Tropical storm and hurricane season came early this year. My family is in Englewood, Florida thiis week and there is no sunny beach. As shown in the picture, the sun tries to peek through but it isn’t having much luck.
If you go to Florida in the summer or early fall, you risk a hurricane. There is no avoiding it. Outer Banks? Same risk. It just isn’t as far. Does anyone have a favorite hurricane story? I do but ……
Hurricane Agnes – 1972: was living in Jacksonville NC (20 miles inland from the coast) when Agnes stalled a bit over Eastern NC rebuilding from a tropical depression to tropical storm.
As the eye moved over our area, my Dad jumped up…backed the stationwagon out of the garage, and proceeded real quick to wash down both of the cars in the driveway. When asked why, he said when the rains return, they’ll rinse off the cars. We kids thought he was nuts! LOL!
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/clerk-loses-job-over-stand/article_87627ed5-5d4e-5ff0-a781-f14deb034771.html
Clerk loses job over stand
Won’t take welfare card for cigarettes
What did the boss say? Much as I agree with him in sentiment, when you work for someone, you do what they tell you to do. If you don’t like it, quit.
@marin
The sad thing is that if some Representative or Senator wanted to tweak the law to prevent purchase of alcohol, cigarettes or gambling, he/she would be accused of trying to do away with a safety net for the poor.
That is how bad things are nowadays!
Clinton, those things are tweaked all the time. Alcohol is probably tweaked the least but even that is tweaked if someone wants it tweaked.
I just dont think politicians should be making that determination.
I do think it is perfectly within the govt’s rights to say no booze or cigs on food stamps. I would hope that is the rule. They already don’t allow a lot of sales at happy hour or discounts on alcohol if you guy groupon or get comped for meals.
Think I might have to stay in for the next few days until the heat wave breaks. I sure enjoyed today though.
@Moon-howler
Moon, the thing about the EBT Card is it varies from State to State….some strickly use it for Food Programs (WIC, SNAP, Farmers Market) and others expand out to any benefit program. If Food Program, no alchohol or tobacoo of any form. If others, depends…
I noticed in the article it is New Hampshire, and they use the cash card for other programs such as Old Age Assistance. Since those other programs are not as restrictive as Food, then the card should have been checked to see which program it was funded by. New Hampshire’s Old Age Assistance programs pays for just about anything in retail world.
Asking the taxpayers to pay for someone’s drinking, cig or gambling habit is a tall oerder. I would stampede City Hall over that one.
No wonder people are resentful.
Rand Paul is holding up a Flood Insurance bill because he insists on
adding a “Fetal Personhood Amendment”.
Makes sense????????????
Just saw Romney at a rally in Sterling. Really laid it on.
Did you talk to him, Punchak?
Did he lay it on or did you? LOL
Was our friend with the gigundo dog there?
re cigarettes on welfare money – the same people that are outraged that cigarettes can be bought on welfare money, are the same folks that defended the purchase of junk food on the same welfare money – saying that if the Government was allowed to tell you what you could eat, it was a violation of your rights. I say if you want alcohol, cigarettes and junk food, get off the welfare dole.
I say if you want those things you can’t use government chits/money/stamps/cards/etc
Those items should just not ring up. If people want to buy them with their own money, have at it. That way the government isn’t telling you anything other than we aren’t paying for it.
It looks like there is quite another story regarding Fast and furious…in Fortune magazine.
@Moon-howler
Hahaha / no big dog.
Well, might have been because I wasn’t there in person.
Gonite! Sleepytime.
While he downplays the impact, it’s interesting to see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson acknowledge climate change and rising sea-levels. He says the warming temps due to increased CO2 emissions is an engineering challenge.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-27/exxon-s-rex-tillerson-says-global-warming-manageable-.html
Of course he acknowledges it. Its the mainstream idea. But notice, he states that improving energy supplies is more important and better for the world than anything the “greens” want to do, and says adapting to a changing world is the way to go, not try and stop it.
Of course, even the global warming people have put that on hold since 1998. Antarctic ice sheets aren’t melting. We have a frozen Arctic.
Sea levels ARE rising. And have for the last few thousand years. Its rising at a rate between 1.2 mm to3 mm +- .4 mm. So, .5 to1 inch per year.
I like that CEO’s approach.
Here’s a historical perspective on sea level. Shockingly, sea level rises and falls over the course a a few hundred years. It was higher in early centuries, dropped, and rose again during the Byzantium period.
http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/12/historic-variations-in-sea-levels-part-1-from-the-holocene-to-romans/
Note: this is not a political post, but a scientific perspective one.
Is it possible to impeach a sitting Supreme Court judge? (Scalia)
@punchak
So, you want to impeach him because he offered an opinion that you don’t like.
Ok, then.
Looks like the stock market is tanking. 160 pts…. I wonder what caused that?
The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal
A Fortune investigation reveals that the ATF never intentionally allowed
guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. How the world came
to believe just the opposite is a tale of rivalry, murder, and political
bloodlust.
By Katherine Eban
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/
@Starryflights
You’re late to the show. There’s already a thread with comments.
I walked out onto my porch during Camille, in Kenner, La. and watched a brick fly by. I remember the waves crashing over the causeway over Mobile Bay. I thought it was cool. I was 7. My mother….not so much. We were driving across that causeway at the time. We were on our way back from Pensacola. The weather man had forecasted a strike between MS and Florida. They were dead on the MS. part. We drove INTO the target area…oops.
I remember the waking up and feeling the house shake during Betsy.
I remember another one…. we were on the levee at the “Bonnabel Boat Launch” area in Metarie on the Lake Pontchartrain lakefront. Waves from the lake had already covered the boat launch and had reached the levee. We were opening our coats and leaning into the wind, letting it pick us up.
The cops came and told us to get off the levee. “Us” included two friends and our mothers.
When back in the car we heard on the radio…”And there are some crazy people on the levee at the Bonnabel Levee!” It took a moment and then we laughed…it was us.
And then there’s Isabella. I got a new truck out of that one…..Oak tree fell on my car.
Funny that you should mention Camille. That is the one I remember….well sort of remember. That should give you a hint. It involved candles and lots of scotch. sigh. We didn’t realize there had been a hurricane until getting south from Fredericksburg was not possible. Too much flooding. And that’s all I am telling.
Then there was Agnes. This area was particularly hard hit. All of Loch Lomond was under water. The Welker’s house at Lake Jackson drive pretty much was under also.
Isabel…I lost a tree on a fence but never electricity. Cable went out for an hour which was annoying.
I was oging to say…Cargo, you grew up on Hurricane Alley and were just just a little shaver during those ‘canes. All those names are retired now. Sigh.
If one were to blame yesterday’s market action on the SCOTUS ruling on the HCR challenge, today’s action must be because of the understanding of the ruling.
just a thought.
I wish I had thought of that.
@Pat Herve
Could be. Corporations adapt.
Here’s something unusual. Shakespeare’s theater found.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/curtain-theatre-shakespeare_n_1573445.html
Jill Lawless, The Associated Press
LONDON — Archaeologists in London have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theater where some of William Shakespeare’s plays were first performed – a venue immortalized as “this wooden O” in the prologue to “Henry V.”
@Cargosquid
Cargo, thanks for the link on June 28 regarding sea level change. No one denies that climate changes and evolves over time, and that our environment today is different than it was even a few hundred years ago. The problem occurs when people try to politicize the science (Al Gore, anyone?) or manipulate data to get the results they want.
I spent a day exploring Ostia Antica (mentioned in the article) a few years ago. It was fascinating to see where the ports and other facilities were just a couple of thousand years ago, and how far sea level has subsided since then. I doubt that even Al Gore would try to argue that those changes were caused by human activity, although I’m not making any bets on what he might say.
Maybe Gore should spend a few days away from his home that consumed 191,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006 compared to an average of 15,600 used by the typical house in Nashville where he lives (according to the Associated Press), and have his private jet fly him there to see for himself.
The anthropomorphic global warming crowd tries to paint anyone who doesn’t drink their kool-aid as knuckle-dragging flat-earthers. I think it’s far better to think for one’s self than buy into some group’s political agenda. I want to hear how we could have had such dramatic climate changes over the past two thousand, or even few hundred years during periods when humans could not possibly have had any impact on climate, and why those aren’t the same processes driving change now. The burden of proof is on the AGW crowd to show that any changes taking place now stem from human activity rather than natural processes that have been taking place for eons.
@Need to Know
Not a lot of coverage.
http://news.investors.com/article/616091/201206251907/gaia-creator-says-global-warming-alarmism-gone-too-far.htm
The scientist who brought us the Gaia theory that Earth is a living being, which has led to a bizarre planet worship, has decided that global warming alarmists have gone too far. It’s nice to see some clear thinking.
James Lovelock admitted on MSNBC in April that he had overstated the case for man-made global warming and conceded that “we don’t know what the climate is doing.”
I found a funny movie that I wasn’t aware of the other day…it was on iTunes. It’s the funniest thing since “Machete”, and it’s called “Undocumented”. It looks like a comedy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468381/
@Need to Know
There is a reason why people think of those who deny climate change exists as
“knuckle-dragging flat-earthers.” Its generally the rest of their beliefs along with this one.
Go explore Glacier National Park while you still can.
Basically, I am not willing to take the word of knuckle-dragging flat-earthers who fancy themselves as scientists. Too much is at stake.
Most of us don’t believe climate change is a political movement. I have been on this earth long enough to know something is going on. What is it? I don’t know. I am not a scientist. I just know what I see.
Cargo, who do you keep running in to these nuts?
July 2, 2012, 11:33 am
Romney Campaign at Odds With G.O.P. on Health Care ‘Tax’
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
12:43 p.m. | Updated The Republican message machine is trying hard
to accuse President Obama of increasing taxes on middle-class
Americans after the Supreme Court’s ruling that the health care
mandate is valid as an exercise of the government’s taxing power.
But the party is doing so without the help of Mitt Romney, whose own
health plan in Massachusetts contained an almost identical mandate.
On Monday, Eric Fehrnstrom, Mr. Romney’s senior adviser, strayed
wildly from the coordinated comments of the Republican leadership on
Capitol Hill and other party strategists by saying Mr. Romney, the
presumptive Republican presidential nominee, agrees with Democrats
that Mr. Obama’s health care mandate is not a tax.
“The governor disagreed with the ruling of the court,” Mr.
Fehrnstrom said on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown” program. “He agreed
with the dissent written by Justice Scalia, which very clearly
stated that the mandate was not a tax.”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/romney-campaign-at-odds-with-g-o-p-on-health-care-tax/?hp
The repugs seem to be reading from different playbooks, bwahaha!
Anderson Cooper has announced he is gay. Is anyone surprised? My gay-dar has been up on him for years.
@Moon-howler
All I talked about was sea level rise in response to another post by Morris.
Why do you denigrate actual scientists that disagree with the AGW crowd as knuckle dragging flat earthers. As it stands….we are the Galileos. The AGW crowd is the church of AGW.
What nuts are those? James LovelocK, the original warmist? Or, how about these guys: http://www.paulmacrae.com/
“…in June, the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a peer-reviewed article that began: “Data for global surface temperature indicate little warming between 1998 and 2008. Furthermore, global surface temperature declines 0.2 °C between 2005 and 2008.”(3) (As we will see below, the cooling trend has continued past 2008 despite a warm, El Nino-influenced 2010.)
Early in August, a press release from the British Meteorological Office admitted there had been no warming—the Met delicately called it “a pause in the warming”—in the upper 700 metres of the world’s oceans since, get this, 2003.(4) Yet, for the past eight years, the Met has warned the public about a dangerous heating up of the oceans.”
In the interests of fairness, I present http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998-intermediate.htm
This also shows disagreement with the results of the studies….the comments are full of discussion.
My point is that the science is not “settled.” But that politicians want it to be because every solution gives more power to the government…..fancy that.
Global warming may be happening. Its uncertain what is causing it. Or if we can effect it.
You brought up knuckle dragging flat earth believers…not I. I said we think they are that because of their other beliefs.
NOw, you would have me praise a bunch of ingoramouses who think the earth is flat? Why? YOu know that isn’t going to happen.
What I really really hate is to be somewhere and some dumb ass (thinking of a person I know right now) who has to interject “global warming” under his breath when you talk about how warm last winter was or how hot today is. The all knowing. I think we are still in the process of learning about these types of environmental concerns. We are still refining and observing. The problem seems to be that we we are in the middle of rapid change and still trying to learn about it as opposed to say looking at something that happened 200,000 years ago and working backwards.
Not sure I have said that right…..
All I know is the growing season has extended about a month since I was a young woman, even more than that since I was a kid. We are even in a different zone on the seed packages now. Something is causing it. Now what could that be? I am open to all sorts of suggestions.
Please. stop. You are going to keep looking around until you find people to support your politics.
I know what I have observed. I just don’t know what is causing it.
THIS JUST IN!
Anderson Cooper says that he is gay!
World is in shock – that he’s the last to know…..
I found out where the ice went!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/antarctic_ice_not_melting/
Apparently all those scientists using models neglected to actually go check and see if they were accurate…..for 20 years.
This is why I am not a fan of the AGW crowd. They keep making predictions that fail, keep using models without reality based checks, keep demanding that we take them on faith.
If we find that the climate is warming….fine…state THAT. But then, instead of demanding “solutions” that would effectively bring the GDP of the world back to 1995, which would actually doom millions, lets say…”We’ll get back to you for the cause.”
Too many AGW scientists have been discovered to be dishonest. Some skeptics are at the other end of the spectrum…they refuse to look at any evidence.. Too many theories that have not been proven have been the basis of claims of ‘SETTLED SCIENCE’. Except that even Gravity was not considered “settled science” until recently as definitive experiments could not be conducted until then.
Scientists can’t even agree on the effects of CO2 on trapping infrared radiation, much less if its the cause of global warming. Water vapor is a much stronger “greenhouse” gas. Don’t see the EPA trying to regulate that.
Its all a power grab.
Oh God, the latest dose of bull crap.
News flash. Scientists are as competitive as the next guy. I don’t know why we are labeling scientists one way or the other. That is what drives me crazy….turning everything into politics. NO, it isn’t a power grab for most people. For most people it is understanding the world around you, like all scientific discovery has been since man was first on the earth.
The most disturbing thing I find is that those nay-sayers used to be looked on with scorn–you know, those who thought that the moon landing was a hoax staged by NBC. If people believed that, they didn’t admit to it. They didn’t want to be laughed at.
Those who want to think that man has had no impact on the earth are knuckle draggers. All logic defies that notion.
Huge X Flare.
http://spaceweather.com/
Cargo, you are a smart guy. Why do you fight scientific findings? Scientific findings don’t turn into “settled” science. I am not even sure what that means. Aren’t we always pushing, reaching, learning in the scientific community? Scientists find new data, draw new conclusions, correct, evaluate, tweak, rethink.
The nay saying just drives me insane. That’s where we get “science books” in the Grand Canyon book store telling us this is all part of the great flood. That is such bull crap I can’t stand it.
Now…if people want to believe that…fine. Have at it. They can also believe the moon is made of green cheese. But don’t whine and carry on until it gets stuck in with science. that isn’t science! That’s some sort of bass akwards religion.
Then there are the people who get mad at me because I believe that mankind evolved from an earlier version of “man.” Well, yea. I do believe that. Without apology. I don’t ask that you believe that. It’s not something I am going to have a discussion about…re Adam and Eve running around doing the snake thing., IN my world, that is symbolic. Early man explaining how he got here. The owners of that story, the Hebrews, don’t believe it either. Its symbolic to them. I bring this up because people are still trying to get Adam and Eve taught in schools as science. That isn’t science!!! It’s religion and myth.
Bill Nye suggests that the forest fires are an example of climate change and so was the derecho. He says we need to improve our electrical grids –make them smart grids. we should have more storage for batteries and other energy sources.
He thinks we would have a better economy if we did these things.
Where am I fighting scientific findings? Because I’m not agreeing with people known to have political axes to grind? Because I’m disagreeing with people stating that the “science is settled.”? I want them to be able to point to reproducible results. I want them to stop making wild predictions that have no basis in reality. I want them to stop saying that they can predict what the temperature is going to be 100, 200, 300 years from now when they can’t predict what next year will bring.
I bring up the politics because the POLITICIANS are using this as a power grab.
What is bull crap? They measured the ice shelf. Its not melting. Why is that bull crap? Heck, I even linked to a PRO-man made global warming site to point out that there is disagreement.
The forest fires are an example of poor forest management, high temperatures, and wind….I guess that you could call it “climate change.” That term is meaningless. The climate is ALWAYS changing. Bill Nye has developed a nice secondary career as a global warming activist. Has no credentials in such sciences other than mechanical engineering, but he bones up on the latest talking points. Unfortunately, he gets them wrong, in public, too many times for many to take him seriously. He was a good kid’s science show host, though.
He might be right, if you want to attribute hot weather to the causes…except for the man made fires. The hot weather certainly contributed to the spread.
We do need to improve our electrical grids. Smart grids……depends upon what he means. If he means that the power company can adjust my power remotely, no thanks. They want to charge me for power…fine. Increase my costs…fine. I keep control of my power. If you want more batteries, we’ll have more pollution and “green house gases.” Batteries are created with lead or rare earths. They are charged by coal, nukes, gas, or wind, or water. Mostly coal and gas. Rare earths come from China. They don’t regulate their industries. So, more batteries… more Chinese pollution.
For our economy to grow we need cheaper, more common energy sources. Not $25/ gallon fuel. Want to make electric cars more economical?….make them smaller and lighter. But that would take away some safety equipment. I’d love to have a cheap electric car that got 100 miles per charge. Otherwise, its too expensive.
So, global warming might be happening….and it probably is.
Now what? The weather was warmer in the Medieval Warming period when wheat was grown in Greenland and England was known for wine. Warm weather is not necessarily bad.
Warmer weather could also serously alter life as we know it. Water level rising as a result of melting polar ice could very well wipe out coastal cities. Shrug…might not be a bad thing also.
Bill Nye addresses his credentials in the video. You question his credentials and yet don’t hesitate to give your opinion. [raising eye brows] Why is your opinion more valuable than Bill Nye’s? You don’t believe people with the credentials in spaceweather, climatology, environmental science, etc.
I also believe he was suggesting NEW ways to store energy in batteries. I am pretty sure he wasn’t referring to the coppertops.
Back to the wildfires–some of them aren’t exactly what you and I would call forests. Forests have been around for centuries without being “managed.” Who is supposed to get in there and clean out the undergrowth? When I saw the range fires back in Utuah about a decade ago, They weren’t in a forest like I know a forest. It’s hard to describe. But I did see trees spontaneously combust that weren’t close to the fire. I am sure it was from the heat but it wasn’t real close. Strangest thing I have ever seen…one minute a tree is a tree and the next minute it iis incinerated…like a burning tower.
You left off lightning…many fires start because of lightning. Also man being careless. Remember those California fires a few years ago that were a result of people living in the woods. I can’t remember if it was carelessness or intentional.
The collection of evidence is that a phenomena exists that is called global warming. I feel like there is also an under-current of bullying so that people who aknowledge that global warming exists also feel ridiculed if they try to talk about it publically. Cutting off that kind of discussion is not a good thing. People do need to prepare for change. New electrical grids, storage of energy and new energy sources are not a bad thing. Less dependence of fossil fuels is not a bad idea. We have known this for years. fossil fuels are dirty to use. You don’t need a degree to know this. Coal stoves and furnaces tell you.
At any rate, politicians like Cuccinelli have tried to silence others and to make folks who accept climate change theories feel stupid. That is what must stop.
PSA on Boating safety – in the same week that a retired astronaut was killed in a jet ski accident (by his own son, RIP), Mitt Romney is riding on the back of a jet ski driven by his wife Ann. Why in the world the secret service lets her drive a jet ski – Without attaching the safety lanyard – is beyond my comprehension. Not only is it illegal, but it is there for a reason.
Here’s one for you. Remember the outrage that was being poured out several years ago by some because of a few photos and some water boarding being done to several terrorists in Gitmo? True supporters of human rights they were, were they not? Fast forward to today, and the reports of thousands of innocent civilians being tortured in Syria, and not a peep out of those very same people. Makes you wonder what all the fuss was about back then doesn’t it. No surprise however, you see Syria’s actions can’t be linked to Bush, so no outrage. Politics as usual. What a difference an administration change makes! Carry on hypocrites.
SA, trying to make the connection here. Syria’s actions are the actions of Syria and have nothing to do with Bush or Obama. I expect if the Obama administration was giving the green light to waterboarding or other forms of torture there would be plenty of criticism.
We have no control over what Syria is doing.
I think the point on torture is we are better than that.If that doesn’t work, how about the fact that people being tortured usually tell you what they think you want o hear rather than accurate information. Then there is this thing about a person being so convinced of torture wrong-doing that they would resign a commission over it? Pose that same question at Morris Davis.
@Second Alamo
sa – and who is torturing the innocents in Syria? Who was water boarding those in Gitmo? That is the difference. I do not like what is going on in Syria, or Darfur or other areas of the world, but we must stop being the police of the world, as we cannot afford it.
@Second Alamo
What do you mean Syria can’t be linked to Bush? Are you not familiar with Maher Arar (if you’ve seen the movie Rendition with Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon you know the story line)? Using the rendition program, the Bush administration detained Arar at JFK Airport, held him for about two weeks, and then sent him to Syria (a country on the state sponsors of terrorism list) where he was tortured for nearly a year until Syria and Canada (Arar’s residence) figured out it was a mistake. Thanks to the Bush administration making Syria and Assad one of our partners in torture, it makes it a little difficult now to condemn what we condoned in 2002.
Here’s a link to a short quiz by the Kaiser Foundation to test your knowledge of what’s in the health care reform law: http://healthreform.kff.org/quizzes/health-reform-quiz.aspx (I got 10 of 10 which is at the 99.6% level — doesn’t say as much about me as it does about the 99.6% who know less (although not knowing doesn’t stop them from having passionate opinions)).
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/310973
Friday’s ill wind struck across most of Virginia.
The “after action” reports will be interesting.
Who was prepared and responded well and who didn’t?
Manassas City fared fairly well except, like other local jurisdictions,
experienced major problems with the 911 system that must be corrected
by Verizon PDQ.
@Steve, my brother in Indiana kept asking me where it hit. I kept telling him everywhere. I finally said it was like north and south started running in the midwest with a piano wire. They were 300-400 miles apart and just clothes-lined us.
Best way I knew to describe it.
Hearing reports that Andy Griffith has died. I grew up watching the Andy Griffith Show and being from a small town in North Carolina the fictional town of Mayberry didn’t seem all that fictional.
One of my favorite lines by Sheriff Andy Taylor: “I don’t carry a gun because I don’t want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I’d rather they respect me.”
Awwww. That makes me sad also. I didn’t know he was living in Manteo, did you?
@Morris Davis
I read that report also. This is a sad day. I grew up watching Andy Griffith also. It was one of the few shows in TV history that was enjoyable and also had basic messages of human decency that everyone could relate to regardless of political affiliation or religious beliefs.
1st amendment threat:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/24/Obama-Official-Network-Neutrality-Deviser-Says-First-Amendment-Doesn-t-Apply-to-Our-Computers
@Steve Randolph
Richmond did pretty well. Of course, I HAVE power, so my opinion may be biased.
Hmmmm…Obama says that he will veto the Defense Appropriation Bill if Congress does not put the billions in increased fees back into Tricare.
Of course, he doesn’t seem to care if the military increases costs on fuel….
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2012/07/why-is-the-navy-willing-to-pay-27-a-gallon-for-biofuel.html
And in 2009… $424/gallon
yeah…this makes sense. We’re in the very best of hands.
The EPA does the refinery business a favor!
“We are going to reduce your blending obligation by 98 percent because we feel that that’s the right thing to do,” says Brooke Coleman, the executive director of the Advanced Ethanol Council of the Renewable Fuels Association. “We are going to maintain your blending obligation on the gallons that we think are going to emerge.”
So they’re only going to require the refineries to blend 2% of their fuel with NONEXISTANT additives and fine them when they don’t. How magnanimous.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/21/regulation-requires-oil-refiners-use-millions-gallons-fuel-that-is-nonexistent/#ixzz1zaTn7pxU
@Morris Davis
I got 9 out of 10 right.
10. Will the health reform law allow undocumented immigrants to receive financial help from the government to buy health insurance? No, the law will not do this. You answered “Yes, the law will do this.”
No. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible to receive financial help from the government to buy health insurance, nor are they eligible for Medicaid or to purchase insurance with their own money in the new Exchanges.
So, if this is accurate, ACR does nothing to reduce the use of emergency room care by poor illegal aliens that can’t pay. Which was part of the marketing. Oh well.