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Tallgeese wrote:

It was still illegal - sodomy.

You'd have to look that up to be cerain. MA might have struck it off the books, even that far back.

The psychopathic offender law was revised again in 1958.106 It limited the applicability of the law to sexual acts with persons under the age of 16.107

In the 1959 case of Commonwealth v. Marshall,108 the Massachusetts Supreme Court unanimously permitted sodomy convictions based largely on circumstantial evidence.109

A new law of 1960110 excluded anyone convicted of sodomy or an attempt to commit it (but not unnatural and lascivious acts) from early release from parole.111

In 1962, the "immoral bargaining" law again was amended112 to make the owner or manager of the place criminally responsible for immoral bargaining occurring in the tavern.

A proposed new criminal code was published in 1972.113 As proposed, the "crime against nature" and "unnatural and lascivious acts" laws would have been repealed, with the age of consent set at 16.114 However, the code never has been enacted.

The change in both the times and the makeup of the Massachusetts Supreme Court were reflected in the next reported case, Commonwealth v. Balthazar,115 decided in 1974. Overruling Jaquith and acknowledging the change in society in the previous 20 years as well as a right to privacy defined by the United States Supreme Court, Justice Herbert Wilkins spoke for the Court in saying that in light

of these changes and in light of our own awareness that community values on the subject of permissible sexual conduct no longer are as [sic] monolithic as the Jaquith case suggested they were in 1954, we conclude that [the unnatural and lascivious acts statute] must be construed as inapplicable to private, consensual conduct of adults.116

Curiously though, in this case the defendant’s conviction was upheld because his actions were not consensual.117

http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibi … usetts.htm

I think Van Jones might have a clue, but he's gone...

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Leading Solar Solution Innovators Partner with Distribution Agreement to Optimize Turnkey Solutions for Commercial and Industrial Rooftop Solar Power Systems

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Source: Canadian Solar Inc.
On Friday October 2, 2009, 8:00 am EDT
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Companies: Canadian Solar Inc.Satcon Technology Corporation
KITCHENER, Canada, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ - News), a leading provider of vertically integrated solar cells, solar module and custom-designed solar application products, and Satcon Technology Corporation (Nasdaq CM: SATC), the industry's leading utility scale distributed power solutions provider for the renewable energy market, today announced they have signed a turnkey solution distribution agreement. As part of the contract, Canadian Solar and Satcon will market Canadian Solar's commercial solar PV systems with Satcon's commercial solar PV inverters for commercial rooftop and ground mounted power stations.

I heard someplace that Canadian Solar is a Chinese company. Why isn't this a U.S. venture?

I'm not too taken by the Canadian Solar website:
http://www.canadian-solar.com/

Last edited by daemon (2009-10-06 1:24 pm)

I can't even begin to catch up, seven pages? My band flew to Denver for a gig and I decided to take a week off. My apologies for posting and running.

Or, in summary: Fox "News" screwed up another report.

It has gotten to the point that the above is no longer news.