chaszz's Comments (8)

“We need new ideas and approaches on ways of separating hydrogen from oxygen, and development of other modes of using hydrogen from water, such as nuclear fusion. And more ideas for the development of hydrogen fuel cells. Urgent programs in these areas would yeild results sooner and would provide us with a limitless supply of energy forever.”

“I agree. We don't need to change our behavior, and that is unrealistic, as it's already too late and the human race is too greedy and short-sighted. We need new technologies which will power our industrial civilization without pollution and without a return to pre-industrial times, which will NOT appeal in the least to the billions of people in India and China who want rapid industrialization. Nobody advocating a return to the 19th century has addressed in the least how to sell this unrealistic dreamy concept to the rapidly industrializing third world which accounts for more CO2 pollution than we do. We need technological solutions to protect us from global warming. We need to harness the energy power of hydrogen which is non-polluting, abundant, inexhaustible and waiting to be used. Specifically, we need to put more money into fusion research, a hydrogen technology which is non-polluting - each reactor would produce a swimming pool's worth of mildly radioactive water in a century, and this water would naturally become non-radioactive in a short time.”

“They built poor vehicles for decades, and by the time they started building quality, they'd lost a huge chunk of the buying public. It's hard to come back when you're used to driving a Japanese make that is very reliable, and the American car's reliability is still a question mark to you. But more importantly, in the last decade they virtually ignored global warming and raced to build bigger and bigger SUVs, betting their futures on a product that only made the atmosphere worse. GM put the icing on the cake with the Hummer, a truly egregious polluter. Ford went on a binge of Exes, each Excursion bigger than each Expedition bigger than each Explorer. Ford also blatantly calculated costs of x number of lawsuits against costs of recalls, deciding to fight recalls of dangerous vehicles and keep them on the road to kill other consumers. Intelligent consumers took note of all this, and started despsising the car companies even more. The idea of my tax dollars going to prop up these incompetent and venal monsters makes my blood boil.”

“On Reagan... when Reagan won, white men without college degrees were 40% of the electorate. They are now down to 19%, because so many more go to college these days. The Reagan formula which depends on these men will not work anymore. The GOP is dedicated to representing a shrinking minority. But sh-s-shh, please don't tell them.......”

“I don't think there's much left of either land or water to take away”

“I hope you are right, and obviously this was Pelosi's strategy. But I'm afraid this genie will not go so easily back in the bottle. ALL presidents want expanded powers, it's in the nature of the office. Carter and Clinton pulled plenty of U.S. imperialist dirty tricks; read Noam Chomsky for details. Obama is not a dove, and will not want to be seen as one. He will use some of Bush's precedents to keep executive power growing. And certain Constitutional limits will be gone forever. And Pelosi's strategy will be seen for what it is: a disaster.”

“The fact that Israel is a repressive, colonialist state very akin to the former South Africa is widely recognized in the world except in the US, where refusal to recognize reality is a national trait. The native Americans also fought back, only intensifying the case for their slaughter or permanant loss of their lands and way of life and removal to fenced-in areas. Does anyone today think they were wrong to fight back against total white encroachment on their lands? This would be absurd to say. With today's perspective, a fairer, more equitable solution could be envisioned and worked out. Yet we blame the Palestinians for fighting back against an American-approved " fair solution" involving loss of most of their land, a trickle of water supply, and the criss-cossing of whatever land they have left by Israeli roads and endless checkpoints. A "solution" right out of the American Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs. In other words, virtual genocide. Carter should be praised for his courage in standing up to pro-Israel forces in the US... And yes, I am Jewish!”

“%This whole approach obscures her real drawback - for me, her personality, behind all the mask facets, is extremely self-righteous and absolutist - she will be a Bush in terms of self-convinced arrogance, and she is center-right on military affairs. That's it, in a nutshell; why I fear her. Nothing to with gender. I would vote for Gloria Steinem, Erica Jong, Madeleine Albright, Gerry Ferraro, Oprah Winfrey, you name her, long before I'd vote for Hillary Clinton.”