As suspected, President George W. Bush will spell out a strategy for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions in a speech today. According to a White House official, "He'll set a national economy-wide goal of stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025," but will decline to outline a specific plan. Bush will reportedly also say that he wants to put the brakes on greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants within 10 to 15 years, but will voice opposition to abandoning nuclear or coal power. He also reportedly opposes meeting his new target by raising taxes or imposing trade barriers, and instead will repeat that he wants to remove trade barriers for clean-energy technologies. Bush will express his distaste for any of the climate-change-fighting legislation currently before Congress and will urge Congressfolk to incorporate his vague strategy into a brand new bill. Tomorrow, at a Paris meeting of the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, the U.S. will be able to say that it's doing saying something about climate change.
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Delay And Deny Posted 12:29 am
16 Apr 2008
I just saw the perfect movie for Gristedes..."The Tripper" (2007).
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Tripper/70065099?trkid=2 ...
It starts off in the 70s with a bunch of Earth Firster types who who are blocking some loggers. This kid's logger dad comes to blows with one of them, so the kid grabs a chainsaw and goes at the guy's jugular.
30 years later, a bunch of neo-hippies are "on the road again" to a rock concert in the same part of the Pacific Northwest...only now the kid is grown up and released from prison -- and he's transmogrified into a serial killing Ronald Reagan cult worshiper who goes around in a blue suit and Reagan mask slashing and burning!
It's all good fun...
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