Global Warming Skeptic Predicts Brutal Winter

Is this why it was in the upper 50's Friday? When it should have been below freezing?

"Global Warming Skeptic Predicts Brutal Winter, Warns “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” British meteorologist Piers Corbyn appeared on Fox and Friends to not only celebrate his accurate prediction of a bone-chillingly cold winter, but to also share his disgust with what he believes to be the “failed science” behind global warming. Despite it often being mentioned that the consensus in the scientific community is that global warming is undisputedly occurring, Corbyn proudly goes against the grain and advocates for his hypothesis of the coming global cooling." See the rest HERE

In California pot is legal, 100W light bulbs are NOT.

This is over-stepping bounds. You can't have a 100w lightbulb?!? Absurd, I can't stand anything less!

 

"Here's a new poll question: Should California be 1) given back to the Spanish missionaries, or 2) just allowed to go dark?

For most of us, the first option -- give it back to the Spanish Jesuits -- is most appealing.  After all, if the EU is ready to bail out Spain, why not tack on its erstwhile colony and pick up that tab, too?

However, Californians unwilling to wait for the results of our poll question have already decided: apagar la luz.  Old reliable, the 100-watt light bulb -- safe, cheap, and bright enough to read, write, cook, shave, and put on your makeup by, will be gone January 1. " See the rest HERE

 

Fat? Disability covers it!

This really pisses me off. Disability should not cover obesity. Period. This is coming from a guy that is medically obese.

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EEOC now claims obesity is a disability under ADAAA. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) now claims obesity is a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA). Until now, the courts have routinely rejected general obesity as a "disability" under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act. Cases have required one to show some different underlying medical condition that is a disability and that causes obesity as a "symptom." Now the EEOC has filed suit, claiming that a company discriminatorily fired an employee because of obesity. The EEOC claims that ever since President George W. Bush authorized the ADA Amendments Act in 2008, the law has a much lower threshold for what constitutes a disability. The EEOC claims that basic obesity, without any other underlying condition, sufficiently impacts the life activities of bending, walking, digestion, cell growth, etc., to qualify as a disability or perceived disability. EEOC v. Resources for Human Development (E.D. LA.2010)." See the rest HERE

Andy Xie: Either America Or China Will Crash In 2011

I agree completely... although my money is on America crashing.

 

"Andy Xie's latest sees the liquidity war getting worse in 2011.

America will continue to pump the financial system with liquidity via tax cuts and quantitative easing. China will keep the yuan cheap and avoid clamping down on inflation.

The tense equilibrium can't last for long, as either sovereign debt or inflation gets too heavy to bear. Whoever lasts longer, wins." See the rest HERE