Posted by Tina
The one guiding principle that often describes a Democrat in power is that bending the rules to further an agenda is okay. The President’s current desire to favor alternative energy and force coal out of the market is no exception. It does not matter that his policies will drive energy costs up for Americans dependent on coal (Coal provides 40% of electricity in US) to heat and cool their homes and businesses. It does not even matter that one of the liberal priorities, harsh penalties for killing endangered species, is honored. Decades of overly cautious, oppressive and restrictive EPA regulations have created headaches for many Americans and American business owners so the decision by Fish and Game to hold Wind Farm companies in Southern California to a different, less restrictive standard is not just unair, it is unjust. Read it and weep:
In a reversal that has outraged environmentalists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced it will not penalize a Southern California wind operator if its turbines kill or injure one California condor. One of the world’s most critically endangered animals with fewer than 250 birds in the wild, the condor’s range in the Tehachapi Mountains is being encroached on by intensive wind turbine development.
One study, ifeven mildly accurate, describes the devistation to wildlife in CA:
the numbers the authors estimate for wildlife losses to newer, taller turbines are sobering. The study estimates that California’s 13,851 monopole wind turbines (at the time of the study), which have a capacity of 5,796 megawatts of power output, kill between 56,095 and 161,335 birds each year — with a mean figure of 108,715. That works out to an average of 7.85 annual wildlife kills per turbine (with those lower and upper estimates ranging from 4.05 to 11.65) and 18.76 annual deaths per megawatt of capacity (lower and upper estimates of 9.68 and 27.84, respectively).
Those figures are even more striking when the study puts them into a national context. California was one of four regions the authors designated for number crunching purposes, along with the East, the West (excluding California) and the Great Plains. Looking strictly at the mean figures provided, California monopole turbines’ 108,715 estimated yearly wildlife kills are 46 percent of the 234,012 estimated for the nation as a whole, despite the fact that California’s turbines make up only about a tenth of the country’s wind generating capacity.
On a deaths-per-megawatt basis, California really stands out with a mean of 18.76 annual deaths per megawatt compared to 3.86 for the eastern region, 2.83 for the west, and 1.81 for the Great Plains. California’s annual deaths per megawatt is so high that it pushes the national average above any of the three other regions, at 4.12 estimated annual bird deaths per megawatt of generating capacity.
So, we are subsidizing an energy alternative that only generates a very small fraction of the nations energy demand while excusing it from laws that others are forced to meet and just for laughs in California we are also putting farmers in the Central Valley out of business while redirecting water in order to save a small fish in the delta.
Bending the rules for the Democrat agenda is the name of the game…political expedience is the purpose behind the rule bending.
Reminder: The one thing that has been unique about America is the notion of equal justice under the law. We are fast losing that constitutional guarantee when some are subject to harsh penalties and other are not for the same infraction.
Here’s an idea. Lets elect people who will serve all Americans.
Lets elect people who see the job as making decisions that will benefit all Americans and that will order the bureaucracy to treat all Americans as equals under the laws of the land. Lets elect people who put the good of the country above their personal, political, or ideology preferences.
Adding insult to the injury already being done by the failings of the administration and it’s federal bureaucracy FOX News reports that the EPA is spending $1.6 Million for an “Environmental Justice” conference:
Question is…justice for whom and at what cost to America?
Can anyone here explain why a new refrigerant chemical is being pushed and pursued by EPA through the nations SNAP program?
Obomunist is making our energy more expensive and this will be a major factor in keeping American living standards falling. We have a growing and permanent underclass due to the damage his ilk has done to the economy.
But it’s not just at the national level. Look at what these DemoNcrats have done in Sucramento.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/09/6465218/dan-walters-senate-passes-bill.html
Of course the LA Demoncrats exempted their utilities and stuck it to everyone else. Due you need any more examples of why we must split the state?
And here is a good article on the Obomunist.
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/jack-lew-and-obama-are-just-outright-embarrassing/
There are over 68.5 million working age Americans out of work.
On a population adjusted basis, the numbers look horrific…Here’s the harsh reality: 17 million more working-age native US citizens were not working in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/06/100-of-employment-growth-since-2000.html
Imagine how horrific the numbers will look when the debt bubble collapses.
In general and by default, I am supportive of police. They have a difficult, sometimes life threatening job to do and it takes courage, skill, dedication, and rigorous and continual training to become a cool headed professional and maintain that level of professionalism.
Then I read something very disturbing like this —
Barney Fife Meets Delta Force
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381446/barney-fife-meets-delta-force-charles-c-w-cooke
What do you think, Jack? Any comments?
I’m with you Pie. This is troubling and I’d like to hear what Jack thinks.
Of course we haven’t been told what was going on in those 145,000 per year homes; we are only told about the baby in a coma. If the police are facing entering homes where the occupants are basically like a military…
Why do I suspect this is about money…finding ways for the federal government to make money from the sale of the vehicles and equipment?
http://freebeacon.com/blog/obama-celebrates-independence-day-by-murdering-bald-eagles/
Re #4 Crazy bob : So, of course, we need a steady stream of illegal aliens to maintain a workforce.