You know them as the GOP (or RNC) and the DNC, and they get their members get those cool little R's and D's attached to their name if they are being interviewed.
Pure libertarian campaign finance laws would look something like this:
If you have the right to vote, you can give unlimited amounts to any canidate you choose, a transaction between you and someone you support.
If you can't vote (legal or illegal alien, corporation, political party, children, special interest groups), you can't donate to politicians in money or gifts.
adequately funded is a lot different than an unfunded mandate, I'd be more than happy if the feds got out of the education business altogether, or on the flip side, took over education completely to break up the worthless and corrupt DOE's in some states, like my own. Strict national standards, including say, requiring HS science classes to be taught by people with a science major in college. Holding teachers accountable for student performance is a feature that should be implemented, if I don't do my job I get fired, why can't we do that to teachers, oh wait they're unionized/tenured.
Last time I checked, there is a very nice housing development and golf course in pikeville sitting on a hollow fill. Land can and is being reclaimed from mine sites.
There's a civil war brewing in the Sudan, let them try their hand at that one since they stood idly by the last time there was a masacre going on in Africa
"Mountaintop removal" also known as "scrape and fill" produces useable land for farming and development in the most economically depressed area in the US. They don't just blindly backfill a valley, they contour the land to produce "natural" drainage paterns into existing watersheds.
Coal is a dirty business, but it is getting better and it can be a valuable addition to meeting our energy needs until nuclear or "green aproved" techs like solar/wind are finished.
As for the Martin County spill, that was an isolated incident by a rogue company, if the inspectors with Mine Safety and Kentucky enviromental protection had been doing their jobs, that impoundment would not have failed, but our ex-governor went easy on his coal money men.
There are projects involving coal "refining" to extract chain hydrocarbons like gasoline and even catalytic cracking into raw methane/propane/butane, they are very inefficent at this point but coal liquefication/gasification can be done if the price is right.
Partially trained chemist here, now your friendly neighborhood sysadmin, but any King of the Hill fan would know the difference between the different grilling gases.
Mostly in the Gulf of Mexico actually, but there should be reserves on the atlantic and arctic shelves as well. Extraction is a hassle as it stands, basically you have to keep them pressurized as you bring them up and then slowly bring up pressure at the surface, but we're taking at drilling at super deep depths, which we lack the tech for now.
Good point, the NATO forces have had all the fun with no window flying for years, with craft ranging from the B-52 down to the brit's Tornado jets. The Tornado is (was) actually programmed preflight with reel to reel tape that has been terrain matched, the pilot can overide, but most of the time he can take a nap until its time to drop some ordanance.
"Fuzzy Math" was a response to the "surplus" Al was going to spend, problem is, that surplus was nearly gone, the recession began in March 2000, and we're just now dug back out of it thanks to 9/11, which would have went down on Gore's watch anyways.
One man alone is not capable of creating a empire the size of Turner's or Murdoch's, and I never claimed they did, but if there are enough people of like mind who want to pool resources, there are ways to buy your own media empire. AOL might tire of TimeWarner or Disney of ABC, and Comcast has been mentioned to be on the auction block if the cash is sufficient.
Either way, there is not a broadcast monopoly anymore in the US now that there options besides the Big three, and we are in much better shape than the Brits or Cannucks on choice in the media.
I noticed that you aren't mentioning the powerful forces of "new" media either, talk radio and internet can make money if done right. Franken and his friends at Air America are just not selling a message that people want to hear.
And how many of those countries would scream bloody murder if the US annouced it was closing our bases there. The Germans are pitiching a fit over losing half of our European force in the next 10 years. As for South Korea, no party ever signed a formal truce ending the Korean war, we are now in our 51st eyar of a cease fire, but there are supposedly 4 million DPRK troops waiting across the border to burn Seoul to the ground. Take a look at the problems caused by the US closing Subic Bay to see what closing Okinawa would do.
Start your own damn network! It worked for Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch, they were small businessmen at one time. Even Al Franken and company are giving capitalism a shot, trying their hand at Rush Limbaugh's game in talk radio.
See Colin Powell's response to questions about American Imperialism
"We've fought in wars all over the world and never took any more ground than was necessary to bury our dead." The free Market takes care of the economic side of imperialism.
We have neither the need nor the resources to subjugate the world.
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You know them as the GOP (or RNC) and the DNC, and they get their members get those cool little R's and D's attached to their name if they are being interviewed.
Pure libertarian campaign finance laws would look something like this:
If you have the right to vote, you can give unlimited amounts to any canidate you choose, a transaction between you and someone you support.
If you can't vote (legal or illegal alien, corporation, political party, children, special interest groups), you can't donate to politicians in money or gifts.
Sounds fair to me, how about to everyone else?
adequately funded is a lot different than an unfunded mandate, I'd be more than happy if the feds got out of the education business altogether, or on the flip side, took over education completely to break up the worthless and corrupt DOE's in some states, like my own. Strict national standards, including say, requiring HS science classes to be taught by people with a science major in college. Holding teachers accountable for student performance is a feature that should be implemented, if I don't do my job I get fired, why can't we do that to teachers, oh wait they're unionized/tenured.
If you can get bermuda grass to grow in the EKY climate at 2500', getting corn or tobacco to grow shouldn't be a problem.
Last time I checked, there is a very nice housing development and golf course in pikeville sitting on a hollow fill. Land can and is being reclaimed from mine sites.
um, http://cb1.acf.dhhs.gov/news/stats/hsfacts98.htm says otherwise, there are more if you search "head start" budget @ http://www.firstgov.gov/
Just like head start, department of education, Social Security, medicare, medicaid, and AFDC.
There's a civil war brewing in the Sudan, let them try their hand at that one since they stood idly by the last time there was a masacre going on in Africa
"Mountaintop removal" also known as "scrape and fill" produces useable land for farming and development in the most economically depressed area in the US. They don't just blindly backfill a valley, they contour the land to produce "natural" drainage paterns into existing watersheds.
Coal is a dirty business, but it is getting better and it can be a valuable addition to meeting our energy needs until nuclear or "green aproved" techs like solar/wind are finished.
As for the Martin County spill, that was an isolated incident by a rogue company, if the inspectors with Mine Safety and Kentucky enviromental protection had been doing their jobs, that impoundment would not have failed, but our ex-governor went easy on his coal money men.
There are projects involving coal "refining" to extract chain hydrocarbons like gasoline and even catalytic cracking into raw methane/propane/butane, they are very inefficent at this point but coal liquefication/gasification can be done if the price is right.
Partially trained chemist here, now your friendly neighborhood sysadmin, but any King of the Hill fan would know the difference between the different grilling gases.
Methane hydrate when processed is natural gas = CH4 = Methane
yeah, something like another 80 years of proven nat gas reserves
Mostly in the Gulf of Mexico actually, but there should be reserves on the atlantic and arctic shelves as well. Extraction is a hassle as it stands, basically you have to keep them pressurized as you bring them up and then slowly bring up pressure at the surface, but we're taking at drilling at super deep depths, which we lack the tech for now.
When we 'run out' of natural gas, it'll be because we're *really* out.
Until we figure out how to extarct methane hydrates.
Clinton didn't suck, he outsourced it!
Unless you are a popular radio talk show host.
Good point, the NATO forces have had all the fun with no window flying for years, with craft ranging from the B-52 down to the brit's Tornado jets. The Tornado is (was) actually programmed preflight with reel to reel tape that has been terrain matched, the pilot can overide, but most of the time he can take a nap until its time to drop some ordanance.
"Fuzzy Math" was a response to the "surplus" Al was going to spend, problem is, that surplus was nearly gone, the recession began in March 2000, and we're just now dug back out of it thanks to 9/11, which would have went down on Gore's watch anyways.
One man alone is not capable of creating a empire the size of Turner's or Murdoch's, and I never claimed they did, but if there are enough people of like mind who want to pool resources, there are ways to buy your own media empire. AOL might tire of TimeWarner or Disney of ABC, and Comcast has been mentioned to be on the auction block if the cash is sufficient.
Either way, there is not a broadcast monopoly anymore in the US now that there options besides the Big three, and we are in much better shape than the Brits or Cannucks on choice in the media.
I noticed that you aren't mentioning the powerful forces of "new" media either, talk radio and internet can make money if done right. Franken and his friends at Air America are just not selling a message that people want to hear.
Every one of those I mentioned started from scratch, it can be done, you just need the will (and the listener/viewer base) to go through it.
And how many of those countries would scream bloody murder if the US annouced it was closing our bases there. The Germans are pitiching a fit over losing half of our European force in the next 10 years. As for South Korea, no party ever signed a formal truce ending the Korean war, we are now in our 51st eyar of a cease fire, but there are supposedly 4 million DPRK troops waiting across the border to burn Seoul to the ground. Take a look at the problems caused by the US closing Subic Bay to see what closing Okinawa would do.
Start your own damn network! It worked for Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch, they were small businessmen at one time. Even Al Franken and company are giving capitalism a shot, trying their hand at Rush Limbaugh's game in talk radio.
How about the Arab insurgents hitting legitimate military targets and not busses and discos?
See Colin Powell's response to questions about American Imperialism
"We've fought in wars all over the world and never took any more ground than was necessary to bury our dead."
The free Market takes care of the economic side of imperialism.
We have neither the need nor the resources to subjugate the world.