And Tesla is a company that has 'test queen' written all over it. There is literally no way to build the cars Tesla purports to be able to build, for the transport demands of our citizenry, without building literally thousands of new coal-fired electricity plants, currently outlawed by the Obama administration. You can drive around in a coal-fired car all you want, as far as I'm concerned. You can pay the hundred grand it costs to own the thing, and deal with the fact that when its power drops below a certain threshold its entire electronics package--and ability to even be recharged, is "bricked." How about a Golf BlueTec, produced here, with its 70 mpg? Sure it's not electric but who cares?

Fabius, I respect your Catholic views and by your lights I, a LDS, am a heretic, as are all Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists and any and all other so-called Christians who do not recognize the authority of the Catholic church. At least you recognize that divine authority is indeed necessary to administer the ordinances of salvation such as baptism. We quarrel on where God's authority resides on earth today, but among Christians our two faiths are unique in making it central. I'm pretty sure the Catholic church didn't delegate authority to Luther, Wesley, Rick Warren or anyone else to start a new church. Joseph Smith claimed to receive the priesthood directly from Peter, James and John. It's Mormons, Catholics or nobody.

I think a lot of LDS misinterpret the BOM passage, "...for we know it is by grace we are saved, after all we can do." Some try to say we have to do all we can before we are eligible for grace. By that impossible standard, the Celestial Kingdom will be utterly empty because nobody, ever, has done "all he could have done." So what does it mean? I take it to mean "after all we can do, it is by grace we are saved." You could try and try, and try some more, but there is no salvation for you except by the atonement of Christ (grace). I don't believe, and neither should any Mormon, that God requires an impossible standard of perfection. He requires a broken heart and a contrite spirit, and a covenant that covers us in grace.

I love that the Dims are segregating themselves into urban areas--which will then erupt in violence when the assumptions underpinning their policies cause the whole welfare house of cards to come crashing down. Out here in the small towns, we still cling happily to our religion and our guns, and as the cities burn and the bankrupt libs eat each other, our gardens and farms are productive, and we'll sell our produce to whomever pays. We used to need the cities because that's where we got all our manufactured goods. But all that crap comes from China now, so what good are the cities, except to use as dumping grounds for worthless liberal human debris? Keep flocking to them, libs.