WWII bomb exploded at farm construction site.
#renewable #green
A 250lb air-dropped German WWII bomb has been safely detonated on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site.
Wind farm developer, Scira Offshore Energy Ltd commissioned an unexploded ordnances (UXO) survey as part of its reconstruction preparations and the bomb was found at the site of one of its foundation locations in the north-west of the offshore wind farm site.
A total of 52 targets were investigated by divers and using a remote operated vehicle (ROV). While most of the targets were debris or geological concentrations, several anchors and an old canon were found, as well as the unexploded bomb.
The bomb was found by divers from diving specialists Red7Marine and verified and detonated with explosives by disposal experts MACC International, earlier this month.
Source: Renewable Energy Focus
In other post, the article referred to Dr. Seuss's Lorax. I indicated issues Lorax had to watch for a Great Lakes wind farm.
Well, Lorax doesn’t have to worry about old WWII bombs or mines exploding in the middle of a Great Lakes offshore wind farm.
Who will our Hispanic citizens be loyal to?
#immigration #amnesty
"E Pluribus Unum." "Out of many, one."
Over two centuries since our Founders established our Republic and our freedom, the firm resolve that ran in their veins still courses through our own. Since then, countless loyal Americans have risen to preserve our Union and the blessings bestowed upon us. Today, whether singing the national anthem, watching our flag billow in the breeze, or seeing the hope in a young child's eyes, each of us can still feel the patriotism and respect for one another that defines us as a people. It is the same love of country that drives our Armed Forces to shoulder the responsibility of defending our citizens and our values. We will forever stand united against any force that seeks to divide us, finding strength in our diversity and inspiration in the sacrifices of our forebears.
The Congress, by Public Law 85 529 as amended, has designated May 1 of each year as "Loyalty Day." On this day, we honor the legacy of these United States, and we remember all those who have fought to defend our freedom.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2010, as Loyalty Day. This Loyalty Day, I call upon the people of the United States to join in this national observance, to display the flag of the United States, and to pledge true and steadfast allegiance to the Republic for which it stands.
Source: White House
It would be interesting to check the loyalty of those at all of the criminal (illegal) alien rallies.
Will China have a hammer registry?
China suffered its third lethal attack on a kindergarten in three days, after a farmer injured five children with a hammer in the north of the country before setting himself on fire.
The latest incident came one day after four children were feared dead and 29 injured in a knife attack at a kindergarten in Jiangsu province. On Wednesday, a man in the southern city of Leizhou also used a knife to hack at 15 primary school pupils and a teacher.
Armed with a hammer and carrying a can of petrol, he struck a teacher and then lashed out at five children before he picked two up, doused himself with petrol and set himself on fire.
Teachers at the school managed to grab the children from him, but Wang was reported to have died. The five victims are said to be in stable condition in the local hospital and none have life-threatening injuries.
The spate of attacks has horrified Chinese parents, who now fear that the apparent copycat attacks could continue. The Chinese ministry of Education has ordered security at all schools to be stepped up to try to tamp down the panic.
Source: UK Telegraph
This is like the fifth attack on kids in a month or so. China’s strict gun control laws didn’t stop the violence.
Below, Mayor Daley throws another law to combat violence and protect our children. And just like China, this latest law won’t protect Chicago’s kids.
Mayor Daley. Try treating the problem, not the symptom (guns). Figure out why people are shooting. Not how they are able to shoot a gun.
The Illinois Senate passed a proposal that would increase penalties for certain gun crimes in Illinois, and sent it on its way to Gov. Pat Quinn.
The change would mandate at least one year in prison for a person convicted of unlawful use of a weapon if the gun is loaded and the offender doesn’t have a valid firearm owner’s identification card. Right now, the penalty is a lesser sentence of probation.
Daley backs it and proposes it as another way to combat gun violence in the city and beyond. “The bill protects the rights of law abiding citizens, but also gives us another tool to combat violence in our neighborhoods and protect our children,” he said. “I encourage the governor to sign it.”
Source: Examiner
Bill Clinton didn’t get a club like this named after him.
#obama
Party people in China, not to mention curious bloggers around the world, are eagerly awaiting the opening of the hottest club in Shanghai - the Obama Club.
From the club's promotional materials:
The Obama Club is probably the largest entertainment clubhouse in Shanghai. Designed by renowned American interior designer Cagley and Tanner from Las Vegas. Occupying a total space of 4,000 square m. The Obama Club is pampered and lavishly decorated - fitted with international top of the range multi-media, audio and visual equipment designed to blow your mind.
Source: Huffy Puffy Post
What would the partisan press be saying if Bush had a club like this named after him? I know! ROFL!
#abortion #prochoice #prolife
A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a botched abortion was found alive nearly a day later. The 22-week infant died one day later in intensive care at a hospital in the mother's home town of Rossano in southern Italy.
The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled. However, the infant survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, and was left by doctors to die.
He was discovered alive the following day – some 20 hours after the operation – by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body. The priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neo-natal unit at the neighbouring Cosenza hospital, where he died on Monday morning.
Italian police are investigating the case for "homicide" because infanticide is illegal in Italy. The law means that doctors have had an obligation to try to preserve the life of the child once he had survived the abortion
Source: UK Telegraph
I think the mother should also be charged with infanticide. It was her initial choice that caused her son or daughter spending two days vainly trying to survive.
If the mother had the baby then went on vacation for two days without the baby, there would be no question she should be charged with her child’s death.
Amtrak’s new motto: Be a Carnivore!
#renewable #globalwarming #globalcooling #green
Taking Amtrak's Heartland Flyer train between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City sometime in the next year? You will be hitching a ride on the first beef byproducts-powered biodiesel train. The train, which runs on 80% regular diesel and 20% beef-based biofuel from a Texas vendor, is running for the next 12 months courtesy of a $274,000 grant from the Federal Railroad Administration. But is it morally suspect?
Still, the idea of sitting in a train powered by animal fat gives us pause. Unsurprisingly, PETA isn't too keen on the idea. "The answer to pollution is not to use the ground up remains of tortured animals for fuel. Anything using animal remains is going to be both depleting of and polluting of our environment," explained Bruce Friedrich, PETA's VP for Policy.
Source: Fast Company
Amtrak’s new motto: Be a Carnivore!
This is better than ethanol since it is NOT made with food crops.
No separation of church and state
#religion #atheist #christian
Reporting from Washington
The Supreme Court gave its approval Wednesday to displaying a cross on public land to honor fallen soldiers, saying the Constitution "does not require the eradication of all religious symbols in the public realm."
Speaking for a divided court, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said the 1st Amendment called for a middle-ground "policy of accommodation" toward religious displays on public land, not a strict separation of church and state.
Kennedy disagreed with judges in California who said U.S. National Park Service officials must remove a small Latin cross from the Mojave National Preserve that had stood since 1934 to honor soldiers who died in World War I. The judges said the display of the cross on public land amounted to a government endorsement of religion.
"A Latin cross is not merely a reaffirmation of Christian beliefs," he wrote. "Here, a Latin cross in the desert evokes far more than religion. It evokes thousands of small crosses in foreign fields marking the graves of Americans who fell in battles, battles whose tragedies are compounded if the fallen are forgotten."
Source: LA Times
During the 1st Congress, the US House chamber was used for church services. There would have been a cross so a cross on federal property is not unconstitutional.
#globalwarming #globalcooling #renewable #green
For most of the 20th century, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, was known for its boardwalk, amusement park and wide, sandy beaches, popular with daytrippers from Washington, D.C. “The bathing beach has a frontage of three miles,” boasted a tourist brochure from about 1900, “and is equal, if not superior, to any beach on the Atlantic Coast.”
Today, on a cloudless spring afternoon, the resort town’s sweeping view of Chesapeake Bay is no less stunning. But there’s no longer any beach in Chesapeake Beach. Where there once was sand, water now laps against a seven-foot-high wall of boulders protecting a strip of pricey homes marked with “No Trespassing” signs.
Surveying the armored shoreline, Jim Titus explains how the natural sinking of the shoreline and slow but steady sea-level rise, mostly due to climate change, have driven the bay’s water more than a foot higher over the past century. Reinforcing the eroding shore with a sea wall held the water back, but it also choked off the natural supply of sand that had replenished the beach. What sand remained gradually sank beneath the rising water.
Source: Wired
But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.
Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by
Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.
The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".
Source: UK Telegraph
A lot of beaches have disappeared and are nowhere near rising sea level. Its called erosion.
This is more junk science of global warming.
#globalwarming #globalcooling #renewable #green
It is near impossible to listen to the debate surrounding the proposed offshore wind farm in Lake Ontario without recalling Dr. Seuss's furry, mustachioed environmental activist the Lorax. Instead of speaking for the trees, however, the opponents of the project (most of them shoreline residents) claim to speak for the fish, the birds, and the lake. Unfortunately, real life is often more complex than a children's short-story, and the behavior of the project's opponents would incite the Lorax's disapproval, not commendation. In Dr. Seuss's short story, the Lorax opposes the Once-lers unsustainable Truffula farming. The tragedy of the Truffula forest is clearly an example of bad development. In contrast, Rochester's wind farm project requires that we clearly distinguish what constitutes good and bad development for our region.
NIMBY (Not in my backyard) politics has been a powerful tool in environmental action that has preserved the Hudson River from pollution and ANWAR from oil drilling; unfortunately, NIMBY now stands in the way of the offshore wind farm project that will diversify New York's energy portfolio, establish Rochester as an important landmark for renewable energy, and wean the region off more invasive and destructive energy forms like coal, hydro, and nuclear.
Like any new energy investment, there are costs and drawbacks associated with building an offshore wind farm. While the costs will be diffused across the state, benefits like job creation and investment in the Rochester area will be real. During these troubling economic times for Rochester, the opportunity to draw private investment in a twenty-first century technology like offshore windmills is a blessing.
Failing to harness one of the country's most bountiful wind resources with clean and renewable wind turbines would be a travesty. Rather than mar the lake's misconceived sacred naturalness, the silent structures will likely add a unique twenty-first century beauty to the Rochester landscape.
The wind farm would establish Rochester as a leader in renewable energy in the fight against global climate change, and that is something I can be proud of as a lakefront resident. If the opponents of the project do not even speak for all of the lakefront residents as they claim, how can we trust them to speak for the birds, fish, and lake too? Some of our lakefront neighbors have attempted to assume the role of the Lorax, but their actions are more akin to the short-sighted Once-lers.
Source: Democrat and Chronicle
In addition to birds and fish, Lorax needs to be worried about oil spill, fires, tower collapse and the project being abandoned to rust because it wasn’t economically feasible.
#obama #money #socialism
A "hold" describes a Senator's request to his party leader that a specific piece of legislation or a nomination not be considered on the Senate floor. A hold may be lodged as a bargaining chip so that the Senator is consulted as a measure proceeds, or it may be meant as an ultimate barrier to a bill.
Holds are not a part of the Senate's written rules or standing orders. They are an informal practice begun by the leadership of the past and honored -- to varying degrees -- by the leadership of the present. The status of holds as an informal practice means that Senate leaders have the discretion to honor holds for a short period of time, for an indefinite period, or not at all.
The underlying reasons for lodging a hold vary greatly. A Senator may lodge a hold to receive assurance that a bill or a nomination will not be called up in his/her absence. A hold may be lodged to gain time to gather information and prepare opposition to the pending matter. A hold may be lodged to gain entree into any negotiations the leaders conduct on the conditions for the consideration of the legislation, e.g. debate time and amendment procedures.
Source: C-Span
Holds can be overridden especially if your party has 60 votes. So when the liberals whine the GOP is doing this or that with a HOLD, it is a purely political statement to try to get America to be against the GOP.
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#renewable #ethanol #economy
U.S. meat prices may rise to records this summer after farmers reduced hog and cattle herds to the smallest sizes in decades, the result of surging feed costs linked to demands for more ethanol.
Wholesale pork jumped as much as 25 percent this month to 90.68 cents a pound last week, the highest since August 2008, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Beef climbed 22 percent this year to $1.6896 a pound on April 23, the most expensive since July 2008. Chicken’s gain in March was the most in 20 months.
Demand for pork chops, steaks and chicken breasts is rising as the economy improves, backyard barbecues resume and China and Russia allow more U.S. imports. Domestic supplies may drop to a 13-year low because of culls to stem losses caused by corn prices that doubled after former President George W. Bush set targets to increase ethanol use.
“Ethanol-induced prices in meat are just now getting to the marketplace,” said Steve Meyer, the president of Paragon Economics, a meat industry consultant in Des Moines, Iowa. “Consumers are going to see the highest prices they’ve ever paid in meat and poultry because of the decisions made to make corn into ethanol.”
Source: Business Week
Using food crops as fuel is stupid.
And yes, Bush is also at fault for the increased food prices because of using food crops for fuel.
Duh!!
#immigration #borders #amnesty
During the Monday 12PM ET hour of live coverage on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer described the "firestorm" over a newly passed immigration law in Arizona and fretted: "does this lead to a situation where neighbors are turning in neighbors or families turning against families?" Later in the segment, a headline on screen read: "Law Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant."
Brewer discussed the issue with Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. Okay, let's take your state, for instance, there is a huge influx of illegal immigrants up and down the coast of California. Is this an effective way to deal with the problem?
LORETTA SANCHEZ: No. Absolutely not. First of all, there are a lot of people in the United States that haven't come over a border. They've actually come and they've either overstayed their visa or they haven't been able to renew their work visa, and they're – or they're in limbo, they're waiting. So they're what we call 'out of status.' And there are a lot of people like this. But to go after them, to stop people and say, 'I think you look like an illegal immigrant' and then drag them off to jail is not the way to deal with this issue. The issue we need to do is to deal with it on a national basis. We need to have a good visa program so that we can let workers who need to come to our country, come here and work, and not worry about hiding some place. And we need to fortify our borders in the correct manner, so that we can let the people we want to come in and keep people from coming in that we don't want.
Source: Newsbuster
Drag them off to jail? They shouldn’t be dragged off to jail. They should be deported.
MSNBC and liberals can’t understand why "Law Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant." is an asinine stupid statement. Illegal Aliens ARE criminals. Illegal means breaking laws. Being “out of status” means you are breaking the Visa laws should be deported.
Mexican Policies on Illegal Aliens in Mexico
Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be Imprisoned. Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned.
Foreigners who sign government documents with a signature that is false or different is subject to fined and imprisonment.
Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as Felons. Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished.
Foreigners who are deported from Mexico and attempt to re-enter the country without authorization can be imprisoned for up to 10 years.
Foreigners who violate the terms of their visa may be sentenced to up to six years in prison . Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa while in Mexico -- such as working without a permit -- can also be imprisoned.
Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony. The General Law on Population States…
"A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally."
Foreigners with legal immigration problems may be deported from Mexico instead of being imprisoned. Foreigners who have contempt against national sovereignty or security will be deported.
Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter the country are themselves considered criminals .Under the law, A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison.
Source: News With Views
#renewable #green #windfarm
February 26, 2008
The state has fined Siemens Power Generation $10,500 for safety violations related to the Aug. 25 collapse of a wind turbine tower in Sherman County that killed one worker and injured another.
The incident occurred at the Klondike III wind farm near Wasco where three workers were performing maintenance on a turbine tower manufactured by Siemens. According to the findings, one of the workers locked the blades flat to the wind - a position of maximum wind resistance - and later released a service brake before disengaging the lock-down, creating an "overspeed" condition. One of the blades struck the tower, forcing the collapse.
Chadd Mitchell, 35, of Goldendale, Wash., a Siemens employee, was working at the top of the 231-foot tower when it buckled. He died in the fall. Bill Trossen of The Dalles, who was on his way down a ladder inside the turbine, was injured. The third worker was outside the tower and was unharmed.
Source: Oregon Live
While this is an old story, it is interesting that flawed training for a wind turbine could be deadly.
#immigration #borders #amnesty
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said lazy residents who don't want to take jobs harvesting the state's crops are the root of the South Carolina's problems with illegal immigration.
Bauer's remarks came at the opening of a debate Friday of Republican gubernatorial hopefuls in Spartanburg. The candidates were asked about Arizona's new tough illegal immigration law and whether South Carolina should do more to fight the problem.
"The real problem is the workforce," Bauer said. State relief programs leave people unwilling to work the jobs in fields and orchards now filled with migrant workers, he said.
"The problem is we have a giveaway system in this country and in this state that is so strong that people would rather sit home and do nothing than do these jobs. Laziness is not a disability," Bauer said. "There are lot of people that are flat out lazy and they are using up the goods and services that we have in this state."
Haley said the problem involved enforcement of one of the nation's toughest illegal immigration laws that the Legislature passed two years ago. "We need to look at the reform that was passed and make sure we have the funds in that prosecution account so that we're actually enforcing the law that was passed," Haley said. "It is not lazy people. It is making government accountable and actually enforcing the laws that they pass."
For his part, Barrett stuck with remarks he made during the debate. He said the state should work with federal immigration officials to train local law enforcement. "If the federal government is not doing it, we need to take charge in South Carolina. It's one of the ways we can be in command," Barrett said.
Bauer didn't back away when asked about the remarks after the debate. "We have a generational problem with people that have learned to game the system," Bauer said. "And those people who would be doing a lot of these labor jobs will not do them. Therefore, we don't have a labor pool to fill these vacancies."
"I took an oath to defend the constitution of the United States and of South Carolina against all enemies - foreign and domestic - and right now we have enemies in Washington, D.C., that are trying to destroy this country," McMaster said, citing federal health care insurance mandates. He's joined other attorneys general around the nation in fighting the legislation's implementation with legal action.
Source: Island Packet
I don’t have a problem with making legal immigration from Mexico almost unlimited as long as there is valid proof of Mexican citizenship.
The AZ law is NOT racially based nor is against legal aliens. It is against criminal (illegal) aliens. Those that break the law getting into this country.
In stark contrast to peaceful Tea Party rallies, the pro-illegal immigration protesters took to the streets of the AZ capitol pelting police with rocks and water bottles as a means to voice their discontent.
WWII bomb exploded at farm construction site.
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