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"Not Incidental"

Funny ........ what a lame excuse not to run an ad that might offend some of there golf buddies.

"We Have Found the Enemy and It Is Us" ... Pogo

Buffett and Gates Care About Money

Not the environment ......On Two of world's richest men visit Canadian oil sands posted 1 year, 3 months ago 2 Responses

Nothing New For Oil Companies

Every season of the year when travel becomes highest, they boost the prices, even when the cost of oil has not increased.

If a hurricane even goes near the gulf, that's an excuse for higher gas prices ...... or there's a leak in a pipe, etc.

The problem is lack of competition ....

20 years ago, the FTC disallowed both vertical and horizontal mergers to maintain the maximum number of suppliers and thus increased competition.

The emasculation of the FTC by the congress under the direction of their corporation masters has led to the creation of oligopolies in every major industry in this country.

Ex ...... back in the late 80's, there were 8 to 10 major drug companies ........ now there are 3 .........

Oligopolies don't compete ....... it is not in their interests to do so ......they "sit around a table" and set prices.....

The govt failure to represent the best interests of the people got us where we are .....

The FTC is now a worthless regulatory agency ...... like most other regulatory agencies which have been stripped of their powers and funding by "pro-business" republicans ....

They can't even effectively regulate the deceiving advertisements that you see on tv, let alone in print media and on the internet.

Their is no doubt the american people must change their lifestyles and addictions ....

But that really is a separate issue from what is occuring now with the oil companies ....... i.e., they are indeed taking advantage of the situation while pointing their fingers at the sheiks ....

If they were simply passing along increased costs, their profits would not be soaring ...... they are adding their own price hikes to the oil in addition to the hikes coming from the oil supplying countries for crude.

   On Oil companies' continued record profits tick off Democrats, consumers posted 1 year, 4 months ago 7 Responses

Constitutional Convention Needed

The only way out of this mess ....

The president should not be allowed to appoint anyone to regulatory agencies or to anyone in the judiciary department ......... only within the executive branch ..... otherwise you have a breach of the separation of powers and the fascist govt you now have. On Four senators call for perjury investigation of EPA chief's testimony posted 1 year, 4 months ago 4 Responses

Same Old Shit In A Different Container

And I don't expect anything different from meister politician Obama ......

People are going to have to stop depending on "leaders" and turn to themselves ....

And its still damn hard for those who think out-of-the box on any of these issues to get funding or credibility .....

The politicians think of themselves as part of the elite class which manipulates and controls this country.  

"We Have Found the Enemy and It Is Us" ... Pogo

So ????

Everyone knows Congress and the White House has been in the pockets of the big corporations for the last decade .........the govt no longer acts in the public interests ....... Americans are either stupid if they can't see it or cowardly if they do or a combination of the two.

They get what they deserve. On Congress investigating industry's role in bisphenol-A health studies posted 1 year, 7 months ago 3 Responses

Wal-Mart

Don't give a damn about anything except making more money. If they can somehow co-opt the idea and it results in greater sales of their "Chinee" crap, fine ........ if it threatens sales to the tune of a dollar, forget it.

"We Have Found the Enemy and It Is Us" ... Pogo

Executives

Executives = PredatorsOn W.R. Grace will finally pay Montana asbestos victims posted 1 year, 7 months ago 1 Response

Have You Ever Seen .....

A satellite photo of the US at night ...... the whole country is lit up like a carnival ......we don't need all the streetlights and parking lots lit up like ball fields ....... they should all be cut-off at 9 or 10 pm ..... we have headlights on our cars .....it is a total waste and total stupdityOn 'Earth Hour' event switches off lights around the world posted 1 year, 8 months ago 2 Responses

Seems To Me ....

Being associated with wind and solar might be to their long-term advantage and closer to their values than coal .....

Sounds like they have the same problem as the rest of the country does with the US govt.

People should refuse to vote in elections. A 30% or less turnout is a defacto expression of "no confidence" and the govt so elected has no mandate to do anything.

The american people are too stupid to do this and perhaps the natives on their reservation also lack the ability to see this approach.

Then there is the "vote to the lesser of the evils" approach but there comes a time when the "lesser" is just too evil to vote for ....

The only alternative is then for the unrepresented majority to overthrow and destroy the govt that ignores them and sacrifices them for its own interests. On Navajo Nation will develop wind-power project posted 1 year, 8 months ago 3 Responses

Filthy Sluts and Dirty Whores ....

On the other hand, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.On Grist puts a green eye to sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll posted 1 year, 9 months ago 3 Responses

This Shows The Need To Pass Legislation To Prevent

Appointments by the President.

Appointments by the President should be totally disallowed by legislation to the judicial, legislative or to public regulatory agencies.

Ipso facto, appointments to the Judicial or Legislative branch directly undermines the balance of power desired by the founding fathers.

This means appointments to either the enforcement or trial portions of the judicial branch. The President, no matter what party he is from should not be allowed to select the Attorney General of the US .......state attorney generals should not be political appointees ..... and of course the Supreme Court nominees should not come from the President.

High level judges should be selected by a committee of their peers (national lawyers organization) with representatives of the public on the committee. Congressional approval, though I do not like the idea would be okay for the Supreme Court.

Regulatory agencies should be totally immune from Presidential imput with oversight from Congress.

Bush appointed key members to US Fish and Game, FDA, etc and we have seen the results.

No President should have this power ..... no matter what party they represent.  
 On Gray wolves in northern Rocky Mountains lose endangered-species protections posted 1 year, 9 months ago 13 Responses

My Opinion

We'll destroy ourselves before we get off the planet.

Crowding leads to more aggression and fighting over resources.

Jefferson was right, living in the country promotes sanity and city life promotes mental illness and perverseness (specifically myopia - a loss of view of the big view and the realities of the connectedness of things - how many city dwellers now could survive without a supermarket nearby?)

Your "rights" exist only so far as they do not fringe upon my "rights". I feel I have a right to live in a natural environment that is not crowded and polluted.

The "right to breed" no longer exist in the present world.
Babies should be sterilized at birth. Eggs and sperm could be harvested later if judged appropriate.

Tax policies in industrialized nations could be used to control birth rates.

We have a cerebral cortex that allows us to overide the reptilean part of the brain of instincts ...... but you have to use it.

I think the fact that some do not is itself an argument for a type of eugenics in today's world.

The developed countries cannot sustain the overflow from 3rd world countries where apparently they only work, sleep and screw and think having babies proves you're a monkey (sorry, I meant "man").

The 1917 influenza virus that had a 50% kill rate was recently harvested from frozen corpses in Alaska by the US govt and has been recreated.
You really don't think they did this for research purposes do you?

The rich will not hesitate to "thin-out" the species when the numbers become a threat to them.

Or nature herself will probably "kick-back" with its own "leveler" in the form of some superbug.

Its too bad that the human race has failed its evolutionary tests for rationality ..... we will eventually be eliminated and perhaps in a few hundred million years a rational species will evolve.
     On Researchers develop energy-generating clothing posted 1 year, 9 months ago 7 Responses

Yeh,

Get the lazy fat bastards out of their cars and walking and they won't have to worry about being obese ...... I can see them now standing in line at the McDonald's Drive-Thru .....On London mayor triples fee for most-polluting cars entering city center posted 1 year, 9 months ago 4 Responses

PS

Screw the Japanese ..... we don't need their damn transistor radios anymore ..... and we should be designing and building our own tv sets

We could ask citizens to boycott those large screen tv's ...... stop buying them but the folks who watch those things don't know what a whale is ....On Aussies release gruesome footage of Japanese whale hunt posted 1 year, 9 months ago 5 Responses

The Truth

The truth is always damaging to the clothes wearing monkeys that call themselves homo sapians ..... what a joke the species is ....... whores, pimps and thieves calling themselves an intelligent species.  On Aussies release gruesome footage of Japanese whale hunt posted 1 year, 9 months ago 5 Responses

RE: On A Related Subject

Fox is part of huge corporate conglomerate .....they detest govt regulation of any kind ..... need I say more ???On U.S. House approves toned-down energy bill, Bush to sign it tomorrow posted 1 year, 11 months ago 12 Responses

Greenhouse Footprint

You don't have to go to Bhutan to have a good hike.

I don't know of any state that doesn't have some beautiful natural scenery.On REI chief Sally Jewell on sustainability, shoes, and sedentary schoolkids posted 1 year, 11 months ago 7 Responses

Another Waste .....

of resources and time heading in the wrong direction.On FutureGen "clean coal" demonstration plant slated for Illinois posted 1 year, 11 months ago 26 Responses

No One Can Predict The future

I certainly have nothing against technology per se.

When reason is employed to consider risk/benefit, proper arguments can take place in the public/scientific forums.

I certainly believe in using technology to save lives but am not totally persuaded to using technology to solve problems created by other technologies due to human weakness ..... ie, selfishness, greed, desire for riches and power, etc, etc.

Therefore, the wild card of human weaknesses prevent this from being a simple discussion of the scientific merits of a given technology.

The warmongers will use the technology to create weapons ...... and there is little we can do about it unfortunately.

Our species is irrational and is full of members who are insane.

Science has and can be corrupted by big money.

Risk/benefit ensures a reasonable use of the technology but there are those who will care less about risk/benefit than stuffing their pockets with money and they don't care about exposing others to risks or even known harm in the process (witness industrial pollution dumping in this country).

This leaves us with the unfortunate statement, that in a country which bows to the dollar, if a technology can be corrupted and misused, it will be, despite the fact that there are concurrent  rational uses of that technology.    On Synthetic DNA could soon yield entirely new life forms posted 1 year, 11 months ago 4 Responses

Now .....

If they'll only take it out of influenza vaccines .... there is no doubt that you are risking your health with cumulative effects if you get a "flu" shot every year. On Minnesota will ban mercury in cosmetics posted 1 year, 11 months ago 6 Responses

No One Can Predict the Future

The number of variables possible in trying to predict the consequences in the future of such manipulations makes such attempts a literal roll of the dice (a good read on this subject is "The Black Swan").

Taking risks is fine if the (Murphy's Law : If it can happen, it will) worse case scenario is an inconvenience but when innocent life forms may suffer from what is (with all the PR bullshit removed) a quest for money, it should not be allowed.On Synthetic DNA could soon yield entirely new life forms posted 1 year, 11 months ago 4 Responses