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Susan: Thanks for all the great blogs. I’ll share some more fitting music, that is perfect for his time of the year. Here is a Sylvester Stewart composition from 1969. We know him as Sly Stone. This is Hot Fun In The Sumnertime, from Sly & The Family Stone.
Dwayne, this is perfect! I’m sitting upstairs in my den, it’s boiling in here and the humidity is high. This song actually gave me chills when I started to play it.
Thank you!!!
Susan: Here is my next song pick. This is a composition from John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian and Steve Boone, called Summer In The City. It is from The Lovin’ Spoonful, and was released in 1966. I do have this I my music collection.
Dwayne, you nailed it with this one too!
When I was too young to work during the summer my mom put me and my sister to work around the house. I still remember ironing (ironing!) in the boiling heat with this song playing on the radio. What a memory!
Hi Susan, I heard on the news that Danielle is starting to talk about the possibility of a referendum in 2025 on a provincial pension plan. If this is a priority for UCP why wasn’t it part of their election platform? Because it is unpopular I suspect. I don’t feel they have a mandate for dumping the CPP, or the RCMP for that matter, yet they seem to be headed in that direction. Bad faith politics!
Jim: Bad faith politics is right. Although I have to wonder about all those people who felt comfortable voting for a pig in a poke. Apparently they didn’t understand that an election premised on two or more parties trotting out their policies and letting the voters decide which one serves them best.
Gives you another insight into the mind of the UCP voter…okay, I’ll leave it at that.
Susan: Here is some live music, from The Spencer Davis Group, from French TV. It’s either from late 1966, or early 1967. Steve Winwood, is only 18 here, and when he was 18, in 1967, he left The Spencer Davis Group to form Traffic, with Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason, and Chris Wood. Steve Winwood is on lead guitar, piano, and lead vocals. Spencer Davis is on rhythm guitar and backing vocals. Muff Winwood (Steve’s older brother) is on bass guitar and backing vocals. Pete York is on drums. The songs in this set are My Baby, Georgia On My Mind, and Mean Woman Blues. Steve Winwood was a professional musician, since the age of 8. He joined/co-founded the Spencer Davis Group in 1963, at age 15.
Dwayne, you say Winwood was only 18, all of them were so young. And very accomplished, that jazzy bit in Georgia On My Mind was amazing.
What a fun choice…reminds me of those lazy carefree days of our youth.
PS I got a kick out of the audience with those random screams and people dancing.
PPS By the end those poor guys were sweating so much it’s a miracle none of them collapsed!
Susan, the weather may be warm but at least we aren’t (as yet) suffering the way folks in so many other parts of the world are from extreme heat. Enjoy your summer break & hopefully ‘cooler heads’ will prevail when it comes to some of those UCP schemes.
Linda, very good point about the extreme heat (and wildfires, and flooding) elsewhere. The wake up calls are coming fast and furious. Will the government listen?
Susan, we should have been acting rather than talking for quite some time now. Scientists were raising concerns about the long term effects of human produced CO2 emissions as early as 1896! The Kyoto Accord was proclaimed in 1997 & here we are 26 years later & not only have we not achieved any of the goals set but still have plenty of folks denying climate change is an issue. All these big, expensive & CO2 emitting conferences – it isn’t like those attending are getting there on foot! – only produce yet more goals/resolutions to change but sets the time for X years down the road. Frankly I don’t expect to live long enough to see actual reductions in human produced CO2 emissions.
To be fair, it isn’t going to be easy to implement even modest reductions. Our entire societal structure relies on fossil fuels. Even ‘green’ technology relies on fossil fuels to produce the end result & I fear a lot of what is being touted as the solution will spawn its own set of problems down the road. There is also that little issue as to who goes first when it comes to reducing the carbon footprint. And that carbon footprint happens to provide one heck of a lot of jobs/taxes. Unless there is a viable alternative that isn’t perceived as adversely impacting our standard of living going to be difficult if not impossible to get folks to stop doing things they way they do them now.
Enjoy a comfortable and well earned break, Susan!
Love always,
Jane ❤️⭐🎶
Thank you Janewestman: Right back at you! 🙂
Susan, 🌺I too add my good wishes for a wonderful break for you and those near and dear to you. I continue to be very grateful for your insights and in-depth analysis. Politics continues this summer in the federal riding of Calgary Heritage. A by-election is to take place on July 24. The parliamentary seat was left vacant when the previous MP resigned in December 2022. Some of the issues raised in your chats on the soap box seem to arise in this federal riding. The question for me is when do Conservative ideals as championed by the current Member of the Opposition lean to the ultra right? How similar are the talking points for the local candidate? How many of my fellow voters are noting as Susan has that Mr. Harper, having held this riding in the past, is now shaking hands with the Prime Minister of Hungary. Are we now asking a Harper protege about any such implications as he seeks election as an MP? I ask those readers who are eligible to vote in this federal by-election to consider their vote carefully.
Susan in Palliser: that is an excellent question to as the Conservative candidate for Calgary Heritage, and indeed all the Conservative MPs whenever and where ever we meet them: Do you stand with Steven Harper in his support of the PM of Hungary and if so, why?
Thank you,
How is it that the IT minister is mandated to explore health care accounts if the Premier made a solemn promise pre election that no Albertan would pay to see a doctor?
‘p’, you didn’t actually believe a politician’s promise? Especially one made by Ms. Smith? Her last name should be ‘rug’ because she lies like one….. Of course pre-election the most soothing & reasonable profile was created to reassure the voters that the UCP would act in their best interests. Silly voters, thinking that meant THEIR best interests & not the interests of those being elected. Now the election is past & the UCP returned to power – albeit with fewer seats but still holding that all important majority – Smith & crew can resume their wild ways, including exploring health accounts, a provincial tax system where the voters get to file a separate return just for Alberta, an APP instead of the CPP & more.
Well the wild ways were known and they still voted for them so we have to use other means to stop this lunacy. Brian Jean ( what was known as the good guy has moved to the bad guys group because now he is getting good money as a minister) We can give him a dose of a million emails if he implements this.
https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/07/better-late-than-never-one-supposes-ndp-hammers-smith-governments-scandalous-rstar-scheme/
Linda: yep, you nailed it!
pclipper2015: I suspect it’s connected to announcements like the one that Ciba Health, an American virtual healthcare company, is setting up its
Canadian head quarters in Edmonton.
Ciba provides provides “personalized, AI-enabled healthcare to patients with chronic conditions” in the US for as little as $194 for a “root cause discovery program” that leads to a personalized health plan that, for the low price of $150/month will provide you with ongoing care.
They’re hiring 20 people for the Edmonton office, many of whom will be coders. Nate Glubish was on hand for the big announcement.
Here’s the link: https://edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2023/07/19/ciba-health-picks-edmonton-for-canadian-headquarters
In other words the UCP believe the answer to the shortage of doctors, nurses, etc is more virtual care. I wonder how Telus Health is taking the news.
Well that takes care of the staff shortages. I recall a story about a car factory converting to robotics, and when they did a presentation to the union, they said, “How Ya Gonna get these guys to pay union dues?” And of course the response was, “How will you get them to buy cars?”
Susan thanks for your great Soapbox articles. I am away from Alberta at the moment but was struck by the juxtaposition of an article on fires in Canada and our Premier ‘s view that Alberta will do whatever it wants when it comes to burning fossil fuels.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/W33wEVp3vp4dQDDS9
Dale I am glad you are not in Canada at this time and especially Alberta.
Our Summers are basically smoke and putting up with people with severe lack of brains.
Despite all the signs that we are basically killing this beautiful planet, our Premier continues with her demented calls for increased production of fossil fuels. It is full lunacy. She is proud of it. So what else to say? The population is not much better so we find ourselves locked in this sea of insanity, illiteracy and religious bigotry.
Dale here is our premier at her best.
Shame on the NDP in BC. Ours is not much better anyway,
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/07/14/news/alberta-bc-expanding-global-reach-canadian-lng-smith
Thanks Dale. It’s bizarre isn’t it to hear Danielle Smith say the federal minister’s comments are unconstitutional, create investor uncertainty, and will damage the economics of Alberta and Canada when in fact it’s Smith’s Sovereignty Act that’s unconstitutional and it’s her insistence on pressing ahead with the idea of ditching CPP in favour of an Alberta pension plan and adding an Alberta tax collection agency on top of CRA that among many things are increasing investor uncertainty in this province.
Hello, Ms Soapbox. I hope you do get to enjoy a summer break, but I fear your premise — that the government is on a break — is flawed. The Premier’s mandate letter to the Finance Minister, Nate Horner, directs him to pursue the foolish notion of pulling Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan. I’m sure if you asked the average Albertan of a certain age about this, you’d get universal rejection of doing this, but there are probably too many younger workers who haven’t given their retirement security much thought to be sanguine about whether this will go ahead or fizzle out.
This is probably the most serious threat to Albertans that arises from the legacy of the 2001 “firewall” letter. Ditching the RCMP in favour of a provincial police force is also not too popular, but forces from outside Alberta, such as a rethink of the appropriateness’s of the RCMP’s “contract policing” model, may eventually lead us to having to do this regardless of which government is in power. And setting up our own revenue agency to collect the provincial portion of income tax, the way Québec does, rather than having CRA do it, is a silly question expansion of bureaucracy, but it isn’t the kind of existential threat posed by ditching the CPP.
All we can hope for, is that by the time we get to the point of making a decision, the next elections will be imminently & we’ll have a chance to fire this government.
Here’s to you & yours.
Well I agree that most of the people retired or close to retirement do not want this change.
I think we just have to make sure that we do have a choice – we will probably have to get the federal government involved so that we have a choice.
We are supposed to be a Democracy not Putin’s second choice.
The Federal Government is the one that runs CCP so why is Danielle Smith encroaching on their territory when she is always complain of the opposite?
ANSWER – Because she is a big IDIOT
Power, of course. The amount of money paid into the CPP translates to literal billions & the UCP would very much like to have control of it. After all, they have done their utmost to control the public pension funds overseen by AimCo, including legislating AimCo as the fund manager in perpetuity regardless of performance. Plus instructing AimCo in how to invest funds in various O&G schemes like the LNG facility in B.C. So much for ‘arm’s length’ in the ‘best interests’ of the plan members. NB: legislation to force public funds to keep AimCo as their fund manager were passed AFTER AimCo took a gamble & lost over $2 billion – billion with a ‘B’ of Heritage Trust fund $. No heads rolled; instead, AimCo was given legislated job security by the UCP.
Carlos, I agree that many young people haven’t focused on the consequences of Smith pulling Alberta out of CPP, although I know from conversations with my daughters who are in their thirties that they’re absolutely adamant it’s a stupid idea. For one thing it’s way better to spread the risk of investment over a population of 40 million than a population of 4 million.
Anyway, everything I’ve read indicates that it would take years and the cooperation of the federal government and the provinces for Alberta to actually pull out. I think Smith knows this and is using the threat of pulling out as a way to distract us from the policies she knows we don’t like but she can actually implement (eg. creating RStar-type legislation to pay energy companies to clean up their inactive and abandoned wells, something they’re obligated to do by law).
It gets tiring trying to keep up with a duplicitous and corrupt government, but that’s life in Alberta.
Linda: I agree with why Smith likes the idea of pulling out of CPP, like I said to Carlos, I don’t think she’ll be able to pull it off.
Excellent point jerrymacgp: As you said the mandate letters are rolling out of the premier’s office (albeit slowly). And the cabinet ministers have forwarded them on to their deputies with the direction: “Make it so.” And thus far they appear to direct the government ministries to investigate the feasibility of the hot-button policies Smith refused to discuss in her campaign.
And now Albertans are surprised that she might be serious about pulling us out of CPP, etc.
Makes you want to grab these voters by the shoulders and give them a good shake.
Which is why I’m taking a short break. It’s time to clear our heads, regroup and come back ready to fight for everything we hold dear in this province, be it no coal mining in the Rockies, publicly funded and publicly delivered healthcare, quality public education, enforcing the polluter pay principle, help for those suffering from addiction. The list is huge, but we will persist.
Well the wild ways were known and they still voted for them so we have to use other means to stop this lunacy. Brian Jean ( what was known as the good guy has moved to the bad guys group because now he is getting good money as a minister) We can give him a dose of a million emails if he implements this.
https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/07/better-late-than-never-one-supposes-ndp-hammers-smith-governments-scandalous-rstar-scheme/
I am sorry but this one is a repeat
No problem Carlos. WordPress works is mysterious ways.
Oh that made me laugh 🙂
The successive Governments of Alberta since Peter Lougheed have been volunteer Handmaids to the oil and gas industry. I am including the NDP 2015-2019 in this as well.
Jaundiced – I also include the NDP. They dis absolutely nothing while they were in power. Oh sorry they raised corporate taxes from 10% to 12%. That was it. So yes we need way more than the NDP to fix this province.
As far as I understand, this will only change with a very radical party because otherwise the Oil companies takes care of them really well.
Even Brian Jean is not a tamed little Yorkie with the the winter pink Jacket.
He is the one that is going to give the oil companies the RStar money for cleanup. Danielle Smith knew exactly who to give that job to.
I am sorry I correct a sentence in my previous post
‘Even Brian Jean is NOW a tamed little Yorkie…..’
Jaundiced Eye and Carlos: I understand your frustration with the NDP, but I cut them more slack than you do, primarily because they were between a rock and a hard place. Oil prices tanked and the deficit soared and I think if they’d taken a harder line that would have guaranteed that they’d never form government in this province again (kind of like how the NEP continues to haunt the Liberals 43 years later. In fact I was at a pancake breakfast last week and an elderly fellow down the table from me was complaining about how he’d been an engineer until Trudeau put in the NEP in 1980 and he never worked as an engineer again. (You have to wonder whether there was more to his story than the NEP, don’t you).
Anyway I think the NDP put in some good policies which sadly were torn to shreds when Kenney took power and it’s been a gong show ever since.
If anyone out there believes there will be a referendum on opting out of the CPP, there is a nice bridge in Brooklyn for sale. Smith will state when the time is right that for years everyone was aware of her views on opting out of the CPP. Smith will remind us the UCP won the election, ergo she was given an overwhelming mandate to opt out. We have to remember that during the election, Smith did not dismiss the idea, she said she did not want to talk about it. It is a shame that the Alberta NDP made the decision pre-election to remain the official opposition. How else can you explain their entire campaign of, “Danielle is a crazy person”. Every elected NDP in Alberta should be screaming at the top of their lungs at Smith over this. We will hear crickets.
Very well said Jaundiced – this is all a big stinking fascist operation to get their hands in the pile. Extreme right wingers know more than the communist Mafia like Putin and China.
‘Every elected NDP in Alberta should be screaming at the top of their lungs at Smith over this. We will hear crickets.’
SCREAMING? that is not politically correct. They can rape the province but we are supposed to behave like the British old colonial house wives.
Carlos and Jaundiced Eye: The PostMedia papers may not be carrying stories in which the NDP MLAs are condemning Smith’s decision to pursue pulling Alberta out of CPP, but the Globe and Mail and other outlets are running such stories and social media is full of various NDP MLAs explaining why this is a horrible idea.
I think the NDP are using every means possible to get the story out. Sadly PostMedia press isn’t picking it up.
Jaundiced Eye: I’ve heard that the UCP government’s report on opting out of CPP which has been in the works for 4 years (it started under Kenney) has been reviewed by the government and returned to Lifeworks (formerly Morneau Shepell) three times already (presumably because the report doesn’t say what the government wants it to say).
It doesn’t matter how many times Lifeworks rewrites it, it needs to stand up to scrutiny because when it’s finally published every accountant, economist and constitutional analyst in the country will be all over it.
It reminds me of my lawyering days when the client would ask for an opinion saying he could do X and I’d review the law and say sorry, you can’t do X. He’d ask me to revise my opinion and iI’d give him the same answer: sorry, you still can’t do X.
Yes pretty much – have the conservatives ever behaved in a different way?
I just laughed my head off when this morning I read a bit of Lorne Gunter very dissatisfied because the great Canadian Conservatives are not talked about like the papers do to the left politicians.
Seriously? This man is delirious
What is there to say about Ralph Klein? A disaster
What is there to say about Harper? Nothing I remember
What to say about O’Toole? Got kicked out
What to say about Jason Kenney? Kicked out
What to say about Danielle Smith? A new brain logic not even AI understands
What to say about Redford? the invisible real state
What to say about Poilievre? Loves white nationalists
This is for Susan but I cannot find her comment where she responded to a comment I made previously.
Susan what you said is correct but you just have to get the Edmonton Sun and Lorne Gunter is telling the public the exact opposite.
The LEFT, like he loves to emphasize, better known as Nazis by his boss Danielle Smith, are the ones without morals or ethics. By the way we are not part of the chosen arc that will ride to heaven with the special humans that seem to be what we call thugs in this reality.
As much as I try to absorb all this daily feed of pure manure, I am struggling to not put an end to this complete tragedy. There will be a maximum possible level of this soon. That is why they want control over the police, just in case we Nazis cross the line.
Yesterday after sending an email to the Federal Government asking if pensioners will have a choice to stay with the CPP rather than this AIMCO dubious company, the only thing I got back is that they are working on it. So knowing exactly what the translation of that is in reality, if this comes to be I will move to another province to avoid loosing it to the CEOs and to the UCP bank account in the Cayman Islands. I will leave all the benefits and higher pensions to the chosen ones.
France seems to be the second country after the US where a possible collapse of a democracy is approaching and to be honest I am not sure I am sorry to witness.
Corruption and lack of ethics is rampant in the West.
Carlos, on the topic of leaving CPP, Alberta would have to give E years’ notice before pulling out of the CPP and demonstrate that its own plan is as comprehensive and comparable to the CPP. The only way Alberta could make getting out of CPP easier would be to amend the CPP aAct, but an amendment requires two-thirds of provinces representing two-thirds of the population to agree.
Bottom line, by the time Smith put an APP into effect she’d be thrown out of office.
Very nice, but how many years notice did you say? I suspect a PP government in Ottawa might not look too closely at Alberta plans. The ROC may well be so disgusted with Alberta that they will say “good riddance to bad rubbish” if for no other reason that the outsized cleanup liability for derelict oil and gas. Nor would I place a large bet on Smith getting thrown out of office. Consider the long serving loon Aberhart and his rock-ribbed successor, Manning the Elder. But hope burns eternal, as does oil-caused climate change.
Hmm we are too silent this week. As some of you know I am not a great fan of our political system but it seems more people are not either these days and here is one interesting article. It is not as in depth as I expected but it is something
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/07/31/we-desperately-need-to-rethink-how-we-conduct-politics/393711/
Carlos, I’m afraid I was not able to open the link (apparently you need to have a subscription) but I did see the caption which said: “Beyond the talking points, slanders and the incoherence of constant polling, voters don’t really know the people they are voting for because politicians never have to enter a forum where they have to think.”
I would certainly agree that in order to govern in these complex and dangerous times it would be very helpful if the politicians entered a forum where they have to think. It would also be nice if the voters were prepared to think before they cast their ballots.
The mind numbing stupidity out there is truly astounding.
And I’m not talking about not having all the facts at your finger tips–no one is up to date with everything–I’m talking about lacking a basic understanding of how government works.
Carlos and Susan, while I couldn’t read this article (I don’t have a subscription either), it says something I’ve complained about often. American partisan politics has tainted Canada for years, if not decades. Barack Obama’s presidency sent the Tea Party into conniptions; Donald Trump has enabled the stupidest, most selfish and vilest splinters of American culture—and the attitudes are not seeping, they’re flooding into Canada.
Susan, your point about politicians having to think is well taken, but I’d add one more condition. They should also have to speak well in public.
Oh, how the Cons must have gnashed their teeth while Justin Trudeau testified before the Rouleau Commission. Not only did Justice Rouleau conclude that using the Emergencies Act was justified, Trudeau was articulate, thoughtful, coherent and well-prepared. The CBC article (of course) characterized Trudeau as a well-spoken policy wonk thoroughly familiar with both the Emergencies Act, and with his duties under that act. (Second “of course”: I didn’t bookmark the article.)
Now, if only Trudeau and his cabinet were more effective at explaining their policies! Time and again they’ve had decent policies but allowed Pierre Poilievre and his crowd to bait “the peepul” with red herrings. The carbon-tax fight and the “just transition” hysteria should become textbook examples of poor messaging by the government.
Excellent points Mike J: As you point out, the gift of the gab carries even the dumbest politician far (ie Danielle Smith), but without it even the best politician will falter.
Trial balloon: burst!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/marda-loop-medical-clinic-halts-plans-for-membership-fees-1.6924275
GoinFawr: I’m wondering whether the Marda Loop clinic has given up on this idea all together or is simply pausing its efforts. I hope the NDP are successful in forcing the government to audit all of the clinics that have imposed membership fees for what they call uninsured services, but which (I know from personal experience) can include insured services. So the patient ends up paying twice, once through their income tax payment and once directly by way of the membership fee.
Well then I’ll just have to keep sending receipt-laden letters to the ombudsman.
It’s plain to me that the UCP wants to make Alberta the best of all worlds, even better than the US, for private healthcare providers and insurers. A veritable Eden for them where they get not only the lion’s share (RStar gets the rest) of the public’s tax dollars, but whatever might happen to be left in their stupid pockets too if they are not wealthy and should actually need to use the system; which, since they are human like the rest of us, they obviously eventually will.
It’s astounding what loads Albertans will swallow in order to stick it to whatever some jackass tells them can be tarred with the now-epithet ‘woke’, even as they choke on the consequences.
Next up on the UCP dogwhistle playlist: “Stickin’ It to Anyone Planning on Using Their Own Private Land for Renewable Energy Generation.’ The whole chorus of the song is in the title, and here are the lyrics:
https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/08/03/alberta-slaps-6-month-moratorium-on-solar-and-wind-puts-booming-industry-at-risk/
Now, on the one hand these regulations are important, and should have been set up years ago by this very same gov’t, but even doing it late is not a reasonable excuse for deeming this moratorium somehow necessary, since it quite clearly isn’t. Renewable energy projects already undergo all sorts of local/provincial/federal consultations, hoops and hurdles that would (frankly) destroy the Gasoil industry if they had to comply to a tithe of them, which they don’t.
This announcement’s only result can be to scare off future investors, and injure those Albertans already invested.
The ugly hypocrisy of this supposed ‘little gov’t’ UCP is palpable to anyone who isn’t just as ugly as they are inside.
GoinFawr: agree 100%. The stupidity demonstrated by this decision is mind-boggling. I’m writing my letter of protest right after I post this reply.
There we go again with the UCP now with a moratorium on Wind and solar energy.
Not much to say about it other than the fact that the UCP is a sore looser.
Wind and solar are now cheaper than any other energy source, there is investment and when Alberta was on the verge of the most investment ever in that energy sector, the UCP idiots blame the Federal government again and stop the investment.
To be honest, not that I expected anything other than this decision. Just a bunch of no brain people trying to run a province. It does not work believe me.
The fact that it is sparking hostility is no surprise of course other than to their diminished brain capacity.
https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/08/danielle-smith-in-damage-control-mode-as-freeze-on-new-renewable-electricity-generation-projects-sparks-hostility/
Here is the email I sent to our great Alberta minds of Danielle Smith and fundamentalist preacher of markets Brian Jean. Now that he has a good job he cannot even understand ENERGY.
One does not need a Bachelor in Law and Science and a Business MBA to understand that OIL as a fuel is done and we should be getting out of that business before we destroy all the rural land that they claim are protecting.
Here is my message. Write a better one and send it
‘Good Morning
Not too much to say about your disgraceful moratorium on the Wind and Solar industries. You the market fundamentalists, are so afraid of the market.Shame on you Brian for your constant rhetoric on free everything but cannot even take an industry that is absolutely needed to save this planet from further damage created by people like you.
Just get your half brains out of the development of these industries. You were never worried about the damage that oil and gas have done to the environment or even to clean it up but now somehow Wind and Solar are a big problem for rural land. Well if you are so worried about land then get the oil companies to clean up what they damaged and with their own money.
Keep your dirty hands out of the market if you do believe in it. Bugg off.’
Carlos, you read my mind. I’m working on my letter to Smith et al and will post it soon. Thanks for sharing your letter. Everyone who cares about this province should write a similar letter to the premier, the Nathan Neudorf, the Minister of Affordability and Utilities, and their own MLA, with copies to Notley and Nagwan Al-Guneid, the NDP critic for Energy & Climate (Electricity, Utilities & Renewables)..
It gets more idiotic by the day.
Now it is nuclear power – well talk about consequences.
Nuclear Power construction is almost inevitable to be 3 times the original cost prediction. We still do not know how to deal with the waste but just like good conservatives do, we fake it until we make it.
So Solar and Wind are a problem but not Nuclear?
I use to think that we as a country had lost our way for a while but I realized later that we sure do not know what we are doing anymore. We are certainly not building a country. We are now dismantling what was the envy of most of the world thanks to the lunatic extreme right wing now in a theater near you.
What a shame.