EL-DUDERINO

[quote]She is in a safe seat this electon season.[/quote] Which is sad. Pelosi needs to go. Her refusal to allow a vote on certain bills is ludacris. She deserves her job less than any of the others in the House (and I don't think any of them really deserve their jobs). She needs to go. [quote]Super trains.[/quote] Yet another proposal for an alternative that there is no infrastructure for. Once again you cannot cease a current techonology/resource without providi

[quote]I have a nuclear plant practically in my back yard, and it isn't so bad! So why the hell can't the two parties unite behind a nuclear future? It baffles the mind.[/quote] I couldn't agree more. We should have been building nuclear plants for the past 30 years but too many people complain when they start hearing about them. People don't want them built anywhere near them because of images of 3 mile island. Then you also get the eco-extremists complaining about disposing of nucl

[quote]"Why don't we do a hybrid of both..." It's pathetic when Paris Hilton (in a spoof no less) becomes the voice of reason. [/quote] You think she came up with the joke? I think you give her way too much credit. It doesn't change the fact that it's still rather pathetic though.

I couldn't agree more. We need to start looking towards the future. And I definitely agree that we need to invest much more in space exploration, luckily some private companies are starting to do just that, but government funding wouldn't hurt. We need to start looking for ways to exploit the resources of our solar system so that maybe one day we can travel to other star systems. The problem is that the US government has this problem of only being able to see to the next election year rather

[quote]"but this will only happen to the bad guys!" folks will cry. Will it? What's to stop them from using this against political dissidents? What about anti-war activists, labor union leaders, there's a whole slough of ordinary citizens, who, under the MCA of 2006 can suddenly be labeled "unlawful combatants" and thrown in jail indefinitely with no rights or representation by a lawyer, and NO OVERSIGHT to prove that these people really are a threat or terrorists or "unlawful combatants" (whate

[quote]Because their "good book" the Holy Koran" tells them to either convert the infidel or put them to the sword. {paraphrased}[/quote] The Christian Bible says much the same thing. The bottom line is that this is why there needs to be a separation of Church and State. This is the type of thing that our founding fathers were trying to prevent when they created the bill of rights. The recognized how dangerous it would be if Church doctine (no matter the religion) were allowed to cre

[quote]Don't also forget that the stimulus checks are spent.[/quote] What do the stimulus checks have to do with increase in the value of the dollar? If anything the stimulus checks would have decreased the value of the dollar (the more dollars in the system, the less each one is worth).

[quote]You both show a lack of confidence in American ingenuity. The alternatives, just as new oil, is potential. All we need is the national will to go for it.[/quote] So you admit that there are no viable alternatives at the moment. At least we have gotten you to admit that. And the new oil is NOT potential, we know it's there it's just a matter of building the drilling rigs to extract it, and then the transportation system to carry the oil from the rig to the refineries. Both of t

[quote]Duderino, I spent ten days in West Virginia last month, collecting petition signatures to get Bob on the ballot there. We needed around 16,000 valid signatures and collected more than 17,000--Unfortunately, I think some of the signatures were thrown out (this always happens, people sometimes give the wrong address or they aren't registered to vote, etc.). We're working on it and we expect to be on the ballot there, it just might take a little time to get done. And on th

[quote]One can see a conspiracy anywhere they want. Or one can simply understand the law of supply and demand.[/quote] Agreed doc. And don't forget about the affect that the value of the dollar has on oil. Oil is priced in dollars and the dollar has been on the rise over the last week or so, hence oil has been on the decline. No grand conspiracy, just economics doing it's thing.

[quote]I think it's time for change, but not from our candidates, from the people. I think it's time we take change into our own hands and do what must be done to get this country back on track and once again fight for what made this country the great country it once was. It's time to show our politicians that we will not be used, abused and treated like reprogramable robots waiting to be told what to do. More and more every day i find myself wanting to go the third party way because I don't wan

[quote]Mason, This is a good article! However constitutionally speaking I believe Americans have far more to worry about from the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which basically repeals the magna carta and habeaus corpus. In this little gem; - You can be seized at any time, for any reason, on the grounds that you are suspected of being an 'unlawful' combatant. Okay, so what is an unlawful combatant? Whatever the Administration says it is. But then they would have to prove you are

One of my favorite quotes from Ben Franklin: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Unfortunately our government has been using the events of 9/11 to strike fear in the people to allow them to whittle away at our rights, and they have been very successful. You want to know another little unpublicized invasion into our lives that the government has taken? Hidden deep in the recently passed House bill

I couldn't agree more. The virtual two party system that we have is against everything this country is supposed to stand for. I completely sick and tired of the media bias that gets played up where they get to decide who is a front runner and who isn't. I mean the primary debates were a freakin' joke, why was it that Kucinich sat that at some debates for 45 minutes before he got to say word one? Why does the media get to decide who the front runners are I thought that was supposed to be up t

[quote]Point taken. next time I will source CNN.[/quote] The problem there is that I have found CNN to occasionally have too liberal leaning a view point. No matter what media source you use there is bound to be some amount of bias involved since we no longer have "independent journalism" we have "infotainment". Generally I find that I tend to read an article from CNN and then virtually the same one on Fox (as long as it isn't an AP article as those will be the same no matter who sour

[quote]To YOU it might be a non issue, to me it is the start of an ugly trend.[/quote] What ugly trend? The trend that unions make demands of a company during contract negotiations and the company gives in to some of them? That has been going on since unions started and that is what happened here. Why shouldn't a worker be allowed to trade in a holiday that they don't care about in favor of a holiday that is very important to them? That just makes sense. [quote]Christmas is

[quote]This in and of itself maybe a contradiction? If you are against ilk bailouts then you cannot be for a socialist approach![/quote] This is an excellent point. The way to think of bailouts is a very large welfare program for businesses instead of people. If you are against bailouts then you are against welfare, which is very anti-socialism.

[quote]Yes step one in overturning an American holiday in favor of a Religious one favoring one specific religion. How soon will it be before another plant somewhere else uses this example to do the same thing, give an inch, take a mile. watch and see.[/quote] Um, pretty much every company forces you to take off Christmas, how is that not favoring one specific religion? The bottom line here is that this is one union at ONE plant. The members of that union at that plant are almost all

[quote]If you continually stress the immediate need of oil exploration, it inevitably will and deliberately upstage the alternatives.[/quote] What alternatives???? You keep on saying that we need to switch to alternative yet you don't ever offer up what alternatives are ready to step up to the plate. As of today there simply aren't any that can step up and replace oil. Maybe there will be in 10-40 years, but they just aren't there yet so we need to exploit the oil that we have on our

[quote]Now I understand your distaste for FDR: by stopping the run on banks, he would have taken the masochistic fun out of it for you.[/quote] I haven't done enough research on what caused the run on the banks back then so I can't speak about FDR stopping the run on the banks. What I can say about the current economic crisis is that it's not about masochisism, it's about personal responsibility. Why should someone who purposely went out of their way to not get in over their heads in

[quote]Inventive economy is an approach to a better world of goods and services for those denied material gain.[/quote] So if I'm understanding you correctly "Inventive Economy" is essentially socialism. Sorry but I just can't get behind that as Socialism (and it's partner Communism) has been proven not to work (Cuba, USSR, etc).

[quote]Oh, wait. That's not what you meant by needing fresh blood right?[/quote] It's not really what I meant, but I'm not completely opposed to it, anything to get the current crop of idiots out of there.

[quote]I guess the whole point is supposed to be that he's not George W. Bush but then again no matter who wins George w. Bush won't be President anymore. The fact that he tried to portray himself as some "new" politician who was above petty politics is ridiculous when he is the candidate who is most the product of the political machine.[/quote] If the point is that he's not George W. Bush then every single president elected has run on a platform of change. Even W. himself made a few s

[quote]Why must it be either/or? We have enough inventiveness to do all.[/quote] I don't think anyone is saying that it has to be either/or, Palidin77, the good doc and myself are merely stating that until an alternative fuel is viable we need to drill for oil so that we can bridge the gap. If we were to say tomorrow that all gas stations had to shut down because we were switching over to hydrogen fuel cell cars only people in Southern Califonia could get around, and only within a coup

This election is going to be incredibly close and at this point it really is a toss up as to who wins it. The issue that most people need to seriously consider is not so much who wins the presidency but who wins control of Congress. Congress can have a much bigger impact on how things are done if one party holds the filibuster-proof majority (60 seats in the senate, and roughly 260 in the House). If one party can break that margin then they essentially will be able to pass just about whatever