EricMM

Goddamnit. I'm not THAT ginger-y! I have almost no freckles! And... I'm not that much of a daywalker. I fry in the sun...

3.499 here. Kind of creepy. This certainly isn't even summer proper yet. Thank goodness for bicycles and the willingness to bike 10 miles a day.

I would be absolutely floored and excited to hear that to be the case. As would everyone south of me As it stands now, the Great Lakes may be one of our most valuable resources

I assure you, Marney, if I was making nearly what you make "after taxes" that I would be donating a fair to sizable portion of it to good causes. Sadly my $30k doesn't stretch as far

And yet now, ~50 years later, they're our very best friends. Weird.

Except waterboarding is torture, so...

Yeah, but that wasn't exactly "official" ...

Oh snap

Of revolt! [/firebrand]

Some witches need to burn... Especially a president and cabinet who openly endorses American torture. From our founding DAYS we were against it. When we were fighting to EXIST against the British, we still did not torture any captives we had.

The largest turbines can generate 6MW. (as per wiki) obviously the biggest ones aren't applicable everywhere, but the more we build and install, the more power you get. And add to that solar power, and there are certainly windy and sunny parts of this country that could generate massive amounts of power for our use. It's just getting it from there to here. See: Tzar's suggestion about the power grid.

I would not complain about that at all. But while you're basically correct about Hydropower, wind turbines certainly don't kill as many birds as buildings with windows do, or air/mercury pollution from coal power. Nukes are clean until they aren't, and then they really AREN'T. And there's also the waste.

THANK YOU, Tzar, for nipping THAT ONE in the bud. After all, what we do, China does next. We want the people responsible for the Three Gorges Dam to be launching rockets with nuclear materials? Spend every cent you would spend on new nuke plants on renewable energy.

In general trees act as "scrubbers" when they're growing. When they're all already grown they don't absorb as much CO2, at least to my knowledge. But the fact that there are always things growing in the rain forest belies that claim. Anyways, bulldozing a tree eliminates any CO2 absorbing it was doing, and then it decomposes, releasing CO2. Why Republicans have such a stick up their ass about conservation being the first "green" source of "energy" we have is mind boggling. The thought of frugality hurts them, somehow. Also if we could just improve our infrastructure, high capacity renewable energy sources like the southwest desert for solar and the midwest plains for wind could power much larger swaths of our country, not just the surrounding area. Lastly, if we could only manage to create a storage medium for energy that is better than the battery designed hundreds of years ago, we'd be in a much better place when it cames to renewable energy.

But I would. Give me all your dollars! There's renewable energy that needs a-subsidizing!

Yes.

Baltar seeing Baltar? FANTASTIC!!!

Ouch.

Bush is going to announce that's going to "reduce" the length of deployment from 15 months to 12 months. You know, go from the extended deployment to the normal one. Hooray!

I mean for goodness sakes, Obama's plan specifically ISN'T "everyone gets free health insurance"

Since you live and work at a major university with its own bus system, it's free. (actually paid for by student fees...)

Ripper, he doesn't have higher tax cuts. He would eliminate the Bush Tax Cuts.

They've got too much of an old school post-9/11 mindset. They need to grow up and get a post-post-9/11 mindset.

They're afraid of being called weak on terror and / or unpatriotic.