A most important item in my life,is going the way of the dodo .

In its place we get these mercury filled things, so in future years we all can read about the mercury crisis necessitating new controls on our daily lives to combat the new threat.

More immediate is the loss of jobs in the U.S. to our friends in China and Mexico.

Thanks GE, you SOBs.

: Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s. The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs. "Now what're we going to do?" said Toby Savolainen, 49, who like many others worked for decades at the factory, making bulbs now deemed wasteful. During the recession, political and business leaders have held out the promise that American advances, particularly in green technology, might stem the decades-long decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs. But as the lighting industry shows, even when the government pushes companies toward environmental innovations and Americans come up with them, the manufacture of the next generation technology can still end up overseas. What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs. The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences. Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China. Consisting of glass tubes twisted into a spiral, they require more hand labor, which is cheaper there. So though they were first developed by American engineers in the 1970s, none of the major brands make CFLs in the United States. "Everybody's jumping on the green bandwagon," said Pat Doyle, 54, who has worked at the plant for 26 years. But "we've been sold out. First sold out by the government. Then sold out by GE. " Doyle was speaking after a shift last month surrounded by several co-workers around a picnic table near the punch clock. Many of the workers have been at the plant for decades, and most appeared to be in their 40s and 50s. Several worried aloud about finding another job. "When you're 50 years old, no one wants you," Savolainen said. It was meant half in jest, but some of the men nod grimly. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html?hpid=topnews&am p;sid=ST2010090707038

Lights out for ordinary bulbs made in the U.S.

Hope you are keeping well?

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is an essential plant food. It underpins all life on earth. Plants produce the oxygen which all animal life (including us) needs to survive. Why else do growers pump pure CO2 into their greenhouses if it is not to increase production?

Climate change enthusiasts should consider the facts:

The largest greenhouse gas in the earth’s atmosphere by far is water vapour. CO2 is a minor component of the earth’s atmosphere, at barely 0.0385 of one percent.

Levels of CO2 today are amongst the lowest they have been in the known history of this planet. CO2 is absorbed naturally by water, the oceans, soil and all plant life. It is odourless, tasteless and non-toxic.

The largest and most significant source of CO2 is underwater volcanic eruptions. Just one of the larger submarine volcanoes can, when active, emit more CO2 in a few days than all human activity might generate in a year. There are numerous eruptions on the seabed every year, almost none of which are ever noticed or reported outside the scientific community.

Any impact of a higher level of CO2, such as it might be, is logarithmic, not arithmetic. In other words, the higher the figure the less the effect. Double today’s CO2 level, and no-one would notice any difference.

The warmest year since modern records began was 1934. Temperatures rose from 1860 to 1875, cooled until 1890, rose to 1903, cooled to 1918, rose to 1941, cooled to 1976, rose to 1998 and have cooled since then. So 1998 was not the warmest ever, just the most recent peak. The fastest change in average temperature was between 1918 and 1941, and it was significantly faster than the increase which peaked in 1998.

Ice-core research has demonstrated that any increase in average temperature levels lag any increase in CO2 levels by some 500 to 600 years. So, even if there were a slow, long-term connection, there is no practical purpose in attempting to change CO2 levels with a view to controlling average global temperatures. The proposition is scientifically absurd.

Much of the above comes from a recent book by Professor Ian Plimer, Heaven and Earth. Professor Plimer is a geologist, and the head of the environmental sciences department at the University of Adelaide. He is also visiting professor of earth sciences at Melbourne University. His book includes over 2000 individually annotated sources of data and conclusions drawn from academic papers published all over the world by scientists directly involved in the study of earth sciences.

Plimer also points out that the Minoan, Roman and Medieval Warmings were all warmer than our current levels of average temperature. CO2 levels were also higher. However, during at least one Ice Age CO2 levels were 15 times higher than today, which undermines the proposition that global warming and levels of CO2 are directly linked.

In the Cambrian period some 500 million years ago, CO2 levels were up to 20 times higher than today, and temperatures were some seven degrees centigrade higher as well. There was no greenhouse gas catastrophe. On the contrary, plant life evolved rapidly.

During the period when dinosaurs roamed the earth CO2 levels were three times those of today. Plant life was abundant, which is thought to be one of the reasons why dinosaurs thrived for so long.

Even the UK’s own Met Office (despite its name, much given to unscientific climate scare stories) has recently admitted that global average temperatures have fallen since 1998. And this has happened when there has been a significant increase in the burning of coal, oil and gas across the globe. Some estimates put the increase over the last ten years at 25% or thereabouts.

There is a huge difference between looking after our environment and minimising pollution, and setting out on a crusade to “justify” more government control and taxation. And that, I believe, is what our ruling elite are up to. CO2 is merely their latest bogeyman.

Worse, they are now hoisted by their own petard as a result of the development of an international market in carbon trading. Many public and private pension funds, including the BBC pension fund, have open positions in this market, which makes the recognition of scientific reality a potential financial disaster for fund managers, institutions and governments.

Hence the desperate need to convince themselves of a threat from man-made CO2. Those of us relying merely on the facts can see that the King has no clothes on!

Ashley Mote
Binsted

http://www.ashleymote.co.uk/?p=3158

He kills man made global warming stone dead!

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100827/full/news.2010.437.html

THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/196602

IPCC told to stop lobbying and restrict role to explaining climate science
An independent investigation into the UN’s climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to explaining the science behind any changes in global temperature.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7972034/IPCC-told-to-stop-lobbying-and-re strict-role-to-explaining-climate-science.html

UN climate experts 'overstated dangers': Keep your noses out of politics, scientists told

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1307446/UN-climate-change-panel-relied-vague-impre cise-predictions.html#ixzz0y8RBSVTT

"US Government admits satellite temperature readings "degraded." All data taken offline in shock move. Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high"

World-renowned Canadian climatologist, Dr. Timothy Ball, after casting his expert eye over the shocking findings concluded, “At best the entire incident indicates gross incompetence, at worst it indicates a deliberate attempt to create a temperature record that suits the political message of the day.”

http://www.climatechangefraud.com/climate-reports/7491-official-satellite-failure-means-decade-of-gl obal-warming-data-doubtful

They never do they are too occupied counting there wages!

Bad enough President Obama has no problem with this insult, but the highly regarded Speaker Pelosi has to inject her 2 cents in a most highly offensive way.

AUDIO - Rep. Pelosi calls for investigation of WTC mosque opposition

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, called for an investigation of those who are protesting the building of the Ground Zero Mosque on Tuesday. She told San Francisco's KCBS radio:

AUDIO

"There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded," she said. "How is this being ginned up that here we are talking about Treasure Island, something we've been working on for decades, something of great interest to our community as we go forward to an election about the future of our country and two of the first three questions are about a zoning issue in New York City." (h/t Kristinn)

Calls to investigate the funding for those proposing the $100 million "Cordoba House" have fallen on deaf ears, though, as New York's Mayor Mike Bloomberg has described such an investigation as "un-American."

Ms. Pelosi called the Ground Zero mosque an "urban development decision" for New Yorkers to work through. Her remarks happened on the heels of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, parting ways with President Barack Obama on the issue. Mr. Reid suggested the mosque should be built somewhere else.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/aug/17/audio-rep-pelosi-calls-investigation-wtc -mosque-op/

That woman just doesn't get it.

unseen episode of the Little Rascals

The Lil Liberals in

Our Future Leaders

Attack of the 50 Foot Pelosi

Fadlallah - When mass suicide [homicide] bombing was invented.

The new dimension of international terrorism - Page 115
Stefan M. Aubrey - 2004 - 312 pages [p. 115-116]
A further extension of this philosophy can be found in the teachings of the Lebanese spiritual leader Shaykh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah. While Fadlallah agreed that the teachings of the Koran provided for the use of force and jihad for defensive purposes, the contemporary situation of the Middle East creates a scenario that tends to breed violence.
[...] justification of violent action in the name of jihad also included the usually non-legitimate practices (according to Koranic law) of kidnapping, hijacking and assassination, justifying these actions as reactions to US presence and influence in the Muslim lands.
http://books.google.com/books?id=VJJG14mHbGAC&pg=PA116

International Terrorists - Page 130
Thomas Streissguth - 1993 - 160 pages
Religious leader Sheikh Mohammad Hassan Fadlallah, a follower of the Ayatollah Khomeini, helped to organize the Hezbollah in Lebanon. To attack the multinational forces, Hezbollah invented a terrible new weapon — the suicide truck bomb.
http://books.google.com/books?id=vdKnY1vRKZkC&pg=PA130

Encyclopedia of terrorism - Page 128
Harvey W. Kushner - 2003 - 523 pages
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. ... In his impassioned speeches, Fadlallah has called for Lebanon to be organized as a theocratic Islamic state...
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZOfkAoDb_2IC&pg=PA128

Fighting suicide bombing: a worldwide campaign for life - Page 27
Israel W. Charny - 2007 - 283 pages
... Ayatollah Fadlallah, offered a justification for suicide bombing notwithstanding the fact that suicide is strictly prohibited by the Koran. In an important work on “political paranoia,” Robert Robins and Jerrold Post explain, “Fadlallah asserted that killing oneself as a means of killing an enemy ‘differs little from that of a soldier who fights and knows that in the end he will be killed.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=zmgEF2hESVMC&pg=PA27

Fighting back: winning the war against terrorism
Neil C. Livingstone, Terrell E. Arnold - 1986 - 268 pages [p. 6]
... and Fadlallah himself reportedly not only helped plan the attacks but blessed the suicide bomber who drove the bomb-laden yellow Mercedes truck into the lobby of the marine barracks.
http://books.google.com/books?&id=1rrcAAAAIAAJ&q=Fadlallah

Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah dies at 74; Lebanon's top cleric was ... Jul 5, 2010 ... Fadlallah is best known to Americans as the black-turbaned cleric accused of masterminding the bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/05/local/la-me-0705-mohammed-hussein-fadlallah20100705

Mourning a Jihadist | FrontPage Magazine Jul 19, 2010
... Fadlallah had a long history of terrorism and extremism, ... closely tied to Hezbollah when the terrorist group was carrying out kidnappings ...Journalist Con Coughlin says that when he interviewed Fadlallah in 1985, one of his bodyguards checked his passport. Coughlin later found out that the bodyguard was a Hezbollah operative looking to see if he was an American that could be taken hostage...
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/19/mourning-a-jihadist

Sheikh Fadlallah was the terrorist mastermind behind the Lebanon hostage crisis

By Con Coughlin World Last updated: July 5th, 2010

Don’t be fooled by all the tributes that are pouring out following the death in Beirut at the weekend of Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the so-called spiritual leader of the radical Shi’ite Muslim militia Hizbollah. The U.S. State Department’s classifaction of Fadlallah as a terrorist was spot on, and when you look back at his track record you can see he was right up there with other infamous terror masterminds, such as Abu Nidal and Carlos the Jackal.

One of Fadlallah’s last acts before he died was to issue a fatwa authorising the use of suicide bomb attacks. The mystery here is why he waited so long. For as a founder member of Hizbollah – he sat on the organisation’s ruling council – Fadlallah gave his personal approval to the massive suicide truck bomb attacks that levelled the American Embassy and Marine compound in Beirut in 1983, killing more than 300 people, including the then CIA station chief. Fadlallah gave his personal blessing to the suicide bombers before they left for their deadly mission.

Fadlallah also masterminded the hostage crisis in Lebanon in the mid-1980s. I remember interviewing him at his house in Beirut’s southern suburbs in 1985 at the height of Terry Waite’s mission to free the Americans then being held by Hizbollah on Iran’s orders (Fadlallah was a close friend of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s Islamic revolution.)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100046096/sheikh-falallah-was-the-terrorist-mastermind -behind-the-lebanon-hostage-crisis/

Islamic Iran - reap what you saw!

BBC News - Iran mosque 'suicide bombers' kill 27

Two suicide bombers have killed at least 27 people at a Shia mosque in south-eastern Iran, officials say. The first bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint outside the Jamia mosque in the city of Zahedan, with a more deadly second blast moments later. Worshippers and Revolutionary Guards were reportedly among the dead Two suicide bombings at a Shiite mosque in heavily Sunni southeast Iran killed more than 20 people Thursday, including worshippers and members of the Revolutionary Guards

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...