Back when I was in boarding school, I helped a little (and I emphasize little) with a metal recycling project–you know, separating copper and other metals from larger contraptions. At the time, I wondered how much money could really be made with a small-scale operation.
With commodity prices going the way they have been, there’s more money to be made now. Problem is, for common products, such as paper, plastic, or aluminum, it’s apparently still not very profitable to run city-wide operations. So a lot of it still goes in the land fill.
May 2006
The Secret Service’s Incomplete Historical Records
Another maddening “forthcoming” exchange with Scott McClellan regarding the Jack Abramoff visitation records.
The White House’s new campaign to promote usage of the English language should start in the office of its Press Secretary.
“Nuestro Himno”
Heh.
It’s a bit hard to now jump on the nativist English-only theme after you ran two campaigns courting Hispanic votes.
And a commenter raises a good point: If the national anthem must be song in English, shouldn’t the White House web site also be English only?
Election Day Fun
It’s refreshing when we learn from repeat history:
I just got off the phone with a friend in Ohio. He went to vote today in a Cleveland Heights (heavy Dem) precinct this morning. He showed up to vote at 6:30, when the polls open. After 15 minutes, 2 of the 9 Diebold machines were finally working, and he was able to vote. The poll workers didn’t know how to work the machines, and the “help line” calls went unanswered. The printed receipt didn’t work on any of the machines.
If all else fails, they can revert to paper ballots. That’s the direction we’re headed here.
Gas “Crisis”
Apparently, the Secretary of Energy believes we have a “crisis.” From yesterday’s Meet the Press:
MR. BODMAN: Tim, Tim, the, the–we’re here today. I would say that there’s evidence, there’s, there’s apparently some evidence that we have a crisis. There is a lot of concern about this. And so the president is looking at everything, every tool at his disposal to put to work on it. And so, you know, I’m not embarrassed by that and I think it’s the right thing to do.
. . .
MR. BODMAN: I believe that there is–there are those who would call it that.
MR. RUSSERT: Would you call…
MR. BODMAN: The fact, the fact that we are here today.
MR. RUSSERT: Do, do you call it a crisis?
MR. BODMAN: I would call it that, yes. I think that there is great concern.
There’s a grudging admission. I wonder why? More likely the “crisis” Mr. Bodman sees is one at the polls rather than at the pumps. Does anyone believe he would be talking about a gasoline “crisis” if Bush’s approval ratings were currently in the 60s?
Not I.
A Day Without Immigrants
No boycott in effect at Resonance today.
One of the amusing things I see in the media coverage is how some reporters seem to go out of their way to point out that the various gatherings are (so far) “peaceful.” It’s almost as if they expect a riot to break out at any moment.