Carolinians flock to Washington
for Beck rally

Charlotte Observer (NC),
by Jim Morril   

Original Article

8/27/2010

Elena Sutton is fed up. That’s why she left her Pageland, S.C. home Friday to join Glenn Beck’s “Restoring America” rally in Washington today. “I just really believe that this county from an ethical, Christian and moral standpoint has just disintegrated,” said the 39-year-old physician. “And it’s time for the people in the trenches to stand up and say ‘enough is enough’.” Sutton is one of hundreds of Carolinians who plan to attend the rally. Organizers say they expect as many as 300,000 people to gather at the Lincoln Memorial to hear Beck, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and others.

I put them to good use, though.  When my son was small, we used to take flyswatters outside at night and walk around the pool apron.  There were roaches by the hundreds.  We swatted them until our arms were tired.  My son’s aim with a flyswatter would be the envy of Babe Ruth.

Run Like A Deere From Cap-And-Trade
 
Investor’s Business Daily,
by Staff   

Original Article

8/29/2010

Junk Science: Deere & Co., a major player in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, drops out, saying the group’s legislative strategy is no longer a foundation for moving forward. Is cap-and-trade dead? The farm equipment giant was a major player in the Climate Action Partnership, a group of large firms that advocate cap-and-trade legislation and lead the drive for reductions of so-called greenhouse gases. In announcing its withdrawal, spokesman Ken Golden said: “We came to the conclusion that Deere had other opportunities to be involved in climate change initiatives.”

The Clean Development Mechanism
delivers the greatest green scam of all
 
UK Telegraph,
by Christopher Booker   

Original Article

8/29/2010

It is now six months since I reported on what even envi
mentalists are calling “the biggest environmental scandal in history”. Indeed this is a scam so glaringly bizarre that even the UN and the EU have belatedly announced that they are thinking of taking steps to stop it. The essence of the scam is that a handful of Chinese and Indian firms are deliberately producing large quantities of an incredibly powerful “greenhouse gas” which we in the West – including UK taxpayers – then pay them billions of dollars to destroy.

Brian Williams Treats Obama
as Oracle of Wisdom, Wonders:
‘How Are You Thinking About
Your Job These Days?’

NewsBusters,
by Brent Baker   

Original Article

8/29/2010

Interviewing President Barack Obama in New Orleans on Sunday afternoon, Brian Williams treated Obama with a level of deference he didn’t afford to President George W. Bush as he treated Obama as a great oracle of wisdom to pluck. “Katrina was about so many things. It was about class and race and government and the environment,” Williams told Obama in the except aired on the NBC Nightly News, yearning for guidance: “Whatever happened to that national conversation we were supposed to have about it?”

I wonder, though, if something more central would be better since there are people on NQ from all over the country. I’m game, however, for wherever it might be held.

What a wonderful compliment, and you honor me by putting me in the company of the writers you mentioned – thanks!!!