blogoSFERICS
My first real blog, and one that lasted two and a half years -- through two platform changes and at least as many URL changes. I finally got tired of the name and changed that too -- to Yippee-Ki-Yay!
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December 2004
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Futility Is Only One More Service They Offer
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Fri Dec 17, 2004
5:16 am
by McGehee
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[Our Times]
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Greens Concede Kyoto Will Not Impact ‘Global Warming’
Marc Morano, CNSNews.com
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNSNews.com) - After a relentless attack on the United States for opposing the Kyoto Protocol, environmental groups concede the international treaty will have no impact on what they believe to be impending catastrophic global warming.
Despite the fact that green groups at the U.N. climate summit in Buenos Aires called President George Bush “immoral” and “illegitimate” for not supporting the Kyoto Protocol, the groups themselves concede the Protocol will only have “symbolic” effect on climate because they believe it is too weak. Kyoto is an international treaty that seeks to limit greenhouse gases of the developed countries by 2012.
“I think that everybody agrees that Kyoto is really, really hopeless in terms of delivering what the planet needs,” Peter Roderick of Friends of the Earth International told CNSNews.com.
“It’s tiny, it’s tiny, tiny, it’s tiny,” Roderick said. “It is woefully inadequate, woefully. We need huge cuts to protect the planet from climate change.”
But just because Kyoto may end up having little or no impact on the climate, that did not stop Roderick from blasting President Bush for the White House’s environmental policies.
Roderick cited “deep psychological reasons” as to why the Bush administration opposed the Protocol.
“[Bush] comes across as not caring,” Roderick said. “I am sure he does care in his own life personally about many things, [but] I think also that he is scared, he is fearful, he is fearful about wanting to continue in power.”
» Read the rest.
Project much?
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Shelley Stay or Shelley Go?
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Fri Dec 17, 2004
4:11 am
by McGehee
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Audit Blasts Shelley
Gary Delsohn, Sacramento Bee
The state’s chief auditor issued a blistering report Thursday about Secretary of State Kevin Shelley’s use of federal election funds, documenting numerous examples of shoddy management, lack of oversight, improper spending and highly partisan activities in a program set up to be non-partisan.
The problems have already delayed the state’s ability to spend millions in federal Help America Vote Act Funds, the Bureau of State Audits said, and might require California to return some of the money it has spent.
“The office’s disregard for proper controls and its poor oversight of staff and consultants led to questionable uses of HAVA funds,” a letter in the report from Elaine Howle, the chief auditor, said.
“As a result of these practices, the office runs the risk that the federal government may conduct an audit of the office’s implementation of HAVA and its use of federal funds and may require repayment of some, if not all, of the HAVA funds used to pay certain employees and consultants.”
In one instance, the audit said, a law firm hired by Shelley, a San Francisco Democrat, spent some of its time writing speeches for the embattled secretary of state and conducting other activities that had nothing to do with voter education or outreach.
The chair of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, D-Hanford, said the panel will conduct at least one hearing on the audit, on Jan. 11. Parra said she expected Shelley to appear and answer for the agency.
» Read the rest.
I can’t honestly say this guy is one reason why I sign these posts with my last name exclusively—but his shenanigans sure do dilute the pride value in being part of the Kevin Collective.
More here, at Dan Weintraub’s California Insider blog.
UPDATE: Additional coverage here.
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I’m Jealous
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Fri Dec 17, 2004
3:58 am
by McGehee
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I just renovated the templates for my wife’s blog, cats. iz. perverse.—and while I wouldn’t want to use the color scheme here, I do think it looks better than what I got had.
UPDATE: So naturally I decided to adapt it for Yippee-Ki-Yay!
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The Art of the Possible … Is Impossible?
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Thu Dec 16, 2004
11:17 am
by McGehee
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Call it Bush Derangement Syndrome, or Post-Election Selection Trauma (I think Patient Zero of P.E.S.T. may be Garry Trudeau, by the way, who shut down his comic strip shortly after Reagan’s 1984 re-election), but there is definitely something going on that can’t be explained away as political zealotry.
Eddie Thomas braves a Michael Moore message to find a most egregious example. “Yikes” indeed!
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