Via The Hill (h/t to ossqss) and the “your free range chickens have come home to roost” department.
The Senate voted Friday to confirm Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ushering in what are likely to be dramatic changes to the agency.
The 52-46 vote was almost along party lines. All Republicans except Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted for Pruitt, while all Democrats except Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) voted against him.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) did not vote due to a military conference he is attending in Germany. Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) also did not vote.
Pruitt’s confirmation came despite repeated pleas from Democrats to delay the vote due to ongoing litigation regarding emails that a liberal group had requested from the office of Pruitt, who is Oklahoma’s attorney general — a position he will leave when he is sworn in as EPA administrator.
Republicans said Pruitt will bring much-needed change to an agency that exemplifies eight years of executive overreach by the administration of former President Obama.
“The nominee before us … thinks it’s time for the EPA to get back to the clean air and clean water business instead, and to do so with an appreciation for the complexity of our modern world,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor.
…
Trump promised to roll back Obama’s entire climate change agenda, including the Clean Power Plan, which sets carbon dioxide limits for power plants. He also pledged to repeal the EPA’s Clean Water Rule, which asserts federal power over small waterways like ponds and streams.
Trump said any new regulations will be judged on whether they benefit workers, and he would refocus the EPA’s mission on clean air and water.
At his confirmation hearing, Pruitt promised to take seriously the EPA’s mission, but also to improve cooperation with states and regulated parties.
“Regulators are supposed to make things regular, to fairly and equitably enforce the rules and not pick winners and losers,” Pruitt told senators.
More here: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/320103-senate-confirms-pruitt-to-lead-epa
So far, I have been pleasantly suprised with Trump. I did not support him in the primaries, but so far. . .
Amazing that more people were for him, than voted for him, which is why he won the County vote, and the College of Cardinals !
Excuse me; that’s Electoral College.
g
…so even the Pope has changed his tune now?
Will miracles never cease?
Cardinals? You got the color right.
Pruitt is one person that doesn’t buy the nutcase Gore’s kool aid.
Wonderful !
The 3 best are in now – Tillerson, Pruitt and Sessions
philjourdan
I would argue that General Mattis belongs on that list and the true order in which they belong remains to be seen.
And add Dr. Ben Carson — the HUD guy. What a STRONG first and SECOND (vis a vis their agency’s importance to core gov’t. functions) string the Trump administration has!
Yay! Oh, Yay!! Oh, YAY!!!
#(:))
How America got her groove back. 🙂
Given Trump’s own statements about climate change, we might expect his cabinet nominees to follow suit. Tillerson does not. See today’s WSJ article by Kim Strassel, “DON’T WIMP OUT ON CLIMATE CHANGE”
http://www.thegwpf.com/kimberley-strassel-dont-wimp-out-on-climate/
For some time now it has been a marvel of irony that heads of industry, including Jeffrey Immelt of GE, and Rex Tillerson of Exxon, should have quaffed so lustily of the climate change Kool Aid. But it is what it is. My cynical view is that Tillerson cares not a whit about a warming environment, but is hard wired to make the most of the millions of shares of Exxon stock that he still owns in his new job.
Just a thought… perhaps he’ll want to keep the price of energy high?
Nope. He is divesting (or already has) the whole Exxon stock position. I would have no matter Sec. State. Why take the risk? Diversify.
Tillerson will be so busy fighting fires at State he’ll wonder where the nice climate went.
It is always easier to destroy a system from the inside.
He may simply want easier access the the information and people he needs to knock down the whole corrupt edifice.
“… thinks it’s time for the EPA to get back to the clean air and clean water business instead, and to do so with an appreciation for the complexity of our modern world,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor”
Perfect – I couldn’t have said it better GK
Pruitt has a large job ahead. In addition to unconstitutional Wotus and CPP, there is the bogus no linear harm model when the answer is no harm threshhold, the jiggered cost benefit sruff, field staff attitudes, and shonky EPA science. A big swamp to drain.
And there is this.
HJ 38
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement of the Department of the Interior relating to the “Stream Protection Rule” (published at 81 Fed. Reg. 93066 (December 20, 2016)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.
Coal is back!
Hooray for coal and SOON — welcome back, BIG NUCLEAR!!! 🙂
Re: the video
Hm. Well, lol, we didn’t hire the man to dance. VERY glad President Trump is great at what he was born to do: be a CEO.
Janice, if you want to see the context look up “Hotline Bling Parody – SNL” It is a short music video having fun with the way “physics teachers and dads dance.”
So now DJ T’s spot on the parody is a MAGA dance, I think because he looks like he is having fun….
AG Scott Pruitt was also among the Attorneys General who were suing to stop the internet handover:
Oklahoma AG: Why I’m suing to stop the Internet handover
By SCOTT PRUITT • 9/30/16 3:59 PM
“At midnight tonight, the United States will relinquish control over the Internet’s central functions to an internationally-run private entity called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The United States government created this foundation for the Internet in the 1980s when government agencies and contractors created the authoritative “root zone file” and domain name system, which act as the Internet’s master directory and switchboard. Those two building blocks of the Internet have remained under ultimate United States control ever since.
But now, President Obama has decided to cede this critical infrastructure to an international organization unaccountable to the American people and their Constitution. What is at stake cannot be understated. Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrument of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/oklahoma-ag-why-im-suing-to-stop-the-internet-handover/article/2603314
Don’t count your chickens yet, kids.
Never underestimate bureaucratic inertia. I predict lawsuits, insubordination, wall-to-wall press coverage of “oppressed warriors for the environment,” constant leaks to media, and general footdragging. Dragging the EPA out of climate change will be like dragging Bill Clinton out of a cheerleading camp.
Remember, the EPA already begs environmental groups to sue them, so they can be “forced” to do the things they really want to do but are prohibited from doing.
talldave2 February 17, 2017 at 1:39 pm
“Remember, the EPA already begs environmental groups to sue them, so they can be “forced” to do the things they really want to do but are prohibited from doing.”
Now here is a thought EPA gets Sue’d The fed. A.G. prosecutes the case. Both sides call Climate Scientists as witlessnese’s, Then each side tears apart the other sides witness. Imagine certain individuals having to explain their ahem, work in court. With the subsequent Climategate E-mails entered during “Cross”
I would need to buy more popcorn for my popper.
michael
All it would take is one memo to all employee’s, your fired! Swamp is then drained.
Unfortunately, it also only takes one federal judge to issue a stay.
They do NOT have to be fired – simply transfer them to somewhere where they are really needed: I suggest a new office building somewhere N of Fairbanks AK. It’s nice and warm in the summer there! Hard for a judge to argue with a transfer – but it is probable that wives and families do NOT want to leave the Washington power base – OH WELL! can’t have everything.
As I mentioned earlier, a RIF action could also accomplish the same thing – simply eliminate all positions created within the last 10 years. Another thing about RIF is that people with more seniority can bump people with less seniority out of their jobs. And since Obama’s people are the lowest on the totem pole with seniority they would be the first to go.
Seriously folks, every week we’re going to get fawning coverage of people who are desperately trying to save the world from Trump. Including in the judiciary.
I think the first thing Pruitt should do is to ask for the dataset inventory and the backup status of them and all servers, including existing policies, procedures, backup architecture, offsite storage, etc… oh, and compliance reports. All that is relevant to the Intellectual Property of the USA.
All new cabinet secretaries should be doing that. The data preservation standards and cyber security demonstrated by the previous administration were horrid.
TB2, a war is never fought on one front or in one way. Gorsuch is an important SCOTUS front. Eliminating the FOIA subversion is a front. Whistleblowers is a front. Congressional revision of CAA is a front. Rooting out proven EPA-NGO illicit back channels and firing the responsible civil servants is a front. Much to do. Pruitt is up to it as a former AG.
That’s why it’s important not to hoist a Mission Accomplished banner at the end of major combat operations, even if it make perfect sense in proper context.
Occupying EPA will be considerably more fraught than decapitating the regime or Pruitt’s thunder run through the Senate. Hard days are ahead — unfounded PR disasters will abound, new and more destructive tactics will be employed against us, and many of the occupied will never accept democratic rule.
There will be numerous self-inflicted wounds too is my guess.
“There will be numerous self-inflicted wounds too is my guess.”
And McClod’s life of self-inflicted wounds flashes in front of him.
And yet he continues it with his every post.
Who is paying you to play the moronic fool, McClod?
No-one can be a brain-dead as you display yourself.. !!
“That’s why it’s important not to hoist a Mission Accomplished banner at the end of major combat operations, even if it make perfect sense in proper context.”
And you can always count on the MSM to take things out of context when a Republican president is involved. That whole “Mission Accomplished” character assasination of George W. Bush was just another example of Fake News.
Unfortunately, it was, and is, very good propaganda. As soon as I saw the banner that day, I knew what the MSM was going to do: Hit Bush over the head with it, even though it was a celebration of the USS Abraham Lincoln’s “Mission Accomplised”, not a celebration of the end of the Iraq war, which is how the MSM characterized it, in an effort to make Bush look silly and disconected from reality.
Was it Frank Gifford who would end up the monday night football game with the following song, ‘Turn out the lights, the parties over’. I guess the parties finally over!
That was Don Meredith.
Meridith singing to Howard Cosell
Better than the other way around.
Pruett will make America greener by adding more CO2.
…we can celebrate that as a token of success.
Matt McGrath, BBC environment correspondent
“;Mr. Pruitt is perhaps the most controversial appointment in the history of the
EPA – the Oklahoma attorney general has spent years fighting the role and
reach of the organisation he now heads.”
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
When attorneys file briefs and suits for clients, it’s not really a “fight” the attorney
has invested any personal interest in. A state Attorney General is there to
represent the legal and economic interests of THE STATE.
Familiarity of the subject at hand, the court and administrative precedents, and
flaws in the opponent’s procedures and documentation give the attorney and
staff expertise in successfully challenging an opposing side’s position on whatever
the proposition might be before the courts.
Professional interest and experience do not necessarily indicate a personal
view on the part of the attorney.
It’s a logical error to conflate the views of Scott Pruitt the person with the
actions of Scott Pruitt, the former Attorney General of Oklahoma. The error
is compounded by extrapolating what Mr. Pruitt was doing in Oklahoma with
what he MIGHT do as the Administrator of the EPA.
There might not be a lot of flying fur a feathers for a while.
Meanwhile, please pass the popcorn.
Full story from the Balanced/Biased* (*delete as appropriate) Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39010374
A few of the homogenisers can go back to working with milk.
I wouldn’t trust that milk.
It has probably been overheated.
If Trump and Pruett do what it appears they are going to do,
then I’m thinking maybe we should keep the EPA.
Maybe.
I think the new mission statement says (for legal purposes): Every Person is Accountable.
YeeeeeeOOOOOOWWWWW! 🙂
Me, too!
Time for
***Dancin’ in the Street***
(youtube — Van Halen)
Then, when you’ve danced your feet off, just sit down on the back porch steps with an ice cold lemonade and listen to some
***Struttin’ with Barbecue“!***
(youtube)
… and smile and smile and SMILE.
#(:))
GO, SCOTT PRUITT!
America is behind you.
And, once again…… some JERK won’t let anyone view their video unless we go to youtube.
Okay. Here’s the same fun music, but, 🙁 no cute dramatics to go with it.
“Struttin’ with Some Barbecue” — Louis Armstrong
(youtube)
That was a pretty low-energy “Dancin’ in the Street,” Janice.
Well I’ve just been called to run to Canada and I’m liking the forecast. Depart Sunday morning with a load bound for Owen Sound, ON. The normal route up goes up Hwy 21 that runs right along the east coast of Lake Huron and last winter that road was closed a good bit of the time due to snow and wind. If this is global warming, I’ll take it since the forecast up there is for temps to stay well above freezing. Called in and requested a border crossing at the Bluewater bridge that crosses between Port Huron, MI and Sarnia, ON. That border crossing is less congested and busy than the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor and in fact going over there makes the route shorter with a lot less traffic to deal with even though it will be a Sunday.
This will be my first trip to Canada this year and in fact since last Spring. That hiatus hasn’t bothered me one bit. But this a load coming out of Mexico that is hot. Being brought up to the Anderson, IN terminal by a team from Laredo and I take it on up from there.
Pruitt is set to be sworn in at 5 p.m.
Or in about ten minutes (-:
There is joy in Wattsville this day.
Good advise for everyone from the Ace of Spades HQ blog concerning fake news:
“February 17, 2017
Today’s #FakeNews Freakout: OMG, Trump is Calling Out the National Guard to Round-Up Illegals!!!
—Ace
Or not. Maybe just a provisional early draft memo — not even from the White House — included a provision that states could call upon the National Guards for specific duty on the border, you know, like Obama himself did a few years ago when the Unattended Child Illegal Immigrant thing was getting some (minor) attention from the media and he needed to pretend to be doing something about it.
Fucking embarrassing.
They have a new strategy, by the way. Sometimes, as with the NYT Flynn transcripts story, they write a scarifying headline, but then, in the body of the piece, they admit there’s no there there.
But they rely on the headline to convey the opposite impression — and they rely on the Blue Checkmark Mafia to retweet the shit out of headline only, with the implication our explicit claim that the article says what it simply does not say.
The other thing they do, obviously, as the AP did here, is straight-up lie. But that’s not a new tactic for this crew.
Always read the article or the original documents. Getting freaked out? Is their viral hysteria infecting you?
Put aside the false claims and primal yelps they’re making on social media and go to the original article — or, when they deign to supply it, the original document they’re blatantly misrepresenting.
You can insulate yourself from hysteria in that way — don’t buy into their second-hand telephone-game-of-hysterics method of reporting. Go the source, and walk way with an eased temper.
I said a briefer version of this on Twitter to these people:
Dear Media,
We all watched you in tears on election night, on our TVs.
We saw your crying. There’s no denying it.
And there’s no coming back from that.
Anyone who cries like a baby while on television over the election results cannot claim to be able to put aside his deep emotional reaction and behave professionally and detachedly in the months to follow.
So:
We know what you are. We’ve always known what you were, but seeing the hysterical tears flow was proof to the rest of the world who suspected but did not know.
And we’ll never believe a word you say again.
Go fuck yourselves dead,
The People Who Used to Watch You On TV”
In the past few days they’ve gone from Fake News to Very Fake News. I know, because President Trump said it.
Rah. I used to watch them just to see what kind of lies they were telling but I couldn’t stand it anymore so I quit watching about a month ago. I was starting to feel better by just watching fox news but now they are showing the lies that the propaganda news are saying. Now I am spending much more time on WUWT.
” I used to watch them just to see what kind of lies they were telling but I couldn’t stand it anymore so I quit watching about a month ago. I was starting to feel better by just watching fox news but now they are showing the lies that the propaganda news are saying. Now I am spending much more time on WUWT.”
Don’t watch the Leftwing Media, James, unless you want a headache. They are completely deranged over Trump and their loss of power and influence. It’s depressing to listen to their bizarre thought processes.
As for Fox, one of the problems with Fox is, it is the New York Times and other Leftwing news outlets that establish the daily narrative in the news business, so Fox is obliged to cover those subjects, whether they are worthy or not, because the rest of the MSM cover them.
There is also the new problem at Fox of a number of never-Trump reporters who don’t give Trump any more of a break than do the Leftwing news people. And some like Shepard Smith are diehard lefties, so don’t expect a fair accessment of the situation from him, or Quan Williams.
What I do is, if I don’t like the tone of a Fox reporter, I change the channel and watch true crime stories, or the science channel.
I stopped watching Megyn Kelly after she attacked Trump, and lo and behold, Kelly is no longer on Fox. Maybe changing the channel works. After all, they can see when people tuned out and they can see what’s going on at that particular time on their network, so maybe they put two and two together. Let’s hope so. Krauthammer might be on thin ice were that the case. 🙂
Tune them out if they are lying about Trump.
And the movie actors ought to pay attention to the tune-out.
I used to love to watch Jackie Chan movies. Until the day I heard him say some really harsh, bad things about the United States, the nation that gave him every opportunity there was to make a success of himself. Since then, I won’t watch a Jackie Chan movie because I can’t get past his political views and to enjoy a movie one has to suspend reality a little, which is impossible when I recall what he said. When I see him now, all I see is that nasty diatribe he uttered against the U.S.
Jackie Chan isn’t the only one on my list either, it’s a long list, and getting longer.
My favorite actor, Dewayne “The Rock” Johnson is treading on thin ground with some of his comments. I would sure hate to never be able to enjoy another one of his movies because of his political views. He hasn’t said enough yet to turn me off, but he’s real close (a complaint about Under Armor’s CEO endorsing Trump). Stick to acting, Rock. You really are good at it. You are lousy at politics, as are most of your fellow actors.
After an interlude in Springfield with Krusty as director the IPA is returning to the real world.
I hope everyone is right about Pruit. His talk is in the right place but I want to see him walk the walk. Tillerson’s corporate talk was all in the wrong place so we need to hope he does not walk that talk. Bottom line, though, the Trumpster seems to be still walking the same as he talks and if anything is attempted that would make him look like he is going back on his promises I feel he’ll take care of it. Hopefully.
HEADLINE:
Church of Global Warming, Meet Martin Luther
97% of Roman Catholics agreed that Martin Luther was a denier of church doctrine after he posted his 95 theses.
And 98 per cent of the Reformed Christians still believe today that the Catholic Church is responsible for divide the Church in the Middle Ages. The perspectives are so different. An old Chinese proverb says: There are three sides from each case, each thing. One that you see, one that I see, and a side which we neither see.
Church of Global Warming, Meet Martin Luther
Good one!
Great news!!
The massive clean up of the completely out of control and the most politically driven junk science organization in history of U.S. government can now commence.
It will be a joy to watch the systematic dismantling of Obama’s EPA nightmare organization.
Big Carbon shill and Baptist Church deacon in charge of a science department – that’s making me at least shake my head. Only in America. Does he “believe” in evolution at least? Or is he more in the camp of his close allies who say: “Cataclysmic climate change can’t exist, the group says, because God’s intelligent design is flawless, and would not allow it to happen.”
Please keep your anti-science to yourselves.
Don’t worry guys the dark ages didn’t last that long, well 800 years but whose counting.
Tony,
That’s a vintage fine whine you’re serving.
Too bad it’s made with sour grapes.
Sour gripes.
========
Yo, tony–there’s probably more “science” in this bunch of commenters than exists at the EPA.
And for someone who’s so obsessed with the environment, what happened to Western Civilization in Great Britain?
There’s something like 28 Sharia courts there now, and none give a damn about the environment or your rights as a subject (except to Allah, or off with your head).
You’ve been so focused with your holier-than-thou attitude regarding your erst-while vassal you failed to look behind you.
Have you learned “God is Great” in Arabic yet? You should–it could save your life someday.
“RockyRoad February 17, 2017 at 3:43 pm
And for someone who’s so obsessed with the environment, what happened to Western Civilization in Great Britain?”
He lives in Queensland, Australia, the state where people fear day light savings because they believe it turns cows milk sour.
Western civilisation is alive and well in the UK which remains distinctly un-islamicized.
No sharia round here!
“No sharia round here!”
Lying again, Grifter?
There are currently over 80 Sharia courts practising in the UK, and increasing continuously.
tony mcleod February 17, 2017 at 2:32 pm
“Cataclysmic climate change can’t exist, the group says, because God’s intelligent design is flawless, and would not allow it to happen.”
Please keep your anti-science to yourselves.
What drugs are you taking to spew crap like that? Were you born stupid or do you take a pill in the morning?
You only supposed to use that line on the uncommitted or uninformed. In logic, it is called “poisoning the well”. When you try to use it against the educated and knowledgeable of the opposition you reveal yourself to be incompetent and unimaginative, go back to your programmers, you nitwit, you are a disgrace and an embarrassment to them.
michael
R.S. Brown I’ll pay that one.
RockyRoad – I think you’ll find there are no Sharia Courts in the UK. I don’t live there so you might just want to google it like I did. Are you saying your fundamentalism is better than their’s?
Geez Mike why don’t say what you really mean? I understand Mike Pence and Dr. Ben Carson both think the earth is 6000yo just wondering what kind of nutty misconception Pruit is under given his fundamentalist background
I think you’ll find there are no Sharia Courts in the UK
You are correct. There are no Sharia courts in UK. Instead, there are Sharia Tribunals They are a civil arbitrage courts, whose ruling is fully enforceable by UK court system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Arbitration_Tribunal
tony mcleod:
If you didn’t find “Sharia Courts in Great Britain” in Google, it’s because you ignored the results.
I typed “Sharia Courts in Britain” in YouTube and here’s just the first page of videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl8paJ1XssU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IICjsnAQVRc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_zi-Ww7JUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfX4D0Drr8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2VkIu8TL_I
Click on any of these and you’ll find there are Muslim Patrols, Muslim Councils, and Tribunals. And there are many more such videos.
Britain is a major source of providing leadership to ISIS, as this video indicates:
As far as my “fundamentalism” goes, I support the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. You know… “of the people, by the people, for the people.”
So you can keep your “Muslim fundamentalism” which is equivalent to “Islamic Terrorism”, tony. I do believe Western Civilization is far superior to Muslim Civilization, which hasn’t progressed much since it was founded.
You’ve proven yourself to someone who has no moral basis, asserting my fundamentalism is somehow equivalent to bloody Muslim terrorism that has a long, sordid history of using that terrorism to subjugate its own people and their neighbors.
Indeed, one of Islam’s tenants justifies lying to further their objectives, tony.
But your most nefarious point is to accuse those of us who don’t bow to the “climate change” borg of being anti-science. Nothing could be further from the truth (as if you cared at all about the truth).
So let’s start with a comparison: What is your CV? What are your scientific credentials, specifically?
I have a college degree in geology and a graduate degree also. I have a college degree in mining engineering and a graduate degree also.
Being both scientist and engineer has many advantages, but what are yours?
You call people names, impugn their character and belittle their assertions.
I believe the future is not yours. You haven’t demonstrated that you are an honest scientist; you can’t even do basic research.
tony mcleod February 17, 2017 at 6:31 pm
“just wondering what kind of nutty misconception Pruit is under given his fundamentalist background”
“just wondering” and from just wondering, you make a bigoted statement “Please keep your anti-science to yourselves.” “So If your just wondering” you don’t know what he believes. So your anti-science statement is brainless bigotry. You know about as much on American religion as you do of Science. You used the term “Fundamentalist” do you understand the meaning? He is a “Baptist” and you say a “deacon”, do you have a clue what a deacon is in his (Pruit’s) church? What functions they preform? If you don’t then why are you bringing it up as a negative?
As I said your entire comment is unintelligent bigotry. Mr Pruit’s religion has not been an issue in the past. And if you had bothered to use the intellect you believe you possess, you would know that the subgroup you are referring to are called “Creationalists”.
And no I am not a Baptist or a Fundamentalist.
Try to turn on brain before operating keyboard.
michael
Geez Rocky, you really have a thing about Islam don’t you. I’m so glad I could help lance that boil.
You should get to know a few, there actually really nice people. I’m not one BTW.
When I use the phrase “Only in America”, it’s actually not an insult. More a bemused smile and a shake of the head. Other non-US readers will understand. Stop taking it personally.
There are plenty of good things to come out of America, but military adventurism, exceptionalism and intelligent design are not amongst them. The US is not above criticism.
“Geez Rocky, you really have a thing about Islam don’t you.
So does anyone with any sense who has had experience of it in the Northern England cities such as Bradford and Oldham.
As to getting to know a few, I’ve lived around them for the past half-century since going to university in Bradford in the 1960s, so I suspect I know vastly more than your “few”.
Tell us, McClod, does ‘Rotherham’ mean anything to you?
Or – slightly closer to your home, how about Cronulla Beach? S client of mine – an airline pilot as it happens – told me some very disturbing tales about the activities of the Lebanese there.
Lying again, Mcclod? No change there then.
There are over 80 Sharia courts in the UK, and their treatment of women has become a national scandal.
Sharia courts in UK face Government inquiry over treatment of women
The Government is to launch an investigation into whether sharia courts operating in the UK discriminate against women – legitimising forced marriages and issuing unfair divorce settlements.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sharia-courts-in-uk-face-government-probe-over-treatment-of-women-a7049826.html
Just because you do not “live” there, does not mean you cannot learn about it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358625/Inside-Britain-s-Sharia-courts-EIGHTY-FIVE-Islamic-courts-dispensing-justice-UK-special-investigation-really-goes-doors-shock-core.html
Your learning leaves a lot to be desired.
America. A nation founded by God-fearing, Scripture-honoring people,
such as this man:
(youtube — George Washington scene, “American Carol”)
800 years is a long time. Eternity is longer. Kingdoms, empires, states, such massive, important, things, and yet, your soul matters more than all of them put together. Your soul will live forever. You, however, do not have forever to decide where you will spend eternity. With every tick of the clock, you are closer to the end of the line for Tony M.. The train to Hell (which, given your remarks, appears to be the one you are on) is hurtling down the tracks. Once in awhile, it pulls into a station. There, you have a chance to get off and get on the train across the platform, the one going in the opposite direction.
You are at such a station right now.
Will you sneer and bluster and toss the gospel tract offered you into the garbage? Or, will you read it and really think about what it says? Think, Mr. McL, think! This may be the last station your train will ever stop at. The devil up in the engine calls out, “Wait awhile, Tony. You’ve got years left …..”
In case you want to know what that little tract said, here it is:
For God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever believes in him
should not perish
but have everlasting life.
John 3:16.
If you confess with your mouth,
“Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
Please note: many people who believe what that little tract says will also say that they do not know how old the geology of the earth is, for many of them, it is simply “not proven.” Thus, your citing the fact that Mr. Pruitt is a Baptist is irrelevant.
I’m glad you made that mistake, though — for it gave me the opportunity to write this reply in the good old Baptist evangelical tradition!
Your future (I’m going to be praying!) sister in the Lord,
Janice
#(:))
Will you sneer and bluster and toss the gospel tract offered you into the garbage?
No of course not. I do appreciate your genuine concern for my well-being. It’s quite touching. Especially given that we have had our share of, er, disagreements. I respect your POV and your faith Janice.
At times I am probably guilty of the “sneer”, something we all need to monitor. Not alone.
I will disagree with you as to whether my salvation can be linked to my opinions on AGW. I’m sure there are plenty of devout and pious christians who share my pov. I don’t know if it helpful linking what is a material question with the spritual. Afterall the Truth (in my experience) is a pathless land. Each individual needs to find there own inner, quiet Truth.
I also reserve the right to question the suitability and qualifications of anyone being appointed to powerful position. I’m not in your country, but these kind of positions have wide spheres of influence.
Again, I do want to sincerely thank you for your generous concern. Tony
“tony mcleod February 17, 2017 at 8:59 pm
I also reserve the right to question the suitability and qualifications of anyone being appointed to powerful position. I’m not in your country, but these kind of positions have wide spheres of influence.”
But you didn’t question those appointees previously appointed by Obama, why is that? Might it be because you and they held similar opinions about AGW, ie, BIASED?
“But you didn’t question those appointees previously appointed by Obama, why is that?”
They were “Progressives”, so to the likes of McClod and his nasty, pig-ignorant, condescending ilk, they can do no wrong, of course.
tone tone,
“Or is he more in the camp of his close allies who say: “Cataclysmic climate change can’t exist, the group says, because God’s intelligent design is flawless, and would not allow it to happen.” ”
Strange way to put it, cataclysmic climate change . . but the God of a certain Book I’m somewhat familiar with, most certainly “allows” cataclysmic climate change . . You sure that wasn’t just some sorta fake news propaganda line? ; )
Classic off topic rambling…..
The real work of regulatory reform will proceed with determination and hopefully a few criminal investigations of the agency and its recent methods.
News regarding intermittent generation.
https://www.rtoinsider.com/ferc-pjm-capacity-performance-38785/
Thanks,
Anyone living in PJM grid area should be concerned about the issue you mentioned.
This bill will give Pruitt the power to eliminate the EPA.
115th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 958
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 7, 2017
Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To eliminate certain programs of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.
Do not rejoice too fast…
https://www.rt.com/usa/377745-pruitt-energy-records-emails/
“An Oklahoma judge has ordered Scott Pruitt, the state’s attorney general, to release emails related to his dealings with energy companies. On Friday, the Senate voted to confirm Pruitt’s nomination to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency.
State Judge Aletia Haynes Timmons, of the District Court in Oklahoma County, said Thursday that Pruitt’s office must turn over thousands of emails related to communications with fossil fuel interests that are not exempt by Oklahoma records law.
The order is a response to records requests filed by the Center for Media and Democracy that date back to January 2015; those records must be relinquished by February 21, Timmons ruled. Other requests made by the watchdog group later in 2015 and 2016 must be handed over within 10 days, The Oklahoman reported.”
Yawn. He’s already been sworn in. He’s got an agency to dismantle.
I wonder what will happen when it becomes more widely known that burning fossil fuels has no significant effect on climate.
The level of obstruction practiced by the Marxist/Socialist Progressives this past month has been unprecedented.
Yet President Trump has gotten more done to benefit American workers in 3 weeks than Obama did in 8 years.
Even Richard Trumpka, president of the AFL-CIO, publicly supports President Trump’s pick for Labor Secretary.
If the Marxist/Socialist Progressive Democrats lose the labor unions, they’ll be destroyed in the 2020 elections.
They already lost a significant portion of the union membership. If they hadn’t Trump wouldn’t have won. In reality what has happened is as the party has shifted ever further left the Democrats abandoned the working man for a base of victimhood fostered on the identity politics of race, gender, sexual preference, nationality (illegal immigration), and abortion, all supported by academia. As much as I wish Trump had won strictly on his own merits and platform the reality is that the democrats have been self destructing for some time as demonstrated by their continued losses of elected positions in all levels of government over the last years. Now, instead of the introspection one would expect after such losses they are doubling down on their new tactics. Witness the real nuts that they give voice to for the DNC leadership and the demonstrations.
The fact is this is quite different than what we have seen before and most of us regular joes find it despicable. And the press, still in the their bubble and blissfully ignorant or in denial of these fundamental changes, continues to believe that it’s going to be democrat support business as usual but they’re wrong and their ratings are showing it.
Trump is a pin in the media inflated opinion of it’s self and it’s belief that somehow their 1st amendment right is superior to everyone else’s. It is way past time for them to be asked why they as nothing more than employees of large media corporations should feel their job performance is above question by elected representatives of the people. Exactly where do they think they got that legal or moral power to be above reproach and not be questioned from? Why they feel they are above having their character questioned?
TomRude February 17, 2017 at 2:41 pm
“State Judge Aletia Haynes Timmons, of the District Court in Oklahoma County, said Thursday that Pruitt’s office must turn over thousands of emails related to communications with fossil fuel interests that are not exempt by Oklahoma records law.”
Well that is not Pruitt’s problem any more, it is the problem for the person taking over.
Pruitt’s replacement’s first day…..
Yup now where are they, What they are on a computer? which one. How do you turn this blasted thing on?
Help! NOW what are you tell me “aid”, to check Hillary’s Server….
And the AGs for climate kooks and paranoid witch hunts have refused to release their emails about conspiring to frame innocent companies for fun and profit..
I hope Pruitt tells the judge to stick it.