My gearhead friends are aghast. They can’t understand why a political party is demonizing a vehicle that represents some of the best automotive engineering innovation to come out of Detroit in decades.
As a native Pennsylvanian, I never once considered attending Penn State University. Penn State always seemed like a place full of cliquish white people recalling their glory years of making fun of the dorky kids in high school. More progressive white people and people of color went to big city state schools like Pitt or Temple while whiter, more conservative types tended to dominate the settings of the rural, fraternity-heavy Penn State campus.
A company using hydraulic fracturing to release gas from shale rock confirms that the controversial technique probably did trigger earth tremors in northwestern England in April and May.
The U.S. Congress itself, in drafting the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, acknowledged that “Native American religions hold certain lands or natural formations to be sacred.”
Judge Manderfield, Kennecott, and the DEQ ignored centuries of oral history, verbal testimony, and archaeological studies demonstrating that Eagle Rock is linked to ancient ceremonial sites in Wisconsin and Montana and may be part of a network extending south to Mexico and north to the Arctic.
There is mounting evidence of permits not being addressed properly, along with company gift-giving to local institutions in order to discourage criticism.
A great sadness is that our grandchildren may look at what has happened and, as E. O. Wilson has said, will know more about critical links between environment and health than any of us can ever imagine. while at the same time despise us for not protecting, in our generation and time, the quality of our air, our forests, and our water.
Joule Unlimited has invented a genetically-engineered organism that it says simply secretes diesel fuel or ethanol wherever it finds sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.
There seems to be some question on how the company will separate the fuel from the water and also whether or not it will scale up into a useful size and still deliver the fuel as expected.
"This lawsuit is not about politics or race," Mrs. Sherrod said in the statement released by her lawyer. "It is not about right versus left, the NAACP or the tea party. It is about how quickly, in today's Internet media environment, a person's good name can become 'collateral damage' in an overheated political debate. I strongly believe in a free press and a full discussion of public issues, but not in deliberate distortions of the truth."
Via Twitter, Michael Moore asks a question, "If a Detroit Muslim put a map on the web w/crosshairs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he b sitting right now? Just asking." Like all good rhetorical questions, we already know the ansewr to it. This morning, we would probably once again be talking about the need for racial profiling and perhaps asking if it weren't time to build concentration camps until we could find out some way to sort the good Muslims from the bad.
I'm flagging this for the "IN THE NEWS" section not because I have a doubt this won't be widely read, but because if you are going to manufacture bullshit talking points for your Party to spread like wildfire, make sure they can't come back to bite you in your own ass.
So, the Republican leadership in Arizona is rationing healthcare now? The very idea.
