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So can you give me some links to the "Pentagon trolls?

Sure, here is some relevant reading:

Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Pentagon ramping up public relations offensive: Agency moves to bolster image in face of mounting criticism of Iraq war
U.S. Media Knew Kosovo Reports Were Propaganda
Meet The State Department Team Trying To Troll ISIS Into Oblivion
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi -- "The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers..."
Pentagon Paid for Fake âAl Qaedaâ(TM) Videos
The Government's Social Media Propaganda Machine
âoeOn the Offensiveâ: US State Dept. Gives $40M Boost to âoeTroll Farmâ Propaganda Efforts
How the American government is trying to control what you think

That should get you started.

Of course, our mass media tends not to emphasize such American skulduggery and propaganda. They'll do an initial report on the issue, but it's rarely, if ever, put into the news loop and repeated over and over and over again. Funny how that works, eh? It makes one think of Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, who once bluntly said, "There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear."

If you want any more you'll have to search for it.

Possibly, but 1) your fellow prisoners will probably appreciate that you're "sticking it to The Man" and make it a whole lot easier on you than if you'd been convicted of possessing child porn:

You are assuming that your fellow prisoners will stop to listen to your explanation. That assumption may not withstand scrutiny:

http://www.albionmonitor.com/9707a/ac-mcdougal.html

You are wrong about resisting an officer, there is plenty of case law that says that you can use up to and including deadly force to resist an illegal arrest. Case in point, Bear Lincoln.

http://www.albionmonitor.com/rv/rv-background.html

Washington Times, yes. And also a private fleet of submarines. Or did he flick them on to North Korea?

http://www.albionmonitor.com/9801a/darkmoon.html

Moon is pretty much a James Bond villain. It's a funny old world eh!

It was a resposne to the general comment "Corals *worldwide* are dying." But since you ask (and a fair question, too):

http://www.albionmonitor.com/9608a/dynamitefish.html "Misuse of cyanide in local fisheries is also spreading in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, the Maldives, Solomon Islands and other Pacific coastal states."

How about this: "In the Philippines alone, cyanide divers squirt an estimated 165 tons of dissolved poison on some 33 million coral heads annually."

One hundred and sixty-five TONS of cyanide on one country's reefs. Every year. This info was published 13 years ago and was well known about before then. The fact that no-one who claims to be an eco-warrior, not Greenpeace not no-one, is shouting this from the rooftops is why I don't give a flying fig about what they say now. In the face of clear evidence, they are silent and yet they continue to rabbit on about irrelevant pH changes, or tiny shifts in temperature.

Reefs have dealt with climate change in the past by growing, changing and adapting. There is no single perfect set of conditions for a coral reef and this is a changing world. It's a bit more difficult to change if they're being poisoned and blasted though.

See, that's what's so beautiful about it. Obama actually follows the law to some degree(Though I wish he'd ignore more of the court precedent for letting the government stretch the constitution, that's not really something I'd expect to see from any president besides Ron Paul).

I shudder to think about how long the gun wielding folks in Bush's town hall meetings would last before being sent by Cheney's secret police to the secret torture centres in Europe.

As for your proof, Wear an anti-Bush T-shirt, get arrested, lose your job, and Article: Sheehan arrested before Bush address: Woman was wearing protest T-shirt under clothing that she revealed upon taking her seat and further, Woman Arrested at McCain Event for "McCain=Bush" Sign

I lean liberterian/right since I tend to side with Ron Paul on economic issues and thus I tend to be against the Federal government meddling in social issues at all for better or worse. Regardless, despite the flaws, Obama's administration is such a step above what we've seen for the past 8 years, you literally can't compare the two. Allowing people to do something they're legally allowed to do without bending the law to arrest them anyway(despite such people being a clear and present danger to the well-being of the president) is just one good example.

Well I think (as I indicated in my post) that safety has come a long way for nuclear power. You mention Three Mile Island, but fail to recognize that people there are still dying of cancer at a much higher rate since 1979 for some unknown reason. Suspiciously, there is no direct indication that it is because of the melt down, but I think it's fair to say that those in charge of investigation might have a reason to obscure the truth. I've seen a documentary many years ago that indicated the percentage of those closer to the site of the incident had a greater chance of dying of cancer than those further away. So yes it's safe until there's an accident. The consequenses if there is an accident are so extreme that I would not exactly call it a "good" solution.

I didn't say that coal was what we should stick with either (thanks for putting words in my mouth though). I am simply saying that wind generation, while a good idea for supplimental power, is not the solution to meet base load. It won't be able to do what the article claims. Yes nuclear is the cleaner between itself and coal, unless there's an accident with the plant, the fuel, or the waste, and then it becomes much more dirty for a much longer time. Furthermore, I think we need to continue to investigate solar, geothermal, and other means of generation before we say that nuclear is the best solution.

There is a plant that is being built here at INL, and it won't even be online until 2020. When it is, we will puchase a share of power from them to help meet our demand. The problem is they are still going to have waste that has to be stored for a long period of time. The US is currently running out of room to dump this stuff, and the stuff we've already been dumping for years is now having to be moved because the places it's being stored are no longer viable. The waste at those facilities is starting to leak into the ground. Now we have this waste in trucks roaming about the country that can be hit by terrorists, get into an accident and spill the contents, become hijacked and sold off to the nearest nut job, etc. Additionally, the facilities to move the waste to haven't even been built yet, and there's no room at the current facilities that are viable. Do you think this situation is going to improve over the next 12 years? My guess is that it's going to get worse. But let's not look at that, instead let's put our fingers in our ears and sing "la la la la la.. I'm not listening" while we're all lead down the primrose path. It's 250 miles from my back yard, and I still think it's a bad idea.

Bush hasn't nationalized his country's only real industry (in Chavez's case, oil) and started using it as a subsidized way to prop up leftist politicians in other countries.

No, but Bush HAS nationalized his country's only real industry (war), and started using it as a subsidized way to prop up rightist politicians in other countries. (Duvalier in Haiti, Maliki in Iraq, Karzai in Afghanistan. . . and probably others we don't even know about).

He doesn't shut down journalists for speaking out against him,
Um. Sorry, try again:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/10/23/AR2006102301148.html

He doesn't issue statements saying that his "brothers" in Iran will get his undying support as they build, traffic in, and sell weapons throughout the middle east.

. . . except when those "brothers" are in Israel.

He doesn't buy temporary favor from poor people by doling out food when the cameras are watching,

no, he certainly does not.

but completely neglect the most crime-ridden, murderous, corrupt thug culture in the region.

you mean Bush's neighbor to the South? (Mexico):
http://www.albionmonitor.com/0610a/copyright/usdru gtechmexico.html

Or were you referring to Afghanistan?:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s12478 17.htm

Personally, I'm not one to stick up for Chavez. But Bush is by far the worst offender these days. If Chavez is ten times as dirty as the neocon propaganda machine is saying, he's still a punter compared to Bush.

You'd basically just be mandating higher quality porn
How awful! =)

The reason I oppose the "literary/artistic/scientific/etc. merit" test is that it still means having a government agency decide what opinions are worthwhile, and punishing those deemed unworthy. It's a concept ripe for abuse. For instance, weren't anti-pornography laws once used in America to outlaw distribution of material about abortion and birth control? Regardless of my stance on abortion, it's stupid and unconstitutional to outlaw discussion of it... In searching for a reference, I found that this type of censorship is still an issue.

And the fact that people are able to argue so much about whether pornography/violent games/Harry Potter books/etc. are harmful to society, by itself, proves that even the really trashy stuff has the cultural merit of spurring debate about things like the social role of women.

Let's shut down that other censorship board, the FCC, while we're at it.