The Daily Pig!

Oh Dances, please photoshop some pig hair over OBlow quick…this photo makes me sick, “The sun glistening off of his pig hair………..”

I’ve been trying to find out more about the Bonneville Power Administration which is set to receive $3.25 billion of the stimulus package for wind power, as I understand. Seems BPA is a special-interest favorite and is several billion in debt, so I think we can kiss those bucks goodbye.

Power marketing agencies such as the Bonneville Power Administration are poorly managed at taxpayer expense. They historically have caused serious environmental damage by utterly destroying river ecosystems and often generate more pollution than the industry standard. Moreover, their mission of subsidizing electricity usage only serves to encourage inefficient energy consumption (see, for example, David Shapiro, Generating Failure: Public Power Policy in the Northwest (Lanham, MD: University Press of America / Cato Institute) 1989). There is simply no systemic reason why certain regions of the country today cannot operate under privately-owned power authorities. Sale of those entities would save taxpayers $4.2 billion annually in operating expenditures plus whatever they would sell for in the private market.

from http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-taylr.html

“Throughout its history, BPA has taken on many special-interest projects and programs in addition to its original purpose of transmitting electricity generated at federal facilities. As BPA has assumed more responsibility and decisionmaking authority for these projects and programs, its efforts have become steered more by special-interest politics than by economics. These shifts have significantly increased the cost of power in the region, with little or nothing to offer rate-payers in return.”

The PNW Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act: “The conservation interests sought not so much to end BPA’s nuclear welfare–a worthy goal that would have put the two resources on a more equal footing–but to create a regulatory structure that would put themselves on BPA’s dole in much the same manner. The act’s language laid the legal groundwork for a federally funded conservation program supported by the general taxpayer. Soon after the act’s passage, a “conservation” line item appeared in BPA’s annual budget; over time, it would amount to billions of dollars in principal and interest… With the 1980 act, Congress had managed to do the impossible by pleasing every special interest in the Northwest.

from http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=932&full=1

Also:
http://greenscissors.net/energy/bonnevillepr.htm
http://www.converger.com/BPA/BPAchumpchange.htm

Wow, I’m in moderation! First time experience here.

Prowl done.

DancesWithPumas 01.27.09 at 5:39 pm

“(and tasty too!)”

LOL!
BillieJo, you have Photoshop… give it a shot.
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Will do, the student obots can wait at work, I have ‘important business’ to tend to.

BillieJo
LOLOL!!!

Prowl done……..time for dinner.
bbl much later as not my turn on the computer in the evening!
Sharing is hard for me!!

Dances, you have mail.

I’m getting paid to work on buttons too?

Dances, a couple of ideas:
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Don’t blame me, I voted for Her!
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H.R.1
Debt generations can count on.
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I still have my job, how about you?
How’s that CHANGE working for ya?

Also, KerryLINY,

do you think obama is a feminist? He mentioned his dead beat dad in his inaugural address, but not his mom and the woman who brought him up (his grandmother). Speaks volumes if you ask me.

periodically feeling down?

likeable enough?

Later sweetie!

spec of dirt on his shoulder?

flipped the bird?

Present voting on choice matters, means a lot. yeah right.

How many excuses can be made?

PUMA’s have faced his sexism since last January. This is just one more slight. No matter the excuse, he is mighty quick to throw the women’s issue under the bus when politically expedient and put it off to another day.

He does not deserve the title of superwoman. He has done NOTHING for women’s rights and people have every right to question the democratic party and women’s groups who insist he is a feminist and a friend to women when his actions show the exact opposite. I don’t buy it.

atleast planned parenthood might be waking up.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) expressed disappointment that a measure to invest in health care and allow states to expand health care access to more women was removed from the economic stimulus.
“We are disappointed that the Medicaid Family Planning State Option, a commonsense provision to expand basic health care to millions of women, including many who have lost their jobs in the current economic downturn, was a victim of misleading attacks and partisan politics, and dropped from the economic stimulus bill,” said PPFA President Cecile Richards.

As ThinkProgress points out, “… conservatives are distorting and simplifying the facts…. this measure would not only aid states, but also provide preventative, cost-saving health care to help low-income women support their families and keep working.”

“The American people have rejected the divisive politics of the past. They want commonsense solutions that invest in health care and get us out of this economic downturn. The Medicaid Family Planning State Option is commonsense policy that does just that. We applaud Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Henry Waxman for including this provision in the economic stimulus and are disappointed that it was removed,” said Richards. “We are confident that we can work with the administration and leaders on the Hill to ensure passage of this commonsense proposal and extend basic health care to millions more women.”

read more here:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/newsroom/press-releases/medicaid-family-planning-provision-expands-health-care-women-23642.htm

Dear Pumas,

You are wonderful. I tried to read the BO Bill but my eyes went crossed. I think that bill is intentionally obscure and convoluted.

Prowl done.

atleast planned parenthood made a statement, but Barack is the one who caved, they still like to make excuses too.

UN.FOR.GIVE.ABLE. I have prowled.

PROWL done.

Every day, more BS. I can’t stand it! Lobbyists, no more BC, etc, etc

Jon Favreau’s girlfriend
Sexual objectification of a woman by a woman. She goes well with “Groper Jon”
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/slut-shaming/

Thank you atypical… again a fine article by Riverdaughter… she is soooooo good!!!

taggles1, I am still recovering from vomit-worthy coverage of last week’s activities. Other than that, I am great!

Thanks for the compliment on the pic. I could NOT resist. Since I didn’t trust my tongue, I put my camera to use and did a fine job.

murphy 01.27.09 at 7:38 pm
oh lord — i’m not going there with the miq2xu post.
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same here.
along with plenty of others

Prowl done.

I Just heard on Fox news a man in LA who lost his job, killed his wife and 5 children, and himself. I dont know if this was posted here is a link from LA Times, It is very sad they were a beautiful family.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/a-man-who-had-r.html

prplvette85
awful awful… I posted an article with link in Women Lynching

ipotter 01.27.09 at 7:45 pm

#19 webfoot
Thanks for the info! Do you think expanding wind energy in your area is feasible and a good investment? Just wondering. I’m all for alternative power, but since we don’t harness the wind here, have no first hand information.

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My personal opinion is that wind energy is a viable option in certain parts of the PNW. For instance, the Columbia Gorge area immediately comes to mind. I’ve lived in WA State since I was five years old so I grew up with water being our source of power and natural gas as a way of heating. I actually thought that coal as a heat source was something from history!

taggles1 01.27.09 at 6:34 pm

KerryLINY, the republicans have no power, zero, zip, nada, squat. Obama made this ‘bipartisan’ concession for nothing.
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No he didn’t Taggles,
he did it to take peoples minds off the real issues. I is great news blurbs for him…people only have to see or hear he is “reaching out” so therefor he is still a gawd to the obots.

For anyone interested there is a protest against William Ayers at St. Mary’s College tomorrow. Melanie Morgan talking about it on Fox News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166136/posts

“Ayers is scheduled to speak at 7:30pm on January 28 at the Soda Center but will be present on the campus throughout the day where he will be given an opportunity to spread his radical message.”

murphy 01.27.09 at 8:18 pm

i just heard that just now prplvette.

not to disagree with you because I love you, but it IS NOT SAD

it is a BRUTAL AND UNFATHOMABLE MASS MURDER!
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You are so right Murphy. It is that.

Here is the last paragraph about women:
The heart of a woman is what makes the world keep turning.
They bring joy, hope and love.
They have compassion and ideals.
They give moral support to their family and friends.
Women have vital things to say and everything to give.
HOWEVER, IF THERE IS ONE FLAW IN WOMEN,
IT IS THAT THEY FORGET THEIR WORTH

murphy 01.27.09 at 7:04 pm [edit]

there ARE jobs in the stimulus package — there’s no question about that.

the question is HOW MANY and WHY THE PANICKED RUSH to get it passed?

What’s hiding in there?

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there are jobs in there all right, several people are going to be needed to help administrate the loans and other fundings presented, and it sure as hell is not going to be the average joe. the average joe or jodine is going to be working their asses off doing the manual labour while those who supported bo get the high influential jobs. Bo’s got supporters who just finished college that need jobs. i can bet they won’t be the ones lifting hammers, or anything productive. this stimulus in my opinion his his way of saying thanks to the obots.

of course this in only my opinion, unlike Bo and his party of fools, i can’t give anyone else’s opinion but my own.

Part of my latest posting:
“Technical Assistance
The Sec. of Education, Secretary of Energy, and Administrator of the EPA will coordinate with the Secretary of Labor to promote appropriate opportunities for participants in a Youth Build program to gain employment experience.
Local Educational Agencies must submit reports to the State educationagency who will compile and submit them to the Secretary of Education.

The Secretary of Education will submit a report no later than Dec. 31, 2011 to the Committees on Education, Labor, and Appropriates of the House of Representatives.”

Kind of like pumas submiting their reports to Dances on the Economic Stimulus Act. Or Team Acorn submiting their reports to Trish on the various states.

Heading off to get dinner; will tackle the rest of the pages later.

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bmw60 01.27.09 at 7:01 pm

******* SEE WHAT THE MUSLIM EXTREMISTS WANT TO DO ******
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They are sick puppies those Mulsim Extremists, and obviously by the simplicity of that video the people the commentator is speaking to are uneducated and know nothing about Germany and the history of Hitler’s destruction and the shame he brought upon most German citizens.

You have extremists proclaiming that there never was a Holocaust contrasted with these Muslim Extremists applauding the Holocaust… Each using their own nauseating brand of propaganda.

MURPHY . .
YOU HAVE MAIL

miq2xu is a pig. It’s that simple. 90% of his comments and some of his post are pure bacon. That’s the reason so many women don’t read the Confluence any more, or rarely just to see if he’s been exiled yet. Too bad, too, because there are a number of talented posters and commenters over there. Luckily, many of them have their own blogs, so all is not lost.

Prowl Done.

Summary (321-330) done, but stuck in moderation down there.

Hope everyone is feeling good.

(bbl. dinner time)

Women who happily objectify themselves are as much a part of the problem of sexism and misogyny as are some men. Until other women cease to make excuses for this objectional behavior, it will be a neverending cycle of the same bullshit, different decade. Until women can stop blaming and start taking responsibility, there will be no equality.

ChristineRI
are you saying we have to behave ourselves, make ourselves presentable, so that men will gift us with equality? How much more responsibility do women have to take?

Aren’t women who willingly objectifying themselves really objectifying men as sexual morons?

Murphy
dwp, I’m summarizing my 2nd batch now — when I’m done I’ll do yours.
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iPotter volunteered.
ipotter 01.27.09 at 9:53 pm
Dances, very good. Now working on 411-420.

Maybe you could do 460-627?

Christine i don’t want equality i want the men to know we are better than them LOL. It’s called flipping the coin.

Murphy you need to do a picture of a bunch of pigs around a traugh and put a dress on one of them.

hey yall

admin 01.27.09 at 9:51 pm
damn, those conflucians are a bunch of rabid lesbian feminazis
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damn where did I put their address, they sound like my kind of folks….
(Do you have to leave a forwarding address from blog to blog??)
(kidding, just kidding….)

The equality isn’t gifted, it’s demanded. Respect isn’t a birthright, it has to be earned. If behaving ourselves means not using sexuality to make a buck, get a promotion or get the vote, then, yes. And however we are, in doing this, is damn well presentable enough.

Hmmmm……..

Blagojevich Fundraiser Added to Obama, Biden, Jackson War Chests

Published by Lindsay Renick Mayer on January 26, 2009 5:54 PM |

Although it’s unclear to what extent businessman Raghuveer Nayak was involved in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s alleged scheme to sell President Obama’s Senate seat, what is clear is Nayak’s commitment to funding the campaigns of the governor, the new president, the new vice president and others in Congress and the administration. Investigators are reportedly probing whether Blagojevich tried to get $500,000 from Nayak to secure the seat for Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., whose brother was a business partner of Nayak’s. In total, Nayak has given $220,300 to federal lawmakers and committees, 93 percent of which has gone to Democrats, the Center for Responsive Politics has found.

Jackson has received more money from Nayak at the federal level than any other lawmaker since 1989, at $22,600. Nayak was a seemingly close associate of Jesse Jackson Sr., according to the Washington Post, and joined him in civil rights causes, sat on the board of one of his organizations and accompanied him on a trip to New Delhi in 2007. Although Nayak only gave Blagojevich $500 during the governor’s time in Congress, he has been one of Blagojevich’s top fundraisers for state office, the Post reported. Nayak has been a pervasive donor, especially to Illinois lawmakers, which now gives him a connection to some of the top politicians in the country. He and his wife, Anita, have given Obama $19,800 since the 2004 election cycle, more than any other recipient but Jackson. They also gave $2,500 to former Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who is now White House Chief of Staff.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/01/blagojevich-fundraiser-added-t.html

I don’t have any problem with the idea that a young woman who thinks of herself as a feminist might wind up posing for Maxim for the bucks or the attention. I’ve met Morgan Fairchild and a few others who are good feminists who have done things.

I have a problem with the idea that anyone who thinks of herself as a feminist would give that “white, Holy Cross douche” the time of day. I have a problem with the idea that feminists would support Barack Obama.

I, like a lot of other 50+ year old feminists, think the meaning of the word has gotten lost.

And I love what Christine said.

Sex is where is starts and where it will end. When women are viewed as humans, and not sex objects (i.e. NON human) we might begin to start the discourse about what is right. Until then, we are saying blah blah blah and they are jacking off.

And, for the record, women in the porn industry are as mean, if not meaner, than the men…they are harsh, hard, and dead (inside that is). The women who are VICTIMS (and this is the majority) just wish they were dead….and most of them are actively trying to get there (via drugs, etc.)…

The small amount of highly educated women who strip, pose, or sell their bodies diminish themselves, shame themselves, and add salt to the wounds of women who would give anything to not be violated. If you want excitement, I suggest a roller coaster.

Our sex (i.e. lack of penis) is what separates us and until women understand that you will never see a naked CEO or President of the USA on the pages of I JACK OFF A LOT we will ALWAYS be the lesser sex. ALWAYS. ALWAYS. ALWAYS. ALWAYS. ALWAYS. Sexual equality cannot be achieved by MORE SEX. Sort of like a good economy will NEVER be achieved by more government spending. NEVER NEVER NEVER.

Keep your clothes on, read books, study, and become lawyers, political activists, run for political office, own businesses. Get money, get power, change the world. KEEP YOUR CLOTHES ON…..these are rules women could live by and we might actually get somewhere with our ‘movement.’

prowl done
so fun
email one
and then some

Where are we on the HR1 list? I’m ready to take ten. Which ten? Hurry or I’ll think up another poem.

Love After Love by Derek Walcott
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#114 murphy,

Yes, but this wasn’t just ANY fundraiser. This is the one who held the fundraiser to buy Obama’s senate seat for Jesse Jr. causing Patrick Fitzgerald to stop his appointment by arresting Blago. He will likely be indicted at some point.

I think Blago is holding out to see if anyone is going to come to his rescue. That’s looking very unlikely. When that sinks in, I see him spilling his guts to Fitzgerald in order to cop a plea.

Obama will probably weather this one too and get by with throwing Jesse Jr., Emanuel and Jarrett under the bus. He’ll say they aren’t the people he knew and the bots will all praise him in sympathy for having such people always trying to bring him down.

Of course it has to be getting very crowded under that bus and we can only hope the denizens will soon revolt against their antagonist.

webfoot 01.27.09 at 9:31 pm
Dances-I’m not ignoring your post; I still have 14 more pages to do.
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Good grief! With all that you do, you;d be the last person I’d expect to volunteer to take over that block of pages!
Although… I prbably coulda bribed Murphy to substitute my name with yours. Heeeeheheheeeeeeeeee

I am loving Blago!

Everytime I see him on tv or in the newspapers, he grows on me.

Even his hair is looking fashionable to me.

There is something about someone who fights like that. Like Tony Soprano. The guy you love but know is no good. But can blow the top and give up the jig on other corrupto’s and isn’t afraid to get killed. there is something to be said for that.

Ha!