WTF?

Remember those miners in Chile?  It sounds to me like they are being harassed for no good reason. What I would call harrassment arises, allegedly, from concern over their mental and physical health. The miners, it seems, don't want to talk to the psychologists and other medicos on daily basis.  In order to control the miners the doctors have resorted to a variety of tactics, which have included censorship of private letters, withholding images of the outside world, withdrawing tv and other privileges.  What I find most disturbing the authorities refuse to grant the miners two most pressing demands: wine and cigarettes. They are getting limited quantities of ciggies but no wine. This is just wrong some how. 

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Federal Government: What is it Good For?

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced recently that it had invented a new kind of air conditioner

that promises to cut electrical demand by up to 90 percent — and it works well in both Gulf Coast humidity and desert heat.

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[i]n addition to reducing the load on the electrical grid, which should translate into lower carbon emissions, DEVap cooling eliminates the need for ozone-depleting CFC and HCFC refrigerants. Judkoff notes these compounds are actually worse greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. For each unit of mass, “they can be 10,000 times more debilitating to the atmosphere,” he says.

That's right the damned Federal Government that does nothing but steal our hard-earned dollars to fund things like highways and education now adds insult to injury by being more innovative than the air conditioner industry.  What's next?  Are Obama and Co. going to continuing working on our current economic problems until they get it right?  I just bet they will.

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