Spain is a Dangerous Place?

Report on the economic decline with resulting loss of health care safety net resources in Spain.
You think it’s not possible in places that are equally committed to a national health system and equally economically shaky?
I would beg to differ–health care is a big burden for advanced care and profligacy is not without risk.
As Uncle Miltie said–no free lunch.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/12/spains-health-care

Damn Mandates and Subsidies

Renewable fuels mandate is about ethanol mostly, and farmers are on the horns of a dilemma. Farmer war is one way to look at it.
Ranchers and livestock/feedlot farmers versus the guys with 200,000 dollar tractors with 4 big wheels and lots of row crops–owners of the ultimate boy toys.
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Flu Vaccine in Pregnancy

A very low rate of vaccination in pregnancy is the result of the scaremongers. Many pregnant women are scared of medications and such during pregnancy however pregnant women are particularly susceptible to complications of Flu in pregnancy.
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Alternative Energy Killers

Marita Noon is a reliable and effective writer, regular columnist at Town Hall, lecturer and ally fighting goofy environmentalism and warming issues.
She also is a bird lover like most of us hard bitten conservatives. What’s not to love about a raptor, even a little finch?
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Thanks Louie

Louis Pasteur was a great man and he showed us the way to a safer food supply.
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Maunder Minimum Redux?

Maybe all this concern about cooling is justified?
Take a look.
http://www.space.com/23934-weak-solar-cycle-space-weather.html
The Little Ice Age coincided with the Maunder Minimum in solar sunspot activity of the late 17th Century.
Ice Skating on the Thames, Valley Forge, Greenland iced over and settlements gone.

Get the Lead Out.

The last lead smelter in America is closing.
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Antarctic Record Cold

The ice storm is our problem, imagine the problems for the Penguins? And here is something to consider, this record was set during the Southern Hemisphere summer. (Corrrection, the record reports were not current, but from older winter time down at the south pole.
I apologize.)
And it is 50 degrees below anything seen up our way. Maybe Siberia gets to -135.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cold-dis-comfort-antarctica-set-record-1358

Cosmic Rays are Cooler

Ever since I learned from Fred Singer that cosmic rays increase cloud cover and that’s why sunspots make things hotter, I thought, I am an astrophysicist? Right? That’s why this is important for aspiring astrophysicists.
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Nobel Winner Dings Nature and Science Mags

Good news from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Randy Schekman.
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Let's Ask Dr. Spencer

JunkScience detectives can always benefit from satellite man, the wise and well informed Dr. Roy Spencer.
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Let's Talk Fallacies

This essay by JW Buckley is a wonderful exploration of a wicked development–dishonest post modern anti-science science in the service of political ideologies.
Yes Houston, we have a problem.
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