Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Professor Tiger]

Yet here I am.

[10ac]

B

[10ac]

Inconsolable Jeff Sessions Tries To Commit Suicide By Smoking Joint

[hedge]

Damn, he looks like an aged George W. Bush...

[Toemeesleather]

Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg fell and broke ribs.....tick....tick..

[crashcourse]

at some point between falling down a lot and falling asleep a lot she has to be judged not fit to continue on the supreme court

[Professor Tiger]

Can you imagine if Trump gets a chance to put his THIRD Justice on the Supreme Court, and in his FIRST term?

Oh my...

[bluetick]

Trumpers pulling for RBG's demise is so....Trumpian.

[bluetick]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... 5f481d60f4

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 936817002/

Most corrupt and dishonest presidential administration in the history of the nation keeps on keeping on.

[bluetick]

Noted conservationist toe Q. meesleather will be happy to learn that a federal judge has blocked construction of the Keystone XL pipeiine.

[10ac]

I'll see your judge and raise you a couple more.

[Professor Tiger]

That Keystone decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court.

hahahahahahahahahahahahah

If some liberal federal judge in Montana can stop a pipeline, and another liberal federal judge in Hawaii could stop (temporarily) Trump's immigration ban, and it just happpens, then why can't a conservative judge simply say that all opposition and obstruction to building the Wall must cease and desist immediately, and order that the Wall must be built in one year?

Trumpers pulling for RBG's demise is so....Trumpian.

Pulling for her demise? No.

Hoping she decides to focus on healing from her painful injury, and spend her last years with her great grandchildren in retirement? Yes.

[hedge]

Ginsburg is so old, her social security number is "2"...

[Jungle Rat]

Horrible

[10ac]

[bluetick]

Pretty cool, actually - wake up in the morn, have that first cup of copy, and see where a few more Dems have been elected to Congress.

[Professor Tiger]

Wait a few more days, and a recount will reveal that Kavanaugh didn't have enough votes to be on SCOTUS.

[Toemeesleather]

A floating wind turbine built off Fukushima Prefecture to symbolize recovery efforts after the 2011 nuclear disaster will be removed, a government source has said.

The offshore power facility was put in place at the Fukushima Prefectural Government introduced renewable energy after the triple-reactor meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the days following the massive March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Experimental studies were conducted with a view toward commercialization but the turbine, one of the world’s largest with a rotor diameter of 167 meters, was deemed unprofitable due to multiple malfunctions decreasing the utilization rate.

...The turbine is one of three on a floating wind farm 20 km off the coast of Naraha.

The price tag to remove the ¥15.2 billion ($134,481,133) turbine, which has an output capacity of 7,000 kilowatts, is expected to be around 10 percent of the building cost.

Studies on the two other turbines are due to conclude in fiscal 2018, but the study period is expected to be extended to seek any possibility of commercialization.

The turbine started operating in December 2015 but was riddled with problems.

Its utilization rate over the year through June 2018 was 3.7 percent, well below the 30 percent necessary for commercialization.

The two other turbines, of different sizes, have utilization rates of 32.9 percent and 18.5 percent, respectively.

[Professor Tiger]

Nukes: Still dangerous and bad.
Wind: Only feasible in places like midwestern prairies.
Solar: Only feasible in places like Arizona.
Oil, coal and natural gas: Good

In other news, the Democrats have finished their recount of the 1972 presidential election. Turns out McGovern actually beat Nixon.

[bluetick]

Meanwhile, in the developed nations of the world:

UK Renewable Energy Capacity Surpasses Fossil Fuels for the First Time https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... first-time

The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK for the first time, in a milestone that experts said would have been unthinkable a few years ago. In the past five years, the amount of renewable capacity has tripled while fossil fuels’ has fallen by one-third, as power stations reached the end of their life or became uneconomic. The result is that between July and September, the capacity of wind, solar, biomass and hydropower reached 41.9 gigawatts, exceeding the 41.2GW capacity of coal, gas and oil-fired power plants.