Drew Dowdell

What about it is extreme?

Personally, if you're truly in the sport of hunting for the sport, then you'll use a bow and arrow because that actually takes skill..... but that just me.

Had he picked Christi Todd Whitmann, I might have been more divided about my vote. With Palin on the ticket, there's just no way.

The 3.8 powered Cieras were crazy fast for what they were.

I have it and have a great time with it.... especially with the computer hooked up to the surround sound.

I'm talking about federal funding not federal control. The Federal government should set aside funding for each state to develop green energy that is most appropriate for the particular region. Florida is bad for wind but great for solar. Illinois is bad for solar but great for wind.

Fixed, but mostly right.

I'm not familiar with the technology. Let me look it up and get back to you. I might be in favor of government support of the technology if the technology was made open for multiple companies to produce it..... but that just an off the cuff answer with no background research done.

Nukes suffer from NIMBY but they don't really need any federal funding. Wind and solar are still need some funding to help with efficiency <less so with wind, but still>.

1. I'm very much in favor of an increase in capital punishment especially in cases where DNA evidence removes any reasonable doubt. As an added bonus, I believe the executions should take place on Pay Per View. Capital punishment loses it's effectiveness as a deterrent if you only hear about it when the guy on the evening news reads it to you. 2. I don't believe that at all..... I just wish the redneck and bible thumpers didn't have so much control over the Republican party. I am a fiscally prudent, socially liberaterian, and internationally isolationist. That's what the Republican party USED to stand for. 3. Not that I think Jimmy Carter was a great president, but he was right about at least one thing. We should have started switching away from oil as a transportation fuel source 35 years ago. Had we done that, we would have avoided both Iraq wars, we would have avoided war in Afghanistan, we would not be having a fuel crisis right now, and none of us would know who Osama Bin Laden is. Osama got pissed because he felt we disrespected Saudi Arabia while we where there in '92. In Iraq this time around we attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9-11. Talking with Iran is ALREADY producing results. We aren't getting along with Russia right now... what are we going to do... invade them too!? 4. I'm in favor of personal ownership of SOME firearms. I do not believe, however, that one needs to own assault rifles or fully automatic weapons. Handguns for self defense and guns for hunting are fine. If you're going to maintain that we should be able to keep weapons in case we need to overthrow our government, then we need to start building centrifuges in our basement for refining uranium.

Many states and localities are already doing that. There is a "green energy development" charge added to many utility customer's bills. Only problem is that it's NOT national so you have a patchwork of inefficient programs that don't achieve the benefits of economy of scale. There are some things, like education and healthcare, that are better handled on the local level. Things like energy, transportation, and defense are best handled on the national level.

There is a difference between long term, permanent subsidies and start up funding for a new technology/business.

The only thing that will change with a McCain administration is the stationary.

I think it's best to keep it all in one thread and not spread it around. Opening new threads encourages the topic to spill over into unrelated threads.

not even close. There was an initial burst with NAFTA (we're hearing the giant sucking sound now) and then Greenspan keeping interest rates dangerously low. Congress had nothing to do with it.

Exactly like that. Although I'm probably more in favor of trade restrictions than most here. I don't believe in massive globalization.

The ecotec is untested?

I never showed you that pic!!

I don't think McCain will shut down Guantanimo. I don't think McCain, a torture victim himself, will shut down our torturing. I don't think McCain will end domestic spying. I don't think McCain will keep us out of foreign wars. I don't think McCain will withdraw us from Iraq. I think McCain believes in Horse and Sparrow economics* far too much. My protest against these things will be in the voting booth in November. *Did you know that the concept of Supply Side tax policy is so bad that they've had to rename it more than once? The original name was Horse and Sparrow theory. The idea being that if you fed a horse enough oats, eventually there would be some left over on the street for a sparrow to eat. It was later named Trickle Down theory in the 1930s and then Supply Side in the 1980s. I think the original name of Horse and Sparrow theory most acurately described supply side theory. The government feeds the rich a whole bunch of money and eventually us below get to pick through &#036;h&#33; in order to eat.

Not this time. And tax breaks for the wealthy are ridiculous at this point. Even Warren Buffet has wondered allowed why he only pays 17% while his employees pay closer to 30%.

Yes, however any company that receives the help should be required to manufacture a certain percentage of their vehicles in the U.S.

I've seen you post ridiculously wrong things before, but this one takes the cake. The most patriotic thing a citizen can do is stand up in protest when your country is doing something wrong! Since when are we a country that tortures? We're better than that! Since when are we a country that uses the government to take from the poor and give to the rich <Bear Sterns, Freddi Mac, Fanny Mae bailouts>? We've privatized the profits while socializing the losses! Since when do we lock people away without charge or trial for an indefinite period of time? We have our own gulag in Guantanimo bay. Don't kid yourself, it is now possible for this to happen to American citizens. We have a president that makes Carter look capable, Ford look competent, and Nixon look honest. When this country has gone so wrong, the required thing, the most patriotic thing, you should do is work to change it.

Support John McCain all you want but don't do so on premises that are so easily proven to be false. If you like Bush and support John McCain because he is similar, just say so. About the only thing that will change in a McCain administration is the stationary.

It's the symptom rather than the cause.

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