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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 13:03:35 GMT -6
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Apr 29, 2019 14:38:19 GMT -6
Not real optimistic about the direction of this article, given the immediate Electoral College slam early on:
The state’s population is about 6.5 million, and the country’s population is more than 325 million, or about 50 times as great. By the way, this makes Indiana that rare state with a mathematically “fair” representation in the U.S. Senate. One out of every 50 Americans is a Hoosier, and the two senators from Indiana cast one-fiftieth of the Senate’s total votes.
(To illustrate the range among other states: About one American in every 600 lives in Wyoming, and about one in eight lives in California. Each state of course has the same two Senate votes. About one American in 450 lives in the District of Columbia, and they have no Senate votes at all. I offer these numbers not as a veiled complaint: the Washington, D.C., license plate on my car, which bears the District’s official slogan, “Taxation without representation,” now that is a complaint. Rather, these are reminders of the way centuries of migration and changed settlement patterns among the states have affected the fundamentals of constitutional architecture. )
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Apr 29, 2019 15:01:55 GMT -6
Not real optimistic about the direction of this article, given the immediate Electoral College slam early on: The state’s population is about 6.5 million, and the country’s population is more than 325 million, or about 50 times as great. By the way, this makes Indiana that rare state with a mathematically “fair” representation in the U.S. Senate. One out of every 50 Americans is a Hoosier, and the two senators from Indiana cast one-fiftieth of the Senate’s total votes.
(To illustrate the range among other states: About one American in every 600 lives in Wyoming, and about one in eight lives in California. Each state of course has the same two Senate votes. About one American in 450 lives in the District of Columbia, and they have no Senate votes at all. I offer these numbers not as a veiled complaint: the Washington, D.C., license plate on my car, which bears the District’s official slogan, “Taxation without representation,” now that is a complaint. Rather, these are reminders of the way centuries of migration and changed settlement patterns among the states have affected the fundamentals of constitutional architecture. )The issue I have with the electoral college comment is that it's not a reminder of migration affecting constitutional architecture like he says. It's not like the colonies had equal populations. Wikipedia says the 1780 estimated Virginia population was 538,000 and Delaware's was 45,400. The constitutional architecture was supposed to be that each state handled itself and they worked together through a separate government on specific issues. Senators were never supposed to be equally divvied. They didn't represent the population of the state, they represented the state itself. That's not a migration issue.
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Post by sweep on Apr 29, 2019 15:43:36 GMT -6
"Now, the university they founded will save $2 million annually in operating costs by using a different form of ‘free’ energy pulled from the same ground in thermal energy.”
Yeah but let's completely ignore the total costs associated and how much capital this boondoggle wasted just so Jo Ann could put some green-cred on her resume. Oh and with the current price of Natural Gas this system doesn't save a dime in operational costs. It amazes me they are still claiming the $2 million figure from ten years ago even though natural gas prices have dropped by about 75%.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 16:42:52 GMT -6
"Now, the university they founded will save $2 million annually in operating costs by using a different form of ‘free’ energy pulled from the same ground in thermal energy.” Yeah but let's completely ignore the total costs associated and how much capital this boondoggle wasted just so Jo Ann could put some green-cred on her resume. Oh and with the current price of Natural Gas this system doesn't save a dime in operational costs. It amazes me they are still claiming the $2 million figure from ten years ago even though natural gas prices have dropped by about 75%. They must still be using the same arithmetic that saved me so much money on my Blue Cross policy the last few years. |
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 29, 2019 16:44:54 GMT -6
$2 million figure from ten years ago even though natural gas prices have dropped by about 75%. I am no fan of our heating and cooling plans. But. A lot of fluctuation and probably on average over 10 years not quite that much drop. It has dropped. Could be as little as 30% depending on date in 2009. The problem we had then was needing a new plant, moving way from coal. Natural gas was a good alternative, but a lot more gas game on line than expected. JAG definitely played for PR. Gasp! Surprise! |
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Post by williamtsherman on Apr 29, 2019 18:49:42 GMT -6
These days, if we didn't have poorly written, agenda driven journalism, we'd have no journalism at all.
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Apr 30, 2019 6:10:48 GMT -6
Well, it IS The Atlantic... Not known for unbiased, fact-driven journalism.
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Post by williamtsherman on Apr 30, 2019 9:12:10 GMT -6
Well, it IS The Atlantic... Not known for unbiased, fact-driven journalism. What is? |
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Apr 30, 2019 9:41:54 GMT -6
Uhhh, uhhh...
SMOKE BOMB!
*runs off*
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Post by rmcalhoun on Apr 30, 2019 12:55:18 GMT -6
There is no real news anymore..
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Apr 30, 2019 13:28:11 GMT -6
Where did the idea that news should be unbiased fact reporting come from to begin with?
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Apr 30, 2019 13:48:47 GMT -6
Ethics?
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Apr 30, 2019 14:48:07 GMT -6
I suppose it would be unethical to represent yourself as an unbiased fact-reporter if you are not. But otherwise I don't see how it's ethically required that if you're going to report the news you cannot do it your own way. I don't think that's ever existed. |
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