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When It Rains McCain

1.31.08 @ 12:01AM

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YUCCA STUCK-A
Re: Patrick J. Michaels' Corn on the Mob:

Once again Congress's knee jerk reaction and kowtowing to the environmentalists and the global warming kooks has made things much worse with the so called Energy Policy Act of 2005. Every time I read or hear about some congressional committee contemplating a program to "simplify" the tax codes, I cringe and grab for my wallet. These are the same fools who passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act in 1982 based on politics rather than science that established Yucca Mountain as the nation's repository for high-level nuclear waste. Now well beyond the original scheduled completion date and billions of dollars over budget, the repository is still unable to accept an ounce of waste and will not be able to for many years to come, and many, many more dollars waste on what has become a very expensive science project.
-- Tom Bullock
West Covina, California

The fact that the "global warming mob" has gotten as far as it has should surprise no one. American liberals have long embraced symbolism as a substitute for substance, and now feeble-minded conservatives and moderates have jumped on the bandwagon. One wonders how much stupider it can get than using food to make fuel -- but I'll bet we haven't touched bottom yet.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

I find this so ironic.

OPEC (Indonesia is a FULL member) feels that they can cut off our oil or raise the price of it at a whim.

But when America (the OPEC of food of the world) decides to act slightly in its own best interests (responding to the real OPEC), they get riots because they can't freaking feed their own people.
-- Mark Westphal
Yardley, Pennsylvania

I really appreciate articles like that -- solid numbers are the best antidote to the vague aura of approaching eco-doom in which we live.

It might just be me, but I always thought ethanol was a hydrocarbon, too, right? Burning it also produces carbon dioxide. So replacing 20 percent of gasoline use with ethanol wouldn't actually reduce emissions by even the amount listed.
-- Roy Koczela

BAD OLD DEMOCRATS
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Hillary: Undecided on Platform Apology for Slavery?:

It seems Jeffrey Lord forgets, that many black politicians and voters consider "the first black president" to be Bill Clinton. Thus no need to apologize, you're one of us, you understand us.

You can't make this stuff up. He has an office in Harlem!

All the past "errors" of the Dems that Lord cites have nothing to do with Clinton or his supporters. And to be sure, Bill is running, not Hillary. When in doubt about this, ask: if she was not a "Clinton" would she still be in the race? Better one: would she have even gathered enough support to get in the race?

The Clinton playbook would have Obama saying he is sorry that so many black politicians and voters want "reparations" for past wrongs. But this a day of change; let the past fade; move on to a better day. Hillary saying she is sorry for slavery -- not this version of Clinton. How about apologize for the behavior of "the first black president"? This is not in the playbook
-- Len LaBounty
Santa Monica, California

Because of a decidedly and largely dominant left-wing media, the history of the Democrat party's racism doesn't see the light of day. These events are already absent from the minds of many (if not a majority) of Americans. Knowledge of these events will fade into oblivion as the public school system continues to "revise" the history books, college campuses allow the suppression of free speech that detracts from liberal dogma and the liberal talking heads on TV continue to use their time denigrating anything and everything Republican, conservative, Christian, white, heterosexual...etc.

All we can do is try to put the word out there for people to see. I just past this article along to a black friend of mind and insisted he read it.

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