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Mayor Bloomberg Styrofoam Ban — Reader Tom C informs us that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is now seeking to ban Styrofoam.
Very unwise. What will the people of Staten Island use to store their food the next time they lose power for a month or so?
Sunoco announced, Sept. 6, that it will be closing its refineries in Philadelphia and Marcus Hook next July if it can’t find a buyer for them. 
Sunoco CEO and Chairman Lynn Elsenhans said the refineries have lost $772 million since 2009, which not coincidentally is the first year of the Zerobama Administration.
It will be unfair to pin all the blame on President Zero, however. First year Congressman Pat Meehan, a Republican, has been practically screaming that this was going to happen since he took office, Jan. 3, while his Democrat predecessor Joe Sestak; and Democrat Chaka Fattah, whose 2nd District includes the Philadelphia plant; and Democrat Bob Brady, whose 1st District borders both facilities and includes many of the workers, have been silent partners in Obama’s plan to wreak economic ruin when they were not loudly marching in lockstep with it.
So blame the Democrats and remember to shake the hand of Meehan, who has still not surrendered on saving the plants.
By the way, the massive new unemployment that will result from the closings — the Marcus Hook plant has about 600 workers while the facility in southwest Philly has about 800 — may not even be biggest problem. What does one do with 2,200 idle acres of tanks, towers and hazardous waste?
The Philadelphia plant is 1,400 acres while the Delaware County facility weighs in at 788.
And let’s not forget how the loss of the property tax revenue is going to affect Marcus Hook Borough, the Chichester School District and the City of Philadelphia.
And for those of you who do claim to care about the environment, do you really think it better that our oil be refined in Nigeria and Venezuela rather than Pennsylvania?
The Marcus Hook plant is where NASCAR racing fuel is produced.
China has moved pass Germany, Denmark, Spain, and the US to become the biggest wind turbine producer in the world. It is expected that China will be the largest producer of solar energy technology in two years. In the meantime, as China has been allowed to take the bull by the ring and take all of the green jobs that were proposed during the presidential race, US leaders are still arguing and posturing about whether the government should support the creation of green jobs with taxpayers money or oil companies should be allowed to lead in the production of green energy. Probably after all the oil is gone.
Enviro-Freaks Advocate Murdering Child Dissidents — Proving that some things are impossible to satirize, the British environmentalist group 10:10 has produced a short propaganda film that at first glance appears to be something that Rush Limbaugh would’ve created to mock environmental extremism.
Oh, but it’s not.
10:10, which gets its name from the goal of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent annually starting in 2010, means it for real.
The four-minute commercial, which can be found here , is called “No Pressure” and is divided into three main segments: a teacher with her class of middle schoolers, a corporate pep-talk in an office building lobby, and a soccer team being visited by a former star player.
All follow the same format. The leader, such as the teacher, gives a lecture on the need to cut CO2 emissions, and then asks the subordinates if they agree insisting that there is no pressure to do so and that dissent is quite all right. Well, most of them happily agree and pledge to ride their bike instead of asking for a ride or convincing their parents to take a train to their next vacation. Still, there are a few ornery dissenters. The leader confirms they don’t buy the speil then pushes a button blowing them to bloody bits in a gory explosion. In the case of the classroom segment the dead are a young boy and young girl.
The commercial was written by Richard Curtis, the writer of such Brit lameness such as Blackadder and Four Weddings, and according to 10:10 was meant to be funny .
Well, ho, ho, ho.
Anyway, 10:10’s propaganda has inspired me to action. Since I just took out the air conditioners I can’t crank them up and it’s still too warm to raise the thermostat.
I guess I’ll just have to fire up the stereo and turn the volume to 10. What to play? Definitely something British. David Bowie’s “1984”, would be appropriate. Or maybe “Silent Running” by Mike & the Mechanics. The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” would be a good choice as would “Street Fighting Man” by The Rolling Stones.
I know, Led Zep’s “Immigrant Song”. Always a fine selection for matters like this.
Oh yeah, and I’m turning on all the lights.
Hat tip to Zombie at PajamasMedia.Com
President Obama, at a rare press conference yesterday, took full credit for stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
So now we know why the spill lasted over a month.
Obama then slammed shut new off-shore drilling in U.S. waters saying:
First, we will suspend the planned exploration of two locations off the coast of Alaska
Second,we will cancel the pending lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico and the proposed lease sale off the coast of Virginia.
Third, we will continue the existing moratorium and suspend the issuance of new permits to drill new deep water wells for six months.
And four, we will suspend action on 33 deep water exploratory wells currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico.
In other words, he will continue to do what it takes to send our money to our oil-rich adversaries so they can pay to build mosques on the hollowed grounds of the 9/11 attacks.
He also said “what’s also been made clear from this disaster is that for years, the oil and gas industry has leveraged such power that they have effectively been allowed to regulate themselves” which is something that should make you go hmmmm.
With regard to Springfield Pa.’s own contribution to the failure of this incredibly incompetent administration, Obama said:
The — there will be an official response shortly on the Sestak issue which I hope will answer your questions. You will get it from my administration, so — and it will — it will be coming out — when I say shortly, I mean shortly. I don’t mean weeks or months. With respect to the first –I can assure the public that nothing improper took place. But as I said, there will be a response shortly on that issue.
(For President Obama’s explanation see DNA Tests For Obama, Sestak Neckties? )
Dick Morris, who was President Clinton’s go-toe guy during the most successful parts of that administration, said Congressman Sestak’s allegation of a job offer from Obama, if true, would be an impeachable offense, and if Washington is unwilling to investigate the matter Pennsylvan Attorney General Tom Corbett, from whence Sestak is from, should empanel a grand jury to do so.
The sooner Obama is impeached and removed from office, the better for America and the world.
Thank you, Joe Sestak.
Pope Benedict Addresses Ecology — Pope Benedict XVI in his homily for the liturgical feast of Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God — which coincidentally occurs on New Year’s Day — commanded the faithful to be environmentally responsible.
And,of course, he’s right.
So the next time some green-wearing Chicken Little throws this at you in an attempt to lead you to the power-hungry statist den of a government Foxy Loxy tell him that you hate pollution and love the environment more that he and that we must;
–Stop tearing down hydro-electric dams and start replacing coal plants with nukes.
–End Davis-Bacon so we can maximize the use of time and resources to replace traffic bottle-necks.
–Get rid of toll roads.
–Indemnify businesses for accidents that occur in the homes of telecommuters.
–Drill for oil in Alaska so we don’t have to drill in areas under the control of nations not inclined to hear the Pope.