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Tuesday, Aug 23, 2005
Mendacity Has Permeated His Pathetic, Shriveled Soul
No, not Bush's. Well, yes, Bush's, but the immediate object of my disdain is someone else, a talk radio blowhard, a veteren of the Velvet Rope Tour of Iraq by a gaggle of talk radio blowhards, a liar who goes by the name of Mark Williams.
I caught a bit of his performance on MSNBC's Blow Hard Ball over at Crooks and Liars. His first lie: "I'm not anti-Sheehan". Then Mr. Talk Radio Blow Hard launches into an attack on Sheehan, calling her pathetic. The Blow Hard lies so much, he probably didn't notice that he started his segment with a lie.
A point that he reiterated (blew hard and blew harder) is that there was a "debate" three years ago, and that the anti-war crowd should shut up. Technically speaking, there was a debate. But only based on today's low bar for what passes for a debate.
The Mendacious Administration told lies over and over again, in an attempt to permeate the minds of American's with their mendacity. They told not just small lies, but huge, magnificent lies that will stand through the ages as monuments to their foul, disgusting, lie-filled minds. They compounded this by branding anyone who spoke the truth as a traitor, a co-conspirator with Saddam, a friend of bin Laden.
This charade may have passed for "debate" in the Politburo, but is a disgrace to the very concept of democracy. "Consent of the governed" my ass. The Mendacious Administration cares only about the accretion of partisan power, not the intangible called "truth".
The MSNBC Blow Hard Ball hostess harangued the anti-war guest about "what's the Democratic solution?" Well, la dee dah. The Mendacious Administration creates a world class clusterfuck, and now it's up to the Democrats to fix it? "Well if you can't give me a five second answer for how to un-clusterfuck to region, then your opinion doesn't count!"
Okay, here's your solution Blow Hard Ball hostess: ride those SOB's out of town on a rail. RIght, now. This afternoon. Tar and feather the worst of them, and drag their sorry asses down to that pig farm outside of Waco Then we'll start figuring out how to un-clusterfuck the region.
A Billion Here, A Billion There
The invasion and occupation of Iraq has been about a $300 B proposition, and counting. Extrapolating, let's say Operation Incomparable Clusterfuck runs about a trillion, all in.
Solar power, installed, runs under $10 per watt of capacity. A 5kW system, a pretty sweet residential situation, runs under $50k -- retail, including professional installation. So a million bucks would buy 20 very nice systems. A billion bucks would by 20 thousand systems. A trillion bucks would buy 20 million systems -- for a 100,000 MW of peak production capacity.
Suppose for each watt of capacity, one could expect 1.5 kWh of annual production. So that 100, 000 MW translates to 150 billion kW hours, or about 4% of US electrical production. That number may seem small, but consider this money deployed as a 50% subsidy to homeowners. The number jumps to 8%. Consider the economies of scale of tens of millions of home installations. Reaching $5 per watt seems realistic. With cost sharing and economies of scale, the trillion of federal green would buy solar power equal to 16% of US electrical consumption. We're getting close to the contribution made by nuclear power.
Solar power for 80 million houses, or Operation Incomparable Clusterfuck? By the way, 80 million would cover every owner-occupied housing unit in the country. You pays your money, and you makes your choices.
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