Friday, February 21, 2014

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, February 21, 2014


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William R. Barker said...

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/16438/

UCLA will foot the bill for its employees to learn to speak Spanish under a new program launched this month at the Southern California-based public university.

Employees can take the class during working hours as well as get the cost of the Spanish course – $177 – reimbursed by their department budgets, campus officials told The College Fix.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

February 21, 2014 at 4:03 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/nyc-more-black-babies-killed-abortion-born

In 2012, there were more black babies killed by abortion (31,328) in New York City than were born there...

(*HEAD BOWED IN PRAYER*)

* AND DON'T FORGET... NATIONWIDE BLACK ILLEGITIMACY IS 73%.

* LIBERALISM HAS DESTROYED BLACK AMERICA...

February 21, 2014 at 4:08 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://news.yahoo.com/california-farmers-won-39-t-federal-water-182640605.html;_ylt=AwrBJSDQmwdT9UgAgPnQtDMD

Federal officials announced Friday that many California farmers caught in the state's drought can expect to receive no irrigation water this year from a vast system of rivers, canals and reservoirs interlacing the state.

February 21, 2014 at 4:12 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/02/20/study-non-insured-patients-get-better-care-than-insured/

According to a recent study published online in the journal JAMA Surgery, severely injured patients are less likely to be transferred to a trauma center if they have health insurance.

Researchers from the Stanford University of Medicine found that patients with insurance are less likely to get the best care than those who do not have insurance.

* ONE MORE TIME...

Researchers from the Stanford University of Medicine found that patients with insurance are less likely to get the best care than those who do not have insurance.

(*SILENCE*)

They found that insured patients taken to non-trauma hospitals were 13% to 15% less likely to be transferred to trauma centers than uninsured ones.

“Insured patients may, ironically, get worse outcomes because they are taken care of at a center where there’s a lower volume of resource for critically injured patients,” Dr. M. Kit Delgado, a former Stanford emergency medicine instructor, and the study’s lead author said in a press release obtained by HealthDay News.

“Finding disparities in quality of trauma care based on insurance is very disturbing,” Dr. Nancy Wang, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Stanford, said in the press release. “It is important for researchers to identify and call attention to these disparities in access to care and outcomes so that all people can receive the appropriate, high-quality care, regardless of their insurance status,” Wang added.

February 21, 2014 at 4:16 PM
William R. Barker said...

* THREE-PARTER... (Part 1 of 3)

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/electricity-price-index-soars-new-record-start-2014-us-electricity

The electricity price index soared to a new high in January 2014 with the largest month-to-month increase in almost four years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

* JUST KEEP TELLING YOURSELVES "THERE IS NO INFLATION... THERE IS NO INFLATION..."

Meanwhile, data from the Energy Information Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, indicates that electricity production in the United States has declined since 2007, when it hit its all-time peak.

The U.S. is producing less electricity than it did seven years ago for a population that has added more than 14 million people.

(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)

“The electricity index rose 1.8%, its largest increase since March 2010,” said BLS in its summary of the Consumer Price Index released Thursday. In December, the seasonally adjusted electricity index was 203.740. In January, it climbed to a new high of 207.362. Back in January 2013, the electricity price index stood at 198.679. It thus climbed about 4.4% over the course of a year.

Last month, the average price for a kilowatthour (KWH) of electricity in a U.S. city also hit an all-time January high of 13.4 cents, according to BLS.

* WHAT'S THAT...??? WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY...?!?!

Last month, the average price for a kilowatthour (KWH) of electricity in a U.S. city also hit an all-time January high of 13.4 cents, according to BLS. (A year ago, in January 2013, a KWH cost 12.9 cents.)

* TO BE CONTINUED...

February 21, 2014 at 8:18 PM
William R. Barker said...

* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 3)

Historically, in the United States, rising electricity prices have not been inevitable. In the first decades after World War II, the U.S. rapidly increased it electricity production, including on a per capita basis. Since 2007, the U.S. has decreased its electricity production, including on a per capita basis.

In the 1950s and 1960s, when U.S. electricity generation was increasing at a rapid pace, the seasonally adjusted U.S. electricity price index remained relatively stable. In January 1959, the electricity index stood at 29.2, according to BLS. A decade later, in January 1969, it was 30.2 — an increase of 3.4% over a 10-year span. That 3.4% increase in the index from January 1959 to January 1969 was less than the 4.4% the index increased from January 2013 to January 2014.

* ONE... MORE... TIME...

In January 1959, the electricity index stood at 29.2, according to BLS. A decade later, in January 1969, it was 30.2 — an increase of 3.4% over a 10-year span. That 3.4-percent increase in the index from January 1959 to January 1969 was less than the 4.4% the index increased from January 2013 to January 2014.

Over the last seven years, according to the EIA, the U.S. has actually decreased its total net electricity generation...

* AS I SAY, FOLKS - A NATION IN DECLINE.

* AND TO REINFORCE THE POINT... (READ ON...)

* TO BE CONTINUED...

February 21, 2014 at 8:19 PM
William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 3 of 3)

As with overall electricity production, per capita production exhibited decelerating growth over the decades, peaked in 2007, and has since declined. From 1950 to 1959, per capita total electricity generation (in million KWH) grew by 83.11%; from 1960 to 1969, it grew by 69.76%; from 1970 to 1979, it grew by 33.51%; from 1980 to 1989, it grew by 19.25%; from 1990 to 1999, it grew by 11.25%.

From 2000 to 2009, per capita total net electricity generation in the United States declined by 4.45%.

* AGAIN...

From 2000 to 2009, per capita total net electricity generation in the United States declined by 4.45%.

* FURTHERMORE...

The downward trend in U.S. electricity production continued into 2013. The EIA’s latest Monthly Energy Review, which includes data through October 2013, indicates that in the first ten months of 2013, the U.S. generated a total of 3,392,101 million KWH of electricity, down from the 3,407,155 million KWH produced in the first 10 months of 2012. The Monthly Energy Review also indicates that a large part of the decline in U.S. electricity generation has come from a decrease in the electricity produced by coal — which has not been replaced by a commensurate increase in the electricity produced by natural gas or the “renewable” sources of wind and solar.

* OBAMA'S "WAR ON COAL" IS REAL - AND IT CARRIES RAMIFICATIONS.

Between 2007 and 2012, the nation's annual coal-fired electricity generation declined by about 25%, or 502,413 million KWH. The combined increases in natural gas, wind and solar did not make up for this decline.

* BUT, WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

Coal was not the only source that produced less electricity in 2012 than in 2007, according to the EIA data. Electricity from nuclear power plants dropped from 806,425 million KWH in 2007 to 769,331 in 2012 — a decline of 37,094 million KWH or 4.6%.

* AND FINALLY...

Conventional hydroelectric means of generating electricity hit their peak in 1997, a decade before overall electricity generation peaked in the United States. In that year, the U.S. produced 385,946 million KWH of electricity through conventional hydroelectric power. By 2012, that had dropped to 276,240 million KWH, a decline of 109,706 million KWH or 28.4%

* FOLKS... THE LEFT'S BATTLE CRY IS "FULL SPEED AHEAD! BACKWARDS!"

February 21, 2014 at 8:20 PM

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