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Comment Re:Slashleft (Score 2) 404

Obama did sign the bill in 2011, didn't he? You make it sound like all of this stuff just happened around him and he has nothing whatever to do with it.

Harry Truman had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that read "The Buck Stops Here." Neither Obama, nor his acolytes, believe that he is responsible for anything that they do not like.

Comment Re:A parallel (Score 1) 482

Without the workers, the factory is useless. You don't actually have to kill the workers, however. You can simply destroy enough infrastructure around the factory to make it difficult for enough workers to show up for their next shift, and production is halted. This is the theory behind the RAF's Area Bombing program in WWII.

Comment Re:This is what newspapers are for (Score 1) 183

It won't be done publicly. You haven't been paying attention. The lawmakers (or their surrogates, the regulators) will get to write the regulations that determine just what is a "legitimate news organization" and is therefore eligible for the subsidy. If you publish too many stories that embarrass the powers that be, the regulations will be tweaked and you will lose your funding. The same issue exists with public financing of elections (aka welfare for politicians) as those in power write the regulations that determine who gets access to public money.

Comment Re:Clearly, the US is at fault here (Score 1) 275

The Kyoto protocol was adopted by Parties to the UNFCCC in December 1997. Clinton was President. Gore was his Vice-President. They did not bring the treaty before the US Senate for ratification. Treaties have to be ratified by the US Senate. The US Senate unanimously passed the Byrd-Hagel Resolution in July 1997 that stated that the Senate would not pass a treaty that did not require developing countries to make emissions reductions (among other things). Clinton never submitted the Kyoto Treaty to the US Senate because he knew it would not pass. But don't let your hate for Bush interfere with the facts.

Comment Re:Touchscreen dashes in cars (Score 1) 231

In the Ford vehicles, the touch screen is combined with voice recognition, so you don't have to take your hands off the wheel to adjust the interior temperature or call your mom or tell the car to play some Mozart. I use the touch screen when the car is not moving, but I use voice commands when I am driving. It seems to work pretty well.

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