McCain is a bonehead.
POSTED BY: Fremdfirma
UPDATED: Saturday, August 16, 2008 22:05
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Quote:Well, by American standards, I'm a liberal, but I think any liberal who votes for Obama (and, perhaps more importantly, any liberal who expects other people to vote for Obama) just because he's black is an idiot of the highest degree. Same goes for anybody who doesn't vote for him just because he's black. Fortunately, affirmative action and feelings of guilt didn't earn him the nomination, and hopefully, if he gets elected, won't have made him president.
Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
(Also, I will NOT vote for someone just because the liberals believe it will soothe their misplaced guilt and "lift" another people. Its never worked before now, and it never WILL work. I have no desire to give away the highest office in the country based on misguided feelings or "reperations".)
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Also, why is McCain focusing on nuke energy?
Solar power and wind power are cheaper and less polluting.
I can't wait for the days of electric cars....
http://www.teslamotors.com/
http://www.electriconwheels.com/
I might vote for Ron Paul, even if he can't win. Just to give him the boost in publicity so that he can be an actual contender in the next running. (Provided, of course, that the mainstream media stop pushing their agendas and let him be seen. But, at that point, pigs would be flying all over the place. What would you call bacon from a flying pig? Winged ham? Anywho, I digress...)
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Quote:Sadly, I'm just a prisoner of the "Who will f**k up us & the world less" voting mentality....so, Obama it is.
Originally posted by Khyron:
I think any liberal who votes for Obama (and, perhaps more importantly, any liberal who expects other people to vote for Obama) just because he's black is an idiot of the highest degree. Same goes for anybody who doesn't vote for him just because he's black.
isall
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
McCain's not the greatest campaigner in the world, that's a fact. I thought his speech at the biker rally in Sturgis, SD was beyond pandering and ridiculousness, it was just plain pathetic and embarrassing. But I don't vote for a President based on how he gives speeches; I vote based on a person's track record of service to his country. Obama has been quite loyal to the Chicago radicals that put him in office in Illinois, and beyond that there is nothing else to him but fluff and blind faith.
I take it that you voted for Kerry in 2004, then? I mean, if you really vote based on a person't track record of service to his country, that is... Since Kerry actually served his country and went to Vietnam, and Bush hid and deserted his post.
Mike
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
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I can't wait for the days of electric cars....
http://www.teslamotors.com/
Ummm... You DO realize that electric cars are powered by batteries, right? What are you planning to do with all those batteries when they're dead? They're toxic waste, right up there with fluorescent lightbulbs - only much, much larger.
Mike
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock
The Myrmidons were an ancient nation of very brave and skilled warriors as described in Homer's Iliad, and were commanded by Achilles. - Wikipedia
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No, they arnt. They are lithium ion batteries. No chemical waste. You can even recycle them.
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Cites please.
Eyewitness account - I was standing in the crowd, trying not to laugh.
Valid press credentials for a small independant paper can prettymuch get you into any political speech, and it's practically spitting distance from here.
I just wanted to see if he had any real "presence" personally, cause creep that he is, even shrub has a little bit of goofy good ole boy charm in person, but McCain ain't got nothin but the reek of rich old fart, pun intended.
-F
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Quote:Battery technology has come a long long way since lead-acid and NiCd. As far as metals go, nickel is relatively harmless (relative to lead and cadmium). NiMH (nickel metal hydride) batteries are a better choice, and lithium ion better still. But the lithium technology still has a ways to go. (Remember the laptop batteries that would burn people's laps, and the exploding phone batteries?)
Ummm... You DO realize that electric cars are powered by batteries, right? What are you planning to do with all those batteries when they're dead? They're toxic waste, right up there with fluorescent lightbulbs - only much, much larger.
Personally I think the best way to go is a battery-powered electric-motor car with a range of about 50 miles (since that is about the maximum most people drive to and fomr work each day), brake-recapture, and an on-board natural gas or even H2 generator. I think the hybrid concept (basically dual power trains) was unnecessarily complicated. Electric motors have HUGE torque and accelerate like the bejeezus.
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Originally posted by Geezer:
Fremd is quoting editorial content, not news, and adding his own comment to it. I'd like to see him back up is assertion.
Hate to say it, but I agree with Geez on this one. The article was more of an opinion piece.
Quote:Since there have been no new reactors built in the last twenty or thirty years, I hardly think the technology has "progressed" much since then. I suspect a modern attempt at a covered wagon would be not as good as the originals in many ways.
Originally posted by Hero:
Fermi was a partial meltdown in 1966. That's what we in America like to call OVER FORTY YEARS AGO.
McCain's speech supported modern nuclear power plants built with 21st Century technology. Perhaps using that location allowed McCain to draw that distinction and it was certainly relevant.
Quote:Unless I'm mistaken, hasn't the actual reactor that had the problem been inactive ever since the accident? I think they've only been running the other reactors in the last thirty years.
Originally posted by Hero:
I'd suggest he give a similar speech at Three Mile Island. That plant was built in 1968, suffered a horrible accident in 1979 and has been safely generating vitally needed electricity for Central PA since 1985.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Radioactive hershey bar, anyone?
I grew up in Mechanicburg and you could see the steam from my house on a clear day...that was in the '80s.
I note for the record that Hershey was in the other direction (upwind). Real close to Harrisburg International Airport.
H
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