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1771

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 25, 2021, 07:31:28 AM »

NY Times  columnist Nicholas Kristoff on USA school closings.


It’s a tragedy we haven’t really confronted.

Many Democrats seemed to be more suspicious of in-person schooling last summer when President Donald Trump called for it.
We shouldn’t let ourselves be driven by ideology rather than science."

1772

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 24, 2021, 10:52:49 PM »

RIP
Annabella Battistella , AKA Fanne Foxe, the  darling of all the strippers at Washington, DC’s Silver Slipper in the early 70’s . It was her l’affaire with Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas  democrat and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that culminated in her midnight dip in the Tidal Basin that eventually ended his political career career and made her a star forever. She morphed from the “  Argentine Bombshell”  to the “ Tidal Basin Bombshell” and her weekly fee for stripping rose from $3000 to $15000.

According to Wikipedia she and Mills were one of the top five sex scandals of the 20th century. Mills left the political scene in disgrace.
Annabella retired from stripping shortly after the Mills scandal, changed her name to Annabel Montgomery, and went on to earn  a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Tampa in 1995, a master’s degrees in marine science and business administration – both magna cum laude – from the University of South Florida in 2001 and 2004 respectively. She worked as a divemaster for the University of South Florida and participated in underwater filming.
She died at 84 two weeks ago in Florida.

1773

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 24, 2021, 09:54:39 PM »

On Wednesday, Lindsey Boylan, Cuomo's former deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser, alleged in an essay published on the website Medium that the governor went "out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs," forcibly kissed her on the lips during a one-on-one briefing and suggested that they "play strip poker" during a plane ride. 


NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN did not report the story.

1774

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 24, 2021, 08:40:11 PM »

Boy this Andrew Cuomo stuff is unbelievable! 
Pretty soon Nancy Pelosi will have to reign it all in an impeach Trump, again!
LOL!

I put this post into Google Translate and it came out Corn dog filter mangrove baby minstrel algae zeppelin.

ROFL!

1775

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 24, 2021, 06:13:21 PM »

Boy this Andrew Cuomo stuff is unbelievable! 
Pretty soon Nancy Pelosi will have to reign it all in an impeach Trump, again!
LOL!

1776

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 23, 2021, 08:35:59 PM »

Media Matters is a good watchdog of Fox News -- usually exposing the divergence from news in the direction of propaganda.  Recently did good work showing where Fox smears Beto and AOC as they mobilized assistance to those in need. 

 

Beto and AOC smear themselves.

1777

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 22, 2021, 09:16:10 PM »

Garland:  "I am committed to prosecuting white supremists and all others who attacked the Capitol"


Including this guy, Merrick?


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/leftist-activist-arrested-after-capitol-riot-releasing-book/ar-BB1dUzZL?ocid=uxbndlbing

Remember according to Garland attacking a Federal Building at night can’t be domestic terrorism.
How politically convenient  a definition.
Mitch MCConnell was right on keeping that line of thinking off SCOTUS.

1778

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 22, 2021, 08:54:19 PM »

Do you think that District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs of South Carolina would be a qualified addition to the Court?

This can help you decide: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/JMichelleChilds-PublicQuestionnaire.pdf

Thanks for the link.

After serving the State Gov as Deputy Director of labor relations, they put her on the S.C. Circuit court in ‘06. She got to the federal bench in ‘09 where she continues to serve with distinction.

She gets extra points for her work on the Woods case.

I will happily abide by her decisions once she is installed on the Supreme Court.

Stephen Breyer needs to go play golf, first. And do you think anyone else is as qualified, if not more so, as Childs?

What difference does that make? There has never been a SCOTUS justice who was not selected rejected except for demographic or political reasons.

FIFY

1779

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 22, 2021, 03:51:31 PM »

A fateful series of decisions were made in the late-’90s, when the now-defunct, scandal-plagued energy company Enron led a successful push to radically deregulate Texas’s electricity sector. As a result, decisions about the generation and distribution of power were stripped from regulators and, in effect, handed over to private energy companies. Unsurprisingly, these companies prioritized short-term profit over costly investments to maintain the grid and build in redundancies for extreme weather.

Today, Texans are at the mercy of regulation-allergic politicians who failed to require that energy companies plan for shocks or weatherize their infrastructure (renewables and fossil fuel alike). In a recent appearance on NBC’s “Today” show, Austin’s mayor, Steve Adler, summed it up: “We have a deregulated power system in the state and it does not work, because it does not build in the incentives in order to protect people.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/opinion/green-new-deal-texas-blackout.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Except that
Texas’s independence from Federal oversight has not hindered it from rivaling Saudi Arabia in oil production and made it the sixth largest provider of wind produced energy in the world.

And it is connected to its neighbors(and federally regulated)  who could not be of much help since they were fighting similar problems and had little excess energy to spare.

The critical point of this week is to realize that the integration of power grids relies on all sources of energy and ridding ourselves completely of Fossil Fuels is a fool’s errand.

You're like that guy who blames his marriage failing on the fact you got caught and not the fact that you cheated.

I think you are in a different discussion.

1780

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 22, 2021, 02:25:05 PM »

A fateful series of decisions were made in the late-’90s, when the now-defunct, scandal-plagued energy company Enron led a successful push to radically deregulate Texas’s electricity sector. As a result, decisions about the generation and distribution of power were stripped from regulators and, in effect, handed over to private energy companies. Unsurprisingly, these companies prioritized short-term profit over costly investments to maintain the grid and build in redundancies for extreme weather.

Today, Texans are at the mercy of regulation-allergic politicians who failed to require that energy companies plan for shocks or weatherize their infrastructure (renewables and fossil fuel alike). In a recent appearance on NBC’s “Today” show, Austin’s mayor, Steve Adler, summed it up: “We have a deregulated power system in the state and it does not work, because it does not build in the incentives in order to protect people.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/opinion/green-new-deal-texas-blackout.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Except that
Texas’s independence from Federal oversight has not hindered it from rivaling Saudi Arabia in oil production and made it the sixth largest provider of wind produced energy in the world.

And it is connected to its neighbors(and federally regulated)  who could not be of much help since they were fighting similar problems and had little excess energy to spare.

The critical point of this week is to realize that the integration of power grids relies on all sources of energy and ridding ourselves completely of Fossil Fuels is a fool’s errand.

1781

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 22, 2021, 10:46:30 AM »

Gasoline per gallon under Biden  $2.75
Trump $2.11

64 cents per gallon tax in the first month.

Stay tuned it will get worse.

Socialism at its finest.

Are companies allowed to raise their prices in response to market forces under a "SOCIALIST!!!!!" regime?   Hell, do market forces even matter in a "SOCIALIST!!!!!" regime? I don't know.  I'm not an Economics authority.  Red carries a lot of water for us here.  Nobody ever thanks him.

okay. Change it to fascism, everybody in here understands that word  it seems.

But even better call it Obamism, with some Harrism on the side.

1782

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 21, 2021, 09:30:50 PM »

Gasoline per gallon under Biden  $2.75
Trump $2.11

64 cents per gallon tax in the first month.

Stay tuned it will get worse.

Socialism at its finest.

1783

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 21, 2021, 03:51:59 PM »

In Texas there is just ONE regulator which has failed to do its job for consumers and been proven to be a very ineffective way of operating, as it favors corporate entities focused on shortsighted profit goals rather than longterm planning and functionality during extreme events.

FIFY

Winterization should have been a "major topic" decades ago.   

You can make your deregulation case to all the customers who received $5000 bills for one week of electricity,  as well as the millions who shivered in unheated dwellings.   The 70 who died,  however,  you won't be able to reach with your pearls of libertarian wisdom.

Texas’s Grid is regulated.
It has well served its customers.
Winterization  has been debated for years but not fully implemented because of the cost in a moderate to warm weather state.
The argument will certainly be raised again. As will expanding pipelines for adding natural  gas
storage at power plants.

1784

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 21, 2021, 11:56:45 AM »

No way states should be allowed to get off the national grid to avoid federal regulations

Texas has never been on the national grid. When it was being formed last century Texas was in the process of building a statewide system of inter connectivity to take advantage of its huge resources in coal, oil, and gas.
And it wanted no part of regulation from the Federal Government.

Over the years it has worked out quite well since Texas controls both wholesale and retail sales of power.
Texas doesn’t have to worry about disputes  between federal and state jurisdictions.
(see California for some ugly examples)
In Texas there is just ONE regulator which has been proven to be a very effective way of operating.

Will there be some changes going forward?
Obviously winterization will be a major topic and another one is
storage of natural gas at production sites, something that has not been prevalent because of the ease of moving it through pipelines.

1785

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: February 20, 2021, 12:08:32 PM »

About those terrible fossil fuels.

California is mandating new homes be all electric.
So when the winds start fires and plants sending out electricity are shut down
what’s  the plan?
Diesel powered generators!
What did Biden send to Texas to help when wind turbines threw the power grid out of whack?
Diesel powered generators!
In New York Cuomo nixed pipelines to carry cheap natural gas from Pennsylvania to his state that has the highest electric rates in the  continental US.
When blackouts happen power plants will switch to, wait for it, OIL!
Meanwhile thousands of New Yorkers took matters in their own hands and are heating their homes with oil much dirtier than natural gas!