Just to let you know–I’m forming a “Secede from Texas” movement here in Austin.

No higher veneration of my god could I show than to flay and sacrifice Rick Perry at an Aztec festival. I mean that in a good way.

Rick Perry’s back pain meds make his life worth living already.

May God help the great state of Texas, they got exactly what they wanted.

Perry. Has. No. Power. Period. And while the Texas Legislature is quite right wing, I don’t recall them ever giving up federal money and they routinely override Perry. Perry saying something stupid is just that – Perry saying something stupid. Texas governors are the least powerful governors in the country. This isn’t over until the Leg speaks. Not by a long way.

Perry already threw out the stimulus funds. Except that he took them. This is no more than just another Perry lie. No one expects the truth from the right wing, any more – unless they’re the sort that swallow Faux ‘news’ whole

Good morning, pups. Today we have Kristof and Collins. (At least some columnists are still out there working.) In “Obama’s Fantastic Boring Idea” Mr. Kristof has a question: When the United States helps African farmers, is it a waste of taxpayers’ money or is it a triumph? In “Small is Beautiful” Ms. Collins says small businesses are everywhere! No wonder politicians want to get on their good side.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got banana pancakes for breakfast. The only possible bright side I can see to the Republican “we don’t want no more Medicaid” chorus is the hope that FINALLY people may stop voting against their own interests. (Yeah, I’m a cockeyed optimist. I know…) Have a great day.

Spot on. Perry has a loooong history of claiming to be able to do things he lacks the power to do, only to be overridden by the Leg. Remember his “executive order” that all girls receive the vaccine that protects against the human papilloma virus? That one that was quietly overridden by his very Republican Legislature, just like every other “order’ he’s issued. The Texas governor can’t issue “executive orders” and this latest bit of bloviating is no different.

The biggest shame is that Molly Ivins isn’t around any longer to point his bullshit out to people in her unique and wonderful way.

Leave the people of Texas “prone” for corporate rape?

What was that phrase…. Remember the Alamo. Maybe Sam Huston should be resurrected and he can dispense with the corporate slime, in about 18 minutes. The same amount of time it took to decimate and destroy President General Antonio López de Santa Anna’s army?

What we are witnessing in Texas is CORPORATE FASCISM. Where dysfunctional politicians compromised by money, craft political policy, not for the benefit of the governed, from which government derives its just and moral power, but to protect business models and profit at the expense of life.

What is taking place in Texas, is not limited to Texas. It is the entire country.

Abolish state based health insurance corporations as America abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. End the individual mandatefugitive slave law designed to protect the profits of these corporations slave owners.

Impose a “WALL STREET TRANSACTION TAX,” .0003%

Develop an Energy Policy which does not force Americans into abject servitude to “OIL INTERESTS,” where we waste over a billion dollars of economic value every day, utilizing a monopolized commodity, which no longer provides America with value, for the monies spent.

Too Life and Liberty fuck servitude, enabled under the color of law to corporations just as Scott was adjudicated inferior and property for the Master’s economic benefit while enjoying a monopoly on labor, slaves!

Perry is a sick MOFO!!!!!!!!!

What does the legislature seem to be thinking? Are they going to override him?

Boxturtle (Or mandate drug tests and citizenship verification?)

(btw this is really Ruth)

Perry doesn’t even pretend to mean what he says, and the preznitential campaign was another proof he’s bizarro. Like any TX winger, he’s going to steal and will say whatever it takes. The internets are the Molly Ivins of our day.

When the United States helps African farmers, is it a waste of taxpayers’ money or is it a triumph?

We’re spending billions on wars, billions on banker bailouts, billions on tax breaks and he’s asking if a few hundred thousand is a waste of taxpayer money?

Some people need help with their priorities.

Boxturtle (However, the short answer to his question is both)

The Leg isn’t sitting at the moment.

So sad….I do want to mention that his make-do house while the mansion was being repaired was a rental for upwards of $6,000 a mo…Speaks for itself, as they say. Yes, at tax payer expense.

PS. Reminder of yesterday’s exchange. Looks like a completed PA/Sandusky report is about to come out….Not really sure I can stand another sickening word….

He only asks the questions in order to answer them. Did you read his piece?

Trick question. Saying ‘helps African farmers’ is code for ‘creates dependency of Merkin agribusiness’.

Gotta go to work. Oya!

Did you read the piece?

Nope, just know that IMF required buying from us rather than trying to set up local growing programs.

Yes, I read it. I agree with it. I think we get a lot of bang for the buck on programs like that, even though it’s sometimes hard to put a dollar value on the returns.

Sometimes I get selfish when I see money going overseas and I know we need it here, too. We’d get a bang from using that money in food stamps, for example.

Boxturtle (Sometimes, we need to accept we can’t help the entire world)

First, we’ll make you buy our GM seeds. Then you can buy our special fertilizer. Then you can buy our special weed & bug killers.

And when the superbugs eat your corn, well, we’ll have a new batch of GM corn that those bugs can’t eat.

Boxturtle (but don’t worry, it’s perfectly safe for YOU to eat!)

I figured the potential “terawatts” derived from one hundred square miles of solar panels.

In the vicinity of 500-610 terawatts in a years time at roughly 50% efficiency given the recent developments at MIT. Car’s ICE is about 20% efficient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

Ten countries produced 67 % of electric energy in 2008. The largest producers in 2008 were[1]:

United States 21.5 %
China 17.1%
Japan 5.3 %
Russia 5.1 %
India 4.1 %
Canada 3.2 %
Germany 3.1 %
France 2.8 %
Brazil 2.3 %
South Korea 2.2 %.
The rest of the world produced 33.3 %.

http://server-sky.com/EnergyUse

World power use averaged 15 Terawatts in 2008 according to Wikipedia . The US Energy Information Administration estimates world usage in 2010 at 509.7 Quads per year. A Quad per year equals 33.4 gigawatts, so that is 17.0 Terawatts. The world usage is extrapolated to reach 721.6 quads or 24.1 Terawatts by 2030, a growth rate of 1.75% per year.

88% of electricity is generated by fossil fuel, leaving 12% generation by nuclear and hydro, and a tiny fraction by wind, solar, and other alternatives. Generation is mostly coal and some oil, which averages about 33% efficient. We can estimate that the multiplication factor from electricity to primary power is approximately 3.0. The fraction of that which generates CO_2_ is 88%, or 2.68. Every gigawatt consumed by computers requires 2.7 gigawatts of CO_2_ producing primary power.

The 2010 CIA World Fact Book estimates global electricity usage for 2010 at 18.8 TKWH per year, or 2.15 Terawatts. This increased from 1.63 Terawatts in 2005, a 5.7% per year increase.

China is increasing electric power and computer usage much more rapidly. Electricity production has more than doubled in 5 years, from 186GW in 2005 to 392GW in 2010, an increase of 16% per year. China, India, and other rapidly emerging nations will soon dominate world usage, and perhaps increase the usage growth rate as well. We compete on the world market for oil, which is 40% of US power consumption. Increasing Chinese consumption, and the US debt to China, may reduce US oil imports and severely curtail US power generation.

Slaves where exploited for their uncompensated energy. We are exploited and our life’s adversely effected by our pigeon-holed use of fossil fuels to protect the slaveholders monopolies in commerce. Oil.

I have a plan are you interested in hearing it! Imagine the return on investment for the Governed? Emancipation?

Instead, Congress bails out Wall Street, which continues to fuck US and the world! Its called protect the slaveholders, because they have the money, like picking gold from the dead’s teeth, to buy law?

Naturally, the drought killing off our own corn crop should be lesson enough in why we ought to encourage plant diversity.

Couple quibbles:

I didn’t mean to imply 100sq mi of solar panels, just 100sq mi for the site. Most of that area would NOT be solar panel. So I’d shave a zero off your estimate.

But we’re doing a lot of things to get more energy from the sun. There’s a layered solar cell out there in test, where each layer picks up only the energy band where it’s most efficient and passes the rest through to the next layer. The last layer is an IR mirror that reflects the IR energy to a steam tower located in the center of the field. MIT has reached the theoretical maximum of about 35% efficiency in silicon cells, also in test.

We also have “capacitors” that can store massive amounts of electricity and release it on demand for overnight.

Nothing to stop us but the energy lobby.

What’s your plan?

Boxturtle (Were I president, we’d already be upgrading the electric backbone)

Naw. We just need some GM corn that can tolerate low water conditions.

Boxturtle (And you mentioned the drought without also refering to Al Gore’s weight problem)

How would you like to have clean potable water for irrigation purposes, a by-product of a process that would create a heat source which could then use the natural dynamic power of steam to created even more electricity, with no pollution? Maybe then America might have adequate funds and the ability to provide healthcare services, hence protecting the general welfare of the republic, from corporate raiders??????

Austin had spectacular rain yesterday; getting to be a habit….Very
nice. Maybe that means we do not have to talk about Gore’s weight…

Whaddaya mean, trying to discourage the Job Creators. Flush more.

Good morning all.

Well, BoxTurtle, the earth, locally, has been making some very nasty cracks about the very dry weather …

I must have missed something, what is Albert Gore waiting for?

My guess is that it might be the same thing that most of us are hoping might soon sprout, that is to say, reason and understanding.

(As you say, a wait problem.)

DW

Yep. See? Nothing to global warming, just a dry spell!

Boxturtle (After all Al has done, if he wants to sit on his butt and get fat he’s earned the right)

That’s a very weight-y subject….don’t you just love these mornings?
I had very noisy neighbors last night so I may have the right to be cranky
all day…we’ll see.

Well, BoxTurtle, the earth, locally, has been making some very nasty cracks about the very dry weather …

That’s one.

must have missed something, what is Albert Gore waiting for?

two.

(As you say, a wait problem.)

Three.

That’ll be $3 for the puns, x2 for multiple offenses. Six dollars in the pun plate, please!

Boxturtle (Good thing we don’t have a three strikes law at fdl!)

Regarding Medicaid expansion there are getting to be too many states likely to throw the opt out switch. Yet the state cost sharing would amount to only 10% after three years.

Maybe the Feds should just extend their subsidy at 100% indefinitely, give the states a hold harmless for that funding, and take the issue away. Sign up all the states, none will have a straw man to hide behind anymore. It will help standardize Medicaid nationwide, and could serve as a step toward single payer in the future.

If this isn’t done a number of states will opt out, and feckless nit picking about this or that state will occur, but it won’t prevent the subsequent race to the bottom. There needs to be a strategy and goal here.

Ahhh….and very well earned. You may need a rest.

Stop making sense, you commie loving socialist!

Boxturtle (or is that socialist loving commie? Missed the last tea party meeting…)

I confess, guilty as charged.

A fitting PUNishment.

Might I pay with a credibility card?

As I’m strap-cached, at the momentum.

Pun-plate?

Eek!

Man, you turtles are a tough lot.

Always …

Nevertheless, those of your ilk, be my favorite kind.

;~DW

Granted the numbers are subject greater scrutiny. But even 250 terawatts produced from the “ABUNDANT SUN,” is massively more than than we currently produce and use.

I will give you a hint?

http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20090319ptan20090071816.php

Observations of polarised RF radiation
catalysis of dissociation of H2O–NaCl
solutions
R. Roy*1,2, M. L. Rao1 and J. Kanzius3

The authors have shown that NaCl–H2O solutions of concentrations ranging from 1 to 30%, when
exposed to a polarised radiofrequency beam at 13.56 MHz at room temperature, generate an intimate mixture of hydrogen and oxygen which can be ignited and burned with a steady flame.

The authors prepared and processed a large series of
samples and report in the present paper on the NaCl–
H2O system. Sample concentrations were varied from
0.1% to 30% of NaCl. The Pyrex test tubes containing the
solution were held by means of a Teflon stand and were
individually introduced into the RF cavity. The effluent
gases at the top of the liquid surface were lit by means
of a lighter. They typically sustained a continuous
flame till the water was exhausted. Rudimentary
attempts were made to measure the temperature of the
flame – they agree with more detailed measurements
made by Dr Curley at M.D. Anderson, which place it
at 1800C.

Conclusions

It has been confirmed that polarised RF frequency
radiation at 13.56 MHz causes NaCl solutions in water,
with concentrations from 1 to over 30%, to be
measurably changed in structure, and to dissociate into
hydrogen and oxygen near room temperature. The flame
is a burning reaction, probably of an intimate mixture of
hydrogen oxygen and the ambient air. Most of the Na
present in the solution, concentrates progressively – as
measured – as the water is dissociated and burned.

Funny how this PDF was always was always available on the net. It’s hard to find these days, for free. That’s why I saved it. I have all the references.

Yes we did get to the Moon, year ago and look at all the wonderful technology used in the distillation of crude oil for fuels and durable goods.

This is the proposal. We build pipeline from Gulf of California to Arizona Mexico Border. Use tidal forces and standard engineering practices we push ocean water inland. Set up a requisite amount of solar panels and use the abundant energy of the sun to operate RFW devises to “vibrate” salt water molecule into “Brownsgas.” Burn the brown’s gas powered with RFW Gen by solar panels, Wind. Then use the NATURAL DYNAMIC POWER OF STEAM, to power electrical generation.

By-product clean water!
No Co2!
Clean abundant energy!

The abundance of solar radiation captured combined with and married to the abundance of salt water on this planet decimates supply side economic models and monopolies of the oil interests.

You want jobs in America? Here you go….
You want competition in America? Here you go….
Want to use your brain Americans?… Here you go….
You emancipation from corporations which enable and enslave USA, here you go…..

As the construction of the Erie Canal lowered transportation cost by 95% in America, a symbiotic energy production system would do the same in terms of energy’s cost. Now we have all the energy we need to drive EV’s in major urban areas which are 75% efficient in use of electricity vs 20% efficient ICE powered cars.

We can get to the moon! We have computers! Computer cell phones. The internet and information at our fingertips as never before, to better the world, and we are still leverage into servitude to energy interests? Its fucking retarded… As retarded as saying Mr. Scott was inferior, when in a debate he would have taken Taney’s head off and handed it to him

I say flush the alleged job creators, who want only to protect their business models, at our expense? Then make sure all the turds entered the holding tank, never again to see the light of day. Then the effluent can be put to good use as fertilizers, growing industrial grade hemp which then can be converted into bio fuels for trucking and moving the goods and services in America benefiting commerce hence job creation, rather than amputating your leg to buy potential energy (OIL) at absurd prices, then waste .80 cents of every dollar you spend on the potential energy, while you house’s value and footings begin to sink in the quicksand created by corporate aristocrats who rig Libor rates? These fuckers need a little Sanduskietization to make them human.

What’s good for the innocent child is good for the consummate corporatism aristocratic POS, who fucks US daily, while they use law to enslave USA!~~

BTW, all the money saved. Now we have healthcare services.

Not fucking servitude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perry is a cheer leader. He knows about as much running the state as he did running for president – - not much.