Al Gore: Junk Science Huckster How double standards mislead Congress with absurd proclamations of Climate Armageddon By Paul Driessen *********************************** House Global Warming Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) was outraged that a renegade freelance lobbyist had sent a dozen phony letters to members of Congress, urging them to vote against cap-and-trade legislation. Congress will...
“We’ve moved from an era of privacy keepers to one of privacy peepers and data-mining reapers who want to turn our information into products…The product is our records, our privacy, our family’s history. We wouldn’t let the government do this, so we have to protect against companies that want to do this.” Congressman Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), [...]
Change? Sure, these 2 crooks are gone, but their system is as strong and vibrant as ever A week ago Ken and I were marveling about how one trained congressional chimpanzee after another got up on the House floor and made an identical 60 second speech about why he opposes healthcare reform. Word-for-word... on TV. They must have figured no one was watching C-SPAN and that when THE speech got played...
I couldn't agree more. Hey folks, I love this one. Seems that the whole GWBS is starting to lose it false appeal. The Chicken Little Crowd has lost the momentum do to their Heroes, the LWL, have switched to and become obsessed with taken over one sixth of the US economy, Obamacare. Even some in the Media, well, OK, not the US, but the World Media are starting to talk about the insanity of the nonexistent...
An anti-poverty activist who helped to build one of the biggest agencies for the poor was laid to rest yesterday. Robert Corad pushed policy makers in Washington and in Massachusetts to help the people that Action for Boston Community Development served. From the Boston Globe, writer Adrian Walker attended the funeral. Coard, who died last week at the age of 82, has been celebrated as the guiding force...
Image by material guy from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr . With the Patrick administration considering expanding gambling in Massachusetts, the Governor is proposing budget cuts to helping gambling addicts. [ Boston Herald ] Governor Deval Patrick's administration plans to cut funding for special treatment units for prisoners with mental illness. The cut could restart a suit by the...
Last night Ken and I were talking about the pointlessness of speeches on the House floor. I had been telling him how moved I was by Donna Edwards' very personal explanation of why she was voting for health care reform. We both marveled at how shamelessly one well-fed Republican zombie after another got up to the podium to recite identical , canned talking point meant only to distort facts and frighten...
DOWNLOADS: (110) PLAYS: (458) Rep. Edward Markey on the Republican's "do nothing substitute" health care bill. Well said Congressman. Markey: You know the G.O.P. used to stand for Grand Old Party. Now it stands for grandstand, oppose and pretend. They grandstand with phony claims about non-existent death panels. They oppose any real reform and with this substitute they pretend to offer a...
Just yesterday, we talked about how it seems that Congress won’t be passing a climate change bill prior to Copenhagen, and we noted how that could be an impediment for the climate change talks to take place there. Unfortunately, it seems like the United States’ reticence to get its act together on a bill will, in fact, greatly diminish the possibility of a binding, enforceable treaty on...
Rep. Ed Markey had a conference call with bloggers last Friday to talk about his legislation which would "establish overarching national broadband policy and ensures an open and consumer oriented Internet," or codify net neutrality. In addition : Markey stressed the importance of fighting "misinformation," invoking death panels and the other red herrings the right wing slung into...
• Binding agreement not expected in Copenhagen • Administration working towards treaty next year The US has given up hope of reaching a global climate change treaty at Copenhagen and is working towards a deal late next year, the Obama administration said today. The decision ends hopes of a legally binding deal being sealed next month. "We have to be honest in the process and deal with...
Al Gore hits back as critics label him 'carbon billionaire' who has profited from championing climate change | Mail Online [but he's not a lobbyist] Mr Gore is a regular visitor to Capitol Hill where he exerts pressure on members of Congress to pass legislation that cuts emissions. Check out this lineup: Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus to Speak at Climate Change Policy Session Nov 4 | Reuters...
Rep. Ed Markey has a post up on HuffPo today that calls for the online public to support his bill, HR 3458, The Internet Freedom Preservation Act", which he and Rep. Anna Eshoo proposed in July. He notes that it...
The Democrats’ efforts to preserve our Internet freedom through net neutrality legislation needs more help, according to U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who held a press conference today in order to recruit more sponsors for his net neutrality bill and petition more citizens to make their views known on the topic. But after listening to Markey [...]
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