Take a look at the proposed platform of the Iowa Republican Party. I would like to see Virginia adopt the same.


Require candidates for president to prove that they are “natural born citizens,” beginning with the 2012 election. After all, non-citizens serving as president have been a longstanding problem in American politics.
Reject the “claims” of global warming, which are “based on fraudulent, inaccurate information” and pushed by people using “extremist scare tactics.” The Iowa GOP “recognizes” that policies and laws designed to combat global warming are really “a plan to take our freedoms and liberties away.”
Oppose “the diabolical collusion of the United Nations” in promoting its Agenda 21, a non-binding global sustainability plan signed by President George H.W. Bush and the leaders of 177 other nations in 1992. Like the Republican National Committee, the Iowa GOP apparently believes Agenda 21 is part of an effort to impose global political control on the U.S.
Eliminate the Federal Reserve Act and implement a “sound commodity-backed currency” with a gold or silver standard.
Fight the North American Union, “which would do away with our borders and sovereignty, and … [battle] the Amero, which would do away with our currency.” Although there actually are no secret plans to merge Mexico, the United States and Canada into a single entity — and replace our dollars with “Ameros” — that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theorists.
In the same vein, “oppose so-called ‘World Government.’”
Entirely eliminate the departments of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Energy, Interior, Labor and Commerce, along with the Transportation Safety Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Likewise, abolish the Internal Revenue Service and repeal the 16th Amendment, which legalized the federal income tax.
Require judges to instruct jurors that in addition to judging cases, they may pass on the law at issue. Commonly known as “jury nullification,” this is a highly controversial notion that is embraced by the radical right.
Pass a “stand your ground” law, like the one that many believe led to the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. By a large margin, most prosecutors and police oppose such laws, which make prosecuting many killings difficult.
Allow parents to refuse to have their children immunized.
Reject the teaching of multiculturalism.
Only teach evolution as a theory, along with creationism.
Repeal compulsory school attendance laws.
Eliminate the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which oversees job safety.
Repeal smoking bans because, as the platform statement asserts, “We believe this to be an issue of liberty.” Air quality in all businesses should be left up to owners’ “freedom to choose.”
Repeal all hate crime laws.
Oppose the imposition Shariah, or Islamic religious law, in the United States, along with any other foreign or “United Nations Law.”
Build a fence along the entire U.S. border with Mexico.
Oppose abortion and reject the Supreme Court’s decision authorizing it.
Build a fence along the entire U.S. border with Mexico.
End minimum wage laws.
Oppose abortion and reject the Supreme Court’s decision authorizing it. Encourage adoption and aid to unwed mothers — but only if every dollar of support comes from the private sector.
End subsidies to agriculture.

Thanks, Keith.
I kind of suspected this would work.

I think you end up killing few people...

I'm something like engineer so can count a little a bit...
If this article is correct, then you have three phase electricity on USA.. I'm €urotrash myself

So it means that there is three live wire and one ground...

---- L1
---- L2
---- L3
---- N

Now, currency between live wires (L1/L2/L3) and ground (N) is 110V.
Currency between live wires (L1<->L2<->L3) is 220V.

So if you have 110V generator, then it is most probably creating one phase current (N+L1).
If it is three phase generator(N+L1+L2+L3), then currency between live wire and ground is 63V..

There is no way that you can "split" 110V to 220V.
This two leg is probably L1+N and L2+N, so there is 110V on one phase sockets (N+L1 / N+L2) and 220V on two phase (L1+L2+N) sockets.

And most important item at all....
What ever you make if you are not sure, make sure that your building has been permanently removed from public grid...
This is because live of another peoples....
Transformers are working both ways, so if there is power companies dudes on pole which they have isolate from power plant side, they will become electrocuted on very long distance, because tiny transmitter next to you (few thousand volt or something) will start to push that bigger currency to network to some very long distance if it receive juice from you.
So please, if you do not know what you are doing here, then please first apply CAT and TNT method your own grid cable...

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After some study, you actually have this "leg" system in USA..
So it is not three phase, it is one phase transformed to bigger voltage...
So that you can produce with single phase generator, you just need to buy transformer like on fig1...
I recommend that you buy generator that can create legged output directly if you do not know exactly what to do..

This leg system something that I have never seem here on Europe.
To be honest, I cannot understand function of this because total power is still same, or actually even lesser because transformer will loose (turn to heat) few percent on this process....
Article says that this will safe some copper, sure it might but loose at least four percent electricity....
I guess this lost is something that consumer does not pay

My apologies, everyone. I was in a grumpy mood last night.

Nano, I'm intrigued as you must have one heck of a hair dryer. There's no way I could physically plug my 220 cord into anything that's not a 220 receptacle. The plug's at least two to two and a half times as big as any 110 plug and the prongs are arranged in a circle. I'm no electrician but I understand a 220 line is wired differently though it may still be a three wire line. I understand that it's possible to have a generator connected to where it kicks on automatically during an outage but that requires some work by an electrician and uses what's called a transfer switch to connect the power from your generator to those specific circuits you want supplied. As I understand it, a generator that only has 110 output cannot power any 220 devices (typically a/c, furnace, and the like). It also needs to have enough wattage to supply the demand possible on the circuits it will connect to. Anyone wanting to do something like this should definitely talk to an electrician first.