The residents of Michigan should rise up and declare Detroit a war zone as it is dragging the entire state into the dumpster. While Detroit is declared the worst large city in the country for crime, education and unemployment, among other categories, even worse than New York in the 90's, the mayor takes no responsibility for continuing decline.
Unemployment that is over 8% and over a million residents fleeing the city doesn't seem to have any effect on the mayor job performance. And when you throw in blanket racism by the mayor into the mix, it is a formula for total destruction.
Detroit has been in hands of liberals, New Socialist Progressives, NSPP, for the last twenty years or more, think New Orleans, so is it any wonder the decay of moral and physical services to the community have been nearly nonexistent while the scandals of city corruption are off the scale.
This article is the second one that has taken on the absolute outrage of irresponsibility in describing the complete break down in control of all aspects of city government, let alone the disgraceful behavior of the mayors personal life that makes the national news.
I guess it's okay to watch Detroit sink into the abyss of corruption given it is controlled by liberalism as it is in New Orleans, both have a long liberal history of decay and corruption and nobody cared until it fell apart, now it's someone else's fault. Some how the NSPP will find a way to blame George Bush.
This liberal agenda has work so well for so many years there is no reason to change now as witnessed by the reelection of Ray Nagan in New Orleans. Go figure -
Hang on people and keep the faith, the battle is joined!
DESTROYING DETROIT
By RICH LARYER April 1, 2008 --
IT could be an item on a David Letterman Top Ten List of "How to Know Your Mayor is Headed for a Major Scandal" - he's known as the "Hip-Hop Mayor."That's what they call Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, now famous for text messages detailing the affair he had with his chief of staff.
Kilpatrick had denied the relationship under oath in a lawsuit brought by two police officers Kilpatrick allegedly fired to cover up his personal misconduct. He has been indicted on eight felony counts including perjury and obstruction of justice.This would just be another dreary entry in the long annals of misbehaving politicians if it weren't for the backdrop of a decaying city.
Elected at age 31 in 2002, Kilpatrick was supposed to bring youthful vitality to his job, and he talked about reform. Now, he's just another tragedy to befall Detroit, a city whose decline is - as psychologists put it - overdetermined, but stands as a stark statement of the failure of urban liberalism.
Detroit suffers from every possible malady except a plague of locusts, and that's only because they find urban living uncongenial. The city has a revitalized downtown, but all around it, the city rots. Forbes magazine declared Detroit "America's Most Miserable City," on the basis of its unemployment and crime rates, among other things. The unemployment rate of 8.2 percent is the highest of any major urban area in the nation, and its homicide rate is higher than New York's in the bad old days of the early 1990s.The city has lost 1 million residents since 1950. It was hit by the decline of the auto industry and white flight, fueled partly by racism.
These trends would have rocked the city no matter what. Detroit compounded them with disastrous governance, personified by Mayor Coleman Young, who held office for 20 years beginning in 1974. His record raises the question why, if it wanted to engage in a nefarious plot to hurt blacks, the federal government would invent the AIDS virus when it could simply emplace mayors like Coleman Young instead. "Imagine a Rev. Jeremiah Wright with real power," says urban expert Fred Siegel. Coleman taunted suburbanites, accusing them of "pillaging the city," while his scandal-plagued administration managed the city into the ground.
He neglected policing, maintaining that "crime is a problem, but not the problem. The police are the major threat . . . to the minority community." The 1968 riots never really ended in Detroit, dragging on in a long crime wave. With government services terrible to nonexistent and both crime and tax rates high, there was no reason for anyone to stay. "Several Detroit mayors have been the best economic-development officers Oakland County ever had," comments Michael LaFaive of the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, referring to the county to Detroit's north.
Public-sector unions protect the dismal status quo. Detroit high schools graduate just a third of their students, according to an estimate by Michigan State University. But when a philanthropist offered to spend $200 million to create 15 new charter high schools, teachers staged a walk-out. Mayor Kilpatrick spurned the offer. These failing schools throw kids with no skills into a struggling economy in an environment characterized by social breakdown.
No matter what Mayor Kilpatrick did with his chief of staff or how many lies he has told, this is the true scandal of Detroit - and too many American cities.
In the wake of the controversy over Rev. Wright, Barack Obama called for a national conversation on race. But we talk about race incessantly already, and Mayor Kilpatrick will carry on his own dialogue by playing on black fears with charges of "selective prosecution."What would better serve the interests of African-Americans and the country is a national conversation about good urban governance - how to crack down on crime, reform the schools and free the economy from sclerotic government. Detroit awaits it, as its disgraced mayor twists in the wind.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Monday, April 07, 2008
The Internet is Obsolete : The GRID is Here!
I am not a computer geek by any stretch of the imagination, but this sure seems like the next phase of how we will communicate in the future with speeds beyond our wildest imaginations. Cool!
The Grid' Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete*
Monday , April 07, 2008
"The Internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.
The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
David Britton, professor of physics at Glasgow University and a leading figure in the grid project, believes grid technologies could “revolutionise” society. “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine,” he said. The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day - the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe.
The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.
Cern, based near Geneva, started the grid computing project seven years ago when researchers realised the LHC would generate annual data equivalent to 56m CDs - enough to make a stack 40 miles high.This meant that scientists at Cern - where Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 - would no longer be able to use his creation for fear of causing a global collapse.This is because the Internet has evolved by linking together a hotchpotch of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission.
By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years. Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the grid project, said: “We need so much processing power, there would even be an issue about getting enough electricity to run the computers if they were all at Cern.
The only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centres in other countries.”That network, in effect a parallel Internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world. One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire.From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks. It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.
Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet.“It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,” he said. Computers on the grid can also transmit data at lightning speed. This will allow researchers facing heavy processing tasks to call on the assistance of thousands of other computers around the world.
The aim is to eliminate the dreaded “frozen screen” experienced by internet users who ask their machine to handle too much information. The real goal of the grid is, however, to work with the LHC in tracking down nature’s most elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in theory but never yet found, the Higgs is supposed to be what gives matter mass.
The LHC has been designed to hunt out this particle - but even at optimum performance it will generate only a few thousand of the particles a year. Analysing the mountain of data will be such a large task that it will keep even the grid’s huge capacity busy for years to come.
Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly available to domestic internet users, many telecoms providers and businesses are already introducing its pioneering technologies. One of the most potent is so-called dynamic switching, which creates a dedicated channel for internet users trying to download large volumes of data such as films. In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so.
Additionally, the grid is being made available to dozens of other academic researchers including astronomers and molecular biologists. It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years.
“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,” Doyle said.“Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.“The history of the internet shows you cannot predict its real impacts but we know they will be huge.”
The Grid' Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete*
Monday , April 07, 2008
"The Internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.
The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
David Britton, professor of physics at Glasgow University and a leading figure in the grid project, believes grid technologies could “revolutionise” society. “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine,” he said. The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day - the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe.
The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.
Cern, based near Geneva, started the grid computing project seven years ago when researchers realised the LHC would generate annual data equivalent to 56m CDs - enough to make a stack 40 miles high.This meant that scientists at Cern - where Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 - would no longer be able to use his creation for fear of causing a global collapse.This is because the Internet has evolved by linking together a hotchpotch of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission.
By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years. Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the grid project, said: “We need so much processing power, there would even be an issue about getting enough electricity to run the computers if they were all at Cern.
The only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centres in other countries.”That network, in effect a parallel Internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world. One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire.From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks. It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.
Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet.“It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,” he said. Computers on the grid can also transmit data at lightning speed. This will allow researchers facing heavy processing tasks to call on the assistance of thousands of other computers around the world.
The aim is to eliminate the dreaded “frozen screen” experienced by internet users who ask their machine to handle too much information. The real goal of the grid is, however, to work with the LHC in tracking down nature’s most elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in theory but never yet found, the Higgs is supposed to be what gives matter mass.
The LHC has been designed to hunt out this particle - but even at optimum performance it will generate only a few thousand of the particles a year. Analysing the mountain of data will be such a large task that it will keep even the grid’s huge capacity busy for years to come.
Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly available to domestic internet users, many telecoms providers and businesses are already introducing its pioneering technologies. One of the most potent is so-called dynamic switching, which creates a dedicated channel for internet users trying to download large volumes of data such as films. In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so.
Additionally, the grid is being made available to dozens of other academic researchers including astronomers and molecular biologists. It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years.
“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,” Doyle said.“Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.“The history of the internet shows you cannot predict its real impacts but we know they will be huge.”
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Life is About Expectations and Reality
Life
at it's bare minimum is about what's going to happen next, good or bad. We all look forward to what is going to effect our lives and how we will react.
These two pups are much the same - although their world is smaller than most of ours, I use 'most' as some of us have very small worlds, they still have that expectation of things to come. As Dogs though, they don't expect anything bad or good, they just react to their immediate environment and take what ever comes as a natural flow of events.
Dogs do not have a past or a future - they live for the 'now' only, taking what ever comes their way as a positive or a negative impact on their mental attitude. They do have a memory for pain which, by the way, is larger than their memory for pleasure.
I find that their reactions to their immediate environment is similar to humans in many ways. Unfortunately, I find this amazing, many humans do not have a curious mind as many dogs do, these humans find it's easier to just go from one day to the next ignoring perceived negative stimulus that might cause some change in how they live their lives. And when a situations does present itself as a potential road block to a secure existence, they pretend it doesn't exist or make excuses for it and continue on with the daily routine. It's as though it never happened.
Dogs are much the same, only more so in some cases, but they can be hurt and then ten seconds later react like nothing happened. No memory of the event until it happens again, but they will react the same way as before, only now they will begin to avoid that situation even if it takes many occupancies for them to realize where the pain is coming from. Hopefully it won't be fatal like being hit by a car while wondering in the road.
Does this sound like what happened on September 11, 2001 for many people today? And just who are these people? Will they decide 911 never happened until it happens again only worse and even then make up some fantasy about the event so they can continue their lives unchanged like they do now?
Hey, every day gives us a new chance to do the right thing. Keep the faith, the battle is joined
at it's bare minimum is about what's going to happen next, good or bad. We all look forward to what is going to effect our lives and how we will react.These two pups are much the same - although their world is smaller than most of ours, I use 'most' as some of us have very small worlds, they still have that expectation of things to come. As Dogs though, they don't expect anything bad or good, they just react to their immediate environment and take what ever comes as a natural flow of events.
Dogs do not have a past or a future - they live for the 'now' only, taking what ever comes their way as a positive or a negative impact on their mental attitude. They do have a memory for pain which, by the way, is larger than their memory for pleasure.
I find that their reactions to their immediate environment is similar to humans in many ways. Unfortunately, I find this amazing, many humans do not have a curious mind as many dogs do, these humans find it's easier to just go from one day to the next ignoring perceived negative stimulus that might cause some change in how they live their lives. And when a situations does present itself as a potential road block to a secure existence, they pretend it doesn't exist or make excuses for it and continue on with the daily routine. It's as though it never happened.
Dogs are much the same, only more so in some cases, but they can be hurt and then ten seconds later react like nothing happened. No memory of the event until it happens again, but they will react the same way as before, only now they will begin to avoid that situation even if it takes many occupancies for them to realize where the pain is coming from. Hopefully it won't be fatal like being hit by a car while wondering in the road.
Does this sound like what happened on September 11, 2001 for many people today? And just who are these people? Will they decide 911 never happened until it happens again only worse and even then make up some fantasy about the event so they can continue their lives unchanged like they do now?
Hey, every day gives us a new chance to do the right thing. Keep the faith, the battle is joined
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Argentina in Socialist Freefall : Democrat Agenda for America
After hearing Obama and Hillary lay out their agenda for America, it isn't hard to connect the dots to where they are headed.
After reading the progress report below on the nightmare that is taking place in Argentina today, and how the Argentine president's agenda matches the New Socialist Progressive Party's, NSPP, agenda in this country, it doesn't take rocket science to figure out the NSPP what's to take the US in the same direction.
The question that stands out in my mind is will we stand back and allow this to take place in America? NO, no, don't same it can't happen here because it is taking place as we speak in our congress. The NSPP has convinced many party leaders in both parties that Socialism is the only way to solve all of America's problems, real and manufactured.
It can happen here - make no mistake about this - "Barack Shock" is a real phenomena and the political power of the Clinton's to change anything to their advantage is real as well - this is no time to sit on the side lines and just hope for the best because freedom and Democracy are something that we all must continually work at to preserve.
So, hit those phones and e-mails to our representatives demanding they do the right thing. Tell them you are keeping the faith, because the battle is joined!
There Will Be Hunger In Argentina
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 Americas
As sure the sun will rise, Argentina will fall into crisis. It's not just the tax hike that has led to a farm strike. It's a government that still expects much of an economy at all after killing off any reason to farm.
It may sound like common sense to us, but we aren't Argentina's irrational new president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who suddenly hiked taxes to 44% on soy and sunflower exports just as crops were about to be harvested. It was the third tax hike on farmers in six months, but she denounced Argentine farmers' protests as the acts of "coup plotters" in a "protest of plenty."
Her grab at farmers' profits, along with her aggressive leftist rhetoric calling for "redistribution" of profits, so offended ordinary Argentines that some 250 pot-banging protests erupted across the country this week against her arbitrary move at farmers. The supine media covered almost none of them, but word got out anyway.
The three-week farmer's strike is real enough — blocking roads, leaving ships empty at the docks and contributing to food shortages in the cities. Still, the government refuses to back down. It knows it can get away with this squeeze and eventually win. Its fascistic concentration of power, the likelihood of hungry citizens in the cities wearing down and the presence of violent government-paid enforcers known as "piqueteros" are all likely to work against the farmers. After that, the farmers' only means of communicating will be to vote with their feet. That bodes ill both for Argentina's reputation as a global breadbasket of commodities and for government finances, which rely heavily on these taxes.
How did it come to this? First, consider that Fernandez is dangerously ignorant of the impact of taxes on any business, having spent her entire life as a politician in cities. Combined with the concentrated power of her Peronist party, which controls every institution in the country, it's little wonder that she has little inclination to listen. But declining production is likely to be its own message. Already, there is so much micromanaging of Argentina's agriculture that the only profitable areas left are in relatively uncomplicated export crops of soya and sunflowers — 70% to 90% of which are exported.
But three tax hikes on exports in six months, along with VAT taxes, income taxes, capital costs and salaries, are likely to leave no net profit for Argentina's last dynamic producers in agriculture.The whole agricultural picture is a nightmare of government meddling.
In the cattle sector, for instance, Argentina doesn't allow exports of prime cuts, regulates the weight of prairie cows, yet subsidizes feed-lot cattle. It's gotten so bad that Argentina's world-famous beef exports are virtually halted, while its market-friendly neighbor, Uruguay, has snapped up what had been Argentina's markets. Tiny Uruguay sells more beef overseas than Argentina now.
Wheat has been taxed since 2002, and other crops are disincentivized by rules against the use of new seeds. Farmers make it up with capital-goods technologies that enable them to double crop output and improve the land. But they are cut off from even newer competitive advantages, so the impact is an Argentina cursed with uncompetitive production even in soya and sunflowers.
Fernandez has fixed socialist notions of big farms being capitalistically bad and has tried to make farmers halt their strike based on her proposed subsidies to "small" farmers. But in reality, these subsidies will only partly compensate for the additional tax, leaving farmers without an incentive to grow more crops. In fact, big farms in Argentina are often conglomerations of the smallest farmers working together to create efficiencies. They pay rent on land, use their equipment over months instead of weeks in sprawled-out land and harvest at different times. Then, they pool their capital resources and profits, which — because they are big — amount to what Fernandez dubs "windfall" profits. These farmers are most likely to weather the massive tax hikes Fernandez aims at them because they can rent less land.
In the end, fewer exports leads to less tax collected. At that point, Argentina will be pleading for a bailout as shortages grip its cities and inflation comes. Then the economy may collapse.
After reading the progress report below on the nightmare that is taking place in Argentina today, and how the Argentine president's agenda matches the New Socialist Progressive Party's, NSPP, agenda in this country, it doesn't take rocket science to figure out the NSPP what's to take the US in the same direction.
The question that stands out in my mind is will we stand back and allow this to take place in America? NO, no, don't same it can't happen here because it is taking place as we speak in our congress. The NSPP has convinced many party leaders in both parties that Socialism is the only way to solve all of America's problems, real and manufactured.
It can happen here - make no mistake about this - "Barack Shock" is a real phenomena and the political power of the Clinton's to change anything to their advantage is real as well - this is no time to sit on the side lines and just hope for the best because freedom and Democracy are something that we all must continually work at to preserve.
So, hit those phones and e-mails to our representatives demanding they do the right thing. Tell them you are keeping the faith, because the battle is joined!
There Will Be Hunger In Argentina
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 Americas
As sure the sun will rise, Argentina will fall into crisis. It's not just the tax hike that has led to a farm strike. It's a government that still expects much of an economy at all after killing off any reason to farm.
It may sound like common sense to us, but we aren't Argentina's irrational new president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who suddenly hiked taxes to 44% on soy and sunflower exports just as crops were about to be harvested. It was the third tax hike on farmers in six months, but she denounced Argentine farmers' protests as the acts of "coup plotters" in a "protest of plenty."
Her grab at farmers' profits, along with her aggressive leftist rhetoric calling for "redistribution" of profits, so offended ordinary Argentines that some 250 pot-banging protests erupted across the country this week against her arbitrary move at farmers. The supine media covered almost none of them, but word got out anyway.
The three-week farmer's strike is real enough — blocking roads, leaving ships empty at the docks and contributing to food shortages in the cities. Still, the government refuses to back down. It knows it can get away with this squeeze and eventually win. Its fascistic concentration of power, the likelihood of hungry citizens in the cities wearing down and the presence of violent government-paid enforcers known as "piqueteros" are all likely to work against the farmers. After that, the farmers' only means of communicating will be to vote with their feet. That bodes ill both for Argentina's reputation as a global breadbasket of commodities and for government finances, which rely heavily on these taxes.
How did it come to this? First, consider that Fernandez is dangerously ignorant of the impact of taxes on any business, having spent her entire life as a politician in cities. Combined with the concentrated power of her Peronist party, which controls every institution in the country, it's little wonder that she has little inclination to listen. But declining production is likely to be its own message. Already, there is so much micromanaging of Argentina's agriculture that the only profitable areas left are in relatively uncomplicated export crops of soya and sunflowers — 70% to 90% of which are exported.
But three tax hikes on exports in six months, along with VAT taxes, income taxes, capital costs and salaries, are likely to leave no net profit for Argentina's last dynamic producers in agriculture.The whole agricultural picture is a nightmare of government meddling.
In the cattle sector, for instance, Argentina doesn't allow exports of prime cuts, regulates the weight of prairie cows, yet subsidizes feed-lot cattle. It's gotten so bad that Argentina's world-famous beef exports are virtually halted, while its market-friendly neighbor, Uruguay, has snapped up what had been Argentina's markets. Tiny Uruguay sells more beef overseas than Argentina now.
Wheat has been taxed since 2002, and other crops are disincentivized by rules against the use of new seeds. Farmers make it up with capital-goods technologies that enable them to double crop output and improve the land. But they are cut off from even newer competitive advantages, so the impact is an Argentina cursed with uncompetitive production even in soya and sunflowers.
Fernandez has fixed socialist notions of big farms being capitalistically bad and has tried to make farmers halt their strike based on her proposed subsidies to "small" farmers. But in reality, these subsidies will only partly compensate for the additional tax, leaving farmers without an incentive to grow more crops. In fact, big farms in Argentina are often conglomerations of the smallest farmers working together to create efficiencies. They pay rent on land, use their equipment over months instead of weeks in sprawled-out land and harvest at different times. Then, they pool their capital resources and profits, which — because they are big — amount to what Fernandez dubs "windfall" profits. These farmers are most likely to weather the massive tax hikes Fernandez aims at them because they can rent less land.
In the end, fewer exports leads to less tax collected. At that point, Argentina will be pleading for a bailout as shortages grip its cities and inflation comes. Then the economy may collapse.
More Environmental Terrorism - Coal is BAD!
Again, the environmentalist are dictating what is right and moral when it comes to our private lives. The politicians, along with the eco-terrorists, are right there to jump on the band wagon as they see themselves as protectors of our very souls.
Can it be that we, as private citizens, will sit back and watch and wait for the lights to brown-out as demand for more electrical power keeps going up?
Our economy is growing faster than the power companies can meet the demand, but apparently this means nothing to average citizens as a majority of us believes the enviro's are right. How can this be? Where's the common sense?
Okay, who will be to blame when your air conditioner doesn't work or your TV blinks out during the ball game? Yeah, I know, George Bush or the damn power companies that just what another reason to raise the rates.
Look in the mirror people - It's you ! - If you allow the New Socialist Progressive Party, liberal Democrats, to gain power, not only will you pay more, but you get less power for your home and, by the way, less fuel for you car and, again, pay more for getting less.
If you are willing to sacrifice everything for a scam, a fraud that is global warming, then don't blame me, I called my representatives - you live with the thought that you did nothing to prevent it - one of the results of our inaction will be roasting in the summer and freezing in the winter. You chose.
Read this article about energy demands and give it some serious thought - then Keep the faith, the battle is joined
Lights Out in America
By PATRICK MCILHERAN
April 4, 2008
There are plans to rebuild an old power plant along the Mississippi River by a Wisconsin utility. It boasts "clean coal," dramatic cuts in pollution, and the way it'll be able to burn local farm waste.
Greedy, filthy swine, say environmentalists: Alliant Energy is using "the worst of the worst available technologies," as one big group, Clean Wisconsin, put it to supporters.
So what is it, heaven or hell? The answer may help the nation stay out of power limbo. Alliant's plan to rebuild its power station in Cassville, Wis., will use technology developed in the late 1980s which was lauded as clean coal until recently. The problem is that environmentalists have moved the goalposts. The system Alliant will install is called circulating fluidized bed combustion. In it, high-pressure air keeps bits of coal swirling around with limestone in the burner. The limestone absorbs almost all sulfur dioxide, while the design of the burners means they put out much less nitrous oxide.
Scores of other power plants have upgraded themselves over the past two decades by using the circulating fluidized bed combustion technology, which has dramatically cleaned up exhaust. Sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide are the chief pollutants of acid rain. Keeping them out of the air was the federal government's goal in sinking piles of money into clean coal research. The payoff has been power plants that pollute much less and can easily burn biomass, fashionably turning local cornstalks into power.
Very nice, but that's so 1980s now. The plants still put out carbon dioxide — known until a decade ago as "the stuff you exhale" — and so environmentalists decry them as Dickensian pimples on the face of Mother Earth. Clean Wisconsin now warns about how much "global warming pollutant" — carbon dioxide — the plant will put out. The group is demanding the plant be redesigned to gasify its coal before burning it and to capture all the carbon dioxide. Nice idea, but this hasn't been done commercially anywhere in this country.
Another Wisconsin utility, WE Energies proposed building a pilot plant near Milwaukee and got turned down by state regulators because of expense. The federal Department of Energy called off its big carbon capture demonstration plans in Illinois in February, citing costs. "It's just not ready yet," according to an Alliant spokesman, Rob Crain, "And we just don't have the luxury of waiting for it to be ready. "So the company, which sees its demand rising by between 2% and 3% a year even as it aggressively pushes conservation, plans its new plant.
The environmentalists are all over it for using demon coal, even though the plant will put out 90% less sulfur dioxide to generate 500 megawatts in comparison to the 200 megawatts it currently generates. The new technology is more efficient, so it will even put out less carbon dioxide per megawatt, and researchers say it's adaptable to capturing the carbon when the technology becomes economically viable. No matter: It is still tainted by the sin of coal.
This gives us insight into the thinking of the campaign against coal. As the real harms of coal have been incrementally reduced, some of those most fervently opposed to it have shed nuance and embraced a more uniformly dark view. For instance, the possibility of gasification has fissured environmentalism, with some groups backing it and others opposed. The sequestered carbon dioxide would have to go somewhere, and some fret that it might escape. Others argue that even if all the carbon were caught, mining still makes disagreeable holes in landscapes.
Yet others say that coal's abundance eases the pressure on Americans to use less power by living simpler lives. All these objections leave one suspecting that, should gasification work out commercially, the goalposts would move again.
Irish pubs apparently sat out last weekend's worldwide "Lights Out" hour in which people were urged to turn off lamps to show concern about the climate. Too much risk, apparently, of tipsy patrons burning disagreeable holes in themselves with candles. It was telling that the protest centered on doing without a hallmark of civilization — light. It was illustrative that the bars decided the benefit wasn't worth the price.
Coal is not evil but represents a series of such trade-offs. Fluidized bed combustion, for instance, adds complexity and cost to building a power plant, but it satisfies tougher air rules. Part of the reason Alliant says it must build its new plant is that ethanol distilleries are adding hundreds of megawatts of demand — that, and people really do prefer electric light to candles.
All these trade-offs are defined by circumstances specific to a time or place, so they'd best be decided by people nearest the situation. They should also be premised on a practical fact: That the availability of affordable power is the nonnegotiable.
By contrast, declarations that new coal plants can't be tolerated or that infeasible gasification is the only permissible path stem from a moralistic view that no pollution is justified. So when carbon dioxide is reclassified as a pollutant, as the Supreme Court ruled last year, coal plants come under vehement attack. No matter that they provide half the nation's power, they are aging and must be opposed as sin. Incremental steps won't do. Now that they can be made less polluting they must be replaced.The trouble is that, once the goalposts move, we're left with no way forward that doesn't involve turning off the lights.
Mr. McIlheran is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Can it be that we, as private citizens, will sit back and watch and wait for the lights to brown-out as demand for more electrical power keeps going up?
Our economy is growing faster than the power companies can meet the demand, but apparently this means nothing to average citizens as a majority of us believes the enviro's are right. How can this be? Where's the common sense?
Okay, who will be to blame when your air conditioner doesn't work or your TV blinks out during the ball game? Yeah, I know, George Bush or the damn power companies that just what another reason to raise the rates.
Look in the mirror people - It's you ! - If you allow the New Socialist Progressive Party, liberal Democrats, to gain power, not only will you pay more, but you get less power for your home and, by the way, less fuel for you car and, again, pay more for getting less.
If you are willing to sacrifice everything for a scam, a fraud that is global warming, then don't blame me, I called my representatives - you live with the thought that you did nothing to prevent it - one of the results of our inaction will be roasting in the summer and freezing in the winter. You chose.
Read this article about energy demands and give it some serious thought - then Keep the faith, the battle is joined
Lights Out in America
By PATRICK MCILHERAN
April 4, 2008
There are plans to rebuild an old power plant along the Mississippi River by a Wisconsin utility. It boasts "clean coal," dramatic cuts in pollution, and the way it'll be able to burn local farm waste.
Greedy, filthy swine, say environmentalists: Alliant Energy is using "the worst of the worst available technologies," as one big group, Clean Wisconsin, put it to supporters.
So what is it, heaven or hell? The answer may help the nation stay out of power limbo. Alliant's plan to rebuild its power station in Cassville, Wis., will use technology developed in the late 1980s which was lauded as clean coal until recently. The problem is that environmentalists have moved the goalposts. The system Alliant will install is called circulating fluidized bed combustion. In it, high-pressure air keeps bits of coal swirling around with limestone in the burner. The limestone absorbs almost all sulfur dioxide, while the design of the burners means they put out much less nitrous oxide.
Scores of other power plants have upgraded themselves over the past two decades by using the circulating fluidized bed combustion technology, which has dramatically cleaned up exhaust. Sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide are the chief pollutants of acid rain. Keeping them out of the air was the federal government's goal in sinking piles of money into clean coal research. The payoff has been power plants that pollute much less and can easily burn biomass, fashionably turning local cornstalks into power.
Very nice, but that's so 1980s now. The plants still put out carbon dioxide — known until a decade ago as "the stuff you exhale" — and so environmentalists decry them as Dickensian pimples on the face of Mother Earth. Clean Wisconsin now warns about how much "global warming pollutant" — carbon dioxide — the plant will put out. The group is demanding the plant be redesigned to gasify its coal before burning it and to capture all the carbon dioxide. Nice idea, but this hasn't been done commercially anywhere in this country.
Another Wisconsin utility, WE Energies proposed building a pilot plant near Milwaukee and got turned down by state regulators because of expense. The federal Department of Energy called off its big carbon capture demonstration plans in Illinois in February, citing costs. "It's just not ready yet," according to an Alliant spokesman, Rob Crain, "And we just don't have the luxury of waiting for it to be ready. "So the company, which sees its demand rising by between 2% and 3% a year even as it aggressively pushes conservation, plans its new plant.
The environmentalists are all over it for using demon coal, even though the plant will put out 90% less sulfur dioxide to generate 500 megawatts in comparison to the 200 megawatts it currently generates. The new technology is more efficient, so it will even put out less carbon dioxide per megawatt, and researchers say it's adaptable to capturing the carbon when the technology becomes economically viable. No matter: It is still tainted by the sin of coal.
This gives us insight into the thinking of the campaign against coal. As the real harms of coal have been incrementally reduced, some of those most fervently opposed to it have shed nuance and embraced a more uniformly dark view. For instance, the possibility of gasification has fissured environmentalism, with some groups backing it and others opposed. The sequestered carbon dioxide would have to go somewhere, and some fret that it might escape. Others argue that even if all the carbon were caught, mining still makes disagreeable holes in landscapes.
Yet others say that coal's abundance eases the pressure on Americans to use less power by living simpler lives. All these objections leave one suspecting that, should gasification work out commercially, the goalposts would move again.
Irish pubs apparently sat out last weekend's worldwide "Lights Out" hour in which people were urged to turn off lamps to show concern about the climate. Too much risk, apparently, of tipsy patrons burning disagreeable holes in themselves with candles. It was telling that the protest centered on doing without a hallmark of civilization — light. It was illustrative that the bars decided the benefit wasn't worth the price.
Coal is not evil but represents a series of such trade-offs. Fluidized bed combustion, for instance, adds complexity and cost to building a power plant, but it satisfies tougher air rules. Part of the reason Alliant says it must build its new plant is that ethanol distilleries are adding hundreds of megawatts of demand — that, and people really do prefer electric light to candles.
All these trade-offs are defined by circumstances specific to a time or place, so they'd best be decided by people nearest the situation. They should also be premised on a practical fact: That the availability of affordable power is the nonnegotiable.
By contrast, declarations that new coal plants can't be tolerated or that infeasible gasification is the only permissible path stem from a moralistic view that no pollution is justified. So when carbon dioxide is reclassified as a pollutant, as the Supreme Court ruled last year, coal plants come under vehement attack. No matter that they provide half the nation's power, they are aging and must be opposed as sin. Incremental steps won't do. Now that they can be made less polluting they must be replaced.The trouble is that, once the goalposts move, we're left with no way forward that doesn't involve turning off the lights.
Mr. McIlheran is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Computer Repair Guys : Unfair Advantage
If you have ever taken your PC in to have the geeks fix something that has bugged you for weeks, and they fixed it in five minutes or less and charged your twice what the machine is worth, this is for you - been there!!
heh
Old Harold
I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Chuck the computer guy, to come over.
Chuck clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem. He gave me a bill for a minimum service call. As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong?'
He replied, 'It was an ID ten T error.' I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, 'An, ID ten T error? What's that ... In case I need to fix it again?' Chuck grinned....
'Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?' No,' I replied. 'Write it down,' he said, 'and I think you'll figure it out. 'So I wrote down:
I D 1 0 T I
used to like Chuck.............
heh
Old Harold
I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Chuck the computer guy, to come over.
Chuck clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem. He gave me a bill for a minimum service call. As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong?'
He replied, 'It was an ID ten T error.' I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, 'An, ID ten T error? What's that ... In case I need to fix it again?' Chuck grinned....
'Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?' No,' I replied. 'Write it down,' he said, 'and I think you'll figure it out. 'So I wrote down:
I D 1 0 T I
used to like Chuck.............
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Eco-Terrorists Demand Nuclear Celibacy : Congress Obeys
I should have known congress and the eco- fascists in this country had no intention of considering nuclear power as a clean alternative to fossil fuels.
We always hear that all sources of energy are to be considered to make us energy independent - congress lied to us, as they have always lied about everything that is of national security importance. Why is that? Remember immigration policy being made behind closed doors?
To cut the funding for this all important step in considering nuclear energy as one of the legs of our energy Independence, is a breach of national security. Energy Should be the single most important item for this country to focus on as it effects all other issues from immigration to health care. Without adequate supplies of energy, all other aspects of life in this country will suffer the consequences.
I have mentioned the need for a comprehensive energy policy that is not politically driven on many occasions, as have many others, that must be based on common sense needs of a growing economy.
The politics of 'man made' global warming is the driving force behind this insanity. It's a fraud, it has no basis in fact - all of the hard evidence from many repeatable organizations points to other factors causing a slight rise in temperature but that these factors are completely out of our control. Major among these factors is our sun.
This is not a matter of 'consensus' - it is a matter of hard scientific evidence. Why is this so hard to grasp as a concept? Global warming can not be proved just by people, some scientists, having an 'opinion' on the matter, i.e. a consensus. Are you ready to send tens of billions of tax dollars on a scam that is designed to bring a very small group of people to power - not to mentions thousands of new bureaucrats, that is New Socialist Progressives.
Get on the phone people or write your congress person and ask them what is going on here.
Sigh - Keep the faith, the battle is joined!
Yucca Layoffs Ballooning -
(from Wisconsin Energy Coop)
Layoff's on the Yucca Mountain project in response to congressional budget-cutting will apparently grow to nearly nine times the number previously thought and construction work at the planned nuclear waste site has reportedly ground to a halt.
In January, the projects chief contractor announced more that 60 layoffs, more than half of affected workers employed directly at the site. Since then, Ward Sproat, the Department of Energy's (DOE) director of civilian radioactive wasted management, has said he envisions at least 500 layoffs, some in the states other than Nevada where work connected with the project is being done.
The layoffs make it likely the DOE will fail to meet it's own June 2008 deadline to formally apply for a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to complete the facility. The current target date for the Yucca Mountain to begin accepting high level waste from US power plants - 2017 - will also likely fall by the wayside.
We always hear that all sources of energy are to be considered to make us energy independent - congress lied to us, as they have always lied about everything that is of national security importance. Why is that? Remember immigration policy being made behind closed doors?
To cut the funding for this all important step in considering nuclear energy as one of the legs of our energy Independence, is a breach of national security. Energy Should be the single most important item for this country to focus on as it effects all other issues from immigration to health care. Without adequate supplies of energy, all other aspects of life in this country will suffer the consequences.
I have mentioned the need for a comprehensive energy policy that is not politically driven on many occasions, as have many others, that must be based on common sense needs of a growing economy.
The politics of 'man made' global warming is the driving force behind this insanity. It's a fraud, it has no basis in fact - all of the hard evidence from many repeatable organizations points to other factors causing a slight rise in temperature but that these factors are completely out of our control. Major among these factors is our sun.
This is not a matter of 'consensus' - it is a matter of hard scientific evidence. Why is this so hard to grasp as a concept? Global warming can not be proved just by people, some scientists, having an 'opinion' on the matter, i.e. a consensus. Are you ready to send tens of billions of tax dollars on a scam that is designed to bring a very small group of people to power - not to mentions thousands of new bureaucrats, that is New Socialist Progressives.
Get on the phone people or write your congress person and ask them what is going on here.
Sigh - Keep the faith, the battle is joined!
Yucca Layoffs Ballooning -
(from Wisconsin Energy Coop)
Layoff's on the Yucca Mountain project in response to congressional budget-cutting will apparently grow to nearly nine times the number previously thought and construction work at the planned nuclear waste site has reportedly ground to a halt.
In January, the projects chief contractor announced more that 60 layoffs, more than half of affected workers employed directly at the site. Since then, Ward Sproat, the Department of Energy's (DOE) director of civilian radioactive wasted management, has said he envisions at least 500 layoffs, some in the states other than Nevada where work connected with the project is being done.
The layoffs make it likely the DOE will fail to meet it's own June 2008 deadline to formally apply for a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to complete the facility. The current target date for the Yucca Mountain to begin accepting high level waste from US power plants - 2017 - will also likely fall by the wayside.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Freedom of Speech in Real Life : What a Concept
I believe this is happening more than we are lead to believe as the media will, for the most part, bury this kind of story - it doesn't fit there socialist agenda of disenfranchising Christians and supporting anyone that will cause problems for America's life style.
If you listen to any conservative talk shows it will become readily apparent the university system in general has crawled out on the left limb of politics and is busily sawing away at there support of common sense and the first amendment related to free speech foundations.
What are we suppose to think when people who are dedicated to our destruction demand that we willing acquiesce to our own demise? Europe found that surrendering to Muslim demands have gained them nothing but more demands of greater consequence. Example: Paris, France.
This professor was able to walk the walk in this case and so far has been able to retain his position as a free man in a free country with rights and liberties granted by our Constitution. I know that is hard to believe given the socialist atmosphere that is prevalent today in our society. Read this as 'political correctness'.
Obtain a copy of the Constitution and read it through - interesting stuff and, by the way, the most important document in the world.
Thank God above we live in America and keep the faith, the battle is joined!
(Snoops.com)
Professor Wichman E-mail
Claim: A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country.
Status: True.
The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named
Indrek Wichman.
Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.
The group had complained the cartoons were 'hate speech'
Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the following:
Dear Moslem Association,
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSUI intend to protest your protest.
I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians,
cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests
(the latest in Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt , the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims,
the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women(called 'whores' in your culture),
the murder of film directors in Holland ,and the rioting and looting in Paris France .
This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues.
I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems
to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.'
If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave.
I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.
Cordially,
I. S. Wichman
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman be reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity training for faculty and mandate a seminar on hate and discrimination for all freshmen.
Now the local chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion.
For its part, the university is standing its ground in support of Professor Wichman,
saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks.
If you listen to any conservative talk shows it will become readily apparent the university system in general has crawled out on the left limb of politics and is busily sawing away at there support of common sense and the first amendment related to free speech foundations.
What are we suppose to think when people who are dedicated to our destruction demand that we willing acquiesce to our own demise? Europe found that surrendering to Muslim demands have gained them nothing but more demands of greater consequence. Example: Paris, France.
This professor was able to walk the walk in this case and so far has been able to retain his position as a free man in a free country with rights and liberties granted by our Constitution. I know that is hard to believe given the socialist atmosphere that is prevalent today in our society. Read this as 'political correctness'.
Obtain a copy of the Constitution and read it through - interesting stuff and, by the way, the most important document in the world.
Thank God above we live in America and keep the faith, the battle is joined!
(Snoops.com)
Professor Wichman E-mail
Claim: A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country.
Status: True.
The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named
Indrek Wichman.
Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.
The group had complained the cartoons were 'hate speech'
Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the following:
Dear Moslem Association,
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSUI intend to protest your protest.
I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians,
cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests
(the latest in Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt , the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims,
the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women(called 'whores' in your culture),
the murder of film directors in Holland ,and the rioting and looting in Paris France .
This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues.
I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems
to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.'
If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave.
I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.
Cordially,
I. S. Wichman
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman be reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity training for faculty and mandate a seminar on hate and discrimination for all freshmen.
Now the local chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion.
For its part, the university is standing its ground in support of Professor Wichman,
saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Kenseth in Demolition Derby
What a frustrating weekend for Matt Kenseth - he never qualifies well and this Sunday he ran like he qualified - poorly.I can't blame him completely as he was wrecked, I think, on two occasions and he wrecked on one when he took his frustrations out on the guy that wrecked him in previous laps. NASCAR held him in the pits for two laps for "rough driving". Whaaaat! What ever happened to the 'bump and grid' of Martinsville? This is what they do on short tracks.
I wonder why they never did that to Tony Stuart or Kurt Busch. Whatz up with that???
Root for Matt and keep the faith, the season is just starting!
Federal Agencies Stop Coal Fired Power Plant Construction
Okay people, here is just the tip of the 'not so melting' ice berg that will slowly engulf our country if we don't get on the sick - George Bush, what in the hell are you thinking???:
I believe we must have regulation on emissions from all power plants as we only have one environment for our selves and for the next generation. But when the regulations already in place have been approved over the years and other federal agencies have inspected these plants to death, why now is it so important to stop coal fired power plants even though there are no alternatives that will support our growing economy. The answer is obvious, the fraud of global warming - garrrrrr
Demand is growing at a rate that exceeds supply. Everyone is aware of this situation but most in our government are terrified of the media and the Eco-terrorists that apparently control the energy supplies in this country.
The question now is 'Who will have to endure the brown outs and freeze just a little in the winter?' Will they turn down the thermostats in the US capital and the White House? Will those sitting in the seats of power in Washington suffer like the rest of us? - da - no way guys!
This is just a small article from the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative Magazine bringing to light things that are going on behind the scenes that the 'main stream media' doesn't want you to know about.
If we don't step forward now and demand a common sense energy policy, be ready to put on the coat and light the candle's before sitting down to dinner.
Have the coats ready and keep the faith, the battle is joined!
Feds Halt Coal Plant Loans
The US Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (RUS) had formally confirmed what became apparent several weeks ago, it has stopped providing federal loans to finance construction of coal-fired power plants.
The March RUS announcement came in response to a directive from the Bush administration's office of Management and Budget to hold off on new loans until future construction costs and the impact of potential carbon dioxide regulations are better understood.
A letter from the head of RUS to a Montana cooperative, dated in Mid-February, indicates the new policy was firmly established by that time.
Advising that RUS was backing away from financing a power plant proposed by five cooperatives and the Great Falls, Montana municipal utility, RUS administration James Andrew wrote, "the agency is precluded from financing based load generation plants in the Fiscal Year 2008, and I suspect that will be the situation in Fiscal Year 2009".
I believe we must have regulation on emissions from all power plants as we only have one environment for our selves and for the next generation. But when the regulations already in place have been approved over the years and other federal agencies have inspected these plants to death, why now is it so important to stop coal fired power plants even though there are no alternatives that will support our growing economy. The answer is obvious, the fraud of global warming - garrrrrr
Demand is growing at a rate that exceeds supply. Everyone is aware of this situation but most in our government are terrified of the media and the Eco-terrorists that apparently control the energy supplies in this country.
The question now is 'Who will have to endure the brown outs and freeze just a little in the winter?' Will they turn down the thermostats in the US capital and the White House? Will those sitting in the seats of power in Washington suffer like the rest of us? - da - no way guys!
This is just a small article from the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative Magazine bringing to light things that are going on behind the scenes that the 'main stream media' doesn't want you to know about.
If we don't step forward now and demand a common sense energy policy, be ready to put on the coat and light the candle's before sitting down to dinner.
Have the coats ready and keep the faith, the battle is joined!
Feds Halt Coal Plant Loans
The US Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (RUS) had formally confirmed what became apparent several weeks ago, it has stopped providing federal loans to finance construction of coal-fired power plants.
The March RUS announcement came in response to a directive from the Bush administration's office of Management and Budget to hold off on new loans until future construction costs and the impact of potential carbon dioxide regulations are better understood.
A letter from the head of RUS to a Montana cooperative, dated in Mid-February, indicates the new policy was firmly established by that time.
Advising that RUS was backing away from financing a power plant proposed by five cooperatives and the Great Falls, Montana municipal utility, RUS administration James Andrew wrote, "the agency is precluded from financing based load generation plants in the Fiscal Year 2008, and I suspect that will be the situation in Fiscal Year 2009".
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