Friday Open Thread

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1. Good morning, Tina Prisoner Peters; one down and only 3,286 days to go!

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   1. She'll probably serve about 75% of that with good time and credit for time served.  But she's going to get a big dose of DOC reality

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2. Here is proof of the truth of today's quote.  The North Carolina GOP climate denier legislature cost lives.

   Legislature left state’s homes vulnerable

   Over the past 15 years, North Carolina lawmakers have rejected limits on construction on steep slopes, which might have reduced the number of homes lost to landslides; blocked a rule requiring homes to be elevated above the height of an expected flood; weakened protections for wetlands, increasing the risk of dangerous stormwater runoff; and slowed the adoption of updated building codes, making it harder for the state to qualify for federal climate-resilience grants.

   Efforts to weaken building standards in North Carolina picked up steam after Republicans won control of both houses of the legislature in 2010.

   In 2011, lawmakers proposed a law that limited the ability of local officials to account for sea-level rise in their planning. Comedian Stephen Colbert panned the change, quipping: “If your science gives you a result you don’t like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.”

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