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Myths of the ‘Smart’ Grid?

by Kafir ( 110 Comments › )
Filed under Technology at May 5th, 2010 - 9:00 pm

Our very own “snork” has an article published at Pajamas Media today entitled
Myths Associated with the ‘Smart’ Electrical Grid. It is a very detailed article that tries to dispel the myths and inaccuracies that are all over the internet concerning the American Power Grid.

Sit back, relax… and get yer learnin on =)

Much has been written in the popular media and blogosphere in the past decade about the electrical power grid, some of it good, much of it bad, much of it downright silly, and almost all of it incomplete.

This article tries to change that and educate us on the truth of the matter. There will be a test.

Good luck!

Did they hear us?

by Kafir ( 112 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Guest Post, Open thread, Patriotism, Tea Parties at April 18th, 2010 - 3:00 pm

Blogmocracy Netizen Tea Party Roundup!

Sorry for the late post on this. I had them all in a slideshow, but I think we overwelmed it – I went back and it was empty! It all worked out, because I was able to add in a couple more peoples’ pictures and comments.

Enjoy!

Snork gives us his take of the Tea Party in Olympia, WA

Ok. Olympia, WA (the state capitol):

I was delayed, and arrived about 2:00 for an event scheduled from noon to 3, and saw people already leaving. I missed the speeches, but people were hanging around, and talking. I would say that 90% of the signs were about the economy and taxes. The most outlandish thing I saw was a poster of Obama with a Hitler cookie duster magic markered in. A couple of other signs were kind of ridiculous, though true (calling Obama a racist millionaire, for example). The vast majority were about taxes, healthcare, and freedom in general. The RonPaulians were incognito, holding signs demanding an audit of the fed (an issue that I haven’t studied enough to take a position on, but a signature issue of the Paulians).

The crowd was, as the press is quick to point out, almost all white (more on that in a future post, inshallah). However, it was also in line with the other demographic information that we already have; more women than men, and a lot of retirees. Also a lot of small business people, with enough flexibility in their schedules to take a Thursday afternoon off. It would be interesting to contrast this to parties taken on weekends, with people who don’t have that kind of flexibility.

Of course, there were bikers. No crowd of patriots is complete without a Hawg Brigade. The Hawg Brigade is probably the reason why we didn’t see any leftist Moby punks carrying Nazi signs. Let’s not forget, this is also home of Evergreen State College, of St. Pancake fame. If they didn’t fear the bikers, those weenies would have been all over the place.

As is always the case when non-lefties congregate, they picked up after themselves, and left without leaving as much as a gum wrapper. You should see what it looks like after a bunch of green lefties have an event. There were a number of State Smoky Bears wandering around looking completely unconcerned and even bored.

Zombie has a photoblog on the SF tea party.

In fact…
After looking at Zombie’s piece, those Obama with Hitler mustache posters that I saw in Olympia were LaRouchers. Same exact ones as in SF.

From Rix – who went to the Tea Party rally near Chicago:

Just some observations,

I heard the insulting accusations about the Tea Parties, so on 4/15 I went to one outside of Chicago to see for myself.

What I discovered was a well behaved group of people that are opposed to the direction that Obama and the Democrats are dragging this country.

The charges of racism are silly, they are about the economy & national sovereignty. They struck me as a a really upbeat ,positive group & really well behaved, they cleared their own trash.

The speakers attacked policies not individuals. The attempt to portray these people as violent & dangerous seems absurd in the extreme. I saw a cross section of people & grannies on walkers didn’t seem very thuggish to me..
Interestingly enough, David Gergen & Clarence Paige reported the same experience that I had.

In my opinion that Tea Parties are being smeared because the Left fears them, not because of violence but because they are effective at shining the light on them.

This from Song & Dance Man – with pictures in the video from Albuquerque, NM

There was a local Tea Party rally today and after procrastinating about attending I was encouraged to go by Buckeye Abroad, Scott Madsen and coldwarrior. It was a boat load of fun and am glad I went.

First of all, it was not the typical Tea Party rally and more like a demonstration. There were no stages or speakers – just good ‘ol patriots who lined both sides of the street for about a two mile stretch of town on a major thoroughfare. And they were not the only participants. If any of you have ever been to the Rose Parade, the night before is like a huge party with revelers on the streets and cars parading back and forth on the boulevard. That is what this was like. There were thousands of folk on the sidewalks and a congestion of vehicles driving up and down the street honking their horns and waving flags and posters from their vehicles.

The event was held on Menaul Blvd between San Pedro St. and Wyoming Ave. It took quite a bit of time just to get there.

I know the recent CNN and ABC polls claim that most of the Tea Party advocates are over 45, but I was quite surprised to see so many youth there. There were teenagers and people in their 20‘s in large numbers. This one girl and her sign caught my attention. And thanks to her mom who didn’t object to me taking her picture.

[see pics in the video below]

Island Libertarian, reporting from Hawaii:

Aloha,

I just want to share a few pictures from the Tea Party held at the Hawaii State Capitol Building in Honolulu, Hawaii. I want you to notice the DIVERSITY of those attending. If ANYONE says the Tea Parties are RACIST, please direct them to these photos.

There were two authentic infiltrators in the crowd. Both were trying to start arguments. They were pretty much ignored.

I’d say over 500 people showed up over the 2 hours I was there.

Aloha!
IslandLibertarian
[see pics in the video below]

We also have pictures from Geepers in Columbus, OH, mfhorn in Wichita, KS, Rodan from Tampa, and Lobo in Colorado Springs. Don’t forget Urban Infidel covered the New York City Tea Party 2010!

I guess I’m a shutter bug ~ I had to split the video and take mine out. Slideshow from the Tea Party in Charlotte, NC here:

Update (for full size pics from the video, here are all of them in slideshow form):
Geepers: Columbus, OH
Island Libertarian: Hawaii
Lobo: Colorado Springs, CO
m: Charlotte, NC
mfhorn: Wichita, KS
Rodan: Tampa, FL
Song & Dance Man: Alburquerque, NM

Update II: Rides a Pale Horse has video from the rally in Denver, CO – check it out.

Old Weird Howard: Don’t Pass Hellcare

by snork ( 112 Comments › )
Filed under Abortion, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Healthcare, Politics, Progressives at March 5th, 2010 - 1:00 pm

It’s starting to crack. The monolithic support for ramming through socialized medicine with the nuke option is giving cold feet to none other than Howard “Scream” Dean.

Passing the healthcare proposals before Congress will “hang out to dry” every Democratic incumbent running for reelection this fall, Howard Dean said Thursday.

Dean, a physician by training who’s a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said that Democrats in Congress — and President Barack Obama — would do themselves more harm than good by passing the current healthcare bill.

“The plan, as it comes from the Senate, hangs out every Democrat who’s running for office to dry — including the president, in 2012, because it makes him defend a plan that isn’t in effect essentially yet,” Dean said during an appearance on the liberal Bill Press Radio Show.

Ya think, Howard? So what’s up with Olosi? Are they such political nincompoops that they don’t even have the political horse sense that Howard “Scream” Dean seems to have?

I think the whole thing is over for now anyway. The reconciliation process (“nuke option”) requires that the house pass the exact bill passed in the senate. It looks like that’s not going to happen, because there are a dozen donkeys who voted for the original bill, but won’t vote for the senate version over the publicly funded abortion provisions.

So I guess it’s all over but the screaming. Take it away Howard…


Addition by Speranza:

At the Washington Examiner yesterday an Editorial compared Obama’s obsession with trying to ram Obamacare down our throats despite the public’s opposition to it, to Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. “a horrendous, bloody carnage that could have been avoided, had not their commander, Gen. Robert E. Lee, been so determined to do it his way — a massed frontal assault against a nearly impregnable position.”

hat tip to Powerline

Just about everyone who was on that battlefield July 3, 1863 knew that 12,000 men were going to be sent to their doom due to the stubbornness of their commander, the same as just about everyone in this country knows that Obamacare will lead to a disaster as well. At least Lee was man enough to say after the disaster “It is all my fault” – words that are alien to Obama. Dr. K. yesterday said that he thinks 2010 might not be the complete disaster for the Dems as 2006 was for the GOP because 1. Obama is still popular and, 2. Americans felt lied to about the war. I disagree. 1. Obama might be personally popular (primarily because too many naive people invested so much in him) but his policies are not, 2. in addition to the wildly unpopular Obamacare, we still have massive unemployment to worry about, and 3. voters are waking up to the dangers of having one party rule when the POTUS is an ideologue. I expect a Republican tidal wave in November.

by Charles Krauthammer

So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’ devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.

After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts) and a seven-hour seminar, the president announced Wednesday his determination to make one last push to pass his health care reform.

The final act was carefully choreographed. The rollout began a week earlier with a couple of shows of bipartisanship: a Feb. 25 Blair House “summit” with Republicans, followed five days later with a few concessions tossed the Republicans’ way.

Show is the operative noun. Among the few Republican suggestions President Obama pretended to incorporate was tort reform. What did he suggest to address the plague of defensive medicine that a Massachusetts Medical Society study showed leads to about 25 percent of doctor referrals, tests and procedures being done for no medical reason? A few ridiculously insignificant demonstration projects amounting to one-half of one-hundredth of 1 percent of the cost of Obama’s health care bill.

[…]

Obama has chosen differently, however. The time for debate is over, declared the nation’s seminar leader in chief. The man who vowed to undo Washington’s wicked ways has directed the Congress to ram Obamacare through, by one vote if necessary, under the parliamentary device of “budget reconciliation.” The man who ran as a post-partisan is determined to remake a sixth of the U.S. economy despite the absence of support from a single Republican in either house, the first time anything of this size and scope has been enacted by pure party-line vote.

Surprised? You can only be disillusioned if you were once illusioned.

Read the rest here: Why the Health Care Bill is a Failure

A Terrorist and a Jazz Artist both agree on Global Warming

by Phantom Ace ( 143 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Blogwars, Humor, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Terrorism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, LGF, Liberal Fascism, Open thread, Progressives at January 29th, 2010 - 10:00 pm

One of the leaders Islamo-Imperialist movement, Osama Bin Laden, has endorsed the Global Warming theory. Using the same talking points as Al Gore and the radical environmentalist movement, Bin Laden blamed America and Capitalism for causing Climate Change. Amazing that a terrorist leader would use the same talking points as Tranzi Progressives? It shouldn’t be. Progressives have been allied with Islamic causes for the last 80 years. Now they are allied on Global Warming.

CAIRO (AP) – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.

In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.

He blamed Western industrialized nations for hunger, desertification and floods across the globe, and called for “drastic solutions” to global warming, and “not solutions that partially reduce the effect of climate change.”

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