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POPSDem Sen. Promise 'Sea Change' in Climate Fight Say what you like about the makeup of Obama's cabinet and the new Democratic majority, but the results of the election are worth it for this alone. Read the following in your most serious and stentorian internal voice -- climate change is the challenge of our time. Want more evidence that Democrats are serious? Consider that House Democrats fired John Dingell from the Energy and Commerce Committee, giving the chairmanship to Henry Waxman. The House is a larger sample than the Senate. DC is an environmentalist town now. My money is on this being more than just PR. Environment is a top priority.
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POPSHouse Leadership Battle to Watch Dan Friedman and Richard Cohen of National Journal's CongressDaily report. Implications here could be big, especially on the matter of climate change. For more on that topic, see this recent story: http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebeltway/2008/10/22/energy-green-congress-biz-beltway-cx_jz_1023climate.html
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POPSDoubt in FDA View Of BPA BPA, first synthesized in 1891, is used to harden plastics, and it appears in everything from baby bottles to sunglasses. Studies suggest BPA may be associated with a variety of problems, including Type-2 diabetes, prostate cancer, genital defects in men, early onset of puberty in women and behavioral problems. There much more around. Triclosan in fluid soaps, shampoos and toothpaste, 90% positive tests for pesticides in random urine tests, transfat oils... Looks like weapons of mass destruction.:(
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POPSRepublicans are flailing and Panicking The republicans simply don't get it. Smears have begun to backfire and work less and less, particularly when they aren't credible. The internet and the wealth of information makes parsing words and making false smears stick practically impossible. They haven't figured that out.
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POPSEither Does Carly Mac's top economic advisor is a failed executive who got fired from HP because she was running the company into the ground.
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POPSJohn McCain And His BlackBerry To be fair, John McCain is a dedicated BlackBerry user--check out the photo above. (He goes for the consumer-friendly Curve.) And it appears that his adviser merely said he helped promote telecom advances, not that he invented one of the world's most iconic phones. Even so, I wonder what they're saying up in Waterloo about this.
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POPSMcCain Created the BlackBerry? He doesn't know how to use the internet or e-mail, yet his campaign is now claiming that John McCain helped to create the BlackBerry. Is McCain running against Gore?
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POPSMcCain AWOL from Senate; may lose home state Has missed 400 votes, more than any other Senator; 111 - The number of days since McCain last attended a committee hearing (of the Senate Armed Services Committee, on April 9). 25% - How many full SASC hearings McCain has attended during the 110th Congress. 89% - How many full SASC hearings McCain has skipped since April 2007 (32 out of the last 36 hearings). 2007 - The last year in which McCain attended any Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee hearings or subcommittee hearings.
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POPSU.S. officials condoned Kurdish oil deal From the article.... "Kurdish officials have clashed with Baghdad over the national oil law, which will determine how contracts are awarded and how revenues are distributed. The northern Iraqi region has signed several exploration deals with foreign firms, which Baghdad says are illegal."
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POPSSolution? $2 Gas in 30 Days if Congress Acts Tell them to do it! Legally limiting financial speculation (oil future's trading) by government regulation would send oil prices down to levels based upon physical supply and demand they claim. One only wonders if this would overcome the devalued dollar which also drives prices up. But they should do it immediately! The argument of these financial analysts says that the propaganda about needing increased supply is wrong and that OPEC and Ahmadinejad's analysis is correct that supply is not the problem.
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POPSSoros: Oil Bubbling If high oil prices are just a bubble that is about to pop, some relief might actually be on the way.
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POPS"Blue Planet in Green Shackles" Czech President Vaclav Klaus Klaus said poor nations would also be hurt by efforts to impose limits and standards on emissions of gases believed to cause global warming. "They will not be able to absorb new technological standards required by the anti-greenhouse religion, their products will have difficulty accessing the developed markets, and as a result the gap between them and the developed world will widen," "This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection -- similarly to the old Marxists -- wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world," he added. "No government action can stop the world and nature from changing. Therefore, I disagree with plans such as the Kyoto Protocol or similar initiatives, which set arbitrary targets requiring enormous costs without realistic prospects for the success of these measures," he said.
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POPSSenate Votes To Roll Back Media Ownership Rule "Today the Senate stood up to Washington special interests by voting to reverse the FCC's disappointing media consolidation rules that I have fought against," he said. "Our nation's media market must reflect the diverse voices of our population, and it is essential that the FCC promotes the public interest and diversity in ownership." The FCC decision allows one company to own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the nation's 20 largest metropolitan areas. The TV station may not be among the top four in the market, and post-transaction, at least eight independent media voices must remain. The rule replaced an outright ban on cross-ownership. The FCC's media ownership decision has been met with opposition on both sides. The newspaper industry has complained that the FCC did not go far enough, while activists who want to keep big media companies from getting bigger said the agency went too far.
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POPSMcCain and Lobbyist Vicki Iseman; Affair, Ethics Breach, or Both? She appears to have leveraged his support for her clients in a way that special favors were evident, even out of bounds for a Senator from which her clients directly benefited. Most have forgotten about the Keating Five scandal of which McCain was a part, a gross ethical violation that should have banished McCain earlier from any Presidential consideration.
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