Posted on 03/14/2009 6:45:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
For years, critics joked that the White House of George W. Bush was encased in a massive bubble that kept out all discomfitting information. Now that Bush has exited, this bubble has found a new home at 1001 I Street in Sacramento, headquarters of the California Air Resources Board.
No matter what is happening with the economy, no matter how reasonable are the pleas from affected businesses, no matter if even the respected Legislative Analyst's Office raises concerns, nothing will deter the air board from its central mission: implementing two very costly regulatory schemes adopted in December.
One would impose unique costs on California by forcing the use of cleaner but much costlier fuels; another would impose unique cost on California by adopting much stricter rules on diesel emissions.
Now it appears the air board's single-mindedness will lead it to defy convention in dealing with an internal scandal related to the diesel rules.
The board admitted this week what this page reported in December: Hien Tran, the lead scientist on the study justifying the rules, did not have a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California Davis as he claimed.
Board officials said, however, that Tran did provide them a Ph.D. from Thornhill University. But by all appearances, Thornhill is a “distance learning” diploma mill with branches in New York and London.
The board is apparently considering disciplining Tran.
However, it has declined to hire independent experts to examine his work on the diesel study, as scientific ethicists recommend. Not only that, it refuses to subject Tran's work to a fresh internal review.
This is not how a reputable body should behave, especially when it maintains that its decisions are built on a bedrock of scientific integrity.
Instead, it is the behavior of an agency driven by external influences – namely, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's determination to be remembered as an environmental pioneer.
If that requires the California Air Resources Board to rely on the work of a man touting a degree from a diploma mill, so be it. Many adjectives come to mind. We offer one: shameful.
Another example of why socialism doesn’t work, the government is never wrong no matter how stupid their thinking.
Is it bad that I think this is really really funny?
Nothing will stand in the way of the Marxist lunatics and their destruction of the economy and businesses.
I have and idea for a new tax.
Since the legislature taxes everything produced by the private sector I say we start taxing the output of the legislature. Every law beyond the constitution should have a tax on it paid for by the political party who imposed it. If they fail to continue paying the tax then the law dies. More laws require more taxes to be paid for the law’s supporters. Only supporters of the law can be taxed for the particular law, no exceptions.
Incompetence goes hand in hand with the elites who know what is best for us all.
Deceitful?
Arrogant?
Fraudulent?
Austrian?
Fascist?
For years, critics joked that the White House of George W. Bush was encased in a massive bubble that kept out all discomfitting information.
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What does Bush have to do with a bunch of CA socialists?
When it comes to this type os BS, What starts in CA comes here to MA soon after.
I better got buy some KY now before even that petrolium product becomes out of reach.
Sounds like the Terminator is going to leave CA a wasteland. What the Hell is wrong with the voters out there?
Thornhill University’s home page (www.thornhilluniv.org) points to the “Walt Disney Family Museum.”
A telephone call would be all that is necessary to confirm (or refute) this assertion.
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Paging Henry Bowman, to the white courtesy phone.
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