Brad DeLong #29 "If it does, we will repeal it next year--or the year after."
I've been telling myself that, and I think it's true, though it may take more than a year or two. The trend seems clear enough. OTOH, a narrow defeat might lead to another try, without an Obama on the ballot.
BS #38. Franken. Yeah. I came back from MN yesterday, after a 10-day visit. A friend was doubtful about voting for Franken. "So, Coleman?" "Oh, yeah, right." Obama could have done a little more for Franken, I think, but I'm blown away by the Obama ground force, and that might turn the trick.
/. offers "bonus points if you use Haiku". Here's one response from the comments:
Rainy season comes
bringing with it a fresh crop
of nutball scammers
Well, the meaning of "really" is illuminated by TNH's closing lines: "This looks kinda real. How much more do we know, or can we guess? Also, would I be correct in assuming the system throws off oxygen? That could get exciting."
No, it couldn't.
TNH, if by "technical publications" you mean Fuel Cell Today and TechOn, it looks to me like they're primarily aggregators of industry news and (mostly) press releases.
If not...what reporters?
There's a pretty steady supply of these scams. They're not worth the energy, so to speak, to debunk them, except perhaps to the gullible investors, who aren't going to bother anyway.
One of the nice things about science is that it saves us the bother of wasting a lot of time on scams. If somebody has found a way around the laws of thermodynamics, I'll find out about it by some method other than some corporate PR.
I wish bloggers would remember the three laws of thermodynamics. It would make things that much easier on the rest of us.
* You can't win.
* You can't break even.
* You can't even leave the game.
==Peter#5. Yet another perpetual motion machine scam.
Amen. If only Nader hadn't run in 2000, so the Dems could have had at least 41 votes in the Senate, to block the war authorization. If only he hadn't run in 2006, so the Dems could have taken over Congress and stopped funding the war.
Damn him.
Avedon: Giacomo, this is about Nader, not Lamont. (And I can easily see why Nader would support Lamont over Lieberman. Nader is one of the few major voices in our country who has not been an all-out supporter of Israel. And he's Lebanese.)
If there's any daylight between Lieberman's and Lamont's positions on Israel, I can't see it.
(Nader's parents were Lebanese Christians; Ralph was born in CT.)
Giacomo's point remains valid, though. What do the Democrats possibly have to gain by demonizing Nader, aside from whatever momentary rush it might yield? It certainly tends to alienate his supporters, who under the right circumstances are likely to vote for Democrats.
As for 2000, Nader fought the Florida result harder than Gore did. Far more Florida Democrats voted for Bush than Greens (or anyone else) voted for Nader.
We can be grateful, though, that Clinton & Gore had eight years, including two with a Democratic Congress, to (for example) push through Kyoto and a significant CAFE increase. Think where we'd be without that....
Perhaps the big corporations are content to let the Democrats do their job for them. Why not expect service for payment?
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