New French prez wastes no time in bowing down to Islam – BANS PORK from Presidential Elysee Palace
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New French president wastes no time in bowing down to Islam – BANS PORK from Presidential Elysee Palace And you thought Sarkozy was an Islamopanderer. Not even in office for a week and Francois Hollande has banned all dishes containing pork products from all government offices, in deference to France’s demanding and perpetually offended Muslim population. How long before he unbans street prayers and burqas? Revolts in Europe (H/T Susan K) Effective immediately, the new French head of state never again will allow pork to pass his lips…or the lips of his staff, other government officials, or foreign guests. With...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
California politicians bet big
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Poker players often use the phrase "betting on the come" to describe a willingness, if instincts and odds indicate, to wager big on the hope that they will draw winning cards. That's a perfectly valid tactic when one is playing with one's own money and therefore bearing the risk. But is it appropriate for California politicians to bet on the come by approving many billions of dollars in spending on very shaky assumptions that the money will be there when it's needed to pay the bills? Risk was the underlying theme of two hearings in the Capitol on Tuesday. One...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
The Constellation Empire Strikes Back (Congressional space pork)
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Constellation, the Bush administration’s plan to return to the moon, was canceled a couple years ago. But not all of Constellation was canceled. The Orion crew module, designed to go to lunar orbit and back, survives, with plans to test fly on a Delta IV rocket in a couple years, and Congress, eager to preserve the Space Shuttle jobs base, demanded that NASA reinstitute a new heavy-lift launch vehicle to replace the canceled Ares V with the Space Launch System. So at this point, despite the cancellation, Constellation continues to waste money, except for the Ares I, the new crew...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
Obama administration tells California it's time to vote on high-speed rail
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned the California Legislature today that the Obama administration will not wait until fall for a vote on high-speed rail, urging its approval in a budget vote next month. "We need to make sure that the commitment is there to obligate the money," LaHood told reporters at the Capitol, where he was meeting with lawmakers and with Gov. Jerry Brown. The state's commitment, LaHood said, will be demonstrated when lawmakers "put it in the budget and take a vote on it." Brown and the California High-Speed Rail Authority want to start construction on a $68...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
Why Islam Will Never Accept the State of Israel
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It is a common belief that the "Arab-Israeli conflict" is a conflict of two peoples fighting over the same piece of land and is therefore one of nationalism. Rarely, if ever, do we hear or read of the religious component to this conflict. However, if anything, the conflict is more of a "Muslim-Jewish" one than an "Arab-Israeli" one. In other words, the conflict is based on religion -- Islam vs. Judaism -- cloaked in Arab nationalism vs. Zionism. The fact of the matter is that in every Arab-Israeli war, from 1948 to the present, cries of "jihad," "Allahu Akbar," and...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
Dan Walters: California Democrats searching under every fiscal rock
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With the state budget mired in deficits, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislators, especially his fellow Democrats, are searching under every fiscal rock for money to spend. That search has spawned an odd syndrome involving what could be three big pots of money – a competition among liberals over how they should be spent if, indeed, they materialize. The pots: • What could be several billion dollars a year in "cap-and-trade" fees that industries must pay as part of the state's anti-greenhouse gas crusade. • Another billion-plus bucks that it's believed would appear were the state to change taxation of multi-state...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
Stop California bullet train, state's top analyst urges
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The state's top analyst has urged lawmakers to pull the emergency brake on California's $68 billion bullet train, saying the recently revised plan carries way too much risk of failure. The Legislative Analyst's Office report released late Tuesday may give the Legislature political cover if it decides to ax the polarizing rail line as it begins debating whether to approve high-speed rail Wednesday.
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
Rail authority passes plan for Calif. bullet train
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San Francisco (AP) -- The authority overseeing efforts to build a high-speed rail system in California approved its revised business plan on Thursday, sending the ambitious project to an uncertain fate in the Legislature. The California High-Speed Rail Authority voted 6-0, with two members absent, to approve its latest plan. Two hours of public comment preceded the vote, most of it favorable toward the bullet train.
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
California high-speed rail plan still has shaky finances
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When the state's bullet train impresarios unveiled a much-revised plan for the statewide project last fall – with campaign-style hoopla, one should note – they said it settled all of its outstanding questions and doubts. Not by a long shot. The sharply increased price tag, around $100 billion, was a shocker, several times more than what voters were told it would be when they approved a $9.95 billion bond issue. And the plan still assumed that construction would start with a short stretch in the San Joaquin Valley dubbed the "train to nowhere." Instead of quieting the bullet train's many...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
Industrial poultry about to get even crappier — literally
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Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
Sen. Debbie Stabenow Named 'Porker of the Month'
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U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow was named “Porker of the Month” for March by a national tax watchdog organization for proposing to extend federal subsidies for green energy. Citizens Against Government Waste tabbed Sen. Stabenow, a Lansing Democrat, because she proposed an amendment to the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, that would have “extended federal subsidies for green energy, including alternative fueling stations, biofuels, refined coal, energy-efficient appliances, and wind power, among others,” according to a CAGW press release. The CAGW stated that many of the extensions Stabenow proposed were tied to the $787 billion American Recovery...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:26:42 AM
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