Let's start you with more frozen photos you won't see on the Globe's web site:
(From January 9. 2010)
Photo #1:
TOO COLD TO CRAWL -- Lin Ahlstedt helped rescue cold-stunned turtles from St. Joseph Bay south of Port St. Joe, Fla., yesterday. Cold water, cold air, and low tide combined to stun the turtles. Hundreds were rescued from the area
Photo #2:
SNOW MOTION -- A bicycle sat partly buried in the snow as traffic passed it by outside a Boston University dormitory on Commonwealth Avenue.
Related: Morning Bike Ride in Boston
Ready for a ride, readers?
But you will see this:
"global warming"
PFFFFFFFTTT!!
Tell it to these people:
"Cold stuns Floridians, causes deaths elsewhere
ORLANDO, Fla. – Across Florida, the weather was freakishly cold for a state that's a winter respite for so many. There were snow flurries spotted in several parts of the state, as far south as Naples on the gulf coast.
In FLORIDA?!!!!!
In Miami, the temperature was forecast to drop just below freezing overnight and threatened to break the record for low temperatures in the city. In suburban Atlanta, which has seen an unusually long stretch of low temperatures, two teens died Saturday after falling through the ice on a partially frozen pond....
Related: Getting Ready For the Game (about a quarter of the way down)
An ice jam along the Mississippi River prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flood warning for southwest Illinois and northeast Missouri.... And the ferry that serves as the only connection between western Kentucky and eastern Missouri was shut down Saturday afternoon because of ice in the harbor and Mississippi River.
Yeah I can see why the Globe didn't pick this item up for it's Sunday s*** sling.
Kentucky Department of Transportation spokesman Keith Todd said with temperatures expected to remain below freezing, operations for the Dorena-Hickman Ferry would be evaluated daily to decide when the crossing can resume. Amtrak said some trains between Chicago and Denver and between St. Paul, Minn., and Seattle wouldn't operate Saturday and Sunday because of cold, high winds and drifting snow.
As the arctic cold began to ease in some parts of the nation, residents in northern Florida were under a hard freeze warning with temperatures expected to drop to 20 or below overnight.
In the Florida Keys, a tropical paradise where people usually pay attention to the heat index, a term more often reserved for Northerners was being used: wind chill. Gusts were predicted to make the air feel like the upper 20s.
For Alfonso Idiaquez, the weather brought back flashbacks to the life he left behind in Cleveland seven years ago. "It feels like we're living in Ohio," said Idiaquez, 43, of Kissimmee. "My son was laughing. He said, 'We need to buy shovels for the snow.'"
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I know I'm an old frowny-face, but I find nothing funny about people dying because of fart-misting lies.
Good thing I live in Massachushitts were we are LEADERS in ENVIRO-CONSCIOUSNESS!!
"Massachusetts already ranked close to the bottom in the country in environmental funding"
PFFFFFFT!
What a SUPREME EMBARRASSMENT is this "commonwealth!!!!"
Severe state environmental budget cuts will hit home for the public this summer with expected staff cuts at parks and campgrounds, but they will probably also take a toll in less visible areas such as water and air protection, recycling efforts, and the policing of environmental crimes.
Since the beginning of fiscal year 2009, the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation’s budget has been slashed by more than 23 percent, from $102 million to $78.3 million today, and the agency has lost 171 full-time positions through retirements, attrition, and layoffs.
Please keep the $$$ figures in mind for later, thank you.
The state Department of Environmental Protection’s budget has been cut about 16 percent, from $62.3 million to $50.7 million, in that time and is losing about 140 full-time positions. The latest round of layoffs occurred this month.
Actually, shrinking government is probably a good thing, folks.
Among the program hits: Virtually all community recycling grants have disappeared; technical assistance to help communities deal with hazardous waste sites is reduced; the Agricultural Innovation Center, which partnered with industry to develop new businesses, is gone and there are about 15 percent fewer environmental police officers to ensure boaters, snowmobilers, hunters, and fishermen abide by state laws. The cuts are also expected to slow permitting timelines for development projects and efforts to clean up toxic mercury and emerging pollutants.
Oh, in other words, all the things that WOULD HELP PEOPLE, huh?
Yeah, THAT always get the AXE!!
Ian Bowles, state secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, did not sugarcoat the impact - but said the state is working hard to restructure some programs to ensure the least harm to the state’s most critical environmental services....
Did some s***-head just say something? I don't speak gibberish.
Environmentalists say that Massachusetts already ranked close to the bottom in the country in environmental funding, and the cuts come at a time when the state is facing profound challenges, such as man-made climate change, chronic air pollution, and degradation of waterways and supplies....
Yeah, the hack Glob reporter repeats it as if it were fact! Pffft!
And THERE are your REAL PROBLEMS, America -- something the MSM is not helping one bit!!!!
State officials say some parks won’t be staffed at all, while others will have fewer employees to assist visitors and fewer maintenance workers to pick up garbage and maintain grounds....
Translations: YOUR PARKS are going to look like s***, Massachusetts -- and they were not looking to good to begin with!
Jack Clarke, a policy expert and lobbyist with Mass Audubon, said he understands the economic crisis, but the state’s environmental budget makes up less than 1 percent of the state’s total budget - and that was before the cuts....
Well, it is even less now, right?
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The Hollywood Heist of Massachusetts
Massachusetts' Business Tax Increase Was a Corporate Tax Cut
Slow Saturday Special: Patrick Pimps Football Footpath For Patriots
Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride on the T
Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride
Why Massachusetts Needed to Raise Taxes
Tax Increase Fails to Save Massachusetts ServicesBlood All Over Massachusetts State Budget
State Government On Probation
The Next Taxachusetts Tax Increase
Bankers' Bark Worse Than Bite to State
The Compassionate Budget Choices of Massachusetts
The State of Massachusetts is Mentally Ill
Yup, THAT is where your TAX DOLLARS ARE (or are not) GOING, Massachusetts!!!
Couldn't find a FEW MILLION in there to KEEP the PLACE CLEAN, huh?
And a BIT CLOSER TO HOME and MUCH MORE WORRISOME:
MONTPELIER - A small amount of radioactive material was found in a test of groundwater wells at the Vermont Yankee nuclear facility, the plant confirmed yesterday.
But worry about "terrorists" on the airplane, America.
Worry about that bomb Iran is not making.
The problem at the 38-year-old reactor is similar to those cropping up at nuclear plants around the country, with the discovery of a radioactive isotope called tritium in a monitoring well....
Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry engineer who has consulted with the Legislature on issues related to Vermont Yankee, called the discovery of tritium on the plant site “a big deal.’’
“It’s a sign that there’s a pipe or a tank leaking somewhere’’ at the plant, Gundersen said. “It’s highly unlikely that the highest concentration in the ground would happen to be at the monitoring well,’’ he added.
William Irwin, radiological health chief for the Vermont Department of Health, said, “A sample is just a sample. It does not give a complete picture.’’
*****************************Debate has heated up over whether the plant should be given a 20-year extension on its license, set to expire in 2012, when it reaches the 40-year mark.
As a nearby resident who knows the pulse of the town very well, WE DO NOT WANT IT RE-LICENSED!
PERIOD!!!!
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Yeah, the NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION and WASTE concern me a LOT MORE than "global warming" -- especially when I step outside.
Also see: Nevada's Nuclear Water
