(Friday Church News Notes, November 5, 2010, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - U.S. President Barak Obama is preparing for a trip to India fit for an ancient king. The cost per day for the royal couple Obama and Michele and their 3,000-member entourage is a mind-boggling $200 million a day (“US to spend $200 mn a day,” Press Trust of India, Nov. 2, 2010). They have reserved an entire hotel, the exclusive Taj in Mumbai. This is only the latest in a continual series of hugely expensive trips for the royal couple, together and alone, with lots of friends in tow on the nation’s tab. What could motivate a U.S. president to spend such a massive amount of money on a trip to a third-rate country, or any country for that matter? It is simple. The man is the king of the entitlement mentality. He deserves the royal treatment. Further, he an elitist. He thinks he is very, very special. Even Chris Matthews, a liberal political commentator who supports Obama’s big-spending socialism, called him an “elitist ... with teleprompter” in a recent appearance on the Andrea Mitchell show on MSNBC. Matthews said, “He hasn’t listened. He’s talked at us rather than with us. ... middle-aged people are losing their jobs ... and this guy’s out doing his pet projects. And they wonder why he isn’t their president, why he’s only his own president.” Indeed. He is King Obama.
FEMA's data collection and analysis of national preparedness information stalled Federal Emergency Management Agency efforts to collect data on national preparedness capabilities has been helpful, but the data is sometimes unreliable and data-collection methodology is not standardized, according to a Government Accountability Office report released publically Oct. 29.
"Without defining capability requirements, FEMA and its local, state, tribal and federal preparedness stakeholders cannot implement a standardized approach to identifying capability gaps," says the GAO report.
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FEMA has made some progress in addressing the challenges of data collection by creating a web-based survey tool for more systematic entry of state, tribal and local preparedness information. However, data entered through the tool has limited reliability because no standardization exists for data entry and jurisdictions input data and information based on self-assessments, the report states.
Since April 2009, FEMA has focused on implementing a five-step process for analyzing data, called the Comprehensive Assessment System. However, FEMA has been unable to build a measurable framework for data assessment because it is stalled at the fourth step: Reporting national preparedness capabilities.
The Reporting Requirements Working Group, which was focused on national preparedness analysis efforts and met eight times from August 2009 through April 2010, was discontinued by FEMA in June 2010. The group's work was halted prior to the development of a system or specific recommendations for streamlining reporting methods.
http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/femas-data-collection-and-analysis-national-preparadness-information-stalled/2010-11-01#ixzz14PyrWJ60
UN calls for taxes to fund climate warning fight
The UN advisory group charged with finding ways to fund methods to combat climate change Friday called for "alternative financing," including taxes on financial transactions.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-CYL95&show_article=1
Great balls of fire over Canada: NASA investigates
MONTREAL — Great balls of fire have been reported swooping over Eastern Canada and several U.S. states.
Even NASA's on the case.
There are different theories about what was behind the sighting of those fireballs. A NASA spacecraft got a closer look at one of the possible sources today.
The spacecraft flew past Hartley 2 -- taking closeup pictures after the comet made one of its closest passes by Earth this week.
But one expert is skeptical of reports that any fireballs came from Hartley -- which is roughly 1.2 kilometres wide and spews deadly cyanide gas.
Scientist Peter Brown says his meteor group at the University of Western Ontario tracked one of two fireballs while the other was tracked by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20101104/comet-nasa-canada-101104
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