Maggie's Farm

Anyone who has raised children knows that the correct time to abort/kill them is when they become teens. Babies, toddlers and pre-teen children are a pure joy. Teens, not so much. But of course I joke to make a point; abortion is killing a baby. Abortion in the first few weeks is "perhaps" something a majority of people could accept but abortion in the 3rd trimester or post birth simply isn't acceptable to most Americans. This is where I find myself doubting the honesty and sincerity of those who are fighting for abortion up to and after birth. If they had never tried to push late term and partial birth abortions then this would never have been an issue and a majority of Americans would still be in favor of allowing abortions early in the pregnancy. So what was their goal? I think this is really about politics and simply a venue to push a far left agenda.

Most of the Arab "Palestinians" immigrated to that area from Jorden in the very early 1900's. There were itinerate family and tribal groups there before that time who were Arabs but not Muslims. And of course there were Jews still living in their traditional homeland. If you were able to do DNA testing of the Arabs/Palestinians you would discover that almost all of them trace their roots back to Jorden and still have family there as well. The "right" thing to do is for the Palestinians to re-immigrate to Jorden (as a choice not a mandate) where they have family and religious and political peers. The ONLY reason they are still in Gaza and a few other locations is to incite a continuing and intentional hate against the Jews. They have repeatedly been offered opportunities to make their life better which are turned down flat by their leadership (and any "Palestinians" who object are mistreated or worse by the leadership). The whole point of the Palestinians is as a focal point of hate and activism against Israel. The don't want to better their lives or their children's lives they want to spew hate... period. Until that day when they decide that they love their own children more than they hate the Jews their "suffering" will continue.

Solar is "sold" as harvesting energy from the sun. But it is actually harvesting subsidies from the government. When a solar farm is built two corporations (sometimes three counting the contractors) make big bucks. The company selling the solar panels and equipment. They get paid full price and get a nice profit. And the company building the solar generation facility. They get a huge subsidy from the government and a long term contract from the electric utility. The electric utility is forced by law to buy the higher cost electricity from the solar farm. It can cost as much as $0.60 a kWh. Typical cost to the utility from hydro is as much as $0.06 a kWh and as little as $0.02 per kWh. Electricity from an older established coal fired plant is about the same as hydro and from natural gas fired plants about twice what hydro and coal costs are. The electric utility takes the unreliable and very expensive electricity from the solar farm and combines it with electric power from other sources and charges the customer $0.18-0.25 a kwh without regard to where their power comes from.

Years ago in most parts of the U.S. your electric bill simply had a flat rate charge for the electric usage based on a flat kWh rate. If you weren't home and only left a light on your bill might be $2.00. This is no longer true. If you look at your bill you will see a usage charge that might be $0.18 per kWh and a systems charge that "supposedly" pays for the power lines and other facilities and a city charge, a county charge and a state charge. There may be other charges too. So today if you go on a vacation and leave a small light on your utility bill will be $5 for the kWh charge and $87.50 for all the other charges. Why is this? Not one simple reason but one of the factors is that YOU must pay for solar and wind energy and it isn't cheap or practical. If they simply charged you for it, i.e. put a $50 charge on your monthly bill labeled "renewables" you would question it and after looking into it you would rightfully be opposed to "renewables" and then the owners of solar companies would never become billionaires. So the government does a little bait and switch with you so that you think you are paying legitimate charges and the true cost of solar and wind are buried so deep most people will never know. Because if you knew you would question the honesty and intelligence of the politicians and activists and we can't have that now, can we???