[opentalk]

Asheville is also home to a large climate data center. Cap and trade bill agenda is being pushed to advance.

--Skeptical climate researchers have discovered extensive manipulation of the data within the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City.

--These centers are being accused of creating a strong bias toward warmer temperatures through a system that dramatically trimmed the number and cherry-picked the locations of weather observation stations they use to produce the data set on which temperature record reports are based.

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[nolongerademocrat]

Obama should be more concerned with staying out of prison than getting re-elected.

[thouworm]

That explains the “middle class” vacation. Has the WH agreed to publish a “vacation” visitors’ list?

[SteamShovel]

In a shot across the bow of Dems, the labor powerhouse SEIU is starting a new third party in North Carolina that hopes to field its own slate of candidates

I hope they split the RAT vote!

[jcsjcm]

Does SEIU receive taxpayer money to do what ever work that they do? Isn’t it against policy to give taxpayer money to groups that are partisan?

I know - stupid questions deserve stupid answers, but......

[CommieCutter]

So is this the 401k/IRA confiscation conference?

[tacticalogic]

Sounds like a family reunion. They’d have a potluck dinner, but when they do everybody always brings the same teat.

[Maine Mariner]

About 30 years ago I was at a meeting that included the president of the ND AFL-CIO. He was asked why the labor movement supported mostly Demorats. I have never forgotten his response “Because we don’t have a Labor Party in the United States.”

Maybe this is beginning of one.

[The Pack Knight]

It will be interesting to see whether they get the ~70,000 signatures they need. Under N.C. law, for a party's candidates to appear on the ballot, a party either needs 1) to have had its gubernatorial candidate receive at least 2% of the vote in the last governors' election, or 2) obtain the signatures of 2% of voters who actually voted in the last N.C. gubernatorial election. Just any voters will not do, I am sure a number of the 4.2 million voters from the last governor's election have since either died, left the state, or lost their eligibility due to a felony conviction.

The Libertarian and Green Parties have challenged this law as violative of the N.C. Constitution. They lost at the trial court and 2-1 at the Court of Appeals. The case, Libertarian Party of North Carolina, et al v. State, et al is at the N.C. Supreme Court now.

[Oceander]

[Lady Jag]

Ever hear of any connection between SEIU, CERBERUS and Dan Quayle?