http://proteinwisdom.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:05:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Friday night that she’s “leaning towards” voting to start debate on the health care bill – which would leave Democrats just a single vote shy of clearing a critical test for the reform package on Saturday. Asked outside the Capitol if she’s made up her mind ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15537 James Delingpole has a summary at the Telegraph. If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15536 ... so it is time to look at the malice angle. First we have Eric Holder doing a good imitation of a gasping fish out-of-water in his non-answers to Lindsey Graham.SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R-S.C): Can you give me a case in United States history where a enemy combatant caught on a ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15535 From Market Watch: A key congressional panel on Thursday approved legislation introduced by the Texas congressman that - for the first time in the central bank's 95-year-history -- would require government audits of Federal Reserve monetary policy, as well as how much the central bank has lent and will lend to ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15534 Baffled? That thing about language and meaning Jeff's been stressing?  Nah. Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15533 To understand the sheer idiocy and harm to be done by the CPSIA (best coverage at Overlawyered and I've covered it here and here) is to see CA AG Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown hold a press conference in order to rattle his saber at retailers.Here at the cusp of the holiday ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15532 One month ago, Eric Scheie wrote on the 663 page Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 which contained the Lacey Act AmendmentThe Lacey Act now makes it unlawful to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce any plant, with some limited exceptions, taken ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15531 ... of a video "contest" to produced the most smarmy, unthinking, schmaltzy ad EVAH. Using a bunch of little kids intoning "I deserve healthcare." How fun, Obama and the Left teaching little kids the joys of being pickpockets. http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15530 One hundred billion dollars in about ten months.  Ten billion dollars a month. Improper payments by the U.S. government to people, firms and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in fiscal 2009 and President Barack Obama plans new rules to clamp down, the White House said Tuesday. Falling just short of blaming ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15529 Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wroteLOS ANGELES (AP) - Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices - and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far - can be traced to just two people: a ... http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15528