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Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 3:00 pm
by bluetick
“Our language is important, for example,’’ said Brown. “When a guy says you throw a ball like a girl or you’re a sissy, it reflects an attitude that devalues women and attitudes that will eventually manifest in some fashion.”
Genetically speaking, women can't put a spiral on The Duke. That fact doesn't devalue women. The same way Janay can't stay in the ring physically with husband Ray...that too doesn't devalue women. And I'm not sure where he was going with the use of "sissy."
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:05 pm
by Professor Tiger
bluetick wrote:IB needs to pen himself a rap song. Talkin' bout threatpoint,yo.. and puttin' a cap in that 19th 'mendment's ass.
That's funny right there...
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:52 pm
by Professor Tiger
Sardis is now officially in mourning:
Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley dies at age 88
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/12 ... latestnews
NEVAH!
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 4:07 pm
by sardis
The Orator of Armaugh is at his final resting place. One man stood between his country and the takeover and persecution of papist terrorists. He will be missed. One final "Ulster says NO" moment.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zSWlAHD29M
Also, digging at the Catholics at Oxford.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nvH0p4iNbiE
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:12 pm
by Professor Tiger
He is now praying the rosary. I hope his time in purgatory is short.
My maternal grandparents were both born and raised in Armagh. They referred to him as "the GREAT Ian Paisley."
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:50 pm
by Dr. Strangelove
There is no racism in America anymore. But if there was, it's white males who suffer the most per PNN
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/s ... os-angeles
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 6:58 am
by sardis
It's true. Why do police always assume middle aged white guys are johns when we are with beautiful young AA women? They don't think we can satisfy them?
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:57 am
by AlabamAlum
Stay away from my women.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:14 am
by BigRedMan
Sorry was absent. So to continue the joke.
Knock Knock
Who's There?
9/11
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:27 am
by bluetick
9/11 who?
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:30 am
by bluetick
just in case BRM doesn't come back again
bluetick wrote:9/11 who?
Tsk. You said you would never forget 9/11.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:40 am
by bluetick
Aha! We finally know what the Koch brothers are worried about!
The New York Times has a fascinating article, "Sun and Wind Transforming Global Landscape," about some unheralded (at least in the U.S.) progress in replacing fossil fuels. The article focuses on Germany, which now gets 30 percent of its energy from renewable sources.
Here is the money section:
Germany's relentless push into renewable energy has implications far beyond its shores. By creating huge demand for wind turbines and especially for solar panels, it has helped lure big Chinese manufacturers into the market, and that combination is driving down costs faster than almost anyone thought possible just a few years ago.
Electric utility executives all over the world are watching nervously as technologies they once dismissed as irrelevant begin to threaten their long-established business plans. Fights are erupting across the United States over the future rules for renewable power. Many poor countries, once intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring electricity to their people, are discussing whether they might leapfrog the fossil age and build clean grids from the outset.
A reckoning is at hand, and nowhere is that clearer than in Germany. Even as the country sets new records nearly every month for renewable power production, the changes have devastated its utility companies, whose profits from power generation have collapsed..
But it is becoming clear that the transformation, if plausible, will be wrenching. Some experts say the electricity business is entering a period of turmoil beyond anything in its 130-year history, a disruption potentially as great as those that have remade the airlines, the music industry, and the telephone business
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:19 pm
by Jungle Rat
Those things kill birds!!!!!
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:25 pm
by sardis
and are uglier than an oil rig.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:28 pm
by AlabamAlum
And are loud.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:34 pm
by bluetick
Aesthetically speaking, turbines are wayyy cooler than an oil rig. X100
Audio-wise - that's just the sound of progress.
As for the birds......eh, whadiya gonna do? Our feathered friends need a better lobby, amirite?
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:37 pm
by Toemeesleather
For society as a whole, the costs have reached levels comparable only to the euro-zone bailouts. This year, German consumers will be forced to pay €20 billion ($26 billion) for electricity from solar, wind and biogas plants -- electricity with a market price of just over €3 billion. Even the figure of €20 billion is disputable if you include all the unintended costs and collateral damage associated with the project. Solar panels and wind turbines at times generate huge amounts of electricity, and sometimes none at all. Depending on the weather and the time of day, the country can face absurd states of energy surplus or deficit.
If there is too much power coming from the grid, wind turbines have to be shut down. Nevertheless, consumers are still paying for the "phantom electricity" the turbines are theoretically generating. Occasionally, Germany has to pay fees to dump already subsidized green energy, creating what experts refer to as "negative electricity prices."
On the other hand, when the wind suddenly stops blowing, and in particular during the cold season, supply becomes scarce. That's when heavy oil and coal power plants have to be fired up to close the gap, which is why Germany's energy producers in 2012 actually released more climate-damaging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than in 2011.
If there is still an electricity shortfall, energy-hungry plants like the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Hamburg are sometimes asked to shut down production to protect the grid. Of course, ordinary electricity customers are then expected to pay for the compensation these businesses are entitled to for lost profits.
The government has high hopes for the expansion of offshore wind farms. But the construction sites are in a state of chaos: Wind turbines off the North Sea island of Borkum are currently rotating without being connected to the grid. The connection cable will probably not be finished until next year. In the meantime, the turbines are being run with diesel fuel to prevent them from rusting.
In the current election campaign, the parties are blaming each other for the disaster. Meanwhile, the federal government would prefer to avoid discussing its energy policies entirely. "It exposes us to criticism," says a government spokesman. "There are undeniably major problems," admits a cabinet member.
But this week, the issue is forcing its way onto the agenda. On Thursday, a government-sanctioned commission plans to submit a special report called "Competition in Times of the Energy Transition." The report is sharply critical, arguing that Germany's current system actually rewards the most inefficient plants, doesn't contribute to protecting the climate, jeopardizes the energy supply and puts the poor at a disadvantage.
...If the government sticks to its plans, the price of electricity will literally explode in the coming years. According to a current study for the federal government, electricity will cost up to 40 cents a kilowatt-hour by 2020, a 40-percent increase over today's prices.
Worse yet, it remains completely unclear whether the offshore facilities are even needed. The Federal Environment Agency believes it's enough to install modern turbines in the best terrestrial wind sites. It would also be cheaper.
But even if that were the case, the environment minister still believes consumers can expect to see rising prices. Experts say the miniscule impact wind energy has had on current prices is due to an uncooperative Mother Nature: 2013 has been an unusually windless year so far.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:56 pm
by bluetick
LOL "Collateral damage." "Phantom electricity." "Unconnected" turbines. Inefficiencies, shortfalls, burden on the poor.
The best one: 2013 was a bad year for wind.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:59 pm
by hedge
Not in here...
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 2:19 pm
by bluetick
two shay