Comments on: The “Shell Game”

By: James (San Deigo)

James (San Deigo) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:18:47 +0000

He is running for office, HRC and JSMc have also been AWOL.
yttik, Did the Tenn G. Women get a little too rough for you? Glad to see you running your true colors here; figured you for a fan of McNasty. See you soon at the other site; be ready-you got some ’splaining to do.

By: Johnny at Work

Johnny at Work — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:52:33 +0000

They were also there for the beer and pretzels. God bless um!

By: mr. natural

mr. natural — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:50:27 +0000

Obama’s marketing has become a parody.

Even his PLO pal, Rashid Khalidi, could have told him this was a bad idea.

By: Johnny at Work

Johnny at Work — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:47:02 +0000

Republicans are also hoping Ibama picks Biden. The man is a walking gaff machine.

He never comes off well in public with his pontificating. There is a plethora of C-Span footage of Biden bloviating ad nauseum. He really does like to hear himself speak. It’s a running joke in the Senate.

By: Johnny at Work

Johnny at Work — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:41:23 +0000

They also drill horizontally. Google “diagonal oil drilling” and educate yourself.

By: Johnny at Work

Johnny at Work — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:38:05 +0000

Huh????

The oil indistry uses diagonal drilling ALL THE TIME.

It allows them to reduce risk, reduce environmental impact, and save $$$$ by elimiating multiple platforms.

You don’t really know what you are talking about, do you?

By: Johnny at Work

Johnny at Work — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:34:05 +0000

They have explored it. There is a very low probability of oil there.

They want to explore new offshore areas because of the high probability, and known areas of oil.

It hardly makes sense to drill where there is no oil. Yet the knuckleheads keep insisting on exactly that.

By: elise

elise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:21:53 +0000

Do you find it peculiar we still have a lease on Guantanamo Bay? That was an agreement made with Batista and after the revolution the US demanded the lease be honored. JFK and his brother, Bobby were responsible for not providing air cover for the invasion on the Bay of Pigs, but the plan was put in place by the Eisenhower administration,but Giancana and the mafia in the US had reason to be angry with him also. They helped organize the unions for the election and a few months later, Bobby Kennedy as AG began hearings on La Cosa Nostra and the unions. I’d like to point out that it was JFK’s father, Joseph, who had the dealings with Richard Daley and the mob.

By: Johnny at Work

Johnny at Work — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:19:35 +0000

Ah, when the real news does not support you, just make it up.

It was Ibamas decision not to visit the troops. Straight from the I-man himself.

The Military must and does give deference to elected officials. We are a republican democracy after all, not a military dictatorship.

I am an ex-Marine, and I can tell you that the Military bows to Congress. They may not agree with them, but they always give them deference.

But, while they give deference to Congress, there is only one Commander in Chief.

Since when has an member of Congress ever been denied a visit to a military installation while on the campaign trail? They visit facilites all the time for photo ops.

Neither you nor your idiot candidate knoe what the hell you are talking about.

By: Johnny at Work

Johnny at Work — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:09:24 +0000

Interesting. You want McCain Democrats to allow your disagreement, while you trash us for disagreeing with you. “There’s another name for Dems who support McCain as far as I’m concerned”.

Typical tantrum throwing troll.

By: elise

elise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:00:44 +0000

I agree with most of your points, Hope , and it is a fact we have put ourselves in this position by financing the war in Iraq with borrowed money from China. And as you pointed out, we have exported jobs and imported cheaper Chinese products for over thirty years. I just find it a little curious the imports have been relatively problem free until the Bush administration relaxed the inspections as he has with coal mining and other industries in this country. We have to make a decision about international trade. Products made in this country will be more expensive. There will be more jobs, but will the salaries of workers equal the increased prices. I’m not taking a position on free trade, those are just facts. If we close the borders to Mexico to migrant workers we will pay higher prices for produce, construction and service jobs. I believe this has become a political football and it could hurt our economy if the politicians continue to use it as a wedge issue instead of coming up with a solution that works.

By: elise

elise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:41:08 +0000

Wind is far from the only option. Cold fusion is being researched in France. It is feasible and leaves no radioactive residual. They have a problem with the conduit through the tubes and it could take a few years to solve but nothing will be resloved until people understand and accept the fact we are using up a non-renewable and limited resourse. There is hydroelectric, solar, some scientist are working on supercapacitors that reduce the space between the foil lining by using nanotubes. It’s theoretically possible to create one the size of a small trash can that could give a car battery a charge that would last for a thousand miles. Oil is used for so many things other than gasoline. It a lot is used in the production of plastic products, they are cheaper to make that paper, which is a renewable resourse, can be recycled and doesn’t damage the enviroment.

By: elise

elise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:23:15 +0000

If the lie is big enough and told often enough. people will believe. I think that is a quote from Hermann Goering

By: elise

elise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:16:12 +0000

Don’t be insulting. This is an entirely new experience for me to be called a communist. I am not defending their ideology and I am not stupid or uninformed and I have not been asleep. What I am trying to point out is the aggressive behavior of our country as opposed to China and Cuba. We are not even morally justified in condemning another form of government and not just due to Iraq and Vietnam. If you want to talk about abuses of human rights, I will agree with you those countries have a very poor record, but at the risk of being misunderstood again, I will say our history is one of aggression. Toward the Native Americans, the Philippines, Mexico and Iraq are just a few examples. There are many events in our history we have reason to be ashamed of including the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and several attempts on the life of Castro. We have become the bullies in the world due to the enormous power our government has. We involve ourselves in the elections of other countries, especially Latin America, yet our elections have been flawed for years. My view is simply different from yours. The threat of communism was used in much the same way Bush has used the threat of terrorists. People built bomb shelters in the 50s for crying out loud and their was a balance of power then. The Soviet Union could have been afraid of us. Have you ever even considered that idea. We are the only country in the world to have used atomic bombs and Gen, Macarthur wanted to go on and nuke China while we had a chance. That and his big mouth was one reason Truman fired him. I still hear people say that about other countries without concern for the consequences to millions of innocent people and possible destruction of entire cultures. I ask you again, why you consider the communists a threat to us? Do you think it impossible to co exist with different forms of governments in other countries and if you don’t, what do you propose we do about it? Bring Democracy to the world? By force? No. Theory does not equal application and every revolution in history has betrayed it’s cause including ours unless you are in agreement with the way the constitution has been ignored. We are the biggest threat to our freedom. We are losing our free press and our Civil Liberties because we have taken for granted that it can’t happen here. We must remove the mote from our own eyes before we pluck it from someone else. If we don’t see clearly the reality, we have no chance to live up to it’s promise. I will not be distracted that easily. We have a huge military and fifty percent of every tax dollar we pay goes to the defense budget. Bush even convinced people Saddam Hussien was a threat. If we stayed within the charter of the UN, we would not be there now. The “neo cons” want to do away with that international organization because we can’t completely control it (although the veto in the security council has often effectively silenced dissent).China has done the same in Tibet and the Chinese people are not allowed to protest their oppressive government and Castro has done the same, but as Hope pointed out, we refuse to trade with Cuba not with China. The policies toward Cuba for years has been dictated by a relatively few immigrants and the consequences of their actions, those in their own country have suffered. How can that possibly make sense to anyone?

By: elise

elise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:06:42 +0000

Zeke, I also was old enough to more or less understand the Cuban Missile Crisis, but that was a generation ago. Cuba is a small island. US policy toward this entire thing is incomprehensible. I also understand from reading, the Batista government was corrupt and brutal. He took money from the American mobsters who owned all the casinos in Havana. That’s what caused the revolution to begin with and the Cuban people have paid the price all these years.