TheHermit

@elias39

I know I shouldn’t count chickens and all that, but I am thinking something between crushing, and landslide.

You have to ask…what would it take to start Kerry thinking, the day before the Iowa caucuses, to begin a campaign that he has obviously not prepared for at all?  Setting aside the unbelievable hubris to think he could make a…[Read more]

I take it that Kerry now has a strong sense of how it is going to turn out in Iowa.

“Why aren’t more people talking about this”

Maybe because they understand that this just shifts the pollution from a Santa Ana, CA, freeway to the 4 corners coal fired power plants, and doesn’t do anything to reduce total global greenhouse gas emissions.

I don’t see any suggestion in this article that the hydrogen that Air Products produces is b…[Read more]

@thouartthat

Thank you for the reply, TAT.

I didn’t mean to offend on the “resident angry hydrogen basher.”  I was just quoting the original poster, but I could/should have avoided that.

But if you reread my reply, I don’t think I made an ” argument that solar and wind will generate enough electricity to run current Global Industrial Soci…[Read more]

@c6330507

Allow me to step in here and make one point in defense of the “resident angry hydrogen basher.”  I also get frustrated by his repeated rejection and dismissal of all alternative energy (or so it sometimes seems).

But like him, I also am frustrated by articles like this, which imply that all we have to do is start “mining” hydrogen,…[Read more]

If you look at the heart of the most conservative district in the US, in northwest TX, you will see an event for tomorrow night.  I went to an event here last night and got my feet wet doing some calls, and I will be at that one tomorrow also.

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@rufustfirefly

I’m with you 100% on all that.  2016 was the devil or the deep blue sea….frying pan or the fire.

Impeaching Trump is simultaneously a moral, ethical, political imperative, and a total diversion and waste of time.

But who is to blame for the absurdity of our situation?  The laziness, self-centeredness, and short-sightedness of u…[Read more]

Yes.  This is definitely not a situation where “the enemy of my enemy must be my friend.”

Perhaps Ralph could even have said “deplorable.”

That may be a fairer assessment of her motivations than mine.

What’s going on here?  The instructions going out to the talking heads has changed.  What is their game?

I am genuinely (a little) curious how Obama explains to himself his problem with Bernie?  Obama campaigned as a progressive on many issues.  Of course, he didn’t turn out that way.

But is he now against universal healthcare?  Does he deny there is a climate change issue?  Warmongering?  Is it that he supports extreme wealth disparity? Prog…[Read more]

When Lehrer retired from the Newshour was basically when I stopped watching TV news.  I had noticed Koch brothers, among others, showing up in the credits as sponsors of the show, but so long as Jim was running the show, it was excellent.

Within weeks of Jim’s departure, you could detect the sharp right turn mainly in the stories they chose to…[Read more]

I am envious.

@junker That line convulsed me with laughter.  Even though the Wizard of Oz was technically before my time, that really struck a chord.

That’s really funny!  A couple of weeks ago, on my weekly skype call with my brother, we were talking about the dysfunctionality of various aspects of our healthcare system.

I asked him, rhetorically, “how the hell did we get here?”

Essentially every time I see this mentioned in the US corporate press, they refer to it as the “debunked” accusation.  This is anything but “debunked.”  They say that when Biden forced the firing of Shokin, he was just following US policy and everyone including the EU and the IMF agreed that Shokin was corrupt.

But it appears that Biden, or o…[Read more]