X-Prize Competition - plus an unexpected rant-

Yesterday I heard that the people who inspired civilian space flight have posted a $10,000,000 reward for a 100 mpg automobile.
OK, I was maybe stingy at asking for a One Million Dollar prize.
I continue to think that we don't need the entire new car design. We just need engines we can afford to have installed into our cars and trucks. Maybe the X-Prize Competition people could offer an additional prize for a retrofittable, affordable propulsion system that we can purchase and have installed into our perfectly good existing automobiles. I have also advocated offering smaller prizes ($50,000 each) to every member of a factory that actually produces an affordable (under $5000) system at a six sigma quality level. We don't need to throw away our cars, we just need to change out our engines.

As long as I'm hoping for a better future, I might as well dream about what the Government can start doing on Jan 21, 2009. It needs to dismantle the neo-conservative K-Street special interest machine. For those who have not been to Washington, DC, K Street is a main road traveling through the capitol. It is not a back alley. K Street lobby and law firms transfer obscene amounts of money for the purpose of securing greater obscene amounts of money for special people. Remember that K-Street, as it now exists is a construct of the Tom Delay, George Bush, Jack Abermofv corruption cabal.
The Government needs to impose a flat tax system that can be written in 12 point type on no more than two 8 x 11 pieces of paper.
Wake up folks! George Bush and his henchmen have put us $10,000,000,000,000 in debt. Its time for the rich people to pay their fair share.
Bush fiscal policies have failed utterly for all but the top 1% of the population. This is not class warfare, it will be ideology warfare.
The Candidates, Ron Paul, Barak Obama, and Hillary Clinton better be wearing bullet proof vests and not planning to exit rallies by way of the kitchen or ride in open vehicles. They should probably include Kevlar hats with their outfits. After the Kennedy's deaths I still wonder if the forces behind the lone crazed gunmen weren't conservative.
And how did the Government Anthrax get into the post offices after 9-11-01?
I would love to see a court order sealing Dick Cheney's office while an independent auditor catalogs every bit of data. The inventory can then by given to a F(ederal)ISA Court panel to determine if there are any constitutional violations.
Rule of Law - When this country adopted the Constitution, This country created itself by creating the law that created the country. We were not created by God. We did not have a ruler or a ruling class that was ordained by God. We were people who created ourselves. At the time, this concept was considered to be the worst kind of goat burning, baby eating liberalism (by the royals of the world). Today when George Bush uses the term "The Rule of Law" he means usurping the rule of the Constitution through illegal means such as claiming that he had no direct knowledge but the things he didn't know about are protected by executive privilege (means private law in Latin). When George Bush, or any of his cronies for that matter use the term "Rule of Law", they are participating in Orwellian "Doublespeak". And the corporations who report the events of the day allow it to go unchallenged.
Oh Dear! I'm ranting. Time to take a breath and relax.