| NJ5 said: No matter whether man made global warming is true or not, the proposed solutions to deal with that problem are what we NEED to do for many other reasons... such as improving people's health, becoming less dependent on oil and coal... Bottom line, let the scientists argue global warming, but decrease pollution and oil/coal use at the same time. It's the safest thing to do. |
I really don't see how you can argue with this. Are you guys really in support of all the money we funnel to Iran and other states that sponsor terrorism? Are you guys really in favor of the dangerous cost of oil-cost of the dollar balance which could help cause the U.S. dollar to collapse? Do you guys really think our current energy policy is sustainable, diplomatically, militarily, and economically? Do you guys really think investing in new energy technologies, including nuclear energy, at an accelerated pace is a bad thing?
I don't understand how you guys can justify spending trillions and trillions of dollars on the military ($5 trillion since 2002) but balk at the idea of doing something that would weaken many of our enemies by taking money directly out of their hands simply because it will cost people $100 more a year. How is that money not well spent? Isn't that the role of the national government, to provide for the people's defenses in the most effective way possible? This would be much more effective on states like Iran than typical economic sanctions as it would dry up their only source of revenue.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
