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I listen to it because it's the only real talk radio. I don't like typical DJ's and most other talk radio is far right gibberish. I just roll my eyes every once in a while or change the channel when they either spend too much time talking about Trump of do one of their stupid "How Will Global Warming Affect Chardonnay" stories that is so cliched to the interests of wealthy textbook liberals.

It would be great to see us take another look at nuke. It's still a short term solution but those same people who were vehemently against it now prioritize it's issues below that of burning fossil fuels. I see it as a way for Republicans to maintain their identity with an old-school power method. In the meantime renewable are getting cheaper and cheaper and eventually they won't even be able to say there's a reason to prop up nuke energy.

Something like this: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-lamar-alexander-green-new-deal-would-cost-trillions-annually-heres-a-better-idea This is an example of both parties getting to the middle ground.

Damn straight! I'm restoring an oyster patch off the shore of a friend's property on the Chesapeake. It involves mostly eating oysters and dumping the shells in the water while we drink cocktails on floating chairs.

Thought this was funny: https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1110768987539791872 Monica Lewinsky‏Verified account @MonicaLewinsky FollowFollow @MonicaLewinsky More Monica Lewinsky Retweeted Orin Kerr if. fucking. only. Monica Lewinsky added, Orin KerrVerified account @OrinKerr Imagine if the Starr Report had been provided only to President Clinton's Attorney General, Janet Reno, who then read it privately and published a 4-page letter based on her private reading stating her conclusion that President Clinton committed no crimes. 10:02 PM - 26 Mar 2019

Either pack tandems or shoot video or both, you need to know way more about the gear and operation than 500 jumps gives you. If this is what you want to do then you need to take it seriously.

Yo. "Loser", not "looser". Sorry, that hurt my brain.

This is as far as this thread needs to go.

If you hit Alt F4 on your keyboard you can see him light a fuse and run.

For those who haven't seen it here's the full training video. If you'll note in the intro, the overhead flyby shows the aircraft and type arranged close to what they were at the time of the fire.

Oh my frickin God, that's the most quickly debunked pile of garbage that's out there. There is actual video of this and the first time I watched it was over 20 years ago in NROTC as it's a staple of Navy fire fighting training. Just to save the conversation about how big a crock of shit this is here's a diagram of where the aircraft were located: Do you see any aircraft behind McCaine's? No, because it's the fucking Indian Ocean behind McCain's aircraft.

Absolutley. We do need to deal with the radioactive material but it the fastest way to ramp up base load energy production.

Gotcha, true. I guess I'm reading more into the article having been following the issue of Virginia school funding, 30 years of state elections and what Mayor Levar Stoney has been working on. I admit it's not a perfect example of the issue either because rural residents used to vote against outside funding fearing that it allows state and federal control over their children. But now their schools are literally crumbling and they're doing the math that no increase in property tax will cover the needed renovations. Best I can say is that I'll have to get back to you with a better source. I do construction cost estimating for schools and other public facilities so you could say I'm pretty attuned to what's going on behind the curtains. Whenever I tell a school official the money that went into another project that was just a county over you can actually see them die a bit inside.

100% bullshit.

Wups. Yes, meant to say fossil fuels. Again, I'm not really interested in debating a "what may come" issue and I'm sure that there will be cities, states and countries that do it wrong and lose out so that's why I say that we should put a pin in this for about 20 years while we learn from the success stories rather than point at the anecdotal failures or anecdotal wins.

I assume you didn't read the whole article. It's about the issue of schools in Richmond attempting to regain their funding that was voted away by the legislature after the last recession and makes references to both city and rural communities losing out. You were trying to make a deduction from my earlier post that "if rural bad then city good (but lol, it's not)" but that's not what I said so I'm giving you an example in my state to clarify that I said it's a "population center" issue. While cites can be dense they are small and still don't have the voting numbers of the much more highly populated suburban areas. Richmond has a population of 227k, Henrico, which surrounds Richmond is 327k. Are we clear on my point? Population should not be an ultimate metric of voting power.

Pair that with the identity politics aspect of unions in which the exact people who need them have been led to believe they're "unAmerican"... And to be fair, Unions also don't work when it's so easy to ship the jobs to a 3rd world country.

Yes, those are very fancy words, learned them in undergrad mechanical engineering. It's easier to just say things like that a windmill only extracts about 15%-40% of the energy from the wind but I understand how lingo appeals to people. There's a limit to all types of energy production and that includes global scale of room, distribution and materials. BTW, the same applies to the fossil fuel industry but he doesn't seem to touch on that. We're going to rely more on nuke when we realize that we can't live under a blanket of solar panels but anyway for real world results look at the countries/cities/states that are making giant strides in reducing renewables. I'll let that inevitability take the conversation from here, sorry, it'll take a decade or two for that to play out.

That's basically a fluff piece that equates the pipe dreams of the Green New Deal with attempts to curb emmisions. It falls short, written by a Denier For Hire. Please link the report it references.

Now you know this exists:

You're asking about my example of lower population centers being negatively affected by a larger voting mass. You then said you couldn't link to the article so I pasted it for you.

So you're saying that Kevin Bacon is somehow connected to all of this?

RICHMOND, Va - Students, teachers, and advocates plan to march from MLK Middle School in Richmond to the steps of the state capitol on Saturday. The "March for More" was organized by local city and school leader to call for more funding from the state for public education. Per pupil spending by the state on K-12 students is nine percent less than 2009 when adjusted for inflation, according to an October report from the independent fiscal analysis non-profit The Commonwealth Institute. Richmond school leaders said state funding is one reason they may have to make "hard decisions" about where to cut in a school budget that parents have long said does not allow for an equitable education for students. Tracy Wellman is a school social worker for RPS charged with helping students with their emotional and social well-being. Her favorite, and arguably more important, part of her job is building relationships with students and parents. Wellman is assigned to both Lucille Brown Middle School and Carver Elementary, meaning she is responsible for more than 1,000 students. Her day is mostly filled with parent meetings and making attendance inquiry calls. "My time is limited," Wellman said. "It’s really just touching base on the surface. I’m really not able to delve into what’s going on, and help them develop new skills, coping skills, and help them work through whatever they have going on. . . When I’m stuck in a meeting all day, I’m not getting to do that, I’m not getting to help them." "It's, to put it bluntly, crazy that a social worker would have 1,000 kids," said RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras. Kamras and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney sat for a rare joint interview to discuss why they are lobbying the state for more education funding. Both leaders helped organize the "March for More" and cite the statewide nine percent post-Recession funding decrease as a target for improvement. "We are being left behind by the Commonwealth, so we want the Commonwealth, the state, to do its part," Stoney said. " For us to not be even at the level were at before the recession is unjust and immoral." Following the recession, Virginia lawmakers made major cuts to the state budget and public education funding took a major hit, accord to Chris Duncombe, Senior Policy Analyst at The Commonwealth Institute. Local governments have been asked to foot more of the bill for public education since 2009, according to Duncombe, who adds rural and urban districts have been hit especially hard. "When those reductions first came, they ended up taking over $1 billion out of public education," Duncombe said. "It’s still hundreds of millions down. Not nearly to the extent it once was, but still pretty severe." Beyond aging school buildings, Kamras said the state funding limitations contribute to what RPS can pay teachers, technology gaps in classrooms, and general staffing. "I had a nurse that resigned because we paid her so little she was on food stamps. I have bus driver vacancies because we can’t compete with Amazon and Walmart and all the other commercial bus companies ," Kamras said. Stoney campaigned as the "education Mayor" in 2016. His administration has faced public criticism from some parents and advocates worried about the pace of progress on that front and the focus on a redevelopment plan around the Richmond Coliseum. Stoney pointed to an increased meals tax and the Navy Hill project as examples of new revenues the city is pursuing to help fund schools, but said RPS cannot pursue the five-year strategic plan laid out by district leaders without more state funding. "I think right now, we're at a critical junction in Richmond's future. We have to do something now, or we're going to be leaving another generation of children behind," Stoney said. "I’ll be very honest, without additional funds coming in, we cannot achieve that plan. If more funds don’t come in, we’ll have to make some tough choices. What are we going to not do. What positions are we going to not have next year," Kamras said. "One of the points I think that’s important to make, this is not just a Richmond issue. It’s not just urban; it’s rural, it’s suburban, it’s not just Democrat or Republican. It’s a statewide issue." Kamras said under-funded Standards of Quality (SOQ's), which are set by the state, impacts decision making in school districts across Virginia. "We still have a ways to go; we still have a lot of opportunities for progress," said state Senator Glen Sturtevant (R-Richmond), who served on the Richmond School Board before being elected to the General Assembly. Sturtevant said he is optimistic Virginia lawmakers can find ways to increase direct funding for public education during the 2019 General Assembly session. The newly-formed school modernization subcommittee has studied ways to provide localities with financing help to rebuild aging school buildings, he adds. "In many of our localities, it’s hard to find a school that was not built sometime between World War II and the Vietnam War," Sturtevant said. "We have got to make sure we are prioritizing state funding on education. That is one of if not the most important thing state government does." Chris Duncombe said state lawmakers are uniquely positioned to invest in public education in 2019. He said the U.S. Supreme Court's Wayfair decision could bring in tax dollars from out-of-state online sellers and conforming Virginia's tax code to federal tax legislation could bring in up to $600 million of new revenue to Virginia. "I think this march is well positioned time-wise to say if we’re not going to do this right now, if we’re not going to make this commitment when things are looking good, what does that mean in the future? And are we ever going to take that step?" Duncombe said. Republicans and Democrats in the General Assembly have conflicting views on whether conforming Virginia's tax code would actually benefit all Virginia taxpayers. The issue is expected to be a major point of contention in 2019. Tracy Wellman, the RPS school social work, takes this view of any school funding debate. "What we see and what we deal with is very different from what someone sitting somewhere else thinks is happening," she said of the teachers and staff she works with. Wellman said what she sees is students who need her and not enough time to help. "The needs of our are so deep, it’s not just about them coming to school, sitting in the classroom, and getting an education," she said. On Saturday, the "March for More" begins at 10 a.m. at MLK middle school on Mosby street.

Aren't you the guy who refers to Kamala Harris as a whore who got where she by spreading her legs. [sarcasm font]Can't imagine why you feel that way.[/sarcasm font] Anyway, this is a common argument, and I'm not necessarily throwing you into this group, but the Alt-Right people get all pissed that their material gets taken down but the Leftist stuff doesn't. Yup, can't imagine why White Nationalist propaganda gets taken down but stuff against White Nationalist propaganda doesn't get removed. As far as super-far left Antifa bullshit, they're idiots who don't get the irony that violent acts in the name of "counter-protest" is EXACTLY what Fascism is but I've never seen anything left up on social media that supports those actions either.

Let's clarify what we're talking about because I didn't say cities, I said "higher population centers" which are typically suburbs. In my state the legislature is run by Northern Virginia and Henrico over places like Mathews and City of Richmond. Here's an example: https://wtvr.com/2018/12/05/crippled-by-funding-decreases-frustrated-richmond-public-school-and-city-leaders-organize-march-for-more/