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Or this? I propose a wager, like Pascal’s but for Climate Change Deniers: If I am wrong, I don’t lose a damned thing. If you are wrong, we all lose the only planet we know of capable of sustaining the human species, and all of our grand-children die. You want to take that bet, fool? (Ten Bears) The Stillwater geothermal plant in Nevada has added a solar array and now provides 59 MW of clean, steady power. Geothermal produces power 24/7 while the solar provides extra power during the day when it is most needed. California governor Jerry Brown is full-tilt in favor of spending $68 billion on high speed rail and $14 billion on water projects, cheerfully ignoring that California can barely keep the lights on now.
I completely agree. California certainly isn’t like Europe, where countries admit they have problems and are trying to solve them. California politicians like Jerry Brown would probably remain relentlessly and mindlessly perky even if a 9.0 quake dumped half the state into the Pacific Ocean.
The governor was quickly reminded that Facebook was invented in Cambridge, MA. And KPFK, a once great radio station, announces it with truly hideous graphics and layout. No Truther has ever been able to justify their huge leap from “there are some anomalies in the official 9/11 story” to “George Bush ordered it.” And now Ed Asner, a dedicated warrior for the left, has jumped down that rabbit hole too.  sfgate.com Jill Stein is heavily favored to win the Green Party nomination for president. However, Roseanne Barr, famous for her 1980’s sitcom “Roseanne,” is also a candidate and her name recognition is bringing much needed attention and media focus to the race. This highlights a continuing problem that third parties and independents have. How do you get media attention and create buzz? Having a well-known actress like Roseanne Barr as a candidate certainly helps. The Green Party presidential debate last week in San Francisco was more of a joining together than a traditional debate. Roseanne Barr and Jill Stein agreed on most everything. Barr was controversial a few years back due to her radio show on Los Angeles radio station KPFK, a Pacifica affiliate, as some thought she focused far too much on conspiracy theories. She did not speak on those topics at the debate. Roseanne Barr is to be congratulated for playing this campaign straight and for bringing it welcome visibility. She isn’t really running against Jill Stein and will certainly support Stein in the general election. More about Roseanne Barr and her Green Party presidential run at IVN.
Bill Clinton signed the Commodities Futures Modernization Act in 2000. It gutted oversight and repealed Glass-Steagall, greasing the way for the financial bubble and collapse. He immediately began getting huge fees for speaking and is now worth about $80 million, much of it from “speaking fees.”
Obama probably doesn’t much care if he gets reelected. He’ll be worth many millions a few years after he leaves office, and has insured his future financial well-being by sending the banks hundreds of billions and doing about what ever they demand.
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TSA’s homepage posted this link to the story of one of their employees who helped thwart an abduction on his way to work at the Dallas/Ft Worth airport. Good on him. At the TSA Blog, the find of the week was a disassembled gun and ammunition found in a three of a child’s stuffed animals, one of which was Mickey Mouse.
Meanwhile in Salt Lake City, a Savannah Barry, diabetic sixteen-year-old girl with her physician’s letter in her hand, was coerced into undergoing a full body scan which damaged the software in her $10,000 insulin pump.
Although TSA policy clearly states that diabetics can travel with their insulin and have the right to opt for a pat-down, there have been ongoing problems and according to a staff attorney for the American Diabetes Association training in the field has been lacking. Finally, Bruce Schneier explains what’s wrong with profiling people at airports.
*Note: My very conservative estimate based on number of passengers reported by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for January 2012, the most recent month available. Power generation accounts for 39% of water usage in the US. Coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants use the most amount of water while renewable energy like wind and solar photovoltaic use the least. Increasing competition for water coupled with current droughts make it all the more important to devise new ways to create electricity without using nearly as much water. Opflow, a journal of the American Water Works Association discusses this and more in a thoughtful publication “How Can We Avoid the Coming Power Struggle for Water?” One way is by using renewable energy Read more about how renewable energy uses less water than traditional energy. Andy Carling, writing in New Europe.
Oh, I think our leaders knew quite well what a unregulated financial system would lead to, which would be vast enrichment for themselves and their class paid for by everyone else.  Eurozone crisis explained
In a book about Vegas in the 1950′s, the authors quote a FBI agent who said, the mobsters aren’t smarter than everyone else , it’s just that they’ll do things the rest of us won’t. I would say that applies to most of the international banking system. And they are the enemies of the rest of us. |  | ||||
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