Topic: It's offical! W is truly a whore to the oil biz!
Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Public transportation is better than a million cars spewing gas at the same time.
While the Americans have it down pat with great initiatives to get Americans out of their cars, Ontario has it the other way around. Some people say that buses CAUSE traffic jams because of their size and constant stopping and our cities would be a heck of a lot better without it.
Bah!!!
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Which reminds me. Simon said that he's never been on a train before. Is this typical of Americans, or does it depend on the area you are in?
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Not to sound Clintenesque, but that depends on how you define "train."
Aamtrack? No. The DC Metro? Yes. The Boston "T"? Yes.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** I wouln't say that anyone who has ceased to post every time you rant has "realized that they couldn't win" Omega. It's more like "oh, great he comes Mr. conservative frontal lobotomy boy who only hits one note over and over and over and over..." -Jay, July 15, 2000
[This message has been edited by JeffKardde (edited April 12, 2001).]
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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Oh, one other thing, some Conservatives here consider public transportation as a "socialist program".
------------------ "In a completely unrelated news story, I have a date tomorrow night." - Omega, in trying to explain why pigs are now flying, why Microsoft products are now working perfectly, hell freezing over, and George W Bush giving a flawless speech. 04/06/01, 12:17AM
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I've been on the DC metro as a tourist. I've also been on an Amtrak train, but it was for a Cub Scout "field trip" to the state capital. As just a normal form of daily transportation, I haven't used a train, though.
Y'know, some people seem to think that anything humans do that impacts the environment is evil and wrong. Humans evolved on this planet just like every other species around. We have as much right to be here and help ourselves. It's not like we have to follow some sort of Prime Directive allegory when dealing w/ other animals and plants and such. "Oh, if we build a hydroelectric dam, it'll flood some areas and mess w/ the wildlife." Guess what? Beavers don't think that when they build a dam. They just build it for their own betterment. The world around them adapts. Granted, we can foresee some results of our actions, and we should be careful not to totally fuck things up. But if we, to continue the example, build a dam, so what? There's now a lake instead of a river. Lakes aren't inherently bad. We aren't destroying the environment there; we're just changing it. Just because humans change their environments on a larger scale than other animals, that doesn't mean what they do is "natural" and what we do isn't. Just because we're more highly evolved, it doesn't mean we aren't a part of the nature of this planet anymore.
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Because we are more highly evolved, it's time we start looking for energy sources that don't neccessarily harm or deplete the Earth.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** I wouln't say that anyone who has ceased to post every time you rant has "realized that they couldn't win" Omega. It's more like "oh, great he comes Mr. conservative frontal lobotomy boy who only hits one note over and over and over and over..." -Jay, July 15, 2000
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You're supposed to follow that with a "such as..." or it isn't worth anything.
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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If this continues about Trains, it will lead to the death zone, my friends.
Steering back to argument:
BUSH IS A MAJOR WHORE!
He was on 100000 Huntley Street the other day Plugging Jesus. That Mini-Series sucked ass. He DIED at the end. What a disappointing ending.
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-Edward Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire.
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I won't tell you what happens in the sequel then. Bible II: The Search for Jesus.
------------------ You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston." -Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** I wouln't say that anyone who has ceased to post every time you rant has "realized that they couldn't win" Omega. It's more like "oh, great he comes Mr. conservative frontal lobotomy boy who only hits one note over and over and over and over..." -Jay, July 15, 2000
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** I wouln't say that anyone who has ceased to post every time you rant has "realized that they couldn't win" Omega. It's more like "oh, great he comes Mr. conservative frontal lobotomy boy who only hits one note over and over and over and over..." -Jay, July 15, 2000
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To continue a previous line of thought, yes we did evolve to become one of the "highest" forms of life on Earth, and yes, other species and the environment do adapt. But this is true for anything we do. If we were to decimate the surface of the Earth with nuclear explosives until nothing was left alive, the earth would adapt, and new species of life would arise on the surface. So? Are you saying we should do that too, simply because we can?
Bush should just leave the Alaskan parks alone. In the long run, we'll probably benefit, not suffer.
A new nuclear fusion reactor was recently constructed, by the way, at some university or another which they hope to get a net energy GAIN from. It's spherical instead of toroidal. It is of the standard magnetic-constriction type.
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First, no one said NASA took an overall budget cut, except for JeffK, and I posted a news story correcting him. What I'm saying is that certain programs that were more purely scientific were cut in favor of other programs.
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But you can't get away from the fact that Bush questions the validity of the proof of global warming due to CO2 in the atmosphere, and simultaneously obstructs the acquisition of said proof by cutting funding for programs which monitor the climate.
First of Two: You seem to revel in saying "You're supposed to follow that with a "such as.." or it isn't worth anything", whenever anyone mentions the need for alternative energy sources. I'll tell you what isn't worth anything, YOUR ATTITUDE! Bush also obstructs the discovery of a "such as.." by cutting funding for alternative energy research. How do you defend this?
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