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Santa Claus delivered a lump of coal to the Obama/Biden Campaign Office in Colorado. Santa said he was a McCain supporter. All of this is thanks to Joe Biden.

From Rocky Mountain News:

“When Democratic veep candidate Joe Biden dissed coal plants, Republicans sprang into action. They hired a Santa Claus and his reindeer to visit Obama’s headquarters in northwest Denver and drop off some coal-filled stockings. ‘We all know that Santa delivers a lump of coal to kids who have been bad, and Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been bad this year,’ state GOP spokeswoman Randy Hildreth said.”

Posted By Tim…

Children exposed to pesticide in womb twice as likely to be overweight, refuting idea of sole personal responsibility. Geoffrey Lean reports

Sunday, 7 September 2008

Pollution can make children fat, startling new research shows. A groundbreaking Spanish study indicates that exposure to a range of common chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout, thus helping to drive the worldwide obesity epidemic.

The results of the study, just published – the first to link chemical contamination in the womb with one of the developing world’s greatest and fastest-growing health crises – carry huge potential implications for public policy around the globe. They undermine recent strictures from the Conservative leader, David Cameron, that blame solely the obese for their own condition.

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But behind the fence, the blue agave plants, the raw ingredient of Mexico’s famous tequila, are getting harder to spot. They are being replaced by row after row of leafy cornstalks.

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Apparently Henry Ford wanted to build a car that was fueled with Hemp.

More hippies.

You have to love this. Via FNC:

And the movement to convert San Diego schools to solar power has stalled — because it has led to a huge increase in energy costs. The San Diego Union Tribune reports electric bills went up $20,000 a year after solar energy systems were installed in 28 schools. So a plan to put solar in a total of 50 schools has run out of steam.

The administrator who runs the solar project for the Lemon Grove district says schools went solar not just to save money but to provide a lesson in planetary stewardship.

But one school board member says the unanticipated costs have taken money away from the classroom and put it into the hands of the utility companies.

…Wait a second. I thought the Goreacle told us going green would SAVE us money. Sure, it might be more expensive at first, but then…Well, the schools spent a ton of money to put the solar stuff in and now they’re paying MORE money for their energy. Great plan!

Federal officials estimate there is as much as 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the Bakken formation in western North Dakota and eastern Montana…Some of the oil people are estimating there may be as much as THREE HUNDRED BILLION barrels of oil there. That’s more than in the Middle East. Wow.