(emitter= the new shame phrase)
“I think that when China is recognised as the largest emitter — it may have happened this week or it may happen next year — it will produce a subtle but significant change in the pressure China feels from the rest of the world to be part of a solution to this crisis,”
Al,
they run their people over with tanks.
And put anti-freeze in their toothpaste.
SondraK, Lympian Slayer 
/begin my translation
Intelligence: ‘Signs of Trouble in Kim Jong-il’s Health’ [JoongAng Ilbo]The day before (Christopher) Hill’s visit… intelligence agency on alert
The intelligence authorities are trying to verify the intelligence that something went wrong with Kim Jong-il (age: 65) on June 20, the day before the visit by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill. Intelligence sources in Seoul said on June 22, “We won’t reveal the source but we picked up signs that Kim Jong-il’s health is in trouble. S. Korea and U.S. intelligence are trying to find out if it is true.”
They also added, “There are indications that Guards Bureau, which is responsible for the security of Kim Jong-il, and Security Command of N. Korean Military are stepping up their activities. Five days ago, N. Korean border guards with their arms cross the border over to Kaisantun, Longjing, China, which prompted Chinese to suspect that something was going wrong inside N. Korea.”
Kim Jong-il made a string of visits to factories located in mountainous northern part of Jagang and N. Pyongan area early June. There is no report on Kim’s activities from N. Korea’s state media since June 17. The government authorities are skeptical, saying “If something went wrong with Kim Jong-il, how could they allow Assistant Secretary Hill into N. Korea?”
Lee Young-jong
/end my translation
and he wants us to believe he’s not on crack...
Public Enemy #1
Over the last decade, San Franciscans have responded to marketing campaigns to purchase bottled water and record amounts of bottled water have been purchased by San Franciscans at the expense of the environment, [PrettyBoy *gak* Gaven Newsom wrote]
...plastic bottles requiring oil to produce, and releasing one billion pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.
More than a billion plastic water bottles end up in California landfills annually, he said, taking 1,000 years to biodegrade and leaking toxic additives into the groundwater. [ok - fill me in. What “toxic additives” do water bottles release?]
...By Sept. 30, all city departments...will have completed an audit to determine the viability of switching from bottled water dispensers to bottle-less water dispensers [whaa? like a *water cooler*?!??! With Plastic cups???!?!? *PAPER* cups???? oh, the treeeeeeees!!!*sob*]
By December 1, all city departments will have installed bottle-less water dispensers, [ooooh - you mean *faucets*] according to Newsom’s order. [and that “audit to determine the viability” is for ...what, ‘xactly]
Waivers will be granted to by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission [which provides the HH “safest, purest drinking water in the nation”] based on legitimate engineering, health and fiscal concerns, Newsom said.
*splork* “health concerns” Bien Pensant, Dork.
Creeping Incrementalism That’s a phrase I stole homage from Jerry Doyle [whom I highly recomment, btw] It describes, among other things, the technique by which these New Puritans are working to deprive us of each and every little convenience, minor luxury, small comfort until we actually hear from Citizens Against Fire and The Wheel.
Oh Lordy—they’re all in on it!!!
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 06/22 at 08:35 PM •
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...toward fascism
The HildaBeast and “Babs I am buttah” Boxer got caught. [Audio]
[UPDATE: three years ago *eye roll*]
O’course now they are playing the Bart Simpson Deny Everything game. Apparently Inhofe broke the first Rule of Congress: even more so than Vegas, what is said here stays here.
Add in: [the “Silly Man”] Trent “Vacant” Lott’s hand-tipping statement that talk radio [read: market-driven free speech] is something “we” must ”deal with.” oopsie
Now comes the big “gun”—the report from the Center for American Progress [aka: the Clinton White Hose in Exile] run by that interesting character, John Posesta.
The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio
Our conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, particularly
the complete breakdown of the public trustee concept of broadcast, the elimination of clear public interest requirements for broadcasting, and the relaxation of
ownership rules including the requirement of local participation in management.Ownership diversity is perhaps the single most important variable contributing to the structural imbalance based on the data. [which is deeply, deeply flawed]
This analysis suggests that any effort to encourage more responsive and balanced radio programming will first require steps to increase localism and diversify radio station ownership to better meet local and community needs. [here’s the threat part: we’ll nationalize/legislate your radio holdings right out of your hands if you don’t program the stuff we tell you to—whether or not you can get ratings or advertisers for it. ]
We suggest three ways to accomplish this:
--Restore local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations.
--Ensure greater local accountability over radio licensing.
--Require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting. [they already do—it’s called “taxes”]
...
Quantitative analysis ... of commercial radio stations reveals that stations owned by women, minorities, or local
owners are statistically less likely to air conservative hosts or shows. [emph. in original]
Among other things—manymanymanymanymany other things—the “data” failed to include ratings from federally-funded NPR—failed to even acknowledge it’s existence.
Talkers Magazine Heavy Hundred
Paul for the amazing PS
[at least I think it’s a PS...]
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Just a heads up to my fellow Angelinos that the space shuttle Atlantis will be landing at Edwards Air Force Base today at 12:49 PDT.
So don’t be alarmed when you hear the double sonic boom : )
If you (like me) didn’t hear the double sonic boom, here’s why
Apparently, there are three separate deorbiting tracks for Edwards, so based on where you live (ex. Ventura County, Inland Impire, etc.) you may not always hear it.
Anywhoo....glad they made it back safe ‘n sound.
The Ugly American 
For years, Tom Seefurth drank what he called “lawn-mower beer” — mass-produced, canned brew best suited for drinking while mowing the lawn.
Then he tried a small Oregon brewery’s dark, rich stout and everything changed. He realized beer could be art.
The real-estate broker and father of two turned part of his garage into a brewery. He added a refrigerator and brewing equipment, hung beer cans from the ceiling, and went to work. He crafted porters. He crafted pale ales.
And last fall, he came up with something he swears will revolutionize the world’s favorite 5 p.m. drink: pizza beer.
Soap can be made from just about any kind of fat. Even though fat from bacon, called lard, isn’t the finest of fats to use for making soap, it somehow seemed to be the most exciting. Why? Because bacon is amazing. It has an almost mystical power to it and is a food that can be craved to almost no end. I figured what better way use the extra grease I had from cooking bacon then to turn it into soap!
From Pat Dollard:
With combat operations in Iraq as kinetic as they’ve ever been, the Marines could use your support.
At Blackfive, we have been trying to improve our relationship with the Public Affairs Officers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not surprisingly, the Marines have begun a really intense exchange of ideas with us. One Marine Combat Commander embraced our offer of support.
One of the requests that they had of us was to attempt to get 6,000 positive and supportive emails - one for each Marine, Sailor and Soldier in the Marine Regimental Combat Team - 6. Grim, our resident thinker and former Marine at Blackfive, has taken responsibility for this project.
The Marines have set up a special email address to send a supportive message to the Marines is: RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil. The emails are being scanned by the PAO before being printed and distributed to individual Marines.
Claire who caught wind of it from circa bellum
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Jane Fonda and a number of other prominent liberal figures have joined a campaign to impeach President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for “war crimes.”
Jane Fonda and a number of other prominent liberal figures have joined a campaign to impeach President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for “war crimes.”
An organization calling itself The World Can’t Wait has taken out a full-page ad in Friday’s New York Times seeking donations and announcing upcoming town meetings in several cities.
The ad states that the U.S. government under the Bush administration “is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq.”
But the campaign is about more than just the Iraq war. Under the headline “2008 Is Too Late, the ad reads: “What harm can Bush do before his term is up? He can bomb Iran. He can appoint another Supreme Court Justice. He can continue with impunity the crime of torture.”
The ad charges the Bush regime with “openly torturing people” and “moving each day closer to a theocracy,” and goes so far as to state: “People look at all this and think of Hitler – and they are right to do so.”
~SNIP~
In addition to Fonda, the campaign’s “thousands” of signees include Edward Asner, Gore Vidal, Olympia Dukakis, Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers notoriety, Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel, “Born on the Fourth of July” author Ron Kovic, former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, and Sean Penn.
.....and Jane Fonda charged with treason.
According to a new report issued on June 20th by the on-line website of the Greenville News, South Carolina State officials reported that after formal evaluation, more than 100 poultry workers exhibited a positive TB test at a local poultry-processing plant.
~SNIP~
Officials were not surprised by the number of positive skin cases in light of the fact that a large portion of the factory workers were foreign-born. The CDC reports that as compared to individuals born in the U.S., people from other countries are 9 times more like to be infected with tuberculosis. Health officials had already assumed that most of the workers that tested positive became infected in their countries or origin.
not a problem
Democrats and Republicans disagree on whether children of undocumented immigrants [ is that a new one? ]should benefit from a new health care plan set to take effect next month.
State Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, expressed concern Thursday that twice as many children of undocumented immigrants in the state will receive coverage the next two years than children of U.S. citizens.
But Democratic Rep. Jeannie Darneille of Tacoma said it is “not a problem” to cover non-citizens, who also include legal residents who are subject to a five-year waiting period before qualifying for federally subsidized programs such as Medicaid.Zarelli also raised concerns that Washington’s expansion of children’s health-insurance coverage will cover 7,000 more undocumented immigrants than expected.
The caseload change will boost costs of the program about 54 percent, to $45 million, in the two-year budget cycle that starts July 1, Zarelli said. Of that, $25 million will be spent on illegal immigrants, Zarelli asserted in a data sheet his aides handed out before a quarterly meeting of the state Caseload Forecast Council.
Darneille, a member of the council, said the intent of the legislation was to cover more of the state’s uninsured regardless of immigration status.
“That is what is happening, and that is a good thing,” she said.
I wasn’t going to do this but my hand has been forced........
