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Posted by: crossbowman 08/30/2007, 15:43:11 (About author)
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What they SHOULD do and what they DO do are typically worlds apart. Power and bureaucracy have their own unique priorities that often bear only coincidental resemblance to logic, when there is any resemblance at all. I might point out that a wind turbine in the Sahara is very, very far from anything that would need a wind turbine. The act of getting power from point A to point B can be as problematic as the act of generating the power in the first place - batsies and swansies saved from the blade only to fry in collisions with the transformers and relay stations dotting the route from the remote desert to Cairo, their habitat bulldozed for the road that takes the maintenance worker out to the remote turbine site. TANSTAAFL "Robbins’s claim fails because the Hobbs Act does not apply when the National Government is the intended beneficiary of the allegedly extortionate acts." WILKIE ET AL. v. ROBBINS. David H. Souter, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
with John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy,
Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito concurring. |
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