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Actually here in TN the problem isn't that the gas tax isn't enough to pay for the infrastructure, it's that the politicians only use 60% of it on the roads. The other 40% is diverted to other things the tax was not intended for. (That 40% comes out to $261 million being diverted)

http://billhobbs.com/2008/02/bredesen_longs_for_higher_gas.html

According to the wikipedia page on Al Gore, his family drives hybrid cars, and he purchases a carbon offset every time he flies in an aircraft.

Guess where he gets his "offsets?" From someone else's earlier reply:

"Gore is chairman of Generation Investment Management, the company that he buys carbon offsets from (see here for details), so he is paying himself."

Quite a scam he's got going there, isn't it?

Gore is chairman of Generation Investment Management, the company that he buys carbon offsets from (see here for details), so he is paying himself.

Oh, I don't know, maybe the huge funding advantage to pro-AGW researchers; if you're not studying a pro-AGW view, you don't get funded.

Or the billions and trillions that a carbon credit industry may be worth?

The AGW supporters are led by those at least as economically driven by those "evil" oil companies. That much is indisputable. Even the prophet of AGW, Al Gore, makes millions in pushing his AGW viewpoint. This level of hypocrisy and insider trading would be shouted from the rooftops if it was a "denier" so linked. But for the prophet, hardly a hiccup, especially among his acolytes...

http://billhobbs.com/2006/05/postmortem_1.html

After reading your comment about voter fraud by the NAACP, I googled it because I hadn't heard about it before. It seems like the republicans went ahead and fiddled with the voting machines while both republicans and democrats seemed to have fiddled with provisional balloting and logistics at the polling station to try and win. Ballot boxes seemed to have been lost, electronic polling machines were tampered with before election night and junkies were paid with crack to create false ballots.Neither side appears to be free of wrong doing on this issue.

The election process in america is a disgrace and I don't participate.

If you want more ammo for the pro-republican arguments:

http://billhobbs.com/hobbsonline/cat_voter_fraud.h tml

Democratic Side

http://blackboxvoting.org/

Democracy is three wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner

I can hope we get another David Souter.

How can you hope for another David Souter after his recent ruling on eminent domain??? People don't seem to understand that both the Democrats and Republicans are now statist parties. Just b/c the Democrats oppose the Republicans doesn't mean they're suddenly libertarian good guys.

And to set the record straight, it was the conservative, Republican-appointed judges who opposed this decision - three of Reagan's four judges (Rehnquist, Scalia, Connor, but not Kennedy) and one of Bush Sr's two judges (Thomas, but not Souter) opposed the ruling[pdf]. Furthermore, it is Congressional Republicans introducing legislation to mitigate its damage, while Congressional Democrats state both their opposition to that legislation and support of the Kelo decision. Of course, there are plenty of examples of people on both sides of political spectrum opposing this, even socialists, so it's much more complex than the typical dumbed-down Democrat-vs-Republican football match. So enough of the uninformed, knee-jerk reactions please, and we'll take two more Rehnquists President Bush, thank you very much.

I cee your bullshit and raise you a whole page full of links to reports of voter registration fraud. ACORN and ACT were notorious for submitting fraudulent registrations.

You know, it's interesting that people (even Republicans, i find) totally ignore Democratic cases of voter fraud. Republicans are not the only ones responsible for it -- in fact, they seem to me like they're less likely to do it than Democrats, on the whole.

Some of these are really biassed, but here are some examples:

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article385 5.html

http://billhobbs.com/hobbsonline/004765.html (LOTS of articles about it here)

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/007968.php

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250035/p osts (admittedly, Free Republic is a pretty bad place to go for potentially reputation-harming information about Democrats, but there it is anyway <_<)

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/fund20040913 0633.asp

Even The New York Times had a story about Democratic voter fraud.

This isn't to say that the Las Vegas thing and Chuck Hagel's involvement with that voting-machine company and the convenient Diebold incident in Georgia aren't troubling, because they are, very much. But so many people mysteriously forget that the other party isn't the only one that can be 'filthy'.

*sniffle* *sniffle*

People who support Kerry think, and people who support Bush don't?

Is that why your entire response reads like an angry high school term paper? Is that why the left has come up with such thought provoking, and deep meaning slogans such as "Anyone but Bush", and my favorite, straight from Kerry's mouth.. "George W Bush... da W stands fo' WROOONGGG". Is that why Edwards' wife, and Michael Moore are basically threatening people with riots if Kerry loses? I believe it's simply a matter of "We almost won. We didn't. Let's get angry, and take it out at the expense of anything, including the unity of the country." Gotta say, people like you are doing a hellova job! ^_^

Come to think of it... I haven't seen any right wingers around here spraypainting over yardsigns because they don't agree with them, keying cars with opposing political stickers on them, or running around half naked with random insults against the guy they don't like painted on their body. Seen a lotta that from the "thinkers" that support Kerry though.

"They've squandered this country's and this government's credibility at home and abroad"

To place the blame of how we are viewed entirely on one side of the ruling body of this country, and neglect to take into account the country's actions as a whole is idiotic. I believe that the constant onslaught of negative comments and media attention (sometimes factual, most of the times proven false, but never publically admitted or apologized for) that started with Daschle whining, and continued through the years with varying other statesman and actors has pretty much given a part of the world only one viewpoint on things.

"The GOP has run a campaign (and an entire war) based on little more than lies, half-truths, deceptions, spin, and secrecy"

http://www.thetruthaboutiraq.org/

Have a little truth, instead of regurgitating a lot of lies.

"Once again, yes it was. Republicans bent over backwards to supress voter turnout in minority and other largely Democratic areas. They intimidated voters at the polling places. They illegally and irresponsibliy scrubbed thousands and thousands of valid voters names from the voting rolls, almost all of them Democrats. Large numbers of ballots were "lost" and not counted. Laws were violated to let in additional over-seas ballots from the military because those tended to go Republican. In every way, the GOP lied, cheated, and stole every vote they could, while lying, cheating, and supressing every democratic vote they could. They had HIRED rent-a-mobs (mostly Republican office personel) bussed down to Florida to chant and intimidate the recounters in an effort to STOP THE RECOUNT."

Oh good grief, somebody call the wah-mbulance. It's easy to point fingers, isn't it. -shakes head- "Thousands of valid names were scrubbed off" valid names like those in Ohio?

This has been hillarious, but it's kind of pointless. You are vehemently set in your belief that everything to the right is evil, and deserves to be Hulk-smashed. It's sad, because that hatred is pretty much all that the left has endorsed for 4 years, and the seeds sown are now sprouting fullgrown. I have friends who won't talk to anyone that's even remotely conservative. They simply aren't people anymore... just walking, screaming, protesting, automatons. It's sad, but it's what you get when you peddle hate and fear for a living. I have more packing to do, so I'm going to leave, I just want to say this;

No matter how much you rant, or I rant, I can walk away from this machine, and still see people as people instead of extensions of their political party. I hope you can too, because I'm worried that a growing number of people who do so are losing their grasp on the line between "politics" and "life".

I'm out, later!
-Yet another LSU independant.

PS> Snoopy '08, he's a dog, don't hate!

Have a look at a cherry picked list of democrat only voter fraud stories being passed off as the whole story.

Disclaimer: Pissed off conservative sick of the biased "bored again conservatives" making the rest of us REAL Conservatives look like bushbots.

If you want a more exhaustive and less-spittle-flecked catalog of offenses than what Kos offers, check out the site of (admittedly, a conservative) Bill Hobbs.

I agree that the deligitimization of the electoral process is the biggest threat confronting the republic. But from my perspective, most of the attacks on the process are coming from the left. Witness:

- the last-minute, illegal substitution of Frank Lautenberg in New Jersey when the existing candidate was going to lose;

- the Gore team's Florida ballot attack (I know it's conventional wisdom that Bush did this, but it was the Donks that spread rumors of ballot problems, then conveniently had lawyers on hand to save the day. Oh, and Bush just plain won Florida, and therefore the election, according to a coalition of journalistic organs including the NYT, Washington Post, and CNN);

- the effort to import election observers from abroad. I'm not keen on being lectured about the democratic process by the corrupt Kofi Annan or anyone of his choosing.

I hope Bush wins. But if he loses, I hope he gets his ass handed to him. I don't know how well the republic will endure another fiasco like the litigation following the 2000 election, and if it's a close election this time, all bets are off.

Have a look at the running log of voter fraud stories.

Here are some.
Here are others.

Here are some.
Here are others.

Also where's the slashdot story on Democrat registration fraud? Why is Republican fraud the only news? What about all these stories. Doesn't it matter if it is Democrat voter fraud?

You can hear the liberal slashdotters' heads asplode...

"DMCA bad.... but... site... pro-Bush... ack... who should I side with... aaaah... *pop*"

To be ontopic, here are some mirrors of the parody in question:

Mirror 1
Mirror B
Third Mirror
Mirror Cuatro

hell, you could be like the NAACP and ACT and register your dead friends as well...

The notion that Bush necessarily had any obigations in Alabama is a basic mistake. As long as you persist in making that basic mistake, you're going to be confused.

Now, with that said, there are a few little points tat ought to be noted:

John Calhoun remembers Bush in Alabama, and Bush's dental records from Alabama have been found and discussed in the Washington post.

But .. I thought "no one remembers Bush in Alabama"?

Oh, wait, the guy who does remember Bush is "unreliable".

But what about his dental records?

The usual comeback is that this proves Bush went to the dentist but not that he was on base.

Except that the dentist was on base.

And how is it that Ben Barnes' story -- "I helped Bush into the Guard as Lt Gov ... six months before I was elected" -- is any more believable now than it was in 1999? It's not like someone has discovered new records saying Barnes really wasn't in Geneva and was LTGOV after all.

As usual, the real answer is read both sides and then think for yourself.