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So tell us how the man that raped and murdered this 12 year old girl can be rehabilitated?

With the precedent set by the Gaye vs. Thicke court case (ruling upheld by 9th circuit court of appeals this year), you are committing copyright infringement when you write a song that "feels" like some other song. Because it would be very difficult for a songwriter to listen to every song ever written and ensure that his new song does not sound anything like them, this effectively criminializes songwriting in general. If you are a songwriter in the 9th circuit, the case is already settled precedent, and anything you write may be illiegal.

They came to my door a couple of times trying to sell me a "fiber" connection. I told them that fiber isn't being run down my road at this time, so they couldn't offer such and certainly couldn't offer something to compete with my 300Mbit Comcast connection. When I looked they're selling DSL but claiming it's "fiber" since they're running fiber to the vault. Geeze. By that definition dialup is fiber. They also claimed that Comcast isn't offering gigabit speeds around Nashville.

https://www.tennessean.com/sto...

You'd think they would know their competition at least that well.

What's weird to me is that they send salespeople to my door. I live pretty much in the country, albeit at the edge of town. My subdivision has acre lots, and the houses on this road are really sparse. They actually drive - two people in a car - from house to house. That means coming a hundred feet down my driveway to park and try to make a sale. After sending ten pounds of paper, by the way.

I was able to make them lose one sale, which I'm happy about. Someone mentioned on Nextdoor that they were dumping Comcast so they could try AT&T's new fiber service. I knew they didn't have fiber, so I gave them the exact question to ask the AT&T people (basically, "do I have fiber coming all the way to my house?") They reported a couple of days later that they were canceling the AT&T service since it wasn't really fiber.

Anyway, I'm not real impressed with AT&T.

Even if all ISPs are completely patriotic, it's hard to distinguish foreign interference from grassroots movement. You only need to look at a few recent examples, e.g. Heart of Texas. Before ISPs and Facebook realize that they have been foreign sponsored, it would have been too late after the damage is done.

And seeing how the ISPs are able to lobby the government to abolish net neutrality, they now have enough monopoly and power so that they don't have to pretend to be patriotic anymore. In many municipalities, the telecom companies have exclusive access to the utility poles so even Google Fiber can't build new Internet access. Let alone common folks like you and me. And Municipal Internet is just not happening. Here is the list of states with conditional or total ban, or minefield in their laws.

I still want to know how you got your Internet. You seem ingenuously optimistic.

That may be the case in your area, but I doubt that it’s that simple overall, when even a large company with deep pockets and plenty of resources like Google finds its efforts thwarted through the application of federal law.

Yes, we know But, you know, there's someplace between "California" and "Papua New Guinea" that still works well and isn't taxed to death.

Well, California works quite well, so they're not taxed to death, sorry for breaking the news to you.

San Francisco's city budget is about the size of Tennessee's state budget. At what point do we realize that something just isn't right about this?

Hmm, now?

I mean, 9 billion versus 37 billion. That's only off by 4. And not even comparable, since the budget of the state of Tennessee isn't covering the same things that San Francisco's city budget is. A lot of what San Francisco the city does is also done at the city and county level in Tennessee.

So bad enough you totally bullshitted on the numbers, you're bullshitting on the funding principles.

We have roads, sewer, a police force, schools, etc. They're paid for with a state sales tax that's 9.25%, about what CA pays. But we don't have a state income tax. We realize that we don't need it.

Much of the expenditures for police in Tennessee is paid for with property taxes. As are schools but well, courts are hearing if it's underfunded.. And the state just passed an increase in its gas tax to pay for roads.

I'm sorry you don't know how things work, but that you don't know is quite detrimental to your own ability to communicate your ideas.

CA's tax structure is maniacal, and the wealthy people who set this up have no idea how badly they're screwing the middle and lower classes.

Yet you have demonstrated no knowledge about your OWN state's funding or taxes, let alone another one's.

Yes, we know But, you know, there's someplace between "California" and "Papua New Guinea" that still works well and isn't taxed to death.

Well, California works quite well, so they're not taxed to death, sorry for breaking the news to you.

San Francisco's city budget is about the size of Tennessee's state budget. At what point do we realize that something just isn't right about this?

Hmm, now?

I mean, 9 billion versus 37 billion. That's only off by 4. And not even comparable, since the budget of the state of Tennessee isn't covering the same things that San Francisco's city budget is. A lot of what San Francisco the city does is also done at the city and county level in Tennessee.

So bad enough you totally bullshitted on the numbers, you're bullshitting on the funding principles.

We have roads, sewer, a police force, schools, etc. They're paid for with a state sales tax that's 9.25%, about what CA pays. But we don't have a state income tax. We realize that we don't need it.

Much of the expenditures for police in Tennessee is paid for with property taxes. As are schools but well, courts are hearing if it's underfunded.. And the state just passed an increase in its gas tax to pay for roads.

I'm sorry you don't know how things work, but that you don't know is quite detrimental to your own ability to communicate your ideas.

CA's tax structure is maniacal, and the wealthy people who set this up have no idea how badly they're screwing the middle and lower classes.

Yet you have demonstrated no knowledge about your OWN state's funding or taxes, let alone another one's.

You can of course Google for yourself if you'd like to see a dozen examples, but here's one to get you started. Nashville council member Sheri Weiner admits the anti-Google fiber council proposal she sponsored was written by AT&T and Comcast.

Oh, so the example you're offering is that it's AT&T and Comcast, namely a pair of for-profit, non-municipally owned companies, that are to blame and this alleged Sheri Weiner, was working at their catspaw, and one in that there is no municipal ISP involvement at all?

Well, good thing they didn't prevail then.

At least, in Nashville's city council. They are still suing in court.

And probably lobbying in the state legislature.

And why did Google suddenly back off on their fiber plans.

Hmm.

Especially considering the strong correlation between material wealth and quality of life & longevity.

See: http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct... and http://www.tennessean.com/stor... for just a pair of many studies showing this.

Again, do any of these allegations have any merit whatsoever, or is this just more "well the other guys did it, so if my guy does it it's okay amirite" horseshit?

yes, the horseshit, that's the problem. Though I can tell you still don't get where it's coming from, you're off target when you say "It's ok if the other guys did it" when the problem is the slightly different "Hey man, why don't you ever call out any of your own for their mess-ups and why do you always expect us to ignore you trying to make mountains out of molehills?" issue.

When it comes to the GOP, we just didn't have anywhere near the level of investigations or hearings. No reports. Even the media doesn't ask nearly enough questions. They just pass along the bullshit. (Which makes me wonder how deep the rabbit hole really goes...)

So it becomes "Well, they're just making a political duststorm again" so the allegations they do make, they lack credibility.

See how you're completely somewhat misconstrued the issue yet?

Vague bullshit from anonymous cowards are exactly that, and will be treated as such. If you know of classified information that has been improperly handled by members of Congress, speak up with specifics or shut it.

Yeah, this is why I think you don't get it, the public wants the Members of Congress to shut it, all they have is vague bullshit, and particularly from the GOP, they've shown no evidence of cleaning their own House(Or Senate). They leak even while feigning their own higher morals. And it isn't just the Federal level.

After months of hearings for Benghazi, shrill calls of outrage and hysteria, the conclusion? An 800-page tome which reveals an unfortunate situation, but no direct malfeasance. Same with this e-mail gate scandal. No Manchurian Candidate level brainwashing, no great scandal. Yet we were subjected to endless intimations that there was something really rotten going on.

They'd have a chance of us believing them if they'd kept themselves scrupulously clean, but nope, didn't happen, and thus...fizzle.

Heck man, you can see the Clinton Death list still continuing in these threads, you can still expect to see some birthers around, and I expect a few people believe those curtains are REALLY Islamic.

Look, you know why Andy had to arrest Opie that one time? So he could keep on arresting everybody else in Mayberry. Go arrest Opie. Or Aunt Bea. Or Gomer. Or Floyd. Until you're willing to put your own best friend in jail you won't understand the problem.

So tell Congress to speak up and denounce their own malefactors.

Nah, they'll say he misspoke and he'll apologize for his poor choice of words. Then when the governor is asked about it he'll say more of the same: we certainly take water quality issues, and that was a very poor choice of words by Mr. Smith.

Update: I just googled, and the first part already happened.

The thing is that these folks working together in state agencies for decades are like family to each other. Nobody gets hung out to dry.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters

I have every right to expect that my dealings are my business, particularly when dealing with an organization or individual who promises to keep our interaction private. Our government has been known to do Bad Things. Your attitude assumes benevolence on Uncle Sam, when the evidence would seem to suggest that he can, at times, be a real jerk. Perhaps this administration can be trusted, (Can you keep a straight face while saying that?) but the last administration apparently lied, and the next administration may be even worse.

I can't disagree with you more strongly. I don't see how this can be good for liberty.

Naw, you have to stop using selective facts to support your opinion. I guess you forgot about how Mao and Stalin crushed religion by slaughtering anyone involved in any Religion. Those are the big two, but history has numerous similar characters some of whom are much more recent. Many people with a similar mind set are in the US, however they are not necessarily in leadership positions ready to do the same. Though the DOD announced that Soldiers could not discuss faith in public without facing possible court marshals. Source.

Take the blinders off and look around, or don't and remain ignorant.

good point.

shit like this has always happened, it's just that now it doesn't stay behind closed doors and isn't covered up with "he needed killing"-vigilante justice. also, the internet has the power to turn anything that happens in the entire world into lurid sensationalism.

... the Tea Party is pushing the governor to implements Nazi/Soviet/Insert Dictator Here, etc., style purge.

Er, if I read that correctly they are really unhappy about two Executive Service Employees, one of whom is a muslim and an expert in Shariah Compliant Finance, the other gay. Totally a Nazi/Soviet/Insert Dictator Here, etc., style purge. No hyperbole at all here.
 
And here is a better source... http://blogs.tennessean.com/politics/2012/county-gop-chapters-circulate-resolution-condemning-haslam/

I'd rather have people getting methadone from a clinic rather than dealing with the drug market -- even if they NEVER got over their addiction.

Ideally, an addict could very gradually get off methadone. At least at the clinic, there is an entry point for getting some real, professional help. A dealer has a great disincentive to help a customer get clean.

Sometimes, we have to pick the lesser of two evils, and make the best of it until we come up with a better solution. Maybe one day we'll have solved the chemistry involved, and have a treatment to administer to get a person clean overnight. Until then, I support the clinics.

Interestingly, my home state of Tennessee is dealing with this issue right now:
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120217/OPINION03/302170054/Methadone-cuts-will-create-problem

Paul was flying to Washington D.C., to speak at a March for Life rally, according to his Facebook page.

And if that's not enough research for you, try this:

Today I will speak to the March for Life in Washington DC. A nation cannot long endure without respect for the fundamental right to Life. Our Liberty depends on it.

--Taken right from his own Facebook page....

You were saying?

Reports appear bogus to me.

The CNN story is a "user-submitted iReport," quite different from a news article. The iReport in turn, was plagiarized from an evangelical gloom-and-doom website, http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1374.htm

The toxic rain reported as resulting from oil dispersants was most likely caused by a FedEx fuel dump from 5,000 feet.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100701/BUSINESS/100701010/FedEx-acknowledges-crew-dumped-fuel-over-Shelby-County-

Not only that, but also his father is admiting it was his son who did it...

"Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, confirmed that it is his 20-year-old son, David, who is being widely named on Internet blogs and chatrooms in connection with an unfolding story about Palin's hacked e-mail accounts."

links: http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/NEWS02/80918081/1006/NEWS01 and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/palin_email_investigation_continues/.

TFA suggests that they only need a warrant to obtain this information from the mobile carrier, but in some cases this information is available from the devices themselves. The iPhone is a good example of this - software can easily be installed on the device (kind of like a LoJack) to report back GPS location, and the iPhone itself apparently keeps logs of GPS positioning, based on this book's claims. I would argue that this form of surveillance would be just as loosely managed as police placing GPS transponders on vehicles.

Numerous stories mention that prisons are not ready for digital television, and prison administrators are worried.

Generally, inmates pay for their own television sets and (for some reason that escapes me) are not eligible for the $40 coupons.

Prison administrators say"the tube does more than fill year after year of idle hours. It provides a sense of normalcy and is a bargaining chip that encourages good behavior... At Indiana's Wabash Valley super-maximum security prison [a psychiatrist said], far fewer behavior problems were reported among inmates in isolation after they were given small TVs. 'You don't want to be managing prisoners who have nothing to lose,' Kupers."

I expect the test will show that, in fact, prison inmates represent only one example of what will prove to be a large population of forgotten Americans... the people who don't answer telephone surveys because they don't have telephones, the people who don't shop at Best Buy because they don't have cars and the nearest Best Buy can't be reached by public transportation, etc.

I will grant that the amount of publicity being given to the DTV switchover on our local TV stations is so large... at least during the times of day we watch and on the channels we watch... that it's hard to imagine people not knowing about it, but there is always that twenty percent of the population who can't name the President.

Indeed, I'm astonished at the poster who asks "Will they broadcast a notice?" since our local stations have been doing that continuously since February. Either his are not or he, like those twenty per cent I'm talking about, didn't notice.

...the recent firing of a Home Depot employee for preventing a theft at his store.

See the article here.

Before you go around bashing Gore all the time ...

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI D=/20070418/NEWS01/70418046/1006

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2 0070514/NEWS04/705140375

"Throughout the week, the students had been anticipating a typical "campfire" prank from the teachers. The children knew that this was a traditional experience from hearing about previous excursions to the same location by former sixth graders. The lead teacher made comments about this coming "prank" on several occasions that week."

The way that the American media (Fox, CNN) sensationalise events / encourage fear for the purpose of ratings really sickens me.

There are no such things as "weight sensors" for stop lights. The cuts in cement you see at a stop light are not pressure sensors. The cut in the pavement contains a loop of wire. The signal control hardware is using inductance to measure the amount of change in the electrical properties of the loop. You can think of this as simply a metal detector. (You can read more about it here)

And, you are right that problems do exist with motorcycles and bicycles. They often don't contain enough metal close enough to the sensor to trigger the light. In fact, a few years ago in the state of Tennessee, there was quite a stir in that legislation was passed to allow motorcycles to proceed through a red light after coming to a complete stop and waiting for a "reasonable amount of time" to correct for the fact that the sensors controlling traffic signals often fail to sense motorcycles. Minnesota has had the same law in place, and in fact, Minnesota's law was the basis of the Tennessee law. Other states have considered similar laws, although I do not know if any have passed.

So Comcast (and Charter Cable) want to be able to cherrypick where they provide internet service (and upgrade it/provide new services), but want to legally prevent AT&T from doing the same by providing a new service: IPTV.

It wouldn't bother me so much if corporations weren't such hypocrites. So much for being good corporate citizens.

Trek's been mined for college papers since Chekhov was in diapers. With -- what, 4, 5, six series, how many movies? -- from which to draw, you could prolly choose a thesis premise via a dartboard and still find enough material in the Star Trek mythos to hang it all on.

The real, industrial-strength pseudo-scholars who want to watch TV rather than crack a book turn their tight-leather-clad attention spans toward Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

And I know from pop culture pseudo-scholarship: I once got an "A" in my "Structuralism and Semiotics" class with an exegesis of an Elric of Melnibone short story.

Ahhhh, college...

I suppose playing the "Hanging Game" is alright with you too?

You're very right. I even live in Tennessee, the site of the infamous Dog Shooting..

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/01/273 02745.shtml

They may have found a cure for AIDS -- frog sweat.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI D=/20051021/NEWS07/510210406/1024/NEWS

if you seem to help people "to convert them" you're only bringing a bad testimony, like Jehova's Witnesses who seem kind in the beginning, but at the first sight of rejection they run away.

You should read this.

Ironic that you claim that Jehovah's Witnesses "run away", when most people complain they make too earnest an effort to reach people.

An Interesting Article on what's happening in education in my neck of the woods.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI D=/20050713/NEWS04/507130411

wifeofgeek

Currently most states do not even require proof of U.S. citizenship to obtain a Driver's License. You don't even need a SSN.

How are we going to secure our borders without a national ID system? A nation without the power to control its own borders isn't really nation. It's just a hunk of land.

article at fairus.org In the following states, legal residence is not required to apply for a driver's license: Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Wrong!!!
I am sure others can point out similar bills in other states.

ha-ha. I repeat. ha-ha.

When most people here think that it is OK to discriminate against foreigners living here legally by passing crap like this then you should not be surprised when the power to abuse this is kicked a few notches higher.

I am also constantly amazed when I speak to most Americans around me about the Patriot Act. They seem to live in this dream world thinking that it will only be used against "terrorists". Yeah. Right.

(As a side not, it should be noted that I am not a fan of dogs as pets unless the dog is over 18 or so inches tall and has a nice mean-sounding bark. Those sorry mini-poodles, chihuahuas and otherwise furry footballs are only good for roadkill and football...oh yeah, and dust mops!) //end rant

I own a chihuahua. I consider your line of thinking cowardly. The chihuahua bark isn't to scare away whatever it is, it's to to alert me to the situation. I don't need a dog for a bodyguard. People with Pit bull terriers and such are almost always the opposite.
I've met alot of stupid people who didn't realize that the my dog is harmless, it's me you need to worry about. Not all small dog owners are little old ladies and spoiled rich girls.

Oh, and by the way "furry footballs" isn't funny.
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/04/494 97774.shtml
Not anymore.

If, under the old system, they charged you the retail price of the video after seven days (plus the restocking fee if you returned the video for a refund) AND charged you a late fee, and now they don't, then their ads are perfectly legit.

Their old system last I saw was prorated based on the rental price * days rented. I.e. $4.00 movie was 80cents for each day late. So no in by noon and you are stuck with restocking late fee :P

Not to speak of stores that charge the traditional late fees dispite the fact that the national ads say no late fees.

The no-late-fee policy only applies necessarily to corporately owned stores; the privately owned ones are not required by Blockbuster Inc. to honor the new system. Mind you, some are, but it is voluntary on the part of the respective owners.

Nope. I lived in California before and they simply linked the expiry of your driver's license to the expiry of your visa. This, combined with a flag in their database ensured you could not get a license without a valid visa. This system ensured that the immigration laws were being complied with and I was treated with decency.

Now, however, I am in Tennessee and they specifically issued these licenses which say on them in large red letters "NOT TO BE USED FOR ID PURPOSES". This, despite the fact that it still contains my picture and address. All this ensures is that I need to use my foreign passport for travel which means I get reamed every time I step through the airport. As I fly on a regular basis this pisses me off no end. My license still expires when my visa expires so no additional "security" has been built into the system.

However, with this "screw the foreigners because they are all terrorists anyway" policy in place the policitians can say "Wow! Look how hard we are on terrorism."

The interesting thing to note is that every government official that has encountered my "driving certificate" thinks that it is a stupid and demeaning idea. (Well with the exception of the TSA people, but most days I have to wonder if they are capable of ANY thought whatsoever.)

See this link for some background discussion.

The really stupid part about turning the DMV into the INS is that we end up with illegal people driving without any training or insurance. The illegals don't simply evaporate because they can't get a license.

Sounds great, except, of course, for the rather interesting fact that executions cost more than a life term in prison.

> Given the number of recent attacks, if safe to say that the whole country is unsafe and going to civil war.

Except that Najaf has calmed down, public opinion has turned against al-Sadr, and the people of Samarra wised up and kicked out their own "insurgents".

Really, the last big hotspot is Falluja, what with all the diehards and foreigners.

Of course you hardly ever hear about this stuff. Bad news sells in the media business, as we all know. Heck, some people in this thread this that we "leveled" some city or town in Iraq -- pure hyperbole.

Tritium isnt used for fusion bombs.

And what about this?

Article: "As long as new game titles are top quality - offering exciting game play and high production value - we believe that interactive Christian games will skyrocket in popularity much like Christian music did 15 years ago."

Well, if that is their baseline for success -- we can only hope.

You may not be familiar with it, but the amount of Christian music being sold isn't small -- 47 million albums/year according to one source.

Or how about "$800 million in [Christian music] sales [that] topped sales of classical music and jazz combined..." (from a story talking about, oddly enough, the piracy of Xian music).

Christian music is big business, with its own famous bands, concerts, and record lables. And don't think that its all old time gospel music either -- it runs the gauntlet from folk music to pop to Christian metal.

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I believe that another issue with the potential damage that could result from a big quake is the ground. Much of the ground there is clay, deep soil and water. During an extended quake, some have predicated that it could become very quicksand like and simply swallow up structures.

My dad is involved in the Civil Air Patrol and recently participated in multi-agency exercises to simulate a New Madrid Fault quake. If one happens there, it is likely to be much worse than a California quake because of the level of unpreparedness in the populace and the building codes.

I love coffee. I especially love this one Latin brand I buy, but to add something relevent to the discussion:

Awhile back there was an article that explained an Italian researchers findings: That coffee could actually be good for you, perhaps even better than green tea. Some benefits are that coffee could prevent diabetes and regulate blood sugar, which is a plus considering my great grandmother had diabetes. Coffee may actually help children too, it's antioxidants and natural caffiene could potentially reduce the risk of some diseases, help them in school, and even prevent depression. Probably the most important of it's benefits is that it could prevent some types of cancer and degenerative brain diseases, two big killers in the US. that it could also

Coffee's no longer as dangerous as it used to be now, huh? I've heard everything about coffee: It makes you MORE tired, it stunts a childs growth, it makes men impotent, even that it could CAUSE some types of cancer. FUD.

-Xeon

It wasn't the crime of the century, but taking place barely two weeks ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Columbine massacre, the hoaxes unnerved some residents of the Detroit suburb, which boasts a population in the high four digits. "I don't put anything past these kids now days, I really don't," says Keck.

Here's an example Here's another example And here's how it's done (scroll or search to The Wheel Behind Drunk Driving). How the liquor industry uses money and PR talent to derail or weaken measures that would reduce drunk driving.

Don't get me wrong: I love devices, I love discussion of devices, I love discussion of devices that would reduce drunk driving. I'll even sit still for discussion of whether certain devices overly impinge on individuals. But to have a discussion on drunk driving, and not even mention the major force against effective measures to drunk driving, well that's a discussion that's seriously missing the point.

I'm not related to Jim Varney, that I know of. I'm sorry to report that he died of lung cancer at age 50, February 10, 2000, at his home in White House, Tennessee. He was a very funny man and a gifted performer.

Here's some info about the fall which killed Gus Weiss:
washinton post article and Nashville Tenessean obit

Notice that Audrey Wolf, mentioned in the latter obit, is Joseph Wilson's literary agent.

Not that that should mean anything...

Yeah, or a 9/11 attacks-worth of people every few days caused by Americans eating too much

This story had nothing to do with the US... The reactor is being built in South Africa.

The "BOOM" post with which you took issue was in reply to a post about the spelling of Chernobyl, a trivial sidetrack away from the best demonstration of the risks of nuclear fission. You can talk about superior "Western" technology, while another post mentioned the deadly, toxic 1999 disaster in Tokaimura Japan. Another poster pointed out that Chernobyl demonstrated the ignition of graphite in the catastrophe.

Perhaps you are actually unaware of the carcinogenic radiation released by Three Mile Island, in the steam that was vented, and initially denied. Or the poisoning of the vast area surrounding the Hanford facility, where the coverup firing the whistleblowing onsite workers. Coal burning plants' radioactive emissions are among their crimes; the shared ownership in coal and nuclear power belongs to the same criminals. Why choose between the frying pan and the fire? Truly sustainable energy sources abound, with tech entrepreneur opportunities surrounding every one.

The "rational approach" does not include calling opponents "scared sheep" and "babbling incoherent jerks". I'll ignore your spurious (yet de rigeur) reference to "terrorists", assuming that fear, sown in abundant public ignorance by the denials from the irresponsible nuclear industry, is abhorred by us both, best dispelled by reason. Best to get out of the flock of glowing sheep on the "Right", and apply some scepticism to the energy mafia. With the Cheney Energy bill being hustled through Congress, it's getting harder to see through the lies until it's too late to avoid stepping in that puddle of poison.

At least you and I agree on the superiority of a lunar/solar power "grid". Let's get past the deadend paths of fission, coal, and other polluting cash cows, and work together constructively to tap the vast power flowing sustainably through our environment.