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Originally Posted by loganmule
Thanks for your input on this, pig. Given my own uninformed bias against nuclear power, I can understand why politicians would rather justify a $400 haircut than come out publicly in favor of going all out nuclear. As for hedging our bets with regard to energy sources, I was surprised to learn, via Wikopedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power), that 20% of U.S. electricity already comes from nuclear power plants, and that we are the largest producer of nuclear power.
This is pure speculation on my part, but I suspect that if there were enough profit in it, the "real" white people, as Dave Chapelle calls them, would be pushing nuclear power as the energy answer, and would dismiss out of hand the real risks that you've mentioned to be weighed against the benefits. |
well, loganmule, I shared how I've come to an informed opinion that we in the US cannot justify the monetary and environmental costs of expanding nuclear power generating capacity, yet, in spite of my information offering, you posted that you were uniformed as to your own bias against nuclear power.
A lack of encouragement from you, notwithstanding, I'll share what I've learned about $400 haircuts, as well:
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The New York Times > Fashion & Style > You Paid How Much for That ...
November 21, 2004. You Paid How Much for That Haircut? By ALEX KUCZYNSKI ... And each minute cost about $10: Mr. Pita charges $800 for a haircut. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/fa...rint&position=
Most Expensive Hairstylists - Forbes.com
If you can even get an appointment with Orlando Pita, owner of Orlo, in New York City, you will be expected to cough up $800. His clients include Madonna ...
http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/2006...4featb_ls.html
Rocky Mountain News - Denver and Colorado's reliable source for ...
Think a $400 haircut is out of line? Check out the most expensive hairstylists, according to Forbes.com:. • $800: Orlando Pita, Orlo Salon, New York ...
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...528927,00.html
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so....in a campaign where image is everything, the "haircut" seems an average priced, reasonable "investment".
....what do you think that it must have cost to purchase a phony Texas "ranch"....a prop, in order to give the impression that the candidate wasn't born in New Haven, CT....Connecticut, which his grandfather represented as a US senator, where his grandmother lived until she died, in Greenwich, in 1991, near NY City...where his mother was born...? He later attended Yale U. for four years, after attending Phillips Academy in Andover, MA for four years, where he was a cheerleader, and later, after graduating from Yale, in New Haven, the city of his birth, and then attended Harvard in Cambridge, MA, for 3 years...in Massachusetts, where his father was born....
You make a joke about the rather routine political campaining circumstances of a candidate who is worth more than $30 million....money that he earned, against all odds, after a modest beginning as the son of a North Carolina textile mill worker....a mill worker father who rose early to teach himself the math skills he believed would make him promotable into a mill supervisory position, and the son, unlike his father, later graduating college on a scholarship, earning a batchelors degree in "textile science", and then still later, becoming a successful trial lawyer....running for president of the US, and in that process, getting billed $400 for the hair cutting services of a Beverly Hills hair stylist who came to the busy candidate, for his convenience, to cut his hair to optimize his appearance in front of TV cameras and "in person" appearances....
You make a joke that isn't even funny....especially when compared to the spectacle of a Phillips, Yale, and Harvard educated, New England native from a "blue blood" family, attempting to pass himself off as a Texas rancher, to such an extreme that he paid a high six figures amount for a phony "livestockless" ranch, and who speaks with a phony Texas "drawl" that he sure didn't "pick up" in the four years he attended high school waving his pom poms and shouting out his "Cheers" at Phillips Academy football games, or during his 7 combined years of attendance at Yale and Harvard....