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A quack-quack here and a quack-quack there... here a quack, there a quack.... ee-eye-ee-eye-ohhhh!
I don't see anyone taking your side except that wienie-sucking bimbo.
BRAVO 10-K! Energy belongs in the commons, not in the hands of greedy pirates.
Wonderland there is a job opening for you on CNN. They love how you ignore all issues, could care less about ethics, avoid facts & rational argument at all costs. The very things Thom Hartmann constantly complains about how your fav MSM treats Bernie Sanders. Sanders tries to stick to the issues, wants to talk facts, avoids personality trivia, insists on ethics. Your MSM hates issues, hates facts, hates honest debate, likes popularity contests like your "..who's been won over by this dude.." poll.
Think of it, wonderland you could be Erin Burnett's or Wolf Blitzer's right hand man.
Why is anything related to the energy sector in the hands of private for profit concerns? We the people should own and control the entire energy sector via good government!
FDR saved us in 1932. For almost fifty years we prospered. Then along come Ray-gun to turn the clock back. Since then we have been sliding into the garbage disposal. The only good Repug is a dead Repug.
Roland
Dental problems lead to medical problems. And if dental hygienists are free to practice without being vassals to dentists everyone benefits.
Roland
After almost eighty years they are still trying to abolish Social Security. The Repugs will not rest until they take us back to the nineteenth century, if not the twelfth. The only good repug is a dead Repug.
Roland
Dorothy, you know Instant Runoff is correct, but you can't bring yourself to admit it:).
...I would include their submissive wives too... they need an intervention to deprogram them from their brainwashing hubbies.
While creating a mass movement to curb corporate power may eventually work over a number of generations, Tom may be close a practical approach right now.
Given that most congressmen of either party are for sale, form a "support fund" for a specific issue.
Fund money is strictly for bribes.
$5 dollars each from 20 million citizens against say TPP should buy some votes.
By keeping the fund focused on a single issue, money will come from the all points on the political spectrum.
Only downside is to find people of sufficient character to run the fund?
ct
This is just one example of the legal environment being so confusing, even law enforcement & those under scrutiny barely know what they're doing. The solution is an amendment that every member of a legislative body has to vote in accordance with the best interests of the nation or state as a whole, not what they are bribed to vote for by their campaign contributors. Then they could be sued or prosecuted for acting on the bribe, if it can be proven that vote was not in the best interests of the vast majority of citizens.
Please get minorities to understand that together they are the majority. THEY have the power. We have to fight together. And minority also should include the old, handicapped, women, well, everyone but old white males and their submissive wives. ;)
P.S. I'm still waiting to see who's been won over by this dude's powers of persuasion. They do nothing for me; how about the rest of you? If you think he's full of shit, your silence will suffice.
Quote from #32: “I’m not a scientist, I’m no engineer…” BUT I am entitled to my opinion. And you don’t have to like it.
Quack quack quack. Blah blah blah. You old windbag.
Sincerely, - “Greenie” Alice
>There's no doubt that we (workers) all pay taxes on all money the comes in when we make the money. AND when we spend the money. That's just a fact. Every individual pays tax on money TWICE. We owe tax when we make it AND when we spend it. That's final.
>I want to suppose a tax that looks at what an 'economic entity' owns. A mil levy have you. A mill levy on owned or occumlated wealth. Look at every $100,000.00 of property. Whether it is, car, house, stock accounts, retirement accounts, savings accounts, checking accounts, land, equipment. Everything that is owned in the great land. Where it owned by foreign nationals, international corporations, businesses. If it's on the books, they pay the tax on it. It does not have to be a large tax. Me I owe for one or two the $100,000.00 amounts. Some people would owe for several or much more. Some industries would owe for quite a few, many. This is a tax where everyone pays the SAME rate.
We are all pretty much aware of this travesty upon American citizens, yet this stuff just keeps going and going. It's the main reason that those in our SCOTUS like Antonin Scalia should be impeached from their possition.
Certainly if Bernie is elected, he is the closest to FDR's image than anyone running. I am old enough to remember FDR and Truman, too. Both were men who couldn't give a hang as to what people thought. The true jewel in FDR's administration was Eleanor Perkins. She doesn't get enough praise for her contributions to the New Deal and a chicken in every pot all of which were due to her brainstorms and managerial skills at implementing. We need to get rid of Andrew Jackson on our money and select Eleanor Perkins for that spot. Jackson was responsible for the attempted extermination of our native Americans....get rid of him.
Wonderland, you just proved for the umpteenth time you have zero credibility. In fact, 2014, Scotland produced a value of 1/2 of their electricity consumption by renewables including conventional Hydro. Mostly wind but more Nuclear than wind, solar, biomass & biogas combined. Perfect location on Earth for wind and that's all they can achieve with an all out effort.
Scotland, lacking heavy industry, has only half the per capita electricity consumption of USA. Hydro has little room for expansion so mostly Scotland is taking advantage of its excellent location, lots of unpopulated, barren, wind swept, hills ideal for wind farms and transmission lines. In order to produce that much wind they rely on massive exports to England, fully 36% of their total electricity consumption. Any effort to stupidly (but not really) achieve 100% renewable electricity consumption would mean dumping most of that electricity to England at a huge loss. Often paying England to take the wind nobody wants. And even that only works if the much larger England can absorb the intermittent electricity. That means England cannot have its own large wind supply which will max at the same time as Scotlands.
And they need massive transmission lines to send the highly peaking wind to England and then import back coal, nuclear & gas back from England when their wind isn't blowing, like 70% of the time. They don't count all the gas, coal & nuclear they import back from England when making these phoney paper claims like "50% renewables"
All kinds of hype in the MSM on Scotland. No hype in your corporate MSM about France with 90% cleaner and greener nuclear and hydro. 78% nuclear. And doesn't need to import back any gas & coal electricity like Scotland cannot survive without. Ontario with 62% Nuclear and 24% Hydro = 86% clean & green electricity - no paper accounting tricks needed. Small little Ontario did all that with their own indigenous CANDU Nuclear program. Makes Scotland look like pathetic fools with their expensive Greenie electricity program.
There is no chance USA can do even the little that Scotland has done. The only good location for wind is the great plains and the transmission to load centers would explode costs into the stratosphere. EIA, very pro-wind & solar, in spite of almost unbelievable subsidies, puts Wind @ 4.4% & Solar @ 0.4% of USA electricity production over 2014, cleaner & greener Nuclear @ 19.5%. And projects in 2036 Solar @ 0.56%, Wind @ 5.1%. Yep even the wealthy USA can only achieve 5.1% wind & 0.56% solar after 60 yrs of effort, and there are major caveats attached to that low grade wind energy. Some impressive that is.
I give the hard facts, the real truth, Big Oil dupe Wonderland, responds with "Jerk-Off", "wackadoodle", "fucking bullshit", "newbie", "coward", "heh-heh". Hey wonderland show us a link to where you critiqued the Gulf Oil Spill from your fave BP.
It is amazing how religious Greenies, like Wonderland here, who don't know the difference between a joule and watt, figure they are power engineers and can tell us how to generate the life giving energy that powers a civilization. All they end up being is easy corporate shills, manipulated like silly, little children, by the real BIG MONEY, which is Oil & Gas. Guarantors that the status quo of burn-baby-burn will continue until we run out of stuff to burn, and then we will be switching to nuclear, that is reality. According to wonderland & her ilk, screw global warming, screw the poor. I call that a corporate shill.
If you think I'm gonna read all that crap, you'd best think again, pal. And I don't give a flippin' damn what YOU call a "corporate shill".
Seems to me that in your little realm of reality, anyone who disagrees with you is a "corporate shill" and/or has "no credability". Since you've included Thom in that category, I'm in good company. I'll be listening for your call on my podcast; sure would be fun hearing Thom ripping your argument to shreds. He's pretty good at that, and he's got the science to back up what he says.
Do you really believe all these long-winded, strident posts of yours are winning people over to your side of this debate? (Hey- if any of you folks out there have been swayed to the other side of the nuclear debate by this guy, stand up and be counted!) - AIW
To clarify my idea about defining "treaty" constitutionally, I would have to know what typically happens or should happen when two countries have no treaty. Can they not trade? I think they can. Can they not impose tariffs? I think they can. Can they not have diplomatic relations? They would have to, otherwise a treaty could never be negotiated.
So what else is there? What should our relations with a country be like if we have no treaty with it? What may the President or Secretary of State not do without a treaty?
Ckrob, the system of advice and consent should be changed to deal with the Senate refusing to do its job. If the senate doesn't vote on a nominee within a certain amount of time, say 4 weeks, that nominee should get into office automatically as if they were a recess appointment.
This discussion on the sixth mass extinction which is being directly caused by human overpopulation is the most important topic there is. It needs much, much more attention and I give you huge kudos for this discussion with Dar Jamail.
How do you get more serious that human extinction??? And it's heartbreaking to think of all the incredible and wonderful species we're taking with us. You need to have either a daily or weekly segment on this topic with different experts in the field. PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP!!! I've been watching the current drought and heatwave in the Pacific Northwest and find it TERRIFYING. Same thing with Alaska and all the fires there.
We were on the verge of moving from the midwest to Oregon, and still hope to, but what's happening there bears watching.
People in the U.S. and around the world MUST be educated as to how dire the situation is and that we must change unending growth. It's absolutely critical that we contract both the economy and even more importantly, human population. Otherwise we are doomed.
I worked for a company in Milwaukee that got 3.7 million from WEDC in Nov 2011 because it was supposed to create 250 well paying tech jobs. Most of the jobs that were created in Milwaukee (only a handful) were filled by internal transfers, so no new hires there. The rest of the jobs were filled in India. The company Blue 7 Solutions, is a joint venture between Trisept Solutions and Blue Star Infotech.
I just learned that as of last year, Scotland was getting half its energy needs met by renewables. They anticipate having that up to 100% by 2020.
There is no reason why we should not be following their example. These corporatist clowns can just keep on with their petty jabs at "greenies"; they can't stop the world from adopting better technologies. We need energy sources that are gentler on the environment and our health as well as on our pocketbooks. It might take a good while, but we will win this fight against the monopolists.
To be identified in the same light as Thom Hartmann is very flattering, by the way, regardless of the intentions behind it.
Apparently Instant Jerk-Off thinks he can win the debate by clogging up this thread with post after post of his wackadoodle fucking bullshit. He accuses me of being a shill for the rich and "loving" the Fortune 500s... This newbie who hasn't even blogged here a week, claims to know all about me and my allegiances! My, my... Yet he can't bring himself to challenge Thom on his radio show. What a coward. I guess no one likes being made a fool of over the air! Heh-heh.
Reply to post #7: Excellent points, Phillip!