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Thanks for the posting Jay, and I actually expected Ron Paul to say something like that as well and I'm glad he did, and yes I agree Nick, if the mainstream media hates him, then he must be doing something right! :laugh3: I'm still astounded that this 5 "conservative" majority supreme court would have the gall to cherry pick Citizen's United vs. FEC as a case to take and then use as a tool to allow unlimited cash to flow into campaigns, and their decisions to declare that corporations have personhood and speech rights is so absurd as to be laughable. This Slate article offers a good overview: The misguided theories behind Citizens United v. FEC. - By David Kairys - Slate Magazine

pitch fork - is that a tuning fork, a dining fork, a hay fork, or a manure fork? :laugh3: Critics can criticize all they want, let's see any one of them make real good music for a change!:P

I have no clue! But found this interesting: WORLD MUSIC: Specials | Link TV

Just listening to music, using other parts of my brain.

Graphene nanosheet electrode Lithium air batteries show tremendous promise in solving the energy density problem of electric car batteries. Energy densities greater than 8 Amp-hours per gram at 2.4 volts are possible, that's an almost unimaginable amount of energy to be packed into one gram of matter! "Extremely high theoretical energy density" - they're not kidding! Just imagine, running a 20-watt compact fluorescent bulb from a battery with a mass a little over one-gram for a full hour - that's wildly powerful! Here's a peek at what Western Ontario's researches have been up to: Green Car Congress: Univ. of Western Ontario researchers develop graphene nanosheet electrodes with high energy capacity for non-aqueous Li-air batteries

You're going to Madtown? COOL!!:cool: Our Ivy League School (when the Badgers aren't winning, that is):laugh3: People just don't know - it's unique - our Berkley. :cool3: The city that rocks, that revolts, that has all the good things in life - lakes, beer, cheese, badgers, capitols, and ducks who attack you for popcorn. And an orchestra. We're sophisticated!:toff:

Arundhati Roy made the comment on Faultlines, and I feel much the same, that today it's as though there is another country of global elites, and then where does that leave the rest of us? The economic needle's tip is so far from the base that being out of touch is the reality in the current economic arrangement. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnTS9gHCZoI]Fault Lines - Arundhati Roy - YouTube[/ame] And I feel much the same as she does - the indigenous people might as well be invisible, that is why they are easily persuaded by Marxists, as global Capitalism, the power that is bulldozing their world away, resembles more and more Fascism. What is needed is a coming to terms with the problem, and getting governments that protects all citizens and their rights, so indigenous peoples get a fair deal if they choose to sell their crops or minerals or participate in the economic system in another way, but have the option of choosing another path. Democracies that are controlled and responsive to the wealthy elites become only democracies in name. So it is the reality we face today, and it is essential that we restore real democracy with guaranteed rights and protections for all .

> Hey live a little, take some risks! Just ones that don't involve models. :laugh3: I did get to enjoy the Gulf coast on the panhandle of FL, really nice and peaceful - glad you took the chance to relax.

YAY! :):hug: I'm really glad to hear that.

Welcome Alba! You're English is fine, my Spanish is nonexistent! :laugh3: Enjoy the site and Ian's selection of fine full course meals. The dinner specials are very enticing here at the restaurant at the end of the universe.

:rolleyes: Yes, I've done that too - peanut butter goes a long way! :laugh3: Don't worry, you'll survive it. I like that chow mein dish Ian is having - how much are the teleportation fees these days?

Here, here! Time to restore the balance, restore a fair economic system. The CEO's are so out of touch with their own companies, it's another absurdity as well. If the company fails, they do even better! I think they should be making no more than 30X what the workers make, tied to the average earnings of the workers & the company - to keep them honest and working as team players in the enterprises they lead. Today, the average CEO makes over 250X what the average worker makes. Here's a snapshot of the trend in growing inequity: CEO-to-worker pay imbalance grows

> I don't know about that - if you give tax breaks to working class people, they generally stimulate production of more goods and services if the economy is slow, but not if the economy is overheating. Better still would be to take the influence of a few powerful interest groups out of politics to the best that we can, and then our elected officials will work for their constituents and country as a whole, not just the special interest groups that skewer things in their favor.

:rolleyes: I dare not even udder a word. :P

Yes, I really do believe we should move to Mars. But first let's settle the moon - it's closer, easier to hop a flight back to earth if you run out of towels or something like that.

Yes, but we had to make the coal smaller to fit in the sleigh. So with many thousands of times the pressure of the atmosphere, and temperatures exceeding 2000 F, you will be getting a clearer, more sparkly version of coal.

:laugh3: As though that should shock anyone on this site!:laugh3: >>RANdOM POStIng : 93 million miles. that it takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the sun to the earth. Light is fast, space is immensely vast.

No, but I went Dye Skying once! :P (painting the sky) Have You Ever, and I mean YOU, have you ever, just lay on your back, looked up at the clouds, and had this immense sense of space and how vast, enormous, and wonderful it all is?

I think Democracy is in crisis, from the ideology that Capitalism is the answer for everything. Right now, the U.S. government can & should borrow at 0% interest, invest in education, infrastructure, green jobs, moving us away from oil and into wind, solar, and efficiency. To stimulate a slow economy, there has to be purchasing happening or we will sit in neutral. But it takes a government where the mantra isn't austerity as the answer. In fact even better would be to double the tax rate on the rich, and give the working class citizens a tax break - because working class citizens actually buy things, they don't just sit on the money. And I agree, not into wars and no more tax breaks for the already super-rich - even Warren Buffet has had enough! Yes, it's nuts, like a tale of two cities - the rich have a house in every state and country, the working class barely have affordable housing - this cannot stand. Warren Buffett: "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" | AlterNet

You too Ricardo, wherever life's winding road leads you. :hug:

:rolleyes: Some people, sheesh! We can do the impossible, it just takes a little more time.

:laugh3: Randomness prevails here! So to encourage Coldplay to try the Zither, Oud, Sitar, or synth equivalents, I think it would be neat if they could work in some of these sounds: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5W2IpVMw0E]Yes-It can happen - YouTube[/ame]

A Release Festival :joker: Sounds like fun!!!

Everything's not lost. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8Hw_Zb6Lo]Coldplay - Everything's Not Lost Live @ Glastonbury 2011 - YouTube[/ame] :hug:

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