Attendees Fainting at Obama Rallies
February 12, 2008
We have not posted too much about the Democrat candidates for president, but something I heard near the end of Jim Vicevich’s Sound off Connecticut show on WTIC AM this morning made me laugh.
It seems as though the ladies are fainting as they cry and laugh with Obama at rallies across the country. Ladies are dropping in Seattle, Hartford, Kansas, Los Angeles, Wisconsin, and Dartmouth, N.H.
They seem to be fainting close enough to the stage for Obama to reach for some water and hand it to the crowd to provide some assistance. This is happening over and over. The faintee is always close to the stage and Obama seems to react the same way.
The phenomenon is not just limited to Obama rallies it seems. Clinton attendees are dropping in New York, St. Louis, Arizona, and Missouri. She’s ready with the water too.
I’m quite certain that folks are fainting at McCain and Huckabee events, but Google huckabee fainting and then mccain fainting and you don’t get too much other than references to the Democrat rallies above. I found the links above by searching for clinton fainting and obama fainting.
I’m not making light of these events, some of the attendees need to wait hours in line in the cold before they are crammed into auditoriums where it can get quite warm as they wait for the candidates. I just find the comparisons between R and D candidates pretty interesting. Maybe it’s global warming?
Temperature Control in California - DOA
January 18, 2008
An initiative to control the thermostats of private homes and businesses has bit the dust.
Investor’s Business Daily had a good review of the proposal on Jan. 15 - only three days ago - and to say that people freaked out about the Big Brother concept is an understatement.
The California Energy Commission has proposed requiring the use of what is called a Programmable Communicating Thermostat (PCT) that would allow government to control the temperature of homes and businesses in the event of high energy prices or shortages.
Nice.
As one outraged consumer said in an e-mail to the commissioner: “We need to build new facilities to handle the growth in the state, not become Big Brothers to the citizens of California.”
Nuclear power, for example, could provide California — and the nation, for that matter — with all the clean electricity needed if the same bureaucrats who propose controlling our thermostats would get out of the way.
But California has banned construction of new nuclear power plants since 1976. Four reactors under construction at that time were allowed to be completed, and Californians should be glad they were.
I bet they are glad those four plants were finished; but they certainly will not admit it.
In less than 72 hours, the plan seems to be DOA. Michelle Malkin provides us with information from SFGate.com.
After a public outcry, commission officials last week said the regulation would be revised so that the devices would still be required, but configured so that customers could override outside control by utilities.
But the agency backed off even more this week by announcing that the proposed remote-controlled thermostats would be dropped entirely from the 2008 edition of the building-efficiency standards.
It does seem that even in California, environmental whackos can go too far.
My Problem with John McCain
January 9, 2008
Actually, this is just one problem that I have with McCain. There are others. (Click here if you can not see the image, copyrighted by AP.)
Whatever dude…
Doesn’t he realize that as of around Dec. 15 last year, the memo went out to stop using the term “global warming” in favor of the new and improved “climate change?”
There is no consensus in science. The smart global climate expert geeks don’t go into a room and vote. It’s not majority rule. There are studies, peer reviews and more studies.
Guess what? There are plenty of studies, peer reviewed, from very reputable groups that are letting us know that global warming - or climate change if you prefer - is a natural thing for the world. It happens. The place warms up, it cools off.
To think that humans can cause the climate to change - or fix it - is, in a word, vanity at it’s extreme.
