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Always someone around to try and take advantage of a march to further their own ends. The "Protest against police violence" march in Montreal always degrades into violence and arrests when the local anarchists push the issue, hoping to make a point by pushing the cops into a heavier response...

Hugo Chavez loves Mars - it is, after all, a Red planet :coffee:

Part of the answer would be expenses and susceptibility. Setting up a dedicated steam turbine for internal use only and just on the off chance that all the diesel generators stop working and only in the case of emergency shutdowns. :shrug: It's not fiscally viable AND since it's not...

The grid was the grounding rod you speak of, Gonz. Having an emergency backup grid would be like wiring everything twice, I suppose. (Wiring to more than 1 million homes) Off hand, it'd probably be a hellovalot more expensive than the power station....and if that grid went down at the same time...

All the electricity that the plant generates has to go somewhere - the grid. The grid is the only thing large enough to handle all that output. The plant itself cannot possibly consume all of the energy it creates... electricity has a way of making things hot..particularly wires and the...

More like speed reading - I got a 94% in school. Nobody's perfect though, eh Libya Syria :rofl2: <--laughing at my own error - though in fairness, I've been hearing the world Libya 100+ times per day for a few days now. It would've made a better story, eh :lurk:

There are more than 110,000 Americans on the transplant waiting list. Of those, 87,000 need kidneys – and each year, only 17,000 Americans get a kidney transplant. More than 4,600 people die because they did not receive a kidney in enough time. So...17000 people get kidneys/year. Right now...

Sure they can... if someone breaks the law..you enforce it. If someone challenges the law, the fed gvt will no longer run to the defense of it. You wanted the Fed out of marriage..there ya go. :lurk:

Guess where they just made port? http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE71N2C220110224 Yes...you read that right. They docked in Syria...you know, where Quadaffi is having a field day killing off his populace. Israel breathes a sigh of relief. "At least they aren't arming Hezbollah or...

Probably not something you'd hear out of the mouth of Glenn Beck...even though comparing everything with Nazi Germany is his thing, ain't it. They should rename Godwin's Law - Beck's Law

It's a SINGLE Light Patrol Frigate and her supply ship...not exactly something to get all hot under the collar over. It's also there legally, crossed legally and poses no threat unless provoked...ya know, like Israel getting their underwear in a twist and deciding to make it mysteriously...

So... money you can donate to above and beyond tax money? Doesn't strike me as anything that most people would go for. Easier to make noise, get some like-minded people together and TELL the local/state/federal gvt what needs to be fixed.

Doctors should be forced to take cursive writing classes again...until what they write is at least 80% legible.

Lord help you when the power goes out....nothing to read, and no way of writing anything down. :P

It's called 'earmarking' and much frowned upon unfortunately. A fairly misunderstood concept only partially related to 'pork-barrel spending' which is the real crime. Next time that you get to go to a council meeting, ask for a percentage of your collected taxes to be earmarked for...

Update: As of late Wednesday, the program is on hold and may not happen at all. The grant may be restored after it has been evaluated by parents in the district, according to a Dallas CBS website. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Mandatory Arabic language classes coming to Texas school...

Peace? Please! Pretty much had the same peace as that you can find in NK. 30 years of 'state of emergency' and special laws. The military threw away the constitution..not just disregard it, recycled the mofo. Disbanded the gvt wholesale. Considering a military takeover is in blatant...

Looks like they put the wrong person on the air...should've gotten the PR lady on the air instead. DOn't mistake his inability to verbalize properly with some attempt to hide something. WMD - mass destruction - things that go boom or kill lots of people MWE - mass effect - affects a large area...

I wouldn't put $20 on a bet that they know their military leaders any more than we do. Sure, they're likely to know the names... but how likely are they to know what those leaders were up to since the 25th? How well do you know Gen. Patraeus? Enough to say that if Obama gave him the...

It's a football game - not a 'major event'. Whateverfruck