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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#100051: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:12:37 AM

Palinin speech pushes for position of energy secretary under Trump regime and vows to disband the department, alongside statements that immigrants should only learn to "speak American".

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#100052: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:30:49 AM

[up] Obligatory

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#100053: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:42:44 AM

So Palin has officially lost the fucking plot now?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#100054: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:52:58 AM

[up] Did she ever have it?

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#100055: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:06:52 AM

She wants to disband the energy department? Is she high? What possible benefit does that give? If she means she wants to privatize it, that really didn't work here in Ontario.

Mopman43 Since: Nov, 2013
#100056: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:23:08 AM

She wants to completely deregulate it. No regulation department, no regulation.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#100057: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:23:26 AM

Getting rid of the DOE means no pesky environmental regulations?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#100058: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:25:13 AM

She probably wants it to become a state level thing.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#100059: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:55:18 AM

The Left's Attack on Color-Blindness Goes Too Far

Encouraging a focus on white identity is a dangerous approach for a country in which white supremacy has been a toxic force.

I'm not sure what to think of this, anyone better versed in the topic want to give their opinions?

NBC Should Release Raw Footage of 'The Apprentice'

Would Donald Trump still seem like a good leader if his reality television show had offered an unedited view of his style?

edited 7th Sep '15 6:57:42 AM by JackOLantern1337

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#100060: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:15:49 AM

I think the first of those two articles would be better suited to the race thread.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#100061: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:52:54 AM

I will offer only that "color blindness" is a myth; even if everyone were to suddenly stop being racist tomorrow (impossible), then our various systems would still have major economic and political imbalances between racial and ethnic groups.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#100062: Sep 7th 2015 at 8:29:30 AM

Not so much a myth as being far removed from being the complete solution to the U.S. brand of racism. There are definitely parts of the world where that kind of mentality would go a mile and a half towards solving their racism issues, but the U.S. is not (and probably never will be) one of those places.

I'd love to actually dissect that article more, but again, this isn't the thread for that.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#100063: Sep 7th 2015 at 9:04:59 AM

Oh trump you so cray cray it is funfun.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#100064: Sep 7th 2015 at 12:14:54 PM

Iowa poll puts Clinton ahead of Sanders by 11 points. New Hampshire poll puts Sanders ahead by the same number.

In a new NBC News/Wall Street journal poll, Sanders sits at 49 percent vs. Clinton’s 38 percent; the poll showed many voters cited Clinton’s personal email use as a problem for them.

Biden drew 12 percent of the vote in New Hampshire without officially announcing his candidacy.

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#100065: Sep 7th 2015 at 12:55:10 PM

Are there any debates scheduled for the Democratic candidates?

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#100066: Sep 7th 2015 at 1:01:17 PM

Here's the schedule for the debates from the Democrats.

Krugman notes that Trump is at least right as a stopped clock with regards to economics

“The economy has nonetheless done far better than should have been possible…

…if conservative orthodoxy had any truth to it. And now Mr. Trump is being accused of heresy for not accepting that failed orthodoxy?… [Moreover,] Bush’s attacks on Mr. Trump are falling flat, because the Republican base doesn’t actually share the Republican establishment’s economic delusions…. We didn’t really know that until Mr. Trump came along. The influence of big-money donors meant that nobody could make a serious play for the G.O.P. nomination without pledging allegiance to supply-side doctrine, and this allowed the establishment to imagine that ordinary voters shared its antipopulist creed…. Bush’s hapless attempt at a takedown suggests that his political team still doesn’t get it, and thinks that pointing out The Donald’s heresies will be enough to doom his campaign…. Trump, who is self-financing, didn’t need to genuflect to the big money…. It turns out that the base doesn’t mind his heresies….

I’m not making a case for Mr. Trump. There are lots of other politicians out there who also refuse to buy into right-wing economic nonsense, but who do so without proposing to scour the countryside in search of immigrants to deport, or to rip up our international economic agreements and start a trade war. The point, however, is that none of these reasonable politicians is seeking the Republican presidential nomination.

rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#100067: Sep 7th 2015 at 3:51:24 PM

She probably wants it to become a state level thing.
Yuppers. It was in the Yahoo article a couple pages back.
And Palin’s first recommendation as head of the federal energy department?

“I’d get rid of it,” she said. “And I’d let the states start having more control over the lands that are within their boundaries and the people who are affected by the developments within their states.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#100068: Sep 7th 2015 at 3:54:12 PM

Separating the power grids by state wouldn't work. Remember a while back there was that huge blackout that hit most of the northeastern US, Ontario and Quebec, and I think it hit a bit of Manitoba too? It happened because one plant failed and the failure cascaded. Everything is absurdly interconnected, and you also run into problems like that the primary power generator for Niagara Falls USA and the surrounding region in the US is actually Ontario Hydro's Niagara Falls plant. How would you deal with that?

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#100069: Sep 7th 2015 at 3:55:39 PM

Canada and the US share power grids?

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#100070: Sep 7th 2015 at 3:57:19 PM

How would you deal with that?

Are you suggesting Palin thinks things through

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#100071: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:00:13 PM

^^Yes. Hence why the Northeast blackout of 2003 spanned both countries. Truly isolated power grids are uncommon, anyway.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#100072: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:00:58 PM

[up][up][up] Not everywhere. It's mostly just Niagara (and a few random towns out west) because the Canadian falls are massive and have enough room to place a power plant behind them. (I don't know exactly how it works, but the method used doesn't work for the American side.)

[nja]

edited 7th Sep '15 4:02:05 PM by Zendervai

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#100073: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:03:25 PM

That seems kind of dumb honestly. Why tie the grids to each other?

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#100074: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:05:25 PM

[up][up][up][up][up] In some places like the falls yes. The falls produces too much electricity for just one side to handle so they sell it to the surrounding area of the US iirc. Gotta be connected to sell it.

Also States buy and sell energy from other states too regulated by the energy department. It's the way that say California has avoided rolling blackouts in recent years, had the energy department hadn't spent millions setting up the infrastructure for that every summer California would have an energy crisis especially in the valley.

edited 7th Sep '15 4:06:20 PM by Memers

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#100075: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:06:02 PM

Redundancy. It means that when one plant can't handle the load you have another plant for backup. Most of the time it's what prevents big blackouts. Cascade failures are rare.

Also because building isolated grids is actually more expensive. They often follow along other utilities like phone and Internet which are interconnected by design.

edited 7th Sep '15 4:08:11 PM by shimaspawn

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

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