3 year old shoots and kills 1 year old

Yesterday 1 bullet to the chest, no details available, 3 miles from where I live.  Story in second (state & local) section, the top front page story was about a billionaire's woes.   On the editorial page, a very nasty letter to editor strutted threats to liberals who want to "take our freedoms" through oppressive gun laws, which we have none of here, in fact a week old law says you can buy a full blown machine gun, open carry, drunken stand your ground, etc.  Thus we enter our Bagdad phase.

Supreme Court gives EPA and Obama another victory

Other than Scalia and Thomas, the Kochs, 14 red states and power companies, everyone else won today.  People with lung or heart conditions won, kids and fishermen and birds too.  With only Scalia and Thomas whining in a nasty diatribe that the majority had taken away our freedoms with this law, the world won a hugh victory.   The only freedom lost was the freedom of corporations to shoot the sky over your downwind neighbors full of heavy metals and poisons.

The fight was EPA's right to control interstate pollution.  The coal fired power plant or refinery smoke made in one state pollutes the next state and they can't stop it, only the federal government could.    The decision says the EPA should continue forcing industry towards an end to it.

This is one more accelerant for transition to clean renewable energy like wind and solar, and to the great relief of downwind states.

Here are the states who pissed away their taxpayer money in a fight for the right to pollute.
The 14 states that sued the EPA along with numerous power companies over the rules in 2012 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin) are responsible for over half of the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide air pollution in the country.

Letter from Lt. Gen. Arlen Jameson

Dear Operation Free supporter:

Last week, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, I toured the miltiary's largest solar installation. The 16.4 mega-watt system generates enough power to meet 35% of the base's total energy demand, providing greater flexibility and base energy security to support the overall mission.

As a former Lt. General of the Air Force, I am incredibly proud of what's happening at Davis Monthan. It's a remarkable achievement, and a clear example of the Pentagon's commitment to securing America with clean energy. 

And it doesn't stop there: across every service branch, the military is pursuing a strong renewable energy goal of deploying 3 gigawatts of clean power - enough to power 750,000 homes - by 2025. And with more projects like at Davis Monthan, the military is on track to meet that goal. 

This is a huge win for America's energy security. Share this graphic. 

V/r,

Lt. General Arlen "Dirk" Jameson
USAF, Ret. 

operationfree.net

awake ye scurvy dogs, I'll be tell'n ye more now

Tonight I attend and speak at a Legislative Forum.  State house Reps and Senators of both parties will hold a short round table then answer questions.  I will thank those who supported wind energy against the Kochs attacks the last 3 years and scold those who took money and voted for Koch's rather than 91% of Kansans who want more clean wind and solar energy.  And I will tell them about the vets working in renewable energy, employed at a 22% higher rate than in other sectors.    Today here are new threats from ALEC and Kochs that the GOP controlled state will still run the 3 times defeated bill through as an amendment to some unrelated bill, in the upcoming final session, so the fight is never won, we just lurch from one win against endless money and hired lobbyist to the next.

91%, that is so amazing, I don't know if you can get 91% to agree cancer is bad.

Get involved, be the change you want.

Brain Salad Surgery delayed.

I thought I would finish a week or two ago, but I returned to work more on the hair.  Next week I add eyebrows, smooth a bit around the hair line and cut the top of the head off, scoop out most the clay, then put her back together, smooth out the damage and leave it for the kiln operator, he will decide when to cook her, I might get her back in 2 weeks.

Who is for more smoke, more cancer, and taxing sunshine?

142,000 US workers are building and installing solar systems.  Coal uses 90,000 workers.  Not many people know these numbers.  

Military veterans suffer a high unemployment level, one bright point is they make up 10% of solar workers.  Solar employees 22% more vets than the average US business.

Next time you hear someone go off on the "war on coal", correct them.  It is a war against smoke, cancer, hotter summers, and a war for new and safer jobs.


Think about it, which one causes the most black lung, sensational deadly accidents, has taken government subsidies for generations, makes smoke, pollutes fishing and hunting areas, and which one do you have to set at the railroad crossing for when you could be somewhere else?

Monday, the Oklahoma governor (the state with the biggest energy rate increase in the nation, 20% in the last couple of years) signed a bill taxing homeowners who have solar systems.  Lets review; the sun that falls for free on your house is yours, pretty sure of that, you invest in your own system to turn your sunshine into your energy.  Now the state gives the government regulated monopoly the mandate to charge you for hedging against higher rates.  WTF?  This is the Koch's ALEC and Americans for Prosperity's doing, no secret, they take credit already for it.  What next, tax anyone who invests in efficient appliances and LED bulbs as they too will buy less energy from the monopoly.  This is an issue of freedom, freedom of choice, and where are the Republicans, blow jobbing big business.

Ever wonder how the recycle plant works?