It's "cannon". And what on earth did they fire out of that thing to make such an explosion?

Hell, even if you could extract energy from the coal "cleanly", you still can't take it from the ground without destroying the landscape and risking smoldering coal fires that burn for centuries. We must get free of coal, the worst of the fossil fuels.

"He's gonna have to get down there with the axe and hack and hack and hack..."

Oh man. I probably shouldn't be laughing at that! But damn, that's funny.

Curses! Foiled by the wall again! Almost had that damn squirrel!

"Fat cat in a little door, fat cat in a little door, ..." Everbody, sing with me!

Upvote for P-town! I love my city!

I can't find it either, but i'd swear i've seen the short, music-free version too.

In the immortal words of Nelson: "Ha Ha!"

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I should probably do both.

"I leave fruity things alone" <awkward pause> "Oh boy."

Mr. T is still my hero.

Ugh. My dad just had this surgery. Not something i look forward to. But yeah, better this than living with the blockage.

Yeah, keep paddling! That'll fix it!

The emphasis is supposed to be on the repeatability of results by independent experimenters, not peer consensus in "scientific" journals.

Hear, hear! Peer consensus is not at all meaningless, but it is also not at all science.

Please note that i want to read the bills too. If these congresspeople are to represent us, then i want time for active citizens, lobbyists and the like to read the bill as well, that we can comment upon them prior to the vote. Or are we assuming that our representatives are wise enough to see every angle on these things?

Oh, the size of such documents is part of the problem too. Omnibus bills like this should also be illegal. The attaching of unrelated clauses is a form of political bribery at best and a form of blackmail at worst. This again, undermines the will of the people and even, at times, the representatives themselves. Are any of you aware of how the REAL ID act?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOfC76i2X9M

I bought it, eh? I think someone didn't read the video summary.

And no, there was no redline electronic copy showing changes. Not even close. The New York Times described the bill this way: "looks more like the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 1979 than of 2009 – filled with hand-written copy-editing marks, insertions scrawled in the margins, deletions of whole paragraphs boxed with X’s slashing through them, and a variety of curious hash marks and other annotations."

More hypocritical, yet correct outrage about these shenanigans here:
http://politics.videosift.com/video/Chairman-Tom-Price-with-1-073-page-Non-Stimulus-Text