Come Wednesday, one of the most forceful and articulate champions of skepticism toward the idea of man-made global warming could emerge as a Republican congressional candidate.
Arthur Robinson, who founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISD), addressed the Heartland Institute's Fourth Annual Climate Change Conference in Chicago on Monday where he warned against intrusive, big government policies that invoke environmentalism.
Should he win tonight's primary, Robinson would go on to challenge Rep. Peter DeFazio, a long-time incumbent Democrat representing Oregon's 4th district. DeFazio has supported legislative schemes that are burdensome to business and to individual Americans, Robinson point out in his luncheon address delivered by way of video.
Robinson is perhaps best known for the Petition Project he organized that attracted the support and signatures of over 31,000 scientists who question the premise of man-made global warming.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Oregon ruse rids work force of non-hispanics
PC Gone Wild [John Derbyshire]
This 36-second video clip is going round the web. It's from a Fox News broadcast. In case you can't play it, here is my transcription. A single studio newscater is reading the story into the camera.
http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Miscellaneous/FFs1.wmv
Well, there is an urgent need for firefighters in the West to battle about two dozen major wildfires. The Denver channel dot-com [?] reports that many of the new recruits are Hispanics who speak only Spanish, and in Oregon that means that some of the supervisors who speak only English are being laid off or demoted, because in Oregon a crew boss is required to be able to speak the language of the firefighters, even if it's only one worker on a twenty-person crew.
The state says the rule is necessary for safety reasons. So why not require the workers to speak English? The state has no clear answer on that.
[Me] Just when you think political correctness can't possibly get any crazier, it gets crazier. Is there any end to this lunacy?
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
This 36-second video clip is going round the web. It's from a Fox News broadcast. In case you can't play it, here is my transcription. A single studio newscater is reading the story into the camera.
http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Miscellaneous/FFs1.wmv
Well, there is an urgent need for firefighters in the West to battle about two dozen major wildfires. The Denver channel dot-com [?] reports that many of the new recruits are Hispanics who speak only Spanish, and in Oregon that means that some of the supervisors who speak only English are being laid off or demoted, because in Oregon a crew boss is required to be able to speak the language of the firefighters, even if it's only one worker on a twenty-person crew.
The state says the rule is necessary for safety reasons. So why not require the workers to speak English? The state has no clear answer on that.
[Me] Just when you think political correctness can't possibly get any crazier, it gets crazier. Is there any end to this lunacy?
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
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