Back when I was bussing to work, I always found it interesting that my inside-the-beltway metro Ninnesota district couldn't find a voting site within 2/3 of a mile of a bus stop. Coincidence, I suppose.

Eastern US Could Feasibly Meet 20% To 30% Of Electricity Needs From Wind By 2024 - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/easte...

If only the Dems had their brains: Iraq veterans hit GOP for aiding terrorists with oil money - http://www.grist.org/article/2010-02-04-iraq-...
In a series of hard-hitting television ads, a liberal veterans advocacy organization challenges Republican lawmakers for blocking clean energy legislation that would cut oil funds to terrorists.
Um...for those of you wondering how to 'counter' the incredibly idiotic 'drill here, drill now' fairytale nonsense....the Vets just gave you the smoking gun/X marks the spot....

Nuking the taxpayers...How much will nuclear cost U.S. citizens? - http://www.grist.org/article/how-much-will-nu...
Current price estimate for a new reactor: $10 billion The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the risk of default on these loans, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab: 50 percent Potential risk exposure to taxpayers based on various proposed scenarios for new nuclear plant construction, as calculated by the Union of Concerned Scientists: $360 billion to $1.6 trillion
Year in which Forbes called the previous round of nuclear plant construction “the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale:” 1985 Estimated additional amount it would cost to generate electricity today from 100 new nuclear reactors instead of generating the same amount of power from a combination of energy efficiency and renewables: $1.9 trillion to $4.1 trillion
In other words....anyone advocating for this...is a) moron, b) suicidal, c) as 'fiscally con-servative' as Paris Hilton, d) doesn't have their 'stuff' together....e) thinks uranium & water are infinite, f) magically figured out where to put the 12,000 metric tons of waste from these every year... (most of which has a radioactive half life of 20,000 - 220,000 years) g) all answers are correct

Atlas Shrugs as Exxon Launches New Blitz of False Prophets - http://www.desmogblog.com/atlas-shrugs-exxon-...
An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts. Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil.
Both organizations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.

ACCCE Hires New PR Firm With Bush Ties To Push Coal - http://www.desmogblog.com/accce-hires-new-pr-...
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) has hired two new public relations firms to hock its message in the wake of the disastrous job done by Bonner & Associates.
ACCCE has retained HDMK, a PR firm with very strong ties to former President George W. Bush and the Republican Party, to manage its national media efforts, while Dan Ronayne, a managing director of the Howard Consulting Group, was retained to work with regional reporters.
HDMK is run by Terry Holt, the national campaign spokesperson for George W. Bush in the 2004 election and the former spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner.
Other HDMK partners include Trent Duffy, a former deputy press secretary to President George W. Bush, Jim Morrell, former deputy chief of staff to the House Republican Conference and a speechwriter for former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL), and Chad Kolton, another long-time Republican communications operative who served in the Bush administration as press secretary at the OMB and FEMA.

America's Senator: A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill - http://www.grist.org/article/2010-02-04-a-cha...
On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill aimed at getting 10 million new solar rooftop systems and 200,000 new solar hot water heating systems installed in the U.S. in the next ten years. The bill would provide rebates for up to half the cost of new systems, along the lines of incentive programs in California and New Jersey. David Roberts chatted with Sen. Sanders about the bill, the growth of solar, and his colleagues' peculiar fixation on nuclear power.

E.J. Dionne: The Dems have to stop fearing reconciliation (a simple majority vote for HCR) in the Senate and just do it. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...

Well that Republican 'economic populism' didn't last long: Where the Money Flows Department: Bankers, unhappy at the president’s proposals for tighter financial regulations, are shifting donations to Republicans.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/us/politics...
But they'll still lie to their little voters...and tell them how bad the 'bail out' was....while lining their pockets with that same money....

Trying to change the history books again: The Republican Right's Effort to Banish George W. Bush - http://www.antemedius.com/content/republican-...
The Republican Right seeks to banish George W. Bush from memory in the way that Soviet Union leaders used to do to in efforts to erase the past.

Iraq war was illegal, says former lord chief justice - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/08/iraq...
"Liberty is losing out at the moment. Extraordinary inroads are being made into principles that would once have been regarded as completely inviolate, such as the growing practice of putting material before some decision-making tribunal or judge that the defendant never sees."

{ Too Long. I've asked you before to make these brief. SiteMonitor}

Good Left Coaster piece, as well as the one on Dostoevsky.