Tuesday Energy Blogging: The one ray of sunshine from the past session.
Posted by: Donna
Arizona’s 2009 legislative session will go down in history as an embarrassing freak show where wingnuts got to demonstrate their utter ineptitude at governance when given all the reins of power. It was as if some deity got bored one day and thought, “Say, wouldn’t it be fun to let the Sarah Palin Fan Club run a state and see what happens?” Mind you, s/he would have to know that Arizona had already spent many years prior in the thrall of the Real Estate Bubble Cheerleading Squad/Goldwater Institute Anti-Tax Death Cult. A perfect opportunity for a capricious god to wreak havoc and misery.
Anyway, let’s forget about that for a sec and take this opportunity to thank (God help me) Barbara Leff for sponsoring a renewable energy tax incentives bill. And thank Gov. Brewer for signing it. Most of all, let’s thank Gov. Janet Napolitano for having the vision to position AZ universities and local industries to take advantage of renewable energy, against the kicking and screaming opposition of the Goldwater Death Cult and the wingnuts.
Yeah, a Chinese company is the first to avail themselves of the tax credit. Disheartening, but it is nice to see China creating some jobs here for a change.
On edit: Read Jon Talton’s latest post. AZ politicians used to at least try to be public servants. Today, they don’t even bother.
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Okay,okay, okay I’m outing here a bit, but Mrs. Palin is going to be at Costco near my kitty box on Dec 1 to sign her book.. No personal signatures or pictures with her. Line starts by the tire department.
WTF? Costco?!
Excuse is because it’s close to Sky Harbor. Um, there’s a very nice & large Barnes & Noble five minutes away just across I-10 in Phoenix., right off the freeway.
My cat instinct is telling me lots of no thanks.
You say
People just don’t understand. If government is the problem, governance is an enabling activity and must be avoided at all costs.
The Insane Clown Posse don’t want to rule so much as bring down the whole edifice.
The gridlock, the horrible deficits, the resuilting need to gut every program the state has, the race to ‘We’re number Fifty! We’re number Fifty!’…this is a feature to them, not a bug.
These are people who would turn out the sick poor to die on the potholed, decaying streets.
After all, they’re poor, and in the eyes of Supply-Side Jeebus, undeserving of anything but scorn for their sinful ways.
As always the ICP strives to keep holy SSJ’s golden rule:
“I got mine, Jack, f*** off!”
Brucie sweetheart, I agree with you in principle, however try to keep in mind the unofficial AZ state motto. “Thank God for Mississipi.”
Oh yeah, Bruce, the whole point is to cut gov’t to the point where they can say, “See? It doesn’t work! We need to privatize!” Their hope is they can stave off the anger of the populace once they realize that privatization (a) doesn’t lower their taxes and (b) doesn’t improve efficiency at all by continuing to blame immigrants or uppity women or poor people.
Donna,
In case you are unaware, Governor Sarah Palin ran a state, which I may add is not in as bad a shape as a lot of states run by people who think like you.
Alan, if you are unable to see that (former) Gov. Palin is dumber than a bag of hammers, I really cannot help you.
Umm, hostess,from what I understand the rule of thumb is don’t feed the trolls.
Ok, kittys claws always come out. when it comes to a female.
Alan goes to the doctor. “Hey Doc, my pee-pee is orange!”
“Oh my gosh!, let me see. Looks like an infection. Here’s a prescription for an antibiotic.. Come see me in a week.”
1 week later
“Alan any better?”
“Not really, still pretty orange.”
“Well lets talk about what your day is like to try and figure this out.”
“My day is usually just getting up, going to work, coming home, watching porn, eating cheetos.”
Yes, I am. Proudly.
Timmeys Cat,
“Alan goes to the doctor. “Hey Doc, my pee-pee is orange!””
You are about the intellectual caliber I’d expect on this board. That is an insult.
Donna,
“Alan, if you are unable to see that (former) Gov. Palin is dumber than a bag of hammers, I really cannot help you.”
We agree, I do not see that. You spew forth your female venom. I guess it is as they say, women are cruelest to each other.
You got to admit she is easier on the eyes than either the witch of the east, Hillary, or the witch of the west, Nancy.
You got to admit she is easier on the eyes than either the witch of the east, Hillary, or the witch of the west, Nancy.
Quite the caliber. BB?
Timmeys Cat,
I found two people who are as smart as you. Can you guess who they are? Here is a hint. Sarah Palin is not one of them. Here is another hint. They are both Prominent Democrats. Give up? Well if you guessed that they both believe in Global Warming, you’d be getting warm! Getting warm, get it? :)
Here is another clue. They are both male. We don’t want to be accused of sexism. Give up? Come on, you almost got it.
A final clue. They are both winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Ah there you got it., Barak Obama and Al Gore. But you say, prove it.
Ok. Barak Obama is the only man to ever campaign for President of the United States in all 57 States. I know, because he said so.
Now Al Gore. What could he have said to earn himself, smart as Timmeys Cat status. You know Al Gore, the man who gave us An Inconvenient Truth. The man that is leading the charge to save the Earth from fossil fuels. The expert whose vast knowledge of science allows him to proclaim that the global warming question is settled and that doubters are either in cahoots with polluters or are just plain nuts.
Well on Conan O’Brien, Vice President Gore was extolling the virtues of geothermal energy, and said that the temperature at the Earth’s core was several million degrees in temperature. It seems that the former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner was a trifle off with his figgurs. Various estimates put the temperature at 7000 to 13,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Maybe a man who could be that far off on his math, could also be totally wrong about everything else.