I gues the right term is “Appear Competitive”. Gee, you don’t think someone with a lot of Natural Gas far away is pushing?

The propaganda used to support a power grid is laughable. They say things like “we have to link all windmills in case the wind dies down”. We have had windmills in California for a long time and groups of them (”farms”) are linked together and the site are optimized for minimum total cost and all the power goes out in a single line; this line absorbs variations between windmills. Elementary, Watson! Me thinks scam afoot!

Let power companies do it and have them include the cost in the electricity they sell. Why promote the use of electricity?

But of course I am sure all the pandering and promotion was “civil discourse.” In the liberal world there is only one kind of civil discourse, censorship of anything you don’t agree with.

Here’s the thing I’ve noticed about hard-line conservative politicizing of health care, the environment, and other matters that directly impinge upon the common good of not only our own country but also the world: These pundits and politicians are more interested in mobilizing people to get behind policies that push a narrow self-interested agenda, directly at-odds with truth, justice, and decency. Rather, Beck and others put these ideas on the airwaves so to get people to believe what they say. In this case, believing something whether it’s true or not is the point. When belief is divorced from truth, it’s not only an intellectual vice, it’s also destroys the entire basis of civil discourse. Because, if true discourse and argument was their real interest, they either wouldn’t say such things or if their listeners were interested in good discourse they wouldn’t listen.

Glenn Beck is an Idiot.

As I live in TX (no, I am not a TEXAN) I know better than to run my air conditioner, dishwasher and washer/dryer at peak demand hours. As he probably doesn’t know how to operate the later two or program a thermostat, I am not suprised by his idiotic remarks!

This is exactly the same nonsensical argument that was made a few weeks ago about the administration’s efforts to upgrade technologies to streamline medical decision-making and treatment — electronic medical records, prescription orders, things like that, that have been conclusively demonstrated to improve care. But the wingnuts somehow morphed that proposal into a draconian government medical board that would intervene in (or overrule) individual care decisions made by patients and their physicians.