Oh! Nice Fluffy infringes on copyright? Really? I'd just love to see that lawsuit brought to trial. That blows me away! So does your art! Whatever floats your boat, buddy. As long as there is something to see, who cares?

Thom you crack me up with these vote yes or yes polls!

Yeah I think he should appoint Tommy Chong!

I wish instead of Michele the DEA head was a guy named Dave. I can just picture Tommy answering the phone on his first day in the office... HeLLO? WHO? Dave?

I wonder how much money was spent investigating and incarcerating all the pot busts in the last 5 years.

Now with Colorado having made it legal for what many are sitting in jail for, you just have to wake up and realize the time has come. Brings a whole new meaning to this song.

Did you see the photo of the Mars rover that showed what looks like a light beam coming out of the ground going straight up? Some people seem to think it is a reflection off a rock...but I think that is totally not the case. What rocks in the wild are shiny enough to cause such a reflection. And going straight up. Not only that but this looked like a very substantial light beam...not a wisp of light. I'm sure there is a valid answer. One, I've read, but this was not reported in most of the articles I've read , was that there was a left and a right camera and the phenomenon only showed up on the right camera and not the left. This could indicate a malfunction of the right camera...or maybe the left one.

I think that the subterranean Martians were caught with their hatch opened, letting the light out, when the rover snapped that picture. ;-} wink, wink!

It's time to Deep 6, (666). Reaganomics needs to go the way of the T Rex--forever buried where it will never be found alive again.

Palindromedary ~ Yeah, that sure was a cool experience. The whole place is a tourist trap. They serve nice drinks to. I'm not sure what is in it but it get you feelin pretty good pretty fast. It has a combination of "stuff"; but, is mostly fruit punch. You can't taste any of the alcohol you see them pour into it. It comes in a large ceramic mug that was made right there and has a picture carved into it of the Island and a caption that says, "Remember Janitzio" in spanish. I still have the one I got there.

That statue at the top is pretty impressive too. All hollow and you can climb a spiral staircase that wraps around the inside walls all the way to the top of the head and look out of it--kinda like the Statue of Liberty. The thing that fascinated me the most about this statue--and many other such structures in Mexico--is the fact that there are no roads in Janitzio. No road, no cars, not even sidewalks--just stairs. All the material for this gigantic structure had to be hauled up there from boats by mule. What a task.

By the way, two questions. What happened to Nice Fluffy; and, what the heck is... That?

The US Supreme Court declares corporation is essentially a person so Mr. Holder should prosecute Mr. GM for, like Mr. Hartman stated, premediated murder, attempted murder, etc., and the corporation should go to jail and suffer all consequences such criminal act commands just like a person--AND when the we cannot find Mr. GM to have his/her day in court because there's no such person--the case should travel back to the US Supreme Court and let them 5Boobs find us this corporate person GM they said existed! We should all write to Mr. Holder and insists he bring murder charges against GM. The victims' families; I hope they don't sell out and trade cash for their love one's death--like some of the families of 911--if no one sold out, the truth would have a better chance of surviving. I not only question how much is someone's else life is worth to GM; I also pose the same question to the families of murdered victims.

Yes, chuckle8, we ARE conditioned to do as we are told, to listen uncritically, to accept without question. That's the problem!! Until we start questioning thought itself, thought will just produce more symptoms. Instead of following person X, we will follow person Y or person Z all the while thinking that it is just the wrong person we are following and maybe this new one is the right one. It's been going on for thousands of years. I've often seen where people express the definition of insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Those same people ARE doing the same thing over and over. They don't seem to know it though. We do not question thought itself. I'm not talking about some people or most people, I'm talking about ALMOST ALL people.

Kend and his ilk are able to look at the evidence and say it's not happening or it's not due to us. I know lots of people like Kend. Then there is this much larger group that says it's a crisis and we're the cause. If you have a fire in your kitchen, you have a crisis and you will act on it until it is out. If you have a leaky tap, you'll fix it one day. The actions of this very large crisis acknowledging group are, in effect, saying that there is a fire in my kitchen but I am acting like it's a leaky tap. Where's the massive behaviour change that says I recognize the crisis? Not happening. Why? Because of the way we think. That's the problem. The rest just symptoms.

Kend sadly represents the mentality of the climate change denialist crowd. I recently visited Glacier Lake park. As one might assume, the park WAS known for its magnificent glaciers, but in just 10 more years there will be no more glaciers. Unfortunately, the only way these people will become convinced is when they suffer personally, which they will in due course; however, by then it will be too late to affect the trajectory of the warming, and we will all pay the price for their selfish and greedy behavior. Too bad we could not divide into two worlds.

What we do now seems dark and meaningless. Ecocide is the ultimate thing we are doing at present. I am blaming myself for the destruction as well.

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I don't need to be a climate scientist or any kind of scientist to recognize the same old problem: capitalism. Break open that pea pod and therein lies the heart of it: greed. Plain old simple greed. if not for these damn oligarchs smack in the way, we could have nipped problems like this in the bud a long time ago, before things got so out of control. Long as those calling the shots have a vested interest in the status quo, (like Kend! tsk) nothing is going to change… which brings us back to the same old topic that keeps surfacing again and again: campaign finance reform. I know it ain't a sexy topic, or particularly fascinating, but without it we're doomed. We might as well resign ourselves to being the "last of the Mohicans". - Aliceinwonderland

Every time since the 1970s that there have been pushes to address pollution (therefore climate change), the response was simply another round of government hiking taxes on tobacco. It has worked beautifully to distract the public from the real problem; focusing on that problem would, after all, reduce the profits of oil companies. We would need a campaign to convince Americans to consider what they are doing every time they use their cars. Few smoke, most drive. The most carcinogenic (cancer-cvausing) type of smoke is the kind that contains oil particles, and in the US, the main cause today is moter vehicles. This is also the pollution that is killing off Earth's forests, melting polar ice, driving climate change. For decades, the middle class has fought every effort to build a modern mass transportation system, needed to dramatically reduce the use of privately-owned moter vehicles. The last time there were serious efforts to help educate the people about the impact of our addiction to oil was back in the 1970s, during the Carter administration.