1. Those Obama supporters who feel so smug about this last election better watch out in 2010/2012, as rumor has it that the tides are going to flip BIG TIME due to RAMPANT BUYERS' REMORSE over His Ascension!
2. It will be really nice to be able to prosper and thrive under Obama's administration, but only if he would STOP his RECKLESS economic and social policies that will only BANKRUPT our nation and drive us into SOCIALISM and/or COMMUNISM! *NOT* the kind of CHANGE that WE NEED or can BELIEVE IN!
3. Sure, GW Bush did so much "damage" to our nation that we have NOT been attacked by terrorists since 9/11 of 2001! The same can NOT (yet) be said of Obama, since he's now so desperately dismantling the very frameworks that have kept us...

The difference between how Obama handled our Olympics bid vs other heads of state is that Obama made everything be about HIMSELF FIRST rather than the USA...somehow Chicago failed to convey sufficient CHARISMA during the IOC selection visitations...and Obama didn't even stay until the IOC voting occurred...note that the WHOLE REASON for the Chicago bid had to do with GRAFT and EMBEZZLEMENT for his Chicago cronies and others in his administration...check into real estate SCAMS in Chicago to realize how further corruption would have happened...roughly 1/2 of Chicago residents themselves OPPOSED this bid! How does THAT inspire the rest of our country or the IOC to award the event to Chicago? Blaming anyone else except the current...

5. Blaming GW Bush for our current economic woes is too NAIVE and demonstrates either a TOTAL IGNORANCE of our TRUE history about this or INTENTIONAL BLINDNESS to it! Our whole economic problem had its seeds planted with the Community Reinvestment Act back in the days of Carter. As with ALL progressive/liberal agenda, this act had the BEST OF INTENTIONS but, as usual, it had UNDESIRABLE SIDE-EFFECTS when ACORN used it to COERCE banks into making housing loans to UNQUALIFIED borrowers! This caused the SUB-PRIME fiasco that ignited the current economic woes! Despite attempts by Republicans to reign in Fannie and Freddie during GW Bush's administration (even with legislation co-sponsored by Senator McCain), the Democrats in Congress...

Notice how all the anti-Bush zombies have NOTHING of substance to say except to rant about how Bush did this bad thing or that! Guess what? Bush is NO LONGER THE PRESIDENT! Suck it up and DEAL WITH IT! How about some intelligent comments rather than all the INANE DRIVEL?

Chip says:
'If you say there are no alternative energy sources that can compete with fossil fuels, perhaps after fossil fuels are taxed suffcently to cover their health hazards, then yes, maybe there will be some alternatives that can compete.'
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'The fact you do not know these things shows you are a novice in this field. I am not "left," but you are very ignorant, and a bore. ...'

With all due respect, I think that YOU must be quite THE NOVICE at analyzing Green Energy if TAXATION is YOUR panacea for all that ails us! There are certain things that TAXES just can NOT overcome ... like Laws of Nature! For example, HOW will TAXES overcome the FACT that the sun only shines during the DAY and is NOT EFFECTIVE during...

Liberals/progressives just can NOT accept the SUCCESSES of Fox News (more viewers than CNN/CNN-HLN/MSNBC/CNBC COMBINED with plenty to spare) and hence can only engage in ad hominem attacks against Fox News and other conservative media! They are SO NARCISSISTIC that they employ PROPAGANDA to try and MARGINALIZE DISSENTERS! But THIS is their GRAND DIVERSION so that they can SECRETLY ENACT, while we are all thusly DISTRACTED, policies and agendas BEHIND CLOSED DOORS to DESTROY our PERSONAL FREEDOMS and NATIONAL STRENGTHS -- all under the GUISE of "Social/Environmental Justice"! Spread YOUR wealth around, but NOT theirs! Socialism evolving into Communism is JUST AROUND THE CORNER! Wake Up, All Ye Patriotic Americans!

Re: How can Earth be getting warmer

While I appreciate your attempt to put some logic into this topic I think that you are way over simplifying matters! The dynamics of Earth’s temperature have many components that interact with each other in ways that even scientists do not yet understand (hence all the garbage coming out of their agenda-driven pro-AGW climate models) and it goes WAY BEYOND a simple accounting of water vs petroleum. Note that drilled oil comes out of UNDERGROUND reservoirs that are REALLY DEEP down below the surface – so deep down that I doubt any surface temperature effects from the sun would have the remotest impact down there! So the idea that water and oil freezing at different temperatures can affect the...

Re: KungFuSV:

So how do we get a copy of your write-up proving correlations between exponentially increasing natural disasters and mankind's direct roles in those? Can it be posted on a WEB site for us to download? I've heard of this trend within religious eschatology but hadn't come across anything directly ascribing their causes to mankind's petroleum extraction and bombing activities?

Just imagine -- if bombings produce natural disasters galore then what about those days of yore when both USA and USSR did atmospheric and then underground nuclear weapons testing? The cumulative explosions from all those tests must be in the tens, if not hundreds, of mega-tons, so we must have had gargantuan natural disasters from all of...

WHY is this going on? It's ALL ABOUT CONTROL over everyone's WAYS OF LIFE as driven from the U.N. (a la IPCC)! Carbon Trading was to foster the creation of energy-based "stock markets" where carbon credits were to be the issued instruments of trade. And just WHO has/is/will be a HUGE BENEFICIARY of this FRAUDULENT trading system? Why our very own Uncle Albert (Gore)! He's affiliated with one such "stock market" based out of London! And guess HOW MUCH MONEY he'll make (or has made) from this global warming SCAM? Somewhere around US$100 MILLION so far! Hey...if *I* could make such a HUGE RETURN for perpetrating a fear-mongering HOAX on the world and get away with it, why would I *NOT* do that? (Oh yeah...but I might have a CONSCIENCE)

One should NOT dismiss the FACT that over 31,000 REAL SCIENTISTS have signed a document that DISPUTES the PROPAGANDA that has been PERPETRATED by all those pro-AGW politicians and (NOT-SO-HONEST) so-called "scientists"! NASA has had an unfortunate mouthpiece in James Hanson make a big deal about AGW and CO2 being the culprit of everything global warming...does anyone pay attention to the news that George Soros paid a handsome sum of money (somewhere around $700K?) to Hanson for his publicity stunts on behalf of the AGW camp? Remember the RECENT SCANDAL where another RESEARCHER INSIDE OF NASA disputed the findings that NASA wanted to publish in support of AGW and got TRASHED for even daring to raise an objection to their INTERNAL PRO-AGW...