Yet another religious cult raided

[Vandiablo]

How do you figure that? It takes a truck load of blinders-on partisanship to come up with that.

I figured that by going to a blinders-on partisan website: the McCain website.

I had remembered a McCain that had some differences with Bush. However, soon after locking up the nomination, the McCain website showed a changed man. A man in line with his party, rather than a man leading his party. I think we've had enough of that.

How do smart people fall into such ignorance?

I blame the Internet.

Is it also true, Van, that the Democratic Party was moving to make this country a one party system when it had the House, Senate, and White House at the same time?

And in which period were civil rights expanding and in which were they shrinking??

Your answer, I suppose, depend on which rights you hold most dear. Me, I like privacy and would prefer judges over agents deciding whether to listen in on my home. Even when, like me, you have nothing to hide. (Except some deviant practices that are not anyone's business... and those old Playboys in a box somewhere; they have some good articles.) It's the principle. I suppose some of you prefer to not wear seatbelts and may have a different point of view. (6 feet under??)

A one-party system in a state with no civil rights is authoritarian. A one-party system in a state with ample civil rights eventually grows into two-party when some divisive issue arises.

Of course, our government is not really a party system at all. (Except maybe VP elections??) The parties are there, of course, but I think Constitution doesn't have them, does it? The parties are politics self-inserting onto the scene.

The bad time I was referring to was laying the corner block to introduce a new McCarthyism. You are free to hold liberal beliefs, but not if you want to work again. (Ref: K street project.)

One solution is to significantly reduce the human population. (Four bilion ought to do, methinks) Of course, the very tough question is: which two billion go into the big woodchipper? Not an easy answer.
After thirty five years of horsecrap energy policy, it was a bill ignored that came due, with a penalty. (Good article in Newsweek about the original leader of Greens in the US who left due to the blinders on approach so many of his colleagues were taking. Their thirty plus years of anti nuke protests helped keep coal and fossil fuel plants on the top of the heap, thanks very much.)

And nuclear, if done properly, is a viable source for many greens today. But there are many who have not heard that it is possible to make a safe reactor, and others who don't believe it. I am in favor now, though I was opposed for many years.

Van, do you think this will serve as a wake up call?

I don't. I still see SUV's and monster trucks all around me, and I live in a suburban area.

Well many of them have to still make payments. The recession will take a lot of them. The people next door to my parents had their new big ol' pickup repo'ed. Now they drive less. Of course, someone else will buy that truck and drive it. I feel bad for them, they have 3 kids and have a daughter who is a friend of my daughter and is a very sweet girl.

Nice try at being sly. Failed.

um... did you mean eppie??

I was sorely tempted.

Sorry, I didn't mean to tempt your sores.

-V