I don't the government to be able to shut off my power because they say I am using too much. Yep Conspiracy theory, however it has already been proposed in California with smart thermostats.
Agreed. This does not represent Christianity. It represents the "Crusades" which didn't represent Christianity either. I agree with the group, even thought I am not progressive, that it is not the game to buy this holiday season, though Walmart is under no obligation to take it off their shelves if they don't want to.
Anyways for me, I believe I will stick to the games where I have to kill other people like Quake, Doom or even Halo!!! "Convert to the human race or be killed!!!!!!"
Rationality, so what is rational when it comes to this. Is it "You hit us, you want to kill so we will kill you first" or "You hit us, you want to kill us, so we will try to be your friend so you will like us and not kill us".
I am afraid that you cannot look at those two carte blanc because you also have to rationally look at our enemy, so lets not make this black and white.
Now to talk about voting...
So voting rationally...that would be nice and simple. However both parties are all about ideals. I know most think of Republicans Ideals as Christian ideals so lets leave that as is. But Democrats also are idealists. They believe that humans are good by nature, hard working by nature and if we just share everything then we will have a better society. Well if you look at the data of around the world and through time, people are not all good, not every person is hard working and if we all just shared some people would take advantage of that. So rational voting is only half of what you need to do. You have to have ideals as well as a rational and logical view of the world. If you want to look at it the Constitution is based off of both of those two things. Ideally you see the preamble which talks about the ideals of what this nation was founded on, however if you look at the amendments you will see rational in the way the founding fathers tried to achieve those ideals. They realized that any government can crush humans rights so we have the right to bear arms to not only protect ourselves from enemies but also from ourselves. Right to the press so the government can't keep everything from us. You look down the line, the Constitution is all about the rational human rights that hopefully will bring us to the ideals that the nation was founded on. So the point of all this is that you can't vote solely on Ideals or Rational...You must take both into account.
I 100% agree. If we stopped the Electoral College then the ideals and cultures of the big cities would rule, since there is more population and would start to leave the less populated areas with little or no voice. This system is in place to protect us as a nation.
I would say that it is a failure of our schools, who teach that our nation is a democracy, not a constitutional democratic republic or don't teach anything about our government at all. It would be interesting to see how many high school graduates have actually taken a class about the USA government and how it works (outside of memorizing the state capitols.)
I also agree with the popularity contest theory. However saying that Bush looks better than Gore...that is stretching it, though I think Gore looked like my local used car salesman.
Lastly, the Electoral College being challenged and also the change you mentioned about how our senators are elected, is the result of the mindset of this country to the federalist view of our government, which is one of the few areas that I disagree with bush who is a federalist. We have taken the importance and power away from the states. We do it not only by laws, but by taxes. Those in Washington who can control the money can control the states who want the money for schools, roads and so on.
E85 is not the answer, you are right about that. I mean they will find cheaper and more efficient ways to make E85 and all of that. Also what is supposed to be the good thing about E85 engines is that they are supposed to be able to detect the octane of the E85 mixture (which is higher than regular gas) and be able to burn it at a higher compression and get the most out of each cycle. But I will be the first to admit that I have not done extensive research on this by any means.
I would also be weary about doing business with Russia and their oil (if they ever drill) because of all the talk about them being part of the Iraq scandal and until we know to what degree for sure I wouldn't be sending too much money over there as well. But that is just a side note.
But I think it would be interesting to find out who we actually buy oil from. I was always under the impression that OPEC was an organization that not only controlled the price of oil from those nations but also companies bought though the organization and not really from each individual nation. Maybe I am mistaken. If I am then I would like to know what countries we deal with.
The Big Car companies have come out with E85 which uses only 15% gasoline and 85% ethanol. So once the demand gets high enough for that, ie enough E85 cars are out on the road, then we won't be dependent on foreign oil. Though haven't done as well as foreign car companies with MPG.
The second thing is that we have a vast reserve of oil in Alaska, the gulf of Mexico, and Canada had more oil in Alberta then the Middle East has left in their known deposits. I understand concern for the environment, and humans always have a chance to screw something up, however with the technology that we have now I would think we could drill while being very environmentally safe. Maybe not the long term answer however it would help solve the fact that we are funding Iran which in turn was helping to fund Iraq, and is currently helping to fund the Taliban against USA and Hezbollah against Israel. At this moment in time that is what bothers me more than anything.
Quote: "'The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer.'"
This means that the earth was this hot before, maybe even 400 years ago. I am not sure what they were doing back then to cause global warming.
PS. The rest of the world does not believe that it exists. My winter was pretty cold the past two years in Michigan. What about yours?
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I don't the government to be able to shut off my power because they say I am using too much. Yep Conspiracy theory, however it has already been proposed in California with smart thermostats.
Agreed. This does not represent Christianity. It represents the "Crusades" which didn't represent Christianity either. I agree with the group, even thought I am not progressive, that it is not the game to buy this holiday season, though Walmart is under no obligation to take it off their shelves if they don't want to. Anyways for me, I believe I will stick to the games where I have to kill other people like Quake, Doom or even Halo!!! "Convert to the human race or be killed!!!!!!"
Rationality, so what is rational when it comes to this. Is it "You hit us, you want to kill so we will kill you first" or "You hit us, you want to kill us, so we will try to be your friend so you will like us and not kill us".
I am afraid that you cannot look at those two carte blanc because you also have to rationally look at our enemy, so lets not make this black and white.
Now to talk about voting...
So voting rationally...that would be nice and simple. However both parties are all about ideals. I know most think of Republicans Ideals as Christian ideals so lets leave that as is. But Democrats also are idealists. They believe that humans are good by nature, hard working by nature and if we just share everything then we will have a better society. Well if you look at the data of around the world and through time, people are not all good, not every person is hard working and if we all just shared some people would take advantage of that. So rational voting is only half of what you need to do. You have to have ideals as well as a rational and logical view of the world. If you want to look at it the Constitution is based off of both of those two things. Ideally you see the preamble which talks about the ideals of what this nation was founded on, however if you look at the amendments you will see rational in the way the founding fathers tried to achieve those ideals. They realized that any government can crush humans rights so we have the right to bear arms to not only protect ourselves from enemies but also from ourselves. Right to the press so the government can't keep everything from us. You look down the line, the Constitution is all about the rational human rights that hopefully will bring us to the ideals that the nation was founded on. So the point of all this is that you can't vote solely on Ideals or Rational...You must take both into account.
I would say that it is a failure of our schools, who teach that our nation is a democracy, not a constitutional democratic republic or don't teach anything about our government at all. It would be interesting to see how many high school graduates have actually taken a class about the USA government and how it works (outside of memorizing the state capitols.)
I also agree with the popularity contest theory. However saying that Bush looks better than Gore...that is stretching it, though I think Gore looked like my local used car salesman.
Lastly, the Electoral College being challenged and also the change you mentioned about how our senators are elected, is the result of the mindset of this country to the federalist view of our government, which is one of the few areas that I disagree with bush who is a federalist. We have taken the importance and power away from the states. We do it not only by laws, but by taxes. Those in Washington who can control the money can control the states who want the money for schools, roads and so on.
I would also be weary about doing business with Russia and their oil (if they ever drill) because of all the talk about them being part of the Iraq scandal and until we know to what degree for sure I wouldn't be sending too much money over there as well. But that is just a side note.
But I think it would be interesting to find out who we actually buy oil from. I was always under the impression that OPEC was an organization that not only controlled the price of oil from those nations but also companies bought though the organization and not really from each individual nation. Maybe I am mistaken. If I am then I would like to know what countries we deal with.
The second thing is that we have a vast reserve of oil in Alaska, the gulf of Mexico, and Canada had more oil in Alberta then the Middle East has left in their known deposits. I understand concern for the environment, and humans always have a chance to screw something up, however with the technology that we have now I would think we could drill while being very environmentally safe. Maybe not the long term answer however it would help solve the fact that we are funding Iran which in turn was helping to fund Iraq, and is currently helping to fund the Taliban against USA and Hezbollah against Israel. At this moment in time that is what bothers me more than anything.
Quote: "'The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer.'" This means that the earth was this hot before, maybe even 400 years ago. I am not sure what they were doing back then to cause global warming. PS. The rest of the world does not believe that it exists. My winter was pretty cold the past two years in Michigan. What about yours?