The "Nanci Pelosi Glacial Appeasement Tour" slated to begin:
Pelosi Holds Global Warming Talks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on an overseas trip to embrace an audience and a topic for which President Bush has shown scant affection: "Old Europe" and global warming. Pelosi, D-Calif., and seven other House members left Saturday for meetings with scientists and politicians in Greenland, Germany and Belgium on ways to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The trip comes shortly before a climate change summit next month involving the leading industrialized nations and during a time of increased debate over what should succeed the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. It expires in 2012. Bush rejected that accord, saying it would harm the U.S. economy and is unfair and excludes developing countries like China and India from its obligations. (The very same reason Clinton/Gore rejected it ) Pelosi, who strongly disagrees with that decision and many other of Bush's environmental policies, told The Associated Press on Friday that she said she wants to work with the administration rather than provoke it.
Meanwhile back at the ranch:
BRITAIN looks set to be hit by Bank Holiday SNOW today. Heavy rain is forecast for almost everywhere, but areas as far apart as northern Scotland and East Anglia could turn white. Temperatures are due to fall to 10°C (50°F), with the Met Office issuing severe weather warnings for East Anglia and the Highlands. Downpours and flash floods are predicted for Kent and Hampshire. The Met Office’s Robin Downton said: “The air is so cold as Britain is receiving winds from the Arctic.”
...climate reality rears it's ugly head:
Homes were left without power, downed trees damaged dozens of cars and school was cancelled for thousands of kids as a blast of record snow slammed many parts of southern Alberta yesterday. Blustery winds and a record 7 cm of snow for this day in history took down trees and electrical and telephone lines, causing power outages for more than 7,000 homes and damaging cars and buildings around Calgary, say city fire and Enmax officials. The wintry blast topped the previous snowfall mark of 5.1 cm for May 24, set in 1911, with communities on the city's northwestern edge among the hardest hit. And such meteorological mayhem is hardly unheard of this time of year, said Dan Kulak of Environment Canada, who noted May weather in the Calgary region can change at a moment's notice.
As Robert Heinlein once said "Climate is what we want, weather is what we get:
It`s May 26th, Memorial Day weekend. Normally, there`d be kids playing on this playground right about now, but instead it`s windy, cold, and there`s snow on the ground.
It`s an unusual way to start your day, at least at this time of year. The snow is already disappearing, but the cleanup is just beginning. This storm wasn`t messing around.
"It started early. Heavy rain, heavy rain. 1:30, snow started blowing, turned to sleet, and everything started crashing," explains Eddie Weeks.
Wally Keller adds, "I got up about 5:00 then, and everything was white. It was really heavy, wet snow."
Al Gore's Live Earth Concert will stop this heatwave, you just wait and see....
Further evidence of the Bush Police State:
MOSCOW (AP) -- Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor Sunday in a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists. The letter, signed by some 40 European lawmakers, appealed the city's ban on a march that would have taken place Sunday to mark the 14th anniversary of Russia decriminalizing homosexuality.
Edward Kennedy's darling Hugo Chavez is contributing to the Bush erosion of American Civil Liberties as well:
Venezuela's oldest private television station was pushed off the air as President Hugo Chavez's government replaced the popular opposition- aligned network with a new state-funded channel on Monday. Radio Caracas Television shut down just before midnight Sunday as its broadcast license expired and soldiers took control of the station's transmitters. Chavez refused to renew its license, accusing the channel of "subversive" activities. The new channel, TVES, launched its transmissions with artists singing pro-Chavez music, then carried an exercise program and a talk show, interspersed with government ads proclaiming, "Now Venezuela belongs to everyone." Thousands of government supporters reveled in the streets as they watched the changeover on large TV screens, seeing RCTV's signal go black and then be replaced by a TVES logo featuring Venezuela's national colors. Others launched fireworks and danced to the classic salsa tune "Todo tiene su final"—"E verything Has Its End." In the countdown to the midnight deadline, thousands of RCTV backers banged pots in protest and played recordings of sirens. Some fired gunshots into the air. Earlier Sunday, police broke up an opposition protest using a water cannon and tear gas and later clashed with protesters who set afire trash heaps in affluent eastern Caracas. Police said some protesters fired shots, and others threw rocks and bottles. Police said 11 officers were injured.
An endless series of hobgoblins followup:
Where have all the bees gone? They appear to be hijacking airplanes:
LONDON - A thick cloud of bees was sucked into the engine of a passenger plane en route to Portugal, forcing the airline to abandon the trip and grounding passengers for 11 hours, a company executive said Saturday. David Skillicorn, managing director of Palmair, said the swarm was spotted off Britain’s Bournemouth coast shortly before the Boeing 737 left on Thursday. “Some witnesses claimed there were around 20,000 bees,” he said. “The pilot experienced an engine surge about an hour into the flight,” Skillicorn said. “He returned to Bournemouth and we found what appeared to be a large number of bees smeared inside the engine.”
Limousine Liberal Babs helping the poor with cheap tickets:
Barbra Striesand canceled her concert in Rome next month — a move that followed protests by Italian consumer groups angered by what they said were excessively high ticket prices. Concert organizers indicated the decision was not connected to the outcry, saying that production delays had forced them to scrap the June 15 concert in the capital's Stadio Flaminio, what would have been the singer's first concert in Italy and the start of her European tour.
WARNING: Gratuitous Cheap Shot:
I just found Micheal Moore an Oscar date:
The District Judge Elizabeth Halverson saga is starting to creep beyond the borders of Nevada and into the California news media, while locally the docudrama is the first thing many of us read each day. When they make a TV special of it, I'd like to suggest a name: Power and Paranoia. Halverson spent nine years as a fairly lowly law clerk. (I always assumed the 425-pound woman, according to her driver's license, stayed as long as she could for the county's health insurance coverage.) After she was fired, she ran for one judgeship, lost, but in 2006 won on her second try. Before long, stories started coming out of the Regional Justice Center about her contemptuous behavior toward her staff, particularly her bailiff, Johnny Jordan. Halverson, who had never had real power, was relishing it, throwing a pencil on the floor and ordering him to pick it up. Jordan was ordered to give her foot rubs and back massages. He has since filed a complaint against his former boss alleging discrimination based on sex and race. He is black and says she treated him like a "house boy."
...or Rosie for that matter.
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