An Open Letter to Advocates of Unfettered Gun Ownership

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Wednesday December 19, 2012 · 2:58 PM PST

2012/12/19 · 14:58

An open letter to Facebook user 2nd Amendment, and other gun advocates on Facebook as well as other social media who advocate unfettered gun ownership, written from the perspective of a gun owner who believes that the gun lobby has lost this argument, should join in a solution, or just shut up and sit down.

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How should the US deal with gun violence?

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How should the US deal with gun violence?

Ban all private ownership of guns

4 votes

Ban assault weapons

13 votes

Ban high capacity magazines

9 votes

Shut down gun shows

0 votes

Background checks on all gun sales

21 votes

All of the above

25 votes

BP Starts Talking About Blowout Well - Sort Of

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Tuesday May 04, 2010 · 7:16 AM PDT

2010/05/04 · 07:16

Crossposted on The Daily Hurricane:

BP started talking more about the real problem with the blowout well in the Gulf. The well itself. More below the jump:

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Monday May 03, 2010 · 6:52 AM PDT

2010/05/03 · 06:52

Crossposted on The Daily Hurricane:

Over the weekend, I've learned a lot through my own research and through contacts within the industry about BP's blowout well, Mississippi Canyon Block 252, and, even though BP and Transocean remain silent as to the condition of the wellhead and BOP (blowout preventer), it seems that consensus is growing that the damage to the stack, 5,000 feet below sea level, is serious and likely irreparable. I'm being told that it's not closed, and is not going to close. More below the jump.

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Sunday May 02, 2010 · 9:23 AM PDT

2010/05/02 · 09:23

Crossposted at The Daily Hurricane:

We've been reporting on the blowout of BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well since last week. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that the uncontrolled flow from the well is much higher than official estimates. More below the jump:

eljefebob

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Saturday May 01, 2010 · 5:47 PM PDT

2010/05/01 · 17:47

Crossposted on The Daily Hurricane:

I have been following the blowout of BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well and subsequent environmental disaster since it occured 11 days ago. You can find our coverage here. Yesterday, I was invited to appear on Fox News America's Newsroom to talk about the blowout on BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well. The segment below the jump.

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Sunday February 21, 2010 · 7:26 AM PST

2010/02/21 · 07:26

Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:

Childhood obesity is a looming crisis that now has the attention of Michelle Obama. Gracie Cavnar writes about Houston's efforts to battle obesity and the sucess of the Recipe for Success program in Houston schools.

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What do you think causes childhood obesity?

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What do you think causes childhood obesity?

It's genetic. Nothing we can do.

3 votes

It's putting corn and corn by-products in virtually every processed food.

7 votes

It's junk food advertising.

0 votes

It's lack of exercise.

3 votes

It's sugar in almost everything.

3 votes

It's lack of education about nutrition.

2 votes

It's the vending machines and the crap they serve in schools.

2 votes

Lowering Expectations for Copenhagen Climate Conference

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Thursday December 03, 2009 · 6:20 AM PST

2009/12/03 · 06:20

Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:

As you know, COP 15, the UN annual climate conference, opens next week in Copenhagen. Last year, at COP 14 in Poznan, Poland, a framework for negotiation of a successor program to the Kyoto Protocol was laid out with high hopes that a definitive agreement could be negotiated at this year's conference. Those hopes have been dashed in the face of the US and China's standoff and not ready to forward their own enforceable greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction programs. The UNFCCC is already trying to lower expectations for this year.

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Sunday November 29, 2009 · 8:36 AM PST

2009/11/29 · 08:36

Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:

COP 15 is opening in Copenhagen on December 7. COP doesn't stand for Copenhagen; it stands for Conference of Parties, annual meetings that grew out of an international treaty, called United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), entered into by 192 countries and which came into force in 1994. More on COP 15 and the Kyoto Protocol below the jump:

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Should the United States join UN-sponsored climate change agreements?

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Should the United States join UN-sponsored climate change agreements?

Yes

9 votes

7 votes

Of course not. The UN should be abolished.

7 votes

Whistleblower: US Pressured Agency to Overplay Oil Production

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Tuesday November 10, 2009 · 2:22 PM PST

2009/11/10 · 14:22

Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:

A senior official is reporting that the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been intentionally underplaying the rate of decline of existing oil fields and overstating the chances of finding new reserves. The Guardian UK broke the story yesterday, quoted its source as saying that the agency bowed to pressure from the US to overstate deliverability to avoid panic buying in the markets.

More below the jump.

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Tuesday September 01, 2009 · 5:03 AM PDT

2009/09/01 · 05:03

Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:

Gov. Howard Dean graciously agreed to be our first guest blogger on The Daily Hurricane. His piece, posted today, talks about my brother and how the current heatlh care system failed him. He discusses the importance of reform and the critical need for the public option.

Complete post below the fold.

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Saturday August 29, 2009 · 7:17 PM PDT

2009/08/29 · 19:17

Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:

By design or circumstance, the final moments of the Era of the Kennedy Brothers ended privately, out of the public view, as the evening light faded over Arlington National Cemetery in Washington. As it got darker, vague images of the honor guard, the bugler, the Custis-Lee Mansion were all we could see. In the darkness, Teddy's grandchildren spoke of their private moments with their grandfather and Splash on the porch of the Kennedy house at Hyannis Port. The television commentators were silent; all you could hear on the broadcast was the sound of people moving about the graveside in the final moments of a long journey that began on Cape Cod, stopped in Boston, and ended in Washington. For her remarks, Teddy's wife, Vicki, refused the microphone. No one beyond the family heard those final words.

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Thursday August 27, 2009 · 8:48 AM PDT

2009/08/27 · 08:48

Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:

I was in bed late last night, watching a rerun of Hardball, one of my favorite political shows when a young reporter broke in. As soon as the Breaking News banner came up, I knew that Senator Ted Kennedy had died even before she announced it. The end of one of the most important eras in US History had come to an end. The youngest brother of the Greatest Generation of Kennedys, Uncle Teddy, as he was called by his family and constituents, was the unlikely head of the most famous political family in the history of our great country.

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