James P Gengler wrote on July 06, 2008 04:58 PM: I would like to know more about the current shortcomings in our ability to store nuclear waste. I am infuriated by the fact that 85% of American coast line is off limits to American oil companies yet China can come and drill in between us and Cuba and extract from deposits that reach well under US soil. My other hot button is the inability of Federal Government to exercise fiscal responsibility. After 2 Bushes and a Reagan we have impoverished ourselves with trillions of $ of debt.
The Republicans borrow and spend abroad. The Democrats will borrow but spend more focused on domestic programs. neither form of out of control government is attractive to a voter who yearns to return to the Clinton days of surplus budgets

Horacio Cambeiro wrote on July 05, 2008 06:10 PM: That's the future I know we can have. That's the America I believe in. And that's where I will lead us if I have the chance to serve as your President. It will not be easy. It will not happen overnight. It will not come without cost or sacrifice. But it is possible. It is necessary. And places like this, and people like you, prove that we have the resources, and the skills, and the will to begin today. I look forward to joining you in that effort. Thank you.

Horacio Cambeiro.

Edgar Welty wrote on June 28, 2008 04:46 PM: Relief for High Gas Prices

Here are ideas for the immediate, intermediate and indefinite future.

Immediate:
During commuting hours, in many regions of America, streets and freeways are clogged with automobiles transporting one person each. If we can facilitate ride sharing and bring the average ratio of person per car during commutes from 1.1 to 2.2 or 3.3, we can use our existing transportation system more efficiently. Commuters can save gasoline. Employers can save on parking costs. Through the power of the Internet, which the Obama Campaign is known to understand, a nation–wide effort to regionally coordinate car-pooling can be started immediately.

Intermediate:
Detailed data of who commutes where and when will aid planning for and the promotion of mass transit. Somewhat immediate relief of pump price pressure could come from more effective use of existing mass transit. Another somewhat- intermediate time frame approach to relieve pressure on gas prices would be a crash program to insulate homes. Saved heating fuel could be refined as gasoline.

Indefinite:
There are many approaches for the long term. The American public can and will buy automobiles which get many miles per gallon. However, how long it will take to replace America’s fleet of private vehicles is unknown. Oil companies, which use resources to drill for domestic oil in fields already available for their use, could be exempted from a windfall profits tax. New fuels, particularly since we have seen drawbacks to the use of corn (i.e. effects on food costs), hold promise but will take time. The same holds true for electric cars. Also, over time, we can reconstruct our urban areas so that more people live closer to work. Finally alternative energy can be developed and expanded.

Dave wrote on June 27, 2008 12:00 PM: Travis,

After 10 years overseas in the Army, I've seen the results of socialism, seen the results of leaders long on promises and short on results, a visit to the concentration camp in Germany has really made me careful as to who I'll follow.

Millions followed Hitler as he promised and promised. If his country men would have just looked at where he came from, who he associated with (maybe read his book).

The first gulf war introduced me to islam. Yes, there are good muslim people, but by and large they would prefer us dead. The "great satin - death to all infidels" is preached daily. To them first comes Saturday (kill the jews) then comes Sunday (kill the christians). If they could there would be another 9/11 today, tomorrow, and everyday after.

Obama's dad was muslim, his mother re-married a muslim, his entire family (minus his mother and grandmother), are muslim. He went to an islamic grade school which had to be influental.
Catholics say if we have them until their 9 we have them for life.

Obama's support of his cousin Raila Odinga in Kenya who wishes to re-write the constitution of Kenya to adopt Shariah law and have mandatory madrassas in all primary schools shows his support for islam.

Imagine the kenyan's women becomming subordinate to their male counterparts.

This is heavy.

McCain has issues, but this guy turned down freedom as a POW to uphold a principle. Vets tell me Nam was thick. He put his country's interest a head of his own freedom.

If it gets ugly I want someone like him in the headshed.

Is there anything Obama has done?
Did he serve?
Who does he follow?
Who does he support?
Does he support those who paid in full for his freedom?

Ronald wrote on June 26, 2008 12:41 PM: Such hard hitting journalism. You and the "minute rice" wouldn't know a good energy policy if it slapped you. Keep on smokin' those CFLs Algore is handin'out. Minute rice won't be quite as charmin'in about 4 years after he has called every white MAN, newspaper journalist and radio commentator a racist.

Jeff in Orlando wrote on June 26, 2008 06:03 AM: McCain has guts; he goes to Iowa, a corn state, and tells the people corn ethanol isn't a good energy source. He wants to eliminate the domestic ethanol subsidy that we pay billions for, and wants the tariff on imported ethanol dropped. Dr. No (Obama) wants to keep the tariff and the subsidy. What could be good for ordinary Americans is bad for Obama (Illinois produces 4 billion worth of corn) and a lot of well connected politicians in both parties. I applaud Obama's stand on renewables and alternative energy, but where are they? If there are solutions that are available to us in the short term, we need to use them.

What the Bible Says about Abortion wrote on June 25, 2008 08:21 PM: "Neither the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) nor the Christian Scriptures appear to address abortion directly. However, writings in the early Christian movement by the end of the 1st century or the beginning of the 2nd century CE do condemn abortion.

"Hebrew Scriptures: Exodus 21:22 is a key passage. As translated in the New International Version, this verse implies that the fetus is a human person. However, the most common interpretation of this same verse, as seen in other translations, implies that the fetus is not a human being. Other passages in the Hebrew Scriptures tend to devalue the fetus.

"Christian Scriptures: Luke 1:41 might be interpreted to condemn abortions after fetal viability.

"The Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (Old and New Testament) use the same word to refer to an unborn fetus, newborn or older child. This is a limitation of the Hebrew and Greek languages. It might be interpreted as implying that: both ancient Hebrews and Pagan Greeks considered that the fetus is fully human, equivalent to a newborn child. They simply called both children and potential children by the same term, much as modern-day parents-to-be refer to a fetus as a baby.

"A case can be made that the 99% of all abortions (those which are performed prior to viability of the fetus) do not appear to be prohibited by Bible passages, as translated by most versions of the Bible."

http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_biblcon.htm

The Antifausto wrote on June 25, 2008 08:04 PM: Fausto's favorite Bible verse:
Psalms 137, verses 8-9:

"O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us --he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."

Antifausto's favorite Bible verse:
Genesis 2, verse 25:

"And they were naked, and they were not ashamed."

YES! wrote on June 25, 2008 07:54 PM: Uncle Fausto, tell us again about how you voted for George W. Bush, twice.

We love that story.

Fausto wrote on June 25, 2008 07:53 PM: "You have to admit that is a very narrow interpretation."

No denying abortion is a *secular* value. Narrow? Well, I could go into more....

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