The bad news first: “Alpha announces 1,100 layoffs at several mines“: Eight operating affiliates of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., including two in Boone County, have notified their employees that the coal mines and other facilities where they work are subject to being idled due to sustained weak market conditions and government regulations that have challenged the entire Central Appalachian mining industry. In accordance with requirements of the Worker Adjustment and
August 2014
August 1, 2014
“Study: Hundreds of rules passed by Obama administration are technically illegal”
That’s the bad news. The good news is, there’s not a damn thing we can do about it! So let’s keep this party going, bitches! WaPo: Over the past 21 / 2 years, the Obama administration has published hundreds of rules — on how wheelchairs should be stowed aboard U.S. aircraft, how foreign trade zones should be regulated, how voting assistance should be provided for U.S. citizens overseas and so
August 1, 2014
United Nation holds that police agencies who don’t provide Kevlar vests to criminals are guilty of crimes against humanity [Darleen Click]
Or something like that … Navi Pillay told reporters following yet another “emergency” meeting of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council that Israel was not doing enough to protect civilians. “There is a strong possibility,” said the known Israel critic, “that international law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.” Among the UN’s long bill of particulars against the beleaguered Jewish state comes the almost
August 1, 2014
Jerry Brown says “California is back” — Really? [Darleen Click]
Not like the California Leftist aristocracy in Marin County and the legislature actually give a damn.
August 1, 2014
August fundraiser is here [sticky; new posts below – TUESDAY UPDATE; final FRIDAY UPDATE]
As some of you have gathered, we are getting ready to move shortly — in fact, because of an unprecedented string of good weather (thanks, climate disruption!), the builder finished our new home early and has us scrambling to get our current house packed up, fixed up, and ready for potential rental — and the work has become overwhelming, particularly with my wife traveling often for her job and, soon,
August 1, 2014
Global Cooling, Global Warming, Climate Change Climate Distruption — Is there anything it can’t do? [Darleen Click]
All you First World, carbon big-foot, Gaia-raping people of pallor, the flood of Little Brown Children™ across the artificial southern border is your fault On a three-day trade mission to Mexico, California governor Jerry Brown talked most frequently about climate change and immigration, and spoke passionately about the link between the two, according to the Wall Street Journal. “We can see how some are fearful of children walking across the