In an article in The New York Times, the Obama administration discusses it's intentions with future energy needs. The fuel cell cars that the Bush administration had thought would be the future were unfortunately deemed impractical. I was sorry to hear that all work was stopped on the cars, but happy to hear about Obama's future plans. He will be restoring Futuregen a program to build a power plant prototype. The plant would turn coal into gas, separate out the carbon dioxide — a major contributor to the greenhouse gases that cause global warming — and pump it underground. Then it would burn the hydrogen, which is nearly pollution-free. One negative is that this will cost more than they had planned and will be payed for by another stimulus. How many of these can we have? I am curious to see what he will come up with next to solve our evolving energy problems and needs.

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I found your article choice very interesting and your suggestions good soound advice. I think that the bill that will end the credit card trap is something to be happy about. It makes me feel better that the teahcer has finally stepped out on the playground to keep things fair. I often feel I am stuck or being bullied by companies that hide things from you. That is completely grimey to be so sneaky about your services and charges. Why should we even have to pass a bill to be protected. It seems like this one would just be a given. Guess not.

Wow. I paid for information I already knew.

In an article from Fox News it was reported that the US has paid $400,000 to The National Institutes of Health to cruise bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk -- and what can be done about it...Huh? I'm sorry is this a joke? The point of this study is to help in the prevention of HIV. Yes, I understand the need for prevention of such an awful disease, but I can't help but feel this is like trying to study drunk driving as a means to helping alleviate alcoholism. If we can just figure out why they WANT to drive home! Umm lets use our brains here a little bit. I'm guessing these "researchers" went to college. SO, that pretty much means they know why drunk people "mysteriously" become promiscuous. Gay or straight, I think it's a no brainer. Sounds to me like someone wanted a very funded two year Spring Break. Come on like you need to go to Buenos Aires to study. The article clearly says that Washinton D.C. has high rates of HIV. No one wants to spring break in D.C.! This just goes to show you really can get funding for just about anything. You just have to word it correctly.

Andrew Sullivan Has A Point

In a Blog titled Karl Rove's Definition of Torture, by Andrew Sullivan he talks about how Karl Rove has been agressively defending the Bush administration and arguing that nothing they did could be labeled as torture. Things like water-boarding , long-term sleep deprivation, stress positions, hypothermia, forced nudity, hooding, dietary manipulation and sensory deprivation. Mr. Sullivan then goes to show how easily the tables can be turned when telling how Mr. McCain clearly defined an experience as a POW where he was put into a "stress position" and so badly hurt that he still can not raise his hands up all the way to this day. Similar things we have done to the prisoners is not torture, but Mr. McCains was? He has a point. Mr. Sullivan asks if's Mr. Rove believes Mr. McCain was lying. Were the men that hurt him not called war criminals? So doesn't that mean that we may be war criminals? This is the question that Mr. Sullivan would like Karl Rove to answer and frankly, now so would I.
I think that Mr. Sullivan's intent for this post is to make those who are in agreement with Rove think about it again and to fire up the other people who agree already so they will speak up louder.