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EPA Official Resigns Over ‘Crucify’ Remarks

Very good news.  I wonder if he still has any of the $540,000 in federal grant money he received left over?  Or did he spend it all on the Statist Kool-Aid?

Former business unfriendly EPA District 6 administrator Al Armendariz, who was caught on Video making the following statement in a meeting in 2010, has resigned.  Tell me again, what is the definition of Karma?

“It is kind of like how the Romans used to conquer the villages in the Mediterranean — they’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere and they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them. Then that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”

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Senator James Inhofe (R OK) responds to EPA apology for using the word “crucify” on Fox and Friends (before Armendariz’ resignation).

Read the full story at: thehill.com.

The Heritage Foundation has a new article on this.  Read it at heritage.org.

Minnesota Residents: Paying Far Too Much For Utilities!

Even though our community’s utility rates are going to be most adversely affected by a biomass boondoggle we are not the only ratepayers that are facing a giant financial obligation. The citizens of Minnesota are already seeing rapidly escalating bills for utilities because of unrealistic and draconian alternative energy mandates.

“The Renewable Energy Standard (RES) passed by the 2007 Minnesota State Legislature directs electric utilities to ramp up their percentage of renewable energy sales to 25 percent by 2025.  Put another way, one of every four kilowatt hours must come from renewable energy by 2025.”

“Even a small shift in our current expectations for gas prices, carbon regulation and wind cost could result in significant future cost impacts to fulfill the RES.  In addition, individual wind projects may result in rate impacts that in aggregate could be significant,” Xcel Energy said in its 2010 report on the renewable energy mandate costs.

In rural Minnesota, coops and utilities say it’s already hard enough for some customers to pay their utility bills in this skittish economy without the mandate. With MREA coops and utilities just halfway toward implementing the 25 percent renewable mandate, a  few dollars a month on electric bills now could add up to much more.”

Full article…http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/18/rural-electric-customers-pay-steep-price-for-wind-power-mandate

Earth Day and the Great “Sustainability” Lie

Americans are paying the hangman for the rope.

It is estimated that since the origin of the global warming hoax in the late 1980s, Americans have seen $50 billion of their dollars thrown down the climate change rat hole.

In a January CNSnews commentary, Elizabeth Harrington noted that “A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that the United States (has been) funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ authority on alleged man-made global warming, with $31.1 million since 2001, nearly half of the panel’s annual budget.”

“In a Nov. 17, 2011 report, ‘International Climate Change Assessments: Federal Agencies Should Improve Reporting and Oversight of U.S. Funding’, the GAO found that the State Department provided $19 million for administrative and other expenses, while the United States Global Change Research Program provided $12.1 million in technical support through the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSP), averaging an annual $3.1 million to the IPCC over 10 years—$31.1 million so far.” Continue reading on canadafreepress.com.

Government Supported Potholes

Just how much more money can the Feds print to keep up this nonsense of billions of dollars being wasted on “transit” and “sustainability”? We’ll find out because Congress and the Senate will never stop – UNLESS WE ELECT THE RIGHT PEOPLE!! It’s up to us, the VOTERS, to end the financial debacle before our country is run into the ground.

“The Senate has passed a two-year $109 billion bill sponsored by Barbara Boxer of
California that bails out the highway trust fund with general revenues,
including some $12 billion for such nonessentials as the National Endowment for
the Oceans and the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The bill requires little or
no reform. The prevailing Senate view is the more concrete that gets poured, the
more jobs back home. So more “shovel-ready” nonstimulus.”

“Since 1982 government mass-transit subsidies have totaled $750 billion (in
today’s dollars), yet the share of travelers using transit has fallen by nearly
one-third, according to Heritage Foundation transportation expert Wendell Cox.
Federal data indicate that in 2010 in most major cities more people walked to
work or telecommuted than used public transit.”

Full article…http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577333631864470566.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

“Green Jobs”: Stunning Failure!

From Brietbart.com:

A recent lengthy report by Reuters confirms what many conservatives have long known: President Obama’s promise to create millions of so-called “green jobs” has been a colossal and expensive failure.

A few highlights from the report:

• Since 2009, the wind industry has lost 10,000 jobs, even as the energy capacity of wind farms has almost doubled.  By contrast, the oil and gas industry have created 75,000 jobs since Mr. Obama took office.
• “A $500 million job-training program has so far helped fewer than 20,000 people find work, far short of its goal.”  The program was so bad that “the Labor Department’s inspector general recommended last fall that the agency should return the $327 million that remained unspent.”  They didn’t.  And now, the department “remains far short of its goal of placing 80,000 workers into green jobs by 2013.”
• According to the Labor Department’s own figures, the push for so-called “green jobs” has been an abysmal failure.  “By the end of 2011, some 16,092 participants had found new work in a “green” field, according to the Labor Department – roughly one-fifth of its target.

The article also highlights the degree to which Obama’s big jobs promises have fallen flat.  For example, in 2008, Obama promised that “investing” $150 billion taxpayer dollars would create 5 million jobs over 10 years.   Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s past green jobs statements now read like punchlines:

“We’ll put nearly half a million people to work building wind turbines and solar panels, constructing fuel-efficient cars and buildings, and developing the new energy technologies that will lead to new jobs,” he said at a wind-turbine plant in Ohio the day before he took office.

In December 2009, Vice President Joe Biden said the effort would create 722,000 green jobs.

None of this will come as a surprise to conservatives and Republicans.  Indeed, the ream of failed green energy stories is endless.  Still, it’s encouraging to see a consensus among mainstream media begin to sprout–even if green jobs aren’t.

From Reuters: “A $500 million job-training program has so far helped fewer than 20,000 people find work, far short of its goal.”

Full Reuters Article…http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/13/us-usa-campaign-green-idUSBRE83C08D20120413

Fracking:Technology Bringing the Fuel for Tomorrow

From the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow: “Misleading claims about shale gas development serve dogma but not the public interest”

“The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to “stop fracking in its tracks.” No wonder. The technology is an existential threat to fundamental “green” dogmas.

Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is a true “game changer.” In less than two years, this proven but still rapidly advancing technology has obliterated longstanding claims that we are running out of petroleum. Instead, the USA now finds itself blessed with centuries of oil and gas. Thankfully, much of it is on state and private lands, which cannot easily be locked up by federal diktat.”

Full article…http://www.cfact.org/a/2108/Fracking-An-existential-threat-to-green-dogma

Who Needs Gas?

 

Solar Trust: Yet Another Green Energy Bankruptcy

Solar Trust (rather ironic name, doncha think?) is caving.

Interesting…taxpayer subsidized green energy projects are dropping like flies and government bureaucrat Blythe City Manager David Lane calls this one a “little blip”? Maybe because he knows that the taxpayer will continue to ante up while the Fed continues to print money?? Just guessing…

“Solar Trust is the latest failure in a solar-industry shakeout that began last year when Northern California-based panel manufacturer Solyndra closed its doors, defaulting on a $535 million federal loan guarantee.”

“Blythe City Manager David Lane told the Desert Sun of Palm Springs that residents are taking the Solar Trust bankruptcy in stride.

“It’s a little blip,” Mr. Lane said. “I don’t think people are as disappointed as you might think. … When you consider the amount of investment in the project and what it’s got going for it, someone is going to build it.”

Full article…http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/3/solar-trust-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/

Ed Braddy: Citizen Preference Vs Smart Growth Government Planners

Don’t miss two excellent articles that showcase just what so many communities are facing as “smart growth” and “sustainable development” planners make their way through local governments!

Ed Braddy, expert on “sustainable transit” development and local radio talk show co-host of Talk of the Town on 99.5, has published a two-part series for New Geography have now been published.  He addresses the overwhelming citizen preference for detached, single family housing versus Smart Growth government planners who prefer multi-family dwellings and skate around the central issue – density – that determines what type of housing can actually be built.

“The two core features of Smart Growth land use — high densities and multi-family dwellings — are simply not preferred by most Americans in most places, despite the trendy push for Livability, New Urbanism, Resilient Cities, Smart Codes, Traditional Neighborhood Design, Transit Oriented Developments or any other euphemistic, clever name currently in fashion.”

Smart Growth and The New Newspeak – New Geography, April 4, 2012  http://www.newgeography.com/content/002740-smart-growth-and-the-new-newspeak
Smart Growth: The Maryland Example – New Geography, April 5, 2012  http://www.newgeography.com/content/002741-smart-growth-the-maryland-example

Global Sustainability: A Workbook for Children

For those of you who are not familiar with Agenda 21 and its global sustainability goals or think that it is a conspiracy promulgated by folks wearing tinfoil hats there is now available a Children’s Workbook  designed to teach students all about Agenda 21 and how it can be implemented locally in all communities as well as promoting the United States as a world leader in global governance and regulation. The workbook is being used as a tool to ready our children for the next Agenda 21 summit, Road-to-Rio +20, scheduled for May, 2012.

Surf through the entire workbook…and see if it is being used your children or grandchildren’s classrooms.

Children’s Road to Rio +20 Online Workbook (2011-2012) http://www.scribd.com/doc/85142733/Road-to-Rio-20-Workbook   (Takes a few seconds to appear on your screen)

“Greening” the U.S. Back to the Stone Age

From our own James Sharp as published in the Canada Free Press..

“In 1965, with regard to the war in Viet Nam, Air Force General Curtis LeMay was mistakenly quoted as saying that we should, “…bomb them (the North Vietnamese) back to the Stone Age.” According to LeMay, he actually stated that the US had the capability to bomb the North Vietnamese back to the Stone Age. Regardless of its origins, the phrase, in one form or another, has become sort of a part of wartime vernacular and has been used by  pro-war, anti-terrorist fanatics with regard to Afghanistan.”

Read full article..http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/45297.

Senator Rand Paul Telephone Town Hall

Senator Rand Paul has written a bill (S.2122) and if passed it will put a crimp in the overreach of the EPA.  On a TELEPHONE TOWN HALL Senator Paul will explain the importance of this bill and how we can help him get this bill passed.  Tea Party groups have worked hard at a local level trying to stop the assault on our property rights and the tenants of Agenda 21. So sign up for the Town Hall.

 

Sen. Paul to Host Tele-Town Hall on EPA Overreach

 

 

Tuesday, March 13, 2012  9 p.m. ET

You are invited to join Sen. Rand Paul in a live tele-town hall conference call on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET, to hear him discuss his legislation, the Defense of Property Act of 2012 (S. 2122), and answer your questions.

 This is an important opportunity to discuss the out of control Administration’s EPA and what you can do to help Sen. Paul rein in their unchecked power and assault on Americans’ private property.

 Once you enter your contact information on our secure site, you will receive more information regarding Tuesdays Tele-Town Hall, including dial in information. Please share this link with your friends and colleagues.  Let’s stop the EPA in its tracks.

 To register for the tele-­town hall conference call, please click on the following link

 http://bit.ly/xJFu9w

Florida Legislative Action: Renewable Energy Bills

You can help stop this legislative action that further threatens our free markets!

Take Action Against the Government Picking Winners and Losers in Energy

There are two bills moving through the legislature, SB 2094 and HB 7117, with the declared goal of increasing energy diversity in Florida by encouraging development of renewable energy projects through incentives and tax breaks.
Read more about the issue and email your elected officials here:

 http://www.kintera.org/c.dvKQIcO0IkJ6H/b.6645695/k.8CA5/Action_Center/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=dvKQIcO0IkJ6H&b=6645695&aid=517249&tr=y&auid=10336400#ixzz1n8er2PIF

Gainesville a Proud Member of ICLEI:International Council For LOCAL Environmental Initiatives

ICLEI: ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, founded in 1990 as the ‘International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives’, is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. The association was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at its inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York in September 1990.

Gainesville became a member of ICLEI in 2006 http://www.icleiusa.org/about-iclei/@@memberprofile_browserview?a=0017000000POEnd.  Since then our city commissioners have redoubled their efforts to take away private property rights and a local free market that facilitates private businesses. Through the ownership of GRU the city of Gainesville generates over 30 million dollars per year, paid by the rate payers (with special interests enjoying a variety of exemptions) into the general revenue fund that is then used to subsidize chosen businesses. ICLEI is an arm of the United Nations’ Agenda 21 working towards a global governance with emphasis on the American taxpayer subsidizing other countries through restrictions on our energy usage accompanied by huge transfers of citizen wealth to these countries.  

About ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA
ICLEI USA’s membership represents some of the most aggressive and innovative climate action happening in the United States including: innovative building codes in New York, carbon neutrality goals in Austin, light rail in Portland, renewable energy in San Jose to energy efficiency in North Little Rock – ICLEI USA’s members are moving forward on lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions and bolstering their sustainability efforts right now. For more information, please visit: www.icleiusa.org.

Go ahead…cruise around their website. It will make you cringe.

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