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Since we will be buying Colorado-extracted oil from the Chinese, will this shale extraction technique benefit us? Are the Chinese going to sell this oil to us cheaper than the Arabs? I guess they will be able to since the oil is coming from the U.S. and won't have to be shipped.

See this Rocky Mountain News article from 8/23/05. http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/business/article/ 0,1299,DRMN_4_4022438,00.html

Yeah, that's the way to get friendly Muslims to see Americans as peaceful: fry their brothers in their mosques. You're parroting the Republican talking points spewed by that insane Crusader Tancredo, the Congressmember from Columbine. Bloodthirsty people like you are soulmates to the Taliban, who are literally dying for an armageddon to send the world into the kind of stone age where priests rule, unquestioned by politics or science. Too bad we have to drag your ass along out of this fire, as sane people do the work to actually stop the conflict you so relish.

...anyone surprised by the speech must not have read Bob Woodward's Bush at War , in which he quoted Bush as saying (OK, in context of Cabinet meetings, but still): "I'm the commander. See, I don't have to explain why I say things . . . Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation.

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ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: President-elect Bush and the four congressional leaders met for two hours.

PRESIDENT-ELECT GEORGE W. BUSH: I told all four that I felt like this election happened for a reason; that it pointed out-- the Delay in the outcome should make it clear to all of us-- that we can come together to heal whatever wounds may exist, whatever residuals there may be. And I really look forward to the opportunity. I hope they've got my sense of optimism about the possible, and enthusiasm about the job. I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's okay. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier... ( Chuckles ) ( laughter ) ...just so long as I'm the dictator. ( Laughter )

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Afterwards, all four congressional leaders said they believed that today's meeting was a good start.

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Politics is a bunch of show and blow for people who don't understand.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.

[We] like to talk about (or be told about) democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an inconvenience. We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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from the dataplay article:

Yeah, the economy is in the pits and it will be hard to find another job, but with that much effort put into a format that the consumer needs, that was the real disappointment.

Guess if the consumer "needed" Data Play, you wouldn't be closing your doors...

How did one of (glowing flattery removed about a gubmint boondoggle organization that blows money and still can't get a mission right)our institutions need to privitize one of their greatest resources in order to keep going?

Funny. The poster has the answer to his question in the next paragraph:

No other country in the world comes close to the US in terms of economic might

Bingo. Ever consider the reason for us being the greatest economic might could just be that we permit corporations to exist with only a moderate amount of governmental tyranny and confiscation?

Yet the poster gets lost in the next sentence - so close, yet...

and yet it is near-third-world nations like China that are now expanding their space programs

And you'd expect a totalitarian government to do otherwise?

Hell, they're even talking about putting men on the moon, something we did once and then got bored with.

Uh... you wouldn't have happened to notice that we've got:

1. a war going on that has been estimated to cost at least a billion bucks a month
2. a recession that is killing major sectors of business, leaving less companies for the government to tax/loot.
3. citizens overwhelmingly opposing new taxes, preventing the non-corporate tax base from being looted
4. a ton of baby boomers drooling about being non-producers and getting that retirement/social security.

And you want another moon project? And we keep wondering why liberals have such disasterous personal lives?

As a nation we have the attention span of a four year-old child, and about as much forward-thinking.

I'd say your dreams are about as pragmatic as a four-year-old. What's money anyways?

We'd much rather forget about the future (and everything else) and concentrate on our televisions and big honking SUVs

Ah, an ELF/ALF liberal. We call you a "target" in my parts of the country.

So what is the real, deep-rooted motivation of this poster and his kin?

It seems the only people here with any kind of enthusiasm are the ones that want to control your lives

He does seem so enthusiastic, doesn't he?

*scoove*

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