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There is no solution beside raising revenue from those who don't pay their fair share in taxes.

It's particularly bad form to claim that the fiscal crisis created by your anti-tax/anti-regulation/laissez faire policies is proof that paying people even less is necessary all the meanwhile economic inequalities have grown to be similar to that of the age of robber barons. Slice of life for the middle class in Ohio

How long till the 'wingnuts for liberty' start crying for the National Guard to do something about this kind of protest

aha! That's just it, without the 2 wings, you don't have a wingnut and you wouldn't go about calling a full-fledged wingnut, half-a-wingnut, now would you? You are right that I don't particularly like social darwinist, especially the militant kind.

Actually, 'wing-nut' is a descriptive usually applied to conservatives. Thus, I cannot accept this and you'll have to find some other award for me. Come on, you can do better.

Although, I imagine that Shackleton wasn't much of a democrat [video:youtube]W8CVRUIBFWM

Anyway, none of this silly side-show is going to obfuscate that despite all of your and Jay's pablum about liberty and democracy, you are once again unable to speak a word against another blatant power grab by the hard right (read about the "financial martial law" in the original post). It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone since it is quite obvious that you agree with most everything the plutocrat-financed tea-baggers are doing.

I don't need to meet him to know what he said and what he didn't say on this internet board for the better part of the last decade. His rhetoric places him 100% in the corporate shill/warmonger territory despite what you and he like to think of his posturing.

Well, silence is consent, which makes it his war budget, and his tax breaks to the wealthy, etc ... Anyway it's entirely consistent with his war-mongering and his cheering on of Bush policies. You are in the same boat btw, which probably explains your reaction.

Naw, we will cut your war budget first.

Democracy and contracts are only worth upholding when they benefit the wealthy and corporations. Major "structural" reforms have to be done to save us from what they are already doing to us LOLZ

meanwhile, #4 is on fire again. Expect iodide sales to keep going up, I guess.

The flat earth society? Nope, it's only the GOP: "In a vote split cleanly along party lines, the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday rejected measures reaffirming climate change as a scientific reality, with every Republican on the panel voting "nay"

Ha! someone finally said it.

You haven't met Gina yet? [video:youtube]6en8nWaJzls

Giant gravel batteries to store energy or Molten salt storage tanks to store energy although deep geothermal doesn't need any storage in the short to mid-term.

It's going to be quite enlightening to see how Japan responds to lack of preparedness for tsunamis. Due to little buildable space, they probably can't afford to not have housing or infrastrucure on the seaboard. What's the answer?

Keep repeating that "nuclear energy is an essential part of our future". It makes everything better before the next election cycle. Guaranteed.

US fusion science research gets ~$420 millions, which is ~8% of energy research appropriations.

dude, nobody in Fukushima gives a shit about irony right now. As a matter of a fact, I am not addressing them, I'm talking to you moron!

I guess it could also be that choada thinks snark is strictly verboten when Japanese mothers look for their dead children. Of course, that would be kind of rich considering Choada's standing as a shining example of cultural sensitivity, but whatever ..

wtf? either irony doesn't translate well in the written word or choada is some kind of free market zealot?

Sure, but I am not sure that you'd be rational to live in a cave because there is no alternative to oil guzzling in the current infrastructure.

Indeed, lobbies, their bought pols and media pretend we have to choose between the plague or cholera. A little like for presidential elections: "do you want the neo-fascist or the corporate tool"?

Right, since Ivan is aware of the consequences of having an oil-based economy while regressives and their pols refuse to fund mass transit and alternatives energies, Ivan should only do things for which he can walk/bicycle and he should live in a shack too just so that his energy consumption is entirely consistent with his knowledge. Regressives, on the other hand, claim they don't know anything about an oil problem so they can keep wasting the stuff as if there were no tomorrow. [/snark]