I'd like to know how well the demographics for voting vs non-voting public match. Were the republican voters more committed? Were the ABB'ers too fragmented? ...anyone with some info on that? Mike R
Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Knowing that more than 100 million potential voters didn't bother to go to the polls, that percentage drops to approximately 24.5%. Bush was re-"elected" by less than a fourth of the country. I suspect that many of that minority were influenced by the two-word memes such as "compassionate conservative" and "war on terror." Now we hear about a "culture of life" in Florida while babies in Texas have their breathing tubes ripped from their bodies against their mother's wishes because the hospital can't extract enough money from them. [the Futile Care Law signed by Governor George W. Bush] I fear that much of America is hypnotized by the media and their bumper-sticker tabloidisms. Many others are "married" to the Republican Party and wouldn't vote for Jesus if he was the Democratic nominee. We also witness evergy policy from the Bush White House crafted in secret by the energy companies and the criminals who bilked Grandma Millie in California out of billions of dollars. The only way to really change the direction of the country's energy policy, or any other policy I suppose, is to do it ourselves and not count on any help from the Oil Oligarchs in Washington, D.C. The tipping point, or critical mass, is relatively small. Slightly less than 10%. Studies show in a bactrial culture that when the "good bacteria" reach the 9.99% or close to that number, I forget... trying to write this from memory and don't remember exactly where I read the data, anyway, when the "good" bacteria in the cullture reaches the ten percent level, the entire culture turns "good." Not so with the bad bacteria in the culture, it can reach numbers approaching 50% and still when the "good" bacteria reach the magic number near 10%, the whole culture turns good. I hope to join the ranks of homebrewers sometime this fall after I make the move from the city here in S. Florida to the "woods" of North Florida and begin building my off-grid home. Thanks for all the input as I mostly lurk in the background for now soaking in as much information about what works for you'all and what doesn't. I'll try and keep politics to a minimum on these lists but it can't be totally ignored when it overwhelms almost every aspect of our increasingly government-controlled lives. PEACE and veggies Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Irwin" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Secret US plans for Iraq's oil Hakan, Please understand and tell your friends that 48% of America voted against George Bush and his policies. Thatīs a lot of good people. I think that many who voted for Bush did so based on fear or his stand to overturn existing abortion laws. Many of the 48% feel heīs leading the country and the economy into ruins. I am awaiting the burning of books, particularly dictionaries and anticipate the Department of Defense being renamed the Ministry of Peace. Orwell and Huxley should be read again by everyone. The control of mass media in the U.S. by large corporations is the most onerous attack on free speech every propagated in history. Most folks are unaware of their great loss. Hang tough, there is no way this path for my country is sustainable let alone constitutional. Tom Irwin _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
