On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Rick Root wrote: > I'm a liberal, I think. > > I pro-choice.
Me too. > I believe in much tighter gun control. The problem is how, in practice, gun "control" really works. Liberals have always mocked the "If guns are illegal, only criminals will own guns." slogan of the NRA, but that is exactly what happens. Reasonable restrictions are fine, but people need to be able to defend themselves. Look at Mexico. Guns are illegal in Mexico, and yet they have incredible problems with gun violence and kidnapping. Hell, look at DC. The SC recognized the problem, which is why they struck down the DC handgun ban. > I think we > should help the poor and the stupid. More than we do already? How do we pay for it? > I think Exxon should be forced > to pay their fucking debt to Alaska with 20 fucking years of interest. Exxon has shelled out a ton of money, as they should have, and they have to pay another $300 million, according to the SC. > > I think we should have some kind of nationalized health care for > children and college students. > Health care is a huge mess, not the least because of government bureaucracy and endless red tape of insurance companies. > > I think we should do more research into alternative fuels. I do > believe we should reduce our dependence on foreign oil and > conservation, mass transit, and alternative fuels are excellent long > term options. Telecommuting. We need to stop driving so freaking far every day. Alternative fuels? Better batteries and fuel cells are what I would like to see. I think McCain's idea of a $300 million prize for a better battery is OK, but if someone actually built such a battery, the payout in the market would be billions, tens of billions potentially. > > I am a liberal.. but not an environmental wacko. > > I think we SHOULD be drilling in Alaska and off our coastlines. The > alaskan pipeline is not the environmental disaster that the > environmental wackos said it would be. I don't believe that oil rigs > off the coast of north carolina are going to be harmful to the coastal > environment. All them rigs out in the Gulf survived Katrina just > fine. I might be worried if that volcano in Africa exploded and fell > into the Atlantica all of the sudden, but if that happend, we'd have > bigger problems (the tsumani could potentially flood the entire > eastern seabord to 100 miles inland!) > Break out the drills! The enviros have it all wrong here. > > We need to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil sooner than later, > and research is a LONG term solution. +1 > > I also think we should be building MORE nuke plants. I live within 10 > miles of the Harris facility just outside of Raleigh, NC. It has one > reactor but the design is capable of sustaining 5 reactors. I'm okay > with that. I think nuclear power is safe and we should use more of it > not less. > > If electric cars and plug-in hybrids are coming our way, and i think > they are, we need more electricity, and I'd rather it be nuclear than > coal powered. > The biggest challenge with nuclear power is storing spent fuel. The irony is that we could re-process the fuel and re-use it, eliminating virtually all of the highly radioactive waste, but there has been a ban on re-processing (because the resulting materials could be weaponized) since the Carter Administration banned it by executive order. That needs to be undone. The French re-process all of their fuel. We can learn a LOT from the French nuclear industry. > > We see ads around here for "Clean Coal" all the time... but Duke Power > still wants to build dirty coal plans. I don't support that. I don't > know that much about "clean coal" but I certainly don't like the sound > of "dirty coal". > Clean coal plants are very cool from a technology perspective, but expensive to build. The challenge is how to do away with "dirty coal" plants without a huge increase in the cost of electricity. A combination of nuclear, natural gas, wind, and clean coal could be the answer. > > Drill for oil whereever we can, and build more nuke plants. > > I guess I'm not all liberal.... ;) > Nah, it just means you are a normal person and not a "true believer". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263093 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
