Since you're right there anyway, why not just clean it up? I don't want to over simplify this but it seems to me that the money they're using to study the effect of the garbage could be better spent to pick it up.
Pacific Ocean garbage patch worries researchers
This doesn't scare everyone? I would think the people who protested wildly over the Patriot Act would be extremely nervous about the president having control over the internet.
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
TSK...TSK.... Charlie Rangel doesn't pay his taxes...Well he's perfect for a cabinet position in the Obama administration anyway
OOPS! CHARLIE FORGOT THIS $1M HOUSE
REALTY BITES TAX-THEM-NOT-ME RANGEL
Ummmm....You are aware that Castro is a cruel dictator and mass murderer who hasn't had a free election in his country for over 40 years and jails or kills his political enemies right?
Well just call me a racist but...oh you already did call me a racist? Well then..
Democrat: Republicans hate ObamaCare because they’re racists. Also, Castro’s a genius.
Dick Cheney.....You're The Man!
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On the Garbage Patch: this is not the first I've heard of this. It's much too big for a handful of scientists to clean it up. Cleaning it up, or preventing more garbage from being added to it, would require government and international action. But go ahead and tell me how the "free market" can solve this problem.
On Cheney: The architects of the torture policy will not be prosecuted. The lawyers who authored the ludicrous memos will not be prosecuted (although they may and should be disbarred). The only people who may possible be prosecuted would be those who went way beyond what the memos authorized. We now know that torture occurred, in fact some were tortured to death, and it's really difficult to refer to "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" when people died." Why a fan of Orwell would continute to use the euphemism is beyond me. The CIA's own Inspector General's Report is the basis for the investigation that might possibly result in prosecution.
On Castro: I agree with the criticism of Castro, but you must admit that our government has historically supported dictators as bad, or worse, than Castro. I assume you will also criticize support of Pinochet or Rios Montt Actually, I rather doubt it. Actually, your hero Reagan supported Saddam Hussein as I recall. I am consistent in my opposition to all dictators. I am also opposed to my country acting to overthrow democratically elected leaders, as has happened on numerous occassions.
I don't know a whole lot about the garbage floating in the water, and i'm sure the scientists that were there couldn't pick it up but i'm also sure they didn't find it for free. The studied they're doing on the effect of said garbage is not free. Tax dollars from somewhere (U.S.?) are being used to do this. Why not spend that money to clean it up instead is all i'm saying. If the money they're spending now isn't enough then i'm sure we can figure out a way to get more cash for the job.
Dude what difference does it make if the U.S. has supported dictators in the past? Every country has done what they had to do when it was in their best interest but we didn't praise them as heroes. We didn't laud them for their genius. This chick is clueless. Figures she's from cali. a lot of cluelessness going on in the political arena out there. (even worse than N.Y. and that's saying something)
finally, where do you get your info? The CIA interrogators didn't torture anyone and they certainly didn't kill anyone.
Actually it's been fairly reliably reported that there have been at least three deaths, although that portion of the report is still redacted.
http://pubrecord.org/torture/2073/cia-delays-release-of-inspector-generals-report-on-torture/
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8410340
dude you implied that people were tortured to death. we have the word of some anonymous source that 3 people died in custody 2 in Iraq and 1 in Afghanistan and NONE in Gitmo. We don't know if it's true, we don't know who the source is, we don't know the conditions (if it is true), and you're just out there saying people were tortured to death.
You're pathetic.
If we don't know all the facts it is because they have been kept from us by official secrecy. Half of the Inspector Generals report is redacted and we are left with accounts by those who have read it. Still enough is know that we can say that people were tortured to death. General Mowhoush was unquestionably beaten and suffocated to death. Saying that this is not torture is ludicrous.
"As Gen. Barry McCaffrey recently put it:
We should never, as a policy, maltreat people under our control, detainees. We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the C.I.A."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/30/accountability/
You don't want to know the truth. As they say, you can't handle the truth. Which makes you pathetic.
you're an idiot.
mcaffrey wasn't there and didn't read the report.
don't waste my time anymore. move along.
No actually you're an idiot.
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