"Tolerant", "Peaceful" Liberals at Work

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Ethanol fuels fire concerns

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The nation's drive toward alternative fuels carries a danger many communities have been to slow to recognize: Ethanol fires are harder to put out than gasoline ones and require a special type of firefighting foam.

Many fire departments around the country don't have the foam, don't have enough of it, or are not well-trained in how to apply it, firefighting experts say. It is also more expensive than conventional foam.

"It is not unusual to find a fire department that is still just prepared to deal with traditional flammable liquids," said Ed Plaugher, director of national programs for the International Association of Fire Chiefs.

The problem is that water doesn't put out ethanol fires, and the foam that has been used since the 1960s to smother ordinary gasoline blazes doesn't work well against the grain-alcohol fuel.

Wrecks involving ordinary cars and trucks are not the major concern. They carry modest amounts of fuel, and it is typically a low-concentration, 10 percent blend of ethanol and gasoline. A large amount of conventional foam can usually extinguish such fires.

Instead, the real danger involves the many tanker trucks and railcars that are rolling out of the Corn Belt with huge quantities of 85 or 95 percent ethanol and carrying it to parts of the country unaccustomed to dealing with it.

Do the idiots in Congress ever think anything through?

A Nightmare on Elm Street, Gil Smart "extremely exaggerates" Bush approval rating of 18%

According to PollingReport.com, they report that President George Bush has a much higher approval rating number than 18% - a claim made today by Lancaster Newspaper's Gil Smart. These polls come from a number of politically diverse publications.

It is very interesting that Gil never cites his source of this polling number. It is possible is comes from the American Research Group, who is known to have "some problems". It is located on 814 Elm Street Manchester, New Hampshire, hence the title of this post.

On the other hand, the approval ratings for Congress are still lower than the President's approval rating by about a double digit margin. In fact, they DID have an approval rating of 18% in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll conducted from Jan. 20 to Jan. 22, 2008.

Don't expect to see Mr. No-one-is-more-fair-and-balanced-than-a-liberal-media-blog to be publishing that fact anytime soon.

Officials: US missed intelligence, thanks Dems!

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US justice and spy departments said Saturday the failure of the Democratic-led House of Representatives to renew a wiretap law had cost the loss of intelligence information.

The Department of Justice and the office of the Director of National Intelligence said telecommunication firms had hesitated to cooperate with authorities because of uncertainty since the law elapsed a week ago.

The companies eventually agreed to continue their cooperation after talks with government officials, the Department of Justice and office of Director of National Intelligence said in a joint statement.

"We appreciate the willingness of our private partners to cooperate despite the uncertainty," the statement said.

"Unfortunately, the delay resulting from this discussion impaired our ability to cover foreign intelligence targets, which resulted in missed intelligence information," it said.

"In addition, although our private partners are cooperating for the time being, they have expressed understandable misgivings about doing so, in light of the on-going uncertainty, and have indicated that they may well discontinue cooperation if the uncertainty persists."

The House let the law expire on February 16 after it refused to rubber stamp a Senate bill that would give telecommunication companies immunity from lawsuits.

Hillary accuses Obama of using "Rove playbook"

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“Enough with the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics that are right out of Karl Rove’s play book. This is wrong and every Democrat should be outraged,” Clinton told reporters Saturday after a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio.

“So shame on you Barack Obama. It is time you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public. That’s what I expect from you. Meet me in Ohio and let’s have a debate about your tactics and your behavior in this campaign,” Clinton said. The two are set for a debate Tuesday in Cleveland.

Obama’s campaign responded quickly, issuing a statement standing by both pieces of campaign literature.

“Everything in those mailers is completely accurate, unlike the discredited attacks from Hillary Clinton’s negative campaign that have been rejected in South Carolina, Wisconsin and across America,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a prepared release.

Otherwise known as NAFTA, the agreement aimed at encouraging more trade among Mexico, the United States and Canada was signed early in Bill Clinton’s presidency but since has become a major point of criticism by labor groups concerned with the loss of U.S. jobs to foreign competitors.

One of the mailers Obama sent shows a locked fence gate, with a “Closed” sign over what ostensibly is a factory. The mailer says: “Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a ‘boon’ to our economy. See inside …”

Visibly angered, Clinton waved a copy of the mailers at the Cincinnati press conference, saying one of her supporters had just given them to her. The mailers have been in circulation for several days.

Shhhhhhh!!!! Gas prices back over $3 a gallon

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Shhh! Maybe if the liberal media doesn't mention it, no one will notice that the Democrat Congress has again failed on Howard Dean's promise.

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Retail gas prices, meanwhile, jumped 1.8 cents to a national average price of $3.032 a gallon Tuesday, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Retail prices, which typically lag the futures market, are following oil prices higher.

The Energy Department expects gas prices to peak near $3.40 a gallon this spring.

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Bill Clinton freaks out on Obama supporter

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Democrats on Homeland Security - Doh!

Just in case there was any doubt:

Intel chief: Hezbollah threat serious

The Times to cut 100 news jobs - LNP next?

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After years of resisting the newsroom cuts that have hit most of the industry, The New York Times will bow to growing financial strain and eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs this year, the executive editor said Thursday.

The cuts will be achieved “by not filling jobs that go vacant, by offering buyouts, and if necessary by layoffs,” the executive editor, Bill Keller, said. The more people who accept buyouts, he said, “the smaller the prospect of layoffs, but we should brace ourselves for the likelihood that there will be some layoffs.”

He said, “We intend to move quickly, to get any cuts past us so that we do not spend a year bleeding slowly.”

Hillary-ous

Fast Eddie jumps on race issue

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You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate.

I believe, looking at the returns in my election, that had Lynn Swann been the identical candidate that he was — well-spoken, charismatic, good-looking — but white instead of black, instead of winning by 22 points, I would have won by 17 or so," he said. "And that (attitude) exists. But on the other hand, that is counterbalanced by Obama's ability to bring new voters into the electoral pool.

- Fast Eddie

CBS news reports that Obama has taken the delegate lead

Maine Puts Topper On Obama Sweep, Obama Takes Delegate Lead With Wins In 4 States; Clinton Manager Steps Down

Pelosi, the so-called "leader" of the failed House, calls Iraq a failure

Pelosi calls Iraq and the successful surge a 'failure'

If anyone is a failure, Ms. Pelosi - it is you and your Democrat majority in Congress.

UPDATE: Reuters: Attacks in Iraq drop 80%

The Hillary Campaign Shuffle

Clinton replaces campaign chief in wake of Obama wins



Update: Hillary deputy campaign manager steps aside.

Gil's latest and not-so-greatest

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/216436

Go Green, Wreck the Environment

Study: Ethanol may add to global warming

WASHINGTON — The widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land-use changes, researchers concluded Thursday. The study challenges the rush to biofuels as a response to global warming.
The researchers said that past studies showing the benefits of ethanol in combating climate change have not taken into account almost certain changes in land use worldwide if ethanol from corn — and in the future from other feedstocks such as switchgrass — become a prized commodity.

"Using good cropland to expand biofuels will probably exacerbate global warming," concludes the study published in Science magazine.

The researchers said that farmers under economic pressure to produce biofuels will increasingly "plow up more forest or grasslands," releasing much of the carbon formerly stored in plants and soils through decomposition or fires. Globally, more grasslands and forests will be converted to growing the crops to replace the loss of grains when U.S. farmers convert land to biofuels, the study said.

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Obama claims delegate lead

Obama claims delegate lead

In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the number of delegates the candidates racked up last night.

The Obama camp now projects topping Clinton by 13 delegates, 847 to 834.

NBC News, which is projecting delegates based on the Democratic Party's complex formula, figures Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton.

Clinton was portrayed in many news accounts as the night’s big winner, but Obama’s campaign says he wound up with a higher total where it really counts — the delegates who will choose the party’s nominee at this summer’s Democratic convention.

With the delegate count still under way, NBC News said Obama appears to have won around 840 delegates in yesterday’s contests, while Clinton earned about 830 — “give or take a few,” Tim Russert, the network’s Washington bureau chief, said on the “Today” show.

Gil, International Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19

Arrrrr, avast ye scurvy dogs! We here in Lancaster County be enjoying the demon rum. It be like heaven going down and the devil coming up, matey.



Click Here to see Gil talk like a pirate.

Will Ralph Nader Run? Democrats Groan.

Democrats Groan as Nader Thinks of Running in '08

A collective groan could almost be heard echoing around the Democratic Party headquarters this week with the news that consumer champion Ralph Nader was back and considering another shot at the White House.

His name alone is enough to send even the most mild-mannered Democrats into paroxysms of rage, still smarting from their defeat in 2000 when George W. Bush won the election by beating Al Gore in Florida by just 537 votes.

Standing as a Green party candidate, Nader took some 97,000 votes in the Sunshine State, triggering outrage among Democrats who believed he had siphoned off ballots from Gore.

Vote "raider" and "spoiler" were some of the more printable names hurled at Nader by his critics.

"Political bigot," shot back Nader this week, as he launched a presidential exploratory committee to see if he can attract enough support and funds to launch his fifth bid for the White House as an independent.

"They scapegoated me," Nader told AFP in an interview. "They are congenitally unable of avoiding the scapegoat tag. Instead they should look in the mirror and ask why they lost."

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Rezko who? What?

Clinton campaign co-chair got Rezko funds

The donations could prove to be a political embarrassment for Clinton, who accused Obama in a South Carolina debate of representing Rezko "in his slum landlord business" when Obama was a young Chicago lawyer.

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