“stay in the shade. drink fluids.”
Welcome to the height of an industrialized nation! your future!
So what’s the “response”?
2012: A CRITICAL SUMMER
This summer California will be at critical risk for rolling blackouts and power shortages. While California has been highly successful in curbing energy demand during peak (high-usage) hours in the past, this summer’s conditions may demand more serious attention than those in previous years. Reasons include:
Approaching heat:
Hot, often humid days which will increase A/C demand
Potential for heat storms lasting several days
Recent generation halt at the San Onofre Nuclear plant leading to
reduced generating capacityEspecially critical for San Diego County residents
Low winter rainfall and increased risk of wildfires which would force power lines out of service
So there ya have it. When people need it most, *p00f* abandoned by our industrial resources.
Think this woulda happened if we had competing energy-production companies to choose from?
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Here, this will cheer ya up.
Remember Lynne Stewart? Lefty nutbag lawyer, got disbarred and tossed in stir for smuggling messages for “The Blind Sheik” behind the first WTC bombing?
Yeah, well, so do the judges who tossed her appeal.
“NEW YORK, June 28 (Reuters) – Outspoken New York criminal defense attorney Lynne Stewart, now disbarred and incarcerated, on Thursday lost a bid to reverse her 10-year prison sentence for helping a suspected Islamist militant smuggle messages to his followers from prison.
In a written opinion, three judges at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals expressed little sympathy for 72-year-old Stewart, whose supporters had argued the prison term amounted to a death sentence.
Stewart “has persisted in exhibiting what seems to be a stark inability to understand the seriousness of her crimes, the breadth and depth of the danger in which they placed the lives and safety of unknown innocents, and the extent to which they constituted an abuse of her trust and privilege as a member of the bar,” the 51-page opinion said.”
If only there wasn’t billions of dollars of “stimulus” money to spend on our outdated power grids…….
mojo – thks for the good news.
Sondra – Moonbeam and his pals in the legislature prolly diverted stimulus funds to high speed (choose one or more: wackos, GBLT parades, trains to nowhere, animal rights, turtle bridges, signs for nuke free areas) after pocketing their cut.
Speaking of the San Onafre nuclear plant, reminded me. See, I used to live in San Clemente and was about 5 miles from the plant. What most folks never knew was that when the scmart guize first built this nuclear plant——-they——————–fucking————built it BACKWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yessir, a shit load of money hada be spent to replumb all the fricking pipes from the frontside (facing I-5 Freeway…) around the plant and down to the fucking Pacific Ocean!!!!
Whell, I tend to look on the bright side, so I always noted how glad I was that these fuckers weren`t involved with the MANHATTAN PROJECT, WWII———–MEH
Someone actually got sentenced for treason?!
Watch out AJ Holder, your crimes may follow you out of office.
For those of you who have to set your AC to 78 degrees, a word of sympathy from those of us who don’t have AC.
I guess this isn’t time for a weather report from the beach……..
(I actually turned on the fireplace for a bit yesterday morning).
Paul, someone gave me an air conditioner when she moved to Arizona. Crazy, I know. Was gonna either donate it or trade it for something but thought it might behoove us to keep it for the futcha just in case. If you’re anywhere near Olympia you can borrow it indefinitely……
Wait …
weren’t rolling blackouts and brownouts the reason for the CA governor recall election that Arnold won?
Wonder how CAns will view Obama’s war on coal-fired power plants?
They forgot:
~Take off all your clothes.
*What?*
Go ahead DougM, take a wild ass guess; m-K…..[wrong answerers still get a prize out here in Kalifornicateya...]
“Whell, I tend to look on the bright side, so I always noted how glad I was that these fuckers weren`t involved with the MANHATTAN PROJECT, WWII”
Or aeronautical engineering. They would have had one engine pointing forward, one pointing aft, just to make things “fair.”
Somewhat like India— or soon to be — we have natural air conditioning here in the U.P..
WTF is a “heat storm”?
Noticed that not many people are asking “what is this world coming to?” anymore? Yeah, cause they *know*.
We’re here in sunny California (Orange County). It’s not too hot – just so long as there’s an air-conditioned inside somewhere nearby. Just talk to someone in Arizona…….
But there’s good news:
CA oil refinery fire
“… a fire knocked out a key section of one of the nation’s largest oil refineries. … Chevron’s Richmond refinery. … the disruption in production to last for weeks … produces 16 percent of the region’s daily gasoline supply. The fire knocked out a unit that makes a specialized blend of cleaner burning gasoline that satisfies air quality laws in California, Oregon and Washington. … expect West Coast gas prices to rise beyond $4 a gallon …”
Forget the “heat storm”. Worry about the “perfect storm”.
Thanks, Mojo — nice bit of news.
Heat Storm” yanno — like when you get rain or snow for a couplafew days. A storm. We get 100++ heat for a couplafew daze. Has to do with a high pressure area coming to oppress for a while…
When I lived in Arizona I remember it getting so hot that if you took a leak outside the stream would evaporate before it could hit the ground. Contrariwise, when I lived in Alaska it would get so cold that the stream would freeze before it could hit the ground. Broke-off a couple inches of perfectly good dick that way, too.
Took it back inside and stitched it back on with a needle I’d carved from the tusk of a walrus that I’d kilt with some frozen Jello and a Vidal Sassoon hair dryer (but that’s a whole ‘nother story).
Works fine now!
Hog: When I was up there in Alaska, one winter it got so cold that every time we spoke, the words just froze right there in the air and fell to the ground. We had to wait till summer to find out what we were sayin’.
Accident my ass, that refinery fire was most likely arson by a commie sympathizer looking to cause even more economic trouble for the USA.
This shit doesn’t happen on such perfect timing and get to be called “coincidence”.
Speaking of
poorrichpoor planning:Court defies Congress, heads to Hawaiian junket…
http://washingtonexaminer.com/court-defies-congress-heads-to-hawaiian-junket/article/2504531#.UCWhto6Aa-J
Looks like it’s not just federal bureaucrats who think public service involves living like kings and queens. It’s every freaking person on a federal expense account.
A million dollars? While erstwhile taxpayers are unemployed? Where’s the fuckin’ justice in that?
… and even if we had full employment, what does this say about the elitists who are running our courts? How will ordinary people ever get actual justice from these royal drones, who have no fucking idea what it’s like to actually have to be responsible for anything?
Psych! Flex alert cancelled.
Don’t fret, Claire. Soon you Californians will be able to ride that bullet train, and put the windows down for a fresh breeze!
As the Sun was setting here in Californicateya yesterday, Saturday, KABLINK—off goes the power at this headquarters w outside temperature of 102 fucking degrees!
FOUR hours later, power comes back on. Lanterns, candles, an about 5 gallons of sweat!!!!!! Sleep? nowaynodayTonto—— Dreamt I was back in Vietnam.
Natch, former Arizoners were sayin, “But, it`s a dry heat.” mfcs….