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Old July 1st 08, 02:21 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Mike Laight
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"nobody" wrote in message
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:18:48 -0700, "Mike Laight"
wrote:


"nobody" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:17:25 -0700, "Mike Laight"
wrote:


"nobody" wrote in message
m...
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:52:26 -0700, "Mike Laight"
wrote:

(Snip)

Senator Obama has repeatedly called for spending those tax breaks and
subsidies on the next generations of energy sources and not on dumping
more
money down the oil wells.

So, in other words, he has no plans whatsoever to help people who are
losing ground financially *right now* due to the high cost of energy.
All he seems to talk about are things that will happen some day yet we
can't drill in Anwar because it would supposedly take ten yers to get
the oil.


president Bush this last week said that there is no way to lower prices
in
gthe short term. Senator McCain said the same in May, 2008. What is
Senator McCainsJune, 2008 plan for what he said couldnot happen one
month
ago?

Both Bush and McCain have been pushing for increased domestic oil
production.



Yes, this week Senator McCain flip-flopped on domestic drilling, while
president Bush is now pushing it harder than he had been. Does it seem
reasonable to you that Senator McCain has voted against every type of
renewable energy and that he and President Bush agree that what we should
do
right now to get us off our oil addiction is to drill for more oil?


While I have no enthusiasm for McCain. at least he appears to be open
now to the option.



Yes and no. Senator McCain says that he now, this month, is in favor of
drilling on the coastal shelf but he has said repeatedly that domestic
drilling will not change oil availability or pricing for many years and that
it will never bring oil prices down substantially. I think he said a dollar
amount that he believed it would affect our gasoline prices but I cannot say
for sure. He has voted against every recent bill, upon which he has voted,
not to fund any renewable energy programs or research.




That is the place to start. You can then move forth into
developing alternatives. To do as the Dems (and Obama) have been
doing --- talk, talk, talk with no specific proposals guarantees no
improvement in cost or real alternatives.


You may not like or agree with Senator Obama's proposals but I am not an
expert and I have seen several reports from reputable and somewhat
objective "experts" that are in complete agreement with Senator Obama's
energy proposals and other equally reputable and somewhat objective
"experts" that are in complete agreement with the Bush/McCain proposals.


Which experts agree with Obama and what specific alternatives are they
agreeing with?



I am not going down this street. It may be unfair of me to think this but
in the past, on Usenet, when I would post cites like this then people would
want to get into arguments over the relative value, reliability, and
scientific accuracy of the respective experts.



There are two things that seem axiomatic to me: 1 - At some point in time
we
will not have an option of using oil as an energy source. 2 - At some
point
in time we have to decide that it is in the best interest of this country
to
stop spending public funds and public resources to scrape along further
using oil as an energy source. The disagreement is about when and what to
do now.


No argument there. I don't think of oil as the long term option. But
to provide no relief for a suffering public while we talk about
alterntives that are not even on the horizon borders on criminal.




Well, in the last two weeks President Bush, Senator McCain, and Senator
Obama have all said that there are no quick or easy solutions available.
There are few things that each of these men have agreed on at nearly the
same time.



The Japanese seem to be putting a lot more resources into solving this
problem than we are. The Chinese, Indians, and South and Central
America's
desire for oil is growing at a faster pace than is ours. In fact,our use
has pretty much plateaued at a level that is below our peak usage. (This
could be out of date data and I am too lazy to look up more recent data
but
at the very least this was true a couple years ago.) My point is that I
want the US to spend a huge amount of money to at least catch up with the
Japanese and then spend another huge amount to move ahead of them. I want
to let oil companies stop getting subsidies and tax breaks for at least
the
next ten years. I want the US to spend huge amounts of money developing
safe nuclear power systems and waste handling and perhaps settle our
deficit
by selling, building, and installing renewable power systems and safe
nuclear power systems to every country in the world.


Which Democrat has introduced a bill with proposals for new nuclear
plants?



I was not talking about any politicians in this paragraph. That is why so
many of the sentences begin with "I want."



This is the future, eventually, and Senator Obama talks about a very
similar
vision.


I don't see anything about nuclear power on his web site.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/



I have not recently looked at Senator Obama's site to read his nuclear
energy position. I thought he had made his position quite clear. Here is a
youtube of a debate question about nuclear power, Senator Obama starts his
answer at about 1:12 into the tape. He is preceded by Senator Edwards and
followed by Senator Clinton. If you still want to talk about his position
then let me know after you have had a chance to hear his words yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDmyToTYBE



*BTW* visiting his web site prevents you from using the "back" arrow
to exit his site. You must close your browser. Poor design -
although I suspect done on purpose.



Oh, that crap absolutely drives me crazy. I tell companies, when their web
site does that, they have lost my business for now. I always assume that if
that happens to me the company wants it to happen. I do not remember that
happening to me on Obam's website but I use a lot of windows and tabs when
browsing so I probably just close his tab when I am done.


When I listen to Senator McCain I think about something written by
Robert Heinlein. He wrote about what it must have been like in the buggy
whip business as cars started to become common and affordable. Heinlein
wrote that it is likely that only the best buggy whip manufacturers were
likely to survive as the market for buggy whips was shrinking. The last
buggy whip companies probably took a great deal of pride in making the
best
buggy whips they could make. It used to be taught that one of the worst
places for a business to be is in gaining market share in a shrinking
market. I believe that Senator McCain is treating the energy problem in
the
same way as the buggy whip manufacturers. He is looking for the very best
way he can find to address the problem of oil prices while not addressing
that oil is going to be replaced as a source of energy. I only hope that
we
have the time to solve this problem before we have to start burning down
the
house for warmth.


I don't think that's a fair analysis of McCain's position. He appears
to be for oil to transition to alternatives -- the only realistic
approach.

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/...f1468e96f4.htm



You may be correct that it is an unfair analysis of Senator McCain's
positions but it isn't really an analysis. Also, I have read the positions
covered by Senator McCain's The Lexington Project energy policies and
positions.

No elected president is able to accomplish everything that they want to
accomplish and frankly, I do not think any president could achieve all of
the items listed on John McCain's position sheet concerning energy.
Strangely, I was unable to find an energy position which Senator McCain is
against. We have to evaluate which items our president really pushes and
which fall by the wayside. When I listen to Senator McCain on the subject
of energy he seems to become more excited when he talks about not sending
money, through purchasing oil, to nations and regimes we dislike and on any
other discussion of energy he seems to be somewhat out of energy. Senator
Obama seems to be much more energized when talking about renewable energy
sources and emergent technologies.

Just my best guess and only time will tell if we elected a good choice.

Mike

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Old July 1st 08, 02:39 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Mike Laight
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"charley" wrote in message
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On Jun 30, 11:22 am, Governor Swill wrote:
This is charley's brain on drugs:


You really are an idiot. Conservatives have one TV outlet which is
Fox.....libs have everything else including most print media.....libs
are just stupid and depend on minorities for power....what's funny is
the hierarchy of the democratic party is run by Whites.


You really must be on drugs if you have failed to notice that almost all
media has been bought by, and for the interests of, large corporations.
Large corporations who are run by, and the largest stock owners are usually,
republicants. No one can seriously call most television, newspaper, and
magazines part of some liberal bias or conspiracy. Why do you think that
democrat administrations and legislators have always fought against letting
media companies be owned by fewer and fewer companies while republican
administrations, specifically Presidents Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43, have
enacted changes in law so that huge corporations could purchase more and
more media.

Mike


  #63  
Old July 1st 08, 03:38 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
DeserTBoB
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:51:22 -0700 (PDT), MuttonJeff
wrote:


Because he's a ****ing neocon you ****ing drooling imbecile. If you
bedwetters would run somebody for president that was'nt a ****ing
lunatic maybe Bush would'nt have won two terms. The american people
held their noses and voted for the lesser of two evils both times. snip


Psych majors, take note: what we have here is a VERY good illustration
of a paranoid delusion expressed in text.
  #64  
Old July 1st 08, 03:41 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Governor Swill
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This is charley's brain on drugs:
Then why has this Republican administration imprisoned border guards
for doing their job? *Why has the flood of illegal immigration
increased so much since Clinton left office? *Why hasn't the Bush
administration fined companies that hire illegals as the previous
administration did? *How is it that with the GOP firmly in charge of
the Executive and legislative branches for six years, nothing was done
about illegal immigration? *Are Republicans all leftists?

Swill


If anyone is on drugs it is you wacko!


Evasion noted.

Swill
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  #65  
Old July 1st 08, 03:43 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Governor Swill
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This is MuttonJeff's brain on drugs:
Because he's a ****ing neocon you ****ing drooling imbecile. If you
bedwetters would run somebody for president that was'nt a ****ing
lunatic maybe Bush would'nt have won two terms. The american people
held their noses and voted for the lesser of two evils both times.
Here we go again. You goddamned idiots put all your chips on a ****ing
half-breed marxist/muslim/america hating racist who's totally
dedicated to Mother Africa. You kool-aid drinking imbeciles never
learn. We'll have to listen to 4 more years of you handwringing
bedwetters crying about how McCain "stole the election from the
messiah".


Maybe if you cocksmokers on the right could manage to nominate
somebody who wasn't a simpleton, Bush would never have been elected in
the first place and the GOP would likely still be in power.

Swill
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Gobama! Gobama! Gobama! Gobama!
  #66  
Old July 1st 08, 04:06 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Governor Swill
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This is nobody's brain on drugs:
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:01:26 -0400, Governor Swill
wrote:


His proposals shown here seem specific enough. As for increasing the
cost of energy, doing nothing will increase it even faster. If you
don't think so, consider the increase in gas prices since Bush came to
office. Perhaps the best news here is the job creation that will
result from shifting to domestic energy production.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/


Feel free to quote anything specific that will make a significant
difference in the next 10 years. Oh yeah, I missed something. He's
for Cap and Trade. This will equal a tax increase on anyone using
energy. That'll help...


Yes, it will help because it will motivate people to use less energy.

McCain otoh, offers crap like this:
"John McCain's Clean Car Challenge. John McCain will issue a Clean Car
Challenge to the automakers of America, in the form of a single and
substantial tax credit for the consumer based on the reduction of
carbon emissions. He will commit a $5,000 tax credit for each and
every customer who buys a zero carbon emission t car, encouraging
automakers to be first on the market with these cars in order to
capitalize on the consumer incentives. For other vehicles, a graduated
tax credit will apply so that the lower the carbon emissions, the
higher the tax credit. "

In other words, he intends to do nothing until the markets have
already accomplished the goal of zero emissions, then he's going to
cut a tax. What about investing in the research and technology that's
going to be needed to arrive at that zero emissions car?


I must have missed your quote from Obama's site that spelled out the
incentives offered to those who would buy clean air / zero emission
cars.


None needed. Energy prices will see to that.

Oh, and you missed his rather specific ideas also (but what else can
one expect from a lib). These are topics only. Refer to his web site

http://www.johnmccain.com//Informing...f1468e96f4.htm

for details (since oddly you cited only Obama's web page".


Um, where do you think I got the McCain issue quote, stupid. I got it
from his site. I read that entire page and guess what? It's all
about energy based on combustion technology. We need new technologies
going forward into a new century. Trying to keep 20 century
technology alive with tax breaks and prizes is futile. The whole page
reads like the same old Republican claptrap we've been hearing for
nearly thirty years and look where it's got us. You must be truly
insane to think putting more Republicans back in office is going to do
us any good. Eisenhower was the last Republican President who didn't
**** the country. And you'd have to go back to TDR and Lincoln to
find the other two.

Fiscal conservatism: Since 1970, only two Presidents gave us reduced
deficits. They were both Democrats; Clinton and Carter. Since WWII,
only two Presidents have given us budgetary surpluses. In 1969,
Johnson's last budget ran a tiny surplus and from 1997-2000 Bill
Clinton booked hundreds of billions in surpluses which the Republicans
fought desperately to spend.

Democrats are the party of government responsibility and
accountability.

Republicans are the party of spending like there's on tomorrow and
secrecy.

"John McCain Will Commit Our Country To Expanding Domestic Oil
Exploration......"

"John McCain Believes In Promoting And Expanding The Use Of Our
Domestic Supplies Of Natural Gas...."

John McCain Will Propose A $300 Million Prize To Improve Battery
Technology For Full Commercial Development Of Plug-In Hybrid And Fully
Electric Automobiles...." (That's called Free Enterprise by the way)


Already covered that above. $300M. Big deal. That's a drop in the
bucket compared to the profits to be made from such an energy storage
device. Better to grant research money to several R&D departments
than to sit on his hands and wait for a high tech bail out to deliver
such a chump change prize to.

"John McCain Supports Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) And Believes They
Should Play A Greater Role In Our Transportation Sector..."


You saying Obama *doesn't* believe in flex fuel and alternate fuel
vehicles? You expecting some politician to condemn flex fuels? A
politician saying he supports flex fuel these days is about as
surprising as a politician saying he wants to win his election.

Republicans can keep on uttering these useless homilies as they like,
but the rest of us have long learned it's all lies, or election
pandering, choose your term for it. They're older than dirt and so is
McSame.

Time for a change.

Swill
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Gobama! Gobama! Gobama! Gobama!
  #67  
Old July 1st 08, 04:20 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Governor Swill
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This is charley's brain on drugs:
You really are an idiot. Conservatives have one TV outlet which is
Fox.....libs have everything else including most print media.....libs
are just stupid and depend on minorities for power....what's funny is
the hierarchy of the democratic party is run by Whites.


I'm not the idiot. Perhaps you hadn't noticed that Reagan and Bush I
changed the law to allow ownership of multiple media outlets in any
given market by large corporations that didn't even need to be media
corporations. General Electric (you can't get more Republican than a
major defense contractor) owns NBC for example. Until the eighties,
large corporate entities were denied the ability to own more than one
outlet of any type in any one market. Republicans changed all that.

Of course the real reason these Republicans allow their "liberal bias"
outlets in the first place is to keep the conservative base whipped
up. You'll notice that none of those so called liberal outlets
seriously questioned the lead up of the war in Iraq. It wasn't until
independent media began to get noticed by the public that the
traditionally "liberal" papers began to take up the gauntlet against
George Bush. With rare exceptions like Dan Rather's attack on Bush's
war record during the 2004 campaign, any liberal rag criticism was
largely tepid and predictable. Even their criticism of his domestic
and spending policies were mild until after his 2004 re-election.

In 2005 they began promoting serious, well thought out and well
documented dissension. Within a year the GOP was out of power and the
truth was everywhere. As it turns out, every campaign promise George
Bush made in 2000 and 2004 was a lie. And everything he says or does
is wrong.

Swill
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Gobama! Gobama! Gobama! Gobama!
  #68  
Old July 1st 08, 04:30 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Governor Swill
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This is nobody's brain on drugs:
Governor Swill wrote:
This is nobody's brain on drugs:
No argument there. I don't think of oil as the long term option. But
to provide no relief for a suffering public while we talk about
alterntives that are not even on the horizon borders on criminal.


The People get what they deserve. We were warned in 1973 and again in
1979 but still the People did not demand long term programs to get us
off imported oil.

Now we're stuck. We can't drill our way out of our energy problems,
we have to seek other means of dealing with the issue. Too bad the
only energy vision the GOP can come up with expired in the eighties.


A more rational thought would be to drill while pouring resources into
alternate sources. It appears right now, there are many who think
it's great that people can't afford to drive to work, heat their
homes, or eat. How else would you explain their complete inaction?


Thank you, sir! Thank you very much indeed! *applause*

I've been waiting weeks for somebody else in this place to think of
that too.

Swill
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Gobama! Gobama! Gobama! Gobama!
  #69  
Old July 1st 08, 04:36 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Governor Swill
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This is Mike Laight's brain on drugs:
|Please go into detail what your liberal run congress has accomplished
|since taking power almost 2 years ago and why their approval rating
|stays around 12%.
|

First, genie, a quibble. The Democratic Majority does not run congress and
it has been in the majority between a year and a year and a half. Second
thing, why do you persist in stating that it is the Democratic congress that
has the awful approval rating? The whole congress has the awful rating but
interestingly enough each poll that has asked about the approval of the
Democrats in congress and that also asks about the approval of the
Republicants in congress has rated the Democrats with a much higher approval
rating than the republicants.


Significantly, when voters are asked about their particular
representatives in Congress, the members score much higher marks than
does the body as a whole.

Swill
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Old July 1st 08, 05:28 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
Governor Swill
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This is MuttonJeff's brain on drugs:
Picking nits again. What has your dream team accomplished since taking
power almost 2 years ago?


Can't you discuss *anything* without spin? There was no "dream team".
There was simply a power shift in Congress. They did not take power
"almost two years ago". They were sworn in eighteen months ago and
have accomplished much. This week they forced the President to double
VA medical benefits in order to get his (still off budget) spending
request for Iraq. Their sharp reins on Bush's spending habits by
means of withholding and reducing appropriations reduced the 2007
deficit by a third from 2006.

They crowed for 3 months after getting the
majority that it was a "mandate by the american people to undo all the
damage done by the neocons".


Remember the complaints the GOP had about the Dems using filibusters
to obstruct legislation and appointments? The GOP set a record last
year by threatening 89 filibusters.

Piglosi just gave Bush funding for the
war in Iraq. Does'nt that just rip your knickers?


And they included legislation that doubles VA medical benefits.
Doesn't that just rip yours?

The supreme court
just blew the **** out of your kooks confiscating of guns owned by
private citizens.


Let's hear it for the Second Amendment. I don't know about you, but
to me, those first ten are more important than even the main body of
the Constitution. The description of how the government should be
constructed makes for some boring reading, but the Bill of Rights! Now
there's something sacred that worthy of surviving for as long as their
are humans.

Been a bad week for the moonbat party.


I don't think so at all. McCain's had a pretty slow week. All the
focus has been on Barack and Hillary's first date.

Barack and Hillary, kissin' in a tree
k-i-s-s-i-n-g
First comes love,
Then comes marriage,
Then little Billy in a baby carriage!

Hussein's minion just shot both feet off at the knees by saying McCain's miltary
service does'nt make him qualified to be President


It's his temper that disqualifies him from having control of the
military. It's his age that makes him not qualified to be President.
(no more old white guys!).

but Hussein has all the right qualifications (without going into
detail just what those qualifications might be).


Especially if you don't bother to read or refuse to believe anything
that disagrees with the decision you've already made.

You ****ing idiots never learn. You arrogant assholes think
the american people are so brain dead and desperate for change
they'd vote for Sasquatch if he was'nt a republican.


Lots of us like that. You're not bright enough to figure out why? I
voted Republican for twenty years. We've been betrayed. The Party
has accomplished almost exactly the opposite of everything they got
elected on. Reagan campaigned on slashing the welfare rolls and
abolishing social security. He "saved" SS for another forty years and
expanded the welfare rolls. Welfare reform didn't come until Clinton
and the Dems started figuring it out in 1992.

Reagan gave illegal aliens amnesty. Clinton fined 3000 companies in
2000 for knowingly hiring illegal workers. In 2003 Bush fined 4 and
illegal immigration has exploded.

Reagan doubled the national debt, but GHW Bush was even worse and his
deficit spending was a campaign issue in 1992. Clinton reduced the
national debt by 100B. By the time George Bush's last budget is done,
it'll be nearly doubled again.

Reagan caved to Iran over the hostage crisis and again in Beirut with
the result that Iran was able to buy weapons and parts from us. Then
he made up a war in the Caribbean somewhere to take our mind off the
fact that he pulled us out of Lebanon and ran like a yellow rabbit
when our marines were attacked there. I don't suppose we have to
rehash Iraq casualty lists and contractor payola. Clinton is often
excoriated by the right for getting involved in the Balkans, but to
date, not one American soldier has been killed there by the enemy.

Republicans have long stood against abortion and conservatives have
complained bitterly about the liberal SCOTUS since the early part of
the last century. Yet when Bush Mk II was sworn in, six of the
Justices were Republican appointees including such stalwart rightists
as Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony M. Kennedy who joined her plurality
in 1992 in support of Roe v Wade (Planned Parenthood v. Casey). It
was Reagan who made Rehnquist Chief Justice for god's sake!

And let's not forget Nixon who took us off gold, then shamed the
country by conducting a cover up of criminal activity and ended up
leaving us with our first and hopefully last appointed President.

Who unfortunately was unprepared to deal with the aftermath of Vietnam
and Nixon's fiscal and foreign policy. Not that Carter fared any
better at swimming in that pool but at least he wasn't a criminal.

Naw, man. I'm not voting for any more Republicans for a while. The
party has lied it's last lie at me and got on my last nerve. **** the
whole lot of them.

Same old ****, different day.


That's Mc**** alright. Same old ****, different century.

Swill
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