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Open thread 8/21
- By Phillip Brownlee
- Posted Aug. 21, 2007 at 1:05 a.m.
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“While unauthorized entry into the United States is illegal, being in the country after having entered illegally is not necessarily a crime, according to a new ruling by the Kansas Court of Appeals.”http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/153645.html
WHAT?!?!?
What kind of leagaleze BS is this?
“The case arose from the sentencing of Martinez, who pleaded guilty to felony possession of cocaine and endangering a child by having his young son deliver drugs to an undercover officer, according to court documents.”
Criminals have more rights than I do.
“”While unauthorized entry into the United States is illegal, being in the country after having entered illegally is not necessarily a crime, according to a new ruling by the Kansas Court of Appeals.”http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/153645.html
WHAT?!?!?”
I thought that people convicted of felony crimes were supposed to be deported. Oh, I forgot- we are under the Republicans who never saw a criminal they didn’t like! They only deport political refugees.
“we are under the Republicans…”Posted by: Kev
I am glad to learn that Sebelius has seen the light and has become a Republican.
“I am glad to learn that Sebelius has seen the light and has become a Republican.”
She is not, yet, a Federal employee.
Time to stir the Congregation of Wormers around here.
“You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.”
http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/pubs/HeatCapacity.pdf
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57253
But keep drinking the Kool-Aid anyway.
“She is not, yet, a Federal employee.”Posted by: Steven Davis
And the members of the Kansas Court of appeals are Federal Employees?
Face it, the Republicans are not going to do ANYTHING about the illegals.
They tried to court them with Bush the uniter speaking Spanish and all.
The Democrats are SERIOUSLY courting them and will succeed in bring home the Hispanic vote for Hillary.
Whine on drones!
“And the members of the Kansas Court of appeals are Federal Employees?”
Obviously, not.
The federal follies of the Bush administration’s dealings with illegal immigrants:
http://usliberals.about.com/od/immigration/a/IllegalImmi.htm
A good read if you would like to know what makes Hillary tick.
“The view of life as political power may help explain Hillary’s recent proposal to create a national public service academy modeled on military academies. She wants to create an even-larger cadre of people whose entire existence revolves around the acquisition and use of power. Ironically, as Hillary made the announcement July 28 at a College Democrats conference in South Carolina, a heckler waving a sign reading, “She doesn’t care, all she wants is the power” was hustled out of the auditorium. ”
“For Hillary, even world war and economic depression are seen in terms of their political impact: “When one moves beyond the city and local issues, the idea of independent national organizing seems impossible. The Depression demonstrated the feasibility of federally controlled planning, and a massive war effort convinced us of its necessity.” (p. 72)
This should inform any understanding of the Clinton critique of President Bush’s handling of the War on Terror. Limited war does not convince anybody of the necessity of “federally controlled planning.” Those expecting her to bring peace may be in for a big surprise if she wins the Presidency in 2008.
Hillary’s life work has been to acquire and use Federal Power to polarize Americans and through conflict create the new man. A Hillary Presidency could be the last chance for her aging generation of campus radicals to remake America in their own image.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=39595ECB-C0AD-4E37-A093-A2E510FE3A60
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Right arm!
I like Hillary even more now!
Transcript:
LEAHY: The administration’s failure to comply with the Judiciary Committee’s subpoena for its legal analysis gives me as chairman very, very little comfort.
I received a letter this morning from the Office of the Vice President identifying some documents that would be responsive to the committee’s subpoena.
Now, the acknowledgement of these documents is a good first step. I don’t know why it’s taken so long, but it’s a good first step. And it should be followed by the administration turning them over which, of course, is what we requested in the subpoena.
I’ve worked in good faith with this administration. I first sought this information voluntarily. I accommodated a request for time.
But when the request for more time was simply followed by delay upon delay, we issued subpoenas in a bipartisan vote. And even then, when the subpoenas weren’t followed through, we gave them more time.
The time is up. The time is up. We’ve waited long enough.
Incidentally, in the administration’s response today, they claimed the Office of the Vice President is not part of the Executive Office of the President. So it’s some kind of fourth branch of government.
Well, that’s wrong. Both the United States Code says it is part of the president — oh, incidentally, at least this morning, as I left Vermont, I checked the White House Web site. And even their own Web site, this morning, at least, says that the Executive Office — that the vice president is part of the Executive Office of the President.
+++++
QUESTION: What is your next step to ensure this? What’s your next step?
LEAHY: Well, I had hoped that by now they would have answered. They haven’t. When the Senate comes back in the session, I’ll bring it up before the committee. I prefer cooperation to contempt. Right now, there’s no question that they are in contempt of the valid order of the Congress.
QUESTION: Is your impression they’re dragging their feet?
LEAHY: Well, you know, a lot of these questions were asked by the former chairman a couple years ago, and we haven’t gotten an answer.
In fact, we were about to issue subpoenas then and one of the senators came to our meeting and said that the vice president had met with the Republican senators and told them they were not allowed to issue subpoenas.
Not quite sure that’s my understanding of the separation of powers, but it seemed to work at that time. Now have an issue. And interestingly enough, I pointed out that every single one of these subpoenas, they have been issued by a bipartisan vote. There have been no close votes on them.
So I would hope they’d do it. And, if not, the full Judiciary Committee will have to sit down and determine whether to seek contempt from the full Senate
Link below to opinion of Kansas Court of Appeals in State v. Martinez, the case which was reported in the Eagle story linked upthread. See in particular Syllabus paragraphs 6-8, and pertinent parts of the opinion relating thereto. May I suggest the federal statutes need revision.
http://tinyurl.com/2×4bh
VT, you might check you link. Or else, my IE is wandering in cyperspace.
OK, hud, will do and retry if needed.
OK, hud, your IE wasn’t wandering around; don’t know what happened to the tiny url. Below is link to opinion:
http://www.kscourts.org/kscases/ctapp/2007/20070817/96613.htm
Can someone explain to me the racist rambling post at the top of the page?
No
All is well in Bushabithia!July foreclosures up 93 percent vs year ago: survey By Patrick Rucker2 hours, 17 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Home foreclosures rose 9 percent in July from June and soared 93 percent from a year ago as states that once enjoyed a white-hot housing market are now seeing the greatest number of loan failures, a real estate survey reported on Tuesday.
ADVERTISEMENTThe July foreclosures — a tally of default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — totaled 179,599, according to RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties.
Five states accounted for more than half of the country’s foreclosure activity in the month and two of those — California and Florida — saw some of the biggest price gains during the recent housing boom.
Ohio and Michigan, two other states among top five in foreclosures in July, have seen a jump in job losses while Georgia has also suffered a high level of home losses.
The increase reversed a 7 percent drop in foreclosures seen in June. July’s rate of one foreclosure for every 693 households was lower than the June pace of one filing for every 704 households, the group said.
Many states that avoided the housing boom have seen a drop in home loan failures and could now be drawing investors scorched out of other markets, James Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac, said in a statement.
“States like Texas, South Carolina and Utah have seen slow but steady price appreciation over the past five years, making them much more attractive and affordable,” he said.
Detroit, the largest city in Michigan, posted a 70 percent month-on-month increase in foreclosure activity in July. The city of roughly 871,000 reported 8,683 foreclosure filings during the month.
Six California metropolitan areas reported foreclosure rates among the nation’s top 10 in July including: Stockton; Merced; Modesto; Vallejo-Fairfield; Riverside-San Bernardino and Sacramento.
Other metro regions in the top ten were Las Vegas, Atlanta and Greeley, Colorado.
Phantom, when rich Republicans want you to have a home, they’ll rent it to you (at an exorbant profit, of course).
“aging generation of campus radicals to remake America in their own image . . . ”
Heckler–
The SDS splintered and factionalized more than a flower pot on a interstate highway.
There was no “image” of how America was to be remade by campus radicals.
SDS and its wannabes were unified only by opposition to the Vietnam War and the draft.
Once the US pulled out of Vietnam, campus radicalism quickly died.
60’s radicals achieved practically nothing because they 1. had no clear vision of what they wanted to achieve and 2. never set up structures to achieve those ends.
They never “organized for power” as Saul Alinsky would put it.
60’s radicalism is a dead horse that was never very alive to begin with, but the CONs can’t stop flogging the corpse . . .
Saul Alinsky – Hillary Clinton’s mentor/hero?
Read a book about that relationship years ago – can’t recall the title.
Very clearly showed the influence of Alinsky on Clinton’s way of thinking.
I’ll try to look up the name of that book, if anyone wants to know how Hillary thinks.
Video
News: Six Hamas militants killed in IDF strike in GazaHaaretz.com/Channel 10 news round-up for August 20, 2007.Today:Six Hamas men are killed in an IDF strike in Gaza
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/895542.html
About Hillary and Alinsky:
(To read a PDF copy of the thesis, click here. This copy was obtained via the Freedom Underground web site.)
With Hillary Clinton poised to win the Democratic nomination for president, questions about her intellectual and moral education abound. One of the major intellectual influences – perhaps an emotional one was well – was radical social philosopher and activist Saul Alinsky. As this story shows, Alinsky was both the ladder Hillary climbed to gain new perspectives on society – specifically the poor – and then, once there, a ladder she tossed aside when she no longer needed it.
http://www.hillaryclintonquarterly.com/hillaryclintonsthesis.htm
Max, seriously, you’re going to use her 60’s era Senior Thesis to talk crap about her?
you know, there is a reason why we don’t elect people straight out of College…life gives you more lessons than any classroom, and the more life you’ve lead, the more knowledge and growth you gain. To compare me to the me I was 10years ago is just as ridiculous to compare the Hillary of the 60’s to today.
This is really quite pathetic. If you are going to go after someone, go after real reasons please.
Right, Max.
I had forgotten that she wrote her thesis on Alinsky until you reminded me.
Whatever she got from him, she seems to have lost, just as you say.
Hillary strikes me as all about Hillary and not about much else that matters.
Her debates are masterly posturing without actually taking a position. Just like that speech she gave authorizing the President to take action in Iraq–she takes all positions and none at the same time.
I’d like to see any Dem get the nomination before her.
I don’t know Mom, I’ve had a pretty solid set of conservative beliefs by the time I was a freshman in College, if not before.
Solid. Same then, today, and tomorrow. Core beliefs do not change over time – if you truly believe in them.
Saul Alinsky was quite contemptuous of 60’s radicals, btw.
His radicalism was all about surgical strikes on specific situations to effect change.
Theirs was a generalized criticism of the bourgousie “Establishment” with no goals, no outcomes, no real leaders, no movement — just generalized malaise and a radical “chic.”
Long hair and peace signs are not a movement and ultimately do nothing.
Heckler,
Thank you for the very funny “court jesters” worldnetdaily link.
“”Carbon dioxide is 0.000383 of our atmosphere by volume (0.038 percent),” said meteorologist Joseph D’Alea, …”
The relative size of something does not determine its impact. A tiny amount of Ebola virus can kill a person.
CO2 causes between 9 and 26% of Earths greenhouse effect.
Author of study listed at WND,http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/schwartz.html“It should be emphasized that one should not take any comfort with the fact that the aerosols may be negating much of the greenhouse gas forcing — in fact just the opposite.Because the atmospheric residence time of tropospheric aerosols is short (about a week) compared to the decades-to-centuries lifetimes of the greenhouse gases, then to whatever extent greenhouse gas forcing is being offset by aerosol forcing, it is last week’s aerosols that are offsetting forcing by decades worth of greenhouse gases.”
“Link below to opinion of Kansas Court of Appeals in State v. Martinez, the case which was reported in the Eagle story linked upthread. Posted by: Vaughn Tolle | August 21, 2007 at 09:20 AM”
Thanks for the link. It seems like a pretty sound decision by the Court.It is sad that so many people have trouble understanding why this ruling was made. The comment section of the original Eagle story and several on here reflect how little people understand the role of the court system.
Or maybe Max, that means you haven’t had a whole lot of life lessons dealt to you. Most people learn from things that happen. Others are just dumb.
Yes, brian, I agree. Given the provisions of the federal statutes and Kansas statutes considered by the Court of Appeals, I cannot see how the appellate court could have ruled otherwise.
Typical Liberal, p-mom,
No basic understanding of core beliefs, just a working, understanding of situational ethics.
Hank
Hank, situational ethics IS an understanding of Core Beliefs!! Didnt you know that???
What are your core beliefs Chas.?
In the mind of a thinking human, no beliefs are truly immutable.
“Long hair and peace signs are not a movement and ultimately do nothing.”
Here are a few things that have changed as a direct result of “60’s campus radicalism”.
-living off-campus(not in your parents home)
-being able to choose your own major
-being able to choose your own classes
-owning the work you do while at the university (any discovery, writing, music, intellectual property you came up with was owned by the school you attended)
-being able to dance
-publishing a newspaper
-dating a person of the same sex
-dating a person of a different race
These are a few of the things that “campus radicals” were able to get changed.
Its hard to imagine but life on campus was very strict compared with today.
All the while, you could smoke cigarettes in class and THAT was OK!
Okay, Michael–
I’ll give you that. The campus radicals did change COLLEGE.
They didn’t change much outside of college though.
Maybe hastened the end of the war.
Scientists: Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/20/artificial.life.ap/index.html
Exciting or scary?
Since The Eagle won’t print anything critical of the Republican junta who forcibly occupy the White House even when their parent company runs it, here’s today’s Bush Family Evil Empire: Scandal Du Jure on the WEBlog.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/19070.html
Efforts to crack down on lead paint thwarted by China, Bush Administration
By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Tue, August 21, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration and China have both undermined efforts to tighten rules designed to ensure that lead paint isn’t used in toys, bibs, jewelry and other children’s products.
Both have fought efforts to better police imported toys from China.
Now both are under increased scrutiny following last week’s massive toy recall by Mattel Inc., the world’s largest toymaker. The recalls of Chinese-made toys follow several other lead-paint-related scares since June that have affected products featuring Sesame Street characters, Thomas the Train and Dora the Explorer.
Lead paint is toxic when ingested by children and can cause brain damage or death. It’s been mostly banned in the United States since the late 1970s, but is permitted in the coating of toys, providing it amounts to less than six parts per million.
The Bush administration has hindered regulation on two fronts, consumer advocates say. It stalled efforts to press for greater inspections of imported children’s products, and it altered the focus of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), moving it from aggressive protection of consumers to a more manufacturer-friendly approach.
“The overall philosophy is regulations are bad and they are too large a cost for industry, and the market will take care of it,” said Rick Melberth, director of regulatory policy at OMBWatch, a government watchdog group formed in 1983. “That’s been the philosophy of the Bush administration.”
Today, more than 80 percent of all U.S. toys are now made in China and few of them get inspected.
“We’ve been complaining about this issue, warning it is going to happen, and it is disappointing that it has happened,” said Tom Neltner, a co-chairman of the Sierra Club’s national toxics committee.
The recent toy recalls — along with the presence of lead in vinyl baby bibs and children’s jewelry — are prompting the Bush administration to take a deeper look at the safety of toys and other imported products.
President Bush has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to report in September on ways to better ensure safe imports. He’s also asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to consider responses to lead paint threats to children.
But as recently as last December, the Sierra Club sued the Bush administration after the Environmental Protection Agency rebuffed a petition to require health and safety studies for companies that use lead in children’s products. The EPA and Sierra Club settled out of court in April, with the administration agreeing to write a letter to the CPSC that expressed concern about insufficient quality control on products containing lead.
The Sierra Club’s interest in lead paint in children’s products grew out of the largest-ever CPSC-conducted recall. That action on July 8, 2004, targeted 150 million pieces of Chinese-made children’s jewelry sold in vending machines across the United States. Since 2003, the commission has conducted about 40 recalls of children’s jewelry because of high levels of lead.
In March 2006, a 4-year-old Minnesota boy died of lead poisoning after swallowing a metal charm that came with Reebok shoes. The charm was found to contain more than 90 percent lead.
From 1994 until 2001, Ann Brown headed the CPSC under Presidents Clinton and Bush. She didn’t push for an outright ban on lead in all children’s products, partly because China’s rise to export prowess hadn’t yet unfolded.
“Today, I would say there should be an outright ban in any lead in any toy product,” she said in a telephone interview. “If I were at CPSC now, I’d say that trying to recall (tainted products) is like picking sand out of the beach — it’s just not possible.”
Before leaving her post, Brown unsuccessfully pushed for pre-market testing of children’s products. The idea largely died when the Bush administration took over, said Brown, who’s working with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The CPSC has only 100 field inspectors to police problems with all products sold to more than 301 million Americans. None of the inspectors are stationed in China or anywhere else abroad.
China remains very much under the microscope. It’s fighting a CPSC proposal to bring the lead restrictions in children’s jewelry to the same levels as those imposed on toys and furniture — six parts per million, which effectively amounts to a ban.
“We have done recall after recall since 2003. We would like to move towards a ban and make the marketplace safe,” said Scott Wolfson, a commission spokesman.
But in a March 12 filing, China was the only one of 48 interested parties to tell the panel that it opposed new restrictions on lead paint in children’s jewelry. Guo LiSheng, the deputy director of a Chinese global trade agency, warned against “unnecessary obstacles to trade” and advocated international rules that allow some lead content. He added that good product labeling was sufficient.
“We agree with the viewpoint of USA of protecting the children’s healthy and safety. And we consider that the method of stick warning mark on the children’s metal jewelry … may be more efficient than setting the limit of lead content,” LiSheng wrote from Beijing.
Of the 400 or so product recalls this year, about 60 percent involve products made in China, according to commission statistics.
In response to the toy recalls and tainted products, China announced last Friday the creation of a government panel on product safety. The government appointed Wu Yi, the vice premier and China’s top problem-solver, to head the panel.
Outside a Toys-R-Us store in Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis, Bruce Waskmunski suggested it was a no-brainer that lead should be completely banned from children’s products. He’s angry about the June recall of a Chinese-made Thomas the Train wooden toy that he bought his son.
“The only thing lead paint is in now (in the United States) is 40- or 50-year-old buildings,” he grumbled. “We’ve known about lead paint for years, but we’re giving away the penny to China.”
To read Sierra Club’s initial request for the Bush administration to monitor lead, click here: Sierra Club request.
To read the EPA’s settlement with Sierra Club, click here: EPA settlement.
2007 McClatchy Newspapers
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Hmmm . . . lead paint makes kids dumber. And dumber people vote Republican.
You figure it out . . .
oops Scandal Du _Jour_
De Jure is Latin for “by law” as opposed to de facto or “by common practice.”
Reagan ruled that ketchup was a vegetable in school lunches.
Why do we keep putting the chimps in charge?
Hmmm… ketchup IS important. But a presidential decision?
But then, if Ronaldus Maximus really “ruled” it so, count it!
“oops Scandal Du _Jour_
De Jure is Latin for “by law” as opposed to de facto or “by common practice.”
Posted by: CapnAmerica | August 21, 2007 at 03:16 PM
So what is the soup by law today?
Hahahaha, outlander!
I’m laughing AT you, not with you . . .
Just poking fun at your meaningless partisan drivel Capn. Where DO you get it?
De jure is “by law”
however, Du Jour, is ‘of the day’
ahhh linguistics… a sweet subject well studied in school!!
LOL
BUSH and MOSES
Recently, while going through an airport during one ofhis many trips, President Bush encountered a man withlong gray hair, wearing a white robe and sandals, andholding a staff. President Bush went up to the man andsaid, “Has anyone told you that you look like Moses?”The man didn’t answer. He just kept staringstraight ahead.
The president said, “Moses!” in a loud voice.The man just stared ahead, never acknowledging thePresident. The President pulled a Secret Serviceagent aside and, pointing to the robed man, asked him,”Am I crazy or does that man not look like Moses to you?” TheSecret Service agent looked at the man and agreed.
“Well,” said the President, “every time I say hisname, he ignores me and stares straight ahead,refusing to speak. Watch!” Again the president yelled,”Moses!” and again the man ignored him.
The Secret Service agent went up to the man in thewhite robe and whispered, “You look just like Moses. Are you Moses?”The man leaned over and whispered back, “Yes, I amMoses. However, the last time I talked to a bush, Ispent 40 years wandering in the desert and ended upleading my people to the only spot in the entireMiddle East where there is no oil.”
Thank you Phantom!
“Hmmm . . . lead paint makes kids dumber. And dumber people vote Republican.
You figure it out . . . ”
True dat!
http://www.hillaryclintonquarterly.com/hillaryclintonsthesis.htm
Max, seriously, you’re going to use her 60’s era Senior Thesis to talk crap about her?Posted by: political_mom | August 21, 2007 at 12:05 PM
PMom thinks that a masters thesis written when Hillary was 25 is somehow not relevent to who she is today.
Just a kid then was she?
No PMOM, you write a thesis about something you are passionate about, something that is close to your core beleifs.
Life experience? Yeah, I have some. And my core beleifs haven’t changed much in the 25 years since I hit age 16 to 20.
I don’t wait to see which direction the crowd goes before I make up my mind.
Hillary does.
But, that master’s thesis, that goes to her core.
And this thesis will come up over and over in the next 18 months.
Can’t wait to see what happens when her core is exposed.
It will be very ugly indeed.
I hope Hillary goes after them for copyright violations if they print her Thesis without her written consent… That could be most interesting…
“….you write a thesis about something you are passionate about, something that is close to your core beleifs.”
You write a thesis to satisfy a requirement for the reward of a degree. So it is actually written to please some one else — it has little to do with core beliefs or passion ……
There are a small group of people who are inflexible and incapable of learning throughout the lifespan. Truly a shame that you haven’t had anything really rock your thinking at all. Sheltered much?
This just in…
President’s approval: 32%
Democrat-controlled congress approval: 18%
Thought maybe somebody might find this article interesting:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19526174.800-woman-hears-voices-with-a-speech-impediment.html
PMom — dont know if that article might have something interesting in the autism circles or not…???
The dems. in congress are rating higher than the Republican obstructionist in congress. Think that is on the Zogby site.
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Judge Orders Bush Administration to Issue Global Warming Report
By Karen Gullo
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) — The Bush administration violated U.S. law by failing to produce a study on the impact of global warming and must issue a summary by March, a federal judge ruled.
District Judge Saundra Armstrong in Oakland, California, said the U.S. government “unlawfully withheld action” required under the Global Change Research Act of 1990 to update a research plan and scientific assessment of climate change.
The law mandates the research plan should be revised every three years and the assessment every four years. The last research plan was in 2003 and the last assessment was published in 2000. Greenpeace International and two other environmental groups who say the U.S. government suppresses science on climate change sued in November seeking a court order to produce the reports.
“As the research plan is now more than a year overdue, the court orders that a summary of the revised proposed research plan be published in the Federal Register no later than March 1,” Armstrong said in the order today. The scientific assessment must be produced by May 31, she said.
The administration will review the ruling before commenting, said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. Calls to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and Martin LaLonde, a Justice Department attorney involved in the case, weren’t immediately returned.
President George W. Bush, citing economic reasons, in March 2001 rejected the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty among industrialized nations that would have required cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and other gases linked to global warming.
Government `Wrong’
The Bush administration said in court filings that it determined “only recently that the initiation of a process to revise the research plan has become necessary and advisable” and that the government has discretion about how to handle the revised reports, which Armstrong said was “wrong.”
The reports may be completed by the end of the year, government lawyers said in court filings.
“This is the first court order specifically rebuking the Bush administration for suppressing climate change science,” said Matthew Vespa, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that sued. “The report will provide updated information that all federal agencies will have to look at when assessing the impact of climate change.”
The case is Center for Biological Diversity v. Brennan, 06-7062, U.S. District Court, for the Northern District of California (San Francisco).
To contact the reporter on this story: Karen Gullo in San Francisco at kgullo@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: August 21, 2007 17:30 EDT—–
Phantom, you’re wrong.
From Gallup:Frustration with Congress spans the political spectrum. There are only minor (but not statistically meaningful) differences in the approval ratings Democrats (21%), Republicans (18%), and independents (17%) give to Congress. Typically, partisans view Congress much more positively when their party is in control of the institution, so the fact that Democrats’ ratings are not materially better than Republicans’ is notable.
The nine-point drop in Congress’ job approval rating from last month to this month has come exclusively from Democrats and independents, with Democrats’ ratings dropping 11 points (from 32% to 21%) and independents’ ratings dropping 13 points (from 30% to 17%). Republicans’ 18% approval rating is unchanged from last month.
hey, golfnut… maybe you better write to the reporter on Phantom’s story link, and tell her she is wrong… I would love to see the response from the writer… LOL