We're gunna need an IM Political Board!
"While your candidate has had a history of wanting to surrender in the war in Iraq which we almost have completely won now"
...okay, not Surrender,... bring to a "responsible end." You can't fight those people. I would be willing to bet a whole lot that even if democracy succeeded in Iraq, it would soon be overthrown by all those crazy American haters (which most of them are) and a regime of terror will be back in place again, probably worse than before. What are we going to do..sit there and babysit those uncivilized bastards? Sorry for the harsh words, but seriously.... they're out of their right minds for religion.
My use of war in the plural was incorrect on my part, because I think the war in Afghanistan was perfectly justifiable... but that needs to be completed in a timely fashion also. We need to concentrate on Afghanistan, and finish the job there. Even there though, we're never going to have a perfect democracy in Afghanistan. the rebels over there have no borders.
With renewable energy, the government must promote change in energy policies somehow. Without, people will NEVER move away from dirty sources. People don't care about things until they are directly effected by them. Right now the only thing we can think about is the money we spend on our energy....and that's all people will be concerned about until they are directly effected by health issues or major climate issues that start popping up that are determined to be directly related to / caused by our nonchalant continual use of dirty energy for years and years. Even then, some people won't believe it. Everyone says "cheap, cheap, cheap... but what about the Future future future. No one cares to realllly sit down and think about it, and come up with solutions. There are ways of solving these problems... Its just that not many in the United States want to put the time and money into it because the US as a whole doesn't know what its like to have to strive for resources to survive - yet. Look at Europe, and how efficiently they run their societies. They know much better than we do with their extremely long histories of resource depletion and their need to find alternative sources. Denmark, the leader in European wind energy, is aiming to have 50% of its nation's power by wind by 2025.
My Dad and I are building a horse barn which is hopefully going to be self sufficient on its own wind energy with a windmill on the farm. (NO Electric bill....Upfront cost... about like buying a new car.) non-windy days? No problem... Storage battery! ,,, For so long, I know, but still, it works out. Any extra energy we produce with the turbine that isn't consumed by the barn the power company must buy from us.
"Wind, they are ugly"
I think they're awesome looking personally... just for what they are. Thinking about the fact that they're totally "green" and the way of the future in terms of responsible power source makes them just beautiful. I remember the first time I saw a wind turbine... It was in Portugal, and I couldn't get over how impressive and PROGRESSIVE they looked sitting on the hilltop above the town we stayed in. ...errhm...back to Europeans.
http://www.windenergyworks.org/WEWBasic ... fault.aspx
just look at our car companies going out of business because they were so near-sighted to think that the US would always have abundant, cheap fuel! Gas guzzlers. No one wants them anymore. Who came out on top? Japan. Japan (toyota) has been capitalizing on American's wonderful ability to see the future energy crisis for how many years now?? My own family owns 2 Priuses!
You guys call for cheap energy, but you fight for things that will only provoke bigger energy problems in the future! We NEED to start looking at ourselves, and instead of asking, "How can we get alllll this energy cheaper?" we MUST ask, "how can we simply USE LESS energy?" Toyota did it. Look where they stand today.
waste not, want not.
In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson was labeled a radical, a socialist, and a wildcard.
...he ending up winning the election, and winning again in 1804 by a landslide. (162-14, electorally)
Does anyone here doubt Thomas Jefferson today?
I found this after i wrote all that:
http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/ewea_docu ... _72dpi.pdf
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