Heh. Yes, I know. Wouldn't have had with a proper helmet. Or a little less luck.

Save that Goliath has an M1 Abrams loaded with canister rounds and David... still has a sling.

I have never been one for a lot of government intervention. However this is a prime example of the fact that it really has it's place. Sure, it's all well and good that General Mills has backed down. But there's nothing to say that you'll not see this stunt pulled again in the future. All it's going to take is corporation to decide they'll do better by using this tactic against it's customers than they'll loose from the public backlash.

Better to put out a grass fire in your yard with a hose than to wait for the fire department to show up to try and save what's left of your house.

Well that is actually true. Hemp honestly is a wonder crop for many reasons. Including the fact it can produce massive amounts of ethanol. However I don't think ethanol is the wonder answer that people make it out to be.

Yeah I've noticed that myself. Sure ethanol does 'clean' engines. But it also eats seals and gaskets. And sure, that's not that much of a problem in brand new cars... but if you're still banging around in something from the 80s or 90s you can expect more repairs. If not having to replace or rebuild the whole engine.

Yeah Howard Bloom is a pretty serious mouth piece for ethanol. He suggests using any number of other materials to make the stuff. And I do actually agree with that part of his platform. Just think he's kind over stating what it can do. Well that it eats old seals.... I can't afford a new car.

Well some of the ones listed in the link are. Or near enough to make no never mind. Pity thought because I'd be aallll over that Skorpion...

Well better a bunch of GOP racist texting a-holes than left wing senators who smuggle in rocket launchers and heavy machine guns.

I'd just as soon have neither, but if I gotta chose the worse of the two...

Heh! Yeah, I remember that... Always wondered why he chose to mail order from Canada. Are Canadian dildos the best dildos?

Going all the way back to the time of the revolution (or a bit after it) a legal president that actually crated two kinds of militia. A select militia and a general militia. In modern times the concept of the select militia has been taken to be the National Guard. Which actually isn't a militia at all as it's directly tied into the US Military. The other end of this spectrum is the concept of the general militia which is actually every able bodies man in the nation. The reasons for this being that in the past there were conflicts between the states and the federal government as a whole as to who was allowed to keep a militia. This precedent still hjolds true today. This is how those 'Michigan Militia' types don't routinely get stamped out by the ATF or DHS.

All I have said here really is a moot point given that what this ass-clown is pushing is a blatant call to revoke the right of the people to own personal weapons by harping on the concept of the militia and playing with the means of works. I won't bother trying to explan why this is completely wrong and instead will direct everyone to check out the episode of Penn and Teller's 'Bullshit' on gun control. They lay it out better and funnies than I could.

Doesn't seem like the best idea to try and make policy based off a questionable study. After all all it said that the rise in temperature data had nothing do to with simple clime fluctuation. It didn't really address anything else.

It think it would also help if we'd step away from the 'old fashion' reactors in favor of breeder reactors. Or the thorium based technology. When the kinks get worked out of that tech.

Found the vegan!

I thought that entire thing was kind of overblown. But I do kind of wonder what would have happened what would have happened if someone had flipped the switch with a conservative comedian making this kind of statement. I honestly think there there would still be people bitching about it.

Of course... about the only conservative comedian I can think of off the top of my head is Larry the Cable guy. Don't think he has the wit to pull something like that off.

I say this due to the fact of just how untrustworthy the Federal Government be come. And that's in all ways, not just with this new tax.

As a side note I'd really like to see real information on how many people have actually BOUGHT this new mandatory insurance. Last time I looked into it they were still keeping that under their proverbial hat. Wouldn't be surprised it was half... or even less.