Ah, yes, Judith Faulkner:

http://dailysignal.com/2011/08...

Read the rest of it.

Actual link:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.g...

That's because of drought, not because of something stupid and short sighted.

I grew up in a conservative area. All of the stupidest people there were far left or far right, pretty evenly distributed. I've noticed that liberals tend to ignore really stupid liberals so they end up thinking that only conservatives can be stupid.

You see this in politics. Dan Quayle misspeaks and that makes him an idiot. Joe Biden does the same stuff and "hey, Joe just misspeaks sometimes, ha ha ha."

Part of the problem with this is that it's totally arbitrary - just as much as the Fahrenheit system. Why 100 degrees between freezing and boiling? Why not 10 or 1000? Why water? Why sea level on earth at normal atmospheric pressure.

The Kelvin scale at least has a proper base but the actual units are still arbitrary.

Look, I get it. I get how cool it is to be able to convert between units easily. But I'm 46 and I don't think it's ever been useful for me to know that there are 231 cubic inches in a gallon. It just doesn't matter for the vast majority of people for things they do every day. For those for whom it does matter metric is used, anyway. We always use metric in science here.

The Celsius scale is simply as arbitrary as Fahrenheit. It's okay. It's cool.

News flash, genius, we already have nukes. And we've used them. You don't have to trust us - it's too late.

They might be using nuclear in which case it's not dirty or polluting. The bottom line is that they're in the business of generating electricity in a certain way, it's pretty normal for them to keep doing what they're doing.

You might not like it. Fine. Get some folks together and build a solar energy electricity provider and sell to the grid. Others are doing it.

But don't act like existing utilities need to knock down their profitable coal plants just because you happen to not like them (even though you likely still use just as much electricity as anybody else).

I love this part, too:

"It includes exceptions for emergency situations, search-and-rescue efforts, traffic first responders, and inspection of wildfires. It allows other public agencies to use drones for other purposes — just not law enforcement."

First off, everything's an "emergency situation" now that we have a war on terror and a war on drugs. Second, this let's the use the old "inspection" ruse to use the drone as long as they can get some inspector to tag along.

I would recommend you all remember this when it's time to vote. Make stuff like this a big deal. Call them to the carpet at town hall meetings. Etc.

That's what my electric utility already does. I do have a slight problem with this:

"But you shouldn't quash an entire emerging industry just to protect an old and established one."

Nobody is quashing an emerging industry. What they're saying is that they don't want to have to buy electricity from everybody.

Forcing them to buy electricity was a bone thrown to the solar energy, as are the various tax incentives for installing solar. I actually want to install solar myself, badly, but I would prefer this to proceed with the least government interference.

It's called "principle", something that's uncommon in the left-wing world.

You have no idea what you're talking about. McDonald's can own stores and franchise the brand at the same time - nobody cares. I have no problem with auto dealers - the issue is that if Tesla wants to sell directly then they should be able to. The only reason to disallow it is to limit competition for entrenched players.

By the way, thanks for playing the part described above. If not you, somebody else would have. But you folks are always good for a laugh.

I just popped in to find the token looney leftist who would inevitably show up to explain that anti-competitive crony "regulation" laws are really there to help the consumer.

Looks like Dcnjoe60 won....

By the way, if you're willing to drop another $5 each ($25 vs. $20) Lowe's has actual 65 watt replacements in the exact same package. Ironic to pay more for lower light output, but I might do it in my hallway where the Costco lights would simply be *way* too bright.

I have those, too. They are *not* replacements for 65 watt nor do they claim to be. They are replacements for 110 watt flood lights which are significantly brighter.

I have 5 of them - the roof over my kitchen glows at night now.

They also make a considerable percentage of their profit from the "downpayment" that the repo-victim will lose when they repo the car. These people require a *weekly* payment for you to keep the car, and a downpayment to get it in the first place. You'll lose all of that when they repossess. But, yes, their money is made by reselling the same car many times.

Maybe they can outsource their work to India's space agency for $10/hour.