Where Does It All Go?
Where does it all go?
I know where it goes, I spent it. But it’s not my fault that I don’t have savings. I know I’ve tried to in the past, I can only hope that I will be able to in the future. The future isn’t as bright as my past future’s hopes were. Pressure comes from somewhere. I have only myself to consider, myself to cook and clean for, myself to console at night, to tell myself that the days ahead are going to be better, and myself to worry over. And not to lose faith in others, I must think of them as well. With no one to help me along, I must act as friend to myself, the one who watches over my small income, and my health, all of which to this point are going well. So buck up, me, I’m doing okay.
David Schaedler
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How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps - The New York Times
How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/21/climate/how-americans-think-about-climate-change-in-six-maps.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/climate&action=click&contentCollection=climate®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
Most Americans believe Climate Change will not affect them.
David Schaedler 5/26/17
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I can agree!
Guest Expert post by Hillary Clinton on BlogHer.com today!
Lefties
Far be it from me to pity those righties that prey on lefties.
David Schaedler 7/1/17.
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Democrats Want to Know If Trump Quashed a Russian Money Laundering Case In Return for Dirt on Hillary Clinton
http://www.motherjones.com/?p=501212
A hidden case of the US vs Russia, exposure, and follow the money.
DS 7 16 17
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James Comey, FBI director, "has been terminated and removed from office". News 2:55 pm PST, 5/9/17. David Schaedler
March 9, 2014
World Problems?
As the previous blog mentioned, there are places and things out there that are not contained or looked after, either due to size and/or outside of one country’s realm of control. That blog mentioned that, even though the World’s oceans cover 72 million square miles, it not on it’s own, it has troubles no one nation can deal with. The United Nations has responsibility for “relations and commerce” rules between many nations; it took that over from “the League of Nations” after WW2, that didn’t redirect troubles then. Another hot spot is Antarctica, which no Nation has permanent settlements on, but there are stations at differing locations there. Space is no one’s property, but “The Big Three”, the US, Russia and China have put space vehicles on the Moon, a quarter of a million miles away. Does this mean these countries “control space”? No, it just means they reach farther than others, sooner. No, the things no nation has bearing over is right in front of our collective faces. During the USA’s 1969 Apollo program to the moon, and when at the Moon, it was remarked that the Earth looked like “a pale blue marble” and was “very small”. The World is growing smaller every day.
Since Guglielmo Marconi invented the first working wireless radio in 1894, we “have come a long way” from dots and dashes to Broadcast Radio to Television to the the Internet, completed in under 100 years. Not much later, the world is in our pockets, with instant visual communication on opposite sides of the Earth for those that own or can reach a computer with the Internet, and it is ubiquitous.
There is person to person visual communication, broadcasting by individual to groups - text, audio or video, stock markets, consumer companies in one country selling to peoples in a country thousands of miles away or next door, library borrowing of ancient texts by other libraries, schooling from Institutions to third world countries, monitoring by security services of all types and more. The Internet has a place in the world of communication, alongside radio, the telephone and television. Even though it can emulate those electronics, a simple radio or cell phone is cheaper and easier to use than a computer with a connection, and a television has timely broadcasting networks that computers with internet connections follow. The computer/internet has a place of it’s own. What will happen from this result?
The World
10 years after Marconi invented radio and connected all the world, WW1 began, then about 10 years (1918) to the Stock Market collapsing after stock prices plummeted. The “Great Depression” that followed lasted 10 years, preceding WW2, and about 10 years after that the Korean War - ended - in a ‘stalemate’, still going on. The “Cold War” began with Sputnik about 10 years later, which ended when America landed on the Moon in 1969 - about 10 years later. Interestingly, “the Internet” could be said to have begun in late 1970’s and early 1980’s, ten years after the Moon landing. The USSR broke up anywhere from 1992 to 1995 becoming “Russia”, and 2001 is a memory. Were we expecting 'something’ in 2000? Don’t forget 2006-8 was a World economic problem we pulled out of, slowly, to be sure; and by 2010 we were well 'back on our way’ to economic recovery. Marconi, what did you do? :-)
The generation retiring at this time is much larger size than the following one, from “the Baby Boom”, making financial recovery seemingly hard. They know what to do, but are not working to do it. And 2010 is about 10 years after 2000, another 'expectation’. What will happen 10 years after that? Wait another 5.75 years.
Sources: Wikipedia
DS
Pull out the marshmellows.
Oroville Dam and the California Drought
The spillway is to increase runoff to 45,000 CFS starting Wednesday, where it previously was at 15,000 CFS.
Oroville Dam was in the news in February, when increased rains produced a problem with water release. The regular spillway removes dam water overages. When the dam water reaches it’s maximum height, at 960’, the highest dam in America begins using the emergency spillway.
Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway went into use February. The news found the emergency spillway seemed insufficient and an evacuation was called by DWR. 180,000 were evacuated, and crowded into churches, Evacuation Centers, and friends homes outside the dams area. It was chaos. Some had only an hour’s notice. Some were diverted after evacuating. They all got out. After about a week, officials said it was safe to go back, and residents returned to their homes.
The Oroville Dam evacuation of February proved to be a harbinger of what was possible after the 5 year California drought. Climate Change caused heavy rains to appear.
It also damaged the spillway. A lot. The Oroville Dam Spillway was broken in half. Water removal from the spillway had increased to 100,000 CFS, but was now decreased, eventually to zero, while DWR officials checked to see just how bad it was, up close. It was found that ‘it needed fixin’, and Governor Brown went to Washington to ask for funds. That happened and California was going to get it’s dam spillway repaired.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were expected for the repair. Those contracts were appointed, and spillway reconstruction was begun in April 2017. Oroville is to expect completed reconstruction of the spillway by November.
David Schaedler 5/8/17
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
I couldn’t search this, no answer, no return. I wonder why.
DS 1015 15
And gas powered vehicles.
Hydrogen fuel cell cars creep up — slowly — on electrics - San Francisco Chronicle
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Hydrogen fuel cell cars creep up — slowly — on electrics San Francisco Chronicle The fuel cell engine of the Honda Clarity is shown during a media preview at the New York International Auto Show, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Photo: Richard Drew, AP. Image 2 of 3. The fuel cell logo adorns the … and more »
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