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Ryan is bright enough to see Trump for what he is, but too gutless to do what is best for the country, instead of what is best for the party. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NAILED IT.

http://www.whitehouse-clinic.co.uk/article/recovery-speed-up Do some personal research because the limits of rehab can be amended to suit the patient.

"Renewable energy surges to record levels around the world By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent 1 June 2016 Investments in renewables during the year were more than double the amount spent on new coal and gas-fired power plants, the Renewables Global Status Report found. For the first time, emerging economies spent more than the rich on renewable power and fuels. Over 8 million people are now working in renewable energy worldwide. For a number of years, the global spend on renewables has been increasing and 2015 saw that arrive at a new peak according to the report. Falling costs key About 147 gigawatts (GW) of capacity was added in 2015, roughly equivalent to Africa's generating capacity from all sources. " http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36420750

Now that's what I mean when I talk about deadenders. A complete lack of vision and inability to acknowledge obvious change coming down the track. Like a coal powered locomotive, it's coming straight at you. The switch to diesel electric power was resisted by some. Especially fire tenders. You can rail on and on about the change being forced on you. But here it comes, get out of the way. The times they are a changing. I think you mean a Luddite.

Well he has a tough skin anyway. I'm sure the trucker will get appropriate punishment. Surely two consecutive terms in hell! Glad you're both OK. I'm sure you'll let everyone know how both of your lives have now "changed". For me similar events have led to new appreciations of the trip called life.

Layoffs and/or subsidy and/or loosing money is not necessarily corruption.

Really? It isn't too hard to understand. We seem to forget that we ultimately bring on terrorist attack(s) by our foreign policies and/or who we support. When your country can do no wrong and everyone else is just out to get you, is all you understand - it's very easy to see where they come from. Wrong and Wrong. Hideki Tojo and his similar thinking war council started the Japanese involvement in WW ll. The Japanese people had no say in the matter whatsoever. Arabs and Muslim extremists can look at Arab governments and themselves for their current state of affairs. Some reading on the subject: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2014/11/09/The-West-isn-t-duty-bound-to-solve-Arab-problems.html http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21606284-civilisation-used-lead-world-ruinsand-only-locals-can-rebuild-it

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/05/17/gmos-safe-academies-of-science-report-genetically-modified-food/84458872/ "SAN FRANCISCO — Genetically engineered crops are safe for humans and animals to eat and have not caused increases in cancer, obesity, gastrointestinal illnesses, kidney disease, autism or allergies, an exhaustive report from the National Academies of Science released Tuesday found. Work on the 388-page report began two years ago and was conducted by a committee of more than 50 scientists, researchers and agricultural and industry experts convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. It reviewed more than 900 studies and data covering the 20 years since genetically modified crops were first introduced." It however makes no reference to LGBTO.

Thats aside from the fact that: "Now after millions of Americans have taken daily vitamins for two decades, the results of the clinical trials are in and the news is not good. Most vitamin-supplement trials (with a few exceptions) for healthy people have shown no benefit and some showed they may be harmful. For example, a 19-year study of 38,000 women showed that multivitamins, vitamin B6, folic acid, iron, magnesium, zinc and copper supplements were all linked with a 2-5% increased risk of death. A 12-year trial of 35,000 men showed that vitamin E raised risk for prostate cancer. And a study of over 180,000 people showed that antioxidant supplements were linked to a 5% greater risk of dying. Vitamins are now being compared to snake oil, a sure sign that we have come full cycle again. Denmark took the wise step of banning foods and drinks from being fortified with vitamins.... the main beneficiary of vitamin supplements is the industry that produces and sells them—it's a $24 billion-a-year business. Unless you are pregnant or restricted from getting adequate vitamins through your diet or natural sunlight (vitamin D), many studies are showing actual harm resulting from taking supplements. Rather than preventing cancer, antioxidants have led to more tumors in some studies. Vitamin E has been linked to increased risks of prostate cancer. Calcium and vitamin D may increase the risk of kidney stones and heart disease in women but not change rates of osteoporosis—the condition they are touted to improve. " http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303653004579212241399057838

I think Ron will have great success selling those supplements. I think he believes that nonsense. So he'll be able to give sales presentations with a truthful facial appearance. Ron is a real person and not a troll. Ron is a real person and not a troll. Ron is...

Yeah the rest of the world used to blame the "Jews" for everything. Only the US has the Obama blame game on.

That is a "game changing" cost of production rate. Especially so when European rates are around 28 cents delivered to the consumer. Naturally Europe is not as sunny as Dubai and transmission costs have to be included in that rate. World electrical rates:https://www.ovoenergy.com/guides/energy-guides/average-electricity-prices-kwh.html

Agree completely. But I think its more just a bunch of old white men, supported by uneducated, underemployed white men and women. Who confuse religious ideology with bigotry. Others shouldn't confuse the odd zealot or group of zealots with entire groups who may have righteous intents. A further read on religious intolerance: http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-defeat-religious-violence-1443798275

"In 2007, Keith Ellison of Minnesota became the first practicing Muslim to become a member of the United States Congress. He was joined by André Carson of Indiana following a special election on March 11, 2008." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_States_Congress#Religious_demographics "An unprecedented number of Muslim Canadians ran in the 2015 Federal Election. With the Liberal surge nationally, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area, several of them won, including Canada's first Somali Canadian MP Ahmed Hussen and Canada's first Afghan Canadian MP Maryam Monsef. The majority of Muslim Canadians who will be coming to Parliament are newcomers to politics with the exception of Omar Alghabra and Yasmin Ratansi who were previously Liberal MPs. So far, we have confirmed 11 Muslim Canadian Candidates in total, the largest number in Canadian history. 10 were elected with the Liberal Party and 1 with the Conservative Party. " http://muslimlink.ca/news/national/muslim-canadians-who-won-in-the-2015-federal-election

Yet Alberta residents support Syrian refugees the least of all Canadians. "Support has grown slightly for Ottawa’s plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by March 1, but Canadians still remain at odds over the issue, results of a new poll show. More than half of Canadians (52 per cent) support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to this country by March 1, while 44 per cent oppose the plan, according to an Angus Reid Institute poll... Regionally, support for the refugee plan is highest in British Columbia and Atlantic Canada, with 61 per cent in support and 60 per cent in support, respectively, and lowest in Alberta, with 41 per cent in support... “What we don’t see at this stage is a big appetite to take in more refugees,” she said. “It’s possible that the government will be able to convince people on that front, but at this stage, it’s not where Canadians are at.” As for the resettlement program’s eventual legacy, Canadians are evenly divided, with 23 per cent saying it will be viewed as a success 15 years from now and 24 per cent saying it will be a viewed as a failure." http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2016/02/19/canadian-support-for-syrian-refugee-plan-up-slightly-poll.html My sister from Calgary went to Syria about two years before the civil war started. A Christian tenant of a friend said give her relatives a call when she got there. My sister phoned the family up when she got to the airport and the hospitality was incredible. They chauffeured her over a half of Syria to all the sites. After that two other Syrian families related to them immigrated to Calgary. These Christian immigrants don't think too much of the new wave of Muslim immigrants. Their attitude is that when they came to Canada they paid for everything and got no federal support. The Christian families had to guarantee financial support for the new immigrant families. According to my sister the whole group supports each other, work like hell and save every penny.

China is a bad example for any argument in this thread. "DONGXIANPO, China — Just outside the southwest border of Beijing, a new coal-fired power and heating plant is rising in Dongxianpo, a rural town in Hebei Province. Cement mixers roll onto the site. Cranes tower above a landscape of metal girders. When finished, the plant, run by a company owned by the Beijing government, is expected to have a generating capacity of 700 megawatts of power, more than the total of similar plants in Ohio. But whether it will actually be used to its fullest is questionable, despite the investment of $580 million. That is because the plant is scheduled to come online in three years amid a glut of coal-fired power plants — an astounding 155 planned projects received a permit this year alone, with total capacity equal to nearly 40 percent of operational coal power plants in the United States. China’s economic slowdown and the government’s pledges to use more renewable and nuclear energy make some of the country’s existing plants and most or all of the 155 new ones unnecessary, according to interviews with officials and scholars, a review of public statistics and a report released Wednesday about the “coal power bubble” by Greenpeace East Asia. There are already too many plants, as shown by a steady decline in the plants’ average operating hours since 2013. China’s state-controlled economy creates strong incentives for provinces to manage their own energy sources to generate jobs and revenue. Coal plants have long been the easiest, fastest way for provinces to meet their own energy needs and stimulate local economic growth. That system has created what appears to be a disconnect between the provincial building boom and the country’s overall energy requirements, making it harder for China to convert to a system that is not dominated by dirty fuel... “Why do we see so much discarded water, wind and solar resources everywhere?” Mr. Zhang said. “Because all those coal plants need market share. Local governments need to maintain stability and employment, and to do so they need to give all the coal plants just enough market share to survive.” Utility contracts guarantee that coal-fired plants operate a minimum number of hours to sell power to the grid, while renewable sources have no such guarantee. Wind power capacity has been growing in China, but so has the amount of wasted wind power, called curtailment, according to National Energy Administration statistics. In the first half of 2015, the rate of curtailment was 15 percent, almost twice that of the same period in 2014... Last year, thermal power plants, mostly coal-fired, operated 4,706 hours on average, 314 hours less than in 2013, according to the National Energy Administration. “At any given moment, more than half of capacity is idle,” Mr. Myllyvirta said. The report recommended that officials cancel many projects and that the central government “urgently institute a ban on issuing new permits for coal-fired power plants.”... Provinces have an economic interest in keeping coal-fired power generation close to home, despite concerns over air pollution. Provincial state-owned enterprises running the plants have a guaranteed source of revenue. Also, officials can tax coal power plants but not renewable-energy projects. And plant construction improves economic growth, an important measure in evaluations of provincial officials.' http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/world/asia/china-coal-power-energy-policy.html How many of these coal and green companies will go bankrupt because they are already operating at 50% capacity. Is anyone's guess. That 50% capacity is in the face of all that new construction in the face of slow power usage growth. Then there is this story Scientific American/Climatewire Feb. 2016: "China solidified its standing as the world’s wind energy behemoth in 2015, adding almost as much wind power capacity in one year as the total installed capacity of the three largest U.S. wind-producing states: Texas, Iowa and California. New data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance show China installed just under 29 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2015, surpassing its previous record of roughly 21 GW set in 2014. The country also accounted for more than 46 percent of all wind power installed globally for the year, eclipsing the next largest market, the United States, which added 8.6 GW (ClimateWire, Jan. 28).... While investment in China’s power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world’s highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants. Because of those limitations, Lewis said the United States remains a world leader in wind energy because capacity factors and utilization rates are much higher on average for U.S. wind turbines than for Chinese turbines." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-blows-past-the-u-s-in-wind-power/ And for the US: "A fuel price comparison based on equivalent energy content ($/MMBtu) does not reflect differences in energy conversion efficiency (heat rate) among different types of generators. Gas-fired combined-cycle units tend to be more efficient than coal-fired steam units. The second tab shows coal and natural gas prices on an equivalent energy content and efficiency basis. For the fourteenth consecutive month, the price of natural gas at Henry Hub was below the price of Central Appalachian coal on a $/MWh basis. The spread between the two prices increased in February 2016, mainly due to the decrease in the price of natural gas at Henry Hub. The price of natural gas at New York City on a $/MWh basis was above the price of Central Appalachian coal for the second consecutive month, however, the spread between the two prices decreased due to the decrease in the price of natural gas at New York City." https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/resource_use.cfm

That might be the first thought of many. But keep in mind it is the party members that voted for Trump. That is not the electorate and they will vote this Nov. 8. Republicans and to a lessor extent democrats should understand a dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs. That doesn't mean uneducated and underemployed whites. The post about "The Week" story makes a compelling argument that Hillary has it pretty much in the bag. Middle America has always chosen the president. Not the extreme right or the extreme left.

IMO green companies are a little more receptive to damages to wildlife. i.e. birds and turbines. Public pressure is important to protect wildlife re. solar, wind, hydro, etc. One factor for the bankruptcy of SunEdison is the dumping of cheap Chinese panels. "Some units of Yingli Green Energy Holding Co., the second-largest solar manufacturer, received the lowest so-called anti-dumping rate, 0.79 percent. The rate for another group of companies including Canadian Solar Inc., JinkoSolar Holding Co. and some other Yingli units was set at 9.67 percent. Other companies will pay 239 percent." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-09/u-s-imposes-dumping-duties-on-imports-of-chinese-solar-goods But at the same time German companies were able to "compete" with the Chinese companies: "”All trade barriers should end,” says Christian Westermeier, vice president marketing, sales & application engineering at Wacker Chemie. He includes in his demand not only to abolish minimum prices on crystalline modules imported into the EU, but also the duties on solar glass imported to the EU and the minimum price agreement which Wacker has itself with the Chinese government on polysilicon imported to China. http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/leading-german-solar-players-call-for-end-to-minimum-price_100019883/#ixzz47h2M3FxU I quote "compete" above because of course the subsidies that the EU and Germany have for the green economy. Immediately after politicians give themselves salary raises they give subsidies to their friends and special interest groups.

Oui !!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ten-serious-nuclear-fusion-projects-making-progress-around-the-world/ http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/500-jobs-lost-in-saskatchewan-as-cameco-shuts-uranium-mine-1.2870086 Cameco operates the lowest cost uranium mines in the world.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. Dalai Lama When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. --Buddha (563? - 483? B.C.) May all that have life be delivered from suffering. -- Buddha The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. -- Charles Darwin

Accounting 101, Accounting 212, And four other University second year accounting classes. Bachelor of Commerce. Over 40 years ago and a self employed businessman for 35, started and built seven business in total. I'm quoting other sources and your point is???? I'd suggest you discuss the nuances of LIFO,FIFO, and the nuances of costing damage to the environment with Wikipedia, Eurostat, Scientific American,Fortune Magazine and The Atlantic magazine.

The internal combustion engine did not get 1.5 billion taxpayer dollars and fail. Also, it might be worth noting that BOTH solar cells and the internal combustion engine were invented in the 1800s. The one that works is powering the world the one that doesn't, is a government subsidized fantasy. "A 2011 study by the consulting firm Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI)[30] estimated the total historical federal subsidies for various energy sources over the years 1950–2010. The study found that oil, natural gas, and coal received $369 billion, $121 billion, and $104 billion (2010 dollars), respectively, or 70% of total energy subsidies over that period. Oil, natural gas, and coal benefited most from percentage depletion allowances and other tax-based subsidies, but oil also benefited heavily from regulatory subsidies such as exemptions from price controls and higher-than-average rates of return allowed on oil pipelines. The MISI report found that non-hydro renewable energy (primarily wind and solar) benefited from $74 billion in federal subsidies, or 9% of the total, largely in the form of tax policy and direct federal expenditures on research and development (R&D). Nuclear power benefited from $73 billion in federal subsidies, 9% of the total, largely in the form of R&D, while hydro power received $90 billion in federal subsidies, 12% of the total." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#United_States "Although their levels of production remained relatively low, there was a particularly rapid expansion in the output of wind and solar energy, which accounted for 10.5 % and 5.5 % respectively of the EU-28’s renewable energy produced in 2013. The remaining shares were 3.1 % for geothermal energy and 0.02 % for tide, wave and ocean energy, the latter being found in only France and the United Kingdom. " http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Renewable_energy_statistics "As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal-fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $4.6 billion, according to a groundbreaking new study released today." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-fired-power-in-india-may-cause-more-than-100000-premature-deaths-annually/ "A new study has revealed the staggering cost of China’s dependence on coal to power its economy: 670,000 deaths in one year alone." http://fortune.com/2014/11/05/the-cost-of-chinas-dependence-on-coal-670000-deaths-a-year/ "California Public Utilities Commission to assume that in the unlikely event it wished to build a coal-fired plant in the area it serves, each ton of sulfur dioxide emitted would be assessed at $23,490, each ton of nitrogen oxides at $31,448, and each ton of carbon dioxide at $33. Assessments are based on how far within the state's air quality standards a region is; since southern California is already violating those standards, virtually all emissions from a new plant would have to be significantly reduced, and the costs would be very high. In Massachusetts the external-cost assessments are lower: $1,700 per ton of sulfur dioxide, $7,200 per ton of nitrogen oxides, and $24 per ton of carbon dioxide. Such assessments dramatically diminish coal's attractiveness as a generating fuel when utility companies weigh how to meet new demands for power. If Massachusetts external-cost assessments are used in an example, the ton of coal that costs $20 at Southmountain No. 3 and $46 delivered to the Chalk Point station will be priced instead at roughly $200. Robin Walther, a senior economist at Southern California Edison, calculates that if the state utilities commission's highest external-cost estimates were added in, coal would cost seventeen or eighteen cents per kilowatt-hour rather than around 1.8 cents. Not surprisingly, Southern California Edison has taken the position that actual damages, rather than the price of controls, should be the basis for calculating external costs." http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/12/the-true-cost-of-coal/304566/

Well all the village Dumpfs that want him as president will be sorry when Billary wins the presidency. Given her anti-gun stance there will be senate and house elections in two years. If the disgruntled Republicans think they are going to hold the house and senate through multiple consecutive terms. They could be surprised. Then NY state and Kommiefornia style gun controls will sweep the US. Two round magazine capacity limits. All guns in a central lockup at the sheriffs office. Better stock up now boys and girls.

"Moreover, when you avoid something that scares you, you tend to experience a sense of failure. Every time you avoid a feared object or situation, your anxiety gains strength while you lose some. Every time you avoid the feared object or situation, you accumulate another experience of failure and another piece of evidence attesting to your weakness. Finally, avoidance eliminates practice. Without practice it is difficult to gain mastery. Without mastery, confidence is less likely to rise. So, avoiding anxiety maintains and magnifies it. To get rid of your anxiety you should instead capitalize on the principle of habituation through the use of "exposure." Exposure is by far the most potent medicine known to psychology. It is responsible, directly or indirectly, for most positive improvement achieved in therapy--any therapy, but particularly the treatment of anxiety. Exposure entails facing your fears, which makes it aversive in the short-term. But many worthy long-term goals entail short-term discomfort (think studying for an exam). Exposure also seems counter intuitive, but many truths are counter intuitive (think about the fact that we're residing on a ball floating in infinite space). Exposure scares people, but scary things are not necessarily dangerous (think roller coasters, horror films). Exposure is scary primarily because most people, lacking an understanding of the habituation principle, expect their fear to escalate indefinitely in the presence of a feared object or situation. But nothing rises indefinitely. And fear, if you face it, will soon begin to subside as you habituate. Thus with anxiety, the only way out is through. If you're anxious about spiders, you will have to handle spiders. If you're scared of the elevator, you will have to ride the elevator repeatedly. If you dread talking in class, you will need to start talking in class. This is not easy to do, since confronting your fear will produce a lot of initial anxiety. You will have to stay in the feared situation and stay with the heightened fear response until it begins to subside, which it will, because it must by design." https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/insight-therapy/201009/overcoming-fear-the-only-way-out-is-through and http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4793423;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread