Letters to the Editor
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REALLY fight global warning
If we REALLY want to fight global warming, we will end subsidies for oil companies that our government taxes US to pay THEM. We will end tariffs on on things like Brazilian ethanol we could be profitably importing, instead of paying four dollars a gallon for milk like we do to pay for all that corn that is going to make ethanol that gets a tax credit that we the consumers pay for. You want to strike a REAL blow against global warming? Elect Dr. Ron Paul as your next president. He will bring our troops home from 135 nations around the world. How much oil will that alone save? He will help rid us of tariffs and unfair trade agreements that benefit only our trading partners and never ourselves. Dr. Paul represents Hope for America! Get registered NOW to vote, and help us save the world!
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No Points for Doing the Right Thing
While Mike Huckabee's outlook on the environment is certainly admirable, and from a strictly Christian perspective it is dead-on (which does make most of his Republican running mates look like chumps), saying the right words, regardless of the motivation, and even doing the right thing ought not get anyone a gold star, and certainly not this guy, who on other issues goes totally wrong because of his professed Christian beliefs.
No, I don't care that he considers himself a Christian. Most of our Presidents have at least been professing Christians, even though many of them wound up betraying the best we might expect from Christian motivation. So would Huckabee. We've been reeled in by a "regular guy" before, and I'm not buying Huckabee based on this one coincidental -- if it is even sincere -- attitude, when his being a Christian seems to have been, alternately, a perversion and an arrangement of convenience.
If Huckabee is really the earth-loving guy he claims to be, let him work in the trenches with the rest of us. It's great, but it's not nearly enough cause to put him in the White House.
As an aside, his story about the standoff with the Philistines in the Great Outdoors doesn't ring true. It may be, but the way he relates it comes off hollow and self-serving.
Nope, if he really wants to help save the planet, for reasons spiritual, practical or otherwise, the line forms over there. And it doesn't necessarily lead to the Oval Office. In fact, in this case, God forbid.
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Let's have it both ways -- then everyone wins!
- The Huckster isn't convinced humans are responsible for global warming but he thinks we can address the global warming problem by following his energy policies.
- Huckster isn't opposed to improving fuel efficiency standards, but is worried that changes will hurt the economy
- How would you encourage energy companies to shift to renewables: incentives or legal caps? Huckster: "Both". Are voluntary emmissions controls enough, or should the government impose limits? Huckster: "Both"
- Coal and nuclear sources are ok as long as they are clean and don't hurt the environment, but drilling in ANWR is not an environmental concern.
-Jason
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Our next president?
This guy can get the fundamentalist wing of the Republican party behind him, unlike Giuliani or Romney.
The Democrats seem poised to pick Clinton, the candidate who will bring Republicans to the polls in record numbers. And Democrats have been demonstrating for years that trying to beat the Republicans with Republican Lite is a recipe for failure.
Nothing I do or say will have any effect on who is elected. Including my vote. I am just guessing, but this guy is the only one I see so far who could go all the way.
O God, please save us from your followers.
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A Simple Question
Did Huckabee consider it his biblical duty to see to it that convicted rapist Wayne DuMond was paroled?
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Huckabee's energy policy =Tax on fuel?
He says: "The key is to create the kind of unbridled marketplace that turns innovators loose to find the solutions."
A huge tax on energy, particularly gasoline would create lots of incentives for innovation. The Europeans have been paying high prices for fuel for a long time. In England, 80% of the price of a liter (yep, they count it in liters) is tax.
Because right now, I don't see a bridled marketplace that inhibits innovators (or chains on the innovators in need of loosening).
And when I look at nature disappearing in the US, most of it is going for housing and support (ie the stores that the supply the families in the houses). American is growing and 80% of that growth is due to immigration. So, if you want to preserve open space and the environment, you need to restrict immigration.
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What being would want to take the credit for man?
If God wanted man to do anything differently at all he would not have given man a DNA that is so full of greed and violence.
Personally I can't see how any god or supreme being would want to take any cedit whatsoever for creating the likes of mankind!
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Mullah With A Red Neck
Huckabee is just one more Southern-Fried God-Huckster who demonstrates an abysmal lack of candor: he wants a theocracy in this country...as long as the theocrats who are in-charge are BornAgains!
Those who claim to have spoken to God, or worse, to have been spoken TO by God, are the scariest; Mike Huckabee should scare anyone who believes in a true separation of Church and State.
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I heart huckabee...not
yeah, I like him...and who couldn't. He's a professional "like-me" guy. I'm not surprised when a used car salesman who wants me to buy his latest sweetheard deal is being nice to me...or the religious leader who wants me to join his congregation is nice to me...and then there's Huckabee.
I know it's considered bigotted but the fact that he's a baptist minister, like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and I guess Mitt Romney (in the sense he's an elder in his club) bring me a lot of cause for apprehension.
My suggestion for Huckabee is to return to his flocks (which according to statistics on Red States seem like they could use some help from within their churches) and leave the rest of us alone. We don't need the syrupy kind of ignorance...there's enough of the regular kind already.