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Words Ending with “…eek”
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Repugnantans’ substance is puny and weak;
few valid policies out from them eke.
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Wherever they dominate, prospects are bleak
that America will benefit on the paths which they seek.
They lead us up a reeking [expletive-deleted] creek;
domestic and foreign havoc they wreak.
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Would that Progressives would streak to the peak.
’Til then, we speak in our horrified shriek
of “Woe”, of “Dismay”, of “Dadgummit”, of “Eek”.
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I never liked Chris Matthews and had a pet name for him: “Motor Mouth”. Not only a high-speed gum flapper but a liar to boot. His description of socialism is sheer nonsense.
This illustrates why I shit-canned TV. There’s so little there of any substance anymore. Made no sense to pay for the privilege of having my intelligence insulted on a daily basis by lightweight celebrity pundits like Chris Matthews, spouting off all this goofy shit they either know nothing about or are dumbing-down deliberately, just to keep the “masses” misinformed as their corporate masters dictate. Either way, my time and money are worth more than that. So nowadays I catch my news either in print or online. Works for me! And I don’t miss that cable bill either.
I think the success of Bernie’s campaign thus far proves that more and more people are discovering alternatives to corporate media and leaving that racket behind.
Tough one ot answer, I think the dems will stand against them, but there are several who want to shut down tohe gov over it,if they shut down the gov over it then they are toast next november, well, i would hope so anyway.
Chris Matthews is doing himself a disservice. There is no way his pathetic little show can stop the Bernie Tsunami. He falsely believes that TV media is still king. He doesn't know that social media has already replaced it. He's about to have a very rude awakening that could cost him vital ratings in the future. Adios Chris! You won't be missed.
Will you guys be posting this Friday show on FreeSpeech.org ? Thank you.
So long as they're stationed in Belarus and other nations that used to be part of their (Red) empire, and positioned for defensive purposes only, it's not a big deal. On the other hand, if they start basing long range bombers in Syria, then we'll have REAL BIG HUGE PROBLEMS. Putin and Medvedev are far too bright to be that reckless. Obama couldn't ignore this red line drawn by the Red Air Force. (Russia still retains the "Red" nickname for for identification and tradition's sake.)
That's an example of why I no longer watch Chris Matthews' Hard Ball show.
CHRIS MATTHEWS continues to call BERNIE a socialist.HE called BERNIE a socialist yesterday and again just a few minutes ago.
"THE socialist from VERMONT."
AS long as he has been in the business he knows BERNIE is a democratic socialist and he knows the difference.
FEEL THE BERN! !
CHRIS MATTHEWS continues to call BERNIE a socialist. HE called BERNIE a socialist yesterday and again today, just a few minutes ago.
"THE socialist from VERMONT." and then again alittle later. "a socialist as BERNIE SANDERS calls himself."
AS long as he has been in the business he knows BERNIE is a democratic socialist and he knows the difference.
GO BERNIE, FEEL THE BERN! !
Big fan of Bernie and hope he prevails.
However, he loses if the conversation is about "socialism"
as Repubs have poisoned the label.
He wins if his ideas are clearly explained as voters wil see their
benefit and wisdom.
ct
Socialism is a complex and nuanced subject. Even Marxism has many interpretations and applications, there are the Leninist forms and, subsequently, the Stalinist, Maoist, and those of Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Mihn and others that practiced "benevolent" and "transitory" dictatorship and interpretations of Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg and Gerhard Schroeder that would not dispense with the democratic process even temporarily and would share a society democratically with non socialists.
All socialists believe in nationalization of industry but democratic socialists believe in its ensuing democratic (and thus, genuine) control by the people and in democratic means for their political-economic tendency of socialism to gain and keep power.
A good time to plug my newly updated blog post, http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/mark-j-saulys/blog/2015/08/socialism-a..., which now has a description of the relationship between Lenin and Stalin and their final falling out. The post contains much information on a widely misunderstood subject very useful for those unfamiliar with it.
I think I will continue to promote it as I will continue to improve it.
I took a look at that report. What a schlock piece of garbage. Thom's stooping to a new low getting his energy & environment information from Citigroup aka Rockefeller Global Elite Banksters, Oil Barons and Drug Warriors. Compared to them, the Koch bros. look like my fairy godmother.
This is obviously another Bankster/Big Oil bait-and-switch scam, promoting non-solutions, namely carbon capture, wind & solar and geoengineering. Non-solutions are even worse than "Let's just continue business as usual". Result is the same: rapid, uncontrolled climate change, except the non-solutions throw $trillions down the sewer on nutty scams that just push up energy prices but don't harm the rich, as usual the burden is dumped upon the poor and middle class.
Just take a look at their electricity analysis and wacky claims about wind and solar economics:
Assumed 100% wind & solar emissions displacement. That is a blatantly false.
Ignored the abysmally low Energy Return ond Energy Invested or EROI of Wind & Solar, which in itself is a deal-breaker for wind & solar energy.
http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/instant-runoff-voting/blog/2015/09/why...
Ignored the severe geographical limitations of wind & solar. Blindly assumed you can install them anywhere, just ridiculous. There are major constraints on where you can install wind & solar and costs will escalate drastically as the low hanging fruit = where current installations are focused are saturated. There are many areas with monsoons, rainy seasons, snowy, cold winters with little sunlight, heavily forested, poor wind resource regions, too heavily populated areas, lack of available land, sand storms, mostly cloudy weather, ecologically sensitive areas - the list is long.
Ignored curtailment costs.
Ignored overbuild costs.
Ignored long distance transmission costs of wind & solar which must be oversized by 3-10X.
Ignored negative priced exports of suplus wind & solar generation.
Ignored storage costs for wind & solar.
Ignored decommissioning, recycling & disposal costs.
Ignored the cost of the 100% backup power generation and peaking fuel storage & distribution infrastructure required for wind & solar electricity generation.
Ignored induced cycling inefficiency costs and thereupon increased carbon emissions associated with wind & solar generation.
Ignored grid integration costs, i.e. fast response battery banks and spinning reserve.
Ignored the short lifespan of wind turbines 12-15 yrs and solar pv of 25 yrs.
Ignored the reduction in wind resource due to increased wind farm operation and climate change will change areas with good wind resources.
ignored increased carbon emissions due to intermittent wind & solar changing grid economics in favor of high carbon sources like OCGT instead of CCGT and Diesel instead of super-critical Coal and Fossil instead of Nuclear & conventional Hydro.
Way under-reported O&M costs for Wind & Solar and especially increased maintenance costs and reduced output in last 1/3rd of lifespan.
Cherry picked Wind farm costs so as to falsely appear to be trending downwards, when in fact the opposite is true. Furthermore they admitted more wind must move to Offshore at a much higher cost but only based their projected costs on Onshore Wind.
Assumed a continuing downward drop in Solar PV installed costs whereas in fact that cost is stabilizing and likely will begin to trend upwards within a few years.
Ignored storage costs for wind & solar.
On the plus side, the report did correctly document that climate change will add considerable costs to the world economy, far outweighing the cost to prevent the change in the first place. Especially since we will sooner or later have to make those changes anyway, as cheap fossil fuels will become to scarce to meet demand.
Problem is we need Real Solutions, not Scams. Wind & solar in fact locks us into a fossil fuel future. They cannot exist without a mostly fossil fuel world economy.
The predominant Real Solution is of course a rapid build-out of Nuclear Energy. Nuclear energy has no need of fossil fuels and indeed in volume will be cheaper and much safer than fossil fuels. Which of course is why these Citigroup Bankster/Oil barons either oppose it or try to ignore it.
Try http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/mar/26/ted-cruz-bor...
"• An estimated 3.7 million burglaries occurred each year on average from 2003 to 2007.
• A household member was present in roughly 1 million burglaries and became victims of violent crimes in 266,560 burglaries.
• Simple assault (15%) was the most common form of violence when a resident was home and violence occurred. Robbery (7%) and rape (3%) were less likely to occur when a household member was present and violence occurred.
• Offenders were known to their victims in 65% of violent burglaries; offenders were strangers in 28%.
• Overall, 61% of offenders were unarmed when violence occurred during a burglary while a resident was present. About 12% of all households violently burglarized while someone was home faced an offender armed with a firearm.
• Households residing in single family units and higher density structures of 10 or more units were least likely to be burglarized (8 per 1,000 households) while a household member was present.
• Serious injury accounted for 9% and minor injury accounted for 36% of injuries sustained by household members who were home and experienced violence during a completed burglary."
I don't know the numbers prevented, do you? What I surmise though is that I'm willing to bet that if you or a loved one were among the 8,000 approx. people who are raped on average in a home invasion, or the thousands more who get the crap beaten out of them every year you would wish a weapon was more accessible.
BOTH of this time's Rightist panelists are too shallowly snitty to feed my wish to hear intelligent exchanges on these important topics.
We're dead meat.
Time to redirect the trillions we spend on the rich man's endless war for profit to the real battleground, the war on global warming, or we can wait for extreme water and food shortages ......see what kind of hell that leads us into to.
KCRuger ~ One (ahem) "Meteorologist" makes a wild speculating claim and all of a sudden were supposed to reject the findings of the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change). Sorry buddy. Somebody here IS dead wrong; and, it sure isn't Thom Hartmann.
The Arctic Ocean should be made a marine preserve so that our cold loving mammals will always have a stress-free home. MMS lied when they prepared the EIS for the Chukchi and Beufort Seas when they said the environmental impact to local and migrating marine life due to seismic exploration and drilling would be minimal. In fact, seismic testing could seriously deafen migrating whales and pinnepeds. And then there's the spectre of an oil spill which, in the Arctic, would be devastating particularly if it occured in winter and was trapped under the ice. The loss in fisheries, whales, pinnepeds, polar bears and walruses would be devastating. St George Sound still has not recovered from the Exxon-Valdez spill of almost 30 years ago and that occurred in waters a lot warmer that the Arctic.
Yes, ban offshore oil and gas exploration everywhere in the Arctic Ocean and declare it a marine preserve.
Meteorologist Scott Stephens says there has been no global warming for 17 years & the west coast drought is Gov't-produced with chemtrails. Citibank couldn't care less about Earth's future condition; they're selling carbon trading just like Al Gore. Sorry, Thom, you might be the best out there, but you're dead wrong about several things, & this is one of them.
Ciitbank is right. INACTION costs are real and need to be quantified. But they need to compute who has benefited from that inaction, as well. I am NOT buying the "we are all to blame" baloney used to make us pay for what the banksters did back in 2008 to the tune of 16 TRILLION dollars.
It's high time that the BLAME for the INACTION since the Carter Administration be placed squarely where it belongs: The Fossil Fuel Industry. THEY are the ones who have corrupted our government. THEY are the ones who have degraded our democracy along with the biopshere. THEY are the ones who profited from doing all this, NOT us!
At a RealClimate, a climate sceince web site run by climate scientists, somebody tried to blame the scientists for the general ignorance of the populace about the existential threat that climate change poses to our species.
A scientist responded by making it crystal clear how that ignorance is the result of the mens rea modus operandi of the Fossil Fuel Industry.
Jim Baird: Proposition: the climate science community is failing mankind by overlooking the events that brought on the hiatus. http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Science-and-politics-disre-by-Jim-Baird-Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Agreement_Climate-Crisis-150902-43.html
From your link:
It was scientists who discovered, measured and explained these events but the practical implications seems to have escaped them; with the result policy makers are deprived of the information that would enable them to address climate change with the least cost and to the greatest benefit.
Rebuttal: it is not the climate science community that is failing mankind, but the policy makers who have chosen to ignore the clear and unambiguous advice the climate science community has been offering for years.
In early 2014 the US National Academy of Sciences, established by Congress in 1863 to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science", published a 34-page booklet titled Climate Change: Evidence and Causes, free to download at the link.
It addressed 20 common questions laypeople often have about AGW, including this one:
Q: Does the recent slowdown of warming mean that climate change is no longer happening?
A: No. Since the very warm year 1998 that followed the strong 1997-98 El Niño, the increase in average surface temperature has slowed relative to the previous decade of rapid temperature increases. Despite the slower rate of warming the 2000s were warmer than the 1990s.
A short-term slowdown in the warming of Earth’s surface does not invalidate our understanding of long-term changes in global temperature arising from human-induced changes in greenhouse gases.
The climate science community has provided all the information needed by policy makers to address climate change with the least cost and to the greatest benefit.
It has simply been swamped by the flood of deliberate disinformation issuing from both professional and volunteer AGW-deniers, at the behest of those who’ve accumulated vast private fortunes by socializing the enormous cost of climate change.
Indeed, it is playing into their hands to use ‘hiatus’ or ‘pause’ for what was not a cessation, but at most a slightly-reduced rate, of warming.
It is policy makers who have cravenly allowed themselves to be unduly influenced by the power of fossil-fuel wealth.
In turn, our fellow citizens have allowed their elected representatives to act for the benefit of the few, against the interests of the rest of us.
Every literate person has access to the same information RC readers do, and has the choice to accept or deny it. Let us assign the blame to whom it belongs: we have the government we deserve.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/09/unforced-variations-sept-2015/#sthash.IxU0e93v.dpuf
Agelbert NOTE: I agree with the all of the rebuttal, EXCEPT the last sentence. THIS is the way it should read: Let us assign the blame to whom it belongs: The Fossil Fuel Industry BECAUSE THEY are the ones who have CORRUPTED our government.
We DID NOT deserve that. It was, and is, a crime.
Blaming the VICTIM is not justice; it is socializing the blame. I'm certain the fossil fuel industry would be quite happy if the "we are all to blame" meme, so favored by Wall Street Bankers since 2008, enabled them to EXTERNALIZE the blame along with the environmental costs.
The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
See no evidence of US planning for any coming climate disasters.
Where are contingency plans to move people away from coastlines?
Who is bulding underground housing in tornado alley?
How will food production and distribution be affected?
Judging from the actions of our wise leaders, any heavy consequences
of climate change will not hit the US until the distant future....
ct
I would prefer to rename Columbus Day as New World Day. We of European descent could still celebrate that we got to end up here. But the name also suggests celebrating differences from Europe, namely the aboriginal peoples and their culture.
Trying to leverage its mineral wealth into a better seat in the prez's tent unknowningly making the citizens targets for the eastern 1% up to and including invading Durango and/or burning out women and children? Colorado was a flashpoint for Union organizers and the thugs who fed off the marrowbone of its serf population? The names are pr/bs just for circus and bread purposes.
This whole issue brings to mind one old, but rather relevant, joke:
There was this proverbial Jeannie who promised to fulfill any one of some guy's wishes on one condition : that the guy's Jewish neighbor next door will get double of whatever the guy wants for himself. It didn't take the guy long to come up with the perfect wish: “I wish ...my one eye go blind!" The Jeanie laughed and noticed that century after century the wish never changes.
I find the joke quite universal. It certainly applies to the current Iranian nuclear deal. As long as they chant "Death to Israel!" first and "Death to America!" second, we cannot resist assisting...