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@Joyce - the reason I ask is I moved here from Detroit area in September and am trying to get involved in the local political scene. I haven't been very impressed with the organization of the Montgomery County Dem Club. There blog is inactive and the calendar doesn't seem to be kept up very well.
And...its called packing a lunch. Get a sizable at least cubic ft collapsible cooler with a strap, and carry it right along with your briefcase. Put some picnic ice in there with a real plate and utensils, and a real glass. Tuck in toothbruth, napkins etc. Takes me 15 minutes to do. Here's that link again, I see I need to type it in again. http://www.localharvest.org/
@Nels- its easy, shop at a health food store and or belong to a Community Service Agriculture. If someone aint got time to saute a zuchinni, some dark leafy greens, and put some grains into a grain cooker- which does it all the cooking of the grains, and open a can of beans, that person has other types of problems.http://www.localharvest.org/
@Joyce - Same here, Englewood. Is Truner your Rep?
Bernie and Thom have stated many times that oil, natural gas & coal industries, or "Big Energy" (my term) are heavily subsidized. I've heard this from many other sources, as well, and have no reason to doubt it. I would like to see a summary of those subsidies, including health effects, clean-up costs and remediation, etc... Can someone point me toward that analysis -- and those of solar and wind, too?
Thanks!
I agree to forcing the filibuster. The problem is nothing prevents them from lying.
KMH, preparing a home-made meals is only half the battle, unless you want to spend hours at the super-market reading labels, your likely to bring home all sorts of processed crap (a lot of it marked with Health Choice, No Fat, Natural, Organic, etc...) its amazing how much is passed off as good for you. Then you look at the list of ingredients and sprang your tongue trying to pronounce 20 syllable words that still don't make sense even if you can make out what half the compounds are.
When I say compounds I'm talking about the parts of the words like hydo- cynate- gluto- surcros- ect...
@Charles -- Thanks for checking, too bad it was no help. I was Googling trying to find info too, but no luck. I'm in the Dayton area.
Wonder what the current count is of legislators not running for re-election. Seems like more than usual. Probably because of the SCOTUS decision, legislators of ethics don't want to be fully-owned subsidiaries of the corporations.
Good on Bernie for correcting the caller regarding Feinstein being progressive.
@Richartd thanks! for saying that! Michael Pollen said we are in the 3rd stagfe of Gandhi's axiom, "then they fight you." I just finished reading a large expose about how eating right was a crock because no modern 'hard working' family would have time to prepare home-ade food. ...Unless...women would be 'reduced' to having to go back to the kichen....hear that?
Its always so subtle.....
@Joyce - TWC site is no help. Are you in Cinci or Dayton area.
Bloomberg green report this morning said there is the Owens Playa, California is being looked at for solar right now. Could bring in 3 gigawatts. 1 gigawatt=1000 megawatts, 1 megawatt = 1000 kilowatt hours. 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts.
Solar thermal IS competitive with coal at about .12 kwh
Brandon must be getting paid to make the call the liberal hosts . . . He does this every couple of weeks . . . He has been a 22 year old investor for over a year now.
Ask him how his grandma does not want to burden the system by using Medicare . . . He LOVES that story.
The New World of Clean Energy
Chen Nanyang (2009) China Solar Booms: Chinese Government and Manufacturers Push Solar Industry writes China 's photovoltaic (pv) capacity will reach 2.9 GW by 2010. This is in part due to the solar subsidy incentive that government gave its' citizens of 3 yuan ($0.44) a kilowatt hour (Kwh).
Read more at Suite101: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Riverkeeper: RFK Jr. Lights up the Debate : The Future of Generating Electricity http://environmental-activism.suite101.com/article.cfm/robert_f_kennedy_...
Does anyone know what channel/network the show is on TimeWarner cable in Southwest Ohio? That's where I am and just flipped through all the channels and couldn't find it.
The Republicans in Congress make the art of horse trading look honest.
Ted, you're absolutely correct. I belong to my local VFD and we DO have millions in equipment and buildings, financed by grants from the feds as well as a mil levy on residences and businesses in our disctrict. When the department was first started, they begged for donations, but as needs of the community increased, we needed more training and better equipment. One of the primary needs of the community is the fact that without such a functioning department that can demonstrate a reasonable response time, their fire insurance premiums go way up.
In local news, there was an assault recorded on video that occurred in Seattle’s Metro bus tunnel. The video shows a 15-year-old girl apparently trying to get the attention of three security guards. A moment later, another teenage girl arrives, who—ignoring the security guards—starts swinging at and kicking the girl. The victim was shoved into the bus traffic lane, and repeatedly kicked in the head. The victim tried to get up and run away, but while the guards stood by, she was again shoved to the ground and kicked about the head. While one guard appears to be calling on a cell phone or radio, nothing more is done save a feeble gesture toward the attacker. Eventually the police arrived, arresting the attacker, another female and two males involved in the theft of various items in the victim’s possession.
Since the attack, there has been some talk for allowing the security guards to apply physical restraint, since they are currently only allowed to observe and report. But do we want untrained security guards behaving like Seth Rogen in the film “Observe and Report” which should have been entitled “Observe Minority and then Beat the Hell out of Him for Laughs?” Of course, being “trained” does not necessarily mean that you react to a situation in a reasoned manner—any cop with a gun will suffice to prove that. But it has been my experience that if security guards are expected to do something other than “observe and report,” they tend to be paranoid and start seeing things, and become bullying and belligerent--mainly because they want you to go away so that they can go hide and sleep .
For the present, armed Sheriff’s deputies are slated to patrol the tunnel. It is interesting to note that the assault would not have occurred at all if the police had acted appropriately only minutes before; the victim—who knew her attacker, so there was apparently some bad blood between them—had been harassed in a Macy’s a floor above the terminal. The police had intervened, but refused to escort her safely outside. As a sidebar, I noted that the Seattle Times’ resident misandrist columnist felt an obligation to comment on the matter, since the victim was female; however, while she immediately noted a completely unrelated case that involved a 14-year-old boy who had been accused of assaulting a bus driver, it took about ten paragraphs for her to be compelled to indicate the gender of the attacker, since it’s hard to get away without using a gender-specific pronoun for long.
Thom: ya'll realize Bernie's audio has static?
It's the 21st century. Get Bernie a phone that works.
The film “Network” came out almost 35 years ago; the question now is whether it was prophetic in regard to globalization, or just stating the current reality of the time. The latter seems closer to the truth, so it seems a bit of a stretch to lay the blame for the current economic condition of the country on Thom’s favorite punching bags (like NAFTA), which only appeared much later, and with much relatively marginal impact. GATT began shaping the world economy back in 1948, and MFN status even earlier. In any case, U.S. trade within NAFTA is much less restricted than its trade with other countries like China, which apply trade barriers and regulations that override much of GATT, and deliberately harm U.S. interests. The U.S. continues to be reluctant to take reciprocal action, apparently for the sake of “good relations” with countries that are otherwise are our adversaries.
I also continue to observe that while Thom often spars this person from the “independent” women’s forum about barriers to (white) women, he seems extremely reluctant to take on the issue of under-representation of minorities. Yes, there are only 17 (white) women in the U.S. Senate, but there is only one African-American, Roland Burris, but he won’t last beyond 2010— the contemptible treatment he’s been given by those on the “left” insures that. In regard to corporate boardrooms, while women and blacks still have considerably fewer seats than their percentage of the population should dictate, for Latinos it is far worse. Despite the fact they comprise 14 percent of the population, 85 percent of Fortune 1000 boardrooms have no Latino representation at all, and overall a little over one percent of the total seats.
"What do these idiots think, the volunteers drive to the fire in their own cars with some water in the trunk, and throw it on the fire with buckets that they buy themselves?"
Yes.
Back on Tuesday thom had a discussion with a conservative who brought up volunteer fire departments as a rebuttal to Thom's "socialist fire dept and police dept." line of argument. Not for the first time! These conservative always get off easy when they do that. Our local volunteer fire dept is a multi-million dollar investment in the firehouse, vehicles, tools and equipment. Annual training costs are not volunteered either. This investment in made and paid for through local, state and federal taxes(yes, federal). What do these idiots think, the volunteers drive to the fire in their own cars with some water in the trunk, and throw it on the fire with buckets that they buy themselves?
Joe,
You didn't watch the video.. or you just missed the good part.
It shows the graph where yes, you can draw a line between the high in '98 and the lower value in '08. Look at it and tell me about the long-term slope.
Go to the 4-minute point and it is explained.
'98 was the largest El Nino year on record, along with high solar activity (no, that doesn't mean it is all the sun..) bosting that year. Following that, the cycle of water temperature reversed and temperatures dropped; up and down until cooler water temps that dropped numbers for 2008, still the 9th warmest on record.
The key is, pick two points on the graph, a peak and a low, and you can show an up or down slope over a few years.
We have things like water temperature cycles that will bounce the values up and down; ie weather; you need to look over a longer time period for the over-all change. Sounds simple but it really isn't.
The averages, over more years, through numerous El Nino cycles, still show increase. It is dishonest cherry picking to claim things like the '98 bull theory.
Even the hired gun in the think tank warned them about hanging their hat on this. Discussion not over.
Yup, in the end, we may end up doing some good things for whatever reasons.. Better we are scammed doing something positive..
Maybe we can all unite against the real scammers. There's no reason we shouldn't be able to be self-sufficient in energy.
Cheers,
Rick