Posted on 02/03/2013 6:37:40 PM PST by Born Conservative
Lights out during the Super Bowl. President Obama fought for 4 years to have the power grid updated. The GOP resisted him for 4 years. This is America on GOP obstruction. Having the power reliability of a banana republic. When will you wake up and realize the GOP should never be allowed anywhere near the levers of power? When the lights give out during your open-heart surgery? This is serious and yes, it is political as it is about responsible governance.
Whoa! now. This is a family site. Leave the man-love references out if you would. ;^)
Of course. It’s especially George W. Bush’s fault.
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obed norman
baltimore, MD
Obed Norman
Professor at Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland Area Education Management
1999 Awarded Career NSF Research award of $500,000.
1991 Elected an International Fellow of the Iowa Peace Institute
1980-1982 Fulbright International Scholar at Pennsylvania State University.
“Lights Out”
by Peter Wolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztnn_hSGtg0
and he is a “Professor”? Is that like being a “Reverend”?
To make this the greenest Super Bowl, the New Orleans Host Committee has partnered with fans and the community to offset energy use across the major Super Bowl venues. The exterior of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome features more than 26,000 LED lights on 96 full-color graphic display panels, designed to wash the building in a spectrum of animated colors, patterns and images. The system draws only 10 kilowatts of electricity — equivalent to the amount of energy used by a small home — and the lights are expected to last for many years before needing replacement.
Off the football field, New Orleans is embracing energy efficiency with help from the Energy Department. The city retrofitted four libraries using an integrative design approach — adding motion sensor lights, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, and upgrades to the building envelopes. These improvements helped cut the libraries’ energy costs by 30 percent and serve as a standard for other city-owned buildings. New Orleans streets feature more than 1,200 energy-efficient light fixtures. In addition to saving the city money on energy costs — an estimated $70,000 annually — the new lights help the city reduce routine maintenance due to their longer lifespan.
Embracing energy efficiency and renewable energy is having a profound impact on attracting developers and private industry in the New Orleans’ re-building efforts. The push to re-invent this destination city contributes to making Sunday’s game the greenest in Super Bowl history.
A Blackout in New Orleans is racist.
I thought the blackout was cover for Beyonce and company to get out of the stadium alive.
Sounds more like Johnny was playing with he power cord again
Electrical utilities being a state power issue is important for the following reason. Note that Justice John Marshall had officially clarified in general that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So Congress arguably owes taxpayers a refund on any federal taxes which Congress has ever used to subsidize intrastate power utilities because corrupt Congress has never had the constitutonal authority to tax and spend in the name of such things.
And while I've done some scratching to try to find out if some of the power that New Orleans uses comes from another state which would raise concerns about the Commerce Clause (1.8.3), I noticed that Louisiana seems to have an ample number of power plants, not that I'm an expert on the issue.
LA Power Plants
And although I won't give GOP any credit for trying to protect and defend the Constitution by allegedly blocking Obama's constitutionally indefensible power grid projects, because the GOP wrongy ignores state sovereignty as much as the Democrats do imo, that's essentially what the GOP has done.
Finally, as I posted in another FR thread, as evidenced by some Obama supporter blaming the Super Bowl power outage on the GOP, the main reason that voters support Obama, imo, is because Obama and the media, including Obama guard dog Fx News, are arguably doing everything that they can to keep voters from reconnecting with the Constitution, particularly the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
LOL! I love nerd humor (from one engineer to another).
Ask the idiot why nancy Pelosi and Reid would have denied these ‘critical’ updates while they controlled super majorities for two years. Our party won’t get the facts out, but we can still educate the masses
....best bent wire............
As someone who lived in and around the New Orleans area for 22 years...Bull crap. The city was a decaying mess then, and since Katrina it’s only gotten worse, and that’s AFTER millions of our tax dollars were spent to save it.
Some guy named Ohm is taking credit for it.
Achmed Ohm? I heard he is head of Al Qaeda in New Orleans. Drone strikes might be in order.
Hey, it’s a great example of how the left immediately tries to turn everything to its advantage. When the claim they’re making is so far from reality that it would harm the party leadership’s credibility with any sentient being, they turn the job over to their looney team. Look for someone like Maxine to make this claim within hours. It’s not about whether the claim has any validity, it’s whether it reflects negatively on the opposition.
Great clip, the boys were a bit shorter and less gray of beard back then ;-)
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