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California’s attempt to curb emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is facing vocal opposition from a dairy industry that fears government meddling in the flatulence of its cows. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has set a goal of slashing methane emissions by 40% by 2030, from 2013 levels, and has targeted the belching and farting – known as “enteric fermentation” – of California’s 5.5 million beef and dairy cows, as well as the manure they create. A strategy document produced by the regulator states that improved manure management practices, new diets for cattle and “gut microbial interventions”...

TRUMP AT HIS BEST!!!! Oh my, the heart goes peter pat hearing this, seeing this. I'm PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJ5q48HFcw

Raw: Gunshots After Car Hits Ferguson Protester Gunshots sent protesters fleeing in Ferguson, Missouri on Tuesday, after a car hit a protester. WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC PICTURES OF CAR HITTING A PERSON, AND GRAPHIC LANGUAGE. (Aug. 10) video only on link

NEW YORK (AP) — The Huffington Post is going to be without a Huffington. Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post's editor-in-chief, announced Thursday that she's leaving to head a new health, wellbeing and productivity startup.

So nice to know they're celebrating day 7 of the Doodle Fruit Games **sarc**

Xavi has donated his personal yacht to a non-government charity organisation in order to help refugees travelling across the Mediterranean Sea.The ex-Barcelona midfielder gave his vessel to Proactiva Open Arms. The yacht is to be auctioned off to raise funds to help the POA continue with their rescue work.The POA, from Barcelona, works along the Greek coast in Lesvos and it covers 17 kilometres by land and sea.'The soccer player Xavi Hernandez collaborates with Proactiva Open Arms with the donation of a recreational craft to be auctioned in the near future,' the charity said via their social media channels Twitter...

I met the suburban gun control ladies at a local farmers' market, where they were collecting signatures on a petition saying that ISIS covert operatives and paranoid schizophrenics with felony records should not be allowed to purchase tactical nuclear weapons legally. Okay, that's a slight exaggeration. But, based on focus group input, the gun control lobby, including Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, has softened its message. It no longer wants "gun control" – which suggests limiting the access of law-abiding citizens. Perish the thought! Hillary Clinton articulated the new approach when she told the Democratic Nominating Convention:...

Senator Collins trashed and tried to undermine Trump, and I have a little 'in-depth' about her. Maybe it's overly-kind to think of her as a ditzy geriatric party girl who appears oh-so-venerable in the public eye. ~~~ Collins: Trump will make the world 'more dangerous' CNN - 2 days ago 'Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday that Donald Trump could make the world "more dangerous" and that his values represent a threat to the ...' [snip] ~~~ If she has a functioning brain, why does she of all senators take such a cavalier attitude about nuclear-level treason against the Free World?...

"In the Cyber Grand Challenge, DARPA challenged the world to create software that can defend networks against attacks without a human typing at a keyboard. This software is designed to identify threats and react to, defend, and seal off vulnerabilities from future attacks."

Some Central Iowa business owners are shaking their heads over hefty increases in their monthly electric bills, but MidAmerican Energy Co. officials say they're doing all they can to help their customers keep their bills as low as possible. Last year, MidAmerican Energy began phasing in a three-year increase in electricity rates for its Iowa customers, the second phase of which kicked in on Jan. 1 of this year. The rate case, which was approved by the Iowa Utilities Board a year ago, authorized MidAmerican to increase its electric rates by a total of $135.6 million, phased in through approximately...

Electricity prices are soaring in states generating the most wind power, U.S. Energy Information Administration data show. Although U.S. electricity prices rose less than 3 percent from 2008-2013, the 10 states with the highest percentage of wind power generation experienced average electricity price increases of more than 20 percent. Iowa – 27% South Dakota – 26 Kansas – 19 Idaho – 16 Minnesota – 16 North Dakota – 16 Oklahoma – 15 Colorado – 14 Oregon – 12 Wyoming – 8 From 2008-2013 electricity prices rose an average of 20.7 percent in the top 10 wind power states, which is...

Last month, J.P. Morgan Asset Management released its annual paper on the topic of energy. This year’s paper focuses on the costs associated with deep de-carbonization of electricity grids through the transition to renewable energy. J.P. Morgan’s analysis confirms the findings of many in the academic community that levelized cost of energy becomes less and less meaningful for renewable energy technologies as they take on a larger role in the electricity mix. While the cost of energy generated by a solar panel or wind turbine might be competitive with the cost of energy generated from a gas or coal plant,...

Government policies, rather than market forces, primarily drive the growth of wind power in the United States. The wind industry has become dependent on government mandates and subsidies for its success. When policymakers limit subsidies to the wind industry, constructing wind installations ceases to be economically viable. American taxpayers incur the costs of subsidizing the wind industry. These extensive subsidies are funding a power source that is inconsistent and cannot reliably generate the electricity demanded by consumers. Large-scale energy storage may offer solutions to the variability of wind power, but the most promising technologies are not currently economical on a...

Wind turbines are the most visible symbols of the quest for renewable electricity generation. And yet, although they exploit the wind, which is as free and as green as energy can be, the machines themselves are pure embodiments of fossil fuels. If wind-generated electricity were to supply 25 percent of global demand by 2030 [] would require roughly 450 million metric tons of steel. A lot of energy goes into making steel. To make the steel required for wind turbines that might operate by 2030, you’d need fossil fuels equivalent to more than 600 million metric tons of coal. A...

"Chelsea Clinton declares: ‘Yesterday we used up the world’s resources allotted for this year. It gets worse." Hillary Clinton’s daughter did her best Chicken Little impression on Tuesday, firing off a tweet that warned humans had used up all of the resources “allotted” for the year 2016. We are now be borrowing against future generations, kind of like her mom’s economic plans.

Battle Creek, MI – Usually an anticipated time of fun-filled family festivities, the Fourth of July was anything but a day of celebration for the family of Cree Erwin. In the early morning hours, Cree’s mother, Tanya, made a gruesome discovery. Her daughter, Cree, lay dead in Tanya’s own bed, cold as ice. While important questions remain, 911 records just obtained by Operation Rescue, along with a police report provided by long-time Michigan pro-life activist Lynn Mills, shed a bit more light on what happened to 24-year old Cree Erwin in her final hours of life as she struggled with...

While watching Newsmax, Dennis Michael Lynch was talking about how he had been on the show about 7-8 months and all this time he's been telling it like it is. He said he wanted to continue to tell the truth, but was told by the station that they would give him a prepackaged script from now on. He said he has talked about Hillary and how what she is doing is illegal and how she would be the worst as president. He said they told him there were going to pull the plug if he kept it up and didn't...

Need a summary of Bill Clinton's damaging policies while President. Need to educate son. Mentioned some things and he asked, "Is that it?"

One of my favorite meals growing up was Saturday breakfast, which was usually served at more of a brunch hour. Sometimes it would be eggs, bacon or sausage, and hominy fried in the grease from the meat (which I loved, and if anyone has recipes for canned hominy, please post!). Or it might be waffles, or pancakes; and when it snowed, Cinnamon Toast, and tea or hot chocolate. Many years ago I found a recipe that makes a great, quick brunch casserole at home – if you remember to grate the cheese the night before and store it airtight in...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ilhan Omar spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a young girl, fleeing with her family from civil war in Somalia. Two decades later, after forging a new life in Minnesota, she appears on the brink of becoming the nation's first Somali-American state legislator. Omar, a 33-year-old community activist, cried as she delivered victory speeches in English and Somali after defeating a 44-year incumbent in the latest sign of the Somali community's growing influence in the city and state. Her victory in a heavily Democratic Minneapolis district makes her a strong favorite in the general...