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If McCain wins, what are you going to do?

Go live with Monkey in Paris
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Continue to bitch for four years
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Stop voting/participating
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Stop paying taxes/protest
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Fly a plane into the White House.
4 (33.3%)

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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #30 on: June 28, 2008, 02:35:34 PM »
The problem with wind energy is the amount of upkeep needed for those big turbines.  It's one of those hidden costs that makes it not quite worth it -- a massive engineering staff, tons of fossil fuels used to get the repair machines there and to keep the turbines tuned/cleaned/fixed year round.

Now, the same is not true for personal wind turbines, like you see in Austria and, increasingly, in the UK.  And in Scandinavia.  Those are, more-or-less, a small scale, jerry-rigged version that can be easily repaired.  Instead of big ass turbines feeding into power plants, you can use any refurbished engine dug out of a junk yard to interact with the mill.  Wind power works beautifully on that sort of small scale.  Powering your personal acre lot, or powering the office tower like Dubai is building. 

But these huge wind farms are not cutting it, no.
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #31 on: June 29, 2008, 09:01:11 PM »
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #32 on: June 29, 2008, 09:05:04 PM »
only 2000 views -- 8 of them GS?   What, you're subscribed?
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #33 on: June 29, 2008, 09:06:11 PM »
GS is McCain country!
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #34 on: June 29, 2008, 09:09:52 PM »
oh, that's an awful ad.  like, what percentage of the terrified racists would that even reach -- let alone the general population?
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #35 on: June 29, 2008, 09:38:26 PM »
wow.  I just found a motherload of Obama "scandals" that have gained traction.  Switching threads.
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #36 on: July 01, 2008, 02:33:35 PM »
well, McCain is all about attacking Obama, so... well, this is more about McCain so I'll post it here.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2008/Jul/01/mccain_criticizes_obama_s_high_court_favorites.html

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McCain criticizes Obama's high court favorites
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Republican John McCain said Tuesday that his Democratic rival's Supreme Court nominees would produce more decisions like the child rapist ruling that both presidential candidates have criticized.

Addressing the National Sheriff's Association, McCain acknowledged that Democrat Barack Obama had also disagreed with the decision that struck down a Louisiana law allowing capital punishment for people who rape children under 12. Obama said he believed carefully crafted state laws permitting execution of child rapists do not violate the Constitution.

Nevertheless, McCain asked: "Why is it that the majority includes the same justices he usually holds out as the models for future nominations?"

"My opponent may not care for this particular decision, but it was exactly the kind of opinion we could expect from an Obama court," the Arizona senator said.

When asked by CNN in May whether any current justices would be models for his nominees, Obama replied that he considered Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter to be sensible judges. All three voted in the majority in the child rape case, as did Justices Anthony Kennedy and John Paul Stevens.

McCain himself voted to confirm four of the five who voted in the majority. He was not in the Senate in 1975 when Stevens was confirmed.

Obama is a baby raper!!!!

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As for McCain's confirmation votes, most nominees are confirmed so that's not really an endorsement.
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #37 on: July 01, 2008, 09:10:09 PM »
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #38 on: July 01, 2008, 09:45:13 PM »
teeheef

actually, he's totally right, except he's not.

I always compare the migration of jobs to the migration of people when countering the argument that immigration is somehow immoral or wrong.  Corporations do it with their jobs, why can't people?
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #39 on: July 10, 2008, 02:59:49 PM »
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #40 on: July 11, 2008, 11:55:04 AM »
His face during that is incredible.  I mean pausing and deciding you're not going to answer is one thing, but looking like someone is crushing your testicles is something else entirely.
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #41 on: July 11, 2008, 02:25:12 PM »
Quote from: Reginald McGraw on July 11, 2008, 11:55:04 AM
His face during that is incredible.  I mean pausing and deciding you're not going to answer is one thing, but looking like someone is crushing your testicles is something else entirely.

hahahhaha!
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #42 on: July 13, 2008, 10:20:55 AM »
Weekly roundup!

McCain striking out with veterans (queerly):

http://www.youtube.com/v/OnyEMLXvgV8&hl=en&fs=1

Here's the killing Iranians thing:

http://www.youtube.com/v/p05FFS3IenM&hl=en&fs=1

Caught in a lie (Does he think it's the 1800's or something?):

http://www.youtube.com/v/V5bTBhFs9r8&hl=en&fs=1

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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #43 on: July 15, 2008, 09:52:25 AM »
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/mccain-references-non-exi_n_112650.html

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At a press availability today, John McCain expressed concern about relations between Russia and a country that hasn't existed for quite some time. According to a rough pool report transcript, he said:

    "I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Apparently that is in reaction to the Czech's agreement with us concerning missile defense, and again some of the Russian now announcement they are now retargeting new targets, something they abandoned at the end of the Cold War, is also a concern."
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Re: McCain 08
« Reply #44 on: July 15, 2008, 10:59:44 AM »
After watching Gonzo (@ E street, should still be there) I'm leaning toward the following ideas:

1) There are no Objective Truths; all information's truth value is individual to each person and their perspective. 
2) Regardless of #1, all communication is necessarily subjective.  Even the simple fact of calling a pencil a pencil shapes a perspective.  (Fitness for a particular purpose, focus, the value judgments of deciding group membership and picking which label to use.)
My nascent philosophical musings are now forced to add the following theory:
3) There are Objective Falsehoods.
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