Is the post-EPA regs power grid ready for a truly hard winter?

First, remember when Candidate Obama said this? 

FLASHBACK: Obama Promised Electricity Costs Would Skyrocket



Hot Air  ... "In order to comply with the new Obama era EPA regs, American Electric Power, which supplies a major portion of the electricity used on the east coast, will be closing almost one quarter of their coal fired plants between now and next June. This is because they were economically unable to come into compliance with the new regulations in the impossibly short window of opportunity offered by the EPA. This is going to reduce the total surge capacity available for some of our most densely populated areas just when we may get hit with weather related demand spikes beyond anyone’s control.

"Having the power go out in the summer when you’re trying to run the air conditioning is bad enough. Losing heating when the temperatures head below zero for weeks on end is a recipe for disaster."

Full release:

This morning, the Obama administration will announce new EPA rules that will keep the president’s infamous promise that “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” The promise was so clear, so brazen, that it’s worth taking another look.  The president’s plan would indeed cause a surge in electricity bills – costs stand to go up $17 billion every year.
But it would also shut down plants and potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year.  It’s a sucker punch for families everywhere paying more for just about everything in the president’s fragile economy.
That’s why the House has already passed legislation that would prevent these rules from taking effect without congressional approval.  Senate Democrats concerned about “pocketbook issues” should take it up immediately.

 

On Ferguson and the police

Ferguson and the Changing Attitudes Towards Cops   ... "Consider: many young liberals have of course discovered a love for big government, and take to Twitter and Facebook to support cops harassing Tea Party types and Nevada ranchers just as they cheer the IRS and Lois Lerner persecuting conservative business people and political groups. Meanwhile, liberal voters in Boston cheered their ‘Boston Strong’ reaction to the Marathon bombers, which to me looked a lot like an entire city cowering from a wounded young teen -- while LEOs with Seal Team Six fantasies trampled on every liberty they could for 48 hours -- brandishing Kevlar, automatic weapons, neo-Nazi style helmets and riding around neighborhoods in hummers and kicking down doors.     C. Edmund Wright
 

Is the media trying to get accused Ferguson police officer killed?  "If you saw that chaotic press conference given by Governor Nixon yesterday, you know the tenor of black people in Ferguson. They want "justice" and they want it now.

"Given this, why is the media showing the world where the accused police officer, Darren Wilson, lives? ..."     Rick Moran

Yahoo! News Publishes Photos of Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson   " Last week, Chief Jackson said that the department had received death threats against Wilson. He reported the same after another officer was incorrectly identified as the shooter on Thursday when the computer hacker group Anonymous gave out the name of the wrong officer."

 Support Rally For Darren Wilson, Officer Involved In Shooting In Ferguson

 

Jon Swaine        ✔ @jonswaine Follow

Protest is outside headquarters NBC affiliate @ksdknews, which broadcast footage of Darren Wilson's home

 

New Police Tactic in Ferguson: Betray Local Business Owners   ... "This is what happens when you let your policing be dictated by MSNBC."

Protests in Ferguson Shutter Businesses    "Employees and their bosses worry about what may happen next. "

These are the true oppressed; those who invest their entire savings into businesses that lay in the path of these despicable looters.

 

Liberal Law Professor Alan Dershowitz Outraged By Perry Indictment: “Everyone Should Stand Against It”

Weasel Zippers

 

"Sounds like the effort to get Perry is backfiring big time, and reminding everyone of the depths to which Democrats will go to take out the competition.

"Via Newsmax:

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz calls himself a “liberal Democrat who would never vote for Rick Perry,” but he’s still “outraged” over the Texas governor’s indictment Friday on charges of abuse of power and coercion.
The charges are politically motivated and an example of a “dangerous” trend of courts being used to affect the ballot box and politics, he told Newsmax on Saturday.
“Everybody, liberal or conservative, should stand against this indictment,” Dershowitz said. “If you don’t like how Rick Perry uses his office, don’t vote for him.”

 Keep reading…

Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama: Let's hug it out

Politico

 

"Hillary Clinton called President Barack Obama on Tuesday to “make sure he knows that nothing she said was an attempt to attack him” when she recently discussed her views on foreign policy in an interview with The Atlantic, according to a statement from a Clinton spokesman.

 

"The statement comes amid tension between the Clinton and Obama camps in the wake of the interview. It also comes as Obama and Clinton, his former secretary of state, are due to cross paths at a social gathering Wednesday night in Martha’s Vineyard."

Well, she has done this before, you know:

Ferguson and the media

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/08/branco-cartoon-accelerant/

Perry blasts felony indictment as ‘outrageous’; Press stresses the indightment without reporting on the merits

Jonathan Chait at NY Magazine;   This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous
"The conventions of reporting —  which treat the fact of an indictment as the primary news, and its merit as a secondary analytic question —  make it difficult for people reading the news to grasp just how farfetched this indictment is."

Via Drudge   "A defiant Rick Perry on Saturday went on the offensive one day after being indicted for allegedly abusing his power with a controversial veto, denouncing the charges as “outrageous” political theatrics and predicting he will prevail over “those who would erode our state’s constitution and laws purely for political purposes.”

 

The Volokh Conspiracy:   Is the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry inconsistent with a Texas Court of Appeals precedent (as to the ‘coercion’ count)?

... "Even without Hanson, it seems to me, the statute — as understood in the indictment — is unconstitutionally overbroad. It would, for instance, punish clearly protected speech such as, “If you Legislators enacts a bill with this language rather than the version I like, I will veto it,” since that too would be “threat[ening]” “to take … action as a public servant” by vetoing the bill in “attempt[ing] to influence” legislators in “specific performance of [their] official duty,” namely drafting and enacting legislation. But Hanson strikes me as even more clearly authoritative on the matter." 

 

Legal Insurrection; Rick Perry indictment looks, walks and quacks like political power play    "The criminalization of routine politics only seems to apply to Republicans."
...
"Rick Perry and Texas Republicans, on the other hand, have a video of the “embattled” DA and head of the Public Integrity Unit belligerently wasted and strapped to a chair, demanding special treatment from a sheriff named Greg:"
 

"At least for now, I think it’s obvious who’s winning the narrative in red Texas.

"Travis County itself is notoriously liberal, but you have to wonder just how bad it must be for Battleground Texas and their democrat friends statewide, if they’re forced to bank all expectations on a political play that’s almost certain to fail."

But liberals will do anything to defend their drunks – remember Ted Kennedy?

 

... "She got a 45-day jail term, – served about half of it, – and refused to resign her office.

 

"The alleged ‘criminal activity’ Governor Perry engaged in was threatening to line-item veto her office funding if she didn’t resign.

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"overnors across the land routinely threaten to veto bills and budgets."

 

Has Obama checked out and no longer interested in being president?

Neo-Neocon

http://legalinsurrection.com/

...
"But was he ever interested in the work of being president? I don’t think so. From the very start, what interested him was giving speeches and campaigning. For the rest, he truly believed that just being his glorious self would somehow magically cause all the things he wanted to happen to actually occur, with a minimum of effort.

"And although that sounds rather deluded, in a sense it was reality-based in his case. Isn’t that pretty much how his life had gone up till now?

"Obama never was very engaged with the work of government, although much of his career has been spent in government. As president, even his signature “accomplishment” early in his administration, Obamacare, was designed and pushed mostly by others (Pelosi, for example), who did the heavy lifting for him.

"Obama is used to adulation and feeds off it, and when the adulation stops he’s really not very interested in going on with the activity. Campaigning and elections are tailor-made for a personality such as his. They feature speeches and promises and debates (words) rather than the need to work with others and accomplish something concrete. The main activity is travel—constant movement—and speaking before adoring crowds." ...
 

Guess who was missing at funeral of highest ranking officer killed in combat since Vietnam War

Legal Insurrection

NBC News reports:

U.S. Army Major General Harold Greene was buried today at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors, including a caisson, two escort platoons, casket team, firing party, colors team, and a caparisoned horse. The U.S. Army band, “Pershing’s Own,” played softly as the funeral procession made its way down the long hill past the rows of simple white gravestones to bring General Greene to his final resting place.
The graveside service began with a few words, followed by a 13-gun salute. The major general’s widow, Dr. Susan Myers, was seated in the front row. To her right was their son 1st Lt. Matthew Greene, his daughter Amelia Greene, followed by Major General Greene’s father, also Harold Greene.
After three rifle volleys and the playing of “Taps,” the American flag, once placed on the major general’s casket, was carefully folded as the band played “America the Beautiful.” U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno presented the flag to his widow, and additional flags to his children and father.
General Greene, 55, became the highest-ranking fatality in the war in Afghanistan after an Afghan military police officer opened fire on Aug. 5th, 2014.

 

 

 

Head of Fraternal Order of Police rips Obama for his remarks on Ferguson

Rick Moran

..."I'm sure the president thought he was being even handed by blaming both protestors and cops for the violence. But you can't have law without order, and preventing people from looting and setting cars on fire usually necessitates strong arm tactics. And inevitably, non-violent people are going to be unfairly arrested simply because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"This is what happens in a riot. It is chaos. The president and many on the left criticizing the police seem to think that the cops can restore the peace in an orderly and logical manner, without resorting to physical violence. It is regrettable that things get out of control but that's what a riot is all about."

It would be nice if people would stay silent about Ferguson
 ...  "Let me say a couple of things about President Obama's statement:
       1) It was cautious and he did call for "healing." That's good.
       2) It was unnecessary and out of place for a president.  That's bad.

Iron Dome - How ISRAEL intercepts air-to-ground rockets from GAZA STRIP

Rafael     " 'Iron Dome", an Anti Missile system, developed by Rafael.

This high-technology system can intercepts(sp) an enemy missile targeted to hit a civilian city, or any other ground area."
 

Read the comments to get a picture of whether Muslims will coexist with Israel or not. Their comments are vitriolic, a word none of the commenters are likely to know.

Hat tip to Walt Stier; Santa Maria, CA

Hamas stages evidence of terrible Israeli murders

iOwnTheWorld.com

Was This A Staged Protest or Staged Propaganda?

"I know Muslims aren’t known for their sharp minds, but I never thought a staged funeral could be this amateurish.

"It is so bad that I’m beginning to think this was a staged protest, similar to the kinds the big brains in our country organize. You know who I mean, the kollidge students."

 

 

Well, the video may not be so great, but the still shots will do fine. They will work well enough to set Geraldo's spleen into overdrive.

Krauthammer: On Obama’s foreign policy, Clinton got it right

“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”

— Hillary Clinton, The Atlantic, Aug. 10

Charles Krauthammer

 

"Leave it to Barack Obama’s own former secretary of state to acknowledge the fatal flaw of his foreign policy: a total absence of strategic thinking.

 

"Yes, of course everything Hillary Clinton says is positioning. The last time she sought the nomination (2008), as she admitted before Defense Secretary Bob Gates, she opposed the Iraq surge for political reasons because she was facing antiwar Sen. Barack Obama in Iowa. Now, as she prepares for her next run (2016), she’s positioning herself to the right because, with no prospect of being denied the Democratic nomination, she has the luxury of running toward the center two years before Election Day.

"All true, but sincere or not — with the Clintons how can you ever tell? — it doesn’t matter. She’s right."...

... "The only consistency is the president’s inability (unwillingness?) to see the big picture. Consider:" ...  Full article here.