Apparently, there’s hardly any drinking going on in here.

Shame. Nice place.

And surely to God there can’t be that many Nate Silver fans here, can there? I mean, a poll-integrator. Holy shit, what a strategic loser.

I’m fnding it hard to leavthis comment sicnei I sprapypainted ovr my monitr.

iS the flilth gone yet?

Wendi?are you ther? Is it gon?

Winner? Big Bird in Benghazi safe house. Losers? Like you say, truth, other candidates, non-swing states… and ultimately, all of us, all over again. Which leads me to my next question… you wouldn’t happen to have an address for Big Bird? Always wanted to move to visit Libya. Seems so sensible, so stable, comparatively. Also, needs more Magic [...]

1. I am totally willing to blog for Leftie money. 2. Twitter will make us all exactly the same. Except for you, Desider. 3. You’ll be a little bit taller. 4. There are two types of people in this world. Those who loves Mars Attacks, and those who love Ayn Rand. On November 6th, VOTE MARS [...]

Clap.

/whew

Now now, Wendy. Just because you lost the Song-Off, no need to get bitter. Well, actually there’s always a need to get bitter. Just… this isn’t the one. ;-) Ok. Follow along. You were to sit on your hands through your FIRST listen. And (try to) clap along on your SECOND. That said, no you [...]

The 14th is a broke amendment.

A couple more BUILD links.

From a TED talk —- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x4shcdZ8QI

A local story —- http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/saving-energy-improving-lives-123442174.html

From ScotiaBank —- http://ecoliving.scotiabank.com/build-50000-winner-of-the-ecoliving-2011-business-leadership-award

Hey nonquixote. There’s no private contractor over the BUILD employees, they’re actually a non-profit run by local Aboriginal people. Here’s their web-site, with info: http://www.warmupwinnipeg.ca/train.html While I didn’t play it up much in this piece – because I wanted to focus on the financing, and BUILD is just one possible delivery agent – their work [...]

Thanks for the link, Wendy. It’s an impressive building, especially when you realize that it uses 80% less energy than a normal office building, but does so while operating in the coldest large city in the world….. Winterpeg. ;-)

As an economist, I get why so many bureaucrats like to design programs that tax credits. I also happen to think they’re an appalling tool, for most purposes. I especially hate the way they so often are officially presented as though they’re available for the poor or those who need, while behind the scenes, people [...]

Hey Walkin’. Of the dozen people I mentioned, I think 5 turn out to have American roots, so I think it’s safe to say that the intellectual – and emotional – qualities coming from South of the border still seem to be pretty strong. Canadians working in fields such as those I’m in often scan [...]

Don’t worry Twonine, people such as those you’ve mentioned have made a lot of headway in teaching retrofit people not to lock houses up too too tight. Plus, there are a lot of blowerdoors and other forms of monitoring going on.

Howdy Hermit. When you said “spiritual stethoscope,” it made me look back over the list of people who helped put this together over the years (some named in the Personal Note), and made me think of their individual backgrounds. There’s an active Quaker, a Mennonite, a United Church Minister who headed West in the 60′s [...]

The fellow quoted in the article, Shaun Loney, just won a major national business Entrepreneurship award from Scotiabank up here…. precisely for helping to spur his group, B.U.I.L.D. into these kinds of innovative takes on retrofitting. Interesting though, that he came from a family with a long “Social Gospel” tradition. As did Tommy Douglas, founder [...]

Okay…. seems to be righting itself. Sorry for the bother!

I hope this works and people can make sense of it.

It starts with the Free Press story…. in italics….

Then my comments… and a personal note… in regular font….

Then finally, some links if people want more.

Howdy FDL!

Hey Wendy. I put that post up you suggested. Then tried to correct the time it was showing…. which now seems to have disappeared it…. ha! That’ll teach me to try and do things right! Anyway, sorry to butt in…. but here’s the link. Ta!

http://my.firedoglake.com/quinnmackeen/2012/09/01/homes-going-green-for-free-under-a-new-green-deal/