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Green Concrete
For years I have been skeptical of the whole idea of "clean coal." Capturing the carbon from coal-fired plants and sequestrating it in the ground or in the ocean seemed expensive and foolhardy. But now I am a believer. I just read about a process for sequestrating the CO2 in the most unbelievable place: concrete!
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No Public Option, No Reform
Health insurance companies, conservatives, Republicans and some Democrats - they are all for health insurance reform, but are violently against the public option. This is an incoherent approach. Without a public option the system we have now will remain pretty much as is There will be no healthcare reform.
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Pro-Life Killers
I am pro-life and I'll kill anyone who disagrees with me.
This seems to be the philosophy of many religious-right people. Some are so self-righteous they go out and do the killing. Their less self-righteous leaders egg them on by spewing venom, hatred and curses.
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The Best Republican for the Job
This week the Republican stirred-up brouhaha about Nancy Pelosi being briefed and knowing about CIA torture activities threatened to engulf the Obama administration in the type of polarizing conflict the president desperately wants to avoid. After all the recriminations thrown back and forth you would expect the president to attack as well. Instead, what does he do? He appoints a prominent Republican to be Ambassador to China!
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Multinational Tax Loopholes
One would think that big corporations would pay more taxes than smaller ones or most individuals. They do not because they have a slew of tax loopholes, among the most egregious of which are foreign tax havens and other offshore tax-avoiding scams. President Obama decided to rein in these inequities and Big Business is screaming it will hurt employment.
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Bi-partisan Healthcare
It appears that everyone wants a good healthcare system that serves all our needs. The big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans prefer relying on the private sector and Democrats prefer relying on the public sector. The result is a clash that makes nobody happy. Why can't we have a healthcare system that is a mixture of the private and public?
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Tortured Americans
In my last post I spoke of tortured Republicans. I said that "the torture memos must be so horrible that it is driving Republicans into a torturous frenzy." Now that the Obama administration has released the torture memos, all decent Americans are dismayed by the horribly immoral and illegal activities fellow Americans have done. Good Americans are tortured.
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Tortured Republicans
Republicans in the past administration tortured those they believed had information about Al Qaeda's activities. Republicans since then - at least the honest ones - have been tortured by what they had done. Republicans today are tortured that high-level torture memos will be made public by the Obama administration.
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Market Control
President Obama is trying hard to extricate the country out of its recession with bailouts to financial and auto manufacturing companies. Many on the left claim he is not doing enough and many on the right claim he is doing too much - and interfering with management and the magic workings of the free market. Conservatives insist that the free market should be under control of CEOs, not government officials.
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The Laissez-Faire Song
Republican whip Eric Cantor constantly sings the laissez-faire song and Republicans (and a few Democrats) supply the chorus. Leave markets alone. Markets can take care of themselves. Government regulation hurts the economy. Of course, Cantor is following the holy music that was composed by Goldwater and St. Reagan. The public has been enthralled by the music and we have deregulated the financial markets. Now that we're faced by a terrible depression Cantor's laissez-faire song sounds different.
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