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  animals, right

  I had to unsubscribe from PETA's e-newsletters because of the same thing... too much girlskin used to sell their message.  I'm not one of those feminists who goes nuts every time a scantily-clad woman is on display but they were truly OTT, check it out sometime.  I agree w/above poster: if you're in the business of sensitizing people to animal exploitation and abuse, why use other historically abused and exploited creatures (i.e. us, female humans) as the vehicle? It just seems so... inconsistent.  On Did NBC squash PETA corn-porn? posted 9 months, 1 week ago 44 Responses

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  say what

  I like how she says "I'm not gonna solely blame all man's activities on changes in climate"... um, huh?

  And she couldn't name ONE publication she reads. What's that about?  Don't you know what you read? Do you read? Use the internet? Watch tee wee? We know you can read, Sarah, we've seen you using the teleprompter...

  It's clear she isn't informed, certainly not enough for the job she wants,  but what's most disturbing is that Palin possesses zero native intelligence--she can't think on her feet, can't even FAKE a reasonable sounding answer to reasonably easy questions. She has no mental agility whatsoever. I can't believe this is happening.On More Couric and Palin, on drilling and climate change posted 1 year, 1 month ago 29 Responses

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  not seriously...?

  I can't debate the science (tho I too live in France), but I did work on the immense WPPSS litigation (centred in the PacNW) back in the 1980s... for those who don't know about this, it was a flurry of multi-district class action suits against, well, everyone, over 5 nuclear plants planned but never built.  The Washington Public Power Supply System issued bonds to pay for the plants, then had to default on the bonds when all they ended up with, after years of faffing around, were "dry holes".  So players in the various resulting suits included institutional and individual investors (lots of old people who had put their life savings into these very "safe" AAA rated bonds), banks, rural electrical coops, the BPA, the engineers... and on and on.

  Lots of Reagan-era villains involved, lots of money flying around... point in the pointless forest being, millions, maybe billions, made it into the pockets of the big engineering firms (Bechtel and Burns and Roe were involved, among others) as well as the financial guys.  The NW never got the power, the investors were screwed, the original power needs forecasts were proven ludicrously wrong, the plants that did get started were abandoned due to irreversible safety problems (one plant had CARDBOARD pipe whip restraints painted to look like metal--you wanna see hot radioactive steam running through that baby)... well you get the picture.  

  I believe these projects are, or could easily be, fronts for more backhanders to politicians' rich friends (at that time the former CEO of Bechtel was in Reagan's govt, the former head of BPA--Don Hodel--was his Sec of Interior, etc).

  No wonder McCain supports them.  On McCain's nuclear plan would cost $315 billion, with taxpayers risking over $100 billion posted 1 year, 1 month ago 21 Responses

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  go viral with this

  I have sent a link to this ad to everyone I know in the event they haven't seen it.  Even if you're not an animal rights or environmental activist, the film is horrifying, the implications clear.

  Let's bring these creeps down, now.On Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund endorses Obama-Biden ticket posted 1 year, 1 month ago 3 Responses

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  upside down tomatoes

  check out tomatocasual.com for their "upside-down" tomato growing method... strange but it seems to work and doesn't take a lot of space.  Just hang buckets from a cable or hooks... and the tomatoes grow out from the bottom.On Urban gardening for the rest of us posted 1 year, 2 months ago 3 Responses