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On every date, Rudy Canoza, forever the mental and physical midget, who was 
*NEVER* a three sport letterman, like me, and who was *NEVER* a bouncer, like 
me, and who was *NEVER* an assistant golf pro, like me, and who was *NEVER* a 
lifeguard, like me, and who *NEVER* dunked a basketball, like me, and has 
*NEVER* laid as many women as me, says... 

> Right-wingnut lie site.

What about MSN, midget?

Show us the lie, pansy-ass munchkin.

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EPA's New Climate Rule Would Cause Rolling Blackouts In Huge Swath Of America, 
Analysis Finds 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/epa-s-new-climate-rule-would-cause-
rolling-blackouts-in-huge-swath-of-america-analysis-finds/ar-AA1f6qg0

Proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations for power plant 
emissions could spur blackouts in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator 
(MISO) power grid region and cost stakeholders nearly $250 billion in the 
coming decades, according to comments filed in response to the rule by the 
Center of the American Experiment (CAE).

The average annual cost to stakeholders of building enough capacity to stave 
off the blackouts CAE projects in the MISO region is greater than the average 
annual benefit the EPA estimates its proposals will bring for the entire 
country by 2055, according to CAE's analysis.

"This is the regulatory equivalent of studying the structural integrity of the 
top floor of a 100-story building without doing so for the preceding 99 
floors," Isaac Orr, policy fellow for the CAE and coauthor of CAE's comments, 
told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating carbon dioxide 
emissions for power plants would lead to blackouts in a large slice of the 
Midwest and impose costs of nearly $250 billion, according to new analysis by 
the Center of the American Experiment (CAE).

The EPA's proposed regulations would require fossil fuel-fired power plants to 
adopt developing technologies, such as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) 
and hydrogen blending, in order to significantly bring down their greenhouse 
gas emissions over the coming decades. CAE filed comments this week in response 
to the EPA's proposals, highlighting in its analysis that the EPA has 
overestimated the efficacy of wind and solar while exposing the 45 million 
people living in the area served by the Midcontinent Independent System 
Operator (MISO) power grid to elevated blackout risks.

The EPA "does not appear to have the expertise necessary to enact such a 
sweeping regulation on the American power sector," CAE wrote in its comments.

CAE's analysis found that the EPA's modeled MISO grid could result in massive 
blackouts across the 15 states it serves, with one stress test scenario 
estimating that nearly one in five MISO-served households would be without 
power. Additionally, CAE calculated that building up enough capacity to avoid 
its projected blackouts in the MISO region would cost $246 billion in total by 
2055.

That figure breaks down to $7.7 billion annually on average through 2055, a 
number which is greater than the EPA's projected $5.9 billion annual benefit to 
the entire country if the proposals are finalized.

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AlleyCat is one of the several people who dominate Rudy on a daily basis, 
keeping their bootheels on his little pencil neck to the amusement of all.

Why Rudy Gets So Angwy
 
Narcissists, like Rudy, are people who feed off the energy of others. They draw 
from people around them TO BOOST THEIR SELF-ESTEEM.

(perfect!)

As a result, they are extraordinarily self-centered. If you have a narcissist 
for a boss, it can be very difficult. Narcissists are reluctant to share credit 
with others.

One question about narcissists is whether they are also prone to aggressive and 
violent reactions toward others when their self-esteem is threatened. This 
issue was explored in a paper by Zlatan Krizan and Omesh Johar in the May 2015 
issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

The researchers point out that there are actually two subtypes of narcissism:

One is grandiose narcissism, which is characterized by people having a high 
opinion of themselves. Grandiose narcissists believe that other people are 
interested in them, and that they should be listened to by others. One of the 
most popular personality tests used to identify narcissists, the Narcissistic 
Personality Inventory, measures grandiose narcissism.

The second subtype is vulnerable narcissism, in which people are self-centered, 
but also defensive and resentful of others.

This new set of studies suggests that vulnerable narcissism leads to aggressive 
and violent reactions to other people, while grandiose narcissism does not.

In one study, participants were given several personality inventories, 
including one designed to test for grandiose narcissism and one designed to 
test for vulnerable narcissism. Participants filled out scales that measured 
their level of physical and verbal aggression, as well as anger and hostility 
toward others. The researchers also measured individuals' tendency to 
experience shame.

Vulnerable narcissists were much more prone than grandiose narcissists to 
experience shame, to find their self-esteem influenced by the beliefs of 
others, and to experience anger and rage toward others. Grandiose narcissists 
were more prone than vulnerable narcissists to feel entitled and to try to 
exploit others.

A second study looked at aggression in the laboratory. Participants were 
measured on scales of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Participants had 
been told that the study was focused on food preferences. They were told that 
they had been paired with a partner sitting in another room. First, that unseen 
partner was going to select a food for them to taste, and then they were going 
to select a food for the partner to taste.

The first phase of the study was designed to provoke a reaction in the 
participants. They were told that their partner selected a bitter drink for 
them to try. They were told that the partner could give them a mildly bitter 
drink or a harshly bitter drink, and could select how much of it the person had 
to try.

One group of participants was given three ounces of the harshly bitter drink. 
This was expected to make the participant feel like their partner did not like 
them. A second group of participants was given three ounces of the mildly 
bitter drink. This condition was a control. All participants were asked to 
drink what they were given, and all did so. The participants given the more 
bitter drink felt it was vile. Participants rated how annoyed they were at the 
other person as well as their anger toward that person and their trust of that 
person.

In the second phase of the study, participants selected a spicy sauce for a 
second person to drink. They could select amounts from two bottles, one of 
which was a very hot pepper sauce, while the other was mild. Participants got a 
small taste of the sauces so that they would know how unpleasant the hotter 
sauce was. The idea was that the more aggressive the participant felt toward 
their partner, the more hot sauce they would want that participant to drink.

Participants who had been given the bitter drink were more annoyed at their 
partner than those given the mild drink. As a result, people who were given the 
bitter drink were more likely to give hot sauce to the other person than those 
who were given the mild drink. The people high in vulnerable narcissism who 
received the bitter drink were most likely to give hot sauce to the other 
person. The vulnerable narcissists given the bitter drink were also most angry 
at, and least trusting of, the other person. Grandiose narcissism, however, did 
not predict aggression toward the other person or ratings of anger or trust.

These studies suggest that there are two distinct subtypes of narcissists:

Those whose narcissism reflects a feeling of self-importance tend to exploit 
other people, but they are not inclined to act aggressively or violently toward 
others.

Those whose narcissism reflects feelings of defensiveness and resentment feel 
shame when their self-esteem is threatened, and tend to react to those threats 
with anger and aggression.