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« Liberal Outrage: June 2010 | Main | Liberal Outrage: August 2010 » Liberal OutrageWhen do we get a game show called "Kick Ben Stein in the balls"? By fnord12 | July 20, 2010, 2:43 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Linking to Sarah Palin stuff feels out of date at this point, but i couldn't help myself with this one. Refudiate me if you disagree. By fnord12 | July 19, 2010, 8:50 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link In the Pacific Northwest, federal scientists said they were pressured to minimize the effects they had documented of dams on struggling salmon populations. In several Western states, biologists reported being pushed to ignore the effects of overgrazing on federal land. In Alaska, some oil and gas exploration decisions given preliminary approval under Bush moved forward under Obama, critics said, despite previously presented evidence of environmental harm. The most immediate case of politics allegedly trumping science, some government and outside environmental experts said, was the decision to fight the gulf oil spill with huge quantities of potentially toxic chemical dispersants despite advice to examine the dangers more thoroughly. This is purely an executive branch thing. No 60 votes requirements to overcome. There's no excuse for this. By fnord12 | July 12, 2010, 1:17 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link NYT: Whether it is their residence, a second home or a house bought as an investment, the rich have stopped paying the mortgage at a rate that greatly exceeds the rest of the population. More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent, according to data compiled for The New York Times by the real estate analytics firm CoreLogic. By contrast, homeowners with less lavish housing are much more likely to keep writing checks to their lender. About one in 12 mortgages below the million-dollar mark is delinquent. Though it is hard to prove, the CoreLogic data suggest that many of the well-to-do are purposely dumping their financially draining properties, just as they would any sour investment. By fnord12 | July 12, 2010, 12:08 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link « Liberal Outrage: June 2010 | Main | Liberal Outrage: August 2010 » |