All shall swear fealty to Mother Gaia and repent of how they have caused Her fever …
The Obama administration has issued new guidelines that could make it harder for governors who deny climate change to obtain federal disaster-preparedness funds.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new rules could put some Republican governors in a bind. The rules say that states’ risk assessments must include “consideration of changing environmental or climate conditions that may affect and influence the long-term vulnerability from hazards in the state.”
The policy, which goes into effect in March 2016, doesn’t affect federal money for relief after a hurricane, flood, or other natural disaster. But states seeking disaster preparedness money from Washington will be required to assess how climate change threatens their communities, a requirement that wasn’t included in FEMA’s 2008 guidelines.
“Not in the least. Now hand over the money.”
Time for the states to cut off D.C. . Obama and co. are now literally using taxpayer money to threaten lives to strong arm the states into towing the line on a demonstrably false agenda.
My first thought as well McGehee. Or maybe, “we all drown please send your condolences”.
When you think about it, other than wasting cash writing a report, it should be easy to pretend climate change is real and give them what they want no matter what you personally think the odds are of it happening.
After all, even the liberal governors are going to put together a phony boloney report.
Actually, you can’t go far wrong with “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!”
‘Cause we are, sooner or later, for one reason or another.
mc4ever59 I was listening to a story this morning about the “need” to raise the fed fuel tax to fund the dept of transportation because governors were saying we need to fund projects etc.
whaaaat?! So, you except that you can’t get anything done unless your residents cash is funneled through DC and you have to go in on your knees and beg for some of it back.
Some governors would rather pretend the money they’re begging D.C. for is coming from other states, and have their constituents blame D.C. for raising their taxes.
Cowardice all the way down.
Please define these terms, “changing environmental conditions” and “changing climate conditions” as they apply to this risk assessment. This is necessary since the environment and the climate do, and have always since the beginning of the Earth, changed on timescales ranging from second to second to effects that vary over millions of years.
Thank you.
Hey, check this out. Protein Wisdom was just listed at #22 of Newsmax’s Top 5o Conservative Blogs of 2015.
Considering that the SCOTUS has already ruled twice, once in the original OCare decision and another one since, that the Feds can’t reduce existing money to coerce the states into doing something, I’ll be surprised if the courts don’t stop it.
Add FEMA to the list of agencies that need to be abolished,
Something can be comedy *and* tragedy, you know.
To follow up on Mark LaRoche, I didn’t see a pingback notice, but I see that someone linked to PW just a couple days ago: MARK STEYN, commenting on the fraud of the “white people only” stickers in Austin.
There’s reason to hope that PW is making an impact — and reason to hope that Jeff will return to his calling, to be — as Albert Jay Nock would describe it — a modern-day Isaiah preaching to the remnant.
I hope there’s satisfaction in this recognition for Jeff.
Also, for Darleen, who’s been doing a great job pinch hitting for Jeff.
From TFA: “Lapsed Colorado literary scholar Jeff Goldstein has been called the wittiest presence on the Web. His “Brief Conversations With Inanimate Objects,” for instance, have included black comedy exchanges with “Barack Obama’s basketball,” “Eric Holder’s soul,” and “the ghost of raped and murdered U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.” But PW’s humor is always a means to an end, as in Goldstein associate “Darlene Click” linking to a 1975 “Saturday Night Live” skit with Chevy Chase conducting a job interview with Richard Pryor, at his comic best, reacting to a word-association test that includes the N-word. “Thanks, Obama, for making America even more divided and racist than 1975,” Darlene laments.”
Whaddayaknow? These guys seem to actually get PW.