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8.8.08 @ 12:01AM

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Point 11: Personal Methane Recovery. With a slight increase in bean intake we can recover enough methane to A) cook the beans B) end to use of home deodorizers saving the ozone layer C)stop having to blame the dog! Of course we would have to ban Rolaides and GasX.
-- Victor Sadesky

When one uses a windsock for proposing policy corrections, advocating tire pressure adjustments as energy policy is not absurd in the least. Or at least it is not on the other side of the looking glass.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

Regarding the above article, another law President Obama should enact would be to require all of us to run around our houses unplugging all those unneeded, electricity hog appliances such as: VCRs blinking 12:00, Cell Phone and ipod chargers, microwave ovens when not in use, fast start TVs, etc. This would no doubt save enough electricity so there would be no need to build an nasty nuclear power plants that would otherwise be needed to power all the electric cars he would make us buy. He could also use his "volunteer" force of social activists to "inspect" our homes to insure "compliance."
-- Mark King
Alpine, Texas

SOMEBODY'S GOT IT RIGHT
Re: Lawrence Hunter's Regulatory Competition is the Solution:

There seems to be an implication that the Bush Administration, that supports regulatory competition with its "optional federal charter" for regulating the insurance industry, somehow opposes the idea, because New York Federal Reserve Bank president Timothy Geithner (not a member of the Bush Administration) advocates a liberal alternative that amasses power to the Federal government. Geithner's opinions are all his own.

President Bush, unlike his immediate predecessor and Barack Obama, is honest and says and does what he believes is right (in the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan).
-- Michael Tomlinson
Habbaniyah, Iraq

LOST CAUSE
Re: Mike Roush's letter (under "Understanding Grover") in Reader Mail's That's Hot:

It was fascinating as usual to read all Mike Roush's equivalencing but what would you expect from a guy who gets confused between a shovel and racial insult?

Mike needs to consider the concept of "the shakedown" to fully understand the company/lobbyist/politician relationship. There is too much corporate welfare (may it all die) but there is a lot more money paid to political parties and candidates to make sure nothing bad happens. When organized crime does this we call it protection money. When Harry and Nancy do it we call it "fighting for the people." We probably could develop some common goals with respect to corporate welfare reform but Mike needs to expand his Democrat list of lobbyists to include unions, environmentalists, race baiters, Planned Parenthood and all the other professional "do-gooders" who sponge off their neighbors. It was also disingenuous to speak of the massive borrowing while not mentioning who created the entitlement programs that drive this. Republicans shouldn't feel obliged to be tax collectors for Democrat power grabbing pyramid schemes. If they take that role too seriously there will just be more power grabs and we will have Europe's capacity to defend ourselves. By the way, when contracts were awarded to KBR and Blackwater during the Clinton administration (or for that matter during World War II, the Korean War and Viet Nam for just Brown Root) does that mean the Democrats used to prefer them as welfare recipients or is this just another one of Mike's boogeyman arguments?

Liberals have long played on the boogeyman of the religious right butting into people's lives. I don't see James Dobson forcing me to do anything. What I do see is liberals forcing (or threatening to force) me on what kind of toilet I can have, light bulbs I use, cars I will drive, where my thermostat will be set, whether I smoke, what I eat, what kind of appliances I use, whether I can spank my children, what and when my children should be taught about sex, whether I have the right to be notified of my child's abortion, whether I can defend myself or my property legally, and oh yea how well inflated my tires are. Don't get me wrong I understand the tradeoffs between order and liberty but this invasion of my personal space is way over the top and reveals much about the people behind this freedom grab. Mike has somehow turned into what he most hates, a busybody into every room of his neighbor's house. I don't believe he can resist the adult's bedroom for much longer. I am sure that how many children we can have is right around the corner. Did anybody predict that the left would morph into a pack of killjoy ascetics? We're on to you Mike. Leave us alone.
-- Clif Briner

Yesterday, I went to exercise my God given right to view porno using internet at the local public library. After two hours of lush depravity, I was mysteriously redirected to the TAS website. Talk about a rightwing conspiracy!

I must tell you it was lacking any of the usual female anatomical points of interest. It didn't even have the usual sassy "How To..." instructional video links. It did, however, have a letters section. "Now, we're talkin'," I said to myself. Thinking I may have stumbled into an uncensored version of Penthouse Letters ("FLOCKING TOGETHER", Indeed!), I swung my computer burned eyeballs toward what I thought would be tales of carnal fleshpots.

Talk about a letdown! I kept reading in hopes some "teenage high school cheerleader triplets made a man out of me" chronicle was buried in there. Now, I wanna ask you people, why all this fixation on politics when there's a whole world of female derrieres and mammary glands out there? (Although, I will say that Mike Dooley is one hell of a writer.)

Just when I was about to give up, my eyes wandered onto a letter by one Mike Roush. What was disturbing was when Mr. Roush said: "But, more to the point, is there anyone who really believes that Pat Robertson [and] James Dobson are uninterested in imposing their values on society?"

A chill ran down my back. Just who are these scoundrels? Are they going to decree mandatory chapel? Are they going to have the IRS collect a tithe of our income and then turn it over to the televangelists? Are they going to take my issue of Stacked and Topless away from me?

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