2012 WTF #18 – Pacific NW Electric Producers Paid NOT to Produce Electricity – Consumers to Pay More to Make Up the Difference
2012 WTF #18 – Only in America! The government forces green energy on the populace then takes it away and either way the people get screwed!
Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest – built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced – are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region’s electricity grid says there’s an oversupply of renewable power at certain times of the year. Bonneville Power Administration, a federal agency based in Portland, Ore., shut down the wind farms for nearly 200 hours over 38 days and is offering to compensate wind companies for HALF their lost revenue (appx $50 million a year.)
SO… how will the electricity producers make up the other half of the lost revenue? You guessed it, they will be looking for rate payers to make up the difference – but heck, they require taxpayers to subsidize the production of renewable energy – even though they have to pay for it as a rate payer to get the electricity; now they want rate payers to pay renewable energy companies when they lose money as well.
Looks like they have them coming and going, with the only people “winning” being the electric company who is guaranteed to not lose money and the govt who gets to hand off the requirement to pay half the money owed to the people while still making them pay the full taxes needed to subsidize the entire thing.
Yea, that seems right to me.
http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-pacific-northwest-wind-farms-paid-to-not-produce-20120308,0,190781.story
2012 WTF #17 – 6th Grader Handcuffed for Bad Attitude
2012 WTF #17 – An 11-year old sixth-grader at Shaw Heights Middle School, in Adams County, CO, was handcuffed and taken to a holding facility for disobeying the orders of an assistant principal during lunch and being “argumentative and extremely rude.”
An Adams County Sheriff’s Office incident report says the assistant principal found Yajira walking in the hallway during lunch because the girl claimed she was cold and needed to get a sweater from her locker. The report says the assistant principal was in mid-sentence when Yajira, “turned and walked away saying, ‘I don’t have time for this.'” When intervention efforts with a counselor failed, Yajira was handcuffed and put in the school resource officer’s patrol car and taken to a juvenile holding facility called “The Link.”
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office told 9Wants to Know that handcuffing kids during transport is standard procedure, but refused to discuss this incident because a juvenile was involved and NO CHARGES WERE FILED!
So remember kids if you back-talk a teacher in Adams County CO (which you shouldn’t do, so please don’t no matter where you live) you don’t have to worry about detention or suspension, just the embarrassment that comes with being handcuffed in front of your friends, put in a patrol car and taken to juvenile detention so your parents can come get you – but don’t worry they probably won’t file charges because it doesn’t appear that you actually broke any laws that would allow them to arrest you.
(h/t 9News.com) Read Colorado’s 9News.com for the entire story.
Read the story and watch the video at the link below:
http://www.9news.com/news/article/254065/339/Girl-handcuffed-in-school-for-being-extremely-rude
2012 WTF #16 – “Killing babies no different from abortion”
2012 WTF #16: Hey all my friends who are parents – do you agree with the Oxford University latest article that states “Killing babies no different from abortion” – Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life”. The academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed if it turns out to be disabled when it is born.
They go on to say:
“We take ‘person’ to mean an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her.”
As such they argued it was “not possible to damage a newborn by preventing her from developing the potentiality to become a person in the morally relevant sense”.
The authors therefore concluded that “what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled”.
I’m sorry, but I have to believe that these people have either 1) never been parents, 2) have been irreparably harmed by having a child born with a severe birth defect, or 3) simply do not have the capability of understanding the value of human life or the healing power in the smile of newborn.
Oxford University Report
http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2012/02/22/medethics-2011-100411.full.pdf+html
2012 WTF #15 – Military Healthcare to Sky Rocket!
2012 WTF #15 – President Obama decides to screw over military enlisted personnel over civilian workers – did you hear that the Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched.
The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon’s $487 billion cut in spending. The plan calls for increases between 30 percent to 78 percent in Tricare annual premiums for the first year,
after that, the plan will impose five-year increases ranging from 94 percent to 345 percent—more than 3 times current levels.
Administration officials told Congress that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in Tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
The changes are worrying some in the Pentagon who fear it will severely impact efforts to recruit and maintain a high-quality all-volunteer military force. Such benefits have been a key tool for recruiting qualified people and keeping them in uniform.
Bible Burning vs Koran Burning
Hmmm – Do you remember how many people were attacked in retaliation when Iran burned 6,500 Bibles last august? Oh yea, none! Nobody killed, nobody attacked… nothing!
How about the “Thank You’s” from the Muslim community when the U.S. military voluntarily destroyed hundreds of bibles that had been printed in the two most common Afghan languages and sent to the Bagram Air Base unsolicited with notes to distribute them to the locals? None that I can find, but it does look like the army got accused of doing it to cover up their own attempts to convert locals.
And it looks like when people burn the Torah, the Jewish community simply condemns the act, without the need for violent reaction.
But the US military burning a couple of Koran books that were “removed from a detainee center’s library because they had ‘extremist inscriptions’ on them and there was ‘an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications” leads to the death of 2 soldiers and 4 civilian, plus injuries to more than 50 people during 5 days of rioting. Is it just me, or does this seems like some severe over-reacting by people who do not seem capable of handling these types of things like adults?
***DATA SOURCES***
Iran Burning Bibles
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/iran-bible-burning-christians/2011/08/26/id/408824
US Burning Bibles in Afghan Language
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/
Torah Burning
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142083
Deaths in Retaliation for Burning the Koran
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/25/world/asia/afghanistan-burned-qurans/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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