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Pubs using rocking chair money extension to thwart EPA (Pubs are in the upper left with a stick/ EPA is the Cat)
I expect the same result as the illustrations show, might be a bit painful for the EPA but hardly enough to correct their continued actions against an important economic sector of the US Economy
Posted by: Black Charlie ||
01/11/2014 10:50 Comments ||
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Attaching an amendment to the bill requires some Democrats also vote for the amendment. I wouldn't bet on that happening.
#3
Coal plants can only comply with the regulation if they adopt carbon capture and sequestration technology, which the coal industry says is commercially unproven.
Huh? If the technology is unproven, how do we know it will allow coal plants to comply? I'm all in favor of cleaner plants but what if they spend all that money and they still can't comply? Does the EPA shut them down anyway?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/11/2014 12:38 Comments ||
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If coal mines and shafts were located in the urban centers of Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, and were owned and operated by urban dwellers [or run into ruin as in SA], there would likely be no environmental issue or EPA outrage.
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This has no teeth. It's window dressing meant to help Dems in coal producing states in next year's election -- and our Tame Republican friends are leading the charge.
[BREITBART] Record-keeping snags could complicate the start of insurance coverage this month as people begin using policies they purchased under President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... 's health care overhaul.
Insurance companies are still trying to sort out cases of so-called health insurance orphans, customers for whom the government has a record that they enrolled, but the insurer does not.
Government officials say the problem is real but under control, with orphan records being among the roughly 13,000 problem cases they are trying to resolve with insurers. But insurance companies are worried the process will grow more cumbersome as they deal with the flood of new customers who signed up in December as enrollment deadlines neared.
More than 1 million people have signed up through the federal insurance market that serves 36 states. Officials contend the error rate for new signups is close to zero.
Insurers, however, are less enthusiastic about the pace of the fixes. The companies also are seeing cases in which the government has assigned the same identification number to more than one person, as well as so-called "ghost" files in which the insurer has an enrollment record but the government does not.
But orphaned files _ when the insurer has no record of enrollment _ are particularly concerning because the companies have no automated way to identify the presumed policyholder. They say they have to manually compare the lists of enrollees the government sends them with their own records because the government never built an automated system that would do the work much faster.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/11/2014 00:00 ||
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On 'Special Report' yesterday, Jonah Goldberg commented on the regime's dropping of Obamacare contractor CGI. Goldberg said... "blaming CGI for the rollout disaster was like blaming your dog for failing to play the piano."
A survey by Enroll America showed that 68% of the uninsured never even logged on to the website. Terms like subsidies, deductibles, plan this or plan that were too much for some, a fact that was anticipated by the creation of a class of Navigators created and funded by Obamacare itself.
They knew that the target audience would be baffled. The Navigators were created in the knowledge that insurance would have to be provided where basic literacy was no longer to be taken for granted. Recently a bank robber made the news when he handed a holdup note to a teller, only to have the teller unable to read it. In a recent, high profile murder trial the star witness proved unable to read her own declaration when questioned on the stand.
At least some of the uninsured will be in similar case. The Navigators have to fix this problem. Their job, not to put too fine a point on it, is to fill out the form for those who cant fill it out themselves, nor in fact be able to understand the form in the first place.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
