Canales News Briefs

February 18, 2009

To All,

It seems that The Looney Left wants us all to be singing from the same hymnal...

In other news:

In America...:

John Bresnahan reports at Politico.com about a "...surprising move..." regarding post-trial/conviction events in the Senator Ted Stevens case.

It seems that Judge Emmet Sullivan has ruled the DOJ's prosecution team in contempt of court, after an apparent failure to provide potentially exculpatory documents to Senator Steven's defense team. Said documents had previously been brought to light by FBI Agent Chad Joy, who has also alleged that a key witness for the DOJ had been "influenced" by an "...inappropriate personal relationship..." with a female FBI agent.

Bresnahan notes that Senator Steven's team is anxious to get any documents that could support a new trial motion. But it should send shivers down the spines of citizens when professional bureaucrats can apparently abuse the discretion delegated to them by the people in such a manner. Especially when it changes the balance of representation in so important a political body as the US Senate.

And we firearms activists had thought that the ATF had gotten "too aggressive" of late...

Link at:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18920.html

"...Freeze, You Bastards..."

Kate Galbraith reports for the New York Times that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has reversed the former Bush Administration policy and will be coming up with a statement as to whether it will regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

While a regulatory process, complete with public comment periods, would need to be initiated, it is clear that such a regulation limiting carbon dioxide would have negative effect on coal-generated electricity. Coal-fired plants are popular east of the Mississippi, though the Times noted that the rule could adversely affect the construction of a proposed coal-fired plant in New Mexico.

New Mexico, oddly enough, went for Barack Obama in the 2008 election, along with the United Mine Workers and a few others apparently dedicated to the proposition to ban coal use and mining "within our lifetimes".

The Times article also fails to mention that other shibboleth of the Socialist East, home-heating oil (Which they apparently have less of this winter, given that Hugo Chavez can no longer to provide the Kennedy's with free oil due to the economy). Given that heating oil probably kicks as much carbon dioxide out as burning coal for a majority of homes north of the Pennsylvania-New York border, America's clueless Easterners had better pray for global warming to make New York seem like the Bahamas real soon. Perhaps, with luck, the United Mine Workers can learn to man call centers, or perhaps arrange flowers for Sierra Club fundraising dinners, before they lose their traditional roles in an industrial economy being unilaterally disarmed from too many angles. Stay tuned.

Link at:

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/epa-to-consider-rollback-of-bush-coal-policy/

Well, What Did You Expect??:

Forbes.com notes today that the stock market was less than pleased with the signing of the Stimulate Patronage Bill in Denver.

Forbes also notes that the market is down 27% since Election Day, and is speculating that "capital" is on strike given the proclivities of Barack Obama and his close friend David Obey. Given that Obey seems to favor more regulation than a certain California Fish & Game Commissioner getting a Twitter feed from the NRDC, it's a wonder that all capital hasn't fled to Antigua, er, uh...the Bahamas in short order.

Oh well, sometimes folks have to learn the hard way...

Link at:

http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2009/02/stocks-hate-obeynomics.html

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/17/business/stanford.php

Respectfully,

Anthony Canales

SFVMC-NRA

except as noted.