This Is Conservative Social Activism...Now With Added Flavor Enhancing Ingredients! Driving the Left forward in confusion and disarray to their own destruction with a song in my heart.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Epic Greenfail
What this story entails is the ongoing battle that the Left has been waging for years against indoor plumbing. The "waterless" toilets described here are nothing more than indoor outhouses. Having experienced these facilities before, upon entering them, one is assailed by the lovely aroma of an unattendened porta-potty on a 90 degree August afternoon. We must go to the Daily Mail to find this report on Moonbattery in several public schools in Boca Raton, FL.
Students step over ‘rivers of urine’ after green bathrooms plan for waterless urinals turns a high school yellow… and it will cost $500,000 to fix.Somehow I expect there’ll be some litigation involved.
Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure the stench of rancid waste after a plan to bring ‘green’ waterless urinals into bathrooms backfired.
School officials at Spanish River High School thought they had found an environmentally-friendly, cost-saving solution for their bathrooms when they installed Falcon Waterfree urinals in their boys bathrooms.
But with no water moving through the school’s copper pipes to flush the urine into the sewer system, the waste produced noxious gases that ate through the metal, leaving leaky pipes that allowed urine to drip into walls and flow onto floors.
‘It was pretty disgusting,’ school board chairman Frank Barbieri told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
‘The girls had to step over a river of urine. I could smell it as soon as I walked into the hallway.’
Now, the school district, which was hoping to save $100 a year in water costs for each waterless urinal, must pay $500,000 to repair the damage and replace the appliances with the traditional flush variety in four high schools.
Neither the school, nor Falcon Waterfree Technologies, the Los Angeles-based maker of the urinals, thought to check the pipes before installing the new urinals.
Instead of water, the company’s urinals use disposables cartridges that trap urine odors. They use no water and the company claims the only maintained needed is regular cleaning and changing the cartridges four times a year.
The company promises ‘an odor-free restroom, clean pipes and zero water waste’ on its website.
But officials admitted corrosive sewer gases ate away at the pipes causing urine to flow into the walls and trickle into the school, instead of into the sewer.
As for the company’s odor-free claims: ‘We’re really concerned because we don’t think it’s a sanitary place for our children to be,’ Mara Shapiro, president of the school’s PTA told the Sun-Sentinel.
‘The hallways reek.’
The school district is looking to Falcon to pay for the mess as they order 200 waterless urinals be replaced with water-efficient urinals.
(Hat tip: Ben Zycher) and Powerline Blog
Here is more Green news from Powerline...Another Green Prophet Defects
More from the Greenies...
A federal judge for the first time in U.S. history has heard arguments in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller called the hearing in San Diego after SeaWorld asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that names five orcas as plaintiffs in the case.
PETA claims the captured killer whales are treated like slaves for being forced to live in tanks and perform daily at its parks in San Diego and Orlando, Florida.
"This case is on the next frontier of civil rights," said PETA's attorney Jeffrey Kerr, representing the five orcas.
SeaWorld's attorney Theodore Shaw called the lawsuit a waste of the court's time and resources. He said it defies common sense and goes against 125 years of case law applied to the Constitution's 13th amendment that prohibits slavery between humans.
"With all due respect, the court does not have the authority to even consider this question," Shaw said, adding later: "Neither orcas nor any other animal were included in the 'We the people' ... when the Constitution was adopted."
Read more at The UK Telegraph
I don't know about you, but these big fellows seem quite happy and content to me.
Read more at The UK Telegraph
I don't know about you, but these big fellows seem quite happy and content to me.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Blow It Up---News From The Ville
Here I am Y'all...reporting from the dead center of flyover country...
Many people feel that we here in the Ohio valley have had; and will continue to have; a solid and lasting effect on the national political scene. I tend to agree. Lil' Barry and his entourage have spent an inordinate amount of time campaigning here, and I believe, will continue to do so in this coming year.
We here in "My Town" are ready to do battle with this Obummer regime.
My man---Governor Kasich is speaking tomorrow at my son's school, BIG RED, sometimes known as Wells Academy. We are lucky to have been the beneficiaries of several years of good conservative manpower, and an atmosphere which encourages capitalist / entrepeneauristic development.
January 31, 2011
KASICH ANNOUNCES PUBLIC LOTTERY FOR STATE OF THE STATE TICKETS
COLUMBUS – Today Gov. John R. Kasich announced that a block of tickets to his 2012 State of the State address on Tuesday, February 7, in Steubenville will be distributed to the public via an internet lottery. Interested individuals can register for the ticket lottery at: http://governor.ohio.gov/tickets/
The governor’s State of the State address is historically delivered in the Ohio House of Representatives chamber at the Statehouse in Columbus, where public seating is limited.
This year’s address—the first delivered by a governor outside of the Statehouse—will be delivered to a special joint session of the General Assembly convened at Wells Academy, the top-performing public elementary school in Ohio and part of Steubenville City Schools.
Wells shares a spacious auditorium with the Steubenville High School which allows for more Ohioans to attend.
Names will be collected until 5 p.m. on Thursday, February 2, and individuals selected for tickets by random lottery will be notified via e-mail by noon on Friday, February 3.
The Herald Star...
STEUBENVILLE - The eyes of many Ohioans will be upon Steubenville when Gov. John Kasich brings his State of the State address to Steubenville High School at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Members of the Ohio General Assembly, the governor's cabinet and state Supreme Court will be joined in the school's auditorium by many local officials and community members who won tickets through an Internet drawing conducted by the governor's office.
Kasich has said he wanted to take the annual address away from the statehouse and into other communities.
Wells Academy, a Steubenville City Schools elementary, will be lauded by the governor and was chosen because it is the elementary school with the highest state test scores and received other state honors, an accomplishment school officials have attributed in part to a curriculum that emphasizes mastery of reading and math skills.
Gov. John Kasich arrives in a community today that thrived on the steel industry of past decades but prepares to embrace the natural gas and oil industry of the future.
It is also a city that now may be seeing an upturn in its economic future.
"I believe we are seeing the bright light at the end of the tunnel. People are going back to work, and we are starting to see industry coming back to our area," said City Manager Cathy Davison.
City Finance Director Alyssa Kerker recently reported municipal income tax collection rose $70,000 from 2010 to 2011.
Kasich will deliver the annual State of the State address at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Steubenville High School auditorium and is expected to address the growing shale drilling industry in Eastern Ohio.
"I hope the governor focuses on education in our community as well as economic development in our region. We are seeing small businesses interested in opening in Steubenville, and there are a number of entrepreneurs also expressing interest in our community because of the oil and gas industry," remarked Davison.
"I anticipate the governor will see a city on the upswing when he arrives.
"In the past couple of years we have made major upgrades to our streets and roads, and the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, and the Steubenville Revitalization Group has taken the lead in dressing up our downtown. We have seen new businesses in town and construction taking place. This is a city coming back to life," explained Davison.
According to Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols, the area unemployment rate dropped in 2011.
Statistics from the state indicate Jefferson County reported a 13.6 percent unemployment rate in January 2011 compared to a 9.9 percent unemployment rate in December of last year.
Nichols said the governor's speech will include recognition of the shale drilling industry impact on Eastern Ohio.
"Shale, natural gas and energy are a huge component of what we will be doing in Ohio in future years.
"The governor has made it quite clear that he welcomes the energy industry to Ohio but at the same time he has said the state will be watching the industry. We want the industry to do the right thing in Ohio," said Nichols.
"The State of the State address will give the governor a chance to shine a light on the community and the significant economic shot in the arm Eastern Ohio is about to receive," Nichols added.
And Nichols said the governor also will focus on education and the Wells Academy.
"Education is a major issue for the governor and the state in 2012 and going forward.
Members of the 129th General Assembly also are expected in the city to attend the State of State address.
And Nichols said the cabinet members will be at several locations Tuesday including a Department of Development roundtable discussion at the Steubenville University Inn, a roundtable meeting with area military veterans at American Legion Post 33, a visit to the Jefferson County 911 Center and stops at the Steubenville and Jefferson County health departments.
State officials also are expected to tour a Chesapeake oil drilling rig site in Carroll County on Tuesday afternoon.
Mayor Domenick Mucci has called upon all area residents to welcome Kasich to the community today and Tuesday when the state's top lawmaker leads a contingent of state legislators and administration officials to the city.
"We have the opportunity to build on our city's outstanding athletic reputation.
"We have the opportunity to help out-of-town state senators and state representatives to better understand our experienced and dedicated work force. We need to show the friendliness of our city to our visitors," stated Mucci.
"Let the city shine brightly," Mucci added.
That's because crews with the Joseph B. Fay Co. of Russellton, Pa., have begun the first steps in demolishing the 82-year-old span, which was closed in January 2009 by officials with the Ohio Department of Transportation, who said it had become too costly to repair and upgrade it to meet current traffic conditions.
In a brief press release Wednesday, ODOT officials said the crews have begun work to dismantle the outer panels of the 1,584-foot-long span.
They said the $2.3 million demolition project is expected to involve one explosive blast, which is slated to occur in late February or early March.
The officials said at least one northbound and one southbound lane of state Route 7 will remain open throughout the project. They are expected to reveal additional details at a press conference early today.
John Brown, executive director of the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission, said following the demolition, Steubenville officials plan to convert part of the span's Ohio pier for use as an observation deck, with a pedestrian bridge leading to it and an adjacent parking area.
The contractor has agreed to cut the pier to a specific height and cap it with a concrete base so it may serve as the observation deck.
The span opened in 1928 as a private toll bridge and was the first Ohio River suspension bridge with a concrete floor. It was purchased in 1936 by the State Bridge Commission of Ohio, which removed the toll, though it was reinstated for a time in the 1950s.
The bridge has undergone many renovations, including replacement of the suspension cables in 1941, repairs to a hole in its floor in 1967 and a major rehabilitation in 1972 that included replacing the floor with a concrete-filled steel grid deck.
Other improvements were made in the 1980s and '90s and as late as 2000. But in 2003 ODOT announced plans to close the span, noting the weight limit for the aging span had been lowered in 2004, resulting in less traffic on it. Prior to that, the span was used by many large trucks traveling to and from industries in Weirton. As part of U.S. Route 22 in the 1960s, it carried about 20,000 vehicles daily over the Ohio River.
They added the width of its deck, at just over 20 feet, didn't meet current safety standards and said the cost to upgrade and maintain it wasn't justified.
I will not be able to attend Gov. Kasich's state of the State address due to prior commitments, but for those of you who would like to experience it. HERE is the link to the live stream...Have a great day folks and keep your head up.
Good things are happening out here...Believe it or not!
Rob Nichols, (330) 760-7582, Rob.Nichols@governor.ohio.gov
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Who Said Dat...Nothing is Free - Milton Friedman
1. The best social program is a good job.
2. I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
3. The issue of economics is something that I’ve really never understood as well as I should.
4. I know something about killing. I don’t like killing. And I don’t think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing. Now, that’s just a personal belief that I have.
5. In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
6. Isn’t it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it.
7 .We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
8. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
9. In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
10. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
A: John McCain B. Bill Clinton C. John Kerry D. Ronald Reagan E. Newt Gingrich F. Abraham Lincoln G. Hillary Clinton H. Mitt Romney I. Barack Obama J. Martin Luther King Jr.
H/T to Big Fur Hat
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Choose Your Steed Carefully
Perhaps I am reading more into this than is justified, but I have always put great stock in what the Left says and how they employ Saul Alinski tactics when things get a little to hot for them in an adversarial campaign. All the Demoncats are doing is waiting in line, looking for the slightest weakness in any of the surviving candidates, and picking them off one by one as they pop up with some sensitive social issue or another. Any moral or ethical indiscretion will do just as well.
Alinski always said that to be successful in "community organizing" one must be patient and wait for the enemy to make the first move. Never outline your own plans, simply attack and degrade what the other guy proposes, while you attack his character without mercy.
The feeding frenzy is about to begin in earnest as Rick Santorum is marginalized by the MSM and the Republican elite. He will fall quickly by the wayside following the FL primary and the next vulnerable target will be Newt Gingrich.
As has happened so often in the past, we are permitting ourselves (Conservatives and moderates alike) to be led around by the nose as we search desperately for the strongest opponent for Obama. As this smear fest plays itself out, I will remain uncommitted. I have made my choices in the past, and have been rebuffed by the powerful elite at every turn.
All I can say to you now is to make your choice of steed, and stick with him or her. There may come a time yet when your support will be validated. 2012 may not be the year, and the Presidential race may not be the most important one to focus on right now. We must maintain a House majority and work hard for one in the Senate as well. The most fashionable and presentable presidential candidate in the saddle will not win our country back. Our choices are being limited and our focus is being distracted from the more valuable prize here. The retention of our freedoms and the dissolution of the 60's Marxist coalition must be accomplished at any cost in the coming years.
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