Tea Partiers gone wild!

Tea Partyers gone wild!
By Justin Elliott


Tea Partiers gone wild!

Salon/AP


With the new Tea Party presence in Washington, a fair amount of attention has been paid to extreme legislation proposed by emboldened conservatives in Congress. But you haven't seen anything until you check out what's going on in America's statehouses.

Earlier this month, news broke about a bill making its way through the South Dakota Legislature that, under one interpretation, would have made it legal to kill abortion providers. While that measure was, after a loud public outcry, shelved, it's actually just the tip of the iceberg. From bizarre schemes involving gold to outright advocacy of nullification, state legislative chambers across the country have become havens for the wildest, most zany dreams of the Tea Party crowd.

Here are nine of our favorite proposals that are -- we kid you not -- actually pending in state legislatures today.



Global warming is good!

A legislator in Montana has introduced "an act stating Montana’s position on global warming; and providing an immediate effective date." Under the bill, the Legislature would make an official finding not only that " global warming is a natural occurrence and human activity has not accelerated it" but also that "global warming is beneficial to the welfare and business climate of Montana." There is no elaboration in the bill on that final claim.

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/republican_party/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/02/21/state_laws

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller, a prominent Protestant pastor who opposed the Nazi regime. He spent the last 7 years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. Germany, 1937.

It's just the handful of nutbags that don't understand that gay peoples' money is worth just as much as straight peoples' money. The vast majority of them will let their greed override their homophobia.

going wild on Wall Street with battery operated torches and rubber pitch forks for starters? They need to bring these corrupters of society to justice.

America wants accountability from those who have corrupted and destroyed the USA, its pensions, retirements, its Congress, housing, and a foreign policy run for a chosen few. Obama could have done this but instead they were all give a virtual pardon from prosecution while real Americans suffer.

That is what America needs to see and we need to see it now.

Melting glaciers a concern for Glacier Park's tourism industry

By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian missoulian.com | Posted: Thursday, April 8, 2010 6:00 am

WEST GLACIER - A warming climate is changing the face of Glacier National Park, and some now worry the transformation threatens not only downstream ecosystems but also the region's important tourism economy.

"Tourism brings about $3 billion into Montana every year," said Rhonda Fitzgerald, an innkeeper and member of the state tourism advisory council. "In the Glacier region, it's about $1 billion per year. Those are the economic facts."

And then there are the climate change facts.

Between 1900 and 1979, the Glacier Park area experienced an average of 181 days every year when the temperature dipped below freezing. Between 1980 and 2005, warming had reduced the number of below-freezing days to 152.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_5fb43298-42c6-11df-9583-001cc4c03286.html

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No More Glaciers in Glacier National Park by 2020?
Anne Minard
National Geographic News
March 2, 2009

It's an oft-repeated statistic that the glaciers at Montana's Glacier National Park will disappear by the year 2030.

But Daniel Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey ecologist who works at Glacier, says the park's namesakes will be gone about ten years ahead of schedule, endangering the region's plants and animals.

The 2030 date, he said, was based on a 2003 USGS study, along with 1992 temperature predictions by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

"Temperature rise in our area was twice as great as what we put into the <1992> model," Fagre said. "What we've been saying now is 2020."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090302-glaciers-melting.html

or it being beneficial but that doesn't have anything to do with reality. Believe what you will, say what you want but what happens will happen and in the end they will have to live (if they survive) with it like everyone else.

for Koch and ReTHUGS

ignorant hacks who kneel at the faux temple, w/o any critical thought.

they're Republicans.