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SDG&E is having troubles with the "My account" part of their website. They were able to email me a notice that my bill is ready (surprisingly low - must be time for the semi-annual carbon tax sharing benefit), but the link to view it crashed. Contact with that page has been intermittent over the last few days - "We are fixing the issue."
 
espola said:
Interesting article on the emerging "cult of ignorance", which we see examples of around here every day --

https://www.sott.net/article/313177...tellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-of-America
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What's funny is the righties in here will prove this story true by not reading it.

Love the Asimov quote made decades ago!

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
 
espola said:
On hearing that Gen McMaster was t's new choice for National Security, I tried to put a hold on his book at San Diego Public Library. Apparently, so did a lot of other people. I am # 17 in line.
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Just finishing it now. The book covers the decisions made about Vietnam in the years 63 through 65. LBJ became President and decided his legacy would be a big domestic tax and spend program - the Great Society. However, he could not ignore what was happening in southeast Asia, so he conspired with SecDef MacNamara to gradually escalate military action against Hanoi, under the theory that all the trouble in South Vietnam was being directed and funded from the North, and the North would realize at some point in the escalation that we were the stronger party. In order not to impact the 64 elections, and thereafter not to drive Congress away from the Great Society legislation, he lied to the public and to Congress about what was happening. The Joint Chiefs disagreed with the gradual pressure plan, and they knew what the truth was, but they did not speak up publicly or in confidence with Congress - they let LBJ and Mac have their way. That is Mac Master's big indictment - that career military men failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.

As McMaster is now a key player in the Korea situation, it is appropriate to cite a statement from Clausewitz quoted in the book -- "The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes."
 
espola said:
SDG&E is having troubles with the "My account" part of their website. They were able to email me a notice that my bill is ready (surprisingly low - must be time for the semi-annual carbon tax sharing benefit), but the link to view it crashed. Contact with that page has been intermittent over the last few days - "We are fixing the issue."
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Now that the SDGE webpages are working again, I can see that my bill is so low because I got a $29.62 rebate from the Carbon Tax Program. Last time around (October) it was only $17.44.
 
From the latest Quinniopiac National Poll --


American voters say 60 - 34 percent "that the use of marijuana should be made legal in the U.S.," the highest level of support for legalized marijuana in a Quinnipiac University national poll. Republicans and voters over 65 years old are the only listed party, gender, education, age or racial groups to oppose legalized marijuana.
Voters also support 94 - 5 percent "allowing adults to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if their doctor prescribes it," also the highest level of support in any national poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.
Voters oppose 73 - 21 percent government enforcement of federal laws against marijuana in states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana. No group supports enforcement in states where marijuana is legal.
Voters support 76 - 18 percent reducing the classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, the same classification as heroin. Again, all listed groups support this reduction.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2453​
 
espola said:
From the latest Quinniopiac National Poll --


American voters say 60 - 34 percent "that the use of marijuana should be made legal in the U.S.," the highest level of support for legalized marijuana in a Quinnipiac University national poll. Republicans and voters over 65 years old are the only listed party, gender, education, age or racial groups to oppose legalized marijuana.
Voters also support 94 - 5 percent "allowing adults to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if their doctor prescribes it," also the highest level of support in any national poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.
Voters oppose 73 - 21 percent government enforcement of federal laws against marijuana in states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana. No group supports enforcement in states where marijuana is legal.
Voters support 76 - 18 percent reducing the classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, the same classification as heroin. Again, all listed groups support this reduction.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2453​
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What did the poll say before Hillary lost?
 
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