Letters to the Editor
NotOrbitBoy
Published Letters: 499 Editor's Choice: 5
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HP - you make a great straight man
[Read the article: McCain: "We will take public financing"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Your past posts are a mashed up mess of Rush / Bill-O / Hannity talking points."
I provided a link to the NY Times.
"He qualified his answer to that question..."
Really? Like a typical politician?...Like I said, so much for change.
"You better start looking for the "whitey" tape again..."
It's not needed. obama's broken pledge will suffice, if it is followed by more political posturing. At that point the "change" image will have faded, as will obama's support.
"McCain's decision to flip-flop and lie about the town hall format / wait for Obama to declare to opt-out and then do the opposite when informed on the street was cyncial or cowardly..."
Ah, McCain the coward. Please encourage your salonista brethren to make heavy use of that insult. Nothing could help more.
"You may want to look at how wrong you have been on a number of issues and support for candiates and ask: "do I have good judgement?".
Fair question. Let's see, in 1992 bill clinton said he'd cut my taxes. I didn't trust him. After he was elected, he raised taxes, retroactively.
My judgement was correct.
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So you agree
[Read the article: McCain: "We will take public financing"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]HP - From your last post it appears that you agree with me; using insults like "coward" are inappropriate.
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The Answer
[Read the article: What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt mean by "bipartisanship"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Vote Nader.
...I told you harry reid was not to be trusted.
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Please Clarify
[Read the article: The 527 monster hiding under Obama's bed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After reading all the letters, I want to make sure I get this straight.
Alex is a liar AND obama is a liar?
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olderman is a Jerk
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]MSNBC Chief Phil Griffin, on keith olberman;
"He turned out to be a jerk and difficult and brutal..."
Phil speaks the truth. A fuller truth would include "pompous".
Vote Nader
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Disregarding Beucratic BS, (usually concocted by democrats), the author states;
[Read the article: Solar power: Just about ready for prime time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"People forget, wind and solar power are here, they work, they can go on your roof tomorrow."
HA!. . . You might eventually get a permit to install your wind turbine or solar cells if they don't offend; bird lovers, neighborhood association, or local zoning board, but it sure isn't gonna happen "tomorrow".
Not in the beuruaecratic, overly litigated society we live in.
The complainers in this world do as much to halt progress as anyone.
"Permitting is a huge barrier.":
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/04/29/20080429windmills0429.html
Wind Turbine Shutdowns - too many dead birds
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20051031/ai_n15761211
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Attitudes like this...
[Read the article: Slick John McCain and the offshore oil ruse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Attitudes like this are exactly why "government is the solution liberals" make poor leaders, especially when innovation is required.
"If $4 gasoline is enough incentive to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling, then $10-a-gallon gasoline will inspire even more drastic consequences. We will drill for every drop of oil, we will dig up every ounce of coal, we will sacrifice every environmental regulation, because we just can't take the heat. And then we'll fry."
No, we won't fry. Good attempt at fear mongering though.
If you look at all of the acitivity regarding alternative energy, you will see that it is ramping up. As oil because more expensive, alternatives become feasible. Examples; biodiesel from algae, ethanol from bacteria, plug-in hybrids, hydrogen, wind, and solar.
Free markets, creative people, will give us the answers. Government will only get in the way.
Like when the goverment decided to push corn based ethanol on us, an inefficient solution (popular w/ special interest groups) and one that made food more expensive. The poorest of the poor are subsidizing this stupid decision.
Or when governments made it impractical and denied applications for new nuclear power plants.
The author suggests;
"They'd prefer to blame environmental activists, present-day descendants of the rabid left-wing commies who exploited the Santa Barbara spill..."
If you look at what we did with nuclear power in the 70s and 80s, I think it is clear that environmentalists are to blame for the decline of the nuclear power industry in the US, which led to more burning of fossil fuels, acid rain, and according to the current environmentalists, global warming.
Governments do not have a strong track record of creating technological road maps.
That is the domain of free markets and entrepreneurs.
...over-taxing and over-regulating them will hamper their efforts.