Bob Morris on Apr 16, 2009, 10:15 am Prices are going up for water in southern California and will probably stay up. There’s too much demand for water coming from in semi-arid areas and not enough water available, especially during the current drought. Nor does anyone really know what a normal amount of water is. The end is here, or at least [...] Bob Morris on Apr 16, 2009, 5:30 am Magnetic levitation suspends the vertical turbine in air. Thus there is no friction while it spins, allowing vastly more power generation. The biggest conventional wind turbine has a capacity of 6 MW. A Maglev turbine may be able to do as much as a GW or 166x more. [...] Bob Morris on Apr 16, 2009, 12:30 am [Goldman Sachs] moved its fiscal year up a month and simply left out its losses from December, which is now known as an ‘orphan month’. Is the rule that says a year has twelve months also open to subjective judgment? Sue, a CPA / CFE who will soon have a Masters in Taxation says, [...] Bob Morris on Apr 15, 2009, 9:46 pm Hank Williams Jr. Red White and Pink-Slip Blues DJ, who lives in rural Utah, says he knows teabaggers and most of them, if they have politics at all, are Democrats not Republicans, and that they aren’t racist. I’ve helped organize many antiwar protests. Those who wish to bash us will find the most extreme [...] Bob Morris on Apr 15, 2009, 4:30 pm Note the suave tea bag earrings By all accounts the mighty tea bag protests today, hugely promoted by Fox News and right wing astro-turf front groups, were a flop. Crowds were way less than most mass nationwide protests get. Given the huge amount of free publicity they got, I’m thinking a bunch of stoned [...] Bob Morris on Apr 15, 2009, 2:29 pm That what’s some of the more deranged teabaggers are saying today. You can also hear the same thing sometimes from the left. Folks, under real fascism we wouldn’t be having open protests or blogs that comment on politics. Rather, there would be a knock on the door at 4am and you get disappeared and maybe [...] Bob Morris on Apr 15, 2009, 12:30 pm Iowa is now #2 in the nation for wind energy, behind Texas. California has fallen to third place. Hey, Iowa is happening. A friend from LA moved back to Dubuque a while ago. They bought a 3,000 sq. ft Victorian house on 2 acres for $115,000 and - There is a thriving art and [...] Bob Morris on Apr 15, 2009, 8:45 am The woman, clutching a carton of orange juice and digital camera, remonstrates with the officer. He is then seen drawing a baton from his pocket and striking the woman on her legs. The officer’s badge number was concealed. The usual denials and coverups would continue, except for those damn video cameras that protesters have. [...] Bob Morris on Apr 15, 2009, 5:25 am If you have a Google account, you can list all your sites under your Google Profile, and also make it easier for people to find you. Personal info like email addresses and phone numbers are accessible only by people in your Gmail account. You can also set it so people can send you a message [...] Bob Morris on Apr 15, 2009, 12:22 am Twitter is a fast way to get news out and can be accessed from a mobile device. These are huge advantages when police or fire departments need to get news out. | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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