Ted Stevens INDICTED

One of the first stories I posted about is finally coming to the fore of the public consciousness. Throw this man in prison!! He has defrauded the United States Government, and should be treated like the corrupt, treasonous scum that he is.

AP Story
Another AP Story

Change the change with some changalicious changedy CHANGE!

Change is the order of the day. Barack Obama has ridden the wave of dissatisfaction to the forefront of the Democratic party, and John McCain is the least Republican of the Republicans. The last 8 years of the American Presidency have torn the country's parties further apart, with party discipline demanding conformity and cooperation from the nation's conservatives. All the while, people who remember the sixth article of our Constitution are either shaking their heads or their fists, trying to determine the proper course of action to bring our Nation back on track. The US has lost its former place of honor as the nation that respects the rights mankind.

But what are we going to do about it?

I will outline in the next few posts several legislative and executive acts that I believe would improve our international standing and our domestic circumstances.
It is more a thought experiment in public policy than anything else.

The Pickens Plan

You might have seen his advertisements on television recently. T. Boone Pickens , a former oil-man from Texas is touting a cocktail of solar and wind power, supplemented by natural gas as a stop-gap replacement for gasoline, as the future of energy in America. His ads are powerful and make obvious good points. He is supporting proven technologies in greater abundance than they are utilized today. He is financing a public movement towards greener and more independent energy that could influence the next administration or the impotent Congress. All this seems too good to be true, doesn't it? All of this progress, all of this to create public awareness of an issue that is at odds with the numerous accomplishments of his entire personal and professional life?

Yep.

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