Summary: D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) wants the President to reiterate his support for D.C. voting rights in the House during his State of the Union address. Norton wrote a letter to Obama last Thursday. She wrote a similar letter to Obama in January 2010.
Obama didn't mention it in his 2010 speech. He didn't mention it back during the 2009 one, either.
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Separate the Mall area from the rest of the District. Return everything except the Mall area to Maryland. The people who live in Anacosta and Georgetown then can vote for two senators and whatever representatives that their area can support. Keep the Mall area as the federal district, and forbid permanent residence within it.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/31/2010 11:26 Comments ||
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"Which part of NOT A STATE was unclear, people?"
#4
Exactly, mojo. All Delegate Norton needs to do is to convince Congress and three fourths of states to amend the Constitution so that D.C. could become a state.
I think Dr. Steve's idea would be easier - Virginia took back its part of the District. Maryland could do the same.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
12/31/2010 12:25 Comments ||
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There is a reason the Founding Fathers didn't let DC have representation. Government should not be allowed to vote for more government. If they want representation, they can claim a "resident" state and vote in that state's election. Otherwise sod off.
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But the newly muscular Republicans in Congress could also stumble by moving too aggressively to handcuff the Environmental Protection Agency, provoking a popular outcry that they are endangering public health in the service of their well-heeled patrons in industry.
Only from the lefty loons and Al Gore. The rest of the country will just be happy that their cost of living went back down.
#3
Assuming my fellow Rantburgians are well read and intelligent, Y'all already know that Volcano's eruptions throw Minute Particles aloft that CAUSE cooling, precipitation(Snow) and shitty (To Humans) weather.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
12/31/2010 11:39 Comments ||
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Well, guess we will just have to dig up Yellowstone to prevent an unlicensed eruption.
Fine Alaska, sue Iceland, Indonesia, etc.
Hey, since the Sahara is the largest consistant polluter of particulates can we sue all North Africa, Arabia Pininsula?
#5
There was an article in National Review, I believe, that summed it up, but used some numbers only liberals would accept:
Greenhouse gasses include water vapor (they say 90%, the latest I've read says 94%), Carbon dioxide (the article says 8%, most people agree it's around 5%), and "lesser gasses" - methane, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, etc.
Man's contribution is rated at being 3% (range is from 1.6% to 3.3%, but nothing higher than that) of all CO2 in the atmosphere.
Even at the worst, mankind is on the hook for adding 3.3% of 8% (0.26%, or 0.3% rounded) of the current CO2 atmospheric level. A doubling of 20th-century CO2 from 360 parts per million to 720 parts per million would result in a calculated warming of 1.6 degrees Celsius. Mankind's part of that (0.3%) would mean we're responsible for an increase of 0.0048 degrees, or less than half of one-hundredth of one degree Celsius.
The madness doesn't stop there. The effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is logarithmic, not direct. The first 250 parts per million account for something like 94% of all CO2-induced warming. By the time the level reaches our current 380 ppm, that greenhouse gas has already caused 99.9999% of all warming it can. Doubling, tripling or increasing the CO2 level above that point has absolutely NO additional measurable effect on the Earth's warming.
BTW, each time Mount Vesuvius, Etna, the volcanoes in Alaska, Indonesia, Hawaii, and anywhere else erupt, they usually put more greenhouse gasses (CO2, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, etc.) into the atmosphere in a DAY than all the fossil-fuel burning on the whole planet does in a year. There's never a day where there isn't some volcanic activity dumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. De-fund the EPA, fire everyone working for it, and ensure they can't get a job anywhere else in the Federal government. Use excessive stupidity for the reason.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
12/31/2010 19:27 Comments ||
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Oops! This:
"of all CO2 in the atmosphere."
should read:
"of all CO2 entering the atmosphere."
My bad.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
12/31/2010 19:29 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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