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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    03/20/09

    In reply to President Obama Details $2.4 Billion in Grants For Electric Vehicles
    BHO? I never noticed that our new pres has the same initials as Browser Hijacker Object.
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    03/20/09

    @reddingofish: Helper. Browser Helper Object. Of course, Hijacker does sound more fitting.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to President Obama Details $2.4 Billion in Grants For Electric Vehicles
    Are fu^%$g kidding me! 2015! What is wrong with these people? When Exxon makes $45 BILLIONS profit, when the government makes BILLIONS in gas taxes, when Saudi Arabia has a TRILLION dollar worth of investment and pretty much own the White House you realize that's impossible to fight the oil industry, even for Barack Obama.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/20/09

    @drkick: People are not going to get hybrid cars out of the goodness of their hearts. It needs to make financial sense for them. Gas in the US is still cheap, and hybrid technology is expensive.
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    03/20/09

    @drkick: It's too bad the government insists on ignoring antitrust legislation.


    Break up big oil and break up the banks introduce new regulatory legislation and beef up the agencies that provide the oversight.


    What is so difficult about that?

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    03/20/09

    In reply to President Obama Details $2.4 Billion in Grants For Electric Vehicles
    Considering how damn near impossible it is in this country to open a nuclear power plant, this is wonderful news for the coal industry!
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    03/20/09

    @closhedbb: Unless you're a coal miner's daughter, then not so much..
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    03/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Unless that coal miner's daughter happens to actually be Loretta Lynn, then it probably has no real impact on you one way or the other.
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    03/20/09

    @closhedbb: It does seem odd to spend on the cars, when we aren't spending on a realistic and ecological way to provide the power.
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    03/20/09

    @TechSurfer: But I heard the administration is also spending billions on electrical infrastructure and renewable energy sources.
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    03/20/09

    @Margatron: Electrical infrastructure is money well spent, considering how much we lose just intransit on our grid.


    Renewable resources, however, are all nice and dandy, but are not in any shape to form the backbone of our power system. It's amazing how much nuclear power would be the ideal solution to this, yet so many people think that this technology in the US is like Chernobyl.


    I think what amazes me most is how much bad information seems to run so much of the public opinion and big government decisions, especially when the good information is so available, it's just not being rammed down the public's throat like the bad information is.

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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    03/20/09

    @closhedbb: While there is a sizable chunk of people that believe that type of stuff about nuclear power pretending that it doesn't have it's own problems is dishonest. There is still a real problem with waste in that no one wants it around and second that nuclear power plants don't really make money without government subsidy. The cost of building and maintaining one is astronomic. I'm not saying that they cannot be a good answer but they are not there yet.
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    03/20/09

    @closhedbb: I find Brian Dunning has a plain and frank way of explaining things to people, which I sometimes incorporate into my own explanations.

    [skeptoid.com]

    [skeptoid.com]
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    03/20/09

    @Xeno: The newer plants produce almost NO waste, especially when compared to reactors of the past. They are also a lot more safe.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    02/18/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    The face on the first one is pretty good, but that is one ill fitting suit. He wouldn't be caught dead in that thing.
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    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    I wonder if any perverted type folk are going to see that action figure and model plane and think devious thoughts....


    He may wind up traveling the Hershey Highway on Turd Force One.

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    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    So what's an Obamabuck worth these days??
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: Depends if you're a liberal or a conservative. The moderates, much like the middle class, are just screwed.
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    Image of zweihander zweihander
    02/17/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: the exchange rate is as follows:

    1 obama = 10,000 palins

    1 obama = 666 mccains

    1 obama = 12.5 sec. of clapping and grinning.

    1 obama = 1/2 a mcdouble and a small fries at Mcd's

    1 obama = 1 euro

    1 obama = about $1.79

    all in all the obama could get you not too much but enough to shut you up for approx. 100 days.
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    02/18/09

    @zweihander: 100 days? Based on those figures it's not even enough to shut me up for 100 minutes...
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    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    Do not taunt the Happy Fun Obama Ball
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    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See


    Chaaaaange?

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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    The amount of celebrity worship here is alarming. I mean, I voted for the man too, but the day after inauguration I settled down to picking apart his every action and being miserable again. It's the American way!
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    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    All of this...coming to a HotTopic near you...Don't you just love fads.
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    02/17/09

    @shaithis: Not emo or rave enough for goth'n'go.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    Put some little dots along the bridge and cheeks of the top one, and you basically have Morgan Freeman.
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    02/17/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: So you're saying they all look alike?
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    02/17/09

    @SirNotAppearing: Aw c'mon. Put a cap on his head and it'll be a Shawshank Redemption action figure.
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    02/17/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Jamie Foxx wasn't in the Shawshank Redemption.
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    02/17/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Better make that the Shawshank Recession....
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    Image of bart_cop bart_cop
    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    The one with Obama asking for your change is probably the most realistic one there. Soon we will all be living in tent cities and drinking dog piss out of rusty hubcaps, at least according to [www.f2bb.com]
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    02/17/09

    @bart_cop: I'm pretty sure that bart_cop is a viral promoter for that website. He/she is advertising it in every post. Is this sufficient reason to be banned?
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    02/17/09

    @bart_cop: You seem to be doing just fine subsisting on a steady diet of SPAM...
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/17/09

    In reply to This Is The Worst Obama Action Figure You Will Ever See
    I think the wings on that Air Force One model are upside down.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: That's not AFO. AFO is a 747, and THAT good sir, is not a 747.
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    02/17/09

    @Lite: is combing the desert.:
    Air Force One is any Air plane the President is on.
    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    @Snapper: Right, it being a mobile designation. However the two main planes designated to carry him are 747's.


    Where as that model looks like something they dredged out of the Hudson.

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    02/17/09

    @Lite: is dining in hell tonight.: I guess we'll call it Marine Salvage 1 then...
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    01/23/09

    In reply to Itzhak and Yo-Yo Go Milli Vanilli With John Williams's Inaugural Soundtrack
    It bugs me that John Williams is taking credit for "composing" the piece when it's little more than an variation of Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring. It's the classical equivalent of Vanilla Ice taking the opening from "Under Pressure", adding a single note to make it slightly different, then insisting that it was his creation.
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    01/23/09

    @Jen: I agree. I was stuck watching the C-span feed at work. When I heard Appalachian Spring, I wondered how could Williams take credit?


    I chuckled to myself when "upper management" thought it was an original piece of work, and how well it was played. What a bunch of frauds (I'm referring to my co-workers, you can draw your own conclusions about the Yo-Yo and the others).

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    01/23/09

    @taylors_dad: @Jen: Actually, you're both making the same mistake! Aaron Copeland did not write the melody you're referring to in Appalachian Spring. It is a traditional Shaker melody that Copeland incorporated into Appalachian Spring, just as Williams incorporated it into his inaugural piece. Because the melody is so famously linked to Appalachian Spring, it's understandable that you might assume Williams was borrowing from Copeland, or that Copeland actually wrote it.


    There's also nothing wrong with what either Copeland or Williams did. Neither composer is pretending to compose something they didn't. Incorporating folk songs into new pieces and making variations on them is a standard compositional technique. Besides, Williams' piece was intentionally called an arrangement not a composition. And that the name of Williams' piece "Air and Simple Gifts" includes the name of the Shaker song on which it's based, "Simple Gifts," also lets you know he's not trying to pull a fast one.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    01/23/09

    In reply to Itzhak and Yo-Yo Go Milli Vanilli With John Williams's Inaugural Soundtrack
    Am I the only person who kept expecting them to launch into Last of the Mohicans?
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