A sustainable design group named SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technologies) has come up with a great solar invention. Instead of mounting huge solar panels on heavy frames that need reinforcing, they've put the solar panels on small, flexible, durable pieces of plastic.
Girlfriends, dogs, cars, get ready to be kicked to the curb. This thing is damn near everything a guy could want in a friend/appliance. I think I need one.
John Brennan, Obama adviser and Chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, today claimed that he "believe[s] strongly that they [Telecoms] should be granted that immunity," referring to the FISA battle currently underway in Congress concerning the telecommunication industry's assistance in Bush's illegal domestic surveillance program. This flies in the face of Obama's stated position of opposition to amnesty for Constitution-violating corporations. I hope to see the quick response from the candidate that this statement by a top campaign official warrants.
McCain, as the presumptive Repug nominee, has a few solid months here to sharpen his claws and prepare his voodoo dolls and dark, smoking fires (in accordance to Republican tradition) for the general election. So we should not be surprised to see venom and bile, in true R style, thrown at both Democrat candidates.
Strong responses, and perhaps some attacks of their own, are to be expected from the Good Guys. After all, being able to weather and respond to the Conservative poo-flinging is an absolute necessity for a Dem nominee. Obama, riding his vast wave of voter turnout, fund raising, delegate count, primary wins...ok, his big ol' wave of "Kick Ass-ity," has been the obvious recipient of a great deal of this misplaced self-loathing from the rightwing nut houses and retirement homes.
But a strange story hit the wire today. Apparently
Wrong. Hillary:
“I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold,” the
“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.
So...McCain, or the Second Coming of Bush, is more qualified to be president than that Obama guy, according to Hillary. With all the negative press (and negative reality) McBush is faced with, I'm sure he appriciates the strong support and near-endorsement
She said she and McCain had traveled to
Thanks Hil. Good to know which team your playing for. I'm not sure, but I think that little "D" before your name stands for Democrat...maybe...
Honestly, who the hell does she think she is? The obvious folly of praising the other party's nominee aside, what the hell does that mean? "the commander-in-chief threshold"? So because she walked through some metaphorical doorway on her husband's coat tails when he happened to be the CoC, she should be the next president? Come on. What actual experience are we talking about here Hillary? Your 2 terms as a senator from NY? Travel Experiance? Hey, I've traveled to a bunch of states in the
So, why did McCain cross the "commander-in-chief" threshold?
Give up?
'Cause his head was lodged up Bush's ass!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA
...(sigh)
Some California farmers came up with an ingenious idea to recycle their cow's manure into the methane. Manure is collected and stored in a vat the size of 5 football fields and 33 feet deep. Methane is naturally produced from the breakdown of the manure and as it rises it is caught and shipped to a power plant in Northern California. One dairy has already started this process with another soon to start. With both farms operational it is estimated the power produced can service 2,500 homes a day.
Not only is this process producing renewable energy, the power production provides a second income to those farmers who participate. It is an excellent way for the farmers to capitalize on an energy production method that solely uses waste products from their industry.
Here's a pic from today at 2:45pm from just north of Dallas.
Holy crap my soccer game is going to be cold tonight.
we could have put Social Security on a sound footing for the next half-century or more.” - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner in Economics (2001).
Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, cited the committee’s (Joint Economic Committee, chairman Senator Chuck Shumer) own calculations from last fall that showed that the money spent on the war each day is enough to enroll an additional 58,000 children in Head Start for a year, or make a year of college affordable for 160,000 low-income students through Pell Grants, or pay the annual salaries of nearly 11,000 additional border patrol agents or 14,000 more police officers
Read the full New York Times Opinion piece here.
Today H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act was passed by the US House. This is a major development in the struggle for sane, fair healthcare for Americans. Until this bill becomes law, insurance companies are able to deny coverage for most mental health and addiction issues, leaving millions of Americans, who give hard-earned dollars to these corporations for their policies, out in the cold if their medical crisis comes in the form of a mental illness. The merits of this bill are debatable, particularly in light of competing bills in both the House and Senate. But this marks the first time Republican efforts to deny health insurance to the mentally disabled, and shield the Heath Corps from the financial burden of actually providing meaningful coverage, has been thwarted by Congressional Democrats.
Hey, I know it’s a baby step, but any progress is a good thing, and a freakin’ miracle to boot in this era of Pax-Republicana.
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