THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† The Definition Of Chutzpah: Part II: Disgraced former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer will write a twice-monthly column for online magazine Slate.com about the economy and financial regulation called “The Best Policy.” Slate Group Editor Jacob Weisberg tells Reuters: “He was the de facto national regulator of the financial industry. I think he just has a keen understanding and a shrewd perspective on those issues.” Ironically, Slate had previously hired fallen Wall Street research analyst Henry Blodget – who was once in Spitzer’s crosshairs – as a columnist.
† All The News That’s Fart To Print (third item): An article in The New York Times calls cows and pigs as “living smokestacks, spewing methane emissions into the air”:
What to do about farm emissions is one of the main issues being discussed this week and next, as the environment ministers from 187 nations gather in Poznan, Poland, for talks on a new treaty to combat global warming. In releasing its latest figure on emissions last month, United Nations climate officials cited agriculture and transportation as the two sectors that remained most “problematic.”
“It’s an area that’s been largely overlooked,” said Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He says people should eat less meat to control their carbon footprints. “We haven’t come to grips with agricultural emissions.”
The trillions of farm animals around the world generate 18 percent of the emissions that are raising global temperatures, according to United Nations estimates, more even than from cars, buses and airplanes.
But unlike other industries, like cement making and power, which are facing enormous political and regulatory pressure to get greener, large-scale farming is just beginning to come under scrutiny as policy makers, farmers and scientists cast about for solutions. …
Other proposals include everything from persuading consumers to eat less meat to slapping a “sin tax” on pork and beef. Next year, Sweden will start labeling food products so that shoppers can look at how much emission can be attributed to serving steak compared with, say, chicken or turkey.
Just as embryonic stem cell research is a proxy for abortion - those against the first are also against the second, and vice versa - The Stiletto has long suspected that the fuss over global warming is really a proxy to promote vegetarianism.
† How To Tell Whether Your Senator Has Been In Washington Too Long (third item): At the opening ceremony for the Capitol Visitor Center, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid observed that “In the summertime, because of the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol.” Now, however, the filthy rabble (some of whom are no doubt Reid’s constituents) have “a facility that allows people to have a place to go to the bathroom,” Reid added. Let’s hope it hasn’t yet dawned on him that that the soon-to-be First Lady’s and president-elect’s initials are MO BO.
† Updates To Previous Posts (third item, 10 Reasons Michelle Obama Should Be Proud – Really Proud – Of America): In the latest installment of The Stiletto Blog’s ongoing series meant to help instill the necessary pride of country in Michelle Obama’s consciousness to enable her to serve as an unofficial ambassador, Reader’s Digest offers 13 – count ‘em MO – 13 “ordinary citizens who unexpectedly found themselves confronted with desperate situations--and acted.” The magazine recounts the courage and heroism of each, and asks readers to “let us know who inspires you the most by voting in our Hero of the Year poll." The winner will be announced in the April issue
[Hat Tip: Pam Siegfried]
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"What are we supposed to tell our kids when we can't put food on the table? … Do you care? No. Because you're gettin' you're money," said Sarah Peck, who used to work in the plant's sales office. …
The budget for $2.5 million in emergency financing approved on Monday showed Sarachek earning $50,000 a week. The money will finance operations through Dec. 12.
The largest chunk of money will go to feed and process 750,000 hens and chickens. …
In the end, a few apologized for yelling at Sarachek when, in fact, they blamed the Rubashkin family. The Rubashkins owned and operated the plant before Sarachek.
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