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Representative Tim Scott to succeed Jim DeMint in Senate
I was talking about this with my wife, and if Colbert were to make a serious bid for President or indeed any elective office, he would crush the opposition. He must know this.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The drawback of being a political comedian is that - given your profession is one of noting the flaws in other people and pointing them out for lols - you are, in fact, competent enough to know how incompetent you would be for a public office.
The same is not, unfortunately, true of the Very Serious People who ACTUALLY run for office.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.Well, biofuels are relevant as far as the industry could do these things: disrupt the traditional oil industry, either greatly diminishing its influence on politics (once biofuels manage to become cost efficient to produce on a larger scale than they are now) or causing the oil industry to use its ridiculous scads of money to persuade politicians to defund or block bills to finance the development of biofuels. I believe the second is happening to some extent, though it's not entire successful. It's a minor victory that ethanol is now required to be in our gasoline, but I think the industry has quite a bit of a struggle ahead of it still, particularly in the political and social battle to convince people that it's worth investing in.
Why does Politifact even bother with "lie of the year"? Especially considering that there are so many lies that I think a lot of them reach a tie for horribleness.
Martin Scorsese to make Bill Clinton documentary
It should be titled THE BALLAD OF SLICK WILLY: A Presidency of Sex, Scandals, and Swag.
edited 17th Dec '12 11:18:02 AM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016@ Ace:
Maybe the traditional oil industry could consider researching alternatives to oil as well, if they're not already — it'll keep them in business, right?
Keep Rolling OnOddly enough, BP does operate an Alternative Energy
division, which owns and operates 13 windfarms in the USA. They also own an ethanol producer in Brazil and half-own another. They're one of better oil firms in that regard.
edited 17th Dec '12 12:05:33 PM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnThis is one of the things where the companies have to look ahead. It might not be very soon, but the oil companies are setting themselves up for total collapse because they are too obsessed with profits. Although if they realize exactly how much fuel is apparently on Titan or possibly Mars, the space industry might get a boost.
Ohio governor commutes obese killer's sentence to life in prison
As it stands, it is quite true that "mining" materials from space is vastly inefficient with our current level of technology.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

That doesn't get rid of the problems that come with using ethanol though. But algae could be used to produce oils to be refined. If only we managed to make it more efficent. As things are now the yield isn't nearly enough to be a viable option.
Laws are made to be broken. You're next, thermodynamics.