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Keep reading the news!
theshirn:
--- Quote from: Ryuu on December 02, 2010, 07:25:36 PM ---NASA finds some bacteria with arsenic based DNA in some lake in california
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Was going to post this. This is really Cool Beans.
Reddyne:
A bit late, but Popular Science has posted the Best of What's New ver. 2010. This proves once again that science will destroy and save us all and entertain us while doing so.
Of particular personal note is the First Personalized Cancer Vaccine because I worked on a similar project for a few months. Instead of prostate cancer, the vaccine focused on liver cancer, and the APC's were helped along by a retrovirus. However, the doc in charge of the research turned out to be a sociopath, so that led to an unfortunately early exit.
Gpop:
Just in case none of you really heard, Mother Russia has been chosen to host the 2018 World Cup, while Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup.
It's what the Brits get for having the damn Media hungry for Scandals. They definitely aren't helping by bashing FIFA even more for this decision :V
Quad City QBs:
--- Quote from: Amaterasu on December 01, 2010, 12:09:53 PM ---Incoming House majority leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) introduces a Constitutional amendment allowing a 2/3 vote by the state governments to overturn any federal law or regulation. Because that's what America needs - 50 individual little fiefdoms.
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Here's a nice little article on the proposed Repeal Amendment.
--- Quote ---Would the city of New Orleans ever be rebuilt following a Katrina disaster if 2/3 of the states were empowered to repeal federal legislation appropriating the money to do so? After all, what's in it for Texas? Or Ohio? While the port of New Orleans may be essential to the movement of goods into the nation?and certainly important to the economic viability of the city?the loss of the port would mean more business to other ports of entry in Texas or other regional centers. What, exactly, would be the motivation of any state that is not Louisiana to support the economy of New Orleans?
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I agree that the proposal would pervert the basic compromise of federalism, and also that opponents need to be saying more about this. What does it say when progressives' best response is the Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear--which, as someone whose name escapes me at the moment said, explains why the wrong ideas are funny, but not why they're wrong? The article suggests that liberals have forgotten how to invoke the Constitution for themselves, which is interesting when you consider that progressives held a virtual monopoly on Constitutional theory until around the '70s or '80s. How did such a total flip in the discourse come about so quickly? Are progressives staying out of the debate out of intellectual inertia, a reluctance to credit the opposing position by addressing it, or what? And will they realize they can't rest on being the 'default position' before they cease to be the default?
Tengukami:
Progressives learned to cower in fear from even being called "liberal" since Bush Sr. started using it as an insult. The Democrats stampeded for the middle, and having "leftist" ideas was tantamount to being an avowed child molester.