MONEY & JUSTICE
TRASHING OUT ON FORECLOSURE ALLEY
FREEDOM & JUSTICE
REPRESENTIVE SAYS MEMBERS WERE THREATENED WITH MARTIAL LAW IF THEY DIDN'T PASS BILL
ECO CLIPS
Architecture 2030 - According to the US Energy Information Administration, oil production from drilling offshore in the outer continental shelf wouldn't begin until around the year 2017. Once begun, it wouldn't reach peak production until about 2030 when it would produce only 200,000 barrels of oil per day. This would supply a meager 1.2% of total US annual oil consumption (just 0.6% of total US energy consumption). And, the offshore oil would be sold back to the US at the international rate, which today is $106 a barrel. So, the oil produced by offshore drilling would not only be a "drop in the bucket", it would be expensive, which translates to "no relief at the pump".
Architecture 2030 - 12,954 Nuclear Power Plants - That's how many nuclear plants the world would need to build to replace its current fossil-fuel-based energy. Even if it was physically possible to build this many plants within the seven-year timeline set by scientists to avoid dangerous climate change (it takes 8 to 12 years to get a nuclear plant on-line), the cost would be astronomical. At $6 billion per plant (a conservative figure), 12,954 plants would cost $77.72 trillion - more than the total Gross World Product of $65.95 trillion.
CORRUPTION
Washington Post - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) ended months of speculation by announcing that the job he really wants is the one he already has, and he said he would like to continue running America's largest city for another four years. To be eligible for another term, Bloomberg must first amend the city's term-limits law, which restricts most officeholders to eight consecutive years. Bloomberg said he will work with the City Council on a bill to do just that. He has nothing against term limits, Bloomberg said at a packed news conference in the Blue Room of New York's historic City Hall. He just thinks the limit should be 12 years, not eight. "Make no mistake about it: I still think term limits are a good thing," Bloomberg said, to an occasionally skeptical-sounding press corps. "Two terms or three terms I think is a very different debate.". . . Bloomberg's gambit appears likely to find quick and easy support in the normally pliant council, as 35 of its 51 members also would face losing their jobs without a change in the law. Although term limits were backed by voters in a 1993 referendum and upheld again three years later, the council has the power to overturn the voters' decision by a simple majority vote.. . . Bloomberg's announcement drew sharp criticism from civic groups, some of which plan legal action, and from some politicians who had been fundraising for their own citywide campaigns -- and who now see their plans upended. . . John C. Liu (D-Queens), one council member opposed to a change, said: "The issue here is the lawmaking process. What's happening really does scare me. It shakes my core belief in the system."
OUTLYING PRECINCTS
The last time as many people watched a debate as they did the Biden-Palin smackdown was back in 1992 when Clinton, Bush and Perot. The real driver was the presence of Perot who made the thing a lot more interesting and everyone knew it. Since we can't count on anyone as thrillingly vacuous as Palin in future debates, it would be wise to let the third parties join the fun and help the numbers
VIDEO: PALIN SPEED DATES MAJOR FIGURESCRASH TALK
WATCHING THE COUNT
Slashdot - A New Jersey Superior Court Judge has prohibited the release of an analysis conducted on the Sequoia AVC Advantage voting system. This report arose out of a lawsuit challenging on constitutional grounds the use of these systems. The study was conducted by Andrew Appel on behalf of the plaintiffs, after the judge in the case ordered the company to p
permit it. That same judge has now withheld it indefinitely from the public record on a verbal order."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Op Ed News - There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by Democrats and Republicans, but it was passed by a Republican Congress with a Republican senate and a Republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida. And institutionalized a series of impediments that make it very difficult for Democrats to register, for Democrats to vote and then for Democrats to have their votes counted.
FURTHERMORE. . . .
Manchester Evening News, UK - [Manchester Univesity] Students say new signs on toilets at their union building might be making their WC just a 'bit too PC'. The traditional sign on the door of the Gents has been temporarily replaced with one that says 'toilets with urinals'. And the sign on the Ladies now simply says 'toilets' in a move to make the lavatories more inclusive for trans-gender students.
TRASHING OUT ON FORECLOSURE ALLEY
FREEDOM & JUSTICE
REPRESENTIVE SAYS MEMBERS WERE THREATENED WITH MARTIAL LAW IF THEY DIDN'T PASS BILL
ECO CLIPS
Architecture 2030 - According to the US Energy Information Administration, oil production from drilling offshore in the outer continental shelf wouldn't begin until around the year 2017. Once begun, it wouldn't reach peak production until about 2030 when it would produce only 200,000 barrels of oil per day. This would supply a meager 1.2% of total US annual oil consumption (just 0.6% of total US energy consumption). And, the offshore oil would be sold back to the US at the international rate, which today is $106 a barrel. So, the oil produced by offshore drilling would not only be a "drop in the bucket", it would be expensive, which translates to "no relief at the pump".
Architecture 2030 - 12,954 Nuclear Power Plants - That's how many nuclear plants the world would need to build to replace its current fossil-fuel-based energy. Even if it was physically possible to build this many plants within the seven-year timeline set by scientists to avoid dangerous climate change (it takes 8 to 12 years to get a nuclear plant on-line), the cost would be astronomical. At $6 billion per plant (a conservative figure), 12,954 plants would cost $77.72 trillion - more than the total Gross World Product of $65.95 trillion.
CORRUPTION
Washington Post - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) ended months of speculation by announcing that the job he really wants is the one he already has, and he said he would like to continue running America's largest city for another four years. To be eligible for another term, Bloomberg must first amend the city's term-limits law, which restricts most officeholders to eight consecutive years. Bloomberg said he will work with the City Council on a bill to do just that. He has nothing against term limits, Bloomberg said at a packed news conference in the Blue Room of New York's historic City Hall. He just thinks the limit should be 12 years, not eight. "Make no mistake about it: I still think term limits are a good thing," Bloomberg said, to an occasionally skeptical-sounding press corps. "Two terms or three terms I think is a very different debate.". . . Bloomberg's gambit appears likely to find quick and easy support in the normally pliant council, as 35 of its 51 members also would face losing their jobs without a change in the law. Although term limits were backed by voters in a 1993 referendum and upheld again three years later, the council has the power to overturn the voters' decision by a simple majority vote.. . . Bloomberg's announcement drew sharp criticism from civic groups, some of which plan legal action, and from some politicians who had been fundraising for their own citywide campaigns -- and who now see their plans upended. . . John C. Liu (D-Queens), one council member opposed to a change, said: "The issue here is the lawmaking process. What's happening really does scare me. It shakes my core belief in the system."
OUTLYING PRECINCTS
The last time as many people watched a debate as they did the Biden-Palin smackdown was back in 1992 when Clinton, Bush and Perot. The real driver was the presence of Perot who made the thing a lot more interesting and everyone knew it. Since we can't count on anyone as thrillingly vacuous as Palin in future debates, it would be wise to let the third parties join the fun and help the numbers
VIDEO: PALIN SPEED DATES MAJOR FIGURESCRASH TALK
WATCHING THE COUNT
Slashdot - A New Jersey Superior Court Judge has prohibited the release of an analysis conducted on the Sequoia AVC Advantage voting system. This report arose out of a lawsuit challenging on constitutional grounds the use of these systems. The study was conducted by Andrew Appel on behalf of the plaintiffs, after the judge in the case ordered the company to p
permit it. That same judge has now withheld it indefinitely from the public record on a verbal order."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Op Ed News - There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by Democrats and Republicans, but it was passed by a Republican Congress with a Republican senate and a Republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida. And institutionalized a series of impediments that make it very difficult for Democrats to register, for Democrats to vote and then for Democrats to have their votes counted.
FURTHERMORE. . . .
Manchester Evening News, UK - [Manchester Univesity] Students say new signs on toilets at their union building might be making their WC just a 'bit too PC'. The traditional sign on the door of the Gents has been temporarily replaced with one that says 'toilets with urinals'. And the sign on the Ladies now simply says 'toilets' in a move to make the lavatories more inclusive for trans-gender students.
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