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Dallas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson proposes national park designation to protect moon artifacts

I wish I could say this satire . . .

I'm going to believe the person IN the tent over CNN in this case: http://www.dallasnews.com/ebola/headlines/20141025-uta-grad-isolated-at-new-jersey-hospital-as-part-of-ebola-quarantine.ece

So glad we were able to stop the spread of ebola here.

The cost of mining and burning coal is basically the same, and there's nothing new in wind-turbine technology to make it more effective.

While there may not be any dramatic breakthroughs, wind-turbine technology is become more cost-effective through good old economies-of-scale: bigger turbines, and larger production runs.

There's no new rush for wind-generating operations because there's nothing new to "phase in".

The new thing to phase in would be economical wind-turbines (as opposed to the smaller, more expensive-per-watt turbines of previous decades). And arguably, it's happening now (at least in places where conditions are favorable to wind)

There are New York Times and CNN and Texas local media outlets that carried the story. I just picked the first two google results.

I knew that, but did you? If you did, why didn't you link them instead of some random Google results? Results that contradict the BS you wrote.

The Dallas News says that he went in unprotected and that he was accompanied by people in protective gear.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews...

Does it say that he was offered protective gear, but refused it? Because that's what you claimed: "When offered protective gear, he declined, and entered the man's apartment without gloves, or even a facemask." The Dallas Morning News article you linked just says, "Dyer said that the deputy and four other deputies accompanied Dallas County health director Zachary Thompson into the apartment, most without protective gear." It does not say that he was offered, but refused protective gear. Also, the Dallas Morning News blog post contradicts this WFAA report that says, "No one who entered the apartment that day wore protective gear." And a different Dallas Morning News article also says, "Monnig was one of several deputies who went to serve the warrant. None wore protective gear." In any case, none say that Monnig refused protective gear.

There are New York Times and CNN and Texas local media outlets that carried the story. I just picked the first two google results.

I knew that, but did you? If you did, why didn't you link them instead of some random Google results? Results that contradict the BS you wrote.

The Dallas News says that he went in unprotected and that he was accompanied by people in protective gear.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews...

Does it say that he was offered protective gear, but refused it? Because that's what you claimed: "When offered protective gear, he declined, and entered the man's apartment without gloves, or even a facemask." The Dallas Morning News article you linked just says, "Dyer said that the deputy and four other deputies accompanied Dallas County health director Zachary Thompson into the apartment, most without protective gear." It does not say that he was offered, but refused protective gear. Also, the Dallas Morning News blog post contradicts this WFAA report that says, "No one who entered the apartment that day wore protective gear." And a different Dallas Morning News article also says, "Monnig was one of several deputies who went to serve the warrant. None wore protective gear." In any case, none say that Monnig refused protective gear.

-it's no CNN or New York Times

There are New York Times and CNN and Texas local media outlets that carried the story. I just picked the first two google results.

Check for yourself. Google "Second Texas Ebola Case" and limit the results to the time of my first post. You'll see what I'm talking about.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/frisco-officials-say-patient-exhibiting-ebola-like-symptoms-claims-to-have-had-contact-with-thomas-eric-duncan.html/

The Dallas News says that he went in unprotected and that he was accompanied by people in protective gear.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews...

OSHA and EPA gotta know about it, first, right?

Despite West explosion, Rick Perry sticks to his anti-regulatory schtick.

Spending state money on inspections and regulatory oversight would not have prevented the explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. plant, [Perry] he added. Never mind that the company had stored 540,000 pounds of highly explosive ammonium nitrate on the site without informing residents of the extreme danger and without informing the Department of Homeland Security — as required.

Perry made up, out of whole cloth, a supposed preference among Texans for freedom from regulation over being safe from industrial explosions and other disasters. ”Through their elected officials [people] clearly send the message of their comfort with the amount of oversight,” he told the AP.

In Texas, we don't need no steenkin regulations.

I'm not anti-Texas, and I think Perry is a wing nut, but businesses love low regulations. It's cheaper to operate, especially when it's a risky, volatile, venture like fertilizers and rockets and stuff.

Where are people getting the idea that the media isn't talking about the lack of male teachers? I hear about it constantly. In fact, I suspect you might have to be particularly plugged-in to tech news to be hearing significantly more about women in tech than male teachers.

Here's one: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/m...
Here's another: http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Another: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/s...
Another: http://www.dallasnews.com/news...
Another: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

But that’s no longer the case. Thanks to demographic shifts, a surge in military spending and other factors, Texas has crossed the break-even line. In six of the past eight years, including the entire tenure of President Barack Obama, Texans got more out of the federal Treasury than they put in.

That's an article from 2012. Thank you google.

Most of us haven't been in a school library in years, unless we have kids who are of that age.

There are a *lot* of librarian mailing lists out there ... if you want the geek perspective, try code4lib. They won't suggest that you try to hack together your own loan system using smartphones & barcode readers. (they'll instead tell you about the one they made that you can have a copy of)

Most of the innovation in library spaces is happening in public & college libraries these days, adding makerspaces or going high-tech ... but that's not applicable to an elementary school. I wouldn't even suggest it for a high school (where you'd have seperate computer labs, shop classes, home ec., etc.)

I wouldn't even bother with educating them on the benefits of real, deep research vs. satisficing with the top hit from Google ... leave that for middle or high school. In elementary school, just focus on making reading accessible and fun.

The only thing that you I think is wrong with school libraries is that they're closed in summer, so the books are sitting going to waste. I'd love to see there be better coordination between our local school & library systems, but our current library system is so disfunctional that I don't see that changing without them getting rid of the director who thought it was a good idea to fire all of the branch managers.

Police officers themselves rarely receive personal bonuses based upon tickets, but police departments absolutely obtain revenue from tickets. This, of course, leads to wonderfully corrupt practices like instituting ticket quotas and larger fines/stricter enforcement to control their revenue.

However, not all departments fall to abuse, and the quotas (when they exist) are never made public intentionally, so this issue usually flies under the radar.

You are swallowing a line of bullshit propaganda rather uncritically.

Texas is in fact doing quite well. As Rick Perry bragged, one-third of all jobs created in the whole USA were created in Texas, which doesn't have anywhere near one-third of the population of the whole USA.

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2013/may/09/rick-perry/rick-perry-says-texas-accounted-33-percent-nations/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york/texas-immigrants-and-econ_b_3745379.html

So a liberal newspaper might be looking for complaints about Texas ("first in the amount of carbon emissions") but the unemployment rate is significantly below the rate of the USA. Business is doing better and individuals are doing better compared to the rest of the USA.

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2013/04/texas-lost-jobs-in-march-unemployment-rate-remains-the-same-at-6-4-percent.html/

how fucking busy could the Governor actually be, except for executing people and fund raising.

Who cares? Texas is doing well as a state. Maybe the USA would do better if the President did less stuff. Let's try it!

In most countries of the world, if a non-parent gave an 8-year-old access to the same level of porn as GTA 5's strip club, they would be severely punished.

Why does a film showing people shooting each other get a PG while you still can't yet have a fully naked man in a sexual situation in mainstream entertainment. Seriously? Which one do you think is actually the more dangerous idea of acceptable behaviour?

Morals and ethics, basically. Minors are 'protected' from sex in almost every country, and that protection includes restrictions from giving them or showing them porn. The age varies around the world, I understand some countries the age of consent is as low as 14, but until that age they are protected.

After doing some web searches that are sure to get me on various watch lists, It looks like in the US it is unlawful to show porn to minors even if they are the parents... except possibly Texas.

In late August 2008, Then Senator Obama gave a little speech in a airline maintenance hanger in Kansas City. He complained about the Republicans and how much ground the middle class had lost, about healthcare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xauuo1CvexE Listening to it now it still echos of somebody who didn't have ideas then and certainly has no ideas now. What's ironic about his middle class speech there is that American Airlines closed down that maintenance facility in 2010.. http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20100924-American-Airlines-closes-former-TWA-base-878.ece

Sounds like the same schtick over and over again.

...the secondary crime scene, where the homicide (yours) takes place.

Like this from yesterday.

That's some sad stuff.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/oak-cliff/headlines/20130301-firing-and-arrests-of-dallas-police-officers-could-be-opening-salvo-in-another-departmental-scandal.ece
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704720804576009812869266014.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-15/news/chi-schaumburg-drug-conviction-dropped-20130415_1_john-cichy-hudak-drug-conspiracy
http://theweek.com/article/index/220367/planting-drugs-on-innocent-people-nypds-shocking-scandal

I could go on, but you can read the results of searching for cops planting drugs on google yourself rather than plugging your ears and screaming at the top of your lungs how it can't be happening.

That and the goddamn heat/humidity.

Even a damnyankee knows Texas is big enough for a variety of climates. I highly recommend a place that has winter. Save the Gulf Coast for beach vacations.

What is missing from the timeline is the time they blew up a huge project. I remember reading about it in the early 90's but can't locate the source, so I give you Wikipedia: basically they blew 125 million and 3.5 years of development work and AMR (American Airlines parent company) was sued by Marriot, Hilton and Budget (partners in the system) for the failure.

Then back in 2009, AMR hired HP to develop a new system for them, which was seen as very risky.

Now, it seems that they have thrown in the towel, what is it with AMR that it can't get a fucking system going after 20-something years?

Sure you can:

http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/11/neighborhood-nuclear-power-pla.html

Can you? This article was predicting they'd be on sale in less than five years, and was written over four years ago. They appear to be a little behind schedule. Their website (http://www.gen4energy.com/) still talks about everything as being still on the drawing board; no mention of actual deployment or any target dates or milestones.

There's a lot more than physics behind the inability of in newer (and safer) nuclear power plant designs being deployed.

There are other examples of small-scale reactor deployments - like the ones used in nuclear submarines (including the small NR-1), as well as the nuclear reactors used in spacecraft (not something you'd power a neighborhood with, but they are still reactors).

Sure you can:

http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/11/neighborhood-nuclear-power-pla.html

Can you? This article was predicting they'd be on sale in less than five years, and was written over four years ago. They appear to be a little behind schedule. Their website (http://www.gen4energy.com/) still talks about everything as being still on the drawing board; no mention of actual deployment or any target dates or milestones.

Nature is very good at serving us humility in small bite size portions that can bring great things down. Events like this should remind us that we are mere stewards of the planet and that the rest of the ecosystem will happily take over the best laid plans we have if we let our guard down even a little.

Isn't that the lesson Jeff Goldblum was trying to teach us in Jurassic Park?

No matter how well you design something nature can and will find a way to get in, and it is arrogance in the extreme to assume otherwise. About the only way to avoid something like that is to have a clean room environment, and I'm quite certain that you can't fit a nuclear power plant inside a clean room.

Sure you can:

http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/11/neighborhood-nuclear-power-pla.html

He believes the LAPD ruined his life, because he accused his trainer of beating up a civilian while he was doing his first week mentorship, and those charges were dropped after an investigation revealed that they were false. The "ruining his life" part comes because the LAPD then dismissed him for making a false charge: they felt he was a risk to have on the force.

He should have just applied for a job with Dallas PD.

He believes the LAPD ruined his life, because he accused his trainer of beating up a civilian while he was doing his first week mentorship, and those charges were dropped after an investigation revealed that they were false. The "ruining his life" part comes because the LAPD then dismissed him for making a false charge: they felt he was a risk to have on the force.

He should have just applied for a job with Dallas PD.

Three examples of guns saving lives? Here are three examples of gun owners being shot with their own gun:

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2011/04/mckinney-homeowner-shot-with-h.html/

http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/Enterprise_Man_Shot_In_Attempted_Burglary_138608814.html

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/06/21/escalon-police-officer-shot-while-investigating-burglaries/

In fact, tens of thousands of guns are stolen each year (can you cite tens of thousands of cases of gun owners successfully stopping crimes each year?):

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4534

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/anonymous-spokesperson-barrett-brown-raided-arrested-in-dallas.html/

So that's why he's being cuffed and treated as threatening.

Maybe you should ask Barret Brown if we've stopped being civil?

Good call, ask a member of the thug gang "anonymous" what he thinks of the government agency who just arrested him. You're sure to get an objective answer.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/anonymous-spokesperson-barrett-brown-raided-arrested-in-dallas.html/

So that's why he's being cuffed and treated as threatening.

Maybe you should ask Barret Brown if we've stopped being civil?

Dallas Mornings News discovered the store in question is at the Northpark Mall in Dallas

It is in area news, but it hasn't hit the national airwaves yet. However, the local news doesn't describe it as a "state of emergency" like the BBC does. Maybe though they just don't want to get people overly scared. What is happening is pretty much the same as what happened in New York a couple years ago.

Hasn't hit the national airwaves yet? I heard about it this morning on NPR, and the report stated that the locals have claimed it a "state of emergency", presumably for receiving/requesting emergency funds to combat it.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/npr.php?id=158911307

Paywalled. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20120815-aerial-spraying-for-west-nile-to-start-tonight-in-dallas-park-cities.ece

It is in area news, but it hasn't hit the national airwaves yet. However, the local news doesn't describe it as a "state of emergency" like the BBC does. Maybe though they just don't want to get people overly scared. What is happening is pretty much the same as what happened in New York a couple years ago.

Above all: I realize we are all participating in a thought exercise in the comments today. My thoughts are with the people harmed in this incident and their families.

Now...
Can we please begin blaming the perpetrator and NOT the tool they used to commit their crimes?

Can we craft laws that give family members the ability to report troubling behavior to authorities, possibly forcing a doctors' consultation? How is it that in the U.S., you can be jailed and forced to take treatment for Tuberculosis, but persons who walk around month after month, year after year exhibiting a dozen classical red flags for behavioral illness are left to their own devices? - Maybe they'll never harm anyone. Maybe they'll shoot up a movie theater.

Please stop blaming guns. Where are all the guns in Western Europe, where Britain has a violent crime rate higher than the United States, or for that matter even South Africa?

SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
SOURCE: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/696036-britain-more-violent-than-us-and-europe

10 killed - 63 seriously injured - CLEARLY we need a background check and 30 day waiting period to buy AUTOMOBILES. What happens when a tragedy like this is intentional and not an accident? What could a sick person do with a Chevy Suburban in a crowded parking lot?

SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222924,00.html
SOURCE: http://articles.cnn.com/2004-01-05/justice/farmer.market.crash_1_movsha-hoffman-molok-ghoulian-brendon-esfahani?_s=PM:LAW

I'd rather gamble my life rushing a gunman to grapple their weapon away. The Tueller Drill / 21 Foot Rule says I'd probably win:
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
SOURCE: http://www.policeone.com/edged-weapons/articles/102828-Edged-Weapon-Defense-Is-or-was-the-21-foot-rule-valid-Part-1/

According to a number of sources, gunshot wounds - with access to medical treatment - are survivable nearly 95% of the time. Fate is cruel; survivability has everything to do with where you are shot and what is damaged internally.

SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/nyregion/03shot.html?_r=1

This just in!
Another human being can pick a fight with you, or sucker punch you in the head, AND KILL YOU BARE HANDED.

SOURCE: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Man__bleeding_in_brain__after_club_fracas-139265238.html
SOURCE: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/02/27/20120227california-girl-dies-after-fight.html
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PoXH_-tUE
SOURCE: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2011/04/teen-killed-in-fistfight-near.html/
SOURCE: http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/fist-fight-left-miami-tourist-dead-caught-video/story?id=11445914#.UAnc_oa-zUY
SOURCE:

Police Unions are resistant to reviews of dash cam footage
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20120422-officers-complaints-prompt-dallas-police-to-suspend-units-reviews-of-squad-car-video.ece
http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-police-union-opposes-random-reviews-of-officers-dash-cam-videos-20120105,0,451142.story

/And don't get me started on retention policies for dash cam footage.
//Without any specific laws in place, most police departments more or less do what they want.

In fact, it is many of the neo-cons that are hard at work at opposing private space. That includes the likes of Hutcinson(R-TX), Croyn(R-TX), Shelby(R), Wolfe(R), Hatch(R), Coffman(R), etc.. The new round of republicans are torn on this, but the older neo-cons within the republican party are working hard to kill off private space. The reason is that neo-cons currently control the pubs, but also many of them are from areas that represent Boeing, ULA, ATK, L-Mart, Grummun, etc. In fact, it was the republican controlled house that gutted private space funding, but the dem controlled senate restored part of it. The dems wanted it all restored, but the senate pubs (esp. those above) fought against it.

It depends on the plant. I don't have one of these systems, although I had a neighbor with one. He didn't seem to have issues. Here's an article that talks about gray water and plants: How does detergent in gray water affect landscape plants? While i was looking for that on I also found another that goes into local water codes in DFW area that pertain: City rules on gray water around Dallas-Fort Worth Obviously, YMMV, but gives an idea of some of the regulations.

I can't really see retrofitting something like this being very cost effective unless you garden in Arizona.

It depends on the plant. I don't have one of these systems, although I had a neighbor with one. He didn't seem to have issues. Here's an article that talks about gray water and plants: How does detergent in gray water affect landscape plants? While i was looking for that on I also found another that goes into local water codes in DFW area that pertain: City rules on gray water around Dallas-Fort Worth Obviously, YMMV, but gives an idea of some of the regulations.

I can't really see retrofitting something like this being very cost effective unless you garden in Arizona.

Hamsters work, if you have enough of them, and if you are not addicted to speed.

Imagine the look of a 10,000 Hamster roadster! That would be impressive!

I wonder how many miles per ton of seed you would get? You could probably fertilize the entire neighborhood before you even got all the way down the block!

On a completely different topic, there is a group that is trying to get permission to build a Thorium powered sports car. It gets supposedly around 150,000 KMPKG (Km/Kg of fuel), and only needs a modest particle accelerator. They are projecting a cost of around $5,000.00 for the 200 KW power plant when it reaches mass production. Just add an electric vehicle. The thing is not much more radioactive than a standard university Nuclear Howitzer (a source of Alpha particles for experiments, not a weapon). It is steel encased, with a lead shield. Weighs around a Ton, only a little heavier than an old V8 twin four barrel muscle car engine (think Mach II Mustang). It should be able to go into immediate production, right after they get NRC approval. There is supposed to be almost no radioactive by-products. So write your Congresscritter.

See more about this at any of the following:

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/09/19/us-company-developing-radioactive-steam-powered-car-engine/
http://wardsauto.com/ar/thorium_power_car_110811/
http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/08/inventor-working-on-thorium-po.html

Or, you could just let Google do the walking.

I love the line that "The car will wear out before you need to refuel." I think Yugo tried that a some years ago, but it didn't work out too well for them.

I have also seen a wind powered car that can go over 70 MPH in a good stiff breeze. It was on the road in Michigan in the mid 1970's. It was cool. It looked like a three wheeled glider with no wings or elevators, and a big eight foot tall arch where the wings should be. It did best in a crosswind, which that part of Michigan always has, so your dreams can still live.

See, all of these are possible. Except for a people carrying Hamstermobile, all of these are being worked on, or have already been done. And, I have seen concept hamtermobiles, though they could only carry a couple of ounces of cargo/riders, as they only used a single hamster.

The Hamster concept still needs scaling up.

July 03--Hundreds of thousands of drivers are getting a free ride on area toll roads even as tollway authorities hammer others with huge fines to recoup their losses.

The reason: The costly camera system that is fast replacing human toll-takers routinely fails to identify customers who use the roads without a TollTag. As a result, 28 percent of drivers without TollTags are never even billed.

See, we don't have toll booths anymore. So you drive though and pay a bill that is sent to the registered mailing address to your car. Hell, even the tags sometimes miss, though much more rarely. What they want you to do is to get a tag because you save 20% of the toil cost, but in reality its so they don't have to bother with the OCR at all. I can tell you this much, when it rains I put my tag in my glove compartment. Never been billed for the use of the roads during then.

Excellent point.

You have a large business where lawyers and MBA's have made the rules, and IT is expected to implement the rules they wrote.

In a hospital in the US, you have to implement policies in line with medical privacy and records security policies that have a basis in federal law.

In a university in the US, you have to implement policies in line with student record privacy and records security policies that have a basis in federal law.

In most other places, you are bound by some level of law and PHB-level policy.

Think about it: crap like this happens. Or this. Or even companies like Apple can 'misplace' a secret prototype.

And yet, there are those out there who believe that it's the job of IT to "support" every personal device they might bring round to the office, whether it can meet the security and legal requirements of the business or not, and whether or not IT have had a similar device and any chance to research what might be needed to support it ...

well, many of the high poverty areas in dallas/houston/san antonio also have high gang activity which leads to higher violence. a lot of senseless killing for "respect" or lack of, payback, or debts (real or perceived).

take a look at this map of dallas homicides in 2010. South and South East Dallas is predominately minority and low income with high gang activity.

I've included a heat map of home prices just so you know I'm not guessing about those areas economically.
It's a chicken and egg question though as to crime/poverty and I won't even go there.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/graphics/homicides/
http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/Texas/Dallas-heat_map/

This was an assassination, asshole. Education about gun safety had nothing to do with it.

Indeed. This is what happens when you have prominent candidates for major political office throwing ad hominem attacks at their opponents, telling people the world will end unless they win, and advocating violent insurrection if they don't win. At least three Tea Party candidates advocated actions like what happened today:

• Richard Behney
• Stephen Broden
• Sharron Angle

It's inevitable. If your rhetoric involves implying that violent acts are an acceptable means of political pressure, some percentage of people will believe your bulls**t, and eventually, somebody will take it too far. It's okay to disagree. It's not okay to act like these Tea Party idiots acted in this election season. When you act that way, events like those of today are what you get.

If there is any justice in the world, the three political candidates above will be arrested promptly and charged with treason.

We need -both-.

You're right. In case someone thinks that police recordings are sufficient, here's a recent example that demonstrates why they're not. Two months ago 3 Dallas PD officers were caught beating a motorcyclist (who was not resisting) on camera and guess what one of the officers decided to do when he realized this was being recorded? He moved the camera to conceal the beating.

Dallas Police Charge 3 Officers In Alleged Beating

video

Well, a little bit more updated news.. (Jan 2010)

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/0109dnbusindict.5a69f16b.html?ocp=2#slcgm_comments_anchor

Seems one of the main people referenced in the story is dead trying to re-enter the US after he fled, the other is in Jail.

At least we know what happened to the players.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/0109dnbusindict.5a69f16b.html?ocp=2#slcgm_comments_anchor

Apparently things didn't end well for a few folks...

This may shed some light...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/0109dnbusindict.5a69f16b.html?ocp=2#slcgm_comments_anchor

1. Google Sponsoring In-Flight WiFi This Holiday Season. Easy to offer something that's getting banned. Next: free bottles of water from the fountain of youth (in convenient 3oz sizes)?

2. Pilots protest of TSA's pat-down rules. But only as concerns pilots. Everyone else should still be treated like cattle.

I don't see anything wrong with that but it obviously means the environment is not as important to him as Bush, who also has staff but a much smaller home that is far more efficient.

Bush just bought an 8500 sqft Dallas mansion within a two hour drive from the Crawford ranch. Methinks he has plenty of room now.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/rdreher/stories/011308dnedidreher.1ab6eb80.html

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-obamairaq_28nat.ART.State.Edition1.4ab6cce.html 08:29 AM CST on Saturday, February 28, 2009

"Let me say this as plainly as I can," he said. "By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end." -