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Senator Bernie Sanders:

“For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street.”

Exactly. via DemocracyNow

Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table for America to make more I.B.M. typewriters and carbon paper. “Typewriters, baby, typewriters.”

Friedman is right on here, once again. I suggest reading his column, Making America Stupid.

I guarantee you this: Reducing our use of fossil fuels is more important than increasing our supply of those same fuels. If we can power our economy in ways that don’t rely on dwindling resources, we will unlock our success in the next century. Future economies, countries, and corporations will be successful in a direct inverse relationship to the amount of fossil fuels they use. I’m going to coin that Colianni’s law. Unless it’s been coined.

Eloquently stated… McCain’s Integrity.

why is this car not going to be available in the US?

I think any automaker that says we can’t get to a 35mpg fleet average is crazy.

love this song, by The National… this is an instrumental version.

too bad it was full of lies.

fact-checking palin