Eastkyprogressive_2

I have never been insulted by any of your comments in the past. I tend to agree with what you have said to me.

very nice...

kinda stiff sentence for shooting your own lawnmower isn't it..

Sorry about the fatigue. Maybe some of it is all the recent extra pressure.

Thanks for keeping up updated.

Wow, you are having a time..Like AJ said, just give things time, and take them each individually, and you will come out fine.

"They only
sip wine and eat stinky cheese"

Speaking of stinky, this reeks of sarcasm...

Amazing isn't it!

So what you are suggesting is a "gas voucher" type of scenario, which could be used if the dollar crashes as currency, like how some people sell their foodstamps to buy their liquor.

I do see the pluses in what you propose, but this does a few things that raises a red flag to me (and remember, I may just not be getting it, I am not a "business minded" person). What troubles me about it is that it doesn't reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, it would increase it. It also creates another middle man from the oil company to the consumers.

And you discuss offshore drilling which as I have mentioned to others, the department of the interior states that 79% of offshore oil reserves are open for drilling, plus countless acres of land but they are not doing it. That is because 1) they like their prices and their profits, 2)Supply is not the issue and 3) they are just wanting the rest of the land owned by us the commons to be theirs to drill to have future "money in the bank" and to monopolize their market.

I heard an interesting discussion about currency last night, yes from leftist radio, discussing the origins of currency, gold standard, silver standards and the greenback, and the host, Thom Hartmann, proposed this which was based on a former political adviser turned Sci-fi writers fictional world. Currency based on labor, not commodities. Of course, he admitted the politicians being slaves to the corporations and lobbyists would never agree to such a basis of currency. Wished I could remember the writers name, he's in his 80s. Until we get the big money, corporations and lobbyists out of washington, politicians will stay puppets to them. Many on the left in radio call for "public funding of campaigns" as a step to cure this problem, again something the polticians wouldn't agree on. But you know, radical groups who want marriage amendments voted on get it on the ballot though state laws of direct democracy, getting enough signatures to force it on the ballot. Why can't the people do that on real issues like these, or secure voting systems, and so on...

As godfather of the Enron loophole and the housing crisis, his taint will still be on McCain's economic policies if he wins unfortunately..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-sends-highlevel-envoy-to-avoid-conflict-with-iran-869733.html

"Bush sends high-level envoy to avoid conflict with Iran

President signals historic shift in Gulf policy

By Leonard Doyle in Washington
Thursday, 17 July 2008

Moving to avoid war in Iran in the final months of his administration, George Bush has approved the highest-level American diplomatic contact with its ideological enemy since the humiliating US embassy hostage crisis of 1979.

Shifting from bellicose threats to diplomacy, Mr Bush is sending an envoy to talks this weekend aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions. The rapprochement includes plans by the US to post diplomats in Tehran for the first time since the Islamic revolution in the form of a US interests section – a move halfway to setting up an embassy – subject to approval by the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

There was consternation in Washington last night when details were leaked that the US is edging towards diplomatic recognition raising fears that the weekend's talks could be cancelled by either side.

Iran has complained it is unable to deal directly with the US. Until now, the US has demanded that Iran halt its nuclear enrichment programme as a precondition for any serious diplomatic contact.

William Burns, the third in line at the State Department, will travel with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, to Geneva to talk to Iran's main nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, as the US tries to halt a dangerous slide towards conflict, diplomatic sources said. US officials described the decision to send Mr Burns as "a one-time deal". But there is little doubting Washington's desire to try to break the impasse over Iran's nuclear programme without going to war. "

I guess Mark Alexander has another "come again" to write about...wait for it...(crickets chirping). Guess there is another "nazi appeaser" out there. Why not appease them those, the Bushies did fund them after all...

In context of our last 7 years of "security", Al Queada at pre-911 strength, Bin Laden never captured or any of the other top two, that forged "yellow cake" report (not the pre-gulf war I yellow cake that the author is trying to delude readers with), the lost nukes that flew over the U.S. and the outsourcing of our port security and increasing failures in the middle east, I couldn't help but get a chuckle out of this post. Thanks for the giggles...

"As holders of this sacred trust we Grandmothers receive all the gifts of Nature with gratitude, and we endorse only the technologies that are Earth-sustaining and life enhancing for all beings. Let all methods of fuel, food and material production, all expansions and developments, honor Nature's preservation and enhancement."

Amen!