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California, Wednesday:
California said on Wednesday it was suing the US government for blocking the implementation of the state’s tough new standards on greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles ...
In his statement, [California’s Attorney General Jerry] Brown said that the ruling “ignored the dangerous consequences of global warming to the State of California.”
“Global warming threatens California’s Sierra mountain snow pack, which provides the state with one-third of its drinking water,” he added.
California, Friday:
Forecasters said the Pacific storms could dump more than 10 feet of snow on California mountains by Sunday.
“Travel is not advised in the mountain areas this weekend. It could be a life-threatening situation for you,” CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said Friday.
Via Lee M., who emails: “Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger is asking all Californians who own cars with big-block power plants to fire them up and let them idle for the next 36 hours.”
Maybe Jerry could put on a telethon to battle global warmening.
Wonder if Linda Ronstadt’s available?
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2008 01 05 at 02:01 PM • permalink#4 “Moonbattery”...Now that sounds like a fun sport.
Oh, it is, it is. But you have to be careful of the various state statutes. In Maryland, moonbattery is a misdemeanor, punishable by being bound to a chair and forced to watch An Inconvenient Truth all the way through (twice). In Massachusetts, it’s a felony, punishable by being water-boarded in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile.
On the other hand, in Texas you receive a $100 bounty for every act of moonbattery, and in North Carolina, a year’s supply of barbecue (except for places like Austin and Durham, which are moonbat preserves).
#3 paco
BTW, is that the Jerry Brown, once known as “Governor Moonbeam”?
Oh yes! And he just won’t go the f*ck away.
He hasn’t changed much, either: his first “act” as AG* was to file lawsuits against suburban cities for allowing development of residential neighborhoods with fewer than than 8 units per acre. Apparently, multi-story apartment blocks is all he wants built. How “urban planning” became part of his portfolio is a bit of a mystery.
*He is technically not qualified to be Attorney General as he is not an active member of the Cal. State Bar Association. His law license has been “inactive” for more than 20 years.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 01 05 at 02:07 PM • permalinkCalifornians need to write A.G. Moonbeam to ask what the effect of 6 million illegal aliens has on supplies of drinking water and the environment in general.
I hear that he’s deeply concerned about this issue.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 01 05 at 02:33 PM • permalink#9 paco
As a life-long Californian, I’m mad as hell. It started in the late ‘60s (natch), when all the hippies, commies, and environmentalist whackos made their way out here to be part of “the scene”.
Over the last 40 years they and their fellow travelers have transformed one of the most conservative States in the Union into a giant “Taxachussets” that has all but been abandoned by the national Republican Party: the Religious Right runs the Party here, which is why we see only dull, stuffy moralists nominated for state-wide or national office (how else could a blithering idiot like Babs Boxer keep getting re-elected Senator???).
#11 Harry
Apparently, he IS “deeply concerned”; he blames “developers” for squandering our resources.
Illegal immigrantsundocumented migrant workers, not so much.Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 01 05 at 02:49 PM • permalinkPaco cites only half the problem at #9.
You know, that’s the real shame of beautiful states like California: eventually, a bunch of rich, lefty a$$holes take over and spoil it for everybody.
The other half is that to support their lame lifestyle, they imported half the population of Central America, with the attendant collapse of the infrastructure and quality of life.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 01 05 at 03:08 PM • permalinkOh yes, that’s such a good use of our limited financial resources during this budget crisis—suing the f**king federal government.
#12 - Testify, brother! Right there with ya.
Speaking of brothers, mine own (normally a sane, small-government type) came stomping in last weekend for Saturday dinner all in a lather complaining about the fed nixing CA’s latest
ascientific insanity‘anti-AGW initiative.’ He was somewhat taken aback when I told him it was about time the fed did something right. The issue is now topic non grata in my house.*He is technically not qualified to be Attorney General as he is not an active member of the Cal. State Bar Association. His law license has been “inactive” for more than 20 years.
You made me curious, so I checked. He has had his license
reinstated.O/T, but I think Wronwright did a superb job answering this Vanity Fair questionnaire for Karl Rove.
#17 Redd
That’s odd, because his opponent filed a complaint with the election commission claiming Brown’s standing had been “inactive” since 1982, and had not paid “active” dues since 1978. In response to numerous newspaper articles on the controversy, he claimed that the records were inaccurate. The commision eventually ruled that because he had paid “inactive” dues, he was therefore an “active” member of the Bar. Make sense?
I also remember it being reported he reinstated his “active status” after he was elected in 2006. How very strange. Not that it really matters at this point.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 01 05 at 05:06 PM • permalink100%, Grade-A, libelous paranoia from a prize jackass at the Huffington Post.
As soon as I saw Jerry Brown’s name I said “not THE jer…”
Best thing about suing the US Government is that as the case winds its way from the Californian Court of Cosmic Mysticism to the US Supreme Court, the requirement that Brown prove global warming is man-made will increase. Doubt if the higher courts will accept an Indian shaman called Crying With Polar Bears and a lesbian tree-dweller who channels Jerry Garcia as expert witnesses for the state of California.
#22 -
Ye gods, the Huffpeople are beyond parody. I notice the commenters steered well clear of the reality that Sirhan Sirhan and Lee Harvey Oswald were both screaming leftists. Of course, there was one guy’s wasnotwasnotwasnot!1!!1-level argument on Oswald and the completely irrelevant wikipedia reference to Hinckley’s parents’ supposed political leanings.
#22, Spiny;
That’s odd, because his opponent filed a complaint with the election commission claiming Brown’s standing had been “inactive” since 1982, and had not paid “active” dues since 1978. In response to numerous newspaper articles on the controversy, he claimed that the records were inaccurate. The commision eventually ruled that because he had paid “inactive” dues, he was therefore an “active” member of the Bar. Make sense?
After my Dad had spent about 20 years as an industrial/refinery inspector for L.A. County’s Air Pollution Control District, he decided to get his JD degree, and passed the bar exam first try.
He did some work after that for APCD, and some private practice on the side, with their OK.
About five years of this, and he quit. When I asked him why, he said it was because of the rampant corruption in the state Bar organization, which is all he’ ever said about it.
So yes, to your question; they do seem to figure that the rules apply to everyone else, but not them if it’s not convenient.
#21 Spiny: You jogged my memory a bit and I went a googling and got a few hits that confirmed he had been inactive for quite a while and was reinstated in 2003. I think the contention was that he had represented to the voters that he had been an atty since 1965. In reality, during a chunk of that time, he was inactive and unable to practice law.
Also, there was another politician (Rocky Delgadillo?) who had not paid his bar dues on time and his license was suspended while he continued to be the City Atty of Los Angeles.
A good take on Mark Steyn’s collision with one of Canada’s Human Rights commissions by Rex Murphy (courtesy of J.M. Heinrichs).
That global warming was running about a foot over the curbs of a four lane street at our countermarch last nite. Wet but worth it.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 01 05 at 07:50 PM • permalink22. Wow those comments were special, in a really short bus, mouth breathing sort of way.
“...The Secret Service has already broken the law at the order of GWB by turning over the visitor logs. I don’t see any reason to doubt that they would allow Obama to be assasinated if GWB ordered it. Actually Obama has nothing to fear. There will be no elections. A terrorist attack will ‘force’ GWB to declare martial law. He will announce that since the Nat’l Guard is so decimated by the Iraq occupation that Blackwater will be allowed to patrol the streets and have carte blanche and total immunity with regards to deadly force. GWB will then ‘postpone’ the elections and remain in power. Pakistan was just a dry run. We will live in a Soviet style police state before the end of the year…”
And if you were to ask this bloke “what precautions have you made to leave the country/resist etc” his answer will be “bugger all”.
The comments section is like someone cloned Marylin Sheephead 50 times and set her loose.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 01 05 at 08:28 PM • permalinkThere will be no elections. A terrorist attack will ‘force’ GWB to declare martial law.
If someone pointed out that the right wing loons were saying the same about Clinton, would the left wing loons’ heads explode?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2008 01 05 at 09:45 PM • permalinkIf someone pointed out that the right wing loons were saying the same about Clinton, would the left wing loons’ heads explode?
Nah. They’d be holding them together with their hands clamped firmly over their ears while uttering the magical Chant of Cognitive Dissonance Warding, which goes something like ‘lalalalaIamnotlisteninglalalala.’
Paco, that link from the Huffy Post was frightening.
I am an American and an Australian. I’ve lived here in the southern half of this world some 15 years, and I have never been more worried about my mother country than now.
I know the HP is not the wellspring of political wisdom. However, if the comments posted there are even slightly indicative of the mood of the American people (left/right, I don’t care)—then I fear for my friends, family and, indeed, all my countrymen.
I despise hyperbole, and it may be that this I have read is only before my eyes because of the technology of the ‘net—but so much sickness and psychosis displayed for the world to see in ONE place—well, I fear our enemies are chortling and wringing their hands in anticipation of an America more divided than it was in 1858.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand” seems more pertinent now that it did when Lincoln spake those words in his bid for the Senate…“It will become all one thing or all the other.”
Why this headlong rush to catastrophe? I was there in ‘68 (though young, I remember it very well)—I was flying over Chicago in ‘74 and heard Ford pardon Nixon and thought my navy blues would smell of camphor sooner than I’d thought.
I remember well the years of self-examination and rebuilding that occured post-Carter.
I am at a loss…
G-d bless and keep America—for our people semm bent on its destruction.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 01 05 at 11:34 PM • permalink#35: Your concerns are eloquently stated, Mental Floss, and I share them. “Psychosis” is a good word to describe the disintegration of reason that seems to be occurring in a large segment of our society, for whom reality has no more objective content than a video game with which one has grown bored (and which can be exchanged for another “reality” at the drop of a tin-foil hat). Maybe it is just the age-old story: freedom starts out as a hard-won right, then changes over time in the minds of an increasingly fat and complacent citizenry into a congeries of government entitlements. Add into the mix an extraordinarily vibrant and resilient economy that supports, in addition to society’s truly creative and productive people, an enormous class of intellectual hobos, class-warfare hucksters, political parasites and professional victims, all burrowing into their host like an army of plague-infected fleas, and collapse becomes not only a theoretical proposition, but a distinct possibility. The silver-lining, of course, is that it’s not at all inevitable (at least, as someone who is emphatically not a historical determinist, I do not see disaster as being inevitable - on the other hand, I don’t think that outcome is impossible, either).
Global Warming is wreaking havoc in Mexico as well.
MEXICO CITY - A cold snap has brought freezing temperatures, unusual snows and heavy rains to Mexico and Central America, and authorities said the weather may be to blame for several deaths.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 06 at 04:31 AM • permalinkThat’s “Attorney General Moonbeam” to you, chuckles. And yes, he has decided that the California Department of Justice will be heavily involved in Global Warming. mPriority #1.
The murderers, rapists and kidnappers of the Golden State? They get a pass, I guess.
He’s running for Governor again, I think.
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