1. No one should be able to regulate your ability to exhale.
2. Hello??? Water evaporates. Learned that in elementary school.
3. Do they have enough butt plugs for cows? Didn’t think so. Ever heard of mud volcanoes?
4. I wonder how many people will stop going to the dentist? Bad teeth can cause other health issues. Ooops! Must have Obamacare. 
5. If your frying pan catches on fire, I would think it would be a good idea to be able to put the fire out.
6. Eye surgery? MRI? Ultra-sound? Yep! Come in real handy.
And….
7. I’ve always thought it was a real good idea to insulate anything high voltage, don’t you?
BO, Going On Tour…..Again
Obama to announce Georgia nuke loan guarantees today
President Barack Obama today will announce the loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, the first new nuclear power plant to break ground in the United States for nearly three decades.
An administration official said late Monday that the loan guarantees will apply to work at the Southern Co. plant in Burke, where Georgia Power is planning the new reactors at its Plant Vogtle facility.Southern Co. estimates the project will create 3,000 onsite construction jobs and about 850 permanent positions.
That’s nice. I’m glad there will be some work for the folks down there in Georgia. But I have a question: Since when does the POTUS, any POTUS, have the right to guarantee loans?
The Obama administration is pushing for utilities to build more nuclear power plants as part of a nationwide effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The president mentioned nuclear power and clean coal, along with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, in his State of the Union address.
Since it seems that debunking the flawed science isn’t having an effect on Obama’s policies, I’ll just add that a good deal of those “green” energy sources appear to be a major flop. Make you wonder if this is the future for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
To fund the project, they will pay 9 percent more on their electric bills. That increase will be phased in over seven years, starting in 2011. It will last the life of the plant, but is expected to gradually decline over that time, the company said.
My question here is, if Obama is guaranteeing these loans (his own money?), loans I’m guessing are for the purpose of building these plants, why are the rates for consumers going up? 9% is a pretty good chunk of change if you are just scraping by. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for nuclear power plants. I do have a major problem when the federal government gets involved. Yes, safety is an issue, but we’ve got these regulating bodies telling companies, you can’t do this, you can’t do that, ya can’t built here cuz there is an annoying mosquito that lives in the area, or something to that affect. Give me a break!
For its part, Georgia Power suffered from huge cost overruns when it built the first two nuclear plants at Vogtle in the late 1980s. The original estimate was $975 million for four reactors. The final price tag was $9 billion for two reactors.
How much ya wanna bet the major cost overruns were, in part, due to oppressive regulations? Were unions involved? Just wondering.
Seriously, if we are to ever become energy independent, see our economy bounce back, and have some chance at a future, the federal government needs to get the hell out of the way. Private industry ALWAYS works better than the government, at EVERYTHING! Get rid of the unions, start producing real products, and watch the jobs come back!
Facts Can Be Scary
Is the Great ‘Global Warming’ Snowjob Finally Coming to an End?
As the east coast recovers from Snowpocalypse, some global warming alarmists have said that we shouldn’t read too much into the blizzards. We can’t draw broad conclusions about climate change based on particular storms or regional weather trends. You know what? They’re right.
Now there is irony in the fact that the blizzards hit just as the President announced the formation of the Climate Service, charged with managing and coordinating the effects of “climate change.” But that’s all it is: irony. Snowpocalypse neither proves nor disproves the theory that human activities are disastrously effecting earth’s climate, but it did provide an opportunity for several conservative commentators, like Limbaugh and Hannity, to crack wise at the expense of the alarmists.
Chris Matthews wagged his finger at such jocularity, piously declaring that “…the average global temperature last year was the second highest on record…” and that “…cold weather in one area over several days doesn’t change the reality of what’s happening to this planet…” You know what? He’s right too. Well, Chris was right as far as he goes.
Unfortunately, Matthews stopped short of explaining the whole story, which this scientist finds rather disappointing coming from a fellow who, like me, boasts a Jesuit university as an alma mater. Perhaps Chris missed those critical thinking lessons that the Jesuits try to impart on eager young students.
Read the entire piece here.
As I’ve stated MANY times, the government has no interest in the climate, health care, or any number of other issues they are trying to ram down our throats. It’s all about control. Control of the world’s finances, control of their “subjects’, control of our children so they can turn them into good little socialists robots. Unfortunately, due to the lack of voters ability to pay attention and parenting skills on the part of many of our fellows citizens, they are succeeding.
I would suggest to Tingles that he get his head out of Obama’s ass, and start doing his own research. It’s really not that difficult. For the time being, you can find just about everything on the internet, and that includes THOUSANDS of dissenters to the ‘warming’ scam. I’m not talking about people like me, who know algore is full of male bovine excrement. I’m talking about actual SCIENTISTS, who have made it their life’s work to find truth.
Wisdom From The Sultan
The Temperature at Which Global Warming Freezes
A snippet:
Prior to this season’s unfortunate weather, Global Warming advocates had staked their bets on a mild winter in order to show people the pernicious effects of people driving to work and using extra shopping bags. Which was a decent enough angle, considering that we had been experiencing milder winters over the last few years. But the problem with betting that the weather will help prove your point, is that the weather may have other plans. And now digging out of a snowstorm and their own lies, Global Warming advocates are arguing that colder winters and snowstorms are actually another effect of global warming. Which may now need to be renamed, Global Temperatures We Don’t Like.
Had environmentalists hedged their bets by calling Global Warming something vaguely neutral like Global Temperature Imbalance, they would have had a much easier time covering their asses. Because temperature imbalances are a more subjective thing and the graphs are easier to fake. But Global Temperature Imbalance is much less entertainingly alarmist than Global Warming, and the environmentalists knew that they needed a name with some heft to frighten the public. Armageddon. Apocalypse. We think of destruction as a fiery event. And Global Warming was an environmentalist apocalypse, supposedly backed by science. No wonder it got as much traction as it did.
But it isn’t just the weather that’s turning on Global Warming, from Anglia to the IPCC, the scientific case for Global Warming is being undermined by revelations of fraud and malfeasance. And the political case for Cap and Trade is being undermined by the refusal of politicians and nations to cut their own throats so that Al Gore and George Soros can make a few billion selling “Right to Emit Carbon” certificates to every factory on the planet.
Read the whole post here. It’s well worth your time.
It’s About Control, Not Climate
Global Warming – Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
The Foundry
Tomorrow, NBC (which is owned by General Electric) will begin broadcasting the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver, Canada. Only two events are scheduled for the opening day (alpine skiing and ski jumping), but even those events will be difficult to pull off. Why? There is no snow in Vancouver. And International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge knows exactly what is to blame: global warming. Rogge tells AFP: “Global warming of course is a worry, it is a worry for the entire world.”
Considering that NBC/GE has already received billions in TARP bailout cash from the Obama administration and is actively lobbying for a global warming energy tax bill so that it can receive billions more in government green-energy subsidies on top of the millions it already receives, we are sure to hear lots from NBC announcers about how the lack of snow in Vancouver is just another reason Washington needs to act now to stop global warming.
