O masters, if I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Who, you all know, are honourable men:
I will not do them wrong; I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honourable men.
–From William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
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They all told me it was safe…and why wouldn’t I believe oil and gas lobbyists?
pay wall thingy
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
sources of energy other than fossil fuels are available. Other sources of air and water are not. Seems like a no brainer. Why haven’t we been going full steam ahead for decades now, Apollo style, to develop an energy economy that doesn’t involve self destruction?
There has been real progress though. Over at Oildrum.com there are many well educated and industry insiders whoo discuss this all the time and provide more than ample research and data sourcing to support their findings.
It will take a bit of time, first to get the charger infrastructure in place and second it will happen as people buy new cars. And part of it will require waiting for the next generation of EVs including various types.
Over the next 3 years we’ll see EVs of every type come out. They’ll be 2nd generation which will be a significant improvement. And we’ll have a critical mass of chargers (all paid for by Ralphie). And then the switch will accelerate.
R&D adds to TC, but not necessarily to TR
“full steam ahead” takes energy too. Check out the forests of our merry olde neighbors.
Solar is the only thing that makes sense in the end (fusion is solar – fission is suicide).
And we’ll get there, following der Deutschelnad (uber alles) and China.
P = TR – TC
P max =
either max TR – TC
or TR- min TC
or, max TR – minTC
With me, it’s headaches.
CTBC can no longer hide behind “issue committee” status. It is a political committee and subject to campaign finance limits.
http://www.coloradoforethics.o…
…and excellent blog post debunking most of what the mainstream media is regurgitating about his military and domestic life:
http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.c…
….because it’s starting to sound like their’s evidence that the Chain of Command knew SSG Bale had either physical or behavioral health issues, and deployed him anyway:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/…
Let’s see – the CDR of Madigan Army Hospital was relieved when news broke that the Command was discouraging diagnosis of PTSI. And the TBI screening facility is under Congressional investigation when it was discovered their accuracy rate in diagnosing TBI was less than 10%….
I say Bales gets in line, just behind the Psycologist or whatever he was.
It’s about justice and process is critical.
SSG Bales was on his 4th deployment, and had a diagnosis for TBI and had other physical injuries. I suspect the Army is going to try and “lose” every single document that shows they knew he was injured and deployed him anyway.
Future PV0 Hasan never deployed. And the Army tried to cover their ass by leaking every bad OER he had.
But even then, they actually had an Article 32 hearing (with a real investigation) before they charged him, even with the overwhelming evidence. The Army barely knows what happened with SSG Bales, and they’re falling all over themselves to get the charges in place.
and, you’re a dumbass.
Somebody cares about vigilantes executing teenagers for walking while black
http://www.miamiherald.com/201…
IIRC he has called 911 46 times since 2004. You let a brainless, dangerous moron like this into a position of even basic authority, like neighborhood watch, they completley overstep their bounds, and you end up with a very good young kid dead.
Very, very sad.
In just over a year is what I recall hearing on the radio. Impeccable source, that.
Also pertinent is the new NRA promoted “stand your ground” law which doesn’t require one to avoid a confrontation before using deadly force.
It sounds pretty sketchy to claim self-defense when the dead kid was yelling”help” repeatedly before being shot.
is going to be Zimmerman’s undoing.
http://www.mercurynews.com/nat…
Let’s call Trayvon Martin by his name. Calling him “kid” or “dead kid” dehumanizes him.
If we’re going to personify fetuses, let’s not de-personify a kid on his way home from the 7-11 with a can of iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
Trayvon Martin was his name.
This from the Columbus Dispatch:
He got an ice tea and had a bag of skittles in his hand because his little brother asked him to pick up some. I hope that provides more context on how senseless and horrible this was.
Yeah, it’s called a bag of Skittles, Zimmerman.
The only thing Trayvon was in danger of doing was getting a sugar buzz.
Martin’s cell phone. The phone company will have records of what time he was on it, the length of time and where which will validate his friend’s eyewitness account but where the hell is that poor boy’s phone?
somewhere in evidence booking, or down a drain.
It was listed as being with his effects when the police came.
I heard it reported they didn’t have his phone but the police may be holding it as evidence. Rumors seem to be abounding without much confirmation so I’d like to retract that statement, that it’s missing.
Worst case of police dropping the ball in recent memory. Thank God Brevard County State Attorney Norm Wolfinger announced a grand jury investigation. While he’s at it, he might want to take a look at the Sanford Police Department.
This case makes me sick to my stomach, particularly after listening to Zimmerman’s 911 call. There’s some indication that he is using a racial slur under his breath at around 2:21 timestamp into the call.
You mean an indication like he says f***ing *oons?
He said it – it was recorded. The recording is public. It’s more than an indication. It’s a declaration.
The recording is a bit rough and hard to hear. And yes, I listened to the cleaned up version and that’s also what it sounded like to me. But that doesn’t mean you or I are right.
And you know what? Whether he said it or not is just one more insult on a heap of insults to our system of justice and to Martin’s family. He stalked this kid (even after the dispatcher told him not to), he hunted him down, cornered him and murdered him in cold blood. Martin’s family deserves justice and that’s what I’m concentrating on and hoping for.
Fair is calling like it is.
Fair?
Tell it to Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. Hell, tell it to Fred Hampton. Or the good folk of Rosewood, FL.
A lynching is a lynching. And the moment that Zimmerman left his hiding place to follow/stalk Mr. Martin, that’s what this became.
I respect that you are trying to be …gentle. But there are times and a place to stand and point – and this is one of those times.
There is no “fair” anywhere in this senseless, needless tragedy, none whatsoever.
that in the days before wall to wall media this would have just faded away when the local poice chose to just let it go. Too bad Florida’s stand your ground law makes it easier for paranoid vigilante types to blow people away with the excuse that they thought they were being threatened. Even so, the fact that Zimmerman had to stalk and corner Trayvon in order to kill him should work against his ability to get away with it now that the Feds are saying “not so fast” to the local authorities.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_n…
And, Zimmerman doesn’t even qualify as a vigilante. What “wrong” was he redressing? There was no cattle rustling, no one’s family was wronged, no theft — zimmerman had no justification whatsoever to confront, or even follow this kid. Vigilante my ass. Sick, twisted racist dreg stalker hardly begins to describe this stain on humanity.
I’m sorry I got started on this, because every minute I think about it, the angrier and sadder I get. There’s a dead innocent kid who committed no crime, and his killer walking is currently free — WTF, WTF. WTF? There’s nothing that can be done to zimmerman at this point that’s going to provide any kind of “justice” for Trayvon. Where is the justice that allows some kid, of any color, to become the walking target for a pistol happy wannabe gunslinger killer? There simply is no justice . . .
Jonathon Capehart of the Washington Post lists the rules his mother taught him to follow as a young black man back in the 80s. Among them, don’t run in public because that makes you suspicious. Don’t run while holding anything. Someone will think you stole something. Trayvon wasn’t even doing those things. Just walking back to a relatives home in a gated community while black.
Many successful black professionals have stories of being stopped by police as suspicious in their own affluent neighborhoods, not in the far past but recently. Jogging (don’t run, son) or driving a high end car while black being the only source of suspicion. At least they weren’t chased down and murdered which is a far cry from standing your ground in the face of a threatening aggressor.
In France a gunman chased down Jewish children, including a 4 year old and a 7 year old, and then shot them in the head at close range. The nation and world are in an uproar, the authorities doing everything they can to find and prosecute the guy who did it. In Florida a racist thug chases down an African American teenager doing absolutely nothing that would be considered suspicious had he been white and the local police do nothing?
As Capehart points out, we aren’t yet, even in 2012, as far from the horrific days of Jim Crow and lynchings as we’d like to think. At least we’re far enough so that, this time, the police aren’t getting away with letting the perpetrator off without so much as an investigation. That’s something and we have to make sure the pressure stays on.
you didn’t read my second paragraph. Ah well.
I’ve read 46 times since 2001, In the two months before the shooting, Zimmerman had called the police 46 times, and 46 times in the last 14 month, twice.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blo…
Sanctimonious? Check!
Ironic?…
Hes been stomping on him own dick.
I think we found us your Google linguist . . .
I told you it was: “The boy has[Libertad’s] ball.”
I’m reserving this one for some future sig line.
That would explain a lot about his ability to express himself in English.
having lunch at Merle’s and thought of you.
And thanks for supporting a very nice, non-chain, locally owned, not to mention Dem friendly, Littleton business. They were afraid of the local (The Tavern, metro area) chain that moved in across the street but are doing just fine. Best fresh cut fries anywhere in south metro. Nothing fancy. No hip spices to obscure the real deal. Just great, simple fresh cut fries like we used to get at the hot dog stand in the old Chicago neighborhood when I was a kid. Practically bring tears to my eyes.
Lynn Bartels spills all the dirt his recent engagement!
NOT one of the “Um, Bop” brothers!
Who’s your daddy?
Are you an American citizen?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
http://www.usatoday.com/news/w…
Are the greatest country on earth, and the dumbest at the same time?
… I thought the second was problematic – that if she was the mother, then shouldn’t her child be a citizen automatically? But the excerpt makes it sound like she got implanted with a random egg/sperm donor set, not with her own egg. So at worst wouldn’t that mean that the baby needs to be effectively adopted, and the State Department did the wrong thing in denying citizenship altogether? At best she’s the effective mother and the child is born to her, so is automatically a citizen (unless there’s a problem with a conflicting foreign citizenship claim…). There’s definitely room for some legal patch-up work in this case.
The first case was heard before the Supreme Court today. (Was the other one, too?) The quote leaves out that the twins were apparently conceived after the death of the biological father, and to me that makes the difference. The mother decided to have these children on her own after the fact, so to speak; absent some quirk in the law, I don’t see where they should receive SSI survivor benefits – they aren’t really survivors, after all. Even with the notarized statement, even if it had been in his will, I don’t see how they are survivors.
They are his kids, and he’s dead.
If, in the future, someone freezes their sperm and 200 years later someone uses it, do they still get survivor benefits? Does a clone?
I’m sorry – if they weren’t conceived by the time he died, they’re not really survivors. They might be related, even his children, but they’re not survivors.
as far as the survivor benefits go. But it seems that a child born to an American mother ought to be a citizen even if the egg wasn’t the mother’s. If not, then the mother ought to be able to adopt the child she carried and take care of citizenship that way. But I agree it isn’t fair to keep coming up wth new heirs to complicate the lives of heirs conceived during a father’s life time. You’d have situations where somebody inherits and then 15 years later three more heirs are born claiming their share. How can anyone plan for that?
so play with me here — if the CO eggmendment nuts get their way then personhood is bestowed on fertilized eggs. What if those fertilized eggs are packed away on ice for some future use by my great-great-grandsomething in a cryo center. Let’s say some slacker 99%er janitor trips and unplugs that cryo freezer and all them eggs get defrosted. That would mean the fine state of CO (or whatever we’re called in the future) gets to slap that slacker 99%er janitor with mass murder?
Poll for Faux News (no less) finds 59% of Latinos identify as Democrats with 15.9 self-diagnosed as Repugs and if they voted today it’d likely be Obama @70% to Romney@14% of the vote. That’s one helluva beat down.
How did it all go wrong so fast? Seems like just a day ago Mitt won over a majority of 132,000 Puerto Ricans on his side. Hell he even said that his Puerto Rico win proved that Latinos like him (yeah that’s one way to spin it and just another outta touch Mitt-ment).
Just what happens if Mitt can’t get even 15% of the Latino vote nationally? You can read about it here & it don’t look good: Mitt Romney’s Latino problem, in charts and maps
Once again, Rep. Cheri Jahn has demostrated that her primary constituency is business not people. She sponsored HB 12-1115 which would have given busnesses – and only businesses – the right to comment on legislation and have those comments included as part of the Fiscal Note. Employees, labor unions, environmentalists and just plain people would not be afforded this right. Fortunately, the Democrats on the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee stuck together and killed this one.
http://www.facebook.com/profil…
Just when she was really improving as a business reporter.
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAUL…
I guess that if even the whackjobs in the GOP don’t think it’s the best idea to tell spanish speakers to get “official,” or to have your preacher buddy doing your introductions telling non-Christians that they should leave this country, then it probably is time to “saddle up” Santorum? (Don’t worry though, Santorum’s still got lots of women to denigrate . . . )
In some related good news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03…
but fear not (O&)Gopers, it’s Citizen’s United to the rescue:
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.c…
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03…
. . . I dunno, needs work???
Goober in today’s CO mean that you think its fine to send false ‘election notices’ out to confuse voters–because one needs to protect ‘speech.’ But dain to vote with a name of Juan Rodriquez, and should there be another ‘Juan Rodriquez’ con ‘Green Card,’ then one or the other might well be a voter scofflaw and Both should be disqualified–or at least hauled up to Mr. Gessler’s office and made to recite passages from the Federalist Papers and properly place Kalamazoo on a map.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news…