Sunday, February 10, 2019

Move over Caligula, Trumpzilla's in town






Bad karma: Democrats can't find one normal candidate, Trump to win in a landslide


Ah yes, the old Green New Deal FAQ mystery trick


By the way, electricity from renewables is up 268% in 2017 from 2007, but . . .

renewables still provide less than 10% of total generation.

Unfortunately, America produced less total electricity in 2017 than it did in 2007, too, by 3.1%.

And the price of a kilowatthour is up 14.8%.

Reducing energy production and making it more expensive is no way to grow an economy, son.

 


Attention jobless communist journalists, Apple has a message just for you: Learn to code


Condescending racism, NYT's style: People in black face can go back to being white, but not black people!

OMG! Black people have to be black ALL THE TIME. The horror, the horror.



AOC can't hide her laughably grandiose, pie in the sky, Green New Deal FAQ Launch from the cloud, either

AOC probably got an "A" on this paper in college, lol.

 


Move America to 100% clean and renewable energy

Repair and upgrade U.S. infrastructure. ASCE estimates this is $4.6 trillion at minimum.

Meet 100% of power demand through clean and renewable energy sources

Upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency

Build charging stations everywhere

Build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary

Replace every combustion-engine vehicle

Retrofit every building in America

It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible

Protect right of all workers to unionize and organize

Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work

Yes, we are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels 

Simply put, we don’t need to just stop doing some things we are doing (like using fossil fuels for energy needs); we also need to start doing new things (like overhauling whole industries or retrofitting all buildings to be energy efficient).

Ensure that all GND jobs are union jobs that pay prevailing wages and hire local

Create economic prosperity for all

Create millions of high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all

Clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all

Create affordable public transit available to all

Provide job training and education to all 

Provide high-quality health care, housing, economic security, and clean air, clean water, healthy food, and nature to all

[Free coffee and toilets 24/7 at Starbucks]  

The communist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can run but can't hide her utopian schoolgirl fantasies from Al Gore's amazing wayback machine

Green New Deal FAQ

A 10-year plan

A World War 2 scale mobilization

Upgrading all our buildings

Economic security to all who are unable or unwilling to work

We also need to start doing new things (like overhauling whole industries or retrofitting all buildings to be energy efficient)

Upgrading virtually every home and building for energy efficiency

We will finance the investments for the Green New Deal  . . . with public money appropriated by Congress

The Green New Deal will prioritize creating high-quality, family wage-supporting union jobs

A federal jobs guarantee ensures that no worker is left behind

We aren’t sure that we will be able to fully get rid of, for example, emissions from cows or air travel before then

Retrofit every building in America

Make new fossil fuel infrastructure or industries untenable

Friday, February 8, 2019

Trend for lowest minimum temperature in Grand Rapids, Michigan, continues to show cooling, not warming

Trend for highest maximum temperature in Grand Rapids, Michigan, continues to show cooling, not warming


Joe Biden 1975: Thanks to me anti-busing is no longer a racist position


“The pro-busers and the civil rights lobby were dumbstruck … although I had put them on notice months earlier,” said Biden in the interview. “I think I’ve made it possible for liberals to come out of the closet … If [anti-busing] isn’t yet a respectable liberal position, it is no longer a racist one.”

Read my lips: No second term

Trump Reverses Wage-Boosting Campaign Commitment, Demands More Legal Immigration: ‘We Need People’

The statements are a break from the president’s commitment in 2015, 2016, 2017, when he continuously advocated for reducing overall legal immigration to raise the wages of American workers.