
Long week that needs to end. Next one will be better and all will be well. Y'all have a great one!
"Some see a glass as half full, some see it as half empty, I just want to know who’s drinking my rum." Est. 2006


Whoa!
The pollution estimate in question was too high - by 340 percent, according to the California Air Resources Board, the state agency charged with researching and adopting air quality standards. The estimate was a key part in the creation of a regulation adopted by the Air Resources Board in 2007, a rule that forces businesses to cut diesel emissions by replacing or making costly upgrades to heavy-duty, diesel-fueled off-road vehicles used in construction and other industries.
The staff of the powerful and widely respected [How's that working for ya?] Air Resources Board said the overestimate is largely due to the board calculating emissions before the economy slumped, which halted the use of many of the 150,000 diesel-exhaust-spewing vehicles in California.
Off by 340 per cent! This is the data they relied upon to pass the job killing diesel regulations in this sorry excuse of a state. They tried to cover the error by blaming the error laden figures on the economy. No cigar.
Independent researchers, however, found huge overestimates in the air board's work on diesel emissions and attributed the flawed work to a faulty method of calculation - not the economic downturn.
The overestimate, which comes after another bad calculation by the air board on diesel-related deaths that made headlines in 2009, prompted the board to suspend the regulation this year while officials decided whether to weaken the rule.
My bet is no one will be fired. Just another nothing here, move along moment in gubbermint.




Same Old Whore in a New Dress?
Is Gloria Allred a dust covered, cobweb infested, liberal, political whoremonger trying to help Jerry Brown? Just asking.
The camera loving media whore has surfaced once again to inject herself in to California politics. Recall she tried this stunt last time with a press conference slamming Arnold Swartzengrubber with allegations of her then client Rhonda Miller. FYI...that case was dismissed on a summary judgment motion.) So for this go round she has an ex housekeeper for Meg Whitman who was fired when NutMeg realized she was in the country illegally. The fact that NutMeg used a employment agency seems to matter not. Similarly that the illegal alien was paid $23.00 per hour matters not a wit. The fake identification, a California drivers license and a Social Security Card are here. It is probably just a coincidence that Allred surfaces after a dismal performance by Moonbeam Brown in the Gubbernatorial debate the night before. Pure coincidence. Here is a great interview with Hugh Hewitt wherein Allred get's her clock cleaned. Go listen.
So we now have scandal in the California election. Wow. How to react? I recall the moral outrage when we found that tax cheating Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy "Turbo Tax" Giethner had an illegal alien housekeeper whom he did not pay any Social Security or Medicare taxes on for years. wait, there was no outrage. Simple mistake we were told. No problemo.
Yet Allred marches on, foisting her purported tale of woe upon the unsuspecting electorate. She is joined in her task by an unlikely source. Two south-land whack job talk show hosts, John & Ken. They love to be called "Radio Shock Jocks". Meh. John & Ken have a bone to pick with NutMeg. While they profess no love for Moonbeam, they are relentless in their attacks on Meg. Despite disclaimers, their efforts merely aide the struggling Moonbeam in his attempt to again govern this state in his dotage. The future of the state be damned, John & Ken need ratings. Welcome to California.
The whole affair illustrates perfectly the troubles of California. What's in it for me? Publicity starved media whores all seeking to exploit any situation to benefit .....themselves. The state will apparently be better for it. Really?