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How do you solve this?

Okay, for all of the anti-war, anti-violence people, how do you solve this? Iran: UK sailors entered 6 times Take a nice long look at that picture. Iranians that want UK sailors executed for supposedly crossing into Iranian waters. Huh?

How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico

John Dillin article If only Pres. Bush would do the same.

10,000 kW Electrical Power Generation in Your Backyard

quietrevolution wind turbine

Wow, I would really like to order one of these. It's the first turbine I've seen that looks nice. The $48,000 price tag is a bit much though

UMS refuses to hand student info to RIAA

UMS story

How to Fire U.S. Attorneys

I think Pres. Bush could learn something from Sen. Clinton and former Pres. Clinton on how to fire U.S. attorneys. The Hubbell Standard I'll paraphrase, Bush bad = fired 8 people, Clinton good = fired all 93 U.S. Attorneys, 1 of which was investigating him personally

New Printer Technology We All Want

A must see video Amazing technology, I want one today!

Univ of Nebraska to RIAA: here's a bill for the time you're wasting

boingboing.net

Does Al Gore really want to save the environment?

My answer is no. He'd rather fly around in a private jet burning fossil fuels at an alarming rate while living in a house that consumes 20 times the energy of the average american. Meanwhile, he lectures the rest of us on how we need to change the way we live. Anyway, at least someone has called him on it: Inhofe in Gore's grill about his utility bill

From Washington correspondent and Friend of The Plaza Bill Theobald: U.S. Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma asked Gore to pledge to reduce his personal home energy to the national average within a year. That was in reaction to reports of Gore’s large utility bill at his Nashville home. Gore responded that he lives a “carbon neutral life” by buying carbon offsets to compensate for his energy use. Inhoffe called the offsets “gimmicks” used by the wealthy. Inhofe tried to cut off Gore several times as the former vice president gave expansive answers. “I want to talk to you a minute,” Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., told Inhofe. ” Would you let him answer the question?”

Anyway, Gore refused to take the pledge. I mean, we can't ask him to change his life can we? Gore Refuses to Take Personal Energy Ethics Pledge

It has been reported that many of these so-called carbon offset projects would have been done anyway. Also, carbon offset projects such as planting trees can take decades or even a century to sequester the carbon emitted today. So energy usage today results in greenhouse gases remaining in the atmosphere for decades, even with the purchase of so-called carbon offsets. “There are hundreds of thousands of people who adore you and would follow your example by reducing their energy usage if you did. Don’t give us the run-around on carbon offsets or the gimmicks the wealthy do,” Senator Inhofe told Gore.

Approval Ratings

Here's something the new Democratic Congress doesn't want you to know. Their approval ratings are LOWER than Pres. Bush! Powerlineblog has the data

Betraying their base -- the Democrats can do it too - LA Times

Jonah Goldberg Article

But the answer may not matter because House Democrats have decided to lard the supplemental appropriations bill with billions in pork to sell their troop-withdrawal gimmicks. "Included in the legislation," reported the Washington Post, "is a lot of money to help win support. The price tag exceeds the president's war request by $24 billion." That number includes giveaways for spinach farmers and money for peanut storage. Back when Democrats were in the minority, they would have denounced this as piggy-backing pork on the troops.

Wow, $24 billion in Pork, that seems a bit um....excessive?