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Reply to Nope-Still Can't Vote For Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]If you'll check, I think you'll find it was not Republicans, but Democrats in states such as Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and California who demanded same-sex civil unions which grant the same legal benefits as civil marriage.[/quote] Yes it was but what i was referring to are the states that have suggested or initiated attempts to rewrite their own states constitutions so that they may say same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Mass, Vt, and Ca. simply passed laws which

Reply to Nope-Still Can't Vote For Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]If McCain is to win, he's got to get the Christian vote and McCain seems to understand that because he's already met with Catholic leaders in an effort to cadge their support.[/quote] He needs more than just the "christian" vote not to mention many...maybe most christians do not base their vote on the abortion issue alone...if at all. Civil marriage and religious marriage are two very different things. I respect your opinion about marriage as a whole but why is it that t

Reply to Running out of oil in The Environment JoeUser Forums

You obviously were not looking at my graphs, Since i never created nor used graphs to investigate the statistics involved with glacial melting. Normal life of glaciers? What is normal and what isn't. There is no normalized life of glaciers. Glaciers have come and gone over millions or billions or maybe gazillions of years for various reasons.

Reply to Democrats Show Their Love for Taxes in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]I think most people would agree salaries (and the minimum wage would not have to go up if people could pay 35% less on everything they buy from cars to carrots. The problem is that doesn’t get as many votes as a promise to have you earn more.[/quote] Unfortunately business taxes do not in any way correlate directly the price of goods. If you drop business taxes from 35% to Zero the consumer price of finished goods does not go down 35%. Taxes are on profits not the total cost of p

Reply to Democrats Show Their Love for Taxes in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Whether you like the oil industry or not, this is just plain ridiculous and nothing more than income redistribution.[/quote] Your right, tax policy is income redistribution, But income distribution goes both ways and both extremes have arguable dire consequences. So you have to decide how far it can go in either direction before the consequences are detrimental or dire to the nations public as a whole. No the WPT will not solve the energy issue. It is just as much a gimmick as a

Reply to The Choice is a No Brainer in Republican JoeUser Forums

[quote]WOW! Hillary Clinton, AL Gore and Dan Rather are GOP? I would have never guessed.[/quote] I never inferred that Dems don't propogate smear campaigns, but even the GOP strategists will admit that their party has been the frontrunner of smear for quite a while now.

Reply to Wow, you people are sure fired up about Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

Are you as an individual the vast majority? Or just one of many in here. In any case simply take a look at the posts. There is much more repeated spin in the posts and responses than actual discussion on political and economic issues. [quote]Let me also say that while the general population is ignorant of economic issues, that is not true as a general rule of the JUsers. Some are, I am sure. many are not.[/quote] I in no way inferred a public ignorance to economic issu

Reply to Democrats Show Their Love for Taxes in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]That is the only part of your response I agree with. He probably will.[/quote] what? You don't believe that the democrats will raise taxes or if you wish to have access to good schools, decent roads, clean air to breathe, clean beaches to swim at, decent health care, etc. somebody has to pay for it? I mean those are obvious.

Reply to why we MUST stay in Iraq in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

That is because Shale is not the same as crude oil, is more expensive to refine, and does not contain the same distillates as crude oil. It is extremely difficult to estimate shale in terms of reserves since the concentration of extractable oils from it varies widely. You can't use seismic data from 3 decades ago to estimate oil reserves. Recoverable oil reserves is an estimate that uses current economics conditions to calculate. The importance of Iraq's reserves lie in the cost and

Reply to The Choice is a No Brainer in Republican JoeUser Forums

One has to face the facts. The GOP has mastered the art of smear campaigning. The had to for good reason. If the sheep really thought about that it would be more devastating to the party then the past 6 years.

Reply to Running out of oil in The Environment JoeUser Forums

Fossil fuels is not a misnomer. Education....sure you want to know? BS Marine Transportation-U.S.C.G. Licensed Master-Unlimited Tonnage BS Marine Engineering-U.S.C.G Licensed 3rd Assistant Engineer Steam/Motor Unlimited HP BS Petroleum Engineering Certified Professional Engineer I could list a whole lot more certifications that I have received over the years but i think you may now understand that I am in fact well educated.

Reply to Wow, you people are sure fired up about Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

You can go over to the Huffington Press and get a nice left leaning blogsite. As an Independent I visit sites leaning both ways as well as sites with views from 3rd party bloggers. People really need to grasp the plusses and minuses of all views. There are definately reasons for certain people to go the party line but I think the fact that both parties are taking sides on certain issues simply to pull in blocs of voters means that the best solutions truly are bipartisan compromises. Probably a l

Reply to Nope-Still Can't Vote For Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

Whe[quote]Actually, that would be the democrats. They brought up these issues. Now that the primaries are over with, the republicans have just started asking the same questions.[/quote] Its actually mostly the bloggers and zealots on talk radio and spin tv that bring in the smear. These people aren't democrats or republicans...they are sheep.

Reply to Democrats Show Their Love for Taxes in Politics Stardock Forums

If you lower business taxes it wont bring back or keep jobs in the U.S. The cost of raw materials and transportation will dictate where manufacturing jobs go. Technology centric jobs will go where the best educated people reside. Agriculture jobs dont move very far from the farmland. Yes the Democrats will raise taxes, but nothing comes for free. Unless you are amongst the wealthiest you have and will further suffer as the national debt gets larger and the value of the dollar sinks fur

Reply to Running out of oil in The Environment JoeUser Forums

You must be looking at graphs that are published by partisan political zealots. Are not 90% of the earths glaciers melting and melting at an increasing rate? Go find a non partisan graph please. Ive seen the glaciers in Alaska every year for the past 20 years. Its extremely ironic that my entire career has revolved around the petrochemical industry. I've worked on tankers and in the office of their companies shipping crude, gas and chemicals. I know not only what i have researched pers

Reply to Nope-Still Can't Vote For Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]So, he's limited to what he would get in case of divorce, but you don't think being married to a multi-millionaire grants him access to quite a load of cha-ching pre-divorce? After all, it's called "How to Marry a Millionaire," not "How to Marry THEN DIVORCE a Millionaire."[/quote] If you look back at my original quote I was mostly just joking but also trying to stress that the smear crap is mostly irrelevant because @#$% flows both ways and what actually matters is the issues.<b

Reply to Running out of oil in The Environment JoeUser Forums

You are totally incorrect. All one has to do is look at a few graphs and see how drastically the rate of change of global warming has accelerated. The point at which the rate starts to change drastically corresponds with the beginning of the industrial age, and even more so corresponds with the rate of increase that fossil fuels have been use to drive industrialization. The rate of change in the suns activity is extremely slow othere than the sunspot cycle, however the sunspot cycle is an 11 ye

Reply to Nope-Still Can't Vote For Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

I agree that Fr Pfleger's sermon was totally inappropriate and very devisive but i don't think that he was preaching "white hatred". Racism and racial remarks come in many forms not all of which infer hatred.

Reply to why we MUST stay in Iraq in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Your comments about the National Museum are irrelavant to your question and my answer so ill sum up the objective of the current war in Iraq in 13 words: Control of the worlds 2nd largest source of oil reserves in the world.

Reply to Running out of oil in The Environment JoeUser Forums

Global warming is a result of the greenhouse effect, that is why is use it in my overly sarcastic remarks. You are simply too ignorant to see through your own ignorance on the science of global warming/climate change and what oil consumption has to do with it. We do in fact still have enough capacity to refine our own DOMESTIC oil production. If we are not opening more wells faster then we are depleting old wells (which is the situation) common sense says that is true. I'm talking about

Reply to Overview and analysis of Obama’s policies. in Politics JoeUser Forums

The post is totally unreadable but probably not worthy of reading anyhow. kudos to Geiiga's reply tho.

Reply to Nope-Still Can't Vote For Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

The lies: You posted information saying: That he has never had a productive job: You don't think public service or charity work is productive? Some may deem that public service may be counterproductive but if u think being a senator is such than u need to put McCain in the same category. However Obama has also worked for a law firm, is an author, etc. That he went to a muslim school in Indonesia: Please links some facts on this. I bet u can't. During his child

Reply to Nope-Still Can't Vote For Obama in Politics JoeUser Forums

He got basically a slap on the hand for the Keating Ordeal. Probably didn't do anything wrong. Simply guilt by association which nobody in Washington can escape.

Reply to Obama - "I see dead People" in Politics JoeUser Forums

Please do disagree. I am an Independant who despises both political parties so if there is some angle i'm made aware of that proves there is a better way or different outcome i don't have to spread lies and spin fodder in order to be Politically Incorrect.

Reply to Running out of oil in The Environment JoeUser Forums

The earth is not warming at the same rate as the other planets in the solar system. They are at different distances from the sun and have very different environments. Put a greenhouse in your backyard and grow some tasty veggies or maybe some more of the weed your smoking. In the middle of winter enter it and wonder why the same sun is making it warm and cozy inside there but not outside of it. Then exit the greenhouse and pray that God doesn't send a bunch of tornadoes or a flood your