It's all good. I think the coastal states should band together and come up with a multi-state standard for textbooks. I'm pretty sure the pacific and northeast states have more kids combined than Texas. Pass the idea around, maybe it will catch on.

Axe,

I agree with you....but I think that it'll probably end up with people hooked up to existing natural gas infrastructure, which is petroleum based. It's a cool idea regardless.

Consumes methane, not quite as clean as promised.

Crispee, should Acorn have lost federal funding because of a few bad apples?

Look the democrats were going at the budget first, what's wrong with getting a little bit of the action afterwards? After all, they started it. The money was there for the taking. When the Republicans are back in charge, none of this is going to happen.

Promise.

Chemical reaction required to power the laser not electricity satelite payload would be enormous also hard to cool down the thing

Global warming almost makes me as angry as that round earth scam. When I look out my window, the earth doesn't look curved. Case closed. Back to the drawing board scientists!

90c2cab,

You can't live without police of firefighters? I think most of humanity did for most of history. If it's not in the constitution, it's not a right. IF you really want police and fire, you should pay for private police and fire insurance out of your own pocket. Private industry can do the job more efficiently. If you can't afford it, you don't deserve it. Why should I subsidize your safety?

Do any of my conservative brothers and sisters send their children to public schools? Stop spending my tax dollars. Take your children out of school and send them to church. The only education a child needs is the good book.

Constitutional amendment stating that no US state can take back more in federal aid than it's citizens give in federal dollars. Any expenditure beyond that amount comes as a federal loan to be paid back in ten years. Default and no money for twenty. Military bases excluded.

USC that is....

None of these programs are in the bill of rights or the constitution so you dont have a 'right' to any of them, excepting the military of course (UCS sec. 8):

"To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;"

All we have to do is call your senator and tell him vote against the next military appropriations bill.

Let's gut the NIH, NSF, NASA, DARPA as well. Science is for losers and Al Gore types. Imagine the savings!

Close down all publicly funded universities as well.

Get rid of the standing army and remove all bases overseas. Get rid of the FDA, EPA, FAA, FCC, DHS. Privatize the police, fire departments, schools. Get rid of medicare, medicaid, social security. Sell all federal highways to private industry and turn them into toll roads.

We could get a net positive out of this, how could any real Republican complain, unless they were a poser.

Genuinely curious Jak, what is a CASNR degree? Not rebutting just want to know.

Man it has gotten ugly on this forum over the years. Dinsey, just out of curiosity, are you intentionally trolling or are you serious? The Ad hominem attacks and straw man arguments run this place. I think in another five or ten years it will pretty much be all caps locks and swearing. I'm not entirely innocent.

Due to the educational system perhaps? I kid.

@Danni

I hope so, I feel like it was a waste of time for me.

I wonder if aptitude tests in Junior high can funnel kids into programs that utilize their natural talents.

1. Education does not equal intelligence.

2. Education does allow you to at least have an informed opinion on an issue, as well facilitating the communication of ideas.

3. A good education can provide a framework for evaluating other peoples ideas.

I'm not so sure that high school provides any of this in the first place. It's more of a gatekeeper for college and a babysitter for kids with raging hormones.

That's cute Tadowe,

I say: CO2 toxicity

With a link about what concentration of CO2 is toxic and you go ape sh*t. Same to you Jak Se Mao.

Good night kids! Sleep tight!

semtex111

It's CFC's not pool chlorine. Different molecules, different properties, they contain some of the same atoms. By your argument, you should be able to clean a pool with table salt because after all, sodium chloride contains chlorine.

CFC's are a catalyst, that means that a very tiny amount can be used over and over and destroy a much larger amount.

I think attempted manslaughter us in order on this one

Yeah same deal here, they said a huge one was due in Southern California in the next thirty years twenty years ago so I guess we are screwed in the next ten.

prop 13

Enforce wto rules against currency manipulation, tariffs on Chinese product dumping, not going to happen though.

Enjoy you new boss, peasants! It shouldn't matter too much to you, rich Chinese and rich American business men have the same loyalties, money.