Bob Morris @ Dec 30th 2007 17:42 - Category: Politics Tags: Benazir Bhutto;
Musharraf wouldn’t allow it. If Bhutto had Blackwater or Armor security, she might still be alive, as the assailant probably couldn’t have gotten anywhere near her car.
Bob Morris @ Dec 30th 2007 14:57 - Category: Renewable energy Tags: wave energy;
Pacific Gas & Electric Co of California is now the first U.S. utility to commit to buying electricity generated from wave power. Finavera Renewables of Canada will build and install the systems off the Humboldt shores.
While the amount of power to be produced is just 2 megawatts, wave power could prove to be an important source of renewable energy. From the pdf on their site, quoting an LA Times article.
Finavera, based in Vancouver, is one of many companies chasing technologies designed to harness the force of the ocean to produce power. Some hope to tap the sea’s below-surface tidal forces, some target the power of breaking waves, and Finavera and others have focused on surface waves offshore.
Bob Morris @ Dec 30th 2007 07:11 - Category: Unfiled Tags: exorcists, pope;
The Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism.
He wants numerous exorcists in each diocese too. Given the huge drop off in the numbers of priests, one wonders how this will be accomplished.
The Vatican is particularly concerned that young people are being exposed to the influence of Satanic sects through rock music and the Internet.
This sounds like a parody of a 50’s fundamentalist preacher at a tent revival.
The Agonist responds: “I smell a video game”
The Pentagon is a five-sided building in the form of a pentagram, a symbol of witchcraft. Perhaps the exorcists could start there.
Bob Morris @ Dec 30th 2007 00:16 - Category: Renewable energy Tags: algae;
Shell Oil plans to farm algae off the coast of Kona, Hawaii to create biodiesel in a test project.
Yes, the OilCos live in both worlds. But even ExxonMobil is now making serious moves into renewables. Good. Moving to clean, renewable energy will, among other things, require massive investments of money by companies who know how to build and transport energy on a massive scale. That would be the OilCos. Here’s hoping they go full-tilt into renewables, and I’m guessing they now finally get it.
In another sign of the green times, big dog venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins of Silicon Valley is now focusing on greentech. It says so on their home page (Al Gore recently became a partner.)
You bet they and ExxonMobil see the possibility for immense fortunes to be made in clean tech. They also have the money to fund R&D and startups, and that’s what’s needed now, a huge push into developing clean energy - and it looks like that push is now happening.
Bob Morris @ Dec 30th 2007 00:11 - Category: Politics ;
Moon of Alabama has a fine rant on the “new progressive movement” which appears to be faint bubblings from within liberaldom concerned that its leaders in DC are either comatose or ignoring them.
If you want to broaden your voter base, why not look where most of the potential votes really are? These are with the people who today do not vote. Those are mostly the poor, the disenfranchised, the people who have no reason to vote because the ‘liberals’ are not really different from the ‘conservatives’.
They of course are precisely the same groups that used to be a welcome part of the Democratic constituency. They didn’t desert the Democratic Party, the party deserted them. The poor, minorities, labor unions, the working class - they were the backbone of the Democratic vote. Until Bill Clinton, triangulation, and appealing to the swing vote, that is.
All that Democrats need to do to become a dominant force again is to genuinely become a Big Tent party again. Emphasis on “genuinely.”
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