Hello, I am Senator Jim Inhofe, Republican Senator from Oklahoma.
Tonight, the President will be delivering his State of the Union Address, and he will speak about bringing the nation together. I applaud him for this effort. This is an important message, especially in the wake of the tragedy in Tucson. We continue to pray for the victims, and for the full and speedy recovery of Gabby Giffords.
The President will also focus on jobs, and various approaches to get Americans back to work. I hope the President addresses the flood of regulations coming from EPA – put simply, they threaten jobs and jobs creation.
The President could find common ground with Republicans if he pledges to bring those rules back into balance. Right now, they pose a dangerous threat to the competitiveness of manufacturers and small businesses, particularly in America’s Heartland.
In just two years, the Obama Administration has put every institution that has made America great under attack. Whether it’s the military, health care, ag, or financial sector, each thinks they are the only ones feeling the brunt of the Obama Administration’s liberal agenda. In fact, it’s all of them….
An old interview mostly on Chomsky’s linguistics work, philosophy, and some remarks on political views near the end.
Note: the video is taken from Youtube, where it was broken into five segments, when I re-merged the segments the audio got a little strange, so that before the next segment’s audio starts the audio from the last segment jumps in for a fraction of a second. Its tolerable though.
Some pictures taken from near earth orbit and from outer space showing our beautiful earth, astronauts working in space, space shuttle Endeavour & shuttle Atlantis, International Space Station (ISS), the hubble telescope and astronauts walking on the moon. Hope you´ll enjoy it 😉
Al Gore’s new book, The Future, isn’t mostly about climate change. In fact, global warming is only one of the “Six drivers of global change.”
Others drivers include globalization, the internet (surprise, surprise) and “the reinvention of life and death” from the genomic, biotech, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions.
In his discussion of why the climate bill failed after passing the U.S. House, Gore takes a different view of one recent academic essay and slams the White House. (more).
Special report Dairy farms suffer in US shale gas fracking boom
28th January, 2013
Dimiter KenarovThe dash for unconventional gas may have brought financial benefits to some, but for struggling dairy farmers in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, the arrival of drilling wells could be the final nail in the coffin. Dimiter Kenarov reports
When Sheila Russell decided to move back to her ancestral home in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, she wanted to start a new life. A seventh-generation Russell, whose family had settled the land in 1796, the last year of George Washington’s presidency, she left her corporate job at a catalogue company to do what she loved best: farming.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fingered leafy greens like spinach and lettuce as the leading source of food poisoning, a perhaps uncomfortable conclusion for health officials who want us to eat our vegetables. (Jan. 29)
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