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Welcome to the age of entitlement. :-/

Not only is this story over 2 months old but it isn't even original! This Guy did it over a year ago while the current guys story was featured on ABC back in March.

Must have taken some real testicles to feel they could justify that much for "mere" science.

[ABC News: Cost of the Iraq War Hits $12B/Month]

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Excuse me? We lose only 5% of our electricity in transmission in the USA, and it could be even lower if we just stepped the voltage up further. I'd like to see your source for this claim. Although I'm no electrician, I've worked for a company that did electrical utility service work. The loss figures I've heard are a bit higher for long-distance transmission. Perhaps you're only considering short-range?

Regardless, the OP's argument is still correct: geothermal hot spots are far away from populated areas, which means greater transmission losses are unavoidable. Higher voltage would ameliorate this, but if it were that easy (and cost-effective) to do, why aren't we doing it already with non-geothermal power sources? I suspect there's a reason in there somewhere that is detrimental to your argument.

The sad thing is that I can point at a ridge that has constant 25 MPH wind, and which has no wind turbines on it. No doubt it's been labeled as "off limits" by somebody who doesn't wish to have a wind farm off their back porch. Environmentalism is fine so long as it affects somebody else, I guess.

Checkpoints fail to detect uranium in cargo containers in two separate tests a year apart.

(There's some argument about whether U-235 would have been detected by equipment that missed the U-238).

I think you should take in a few of the "innocents"

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010883859
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-06-27-russia-gitmo_N.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4033420
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/03/fbc50158-46a9-4921-80db-195b1fe720b8.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20080508-suicide-bomber-former-guantanamo-detainee-usa-iraq-mosul-kuwaiti
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/cubanews/2007w46/msg00251.htm

So once you've got Omar Bin Whackjob and a few of his friends settled into your home, why not pick up a few 100lbs of Fertalizer and leave him your credit card so he can rent a truck?

All the suggestions for kits and projects are great (and I've done my share of them with my own kids), but I agree with lena that the best thing by far is to teach them to use tools safely and build them a space where they can fool around on their own. I worked on a story at Wondertime magazine about a family that did just that: it's called "Charlie's Workshop".

the dirt landed on the outside of the lander but none made it inside the oven: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=5020876

http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10674

So you're the owner of this site :D

According to the Slashdot story...

> "A new survey shows that data retention laws indeed do influence the
> behavior of citizens (at least in Germany). 11% had already abstained from
> using phone, cell phone or e-mail in certain occasions and 52% > would not
> use phone or e-mail for confidential contacts.

According to ABC News Go.com story about the downfall of Elliot Spitzer
at http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4424507&page=1

> Prosecutors reportedly have a series of e-mails and wiretapped phone conversations of Spitzer.

> In a interview two years ago, Spitzer, then-attorney general, told ABC News
> he had some advice for people who break the law. "Never talk when you can
> nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it's
> death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need," he said.

What he did miss was not to shuffle money around in a manner that raises the
suspicion of the authorities. It was his financial maneuvering to get money to
the prostitute that was his downfall.

Check this out too:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6185320

Know how much of this guy's money wound up in kickbacks to Obama? Loads!

1. VW, and Mitsubishi coutries were beaten at war, and I can only expect that the war crimes were dealt with.
2. Second, you completely mis the point with the CCTV comparison. Chiquita was not selling bananas to evil people. Chiquita was directly corrupting governments, and financing the destruction of the governments that wouldn't be corrupted.

BTW, as I mentioned elsewhere it is not as if they have stopped these practices
http://www.peuples-solidaires.org/article801.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2952161&page=1

I have my doubts Prince is even aware of this particular DMCA take down notice.

Prince spends a lot of his time scouring the net looking for stuff like this. Remember the "baby dance" snafu? It wa sPrince, not someone working for him, that found the video and got all uptight.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=2725597

Chicago is already there.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99472

"Outside the convention hall, New York City police plan to control protesters using a device that directs sound for up to 1,500 feet in a spotlight-like beam. Meanwhile, a display of former Republican presidents inside the hall will feature campaign speeches that are funneled to listeners through highly focused audio beams."

OMG! NYPD used LRADs on US Citizens! Lynch them!

OOOOh-Myyyyy-Godddddddd! The Republicans used LRADs on their own members! OMG! OMG! OMG! They are the ultimate evil! What vicious monsters! They used these weapons on their fellow Republicans! Everyone convert to Democrat! Everyone convert to Democrat! It's just a matter of time before your own party uses sound weapons on you again!

I think this article sums up my opinion fairly well. But using a moped is clearly enhancement. The IAAF didn't show that these particular legs allow superior overall biomechanics to a natural leg. But my main point is that this needs to be regulated, rather than banned. This is because there are already many border-line cases. Is this really very different from a runner with a titanium rod in their leg? Or with Speedo's new swimsuit that's causing controversy? What about Tiger Woods' LASIK surgery? Or Floyd Landis' artifical hip?

There are already many things that are currently allowed which are only different from these legs in degree, rather than kind. And that's why this guy should be able to compete.

If you're consistently of the opposite opinion of movies with Ebert, it just might be that you have no taste.

It also looks like he didn't even review Beerfest. It's not on his written review pages, and the review on the show is done by Roeper and some chick.

Yeah, great story, manned and unmanned vehicles in same environs etc.

Hmm.. something missing here, pedestrians perhaps? Rain? Fog? Lets not forget burnt chips or typical auto maintenance issues. And if you are in a car on autopilot and it crashes into someone or thing, are you responsible? Is the manufacturer?

For significant civilian use in the US, I'd give it 30 years, minimum. Other countries, maybe less. Some may not have the pre-existing infrastructure or have more "control" so to speak. For DARPA's stated goal, I'd say 10 or less for military applications, safety isn't goal #1 in that field.

Of course then there are stories like this

quotes like

"...This sounds outlandish, but no less outlandish than the notion that humans could be trusted behind a wheel to begin with..."

"...The problem is that everything that makes us human also conspires to make us horrible drivers. We are emotional, easily distracted and too often just downright stupid..."

make my skin crawl. Basic notion, other people are stupid, so you are now restricted from doing something. Unfortunately once such "logic" is applied to a common activity like driving, only a matter of time before such "common sense" is applied to other matters.

I just had a quick grep on Google for 'Hank Asher'. The results were spectacular - in fact I think I should tip off the 9/11 'it was explosions and holograms' crowd!
I always did wonder how they managed to come up with 19 names shortly after the original 18 was proven as bogus. Maybe we are at war with make-believe MATRIX instead of make-believe al-qaeda, or perhaps they are both one and the same. (alqaeda == the database, al-qaeda is widely acknowledged as invented by the government so they could prosecute UBL for being part of a terrorist organisation, presumably because there is no evidence beyond hearsay linking him to the embassy bombings of '98.)
A sample story from the Google:
Another Friend of Giuliani's Embroiled in Sheriff's Criminal Case â" Giuliani's Partner Linked to Bribery Case 04 Dec 2007
When Hank Asher reached into the bag and pulled out the two $15,000 gold Cartier watches, the holiday crowd at Carmine's restaurant on 44th Street in Manhattan noticed, patrons recalled. Later, so did the U.S. attorney in Orange County, Calif., and soon yet another of Rudy Giuliani's business partners was embroiled in a bribery case. Asher, identified by the initials H.A. in Overt Act 59 of a federal grand jury indictment against Orange County sheriff Michael Carona, had handed the diamond-encrusted Cartier baubles to the wives of the sheriff and his deputy, and with that, assured himself a place in a federal indictment that was looming.
The full article and your own research is highly recommended:
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3952112

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/28/ST2008022803016.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113000912.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/042000-01.htm

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/29/america/29prison.php

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/04/22/us/20080423_PRISON_GRAPHIC.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/28cnd-prison.html?_r=2

http://www.jbs.org/node/7846

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.prisons29feb29,0,2057053.story

LOOK HOW SHORT IT TOOK! SIX YEARS!

http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aaprisonpop.htm

NO! ONE!

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3321586

Righhhhttttt....

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1997083
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0213/p03s03-usju.html

News media are very careful to keep onside with the Whitehouse, Pentagon etc.

I used to think that was the case. But watching over the last twenty years or so I've come to realize that it isn't quite that simple.

For example, during the Monica Lewinsky hoopla, it seemed you couldn't look at a newspaper or turn on a TV without hearing more than you wanted to know about the story. They certainly weren't trying to stay on Clinton's good side, even though he was very popular at the time.

Fast forward a decade, and if you keep your eyes peeled you can catch stories like this:

• The United States has suspended Habis Corpus for "enemy combatants"..
• The Bush administration claims the authority to brand anyone (even US citizens) an "enemy combatant" based only on their say-so, with no recourse and no appeal.
• The Bush administration claims the ability to "render" these "enemy combatants", taking them to undisclosed secret prisons without trial or any public record of what happened to them.
• John Yoo thinks it would be legal to crush an enemy combatant's child's testicles in front of them to get them to talk, the the President were to authorize it.
• Vice president Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice were briefed on Yoo's opinions and used them to craft "enhanced interrogations."
• President Bush was aware of these meeting and approved of them.

So it's not quite as simple as you make it sound.

If a popular president has an extramarital affair, the press shows no fear and shouts it from the rooftops night and day.

But if the least popular president on record (backed by his administration) maintains that he has the inherent authority to kidnap US citizens at will and make them watch while his goons crush their children's testicles, the "free press" covers his butt so well that if you blink you'll miss the story.

--MarkusQ

""That would fix the 31-yr-old posing as 15-yr-old problem."

Is that a significant problem?"

You're joking, right? Unless you've living under a log everyone has heard about the 47 yr old woman posing as a 16 yr old boy on Myspace to chat with a 13 yr old neighbor girl.

And a google search brings up dozens of articles.

And who would think it's ok for adults to pose as children online or anywhere else unless they're doing it themselves? .... Care to tell us anything "lgw"?

There is no recession. Bush said so.

You state these Christians have a "burning haterd" for atheists. If this is the case they are probably not Christians at all.

The problem is that I don't think these people are particularly unique. I'm reminded of this survey (another story here). Some choice quotes from supposedly "reasonable" people:

'Many of those interviewed saw atheists as cultural elitists, amoral materialists, or given to criminal behavior or drugs. She states, "Our findings seem to rest on a view of atheists as self-interested individuals who are not concerned with the common good."'

Cole Ries, the president of the Maranatha Christian Fellowship: "Still, I don't believe that anybody is really an atheist. I believe that deep down everyone knows there is a god."" [how idiotic and arrogant is that??]

'First-year pharmacy student Amanda Wawrzynia, however, found the study reasonable. She said she would have ranked atheists at the bottom of the list of those sharing the same vision of American society. "I would rather have my kids marry someone of a different religion than someone who has none," she said.'

I think the fundamental problem is that Christianity has as a core concept to preach and convert others. Atheists have no investment in converting Christians, but Christians have a huge investment in converting atheists. It's part of the core mission. And if you're not a believer -- if you actually reject the whole idea of God -- then you are an agent of Satan who may lead others astray. In other words, if you're not with God, then you're against God. It interferes with the Christian mission to "save" people from hell and damnation.

In a way, I can kind of understand: if you really believe in God, then you really believe someone's soul is in mortal danger. The stakes could not be higher. And some atheist comes along to poison your community and possibly lead your children to hell! Looked at it that way, an atheist is worse than a child molester!

And this is the problem I have with religion in general and Christianity in particular. The more seriously you believe it, the more it is required of you to persecute nonbelievers, lest they lead "even one soul" into damnation. What's a bit of persecution compared to eternal damnation of one of your friends or family? Is it worth the risk to even get near an atheist? At least some other religions believe in God -- maybe God will cut them some slack.

No disrespect to you, but I take hope in the fact that atheism grows stronger and stronger, and its more and more socially acceptable to declare yourself one, despite all the hatred that surrounds it. I'd like to see that before this century is out (and hopefully I'll see it), atheists will be the majority and humanity can finally cast off the legacy of superstition. Unfortunately, religion is just intrinsically a corrupting and evil influence.

People talk about Christianity like it's the Nazi party, like it's this horrible machine that people are indoctrinated into.

I don't mean this to me inflammatory -- I really don't -- but a LOT of Christianity really is like the Nazi party. Not to say they're putting atheists into ovens, but the hatred of atheists in mainstream Christianity is unbelievable. I would guess you live in one of the more enlightened parts of the country.

I was reading this story recently, and it was absolutely shocking. These are mainstream citizens, not some wacko cult. And it really isn't all that unusual. Google for "atheist persecution" sometime.

Your response will probably be that these aren't "real" Christians, but I maintain you can't separate the two. Polls show that your tolerance is by far in the minority of Christians. Mainstream Christianity has a burning hatred of atheists. I really believe that if a Hitler arose in the United States and called for the rounding up and extermination of atheists, there would be way more support for the policy than you're willing to admit.

Most atheists are perfectly willing to "live and let live", but the majority of Christians aren't. It's not just annoying proselytizing, it's out and out persecution. I could give you long lists of links of examples, but I have a feeling you're not ready to accept how out of control fundamentalism has gotten in the United States.

On a personal note, I don't admit to being an atheist in Real Life anymore. It's just not worth the hassle. It's easier just to say I believe in God without any details, and just define God as, "that natural process that created the universe." I'm pretty sure my in-laws would probably be horrified, though I doubt they would out-and-out disown the family.

Actually, such technology exists. Here's C|Net's shorter-nicer writeup. LG doesn't have any info on their US pages yet, but it's coming.

Obviously you've never been to Cheshire. How about you read up a little bit on this story? Please, feel free to research it even more than this article.

It would be great to assume that everyone was out for your financial possessions, but let's face facts: s**t happens.
A thief, when presented with a life or death situation - is going to run away or surrender. His intentions are not to harm, in fact he may not even like the idea of harming someone. Point a shot gun in his direction and he may just yet s**t a brick.

Owning a firearm is for the percentage of people that when you point a shot gun at them, they keep coming. That is when you know this person is out to harm you and your family. Such as Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3419884

a bit more exercise would help a world more than changing you diet.
Exercise? The cure sounds worse than the disease!

health levels are based on about 80% diet and 20% exercise. the problem is, very few people know what a healthy diet is. the folks over at Harvard medical School's joslin diabetes center have studied the latest research on diet and came up with these guidelines:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/502699

for folks who know their diets, they will recognize this as the zone diet, first put forth by dr. sears (PhD, lipid researcher, not medical) over 15 years prior to joslin jumping on the zone diet bandwagon.

the results of this diet are staggering. a few of the highlights include:

1. Stanford swimmers brought home 8 gold medals in the 1992 Olympics.
2. Stanford swimmers brought home 8 gold medals in the 1996 Olympics.
3. the top two medal winners in the history of the modern day olympics are both zoners - jenny thompson and dara torres.
4. the top gold medal winner in the history of the modern day olympics is a zoner - jenny thompson.
5. The oldest swimmer to make the Olympic team has been a Zoner ever since Dr. Sears introduced his diet. That's 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Oh, and it was 4 different swimmers each time, so you can exclude a single freak athlete as the root cause.
6. dara torres set the american 50m free record as a 40 year old while competing at the 2007 nationals. she also won the 100m free event. she looks to make the 2008 olympic team as a41 year old - the oldest person ever to make the team and the 5th straight olympics that a zoner will be the oldest olympian on the team.
7. manuel uribe has lost over 400 lbs on the zone diet, as well as his depression and hunger. he still weighs over 800 lbs and consumes only 2,000 calories a day. his lipid profile is one of the better lipid profiles in mexico! http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=2799700&page=1 . you can read dr. sears' response to the show and see the lipid profile of the then 800 lb man (he weighs less now) here: http://www.drsears.com/tabid/399/itemid/10218/Its-good-medicine-not-a-medical-mystery.aspx

my results have been incredible, too. i *love* my diet - i feel great, i'm much less hungry, i love what i eat, my energy has sky rocketed, i've dropped from 20% body fat to 11% body fat and I've gone from a 36" waist to a 32" waist in less than 9 months. my abs look better in my 40s than they did at any prior point in my life because i *never* had visible abs before. my body fat drips away and my muscles grow at twice the rate of when I was in my late teens, early twenties. oh, and my allergies are 95% diminished and i went a full year without calling in sick for the first time in my life. all this on less than 1800 calories per day (you need fewer calories on the zone diet because you can generate more atp from a calorie of fat than a calorie of carbohydrate (glucose)). my friend ended a 5.5 year constant back pain nightmare within one day of going on the zone + fish oil. she resisted changing her diet until she dropped $10k, out of pocket, on an mri to help identify her problem. Now she doesn't have a back problem - and her nsaid induced ulcer problem is now gone, too.

go the following page and download the pdf on the Anti-Inflammatory Medicine Monograph link (upper right hand corner).

http://drsears.com/ZoneResources/tabid/384/Default.aspx

not mentioned here is the correlation found between waist size and dementia - and I guarantee that this correlation is lot more serious than not drinking coffee. drinking coffee to reduce the risk of dementia and alzheimers (up to 270% greater risk co

This seems relevant:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=3694104&page=1

Disclaimer: I'm not an American, so I know next to nothing about baseball - and care less!

You've obviously never been uninsured. The emergency rooms are only required to provide emergency care. Once you are stabilized (or sometimes if you're not) they send you away. If you need prescriptions, further tests, or (ha!) physical therapy, you can forget about it. If you have severe asthma and you either need an inhaler or to go the emergency room every week, then you're going to the emergency room every week (they only have to provide emergency care, not preventative) until you either get the money for that inhaler or you have an asthma attack too far away from a hospital and die. If you have a degenerative spine disease, you can go to the emergency room for some lame painkillers and they'll tell you what kinds of tests and therapies they'd give you to keep you out of a wheelchair, if you had any money (this actually happened to a friend of mine). God only knows what would happen if you developed cancer or a terminal illness while uninsured. No other developed country lets its citizens go without health care.

Oh you mean like this?
Tomorrowland® Indy Speedway
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attractionDetail?id=TomorrowlandIndySpeedwayAttractionPage

2 Seat open air karts with real gas engines!
Yes I've been on them and with a 5 year old at the wheel it can be a little scary.

If you've never seen the Pixar movie "Monsters Inc." you have no idea what you've been missing, it has got to be one of the funniest movies of all time. The character of Mike Wazowski is voiced by Billy Crystal.

You can get some idea what the animated character looks like here:
      http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/monstersinc/desktops/1024b.jpg

Linked below: Perhaps not prior art exactly, but they're obviously on their way.

http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing

I am having a comeback overload, so pick your favorite and mod me accordingly:

1)
Second, it is not even "whose" because Pi isn't a person.

Don't tell this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Rixiu
2)
I am reminded of the rule that that all grammar correcting comments will contain at least one error when I ask: should not Grammar Day be capitalized?
3)
All grammar nazis should be required to read this:
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html
lazier nazis can be distracted here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3737179

Next time you buy a ticket, check out all the taxes associated with that.

Now multiply that by 2-4 million a year for 30 years, and you'll know why a 350m dollar stadium is a wise investment for a city.

Not to mention all the *other* taxes that are collected on the employees (do athletes pay local taxes?) and all the industries (sports bars, memorabilia stores, sporting goods, etc) that depend on a local franchise.

I have to say, one of the best companies to adapt to digital distribution so far has been ABC

They stream the entire current season of their episodes via their own web page, with a 1 minute commercial at regular commercial breaks.

For many of their shows, such as Lost, their entire back catalogue is available via iTunes, to watch on your PC, TV (if you have AppleTV) or portable device (if you have an iPod).

It's not perfect, but compared to the other broadcasters they've really shown some initiative. I don't feel the need to hoard shows en masse; I just want a way to access them whenever I want quickly under reasonable terms. $1.99 an episode or 1 minute commercials is (compared to NBC) INSANELY reasonable.

Whatever else you can say about the moral objections to the design of these systems, the bottom line is it works. That, above all else, is what should matter.

How dare you ask! He mentioned switchgrass in the 2006 State of the Union, and don't know about you but I just see one switchgrass-based fuel station after another selling low cost biofuels. Seriously though, it turns out we've spend $100M on switchgrass research , which makes the $14M on photovoltaics seem even more pathetic while simulateneously making the $100M on switchgrass seem like boondoggle.

Your statement better applies to Bill Clinton, who was indeed investigated to the hilt with the only result being that he was caught with Monica.
Monica was found under the desk in the oral office after it was alleged he perjured himself in a civil trial. That investigation found Monica. He was found guilty in the other trial. He is also the only President to have been dis-bared (Not by congress, the state of Arkansas).
There was never shown an example of Clinton enriching himself or any of his friends during his time.
And yes, Bill and Hill did receive financial gain from their time in office: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3866786

Bush, however, and Halliburton? I think it is really obvious that Bush is dishonest and corrupt.
Bush is neither dishonest or corrupt. His sin is not seeing (wisdom?) that his good intentions (FISA/Patriot/Monetary policies) pave the way to Hell.

A previous slashdot article suggests that Jimmy Wales was in conversation with benefactors in a position to donate $100 million to buy rights to textbooks:

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/10/22/215238.shtml

Yeah that's textbooks specifically, and speculation as well. But it seems to suggest there are rich people passionate about free knowledge and transparency... enough to foot the relatively modest (considering the scale) costs of operation of servers and bandwidth to keep it ad-free.

Bill Gates doesn't have to shill for Microsoft any more, isn't this the kind of cause he could pick up with pocket change? Google obviously has a bit of favoritism for Wikipedia, and they sponsor all kinds of things without attaching too many strings to the deal... couldn't they help without requiring advertising? 2/3 of the traffic is international, isn't there some Sheikh who would rather be the sole glorious sponsor of Wikipedia for the next several years than have a $14.3M license plate?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=4301197

Well, just asking. I myself am anti-advertising simply because I think it pollutes the ideological environment in a way that's not befitting of an educational resource. It's like Channel One TV networks getting installed in school classrooms:

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

Some people are okay with that, and I most definitely am not.

Child and teen suicide rates rose for the first time in more than a decade in 2004 - and many psychological experts said the stronger warning labels that led to a drop in the number of prescriptions for antidepressant drugs may be to blame. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Annual Summary of Vital Statistics released Monday, the suicide rate rose more than 18 percent in those 1 to 19 years old, from 2.2 per 100,000 in 2003 to 2.6 per 100,000 in 2004. In those 15 to 19 years old, the figures reflected a more than 12 percent rise in suicide, from 7.3 per 100,000 in 2003 to 8.2 per 100,000 in 2004. Story continues below Advertisement The rise occurred at the same time that the Food and Drug Administration mandated heightened warnings on the labels of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a particular class of antidepressant medications that includes Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft.

The problem is that in the United States, the children born here to illegal immigrants automatically become legal citizens. Was that true in Roman times or even in modern Italy?

This creates a strain on a public K-12 school system. I heard on the radio show "Latino USA" (on National Public Radio), a Hispanic high school teacher in Texas was demanding that the school system must hire bilingual high school physics teachers -- and not just people who spoke a smattering of Spanish, but FLUENT Spanish. Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me...

In addition, the reason that illegals are desirable to employers is because those employers can pay them below minimum wage. Therefore, businesses that hire illegals can get a bigger profit and charge cheaper than their competitors who follow the law.

What happens if you give those illegals amnesty and a path to citizenship?

Those workers become citizens, and are entitled to minimum wage. Their employers will see this cut into profits, and FIRE those employees because they no longer serve a competitive edge. The employers will just resort to hiring more illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the 24 million former illegals will become 24 million unemployed legal citizens and will be entitled to government welfare and unemployment benefits!!! This is going to break the US economy even more.

Nightline on ABC just last night (broadcast on February 28, 2008; title = "Clash on the Border", reported by Miguel Marquez; online at http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4363641) shows the current border patrol situation. It's getting extremely violent. Mexicans are routinely throwing bricks and stones at the border patrol agents; there was a picture of a smashed car where a brick had smashed through the driver's side into the agent's face (not shown), and blood was spattered everywhere inside the interior of the car. The Mexicans have also tried setting up a wire to decapitate agents patrolling on motorcycle. Looks like its time for the military to start setting up posts, just like the Mexicans do on their side of the border.

Well, a quick Google search for 'bounty hunter kills wrong person' yielded this one and this one. The 'getting community service' statement I made was just hyperbole, but still.....

"Sen. Obama has some questions to answer about his dealings with one of his largest contributors Exelon, a big nuclear power company; apparently he cut some deals behind closed doors to protect them from full disclosure of the nuclear industry," she said.
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Obama's spokesperson, Bill Burton, however did return fire.

"Leave it to Senator Clinton to attack Barack Obama for a bill that she actually co-sponsored and supported. Instead of playing the same Washington games that people are sick of, she should prove how fully vetted she is by finally releasing her tax returns so that voters can see where the millions of dollars she's dropped into her campaign are coming from," Burton said.