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You're welcome for a well deserved thanks. I'd love to discuss Citizens United (and what the ramifications for free speech would have been if it had gone the other way, the path to legislative campaign reform the SC left wide open, the narrowness of the decision, and the fact that you just didn't like message versus the principle involved) but you'd have to actually know something about it first to make that anything less than a complete waste of time. Pass....

Hey, I don't choose their posters for them....

Its funny how the anti Big Government health care folks seem to forget about the Big Corporate cocked lodged firmly up their ass. Of course, there really isn't any forgetting involved in reality.

Adorning the security trailer at the refinery entrance:

12 inches!

It did a pretty good job of vaporizing a 12" dia pipe. About 110,000 psi worth. Do NOT fuck with steam unless you know what yer doin.

I just tested and analyzed a bank of five heat exchangers that transfers as much power the entire wind farm above Vantage generates at full capacity. Damn, stuff is BIG up here.

I can't find the ON button....

Flying to Orlando tomorrow. Anybody need anything?

That's one less psychotic we'll have to worry about.

Awesome!

Christ... “I noticed immediately that my phone no longer gets hot.” Lynn Dellapasta, Olmsted Twp., Ohio “I normally wear the Blackberry pager on my left hip side clipped to my belt. My lower left leg was hurting … since putting [Free]shield into my cell phone, the pain literally started going away the next day and been pain free since. What a surprise!” - Gary Roush, Federal Way, Washington “Without FreeShield my cell phone would always get hot, plus I could feel the heat in my head. Now that I have put the FreeShield on my phone, I not longer feel the heat or negative energy.” -

Oh god.... Tin foil hat

http://www.sarshield.com/ "Electromagnetic radiation EMF has been proven to be harmful. SAR Shield is the only cellular radiation shield to be tested using FCC SAR testing protocols. Safety is accomplished by dissipating deadly cancer causing electromagnetic radiation by up to 89%. Eliminate the dangers today!" No overstatement there, boy! LOVE THAT FREE MARKET.

A meta study is a form of study. But hey, you're a scientist, so you knew that. VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS THE SMARTEST KID IN THE ROOM. Apparently, the 'possible' label applies to even the weakest result. Still, this will kick off a whole raft of 'shielding' products - so there should be a little job creation going on.

The number of scientists and countries doesn't mean much if the study methodology is fundamentally flawed.

Welcome to the wonderful world of memory based study bias. "I'm on my phone 12 hours a day!" Um...no you're not.

Nope

GOP cuts back on early voting How anyone in good conscience can align with this party of liars, scammers, and idiots, and kooks is beyond me.

You might say I downloaded it.

Apparently Paul Revere did, in fact, warn the British: Palin's knows her American history... More historical corrections: Michelle Bachmann has moved the towns of Lexington and Concord to New Hamshire. It's getting hard to keep up with all these new revelations.

Dropped from 50 feet up. Still works.

My garden's finally ready for planting. Damn, I'm a bit late this year. Just gotta run to Lowe's for a 5 gallon drum of Roundup....oh, wait...the seeds I just bought say I won't need it.

hmmm...tvash and AK agreeing... Sorry to all the progressives. I'm just not tribal enough I guess...

Arguing whether war is 'natural' or not is masturbation. Psychopathy is natural, but few would argue that it should be ignored, accepted or promoted. The only argument that's worth having is whether or not any given war is justified. The answer is almost always a resounding NO. War is almost always a bad choice, as its proponents (those who aren't profiting from the mayhem, anyway) invariably find out soon enough once the shooting starts.