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EiA, who has never had a correct prediction, agrees with you. BTW, they have ALWAYS predicted that Fossil fuels will continue to grow except recently.
However, experts in the coal field of montana
Other Americans continue to point to coal rapid closing.
Here is the massive navajo plant that will most certainly close down. Note that this is America's single dirtiest plant going.
Nice article about the continuing closings of coal plants (assuming that Trump is not allowed to subsidize coal anymore than we currently do)

Finally, here is a partial list of coming US coal plants closures.

Projection much?

In denial much?

Here is a very recent example... Here is a local newspaper's report of somebody named Jesus Deniz Mendoza killing a couple, that stopped to help him on a road. The police mug-shot of the accused is also attached, as is perfectly normal for a simple-minded newspaper, that has no particular agenda — yes, he is obviously a Latino, which might increase "anti-immigrant backlash", but the journalist ethics requires factual reporting....

Now here is the New York Times report of the same crime — posted on the same day, an hour later. Note, how it:

• identifies the man as simply Jesus Deniz — Señor Mendoza became Mister Deniz,
• omits his mug-shot,
• but fails not to point out, that the victims were Crow Indians.

Voilà, instead of an article about a Latino-immigrant murdering Americans, we get a report about violence against a long-suffering minority committed by somebody named Deniz. No, we didn't say he was a White Supremacist, but if you thought so based on his last name and choice of victims, we aren't going to correct you — because in our progressive opinion, White Supremacy is far more dangerous than illegal immigration.

That was a very recent example — less than month old — of how a flagship newspaper of record "plays with language" and "rephrases things" to misrepresent situations, hide inconvenient realities and otherwise push their preferred narrative.

Oh, an pointing this all out has made me a racist, has it not? Please, don't hate...

In recent news, a state senator from Montana (R) was arrested, and a tea-party-republican-congressman from Florida was also arrested. A Republican from Montana and a Republican from Florida. Who would have guessed that. It has nothing to do with Sacramento or party. Like I said, all politics are local. Especially corrupt politics.

You're right, more gun laws would just turn America into a police state.

That depends entirely on the whether the law is fundamentally flawed or not.

When anti-miscegenation laws were on the books there were no set of circumstances that would lead non-racists to convict because the law was morally bankrupt. The same applies to most sodomy laws which remain on the books in many states and countries. You can even see this in a recent marijuana possession case where they were unable to find 12 members of the jury pool who were willing to apply the proscribed penalties for the 1/16th of an ounce the man was in possession of. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_d6b1aaca-edfc-527f-ad11-f1691fdc6e3b.html

When the law has fallen out of touch with society or the penalties are grossly inappropriate to the crime it is not improper to conclude that you would find it impossible to convict.

Obviously in more complicated cases deciding in advance that you would or would not convict is improper and harmful to society. Though many states also refuse to seat jurors who are morally opposed to capital punishment in murder trials that could carry that penalty even when they will consider the evidence and render a fair judgement.

His numbers are crap, you are closer to the mark.

I know Red Wheats, its what I grew up farming. It ranges from 8 to 16% protein.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat
http://www.eolss.net/ebooks/Sample%20Chapters/C10/E5-21-04-04.pdf
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/crops/00555.html
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_c587d5a6-a1e0-11df-abc5-001cc4c03286.html

If US Citizens are employed in the service of enemies of this Republic on foreign soil, then what the hell does the ACLU want? The FBI to paradrop into Afghanistan, slap the cuffs on them and read them their Miranda rights? What the hell?

Try this article if you're confused about the ACLU's motives
http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/nat_hentoff/article_085a3dc4-2725-11df-afa2-001cc4c03286.html

Here's the short version of things that are bothering the ACLU:
1. Lots of foreign civilian casualties
2. "nonmilitary personnel including CIA agents [and possibly contractors] are making targeting decisions, piloting drones and firing missiles"
3. we don't know under which American laws and international treaties the President has authorized this program of targeted killings

No matter how the Pakistani Government feels, bombing Pakistani civilians is only going to piss off and radicalize the locals.

You mean like the "America Police Force" private detention facility in Hardin, Montana?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Jones

Pic: http://www.billingsgazette.com/rednews/2002/10/03/build/local/images/72-candidate.jpg

And people ask me why I'm no longer a Libertarian.

Never underestimate the power of prevailing winds

Firefighters and policemen are suddenly the great American heros. Policemen and firefighters are simply doing their jobs. They get paid for doing what they did. A hero is someone who goes far above and beyond the call of duty to help out in some way.

So, if the police and firemen who showed up and climbed the WTC were not heroes, would that mean the 249 New Orleans Police Officers who didn't bother to show up for work weren't cowards?

My take, every opportunity to be a hero is a new event. Yesterday's hero could be today's coward. Or vice versa. Cops who spend their career fillout traffic tickets aren't heroes. But they have chosen an occupation where opportunities to test their heroism are more likely. They still might fold, might fail,

When I worked at a University there was a bomb threat that caused the administration to evacuate the entire campus. It took hours because the University wasn't set up for evacuation. Classes that were in a different room, to write their midterms, didn't get found and told to clear out.

Yes, it was mid-term season. One clue the bomb threat would turn out to be a hoax.

Well, when the time when the anonymous tipster said the bombs would go off had passed the campus police were sent to check out all the buildings before the civilians were let back in.

If there really were bombs, or booby traps, to do a proper job of clearing the campus probably would have taken a battalian of combat engineers. The campus police had no bomb training, or bomb demolition equipment.

Within the next two weeks have the members of the campus police had resigned.

I grew up in Kansas and fully understand how you are probably voting Republican because everyone around you is. My grandfather grew up in Osage County, Kansas and voted Democrat. He became a Democrat when, after he had returned from WW I, a Republican President ordered a Republican General (MacArthur) to order a Republican Colonel (Eisenhower) to clear out the encampment of WW I veterans encamped near the White House.

The result of this unprovoked attack on what was called the "Bonus Army" who were just trying to lobby their government for an early payout of their war bonus to ease the pain they (and all Americans) were suffering during the Great Depression. Many were killed. My grandfather reacted accordingly when he saw his former brothers-in-arms attacked.

Kansas is presently trying to redefine "science." This is because "real" science doesn't fit into the unscientific nonesense that a group of right-wing religious nuts wish taught in high schools. They want to allow students to consider that "beliefs" can also function in scientific enquiry.

So, this means that if you want to suppose anything, based on your belief, it may be part of your scientific statement of theory. Kind of like, "The sky is blue on this planet because it's a color that some greater intelligent being than mankind thinks goes well with this planet." Of course the process of the scattering of photons as received by the sun, something that may be empirically observed in a laboratory experiment really isn't all that important.

According to the strict interpretation of the Judeo-Christian Bible made by James Ussher, the world began on 23 October, 4004 BCE. Never mind that we have radiocarbon dating evidence showing fossils that vastly pre-date this, we'll just redefine scientific methodology until it fits what we want it to fit.

You state: There is nothing wrong with evolution, but when you try to expand that (as above) into guaranteed fact and teach that, I think that's a mistake. This alone shows that you know nothing about scientific methodology, a world where what we know is built on a series of premises, called theories, borne out by persistent observation. Theories are not "guaranteed facts." A scientist may theorize that a human being could not survive a fall from an airplane at an altitude of 10,000 feet. This is proven a number of times. But then, someone comes up with a parachute and the theory must be altered to fit observable results. In other words, no theory gets a free ride they all must survive repeated observations.

Darwin's theory of evolution is not at odds with what is observed. It is also dis-provable, which is a very important part of scientific methodology. No scientist, practicing as such, would ever hold fast to a theory, unmodified, in the face of contrary evidence that may be tested. As stated, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is good science. He clearly states that his theory may be disproved or nullified and clearly states how this might be accomplished in his book, "The Origin of Species." Nowhere in his book does he state that a religious persuasion may disprove all or part of his theory based on religious beliefs, because religion and science are two different practices utterly. The essence of science is observable actions or things, not beliefs or feelings.

Albert Einstein theorized the possibility that gravitation could cause a "lensing" effect on stars or galaxies that were on the other side of a gravitational field. This was never proved in his lifetime (he died in 1954). This didn't make his theory any less valid; he stated it as science ought to be stated, suggesting experiments that would prove him right or prove him wrong.

So with Darwin. The fact that human beings have not evolved into another species since he published his theory does not disprove it. His theory states that the process of speciation takes many,

Actually, a majority of Americans think Bush is dishonest, and 58% of them think he's mishandling Iraq.

Bush's re-election was due to the Republican Party's mastery of smear campaigning, hysteria-raising, and pandering to the religious right's thirst for power. The Democratic Party's uninspired campaigning didn't help.

Bush has been nothing but forthright and candid during these troubled times

Bwahahahaha! Seen any Iraqi WMDs lately?

Sorry to tell you this but real scientists in the real world usually dont base a whole lot of their research on hollywood movies...

Supposedly not, but:

Report: Paleontologist "fudged" discovery to promote movie
Museum of the Rockies paleontologist Jack Horner "fudged" information about a dinosaur discovery four years ago to promote the third "Jurassic Park" film, National Public Radio reported Wednesday.

Horner disputes altering dinosaur discovery for movie opening
BOZEMAN -- Paleontologist Jack Horner, who served as a science consultant for the "Jurassic Park" films, acknowledged that the announcement of a dinosaur find in eastern Montana was delayed to help promote the third installment of the dinosaur-flick franchise four years ago.

And the NPR report (audio) that broke the story:
Movie Marketers Turn to Subtle, Sophisticated Tactics
Advertisers are finding new and creative ways to sell their films. [...] One studio has even manipulated a scientific discovery to coincide with the opening of a film. A look at some of the tactics studios use to seduce moviegoers to their films.

So much for the universal integrity of scientists in the real world...

The first thing I did was think "yeah, this could be a really cool way to compare news bias..."

So I added two sections side by side: one from the UK "World News" section, and the other from the US "World News" section.

Top stories in the UK World News were

• Israeli troops kill Palestinian in raid; death may upset truce
• Gunmen kill two police chiefs and two other Iraqis in Baghdad

and yet neither story was mentioned on the US side. The top story in the US world news was:

• How the tide turned against Tung

Does this mean that as an advertising company, Google could be in danger of falling prey to the advertising pressures that rule the traditional US news media? Draw your own conclusions, I guess....

TSA completes calculation (2+2) and determines cell phone and computer batteries pose a greater threat aboard planes than boxcutters of nail clippers. Well maybe not yet, but if trends continue, perhaps. In this article we read of exploding batteries and increasing power density. "If you're cramming more and more power in a small space, what you're making is a small bomb," said Carl Hilliard...

Exploding batteries have already caused disruption at LAX.

The subject of potential weapons on planes has been beat to death, but the battery angle is still interesting. Especially when you consider that a weapons intimidation power is more a function of public perception than killing power. The more press exploding batteries receive, the greater the perceived danger. Never mind that a torn beer can can do more damage.

Ever notice how Americans with the money are leaving the country for elective surgery, even despite the risks as put forth in that negative article?

I guess we're still number 1, even when the rich flee to other countries for their medical care, right?

There are 250 swift boat vets who served with Kerry (that doesn't mean the same boat...that means the same group of boats. You know what the guy 10 feet away from you on the next boat is doing) who say that Kerry did not serve honorably, showed extreme cowardice, and lied to get his medals, all the while filming documentaries about how heroic he was for future campaign material.

Yea, right. It's amazing you people believe this BS.

Two hundred and fifty of THESE GUYS.

Columbus swift boat vet angry about letter

By LINDA HALSTEAD-ACHARYA
Of The Gazette Staff

COLUMBUS - Swift boat veteran Bob Anderson of Columbus is ticked.

It bothers him that Sen. John Kerry's swift boat history has become such a political hot potato. But he's even more irritated that his name was included - without his permission - on a letter used to discredit Kerry.

"I'm pretty nonpolitical," the 56-year-old Anderson said Tuesday. So, when he found out last week that his name was one of about 300 signed on a letter questioning Kerry's service, he was "flabbergasted."

"It's kind of like stealing my identity," said Anderson, who spent a year on a swift boat as an engine man and gunner.

The letter, which was posted on the Swift Boat Veter-ans for Truth Web site, claims the Demo-cratic presidential candidate has "grossly and knowingly distorted the conduct of the American soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen of that (Vietnam) war."

The letter also criticizes Kerry for trying to change his image from a critic of the war to a war hero.

"After reading the letter," Anderson said, "it kind of got under my skin. I had never come across a situation where someone used my name without my support or approval. It's not a very comforting feeling."

What's worse, he said, he disagrees with the letter.

"Had they asked me to use my name, I wouldn't have allowed them to," he said.

Anderson, a 1966 graduate of Chinook High School, describes himself as a naive Montana kid who was smacked by the reality of war soon after arriving in Vietnam in 1967.

"It's not a very pleasant way to grow up," he said.

He served on a swift boat about the same time Kerry did. However, the first time he met Kerry was during a reunion of swift boat vets in Norfolk, Va., in March 2003.

Anderson said he cannot dispute or verify Kerry's experience. In fact, he's forgotten much of his own.

"You remember the simple things," he said. "The rest is what you don't want to remember."

He does, however, support Kerry's right to state his opinion.

"We say we're protecting democracy. That's why we go to war. As Americans, we can have our opinions, right?"

Anderson can vividly recall the last day of 1969, when his boat was attacked.

"The thing I remember before we got hit was the grass dragging on the sides of the boat - the canals were so narrow," he said. "I can also remember the smell of napalm."

Anderson's boat was about the fourth boat back in a string of 10. He describes the scene as an Armageddon. Fellow swift boat sailor Bob Wedge was so badly wounded, Anderson doubted he would survive.

"That boat was like a slaughterhouse that day," he said. "He (Wedge) just about bled to death before we got a tourniquet on him and the chopper got him."

Wedge, who lost a leg, was flown home. Thirty-four years passed before the two met again. Now they find themselves on the same side of another conflict.

Wedge, 60, of Mesquite, Nev., said his name, too, was on the list - and he's mad.

"This is the fourth or fifth time someone has called me or e-mailed me in regard to signing this damn letter," he wrote in an e-mail to Anderson. "I don't agree with it and want no part of it and especially don't want my name on it."

Both men have tried to contact the Swift Boat Ve

Some people have said *300*. Except, of course, it appears that at least three of those signatures are from vets who were contacted, asked to sign the affadavit, said they didn't want to be involved, but then had their signatures added anyway.

Many of the rest of them don't even know Kerry except by reputation.

There are dangers in relying on electronic information. Particularly when it is used without any exercise of common sense.

This is a good thing.

Outsourcing labor will force prices to go down. Also, eventually rents (among other economic forces) will decline as people will choose the cheapest places to live, as opposed to the most desirable. These two factors will eventually cause the cost of living to go down. By the way, rents are currently going down, on average. Here you go. Unfortunately, it looks like SoCal won't be so lucky. It might be time to move.

Stan Jones, a libertarian candidate turned a blueish tinge from taking that stuff: Click here for a picture of the guy.

I take it you also disagree with his statement that he "[wants] to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."

I ran into the post limit yesterday so I'm posting this now...

...people tend to expect their governments to actually work for their good.

Such belief is nothing more than the govt propaganda at work. The govt hardly ever works for the good of the citizens. Since you seem to support the status-quo, I guess you won't see why the system is pretty bad. Just remember: the peasents/workers in aristocratic socities claimed the same thing. They were so confident that the system was actually for their good that they allowed themselves to be sentenced to death for adultery while kings were committing adultery on a daily basis. I don't think my words will have much impact but all I can say is that, your belief in the system is misplaced.

You advocate change for the sake of change alone.

No. I'm not proposing the alternate system simply for the sake of it. There is more to it. I believe that humans are dynamic, organic beings. We change over time. Therefore, it is best if we build a society where the system is just as dynamic. Ther modern "justice" system is nothing more than a revenge system, created by the elites several thousand years ago. It was simply to keep the masses in line and let the elites carry out abuses. The same system has stuck since then. It is different; it's more egalitarian; it's more fairer; but the system is a weakness.

You misuse the word when you say that laws can be "circumvented" by passing new laws when this is in fact the Constitutional method of implementing the change you advocate.

I'm not really sure what your point is. My position is that everything should be dynamic. My point had nothing to do with my system. I was simply pointing out that the "Constitutional method of implementing change" can also lead to circumvension towards bad deeds. In other words, the system that you hold dear is not so dear. *I* can take over USA tomorrow and run it as a dictatorship simply by passing a few laws here and there. Consider the recent cases with the Guantanomo Bay prisoners. USA has classified them as "enemy combatants" which really doesn't fit any category. With a simple stroke of the pen, or more like passing a 200+ page law that no one read, USA just introduced a whole new notion that did not exist before. USA has been able to jail without trial a bunch of people that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. If someone said that a person can be jailed without trial (by USA of all countries) how many would have believed it? Even totalitarian regimes like USSR and Nazi Germany charged people with bogus crimes (although it is not clear whether being jailed without a charge or being jailed with a bogus charge is worse). Furthermore, USA has classified Jose Padilla, a US citizen, as an "enemy combatant". How many would have thought that an American can be held in a jail perpetually without allowing any contact with family, lawyers etc?

Now, I'm not saying it is easy or that I am a dictator (I'm not :) ). In fact, people realize the mistake and are trying to undo it. BUT your perceived strength in the system is nonexistent.

Libertarians, for example, will blather on about laissez-faire capitalism as if it had never been tried. It has been tried of course; in England during the Industrial Revolution. It was disastrous economically, environmentally, and in terms of human rights. You owe it to yourself to examine past anarchic societies and see why they went wrong.

I'm neither a liberatarian nor an anarchist. I am a leftist, a socialist, with anarchist tendencies :) I don't come across as that because I'm arguing for an anarchist system. I am totally against capitalism so your Industrial Revolution

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So, do we have a link? A reference? How can we confirm this? Who posted this? This sort of news item sucks. Very little information and no links to reference the news item.

Well, you could bitch and moan about it, or you could just use Google News and find your own damn references

Bush White House stops EPA from issuing warning about asbestos insulation in homes!