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I hear that the new administration of the EPA has pushed through a judgement that Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant to be regulated under the Clean Air Act. While an analysis of CO2 as a pollutant had been forced by a suit against the EPA, the Bush Administration worked to slow the process as much as possible to prevent the potentially dangerous impact of such a judgement on the economy. It seems that the Obama Administration intends to force the country into its environmental policy through a lesser-of-two-evils battle between EPA regulation and the notorious cap-and-trade legislation that the liberals are trying to push through.
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Portrait of James W. Ellsworth
Last night I impatiently googled my name to see if this site would pop up. It didn’t. I’ll give google’s crawlers a few more days and try again. I did, however, find information about another James W. Ellsworth, someone important enough to have a wealth of Internet content all about him. I feel it is important to note that I am distantly (but trace-ably) related to this person, and also that the ‘W’ in this case stands for William and not the Wilson that gives me my middle initial.
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For my first blog post, I thought it appropriate to comment on this community that I am now entering. The Internet today is a very different place from when I first experimented with web authoring about a decade ago. Back then, it seemed like the only people making websites were those who were paid by a company to do so, or those that had a pretty good handle on scripting and HTML tags. Corporate websites looked better than personal ones because they had access to more resources and better languages, but compared to today’s modern websites, they were rather boring and promised limited features. Personal websites were hideous by today’s standards, mostly created from scratch. For an average person to be able to create a website that was at least somewhat presentable was a feat. I’d like to think that I was one of those ‘average people’ capable of a ‘feat’.
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