First, I am quite good at providing citations and references.

And you go on to provide these two links:

http://principia-scientific.org/latest-news/330-ipcc-climate-reports-then-versus-now.html
http://principia-scientific.org/latest-news/369-ipcc-sea-level-exaggeration.html

Principia-scientific is a vanity site run by Joseph E Postma, who is not a climate scientist and has never published a peer-reviewed paper on climate science. If that's the best you can do then you don't have a case.

They ARE exempt from the EPA clean air and clean water acts.

No, they actually aren't.

As a matter of fact, Dick Cheney and his hand-picked cronies made damn sure that they are indeed exempt.

"However, in the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which arose out of Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force, Congress amended the definition of "underground injection" under the SDWA to specifically exclude "the underground injection of fluids or propping agents (other than diesel fuels) pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities."

Margo T. Oge, who oversaw the creation of the ethanol credit program at the E.P.A., says..."The last thing we wanted in implementing this program is to get price increases for the consumerâ.

For those who wonder what exactly Tokolosh is getting at, here are the US corn prices 2001-2012:

1. US Calendar Year Average Corn Price Received
   for the 2001 - 2013 Calendar Year(s)
   Year Corn ( $/bushel )
   2001 1.89
   2002 2.13
   2003 2.27
   2004 2.47
   2005 1.96
   2006 2.28
   2007 3.39
   2008 4.78
   2009 3.75
   2010 3.83
   2011 6.01
   2012 6.67

Data from http://farmdoc.illinois.edu/manage/uspricehistory/USPrice.asp

You won't be ticketed for driving the speed limit, but for being in the wrong lane based on your speed. The law in most places is "slower traffic keep right", a semi official wink-wink, nod-nod to speeding.

In the US "Slower traffic keep right" laws are for safety, to prevent the passing vehicle from going through the blind spot of the vehicle being passed. History has shown that to be dangerous. That's why it's also against the law in every state to pass a vehicle on the right.

I suspect the tickets for "being in the wrong lane" you're thinking of are really tickets for failing to yield to faster traffic. Since a police car is traffic just like anybody else, if you fail to move to the right to let a police car pass they can and will ticket you.

But most of all, I want apps to be designed and installed to reduce the need for privilege escalations.

That's all fine and dandy, but every time you need to change some setting in /etc/ or interract with a service, you need to be root.

Easily solved with a dedicated root terminal window. I keep mine in a particular desktop and create it every time I reboot. My current uptime is over 100 days and during that time I've only logged in as root once, but have done a lot of work as root managing raid arrays and installing packages and such. All without needing or using sudo.

The Indian Air Force embarrassed the USAF in Cope India 2004 and again at Red Flag in 2008.
The first time was against USAF F-15Cs and the second time, against the F-22.

The F-22 has never participated in Cope India. A little googling got me some guys speculating about how it would stack up, but that's it. My guess would be the F-22 will never be at Cope India since the USAF already has plenty of data on how it stacks up against the F-15 (that is, very very well), and the USAF is simply not willing to risk revealing too much.

Apparently, according to Wikipedia, I hit Stephen King with a truck... Who knew? I must have been drinking that night.

Bryan Smith? My sympathies to your family, apparently you're also dead:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=115390&page=1

A guy with my name is a pitcher for the New York Yankees, so that priest in England and I have just about disappeared into the background.

Lessee, pitcher for the New York Yankees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Phelps_(baseball)

And a priest in England:
http://www.stmarkoca.org/

Your name is David Phelps. Hey everybody, methano is David Phelps!

What do I win?

..does Australia have an Area 51..

The answer appears to be yes:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_pinegap.htm

I'm not Australian so it's the first I've heard of it.

Simple just search for -altavista. Yea, doesn't work.

That's because you negated your entire search string. Try "search -altavista". Works just fine, no altavista results.

Why would someone write malware that dumps money into some unrelated stranger's bank account?

Plausible deniability.

two of those years gave him full run of Congress

Nope, unless by "years" you mean "months". Actually it wasn't even a full 2 months.

The Democrats only had a supermajority in Congress between July 7, 2009 when Al Franken was seated in the Senate, and August 25, 2009 when Ted Kennedy died of a brain tumor.

Ted Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the Senate, so when he died the then-governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, appointed a Republican to replace Kennedy and the Democrats lost their supermajority.

Kennedy had been suffering with a brain tumor for more than a year, and towards the end during that period of supermajority he was not well enough to attend most Senate sessions and only voted a few times.

The Discovery writer got confused and thought the replacement pump check for leaks post-swap was referring to the original leaking pump pre-swap. No doubt they'll fix it any second now....

I'm not an expert on Islam by any means, but I'm fairly sure that if you are born to a Muslim father, then Islam considers you to be a Muslim by birth. Assuming that that is correct, Barack Obama, Sr. was Muslim by birth, as is President Obama.

In the United States of America we have this thing called Freedom of Religion, which means Mr. Obama can be whatever religion he chooses to be. Nobody gets to choose it for him.