http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/scam/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:44:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418615/posts The McDonalds had only four months to go before the crushing economics of covering treatments for their autism spectrum son was all on them. “But thank God, come January, we’ll have no worries,” said Michelle McDonald, 39, as she joined others in Hartford Wednesday to talk about an insurance fix that mandates coverage for medical needs of these children. The law, which was championed by state Sen. Martin Looney, D-New Haven, state Sen. Joseph Crisco, D-Woodbridge, and state House Speaker Christopher Donovan, D-Meriden, applies to private insurance plans and is effective as of Friday. McDonald said her non-verbal 4-year-old son... NewHavenRegister.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418615/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:44:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417115/posts BISMARCK, N.D.—North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said he expects the state to file a lawsuit against Minnesota over its plan to tax carbon dioxide created by electrical generation. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission wants to add a fee of $4 to $34 per ton of carbon dioxide to the cost of electrical generation starting in 2012. The majority of electricity in North Dakota is generated by coal-fired power plants, which emit carbon dioxide. North Dakota officials consider it an unfair tax on electricity produced in the state and say it would discourage its use by Minnesota utilities. Pioneer Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417115/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:33:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417105/posts 'Million dollar tortoises' shed light on state's environmental laws James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer 12/28/2009 They might be the most expensive tortoises to walk the San Bernardino County desert. A northern California energy company will pay $25 million to relocate and protect 25 threatened desert tortoises before it can start building a massive solar power plant in the northeastern part of the county near the Nevada border. And while calculating the environmental impact is more complicated than saying "$1 million per tortoise," the case illustrates the tremendous complexity - and high cost - of environmental laws that come into play... The San Bernardino Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417105/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:18:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415760/posts Contest rules are very simple, extremely easy to enter! Political Lore blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415760/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:15:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415276/posts Conservative bloggers are calling for a boycott of the company. Executives say the series, in which Santa is warned the North Pole could melt before Christmas, was intended to inspire children.St. Louis - First, Chicken Little warned children that the sky was falling. And now Build-a-Bear Workshop has warned children that the North Pole could disappear before Christmas. The Missouri-based company has found itself in hot water, defending an animated series on its website featuring polar bears, penguins and Mrs. Claus, as Santa is warned that global warming is "a serious situation." Conservative bloggers reposted the videos online and called... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415276/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:46:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412918/posts Nevada's stimulus-funded weatherization programs are living down to expectations of inefficiency and incompetence. What a surprise. Of all the debt-growing, make-work boondoggles crafted by Congress this year, the "green jobs" grants set aside to make low-income homes more energy-efficient left elected Democrats especially excited: "We're handing out welfare, creating jobs and saving the planet!" The state got $18.6 million in weatherization funds, with the condition that all the money be spent by June 30. About 1,850 homes with incomes at or below 200 percent of the poverty level were supposed to get new insulation, new caulking and the minor repairs... Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412918/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:10:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411784/posts A Global Shakedown Any climate agreement that changes one law in the US or transfers one dime of taxpayer funds to another country is a willful selling of our national sovereignty.  This is a taxpayer shakedown meant to transfer trillions from productive, working people to the useless international bureaucrats, who skim their percentage then pass pennies on to favored kleptocratic rulers.American aren't buying it, thank God in heaven:Just how bad is the threat from global warming? About one in six Americans (17 percent) think the global warming situation is a crisis, which is essentially the same number who believe in... Western Hero http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411784/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410607/posts U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell retorts: "Here's the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush (to get the bill passed), they (Dems) want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader's conference room has even seen." The Magic City Morning Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410607/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:05:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410131/posts PEORIA — A bipartisan coalition of members of Congress questions the Environmental Protection Agency's recent decision to delay increasing the ethanol blend wall in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent. U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Peoria, along with six of his colleagues sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson this week. Their letter said the EPA's decision inhibits their ability to improve the quality of fuels and help the nation realize energy independence. "There has been no evidence to demonstrate that the switch to the E-l5 blend will cause damage to vehicles, regardless of the vintage. Further, changing to... Peoria Journal-Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410131/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:37:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410048/posts In a related development, secret documents were leaked today indicating that the United Nations has been plotting to form an international environmental governing body which almost certainly would infringe on U.S. sovereignty. theFinancialSkinny http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410048/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:35:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410013/posts SAN FRANCISCO — When the sun is relatively inactive — as it has been in recent years — the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere cools dramatically, new observations find. space.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410013/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:00:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409749/posts A private Canadian company says it will plant 1,176 trees to offset the carbon emitted by Air Force One when it carries President Barack Obama to Copenhagen for the international climate conference. President Obama will travel 3,979 miles to Denmark on Friday, Dec. 18, and Air Force One will emit an estimated 196 tons of carbon on that trip, said LimeGreen Earth, Inc., in a news release. "By offsetting President Obama's carbon emission, we are setting a precedent for the global community," said the company’s president, Andrew Thomas. "It is up to every individual to do their part to eliminate... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409749/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:29:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405417/posts Here is video of a British expert describing what the Climate Change fanatics would like to impose on the British public, and I'm sure on the American public as well. For starters, they want to fix it so we have to eat "less meat and dairy." Professor Tim Lang says these kinds of measures are what the Copenhagen Climate Change conference should be all about, and they want "Government" to get involved to make this change in eating habits come about. It may be healthier to eat the way Professor Lang suggests, but in a free society, shouldn't that be... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405417/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:47:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409275/posts Seems Jesse is furthering the carbon credit scam exposure. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409275/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:05:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407317/posts Free Shipping of Coins, Put on Credit Cards, Funds Trip to Tahiti; 'Mr. Pickles' Cleans Up Enthusiasts of frequent-flier mileage have all kinds of crazy strategies for racking up credits, but few have been as quick and easy as turning coins into miles. At least several hundred mile-junkies discovered that a free shipping offer on presidential and Native American $1 coins, sold at face value by the U.S. Mint, amounted to printing free frequent-flier miles. Mileage lovers ordered more than $1 million in coins until the Mint started identifying them and cutting them off. Coin buyers charged the purchases, sold... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407317/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:46:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405709/posts Health Care Shocker: Special Democratic Voting Counties Would Get Protected Medicare Benefits http://www.breitbart.tv/healthcare-shocker-special-democratic-voting-counties-would-get-protected-medicare-benefits/ BREITBART.TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405709/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405554/posts WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed support Thursday for a Senate Democratic proposal to expand Medicare, raising prospects that the two chambers of Congress can work out differences on health-care legislation. The proposal would open Medicare to some people ages 55 to 64, and is a key feature of a deal among senior Senate Democrats that would abandon efforts to enact a big government-run health-insurance program. The deal would also empower the government's Office of Personnel Management to contract with private insurers to offer new low-cost insurance plans. The deal is a key difference between the Senate bill and... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405554/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:24:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405316/posts On Monday, Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, formally announced that her agency now considers carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant, subject to government regulation. The "finding" comes two years after the Supreme Court ruled that CO2 falls under the EPA's jurisdiction. A day later, an unnamed White House official told Fox's Major Garrett that the message for Congress is clear: "If you don't pass this (cap-and-trade) legislation ... the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area. ... And it is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it's... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405316/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:30:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404732/posts The financial reform bill working its way through the House of Representatives, that includes Ron Paul's "Audit the Fed" provision, has gotten so morphed and horrific that Ron Paul is not even going to vote for it. The evil bastards have added an amendment to the Bill that will allow the Fed to pump any amounts of money it so chooses to "financial holding" companies deemed TBTF, without approval from anyone. William Greider explains: The sales pitch for financial-reform legislation pending in the House claims it would put a stop to “too big to fail” bailouts for the leading banks.... Economic Policy Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404732/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:25:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404208/posts December 8, 2009 The man with the nickname “Dr Flu”, Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide Swine Flu H1N1 Influenza A 2009 pandemic hysteria. Not only is Osterhaus the connecting person in an international network that has been described as the Pharma Mafia, he is THE key advisor to WHO on influenza and is intimately positioned to personally profit from the billions of euros in vaccines allegedly aimed at H1N1. financial sense http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404208/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403575/posts Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil." New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but committed criminal acts as well. Last month, Russian computer hackers obtained thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. CRU has the world's largest temperature... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403575/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403269/posts Perpetuating his country's unfortunate association with internet scams, a Nigerian man has turned to a new source for ill-gotten money: home renters. No tall tales of fake Nigerian royalty or bogus inheritances this time; the latest scam simply solicits deposit and rent money from unsuspecting renters. The catch? The "landlord" doesn't own the home. Memphis, Tenn., resident Howard French found that out that hard way when he wired $1,200 to a man in Nigeria who had advertised a house for rent on Craigslist. The "owner" claimed to be in Africa on humanitarian work, and an unsuspecting French took him at... AOL Real Estate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403269/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:48:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402911/posts COPENHAGEN (AP) -- This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference. Only the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions than average, the World Meteorological Organization said, although Alaska had the second-warmest July on record. In central Africa and southern Asia, this will probably be the warmest year, but overall, 2009 will "be about the fifth-warmest year on record," said Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the WMO. The agency also... Yahoo! Finance News / AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402911/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:42:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402764/posts Yesterday The EPA ruled via an "endangerment finding" carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare and therefore must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. This purely political maneuver was done for two reason: 1. It serves a signal of intimidation by Obama to tell Congress that he will regulate greenhouse gases unless lawmakers deliver a cap-and-trade bill to his desk. 2. He will use it as a bargaining chip in Copenhagen to advance the one world, socialist order based on the fallacy of human induced global warming. This maneuver by the EPA will effectively... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402764/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:25:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402775/posts Opening speech: Let's get it done07-12-2009 Connie Hedegaard's speech At the COP15 opening session: “Let´s get it done! This is the time to deliver! THIS is the place to commit. And yes there are still many obstacles. But it is up to us to overcome them. And it is do-able." Thank you for the election. I promise you, as president I will do my very best to listen and ensure transparency. Thank you also very much minister Nowicki for your personal strong commitment. It has been a pleasure to work with you. For a long time, Copenhagen was the name... Kemin.dk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402775/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:45:27 GMT