Just as
four years ago I projected solar growth ten years ahead,
a quarter century ago I projected Internet growth ten years into the future:
Graph:
A Naive Projection of the Growth of the Internet,
John S. Quarterman, Matrix News 2.2, MIDS, February 1992.
From 7.7 million Internet users in 1992, I projected the exponential
growth of the previous few years ahead a decade, to about
3.8 billion people in 2002.
How close was that estimate? Continue reading
It would go through our land to be sold everywhere else, with no jobs here. It wouldn’t even be a nominal benefit for those of us whose land, water, and taxes it would take.
President Obama was half right:
Understand what this project is. It is providing the ability of
Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the
Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else. That doesn’t have an
impact on U.S. gas prices.
In
his press conference of 14 November 2014,
he was referring to the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline.
Add Atlantic to Gulf and the above quote applies equally
to the proposed Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.
History has countered his next assertion: Continue reading
It’s refreshing to see cogent criticism with a minimum of personal attacks.
While I think President Obama’s climate speech was indeed the best
by any president ever, that bar is low, and there is substantial
room for improvement.
PR from Green Shadow Cabinet yesterday,
RELEASE: Obama’s climate proposals fall dangerously short, ignore time-critical opportunity to revive the economy,
Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2012 presidential nominees noted,
“You can’t give your child an ‘all of the above diet’ with toxic
lead and arsenic, and think that adding some spinach and blueberries
is going to make it OK. Likewise, reducing carbon pollution from
coal does not make fracking, tar sands oil, deep water and Arctic
drilling OK. The climate is spiraling into runaway warming. Obama’s
promotion of cheap dirty fossil fuels makes coal regulations just
window dressing on a disastrous policy.”In addition to its broad concerns on fossil fuel use, Continue reading
Hearing a representative was in town, Gretchen took the LAKE video camera
down to the Chamber of Commerce.
Greg Gullberg of WCTV invited her to rebut Rep. Austin Scott (R GA-08)
in her role as Chair of the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP).
After some back and forth,
the WCTV story
shows transparency winning, and Gretchen with the last word.
But their [sic] is one thing they both agree on.
“I quite honestly think both sides ought to put their budgets on
C-Span and maybe we ought to have those negotiations on C-Span,”
said Scott.“So I’m all for having everything all out on the table for all
citizens to see,” said Quarterman.
Hey, what if
the Lowndes County Commission put its board packets and budgets out on the web
for all us taxpayers to see?
Here’s
the WCTV video.
The video Gretchen took will follow.
Who would understand base politics better than Jack Kingston?
“I think for base politics, the red meat Democrats, the red meat Republicans, they like to see a good squabble and they saw one.”
Kingston,
who lapped up Moody Air Force Base with his green tongue.
He left out the rest of Lowndes County, so he’s barely local anymore.
But two others on WCTV last night are local.
Eames Yates wrote for WCTV yesterday,
Emotions of Local Politicians and Voters Run High After Debate,
Laverne Lewis Gaskins is with Obama For America. She said “it was a
decisive victory for President Obama. I think he was clear in his
message. He was able to articulate the future that he has for
America.”Congressman Kingston said “I really think it was a tie. I would like
to say that Romney won, but I have to say I think Obama won on some
questions.”
That’s Jack-speak for he would like to say that, but he can’t, because
he knows it’s not true.
Laverne was more straightforward. So was Gretchen:
Has anyone else noticed that even sitting big name
politicians are saying things only one step short of just legalize it?
The most famous politician in the world said a few months
ago:
‘Drug legalization is an “entirely legitimate topic for debate,”‘
which is a big change from 2009 when Obama laughed
off the question.
Newly elected GA gov. Nathan Deal said
we can’t afford to lock up non-violent drug offenders.
In April Gov. Deal
signed a bill to create a panel to overhaul sentencing laws.
Public opinion
is almost to the majority nationwide for legalization,
according to the Pew Research Center.
Private prisons have no business plan, because the majority of their
“customers” are in danger of not getting locked up.
We don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Spend that tax money on rehabilitation and education instead.
-jsq
Dennis Marks notes that VSU-TV’s rebroadcasts of the
AAUW Forum of 15 Sep 2009
will include the two-minute statements of unopposed candidates who
showed up. Those are not in the LAKE videos of the event which are already on YouTube, but pretty much everything else is.
Maybe VSU-TV will also put their videos online.
According to email from Walter Rollenhagen:
The Lowndes Co. Political Forum, or as we label it, VOTE 2009, will air on
VSU-TV cable channel 20:
Sunday, Oct. 4th at Noon
Saturday, Oct. 10th at Noon and Midnight
Saturday, Oct. 17th at Noon and Midnight
Sunday, Oct. 18th at Noon
Saturday, Oct. 24th at Noon and Midnight
Sunday, Oct. 25th at Noon
Saturday, Oct. 31st at Noon and Midnight
Sunday, Nov. 1st at Noon
By Kenny R. Bush and John S. Quarterman, with videos by Gretchen Quarterman.
On Sept 15, residents of Lowndes County gathered inside VSU’s Whitehead
Auditorium for a political forum concerning the upcoming 2009 General
Municipal Elections.
It was the competing Mayberrys, Hahira and Dasher,
in the shadow of the big city of
Valdosta with its council and school board.
The 100 or so people who watched learned about the candidates.
You can too, by watching the videos of each speaker
provided by LAKE on YouTube.
Perhaps VSU can also be encouraged to release online the videos it took, which are
probably of higher quality.
Update: VSU TV rebroadcast schedule for this forum.
Perhaps VSU can also be encouraged to release online the videos it took, which are
probably of higher quality.
The event was sponsored by the American Association of University Women
(AAUW) and moderated by Jim Peterson, chair of the Political Science
Department at VSU. Before the forum began, the audience was provided
note cards and encouraged to write questions for forum participants.
A three person committee then decided which four questions that would be asked
on stage for each set of candidates.
The forum began with the five candidates competing to be the newest councilman of Valdosta’s 2nd district.
Willie T. Head, the incumbent, is not running,
but five other people other are:
David G. DeMersseman, David L. Dempsey, Rodney R. Flucas, Deidra A. White, and Dr. L. W. Williams.
(All the other LAKE videos of this AAUW forum are also available online.)
The first question of the night concerned annexing land neighboring
Valdosta and if candidates believed it to be a good idea or not.
