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Comment Re:You're looking in the wrong place (Score 3, Informative) 537

If it was a White Extremest Christian my money is on property damage, or arson at most.

Yep, everyone refers to the 168 dead from the Oklahoma City bombing as "property damage" and no one ever refers to Timothy McVeigh as a terrorist.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/oklahoma/stories/ok042597.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/09/pitn.00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93055&page=1

Unless you don't count CNN, ABC and the Washington Post as "MSM".

Comment Re:So what? (Score 2, Informative) 1046

Really?
From Florida Statute 776.032 Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force
"(1) A person who uses force as permitted in 776.012 [Use of force in defense of person] is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force..."
"(2) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful."

Sure sounds like they can't be arrested to me.

Comment Re:Never happened before..nope (Score 2) 326

This American Life isn't a news program, in fact they specifically point this out if you go to their web page. The best way to describe TAL in a sentence is a program that presents a series of stories (I'd call them essays) around some theme for the purpose of entertaining the listener. Some of the stories are based factual information, but others are total fiction.

Comment Re:Graft (Score 5, Informative) 123

Well the US is not one of those places. People are pretty much free to quit one job and take another.

Not necessarily. As a random example, if you're an FAA safety inspector you have to wait two years before you can be hired by an airline for a job that involves interacting with the FAA.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=mro&id=news/avd/2011/08/30/04.xml

Comment Re:Important to note (Score 3, Informative) 211

F&F began under Bush.

No, "Project Gunrunner" began under President Bush. "Operation Fast and Furious", while part of Project Gunrunner, didn't begin until 2009.

And I'm aware only of one solar company that received a grant, yet later failed

I can think of three off the top of my head: Solyndra and Beacon Power who both received DOE money, and Evergreen Solar who received Massachusetts money.
While they are still around I personally don't have high hopes for 1366 Technologies, who also received DOE money. They appear to be repeating the same mistake Evergreen made, specifically, betting that the price of silicon isn't going to go down. They may also be falling into the non-standard panels problem but I don't know enough about their final process to be sure.

Also, while not a solar company, Ener1, another DOE recipient filed for chapter 11 about a month ago.

Comment Re:Union Carbide (Score 3, Informative) 220

The company acquiring Union Carbide has also acquired all the liabilities along with the assets. Dow has pretty much everything to do with Union Carbide and the Bhopal disaster. If Dow did not want the "baggage" that came along with the Union Carbide purchase, they should have stayed away from it.

How exactly did Dow have "pretty much everything to do with[...] the Bhopal disaster" when the the closest they come is owning the company that at one point in the past owned the company that owned the plant? The Bhopal plant was run by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), and UCIL was sold to an Indian company back in the early 90's. About 7 years later Dow came along and bought Union Carbide. So not only is there a few layers of ownership in between, there is also a gap of several years. Why doesn't Eveready Industries India Ltd (the company that UCIL turned into) get the "baggage" associated with Bhopal?

Comment Rayon isn't synthetic (Score 4, Informative) 166

Out of all the examples you could pick you picked rayon? Rayon is produced using cellulose (wood), sodium hydroxide, carbon disulfide and sulfuric acid. It isn't a synthetic fiber, and there isn't any petroleum involved in the process. Rayon is just cellulose that has been dissolved and regenerated as a fiber.

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