Romney Vs. Sandy

Obama To Quickly Reverse Bush Executive Orders

From the Washington Post:

Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.

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"The kind of regulations they are looking at" are those imposed by Bush for "overtly political" reasons, in pursuit of what Democrats say was a partisan Republican agenda, said Dan Mendelson, a former associate administrator for health in the Clinton administration's Office of Management and Budget. The list of executive orders targeted by Obama's team could well get longer in the coming days, as Bush's appointees rush to enact a number of last-minute policies in an effort to extend his legacy.

I'm just thrilled that we'll have an administration that doesn't base polices on the world being 6,000 years old...



...or one that doesn't see science as an enemy...

...or one who doesn't believe in gagging doctors globally...

...or one that doesn't believe that America tortures...



...or one who doesn't believe that American citizens are all potential terrorists to spy on at will.





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Help Save HB 2200!

From PennFUTURE:

Urgent Alert - Help Save Energy Conservation

Your state senator is a key player in the effort to move crucial legislation that will help Pennsylvanians save about 20 percent on their electricity bills and cut global warming pollution. Politics is holding up HB 2200, the energy conservation bill. You can help get HB 2200 moving. Ask your state senator to request that Senator Dominic Pileggi, Senate Majority Leader, to support HB 2200 in the final budget agreement.

Just click here to take action. This legislation must pass before the General Assembly takes its summer vacation.

Please do this today!

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Not how I like to start the week

Saw this at AOL:

Scientists Offer Dire Forecast for Earth
Climate Report Warns of Global Warming Effects
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP

WASHINGTON (March 10) - The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.

At the same time, tens of millions of others will be flooded out of their homes each year as the Earth reels from rising temperatures and sea levels, according to portions of a draft of an international scientific report obtained by The Associated Press.

It goes on to talk about how tropical diseases will spread, polar bears will only be found in zoos, and that widespread starvation will be seen by 2080.

It's all based on a draft document by the "authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" which was written and reviewed by more than 1,000 scientists from dozens of countries (still to be edited by government officials).

The article concludes with this:

Global warming soon will "affect everyone's life ... it's the poor sectors that will be most affected," Romero Lankao said.

And co-author Terry Root of Stanford University said: "We truly are standing at the edge of mass extinction" of species.

The report included these likely results of global warming.

I'd say that I hope your week is starting better than mine, but if you're reading this on the planet Earth, I guess it's not.