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POPSChairman of Senate Judiciary Committee Flunks Question on Constitution Sen. Leahy: "No. The federal government does that on federal highways." Prior to 1995, the federal government mandated a speed limit of 55 miles an hour on all four-lane highways. The limit was repealed in 1995 and the authority to set speed limits reverted back to the states. Technically, the law that established the 55 mile-an-hour limit--the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act of 1974--withheld federal highway funds from states that did not comply with it. The law rested on the Commerce Clause, which give Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and Congress’ authority to dole out federal tax revenue. Someone who does not buy health insurance, critics have argued, is not by that ommission engaged in interstate commerce and thus there is no act of interstate commerce for Congress to regulate in this situation. Watch Eyeblast.tv video http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=GdSU2GqGSU
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POPSNFL Owners Who Use the N-Word and Wet Their Pants On Stage Nothing like accusing the CIA of terrorism and our government of lying to bring people together. Goodell also said, “We’re all held to a high standard here.” Really? Does this meet his high standard? Whatcha gonna do with all that junk All that junk inside your trunk I’ma get get get get you drunk Get you love drunk off my hump My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump My hump my hump my hump my lovely little lumps ahem....ok...whatever....lyrics courtesy of the leftard Hollywooders...... Next on their agenda: Driving in the stretch Hummers to their private jets to lecture you about energy conservation. LOL
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POPSA perfect storm's brewing to cool petroleum demand There's not so much incentive to invest in exploration, lots of incentive to keep the price of existing supplies as high a possible. The key on price is not really supply, but must be based on what people can afford to pay.
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POPSUS Energy and Natural Resouces Maze Scan the more than 250 bills introduced this term in to the US House Natural Resources Committee and the 49 members of the committee and you begin to understand how difficult it is to enact large strategic changes in policy and why Congress might spend time building target shooting facilities on public lands or in wilderness sites. Consider what states have representatives on the committee and those that do not. Earmarking or "pork" then starts to become clear: "Give you a new energy policy? Sure - give me a new pier for Santa Monica." grin/groan.
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POPSJA-MAR Green Energy Audit Austin Energy Services is the affordable Energy Audit company Offering Energy Auditing Services, Energy inspection, Green Energy Audit, Energy Conservation Audit and more.
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POPSGreen Investment There has been a rise recorded in investments in green companies as the world is waking up to environmental issues and world summits are discussing them.
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POPSDetection dogs help save endangered species More: seven of the nine dogs currently classed as WDC Detection Dogs are, in fact, shelter animals. Dogs surrendered because they were "out of control" or "just plain crazy", it is that intense, obsessive drive to "do something" that makes them both an annoying pet and a successful working dog. To find a new detection dog, Megan or a colleague will walk up and down the rows of the shelter bouncing a tennis ball. The dogs that are more interested in the ball than anything else make the first cut. Then one by one, the dogs are tested using toys and food, with additional distractions added over time. The dog that is completely obsessed with the toy over food or any other distraction is a strong candidate.… Meet the real-life dog hero, Pepin, and his handler, Dr. Megan Parker, at the 2009 Wildlife Conservation Expo on October 3 in San Francisco. For more details, visit http://www.wildnet.org/events/expo2009sat.html
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POPSCourt Restores 'Roadless Rule' in National Forests A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Forest Service, did not tip the administration's hand, but said: "The Obama administration supports the conservation of roadless areas in our national forests, and this decision today reaffirms the protection of these resources."
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POPSObama's long six months
Obama sold the country a false prospectus of easy, obvious, and almost painless change. The usual six honeymoon months have elapsed, and the country is nearly through rejoicing at the consolation that they have a president whom foreigners are unlikely to throw shoes at, and who speaks in sentences. But his own Environmental Protection Agency director acknowledges that his cap-and-trade bill will have no effect on the climate, and it will neither raise revenue nor reduce carbon use. It must be replaced with a straight carbon tax of bearable impact coupled with sensible conservation, and alternate-energy-source and oil-exploration incentives. The bill that limped through the House of Representatives was a Rube Goldberg contraption of Al Gore myths and Congressional vote-buying boondoggles. Its adoption would be a disaster. The president’s claim of putting millions of Americans to work making wind-mills and solar panels is a fable that extends the frontiers of quixotry.
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POPSHow to get best color, best picture, best sound Ln40A450 40 inch HDTV 
Our technical research experience, responses from buyers and users of long standing, show that the HDTV industry still needs to do more work. Not many people really feel satisfied with their HDTV purchases. Many have been disappointed by the ugliness of shapes and frames, the indifferent quality of pictures, the lack of regularity in the quality or decibels of sounds, the narrow angles of vision that result in balmy, oily images, the failure to have sockets and connections to meet the most basic needs of modern day electronic pleasure connectivity. I mean where do you connect .The list goes on and on. And then these are those insultingly huge electric bills that force your pockets for the use of Televisions which lack the most basic capacity for energy conservation. That is why we are so excited with the new from SAMSUNG, the Samsung LN40A450 40 inch flat screen 720p HDTV. The New SAMSUNG LN40A450 outclasses many median-sized lcd tv
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POPSObama Says Mountain Crimes Can Be Regulated--Will Gore, Carter or Congress Intervene Now? "Mountaintop removal is a crime--and ought to be treated as a crime." --Al Gore, April 28, 2008 "Mountaintop removal is a crime against local people, nature, our children, and our planet." --Dr. James Hansen, NASA Consider this: Over 3.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives rip across the most diverse and oldest mountains in America--and rain down silica dust and heavy metals on residents--in West Virginia alone EVERY DAY. Consider this: Mountaintop removal provides less than 5-7% percent of our national coal production, at a time when coal demand is down, and mountaintop removal coal could EASILY be replaced by energy efficiency, conservation, renewable energy sources or underground coal. Consider this: Not one person in the Obama administration involved in this outrageous decision has ever set a foot on a mountaintop removal site.
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POPSEco Second Homes An article on 'Off-grid" discussing just a few of the eco-developments that are finally springing up around the world.
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POPSSave water by installing foot pedals for your kitchen faucet I have been wanting to do this for SO long, but the people I mentioned it to (who are otherwise handy, hands-on sorts) all scratched their heads and said "hm, I dunno if that's possible..." Having seen a sink set up this way I knew it was. And now I have plans. Of course, we still live in a rental unit, and this is far more involved than just swapping out the shower head for a low-flow unit like we've already done. Gotta look at the steps and consider how reversable it would be.
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POPSAnother Loony Bureaucracy: Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act The panel will be selected by the National Academy of Sciences and a radical environmental group called the Society for Conservation Biology. The interests and needs of westerners and the special knowledge of local areas unique to residents will not have a voice on the panel. There are many thousands of areas like this that must be studied and will be locked up. There is no limitation on shape so that these areas could be drawn like gerrymandered political districts with no regard for usage or common sense. Long twisted areas with cutouts for high use roads would be common. There is no way to predict how long these lands will be tied up by inaction by Congress; but it could be decades. Even then, Congress may decide to put some or all of these lands into wilderness or a similar protection status which will make this public lockout permanent.
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POPSsustainable energy without the hot air fixing the energy dilemma? well at least making an honest stab at it it sounds like- am going right from this article to the pdf file- for further reading-just wanted to pass this on...
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POPSRush Limbaugh's 10 Most Intelligent Remarks/s 7. “We are a growing country and everybody needs energy! We're not going to stay the United States if we start reducing energy usage. Conservation is not the answer.” 8. To a black caller: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” 9. On torture at Abu Ghraib: “This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation. And we're going to ruin people's lives over it, and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people—you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some team off?” 10. “Screw the world. Do you really think we ought to govern ourselves based on what the world thinks of us?”
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POPS(No) Drill, Baby, Drill But when Costa Rica put one minister in charge of energy and environment, “it created a very different way of thinking about how to solve problems,” said Rodríguez, now a regional vice president for Conservation International. “The environment sector was able to influence the energy choices by saying: ‘Look, if you want cheap energy, the cheapest energy in the long-run is renewable energy. So let’s not think just about the next six months; let’s think out 25 years.’ ” As a result, Costa Rica hugely invested in hydro-electric power, wind and geo-thermal, and today it gets more than 95 percent of its energy from these renewables. In 1985, it was 50 percent hydro, 50 percent oil. More interesting, Costa Rica discovered its own oil five years ago but decided to ban drilling — so as not to pollute its politics or environment! What country bans oil drilling?
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