As I've said before the single passenger automobile is in of itself an enormous waste. Using 1500-2000 lbs of materials (metal, plastics etc) to move a single person is ridiculously inefficent regardless of whether it is powered by gas, electricity, fuel cells or anything else.

The amount of resources it takes to build and maintain our 1-person 1-car culture is an enormous burden on the planet. We have to build ever more complex road-systems. Huge parking structures. Factories to build the cars and parts. Repair shops.

We would be far better off in the long term investing in mass transit, light rail and incentives to move people away from single passenger autos.

Base on recent votes its more acurate call them spineless.

Are the jobs lost going to come back? Or, as in the last 'recovery', are they going to disappear and be replaced with fewer and lower paying jobs?

A recovery that does not increase jobs and RAISE WAGES is not a 'recovery'. Its just the continued transfer of wealth from the middle-class to the already wealthy.

This also demostrates just how little the Washington establishment thinks of state primaries. The principle goal is keep THEMSELVES (regardless of party) in power.

I have my problems with term limits but something needs to be done to open up the process more and allow for new voices to be more easily heard. Especially at the primary level where the two parties routinely block out promising canidates in favor of those who follow the Washington code.

All it does in the countries its been tried in is produce a healthier citizenary that has a lower infant mortality rate, lives longer and routinely beats the United States on virtually every single health index in existence.

I don't think I could live in such a nightmarish society. Healthly citizens? Who wants that? Less babies dying? NOBODY wants to lower infant mortality levels. Think of the children.

Better to stick with our present system.

That you accepted gay marriage and that other people might accept gay marriage.

Seriously, did I miss something? That is all the ad is saying right? I mean there is the undertone that 'The children' will also accept gay marriage. But really did the ad ever say WHY that is bad? How precisely is the sky going to fall?

As I keep repeating over and over again, absent some significant changes in the macro economy we are in for a jobless 'recovery'. Many of the jobs that have been shed over the last two years will not be coming back in any form. Those that do come back will be for lower wages and less benefits.

Yes profits for business may/will recover (as they did in the 02 'recovery') and, as a result, we may see some upticks in the stock market. But WAGES will remain stagnant for the majority of Americans.

Until that dynamic changes the market will just lurch around looking for another bubble to inflate.

And finding a downed plane in on, even if the general area of crash is known, is no easy task. If the plane was breaking up on the way down from 37k ft than the parts would have spread out over literally miles of ocean before they touched water. Add in currents and shifting seas and pieces of wreckage could be a hundred miles away from the crash site within a few hours.

It takes days/weeks to recover all the pieces of a downed aircraft on LAND. If plane had gone down closer to shore (on the continetal shelf) there would have been a decent chance of recovering large sections. But from what I understand the plane went down in deep water (deeper than all but the most sophisticated subs can reach). And the pieces of the aircraft that do sink (which is most) will spread out over miles of the ocean floor.

Investigators will be lucky to recover even a few pieces let alone enough to reconstruct what happened. The odds on finding the 'black box' or flight recorders is astronomically low.

Regretebly, as in the case of others accidents over the ocean, we will probably never know what really happened aboard Flight 447

One of the funiest things to do growing up in Anchorage was wait until the first big snowfall and then drive around in a little front wheel drive car and laugh at all the people in their big penis compesation mobiles (trucks) stuck in the ditches. Almost all of them were recent transplants from the lower-48 who thought '4-wheel drive' meant they could still stop in 100 feet or less from 45 mph on ice.

I have seen far more accidents on snow and ice involving trucks than I do cars. People in trucks tend to think they are invincible and that '4-wheel drive' somehow makes them immune to the laws of physics.

Is that it was accomplished through the legislature and by decisive margins in both chambers. It signals that elected officials are not scared of the potential backlash and inevitable right-wing attacks. If they had been, they would either have ignored the issue all together or tried to punt it to a state wide referemdum.

Now some attention needs to go to Congress and the President to repeal the odious 'Defense of Marriage' Act.