NASA once again makes Mars her bitch. Way to go! Seriously, this landing was so complicated, I was expecting the worse. I join millions of others around the world in breathing a huge sigh of relief.

"more than war, slavery, government brutality: drugs have destroyed more human lives in the history of homo sapiens. understand that, or understand nothing about the subject"

You made some good points, but with this BS, you sound just like any other anti drug zealots. For wars and political conflicts, various estimates for the 20th century are around 200 million or more.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm.

And for every war dead there several who were seriously injured, lost limbs, lost an organ, or crippled, etc. And there are many times as many refugees as dead, people whose home were destroyed, etc. Your probably looking at a billion people or more whose lives were destroyed by war. And you think drug use is worse? You need to put down the crack pipe, or maybe do a few drugs to get over your anti drug paranoia.

Right. The root problem isn't the Government, the root problem is the corporations, the wealthy, and the special interests corrupting the Government.

Another factor is PV is getting cheaper and better all the time. So buy the cheap stuff now, and upgrade in a few years to PV that's significantly better and cheaper than the high end PV was when you did the original installation.

Of course, if it were up to me, we'd have nuked North Korea flat decades ago, so maybe it's good that I'm not actually running the country.

So you'd kill millions of innocent people who have done nothing to you because they are ruled by an egomaniacal dictator?

No, my definition of murderers is rulers who kill millions of people in foreign countries who never attacked or threatened their own country. Your the one saying Presidents who kill millions of innocent people aren't murderers. You're the one parroting the 1984 doublespeak from the government and media. I'm the one cutting through the lies and bullshit.

I didn't blame the U.S. for Stalin, Hitler or Mao. Typical right winger, making up stuff. You do realize the Viet Cong were South Vietnamese? Do you know Ho Chi Minh tried to get the U.S. to help him fight the French colonialists for liberation, but the U.S. instead took over the battle. Do you realize in 1956 the U.S. and Diem refused to hold elections prescribed by the Geneva Convention because they knew Ho Chi Minh would win? So much for fighting for democracy. Do you know Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident to use it as an excuse to expand the war? Do you know why the U.S. lost the Vietnam war? Because most of the people in South Vietnam opposed to the U.S. I guess carpet bombing and spreading agent orange over your fields would make one feel that way.

What makes you think the U.S. has the right to kill people all over the world in defensive of Capitalism? This democracy facade the U.S. is supposedly fighting for is bullshit, as shown by the numerous dictatorships the U.S. has backed around the world over the decades, and the democracies it has overthrown to put in a U.S. friendly government, see Iran - 1953, Guatemala- 1954, , Brazil- 1964, Chili - 1971, etc.

Whether or not Cambodia was being used as a haven by the South Vietnamese Viet Cong doesn't affect whether or not the U.S. backed war and bombing led to the rise of Pol Pot. Pol Pot would have never risen to power without the U.S. destruction of Cambodia. And the U.S. had no right to be killing those people in the first place. Did the Viet Cong attack the U.S.? Show me the bombed out cities in the U.S. caused by the Viet Cong.

Stop buying in to the Government propaganda. The U.S. actions in the world are just as criminal as the Soviet Union's or any other imperialist power in history.

Can you point out the specific quotes in question? All I see him is questioning what is the accurate account of deaths in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot was a mass murderer, but the U.S. bought him to power. They overthrew the Cambodian Monarchy, installed a puppet government, and carpet bombed the country. This led to Pol Pot's rise to power. If the Soviet Union had overthrown the U.S. Government, and carpet bombed the U.S., and the aftermath was warring bands of killers that murdered and raped and starved people by stealing their food, the Soviet Union would bear responsibility, even if they had abandoned the U.S. before this occurred. Similar to the U.S. and Cambodia. Pol Pot committed the crimes directly, but the U.S. bombing etc., led to it.

Enlighten people such as myself me realize that both sides in the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States, were murderous. In fact, all Colonial powers in history are murderers, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Japan, etc. We are ruled by murderers, and always have been.

People stupid enough to buy into his shit frighten me. In the context of the 20th century his political writings are jaw dropping.

I know, your another American fascist that doesn't care about the millions of innocent people the United States has killed around the world, not a tear shed for the innocent Iraqis, Vietnamese, Cambodians, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, etc, etc killed by the U.S. And because Chomsky does, he's full of shit. People who think like you are murderers, along with Bush, Cheney, Obama, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, etc.

Maybe its just me, but I rarely read the bloggers on Huffington Post anyway. I scan the news stories for my daily supply of pap and tittie stories and move on. It does have occasional serious stories that interest me also, but their bloggers bore me.

My local Walmart sells iPads and iPods.

I'd love to ride my bike to work or to the store. I used to live by the Katy Trail (a bike trial built on an old railway line that transverses Missouri) and would ride 50 miles round trip to go shopping. But since I moved from a rural farm to a small city, its not safe. The roads are narrow with heavy traffic, and the speed limit in some areas is 55mph, and 45mph in other areas. I'm talking about major roads within the city limits. Outside the city its 55mph almost everywhere. It would be suicide to ride a bike on these roads. In my old area I could, because there wasn't a lot of traffic.

Why reply to people like this? They know that the climate change is much more rapid than it has been in the past. They've heard that argument before. But they're Conservatives. Which means they are intellectually dishonest, lying greedy morons who don't give a crap what happens to other people in the world as long as they've got theirs.

Yea, and kills tens of thousands of innocent people in the process. You, and the millions of Americans who think like you, are murderers.