All for the love of Gaia

It’s for the children and the planet of course, you know.
Climate change is very dangerous; time is important according to the California Senatorial Dog & Pony show.
One of the star performers just displayed the urgency of the Eco-idiots position.

Desert Vistas vs. Solar Power
AMBOY, Calif. — Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to [...]

For McKibben and the Kool-Aid drinkers

For those of you that missed the next to the “Greatest Show on Gaia”, here’s another reason for the Azalea to get out the hankie.

Wow, no goals scored with that hockey stick unless sticking in someone’s  ear counts.
This just in: in third period play in Copenhagen, it’s Skeptics 5, Frauds 2
Lets [...]

Lets do the Shummy shuffle

This should prove to be a very interesting problem to solve.
Rutland residents are remiss in paying their property taxes, probably due to the economy.
Shifting the property tax burden to the income tax somehow doesn’t seem to be a solution, since unemployment appears to be the culprit.

Delinquent Taxes Up 20 Percent In Vermont City
$600,000 Due To [...]

Your tax dollars at work

The Progressive plan and solution is here.

Vermont’s statewide property tax is expected to go up next year.
If the statewide levy goes up as expected, it would be the first time since the statewide portion of the property tax system was created in 1997 that it has done so. [snip]

We have fewer students attending therefore we [...]

This is for the children too

Vermont’s newest office, the Progressive Office for Sustainability, declared that all of the increase will go toward Whirligigs and rooftop hotplates. Oh yeah, and subsidies too.

Vt’s Largest Electric Utility Seeks To Raise Rates
CVPS Wants 5.9 Percent Rate Hike
RUTLAND, Vt. — Vermont’s largest electric utility is asking for permission to raise its rates by 5.91 percent.
Central [...]

Help from strange places

This Senator will save the US from a sure fiscal collapse; the government take over of more private sector economy which, thanks to LBJ, has cost the consumer and is bankrupting health care.
HE’S CERTAINLY DOING MORE THAN VERMONT’S PAIR OF INEPT BOZOS!
Sometimes you have to like a man’s spine!

Joe Lieberman: I’ll block vote on Harry [...]

Uncivil Engineering

All photos by J. Kirk Edwards-courtesy of the Eagle newspaper, Addison County- All rights reserved
I thank Mr. Edwards for sending these photos of the Crown Point (Champlain) Bridge to me and graciously allowing their use.

The ominous heavy flapping of gallinaceous wings bodes ill for the remnants of Vermont taxpayers.

Scrawny starved AOT chickens coming to [...]

A matter of scale

Over at the Vermont Tiger there’s a bit of discussion ongoing about wind turbines, measurements and such with the usual words tossed around without meaning. Perhaps this posting will knot some knickers, one can only hope.
One individual, self titled “The Gooch” who has a more than passing grasp of he terminology; he used the slip [...]

Of BIG interest to Vermont!

I feel safe here in Vermont knowing our fiscal leaders, like Sens. Ancel, Bartlett and Ayer have a solid grip on reality.
Of course they do, that’s why Vermont’s shortfall isn’t $300,000,000.00 and growing.
We’re so lucky to have them!

New Mexico faces Medicaid Cuts!
Nearly one-in-four New Mexicans receives health care assistance from the state or federal government, [...]

FedEx and the Post Office

Now here is a point of comparison to good to resist!

If the Post Office took over FedEx and UPS, this is how it would look!

Shades of Catamount Health Care, How’d that work out for ya?