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POPSCalifornia asks for Fed Troops I say let the fires burn. Concentrate on protecting life and property. As far as the fires go, they will burn themselves out. Fires have existed on Earth since the beginning of time. Let them burn.
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POPSMystery Of Infamous 'New England Dark Day' Solved By Tree Rings Damn, there goes another great "mystery!" This is one of the better researched and annotated mysteries as the article says of what people recorded of animal behavior and that Gen. George Washington commented on it in his journal. Tree ring dating is helping us understand many strange atmospheric events. Listen the trees are "talking."
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POPSNow they say global warming affects US security Now the loony left is trying to appeal to conservatives with a security theme. Never mind that flood have been wiping out people since Noah built his ark. The ancient world is full of examples of thriving cities having been abandoned due to climate change - and this long before any industrialization or greenhouse gasses. Maybe the dinosaurs went extinct due to their all pervasive flatulence? I think this global warming hype is more of the same - liberal oral flatulence.
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POPSCalifornia Wildfires A number of wildfires burned across Northern California late last week, and over the weekend. Firefighters have them all under control now, with the largest, the Humboldt Fire, now 90% contained with 74 homes destroyed, and at least $11 million in damage. Residents began returning to their homes to see what survived, and what could be salvaged.
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POPSSlash Global Warming Gases Now Urge 1,700 Scientists, Economists The statement affirms the scientific evidence for global warming, saying, "the strength of the science on climate change" compelled the signers to warn policymakers of climate change's growing risks, including "sea level rise, heat waves, droughts, wildfires, snowmelt, floods and disease, as well as increased plant and animal species extinctions."
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POPSWarning against invasive biofuel crops I suppose they want plants that grow quickly and, anywhere. With as few predators as possible. They don't sound like the kinds of things that can be contained. They'll be by design more hardy than anything growing around them, and the fittest will survive. Shame most of this stuff is inedible.
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POPSWar Funding Bill Jettisons Immigrant Labor Work Permits The bill before the Senate would add more than $28 billion to Bush's budget request for this year and next, with almost $50 billion more after those two years for a big expansion of veterans benefits under the GI Bill from 2010-2018. Reid faces enormous procedural headaches in getting the war funding bill - and its various add-ons - passed this week. Democrats have divided the war funding bill into two components: non-war add-ons and Iraq funding-policy restrictions. Reid has signaled he wants the non-war extras to get a vote before the war funding itself, but it's a high-wire strategy. The new GI Bill and Democratic priorities like extending unemployment benefits are among the big-ticket add-ons, both of which have drawn veto threats. There's also $50 million to track down child predators, $400 million to help rural schools and $350 million to fight Western wildfires, just for starters.
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POPS Santa Claus Politics by Thomas Sowell What's more, politicians can picture themselves as the solutions to our economic problems, when in fact they are the biggest economic problem of all. Politicians -- first President Hoover and then President Roosevelt -- decided that they had to “do something” after the stock market crash of 1929. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan decided to do nothing -- despite bitter criticisms in the media -- and the economy recovered on its own and kept on growing. To people who think the government should “do something” , it would never occur to them to compare the actual track record of what happens when the government does something and what happens when it lets the market adjust by itself. Recently, Professor N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, noted that people in Congress and the White House were wondering what they should do about the current economic situation. His suggestion: “Absolutely nothing."
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