Don’t worry, it’s for your own good.
Spokane County residents may want to avoid backyard sunbathing in April.
That’s when county Assessor Ralph Baker wants to take a series of high-resolution, low-altitude aerial photographs that promise to make goose pimples visible around the globe.
At least, the photos would show new swimming pools, cabanas, decks and workshops.
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Sphere: Related ContentThe economic elite have robbed us all. The amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.
Looks like the warmers are running scared. Now in one of the many attempts to diffuse the climategate scandal in which a number of emails and documents showing manipulation of data, exclusion of unfavorable data, and the systematic suppression of opposing research, the warmers are reaching deep into the excuse barrel and dredging up a bogey man upon which to focus attention. The warmers are now claiming that a spy agency of some dark and mysterious foreign nation is responsible. The reason – to destabilize the Copenhagen summit. Come now boys and girls, put the tin-foil hats away and face facts. What the warmers don’t want to address is the fact that data was manipulated and destroyed, temperature measurement stations were compromised, legitimate research was suppressed when it wasn’t favorable to the political agenda, scientific research standards were ignored, and the peer review process was nothing more than a bunch of chicken little bureaucrats quoting conjecture and obscure anecdotal comments from non-scientists.
The warmers want to claim that one bad scientist doesn’t spoil the whole bunch and to some degree they are right. But, it certainly does call for a complete investigation and reanalysis of the situation before we charge headlong into a destructive global agreement to ruin our economy and way of life. Where there’s smoke there’s also fire and in this case the outcome is so serious that it demands consideration of the facts. We can’t allow chicken little to rule the day when evidence from the past decade indicates that anthropogenic global warming is simply not happening and that any warming we have seen was a natural cyclic occurrence. If the chicken little / warmers expect to control the weather perhaps they are more delusional than we think.
Sphere: Related ContentThis letter was sent to us, anonymously, regarding the Nash County Commissioners meeting on February 1, 2010.
Robert,
At this morning’s meeting, commissioners again sat silently until a vote was taken on just how to finance the new school construction. They then stuck it to the voters.
The usual procedure, per the N.C. Constitution, for floating a bond, is to list it on the next ballot for voter approval. The idea of getting voter approval to increase our indebtedness started to backfire as governments attempted to take us deeper and deeper into debt and the voters began to reject some of these bonds.
So, our legislature devised a bypass around the people by passing a law whereby some of the public buildings can be listed as collateral for the bonds instead of listing the good faith and credit of the people. By doing this, they can float a bond without ever asking the voters for approval.
At this mornings commissioner meeting, they once again rejected a bond referendum using the excuse of the urgency of the moment. The vote was 4-3 with the four tax and spend democrats voting to take the short-cut. When given an opportunity by Commissioner Wayne Outlaw to assure the voters that a tax increase would not be necessary, the same four democrats again declined to add such a statement to the financing resolution.
Three of these commissioners are up for re-election even though two of them are insulated and protected by racial gerrymandering.
It’s great to know that our county commissioners have no problem saddling future generations with debt.
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