The U.S. wind energy industry continued new installations at a breakneck pace in the first quarter of 2008, even as the fate of a key federal incentive hangs in the balance, according to a new report from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).
The wind industry put 1,400 megawatts (MW) — approximately $3 billion worth of new generating capacity — in place, AWEA) said in its recent quarterly market report.
“These new wind power plants—enough to serve the equivalent of 400,000 homes--coupled with investment in 17 new manufacturing facilities over the past year and a quarter show that – with consistent policy support – America’s wind industry can deliver the goods in terms of clean energy and new clean technology jobs,” says AWEA Executive Director Randall Swisher.
But if Congress does not act quickly, momentum could be derailed, says Swisher, who says that 76,000 jobs and more than $11.5 billion in investment could be put at risk.
“While 2008 is shaping up to be another great year, we could see a very different story in 2009 as uncertainty looms over investment in wind power projects and manufacturing due to continuing delay in extending the production tax credit (PTC),” Swisher says. But not off Cape Cod, heh heh heh ...
That's Teddy on the left, and Mr. Windsurfer on the right
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and over 70% of all installed US wind energy was installed during Bush's administration.
one additional nice thing is that as the designs and components have improved, the average output has increased from about 28% of capacity for elements added in the 90s to about 36% of capacity for elements added in 2007 (per the industry website).
I agree with your number, but given that, at current growth rate, it will a decade until we get to 5%. don't you think we will have far better energy storage devices by the time we get anywhere near the 20% figure.
On thorium reactors, there are two basic templates. One uses Uranium and/or Plutonium to provide neutrons to the thorium pile (which, in effect, 'burns' the U/Pu). The other uses a particle beam or other external source to provide neutrons. One or the other is necessary because Thorium doesn't go critical by itself.
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Ocean power, maybe. Wind power is too variable, does not scale all that well, and needs storage facilities to do not exist in most cases. Wave/tidal power generation is more predictable and is more amendable to control, in the case of needing to throttle back.
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ION TELEGRAPH.uk > PRINCE CHARLES: WE HAVE EIGHTEEN MONTHS [EOY 2009 = Jan 2010?] TO AVOID/STOP [harmful-catastrophic] CLIMATE CHANGE DISASTER [multiple]???
GENEVA (Reuters) - Obesity contributes to global warming, too.
Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says.
This adds to food shortages and higher energy prices, the school's researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in the journal Lancet on Friday.
"We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility," Edwards said in a telephone interview. "Obesity is a key part of the big picture."
At least 400 million adults worldwide are obese. The World Health Organization (WHO) projects by 2015, 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese.
In their model, the researchers pegged 40 percent of the global population as obese with a body mass index of near 30. Many nations are fast approaching or have surpassed this level, Edwards said. BMI is a calculation of height to weight, and the normal range is usually considered to be 18 to 25, with more than 25 considered overweight and above 30 obese.
The researchers found that obese people require 1,680 daily calories to sustain normal energy and another 1,280 calories to maintain daily activities, 18 percent more than someone with a stable BMI. Because thinner people eat less and are more likely to walk than rely on cars, a slimmer population would lower demand for fuel for transportation and for agriculture, Edwards said. This is also important because 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions stem from agriculture, he added.
The next step is quantifying how much a heavier population is contributing to climate change, higher fuel prices and food shortages, he added.
"Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food," Edwards and Roberts wrote.
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There are a lot of reasons for people to not be obese, but I'm guessing this isn't near the top of the list.
What could the margin of fuel savings be vs the world's entire energy consumption?
This is definitely the AGW cult jumping the shark.
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It wasn't long ago that being fat was considered a sign of prosperity, even wealth. After all, poor people can't afford to buy food or pay for unnecessary transportation. But perhaps the writer means to imply that the added weight will be enough to collapse the surface of the Earth, or cause it to spiral into the sun, or something. I fear I don't have nearly as much scientific knowledge as the researchers at the London School of Hygiene, which must be why I don't immediately comprehend their assumptions and conclusions.
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First thing you do is throw out the damned 1950's BMI chart. It doesn't take into account body type, build, bone structure or the fact that you may have gone to the gym a couple of times in your life.
My brother and I have good genetics for weight lifting and mass building, does that mean at 240 lbs and six feet of height we are obese? If you read the chart it sure as hell says we are.
Try explaining this to an insurance company over the phone, you'll want to tear your hair out two minutes into the conversation.
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So the food nazis are banding with the climate nazis. Figured the elitist "We know better than you whats best for you and will force you to do it" would end up on the same page someday, somehow. Even for them, this is a reach. But it shows you how far these religious fanatics will go to enforce the orthodoxy of AGW, so they can impose governmental controls.
And I agree: BMI is a joke, and at my age I hate it - try talking to life insurance peopel and explaining the following:
Mine is 28.9,, borderline obese.
Yet my bodyfat is well within the normal range for a 20 year old, despite being multiple decades past that age.
So I end up having to get a doctor's note, etc, because some pencil-neck bureaucrat thought this was a good measure of fitness.
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Render Fat Teddy for oil, solves two problems at once.
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6'-2", 275lbs here - I'm willing to arm wrestle these pencil necks for "pink slips", with immediate disposal mandatory?
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IMO 2,960 Calories is a MINIMA - Read, STARVATION DIET. The average for active Americans [3+ ea. daily meals]regardless of Gender-Age-Health is 5000 calories, and for MALES is higher.
THIS IS THE FOOD SCIENCE/MGT EQUIVALENT OF ARGUING THAT MAINSTREAM AMERS HAVE TO UNILATER CHANGE THEIR WAY OF LIFE SO THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD WON'T HAVE TO = STARVATION-BASED GLOBAL EQUALISM.
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OK, just how does "Free Will" apply here?
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Free will in this situation describes how one chooses to respond to it: with optimism, pessimism, cynicism, pragmatism, working alone, working together... Lots of possibilities, Redneck Jim. Sadly, earthquakes are the result of the movement of the continental plates, and sometimes they occur where people are. After all, for most of the history of the planet there were no humans to complain that God done them wrong.
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TOPIX > DON-A ILBO > XINHUA: VICTIM TOLL MAY REACH TEN MILLION IN SICHUAN ALONE; + FOX NEWS > CHINA - over 50,000 are believed at this time to still be buried in quake debris. Recovery of bodies to take time.
At least 100 people were killed and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by a bulldozer exploded in the Ijegun suburbs of Lagos, the Red Cross said on Thursday.
The fireball engulfed homes and schools in the vicinity, and many, including schoolchildren were killed in the ensuing stampede as people fled the fire.
“About 100 people have so far been confirmed dead from the fire. We have so far rescued more than 20 people with injuries and taken them to hospital for treatment,” a Red Cross official at the scene told Reuters. Nigeria is one of the world’s major oil producers and pipelines cut through many residential areas such as Lagos. Explosions and fires with high fatalities are frequent.
Vandalism: Vandals who drilled holes in the feeder lines to steal petrol to sell on the black market have caused several pipeline blasts in the past. Nigeria is the eighth largest oil exporter, though most Nigerians live on less than $2 per day and many are prepared to take huge risks to obtain free fuel.
At least 45 people were burnt to death last December in another village on the outskirts of Lagos, when fuel they were stealing from a buried pipeline went up in flames.
In 2006, 400 people were killed in twin blasts in Lagos.
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I have to admit, were a gasoline pipeline to pass anywhere near me, it just might be dry from all the taps.
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(Xinhua) -- Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said here on Thursday his country would not be intimidated after its high commission in Fiji received its second death threat in just over a week.
The high commission in Suva is reviewing security after a death threat through the mail on Thursday. "I regret to advise that our high commission has today received a second death threat against the high commissioner and his staff," Smith told parliament. "The Australian government believes these threats to be credible and is extremely concerned by that."
A death threat last week against high commissioner James Batleyis believed to have been politically motivated, and made by a person or group unhappy with Australia's policy on Fiji.
But Smith said Australia would not be cowed into softening its stance against Fiji's military government. "The safety, security and welfare of all high commission staff and their families is paramount in Australia's response to these threats," he said. "If these threats are an effort to intimidate the Australian government about its policy on Fiji or an attempt to intimidate our high commissioner, let me make it very clear they won't have any such effect."
Australia's relations with Fiji soured after the nation's elected government was ousted in a bloodless military coup in December 2006.
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Don't mess with Commodore Frank.
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#1 Don't mess with Commodore Frank.
WoW! My hunch waz right then....
Mr. Frank's Engineering Career waz just d'EEEP cover then... Hummm Ima...
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(AKI) - A proposed ban on allowing judges to wear a Muslim headscarf or other religious symbols like a crucifix, turban or skullcap in court has provoked widespread debate in Denmark.
Copenhagen bishop Erik Norman Svendsen says the country's parliament should not pass any legislation on the regulation of religious symbols or dress codes. According to the Danish daily, Berlingske Tidende, Svendsen said the courts should decide what judges should wear.
The Muslim Council of Denmark and the Danish Muslim Union said they feared the proposed move would be extended to other professions like nurses, doctors and police officers.
The proposal is backed by the Danish People's Party which supports prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's centre-right minority government.
On Wednesday justice minister Lene Espersen said a bill was due later this year that would regulate what judges should wear.
But in a dissenting view, the refugee, immigration and integration affairs minister Birthe Ronn Hornbech attacked the DPP proposal as "anti-Muslim". She said judges should themselves be allowed to decide what to wear.
Jorgen Lougart, chairman of the association of Danish judges has questioned the government's plans, noting that religious dress was "not really an issue" because none of its members had recently converted to other religions.
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I have a different idea. Since prostitution is legal in Denmark, just make it mandatory that all working prostitutes wear one.
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The established religion of Denmark is Lutheranism. State employees should be allowed to display the accoutrements of no religion other than Lutheranism. If they don't like that, then impose religious tests.
(AKI) - In a major operation that began early on Thursday, Italian police arrested 383 people, most of them suspected illegal immigrants, and have already deported 118.
Most of the 268 foreigners who were arrested were from North Africa and Romania. A total 111 people were arrested for aiding and abetting illegal immigrants or breaching police regulations. Those arrested in the latter group included 92 suspected drug traffickers, as well as pimps, thieves and people suspected of armed robbery.
Police seized over 18.5 kg of drugs, including 6.79 kg of cocaine, 11.44 kg of cannabis and 0.36 kg of heroin in the operation.
Italy's new conservative interior minister Roberto Maroni praised the head of the country's police force, Antonio Manganelli, for the operation's success. "International cooperation was also important," Maroni stated.
The operation signals the new conservative government's intention to keep its election promise to crack down on illegal immigrants. Many Italians hold them responsible for numerous crimes.
Two Roma gypsy camps near Naples were attacked and set on fire on Tuesday and Wednesday after a teenage Roma girl allegedly tried to kidnap a child there last Saturday. In Rome, police raided a encampment of Eastern European Roma gypsies. Many of the gypsies are from Romania. Bucharest has warned Italy not to give in to xenophobia. Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has assured the Romanian government that the crackdown is not specifically aimed at Romanians.
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Bucharest has warned Italy not to give in to xenophobia send the gypsies back to Romania.
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gromky, send the gypsies to North Africa with the rest of the illegals. Sort of like taking a shovel full of one fire ant mound and dumping it on another.
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Run 'em. The motto in both Europe and the U.S. should be, "if you're not provably legal, you're gone yesterday." Don't let their feet hit the ground again until they're back in country of origin. If illegals are going to fight a sovereign country's immigration policy, make them do it from outside the country. Don't let them stay and be aided by "the enemy within."
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They're just perpetrating the kidnappings that Italians won't.
France's new defense policy will see the capacity of deployment of French soldiers in external operation theaters decreased significantly, French Defense Minister Herve Morin has said. "Who can believe that in the next 15 or 20 years, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and the enlargement of the European Union, we might be called upon to deploy 50,000 men in a theater," Morin said Wednesday while closing the 15th "Peace and Defense" parliamentary meetings.
Under the "operational policy" fixed by the current 2003-2008 military program, the armed forces must be able to engage, inter alia, a land force of 50,000 men, a naval task force, the aircraft carrier and its escort, and an air force of 100 combat aircraft supported by refueling tankers, according to military sources.
Without specifying the new figures, the defense minister said that President Nicolas Sarkozy had already declared a "part" of his position over the issue. "To be still capable of projecting 30,000 or 40,000 men in a Mediterranean theater, in the broader sense, does not mean that France is a second category military power," said Morin, rejecting the idea that the French armed forces were slowly "shrinking."
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I would say that the French military, feeble as it is, is needed on home territory to prevent destruction of all cities by the invaders. They also should guard the borders and stop all additional invasion. Maybe the US could learn by watching.
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But, this thinking is going to cost them big time with the Francophile section of Africa : France has always been the cavalry for many African states and without the ability to project significant power overseas, a lot of those African countries are going to be favoring the US Africom.
The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market. The unusual "resolution of disapproval," sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and 26 other senators, was approved by a voice vote. The measures sponsors include both Democratic candidates for president, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois.
Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has described the agency's action as a "relatively minor loosening" of broadcast media ownership restrictions. The rule was approved by the FCC on a 3-2 party-line vote in December with both Democrats dissenting.
The FCC decision allows one company to own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the nation's 20 largest metropolitan areas. The TV station may not be among the top four in the market, and post-transaction, at least eight independent media voices must remain. The rule replaced an outright ban on cross-ownership.
Dorgan said the FCC action opened a "gaping loophole for more mergers of newspapers and television stations across the country."
Martin has said any exception to the media ownership rule would face a "very high hurdle."
The House is also considering a nullification of the ownership rule, but even if supporters are successful, the measure would likely be rejected by President Bush.
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said he was "disappointed with the Senate's action" and would recommend to the president that he veto the bill. "The FCC's approach modernizes a 30-year-old rule in a way that improves the financial viability of the newspaper industry, which faces an increasingly competitive media market," he said.
The FCC's media ownership decision has been met with opposition on both sides. The newspaper industry has complained that the FCC did not go far enough, while activists who want to keep big media companies from getting bigger said the agency went too far.
Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii opposed the FCC's action. "In recent years, we have seen an increase in coarse and violent programming, coupled with a decrease in local news and hard-hitting journalism," Inouye said Thursday night. "To say these trends are not in the best interest of the American people, and especially our youngest citizens, is clearly an understatement."
Obama issued a statement supporting the vote. "Today the Senate stood up to Washington special interests by voting to reverse the FCC's disappointing media consolidation rules that I have fought against," he said. "Our nation's media market must reflect the diverse voices of our population, and it is essential that the FCC promotes the public interest and diversity in ownership."
I now have it from two three sources close to senior Republicans that they have video dynamite--Michelle Obama railing against "whitey" at Jeremiah Wright's church. Republicans may have a lousy record when it comes to the economy and the management of the war in Iraq, but they are hell on wheels when it comes to opposition research. Someone took the chance and started reviewing the recordings from services at Jeremiah Wright's United Church of Christ. Holy smoke!! I am told there is a clip that is being held for the fall to drop at the appropriate time. The last thing Barack and Michelle need is a new clip that raises further questions about her judgment and temperament.
Evaluate the possibilities, shall we?
1. The tape exists--certainly plausible, but the probabilities are hard to judge. Michelle is an angry lady, bitterly clinging to her religions (black liberation theology; Marxism) and gun control, and she lacks a certain sense of message discipline.
1.1 The Trunks have it--if it exists, well, yeah, they might
1.2 Hillary! has it--if it exists, yew betcha the Clintons have it!
1.2a The Clintons have it, but when it surfaces they want everyone to think that the source is those evil, mean-spirited, partisan RethugliKKKans who'll stop at nothing! Nothing!--Highly likely.
2. No such tape exists--again, probabilities are hard to assess. If there's no tape, the Clintons and/or one of their overenthusiastic supporters--that means you, Larry!--are running a bluff in the hope that it'll panic and stampede the superdelegates. Only works if (1) nobody calls them on their bluff and asks to see the tape ("But we don't have it!") and (2) the supers swing over to Hillary. If they get called on it and can't produce, or if Barack wins the nomination and no such tape ever surfaces, it'll stand revealed as a fraud.
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if it exists and the clintons have it, theyd have released it already. Every day that passes makes it harder to stop Obama from getting the nomination.
If it doesnt exist and this bluffby the clintons themselves, they need to spread it in such a way that superdelegates actually, you know, here about it. Not through some obscure blogger.
So more likely its
A. it exists and the Repubs have it
B. It doesnt exist, Johnson is making this up on his own
C. It may or may not exist, Johnson picked up a rumor
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Whether or not the tape exists, Ms. Michelle Obama, esq. strikes me as the kind of person who would say such things when she felt safely among her own people. Didn't they have Richard Nixon on tape saying similar things about groups he didn't like, and didn't it raise a bit of a ruckus when those were played?
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BO truly is just one tape away from losing it all. If they have Michelle on tape ranting againsy "whitey" that might do it. However, if they can find BO smiling and saying AMEN! then it is game over.
I would vote for B. Larry Johnson is just making it up.
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If the tape exists and the Clintons have it they'd keep it quiet except for the private deep background sworn to secrecy screenings for super-delegates.
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Actually, I think the tape exists and that most Rantburgers are not giving Hillary enough credit for strategic thinking. You don't use nukes in a battle, you use them to end a war.
Presuming Hillary has such a tape, the ideal time for it to be released is 2 weeks before the Dem Convention and have it appear on YouTube. 2 weeks gives enough time for the tape to takeoff and get several million views; it also allows the tape to have percolated throughout the blogsphere and be quoted by Hillary-friendly media. Plus, it will give enough time for this to build as an issue AND for Hillary to be a statesman and denounce it as "a dirty trick by the Republicans".
That way, many of the superdelegates may decide that Hillary is the best choice after all, and vote for her on the 3rd or 4th ballot; alternately, it positions her to step in and take over either Teddy's or Nancy's slot in a couple of years. It would also serve as a warning to other Dems that Hillary does NOT suffer fools lightly, and if it costs Obambi the election, could serve as a bargaining chip with President McCain for some flashy piece of legislation that is sponsored by Hillary. Of course, she would have to release the tape to a 527 so that they could then post it; but if she backdoors the info on it to McCain AFTER the election, it is a BIG chit.
Oh and if you think that Hillary is NOT that devious, you have NOT been paying attention.
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I'm VERY tempted to believe there's something out there on 'Bama. This guy has no business being a presidential candidate in the first place; there are WAY too many skeletons in his closet. The Dems screwed his vetting up big time and I think if they nominate him, it's going to come back to take a seriously large chunk out of their posterior. Meanwhile, the longer these two fight it out, the longer the country gets to see what racists and sexists REALLY look like.
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"The Dems screwed his vetting up big time and I think if they nominate him, it's going to come back to take a seriously large chunk out of their posterior. Meanwhile, the longer these two fight it out, the longer the country gets to see what racists and sexists REALLY look like."
What's the downside, Thaimble?
I'll order more popcorn.... :-D
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One other scenario to consider if Hillary has such a tape : a brokered convention like in 1960. I am NOT suggesting that Hillary would accept Obambi, but that she would accept a VP of the party's choosing, "for the good of the party". And that VP could be Al Gore : just like Kennedy accepted Johnson, Clinton/Gore could be the big ticket for the Dems. Remember, Gore owns the Green vote, is very popular with college kids, and has a Nobel Prize. Why would Gore accept such a slot - because he lost in 2000, and did not try in 2004 or 2008. There is a draft Gore movement on in the Dem Party right now, but it has no real chance of success. However, the "magic" of a Clinton/Gore Presidency would thrill any number of Dems and is not outside the realm of possibility.
If the convention deadlocks and does not have an chosen one after the first 6 ballots, the streets in Denver will make Chicago look restrained : the Anarchists and Maoists {anti-globos} will be trashing things, the Obambi crews and the Clinton crews will be going at each other, the black stormtrooper contingent of the New Black Panthers et al will be proclaiming the start of rioting due to "the theft of Obama's victory", and the anti-war freakos like Code Pink will be doing something flashy and idiotic for the press - like flashing the press and screaming "Boobs, not Bombs!!".
At that point, the superdelegates may well decide that it is time to get the hell out of Dodge and pick Clinton/Gore as "the Unity Ticket".
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I'd put my money on Shieldwolf's earier comment - it exists, don't deploy til maximum effect. Nice thing about being a superdelegate in the Donk party is there's absolutely no capacity for shame or embarrassment (see: "Democrat Party Norms and Values"). Michelle is precious, I hope she doesn't disappear, you never know what will come out of that mouth
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I've been hearing this one from political people I had contact with when I was trying to help with the THompson campaign out west.
Been hearing it for a month.
Goes like this:
1) Hillary has it.
2) Hillary knows that no matter what, the idiots who have bought into Messiah Obama will blame her and abandond her if she "steals" the nomination from ObamaChrist.
3) Hillary also knows that the next 4 years are going to be rough - we cannot relaly disengate form Iraq, and oil supplies are going to be messed up, Chavez is stirring things up, the Chinese are going to be a-holes, and there will be a terror strike on US Soil. Meanign no matter who the Pres is, the PRes will get the blame.
4) Hillary also knows no matter who the president is, the next 4 years are going to be run by the Dems in Congress - meaning a D president will get little credit for anything that goes right.
So do the math.
In the case of point 1: Hillary is seen as a crippler, nasty and vidictive if she uses the tap, and the Obamanuts will split the party if she reesorts to such things to win.
In the case of point 2: Hillary gets blamed and is a one-termer.
In the case of Point 3: not only is she unpopular due to destrpying the "messiah", the congress takes all the credit.
Now consider this:
She holds off, battles to the end, and makes sure the **GOP** uses the tape AFTER Obama has it locked up the nomination at the convention.
The results?
1) She is the undisputed leader for 2012.
2) Gigantic "I told you so" she can beat down ANY opposition with.
3) 4 years to grandstand and pick her spots.
4) bad stuff happens as is likely (above)? McCain gets the blame, and she gets to smash an unpopular man who is now 76 and politically weak. Easy win for her.
5) Congress gets redit for success - she gets some of by association.
The smartest possible play at this point is for Hillary to battle to the end, the make sure that the stake is driven in to completely utterly destroy Obama, and the Clinton machine puts the shiv in deep and gives it a twist, HARD, in the twits who back Obama.
So Hillary plays the role of the victim, grabs the role of the uniter and savior of the Dem party after it collapses under the wieght of Obama's fallen god disaster, and rolls up everything with a big win after McCain has done the heavy lifiting in 2012.
Americans weary of "bittergate" can rejoice. It's time for "sweetiegate."
The presidential election has veered off onto another odd tangent, courtesy of Sen. Barack Obama, who uttered not an epithet or insult against blue collar workers — but a term of endearment. Yesterday, the Illinois Democrat called a female broadcast reporter "sweetie," the moment recorded for posterity on video. In 24 hours, the three-second exchange had inspired global news coverage, followup stories from the offended correspondent and a debate on both feminism and news credibility.
Oh, the drama.
Peggy Agar, a reporter for ABC affiliate WXYZ, had been trailing after Mr. Obama during a morning campaign appearance at a Michigan auto plant, demanding to know what he planned to do for Detroit auto workers. "Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do — we'll do a press avail," he said, casually implying that he'd take care of the question during a formal question-and-answer period with other reporters.
The promised moment never happened. A vexed Mrs. Agar went public with the tape and her annoyance, noting that "this sweetie" never got a story.
By 3:16 p.m. — the exact time carefully noted by WXYZ — Mr. Obama was in major mea culpa mode with his entire apology either broadcast or posted online by the station.
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I think BHO is an empty suit and an ass clown but I don' t think this is a big deal. I don't think the guy is as much sexist as he is an elitist like his wife. On that point I think his wife has already beaten all the sexism (not to mention any testosterone) out of him.
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Barack Hussein Obama = Chance The Gardener (minus the gentle good spirit)
Funny you should mention that, OldSpook. I was recently thinking about the irony that that movie was aimed at Reagan, but hit much closer to the mark with Obama.
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Obama also somewhat resembles the character of Jazmine at the end of season 4 of "Angel".
She was a demon who had taken human form and had, with some sort of magic, charmed the entire LA area until a magic spell was broken.
Season 5 had a "Hillary" character - also a demon who had crawled up from the depths of hell and taken human form to run for US Senator (she was killed off in the series ending final episode).
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"a demon who had crawled up from the depths of hell and taken human form to run for US Senator (she was killed off in the series ending final episode)"
I love a happy ending, mwh. ;-p
#2 OS - please don't insult Chance the Gardener.
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Well, I did specifically qualify that as being MINUS the gentle good spirit (innocence).
This episode will likely be shown in about two week on TNT (TNT roles through the series showing an episode at 6am and another at 7am time each weekday). They begin season 5 Monday morning and the episode that introduces the Hillary character is the 21st edisode of season 5 (called Power Play) while the episode that kills her off is #22.
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Heard the GOP has video of Michelle Obama with Rev Wright, both raging against (and I quote) "whitey", that they are holding off of releasing until after the nomination.
Lots of things there that you can drink,
But stay away from the kitchen sink.
The breakfast garbage that you throw in to the Bay,
They drink at lunch in San Jose.
So go to the city, see the crazy people there.
Like lambs to the slaughter,
They're drinking the water
And breathing [cough] the air. Tom Lehrer 1965
L.A. prepares massive water-conservation plan
The initiative would punish water wasters and limit such activities as watering lawns and washing vehicles. And it would revive a controversial effort to recycle sewage water.
With vital and often-distant water sources shrinking, Los Angeles officials today will revive a controversial proposal to recycle wastewater as part of a plan to curb usage and move the city toward greater water independence.
The aggressive, multiyear proposal could do much to catch the city up to other Southern California communities that have launched advanced recycling programs.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's effort could cost up to $2 billion and affect a wide range of daily activities. For example, residents would be urged to change their clothes' washers, and new restrictions would be placed on how and when they could water lawns and clean cars.
Financial incentives and building code changes would be used to incorporate high-tech conservation equipment in homes and businesses. Builders would be pushed to install waterless urinals, weather-sensitive sprinkler systems and porous parking lot paving that allows rain to percolate into groundwater supplies.
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A lot of hand-wringing over nothing. Where do you think your toilet water goes? Back in to the rivers, streams and ocean where it is 'treated' by mother nature and sent back in to the system. If the technology is sound, there is no difference, they would just be using technology to speed up the natural process. Nothing to see here...
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Lots of other places in the West have been using treated effluent for years.
The biggest problem with it is an odd one, a buildup of phosphates, that while not harmful in itself, act as fertilizer for microorganisms. So when it is warm out, open water has a lot more algae growth.
The phosphates come mostly from dishwasher detergent, which avoided the laundry detergent prohibition back in the 1960s, and from city PVC pipe glue, which bleeds a lot of phosphates into the water.
Effluent also tends to concentrate salts, like arsenic, so special care needs to be taken to reduce their levels on a regular basis.
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It's the invisible hand of commerce saying "you've put too damn many people in place that can't sustain them". Adding the loose population of Mexico ain't helping. Next thing you know you'll end up as recycle for the Fremen water conservation program.
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gotta love how all this adds to the cost of doing business, thus driving even more of it away from CA> Overbearing government and overpopulation are a self-solving system.
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It's sad for Caliphornia. Just another rung down the ladder. Like every other thing there, the populace never considers that things can get worse, not continually better. This water would be ideal as mentioned, for watering golf courses, etc. But, that would require another set of piping which costs big bucks, which Caliphornia also doe not have. Arnie now wants to borrow against future lottery receipts. What a joke. No one can guarantee future lottery revenue. So, the fallback position by the Mexican commies in the legislature is a raise in the general sales tax. Bet on it.
Exactly right, Excalibur. Watch the movie Chinatown. It's the whole story in one very depressing movie. Corruption and depravity are what it's all about. You take the most beautiful little girl in the world, you teach her to smoke and drink and then you rape her...it is the story of California. Roman Polansky knew too much about it but at least he got the movie right.
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gotta love how all this adds to the cost of doing business, thus driving even more of it away from CA> Overbearing government and overpopulation are a self-solving system.
Yeah, but unfortunately, instead of learning a lesson, they simply immigrate to other states and screw them up. AKA Californication.
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Yeah, Im seeing that here in Colorado. Its certianly not the Colorado I knew when I was at Fort Carson and Buckley ANG (now Airforce) Base.
The inmates in Denver and Boulder are now running the nuthouse State House, and the morons from CA that moved here to get away from overbearing laws, pollution and insane real estate are now recreating those very same things.
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All Calif. has to do is bite the bullet (due to the semi-unreliable water supply), to construct a series of desalinization plants that are kicked in when snow melt, and rainfall do not meet needs.
It is expensive, but the state sits astride the Pacific Ocean.
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But then, most of the people who live in California today were NOT born here. They came from places like Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Iowa, Michigan, Mexico, China, India, Philippines, Vietnam, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, etc. California is the Ellis Island of the Pacific, the Ellis Island of the 21st Century and on a scale far more massive Lady Liberty ever dreamed of. If this is the US government's immigration policy I think it's only fair that some of the other states should take some too. Look at a map of the United States. It's a big, big country and they can't all live in this little corner of it. Consider this, too, when Ellis Island was in it's heyday the US was a young country with vast resources and uninhabited territories. It's not that way anymore. In fact, there are those of us who think we've had quite enough already. So either change this country's immigration policy or get used a lot more Californication.
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The tipping point has been passed in California, immigration is guaranteed to continue to increase, as is poverty, corruption, graft, excessive taxation, regulatory asphyxiation, and declining quality of life. Wh have imported the latino 3rd world and all it's ills. Governor Villareigo will do nothing but more of the same, and the unions will lockstep even more of government and industry. Have you noted that even the Hollywood liberal establishment is quietly leaving the state, not just the productions but the studio complexes themselves...
then when the state goes boom, the rest of the US will be taxed to prop it up.....for a while, till the Chinese foreclose on all the businesses they are buying.
Time to head for a food producing region and bunker in...
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NEWSVINE/SCIENCEDAILY/OTHER > RISE OF SOLYENT GREEN > Proposal to liquify and dissolve human corpses in lye chemical solutions. WHY WASTE A PERFECTLY GOOD HUMAN-BASED/DERIVED CHEMICAL LIQUID VV GLOBAL FOOD CRISES???
D *** NG IT, SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MARX/SOV-RUHR FRANKEN-SCIENTIST!
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native San Diegan (one of teh few) - the issue is tertiary treatment capabilities do not screen for viruses or traces of antibiotics, pharmaceuticals. Typical current proces is to depend on dilution via dumping in "clean" water in sufficiently low levels to minimize effects. Taking water directly "toilet-to-tap" without massive (see: Colorado River") dilution is rolling the dice IMHO. Other knowledgables disagree. I welcome them to be the pilot project
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sorry about the typos, was on the phone while typing....Friday afternoons - too worn down to multi-task, apparently
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Most places that recycle the wastewater at least bother to dilute several hundred times - 200 gallons for fresh for every gallon of wastewater. Either that or they run it through other forms of purification like solar lensing.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says.
France's new defense policy will see the capacity of deployment of French soldiers in external operation theaters decreased significantly, French Defense Minister Herve Morin has said. "Who can believe that in the next 15 or 20 years, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and the enlargement of the European Union, we might be called upon to deploy 50,000 men in a theater," Morin said Wednesday while closing the 15th "Peace and Defense" parliamentary meetings. 
Americans weary of "bittergate" can rejoice. It's time for "sweetiegate."
With vital and often-distant water sources shrinking, Los Angeles officials today will revive a controversial proposal to recycle wastewater as part of a plan to curb usage and move the city toward greater water independence.
