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Thank you Barack Obama. For what it's worth; from all that I am, have ever endured, and aspire to be, Thank you.
I agree with you CHUCKLES, that we should focus on resolving our own countries issues (in general), and stop policing the world.
That being said it is One World and we ALL need; Clean Water, Clean Food, and Clean Air, in order to thrive and survive.
Bravo INDEED Nacho!! I second that notion with a flare gun! I guess I really do need to dip into your salsa kool aid after all!!
That's the problem KEND...You and many many others like you just "don't care" how something gets done or where it came from and the destructive wake it leaves...It's a capitalist mentality (creedo if you will) of Profit before People...Get the job done "by any means necessary...the ends justify the means". Collateral damage is just part of the "profit game"...Just as long as you yourself, or maybe even your kids, don't end up as collateral damage.
My wife has worked in the solar industry for 8 years now, the solar company she works for has been opperating since 1986...She would disagree with your ingnorant statement that solar, or wind, energy would cost 5-10 times more that oil and gas...So would the several European, Asian, and South American countries that 20+ years ago begain writing and funding Green Energy policies.
Time to change our way of thinking...You can ignor reality, but you can not ignor the consequences of reality.
Welcome to planet Earth PalinDrone. We hope you enjoy your stay.
Why do we care if North America is energy self-sufficient? I want the US to be energy self-sufficient. Charter mongering amongst the states is bad enough, but to include other nations seems disastrous.
Bravo nachos!
I remember seeing in the 2008 Presidential campaign a young white girl on TV holding up a banner with the picture of President Obama sporting a Hitler mustache and hair style. I remember thinking to myself and commenting to friends how stupid and racist that girl was.
Now in retrospect I regret those comments and sentiments. I may have accidentally insulted a Prophet of God. May God forgive me. I do apologize to that little girl--where ever she may be. I hope she forgives me as well. I was wrong.
Nachos, I don't care how we do it, it just has to be done. If Americans are willing to pay 5 or 10 times more for air, wind and solar energy instead of oil and gas, all the better. Lets just get the hell out of the middle East.
Now your digg'in where there are taters KEND!
Yes Kend, I agree it is time for North America to become energy self-sufficiant. And the United States can start by writing and funding Green Energy solutions, i.e. Wind, Wave, Solar, and BioFuels.
We have over 3+ decades of scientific proof that the formentioned resources are effective in supplying clean and efficent enegy all while reducing waste & pollution.
Now Kend, before you start going off on some pro Oil Industry propaganda rant...I understand that the excistence of todays modern world is relient on a variety of Patrolium Bi-Products (plastics). However in the arena of Enegy; Solar, Wind, and Wave technology can provide effective and efficient enegy to run our house holds and commercial buildings, and biofuels can reduce air pollution brought about by gas powered vehicles and machinery.
Time to change our way of thinking so that people and planet last.
Abolish Corporate Personhood...NOW!
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In my opinion the simplest and most affective solution to all our social woes, both foreign and domestic, is to get money out of politics, and over turn the Supreme Courts ruling that corporations are a people and money is their voice.
I'll believe Corporations are a People when Texas executes one!
No the United States should not. Until the government will provide free 4 years of college, no interest home loan and free healthcare.
Our country is falling apart while this so-called 'Democrat' president (actually a Republican Trojan Horse) wages endless war. I can't remember the last time this nation wasn't at war. Over a decade now. Why? Let other countries solve their own problems. I want my taxes to go to creating a universal health care system, to support higher education for all who are qualified, for affordable housing and improving our infrastructure, thus providing jobs for many Americans. NOT for bankrupting America while further enriching warmongers. But who is listening to anyone but the filthy rich?
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Whatever -- Unfortunately, the repug house will impeach Obama if he doesn't make a move on Syria.
TOK -- I have never seen a Victoria Secrets ad here. Those are targeted ads.
Do you think if we spend money on a war it will have any effect on how much we spend on headstart? Due to the complex way economies work spending money on a war could provide more spending on SNAP, schools etc. As an example, the effect of the huge debt generated by WW II. I should mention I am totally against war as a stimulus, and I only like to point out how weird the economy is.
Palin -- Wait a minute. In Iraq we fought the war and China got the oil.
I agree, may we truly wake up and ask.....why do we kill people to show people who kill people that killing people is wrong?
I know the bumper sticker has been around forever, but it's timeless, and the best one I've ever seen.
One peaceful solution would be to get congress involved as the decider. We know they will do the opposite of what Obama wants to do......so in other words do nothing.... they're pretty damn good at that.
KERCHING! That's the sound of the cash registers ringing up more war profiteering for the military industrial complex. As one war looks like being wound down, the war materiel industry will be pushing for yet another one to keep those profits flowing. Any congressman who stands in the way will be steamrolled with attack ads and tsunamis of funds for their opponents.
We definitely should NOT strike in Syria. There are several great articles on Common Dreams today. One is "Killing Civilians to Protect Civilians in Syria," and the other one is an article with a video about a Syrian father who was reunited with his young son after the two were separated in the chaos of warfare. I hope everyone gets to see today's Common Dreams.
The first thought that comes to mind is: What about Agent Orange in Vietnam? What about nuclear grade weapons used against the Iraqi people in the first Iraqi war (maybe the second as well). Do we know? We do know that the Vietnamese people, the Iraqi people continue to suffer from the hellish circumstances we brought to their lives... horrendous birth defects. Unspeakble crimes perpetrated by us. The US. Now the United States with shameless audacity takes the high ground to talk about unconscionable acts of aggression using chemical warfare "against one's own people." I guess we're supposed to understand that it's OK to use chemical warfare against defenseless people if they're not your own people... Your own people? We kicked 9/11 under the carpet and now, from the self-righteous bully pulpit made possible by a vast and indefensible amnesia we prove again that the only right there is is the one that comes at the end of the biggest stick. If Obama makes one move against Syria, he should be impeached.
who do we think we are? stay home. mind our own business. get our economy moving. improve our education/schools. focus on the chicago killings. if we must get involved outside of U.S., 1-drones... 2-drop a bomb (like Truman). 3-take over the country/control it. it's ours. now if we don't like that -stay home. mind our own business !
Unfortunately, the "supposedly" is the problem.
Ronaldo7 ~ Well said! However, there is one small difference between the dead victims. One set will be covered in detail on the American propaganda machine, the other will be blanked out and only portrayed as a number--"collateral damage"
They should include as well all the collateral damage this is done in the brains, hearts, and souls of the American populace who fall for all this smoke and mirrors when the truth is finally revealed to them.
I'm on your team!