There are some sick fucks in this country with some serious entitlement issues:
Officials are investigating the deaths of six sea lions who appear to have been shot Sunday after climbing onto traps in the Columbia River.
Wildlife officials said that the bodies of the sea lions were discovered at noon Sunday on two floating traps just [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFVjFZlyCRA
First, from The Conservative Nanny State author Dean Baker:
According to the oil industry, they have their refineries running flat out, producing all the gas they can. This means that the price is determined on the demand side.
We have a fixed amount of gas entering the market, the question is simply what price clears the market. [...]
I wasn’t that surprised to see it in The Columbian, but I was disgusted that even the hosts on KPOJ have been referring to the Earth Liberation Front wackos who torched those McMansions up in Woodinville as terrorists.
E.L.F.’s actions are doomed to failure: burning a few model homes won’t stop sprawl or conspicuous consumption, any [...]
February 28, 2008 – 10:10 am
For John Roberts, there’s nothing playful about being the devil’s advocate:
Chief Justice John Roberts was pained.
Exxon Mobil, the giant oil corporation appearing before the Supreme Court yesterday, had earned a profit of nearly $40 billion in 2006, the largest ever reported by a U.S. company — but that’s not what bothered Roberts. What bothered the [...]
January 27, 2008 – 7:48 pm
British comic Robert Newman tells the story of Western oil dependency and the U.S.’s unique ‘trade relationships’ with oil-producing nations better than any Chomsky lecture.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8957268309327954402
Funny and illuminating.
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December 6, 2007 – 1:02 pm
- and no money in the budget to fix it.
We moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1991, missing by one year the first of three “100-year” flood events that have hit since 1990.
Like Minneapolis and everywhere else in the country, infrastructure is failing all around us, and no one is willing to pony [...]
November 13, 2007 – 12:07 pm
Or for an end to global warming?
Georgia’s drought has prompted religious leaders to ask churches across the state Sunday to pray for rain.
You could say it all started back in June when Governor Sonny Perdue spoke to the Georgia Farm Bureau.
PERDUE: I Believe in the God that can make it rain and we need to [...]
September 17, 2007 – 5:25 pm
This story about asthma, Allergy-Induced Asthma More Common in Affluent Countries, reminded me of a George Carlin routine in which he said:
“in my neighborhood no one ever got polio, no one, ever. you know why? cause we swam in the east river. we swam in raw sewage! it strengthened our immune systems, the polio never [...]
August 29, 2007 – 7:55 am
KBOO dedicates a full day of special programming to coincide with the anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster of 2005.
We will feature a diverse array of public affairs and music programs that focus on New Orleans, the history and aftermath of Katrina, as well as current events and other relevant issues.
Topics to be covered include:
Pre-Katrina [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blOeXMcapBI
For Tahoma Activist and Thom Hartmann
The Mercury calls bullsh*t on local ABC affiliate KATU’s report on Hybrids vs Hummers:
Called “Hummer Vs. Hybrid,” the piece profiled Art Spinella of Oregon-based CNW Marketing Research, who put out a report last year claiming that Hummers (as in the paramilitary SUVs) are better for the environment than hybrid cars. Spinella, who, BTW, makes a [...]
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