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Lithium can be recycled fairly easily and is not the limiting factor in battery production. Oil on the other hand can't be easily recycled because it is usually burnt and turned into greenhouse gases which are hard to recapture. The analogy therefore is flawed because the world would not be...

The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly referred to as the S&L crisis) was the failure of 745 savings and loan associations During the 20s, there was an average of 70 banks failing each year nationally. After the crash during the first 10 months of 1930, 744 banks failed...

Your money and time will be better spent preparing for a hurricane in the east coast or an earth quake in the west. And don't forget about the spring floods and tornados in the midwest.

Yes, if only we have more moral, God fearing men like GW Bush and Cheney to lead us, we would have less tortures, less mass spying on Americans and less invasions of foreign lands based on fear and greed. Where do we get those men?

Memoir to be published by Cheney tells all. It was delight that turned to contempt. "In his memoirs, Mr Cheney will make clear "doubts about the main channels of American policy during the last few years," John Hannah, his foreign policy adviser during the second Bush term, told The...

The new drug, salinomycin, is toxic to humans and many other mammals. It is also meant to be used in synergy to taxol. http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/117-1190/799/

Slowly, yes, President Truman tried it and was thwarted by the AMA. The doctors didn't want any part of it. It has been debated for at least the last 50 years. Socialized medicine hasn't worked is false. Medicine in the US works well if you have money, and works poorly if you don't...

It's "nuts", that is what the jounior senator from Georgia said about Palin's stand on educating Medicare patients on end-of-life care. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/08/is_the_government_going_to_eut.html The Republican lawmaker, Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), made the...

IBD editorial is truly insane. These people have no clue that the health care system is as much broken as the investment banks of 2008. They can't see that the health care cost is going to drag us all down together. This is not to say the Democrats has the right plan, but at least engage in...

Insane or Inane, your choice. Hospice care counseling is important for anyone facing end of life illness. Medicare will now pay for such planning and knowledge, more power to the patient, not to the bureaucrats in the insurance companies. The truth will set you free.

6 in 10 Republicans said they thought that humans were created, in their present form, 10,000 years ago according a Gallup poll taken last summer, a belief shared by only 40% of independents and 38% of Democrats. There is an abundance of scientific evidence that humans have existed in the...

"With ethanol the energy yield is 8:1 for sugar cane, 2:1 for sugar beets, and 1.3:1 for corn." We need to find new jobs and/or new starter plants for these corn farmers. Corn is just not going to do it and sugar cane is a tropical plant. May be they can grow algae...

To whom is it not a big deal? The analogy would be the statement that deficit spending is not a big deal - probably true for a while until you have a mountain of debt that can't be repaid. Climate change is not a big deal to those who can afford to move or secure shelter in a changing...

Let them explode. The China bubble 2.0 is coming and hopefully the government there has learned the lesson from the US debacle. What does Rogers care? He is not in the US anymore ... He had been cheering the US financial melt down .. all the way down.

August 6, 2009 Blackwater accused of murder in 'crusade to eliminate Muslims' The deliberate slaughter of civilians have been levelled against the founder of Blackwater, the security company being investigated for shooting deaths in Iraq. The accusations, including a claim that the...

"Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) had submitted a request to the Appropriations Committee for a $70 million earmark for one airplane on behalf of Georgia-based Gulfstream, and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) lists the airplane as one of the earmarks that he was asked to request, though his office said he...

This belongs in the politics section. The two statements above are not contradictory if the socio-economic system is fair for all participants.

The year was 1324. 'The Mali Empire in Africa was famed throughout the old world for its large amounts of gold. Mansa Musa, ruler of the empire (1312–1337) became famous throughout the old world for his great hajj to Mecca in 1324. When he passed through Cairo in July 1324, he was...

Not defending Alsin, but if you make enough calls, you will be right some of the times.

"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. " Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1911.