Progressives

Cross-posted from The Progressive Pulse

If Paul Krugman is right and passing health care legislation should be the number one priority of Progressives, then this is welcome news.

{Crossposted from the new Scrutiny Hooligans site}

The Woodfin Board of Adjustment denied Progress Energy the conditional use permit to build their diesel-fired power plant. While Progress Energy can appeal the Board's decision through the Court of Appeals, this unnecessary, ill-conceived, sneakily planned power plant is kaput.

Give yourselves a hand.

From the AC-T: "A town board early this morning voted down a proposal by Progress Energy to build a $72 million power plant in Woodfin.

Now and then I get a real wedgie over how my Congressman, Mike McIntyre, votes on issues I think are important. I decided to look into his voting record and try to compare his stance on issues as opposed to, for example, Watt, Price and Miller....who generally vote the way I think.

Long story short, it's not that simple. If one googles "Congressional Voting Records," up comes an interesting array of organizations all anxious to tell how individuals voted on their issues. Public Citizen, American Association of University Women, various unions, retired citizens...and just about every group one can think of tracks and measures votes on issues these organizations feel are critical to their interests.   More below the fold...

Yesterday while holding my nose and taking a dip in the scum pool at Ann Coulter(giest's - hat tip to A) website, I saw this rant that she wrote that has been picked up and spread by her followers. LET THEM EAT TOFU! A few weeks ago in our local newspaper, someone wrote a lte that there was no Global Warming, it's just a liberal scare tactic being promoted by Al Gore. So I wrote this article and posted it on my blog. This morning's cartoon by Stormbear and the following comments helped make my decision to post it here.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency has a whole section dedicated to Climate Change. Under “State of Knowledge” they have three categories; What’s Known/What’s Likely/What’s Not Certain. (In Summary)