Enough pressure from the anxious and politicians create another scare.
Pesticides are essential to food and feed production. Dose makes the poison, dammit.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/02/05/ottawa_agrees_to_review_23_pesticides_after_pressure_from_environmental_group.print.html
Aussies Pay a High Price for Nothing
This is an example of much ado and expense for no benefit on warming.
$7b paid in carbon tax to reduce CO2 by 0.3% and cool us by zero degrees
Horse, Ox and Mule Farming was Carbon Intense
Every day when I take care of my 3 horses I am reminded of the halcyon days of yore. Nothing but blue sky and crystal clean air–no dust, and no diesel.
Or not.
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Common Core Communism (CCC)–get it on
Marxism means well–for the little guy, egalitarianism seems more fair–promoting social justice, right?
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EPA Overreach on the Clean Water Act
Testimony of Kenneth Dierschke, President of the Texas Farm Bureau at the congressional hearing on EPA overreach, Feb 4, 2014.
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Chris Horner is Captain America in my Book
I get a news mag Military, that includes essays by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media (AIM).
An AIM interview of Chris Horner, an author and speaker I knew from his work on enviro and climate affairs caught my eye.
Now I am mad as hell.
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Common Core–Tool of the Commies
Public education is biting us back. Schoolteachers can’t be trusted with children, having been indoctrinated in John Dewey socialism and worse. They certainly can’t teach because they are too busy with political correctness and socialist/post modernist/relativist brainwashing.
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Recovery is Dependent on Junk Economics
Make your own assessment.
Economics is not that difficult, nor is bookkeeping.
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Salazar Says GO on XL
Wonder what got under his bonnet?
http://www.mediacomtoday.com/news/read/category/Top%20News/article/ap-salazar_build_keystone_xl_oil_pipeline-ap
Complementary Medicine Sounds So Good
An opponent of complementary medicine (vitamins and supplement promoted beyond their proven effect) quits his academic position in protest of a 15 million dollar grant to his U,-public-health-professor-has-quit-after-his-uni-did-a-15-million-research-deal-with-swisse-2014-2 La Trobe for research from Swisse, a vit maker.
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West Virginny Public Health Officials on the Spill
Update.
Oh, this is terrible, people smelling like licorice and scared.
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201402050062
Doper Alert
I have a perverse (can I say that) tendency to get dopers justifying their habit.
I always like the argument about alcohol being just as bad.
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