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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
GOP's claims about Obama puzzle environmentalists
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama blocked construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a gift to environmentalists. Newt Gingrich calls Obama "President Algae" for supporting research on biofuels. And Rick Santorum says Obama's environmental views constitute a "phony theology" that prioritizes the earth over people.
The leading Republican presidential hopefuls have cast Obama as environmental extremist whose policies have put him out of touch with the needs of ordinary Americans. It's a characterization that may resonate with GOP primary voters, but it has surprised environmental activists, many of whom say they are let down by Obama's record on their issues.
"The environmental movement has been at odds with Barack Obama for much of his three years in the White House," said Bill McKibben, founder of the environmental group 350.org. "The president is very much in the center - far too much in the center for many environmentalists."
As a candidate, Obama's pledge to limit the gases that contribute to global warming and embrace cleaner forms of energy pleased many environmental activists. But nearing the end of his first term, Obama's record on the environment is mixed - and many of his decisions have irked the very activists who Republicans suggest have broad sway over administration policies.
"Absolutely, he has been a disappointment," said Frank O'Donnell, president of the environmental group Clean Air Watch. "When Obama was elected, I think public health and environmental advocates thought a number of unresolved problems would be dealt in short order. And we learned that environmental protection did not prove to be a first-tier activity for the White House."
Some Obama actions have cheered environmentalists. He successfully ushered in historic increases in fuel economy standards for automobiles as well as the first-ever regulations on heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming and on toxic mercury pollution from power plants. He has invested heavily in cleaner forms of energy; the U.S. produces more energy from alternative sources such as wind, solar and biofuels now than it has at any point in history.
But Obama failed to persuade a Democratic Congress to pass promised legislation limiting carbon emissions. He abandoned the legislative effort entirely after Republicans gained control of the House in the 2010 elections.
And in a move that deeply angered environmentalists, the president in September scrubbed a plan to set a stricter health standard on lung-damaging smog, sticking with one set by his GOP predecessor George W. Bush that scientists say is too weak.
For the GOP presidential candidates, it all amounts to a zealous pursuit of policies that have slowed the nation's economic recovery.
In his appeal to evangelical voters, Santorum has framed Obama's environmentalism as "phony theology" - a belief espoused by many Christian conservatives that environmental activism places nature above man and promotes veneration of the earth instead of God.
Recently, Santorum, Romney and Gingrich have cast the rising cost of gasoline, currently averaging about $3.88 a gallon, as a consequence of Obama's decisions to limit oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas. However, U.S. oil production is unrelated to gasoline prices, given that oil is a global commodity, and factors that influence gasoline prices are generally beyond the control of a president or a nation.
In Louisiana on Wednesday, Santorum blamed Obama's "radical energy policy" for slowing oil production on federal lands and off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
"The underlying reason is because he believes in man-made global warming," Santorum said of Obama. The former Pennsylvania senator has dismissed climate change as "political science" despite a broad consensus among climate scientists that human activity has contributed to a warming of the earth.
Gingrich has made the price of gasoline the central tenet of his sputtering candidacy, insisting he will bring gas prices down to $2.50 a gallon if elected.
"This is a very anti-fossil fuels administration. The left wing environmental movement hates oil," Gingrich said recently at a campaign stop in Alabama.
Romney has called on Obama to fire his "gas hike trio" - Romney's term for Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson.
And Romney has chided Obama for his interest in renewable energy. "You can't drive a car with a windmill on it," the former Massachusetts governor told a campaign audience in Ohio earlier this month.
In fact, Obama has walked a fine line with environmentalists on energy.
Many cheered when he decided to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline after widespread protests from environmental groups. But his administration is now pledging to fast-track a smaller segment of the pipeline to bring oil from Cushing, Okla., to the Gulf Coast, to environmentalists' dismay.
Obama has drawn praise from environmentalists for instituting a temporary moratorium on deep-water drilling after the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last spring. But he is pushing more oil and gas drilling in part because of high fuel prices and has recently given approval to Shell to drill in the Arctic Ocean - a step that environmental groups have been fighting for years.
Obama has also given a guarded endorsement of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, even as the EPA and Interior Department are pursuing several new regulations on the controversial drilling practice to extract natural gas and oil from shale rock.
Obama has pleased environmentalists with improvements in energy efficiency, fuel economy and investment in clean-energy technologies. But he has infuriated many by embracing nuclear energy as part of a so-called clean-energy standard.
"This administration has expanded drilling in the Arctic, has delayed protections from smog, and at the same time done more for clean energy and to cut oil consumption than any administration ever," said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. "By our view, that's a combination of wins and losses, or advances and retreats, that shows a pragmatic and moderate record."
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Cappiello reported from Washington. AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll contributed to this report.
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"I F*%ked Up": Madonna's Latest Song Leaks
Madonna's big new album MDNA finally drops next week, and her latest offering from it has leaked online. In "I F*%ked Up," she sings about ... how she did just that.
As the title indicates, her Madgesty contemplates a past misdeed.
“I f*%ked up,” she sings. “I made a mistake ... Nobody does it better then myself ... I’m sorry ... I’m not afraid to say ... I wish I could take it back, but I can’t.”
For what, she doesn't say, but deep stuff, right?
She soon kicks up in a notch to a mid-tempo dance groove, so it's not entirely a downer of a track from our favorite "Girl Gone Wild." Take a listen to it below:
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/03/latest-madonna-song-leaks-i-fucked-up/
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Sports: Jon Jones joins effort to lift UFC ban in New York
ALBANY -- A much-hyped April bout for the Ultimate Fighting Championship's light-heavyweight crown will feature a pair of native upstate New Yorkers who are among the most well-known names in mixed-martial arts.
But it won't take place in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan or Buffalo's First Niagara Center or any of the state's other large-scale arenas. Rather, it will be held in Atlanta's Philips Arena, some 900 miles away.
UFC officials are hoping the April 21 title fight between Rashad Evans and Jon "Bones" Jones could be enough to sway lawmakers in the promoter's annual battle with the Legislature over the state's ban on professional mixed-martial arts bouts.
"This fight that we have coming up is going to be equivalent to Ali and Frazier, and there's no reason why we shouldn't be in Madison Square Garden," Evans, a Niagara Falls native, said Thursday. "New York should be getting the money that Atlanta is going to receive."
UFC's Las Vegas-based parent company, Zuffa LLC, has lobbied New York lawmakers unsuccessfully for at least four years in an effort to overturn the state's ban, which was enacted in 1997.
The company filed a lawsuit against the state and New York City in November, alleging that the law prohibiting the sport was unconstitutional and in violation of the First Amendment. That suit is still pending in federal court.
"This fight is just as big as any Yankees game, any Jets game, any Giants game," said Jones, who was born in Rochester, grew up in Endicott, and now lives in Ithaca. "I'm just wondering when New York is going to open their eyes and realize what we're missing out on."
As was the case in previous years, the chances of overturning the ban appear bleak this year.
The state Senate passed a bill last year that would have removed the prohibition and allowed the state Athletic Commission to regulate the sport, but it never reached the Assembly floor for a vote.
Several lawmakers and advocacy groups have expressed concern about the violent nature of professional mixed-martial arts bouts.
"I do not believe there is any groundswell to change the position that we've taken on this issue," said Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari, D-Cohoes, Albany County. "Speaking for myself, I consider it violent and I don't believe in this day and age we should be encouraging activities of this sort."
Not all Senate Republicans are completely sold on the merits of the sport, either.
"I supported it, but I have mixed emotions on it," said Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous, R-Binghamton. "I see it as entertainment and as positive economic development, but I wouldn't say that I am a personal fan of it."
Jones, who holds the UFC's light-heavyweight belt, said he hopes to someday fight in New York in front of his family and friends.
"It would just mean a lot to say thank you to them for being such strong supporters of UFC and such strong supporters of me personally," Jones said. "To let them see me fight in person I think could be a memorable experience for people."
Source: http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120322/SPORTS/203220419/1128/
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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Did Katy Perry Just Diss Beyonce?
Katy Perry is so excited about the prospect of a collaboration with BFF Rihanna, she may have put her foot in her mouth discussing the potential project.
Perry weighed in on the forthcoming song (which undoubtedly will be a catchy #1 hit with those two working together), with an apparent dig at Beyonce:
"We've collaborated on things, just not songs yet. It's one of those things that's got so much build-up that we have to deliver," she said on BBC Radio 1.
"I want it to be like that Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin song 'Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves,' not 'Beautiful Liar.' I definitely want to do something iconic."
Beyonce's 2007 track "Beautiful Liar," featuring Shakira, isn't her best song, but it did reach No. 1 on the iTunes best-seller list and U.S. Hot Singles Sales.
Perry doesn't have a reputation for starting beef with other celebs, so we're guessing she did not mean it as an insult ... even if it sort of reads that way.
Maybe Bey and Katy can collaborate next and bury the hatchet in this non-feud?
In sort of related news, KP sort of embarrassed herself covering "N****s In Paris" by Jay-Z and Kanye West at the same BBC Radio 1 appearance.
[Photos: WENN.com]
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/03/did-katy-perry-just-diss-beyonce/
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
President Obama?s daughters? privacy is difficult to protect in Internet age (Washington Post)
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