Won't do a lick of good, I'm on Bonneville Power.

I mean that he's being judged by modern standards. By the standards of the Spaniards, Italians, and Carib of his time, everything he did was perfectly justified (for instance, long before the Spanish arrived, it was quite common to raise money for the family in the Carib culture to sell children into slavery- the Spanish just brought a new market).

So basically another way we could raise the money to defeat King Coal would be to use Exxon's taxes?

Yep. Because he wore that funny outfit in his portrait in the article for the fun of it!

Just look at recent scholarship on Christopher Columbus.

Grosseteste was the church. The only science of the day was theology, and his model is a special case of the exact same theology that led to the theory of the Big Bang later.

Crowdsource it. At $300/stupid environmentalist, or $8 for every person on earth. The slush alone above the $50 billion you'll raise ought to be plenty.

Oh wait- $8 is more than *half the population of the planet makes in a week*.

It's either the Peter Principle or the Dilbert Principle, depending on the business. Has almost nothing to do with government, and everything to do with either promoting people past their competency or hiring sociopaths who don't know the first thing about what a man with ability looks like because they have an MBA from Phoenix.

The dirty little secret- it isn't hard at all if you are willing to compensate adequately (including, if necessary, training to create men of ability).

In Oregon, being socially conservative in an urban area means you can't even get elected to the water board.

But yes, I'm thinking about passing that slogan on- to my local farmer's market.

NICE TRY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

And there is an easy, very easy, defense http://xkcd.com/936/

If she had done that, there would be no need to e-mail passwords to herself.

Ok, who took away the edit button?

Anyway Thanks for the idea

See edit above. Now that I think about it, Give a Hoot, buy Local and don't Pollute, is a pretty nifty slogan.

I used to think about it, but my raging homophobia now prevents me from being electable, apparently. Because I notice little things like the fact that filing lawsuits is now the most romantic thing a gay couple can do to proclaim their love.