ANandy seems to think that this is HIS private forum. How many times has he posted rants that haven little or nothing to do with the cartoon in question? No one else here is suggesting that we give up oil completely, not in the cartoosn or the comments.
Only you
And Tigger, only you could blame Obama for phrase COINED by McCain’s running mate, Lol!
ANandy seems to think that this is HIS private forum. How many times has he posted rants that haven little or nothing to do with the cartoon in question? No one else here is suggesting that we give up oil completely, not in the cartoosn or the comments.
Only you
And Tigger, only you could blame Obama for phrase COINED by McCain’s running mate, Lol!
ANandy seems to think that this is HIS private forum. How many times has he posted rants that haven little or nothing to do with the cartoon in question? No one else here is suggesting that we give up oil completely, not in the cartoosn or the comments.
Only you
And Tigger, only you could blame Obama for phrase COINED by McCain’s running mate, Lol!
Big Oil or Big Government, Both will put us all in the poor house before it is over. Jimmy Carter’s policies would have made the USA a third world economy by now if we kept them in place.
If the incompetent GWB were in charge, the spill would have been handled a lot more inaptly - foreign ships would have been sucking-up the crud within hours of the blow-up, just for starters.
“Drill baby drill” became “spill baby spill”, and after weeks of watching the oil pour out and destroy the future for hundreds of thousands of people, and that nasty “wildlife” - as in our food source- those same panicked people are now all for drilling immediately in these high risk areas because 1,200 jobs are temporarily on hold????? Those fools in “government” actually want to slow things down until safety measures are inspected to make sure they’re properly in place?
The last example of “slow learners” this clueless was Marie Antoinette.
Funny how the hate big government crowd starts bitching about the government not doing enough to fix the spill. First they get rid of the regulations that protect us from spills and then they limit the liability, nice. Than big bad government is being mean to poor little BP. How dare we ask it, a foreign company, to pay for the damages! We must apologize for the terrible treatment we have given BP.
The Bush administration left nothing but disasters on its wake. This spill was made possible by Bush & Cheney, just like the numerous mine disasters. These bothersome safety regulations were in the way of profits and they had to go. Besides look at all the jobs that cleaning the oil spill has created. The Bush administration’s legacy will be with us for decades after Dick Cheney’s shriveled old heart stops beating.
Its really funny how the same people who demand accountability from EVERYONE else, start blaming the victims or anyone else within reach as soon as they are found at fault. How about you stand up and act like men for a change and accept that you have made these disasters possible? Nah, that will never happen. Its much easier and much more politically expedient to blame it on the Democrats or the environmentalists. Yeah, the Sierra Club caused the spill, that’s the story and we are sticking with it!
The lefties are truly amazingly entertaining, particularly as it concerns energy.
Basic laws of physics and chemistry? Basic laws of supply & demand? Basic laws of human ingenuity and curiosity? Basic laws of logic, reason and facts?
Naah, they are all the invention of the dirty rotten capitalists, keeping us from plugging into the receptacles of clean cheap energy … .
Just as Europeans, who have practiced the lefties’ ideals for decades, with energy costs triple or more of those of the US, and taxes galore being funneled to every imbecilic idea that has a remote relevance to production of energy, and yet, to the Europeans’ credit, they are actually building new nuclear power plants.
I guess oil will never ever run out, because it drops down from the sky like sunshine. And since it will never ever run out, we don’t need to think about what to do when it runs out.
Radish, thanks for this gem illustrative of the lefties rationality.
At the risk of confusing you and your brethren, Nicola Tesla’s idea was for wireless transmission of electrical energy, which, according to a little known laws of physics, had to be first generated - somehow …
The system is now being commercialized by a small Massachusetts firm, initially to charge / power small appliances…
Oh, dear God. WHAT “free broadcast energy?” Radish, sorry to burst your bubble, but energy comes from somewhere. Broadcast energy was a transmission technique, not a source.
And it was (and is) impractical because it is incredibly wasteful, and there is no evidence that it would work over long distances.
For the record, Tesla was the creator of AC current, too, and it’s advantage was not making it easier to meter, but that it would maintain constant strength over longer distances than DC. Edison was selling DC dynamos, so had no problem with building (and selling) plants every few miles. Westinghouse and Tesla thought it might work better otherwise, and they were right.
We have both AC and DC lines passing through our county. The problem with that wall socket is in most of the country, petroleum or coal are used to produce the electricity. It’s also one of the key “clean” uses for natural gas. Even in the northwest, with a lot of hydro- other sources feed our grid.
The problem with the argument from the right about that “lefty ignorance” is that many of us lefties DO understand physics, chemistry, and spent years working with federal leasing of gas, oil, mining claims, and other “ripoffs” of the taxpayers by corporate interests.
BTW, both my 61 and 65 Corvairs, and my 67 Lotus got well over 30 mpg. In 1977 Honda had five models getting over 50 mpg, in very road-worth and practical vehicles. But just better fuel economy won’t do it for us.
As to the ‘toon. Cheney pushed this to the extreme, not just as VP but starting back as advisor to Gerald Ford- he was also “brought up” by the that wonderful love-bug, Don Rumsfeld.
No, despite being an “oil man”, unsuccessful in an industry almost impossible to fail at, it wasn’t all “Bush’s fault”– the real directions came from Cheney.(Halliburton actually MAKES money, boy! with all those no-bid contracts do they ever!! “Lockheed Lynne”- has done okay as well.)
Radish - Tesla was wrong. Ask a physicist. Ask any physicist. Tesla was an ingenious inventor of electrical items, but he was no physicist.
And petergrt, the righties seem to be pretty anti-science when it comes to the life sciences and climate sciences…
^Yes, petergrt. Climate science has been politicized by the right, so has evolution, medical science (e.g., stem cells, the ability of the fetus to feel pain), genetics (“tampering with life!!”), physics (e.g., Star Wars being depicted both as possible and as the “peace shield)…I think that’s a good start.
cdward almost 14 years ago
Ummm, no.
Charles Brobst Premium Member almost 14 years ago
They never left.
Simon_Jester almost 14 years ago
ANandy seems to think that this is HIS private forum. How many times has he posted rants that haven little or nothing to do with the cartoon in question? No one else here is suggesting that we give up oil completely, not in the cartoosn or the comments.
Only you
And Tigger, only you could blame Obama for phrase COINED by McCain’s running mate, Lol!
Simon_Jester almost 14 years ago
ANandy seems to think that this is HIS private forum. How many times has he posted rants that haven little or nothing to do with the cartoon in question? No one else here is suggesting that we give up oil completely, not in the cartoosn or the comments.
Only you
And Tigger, only you could blame Obama for phrase COINED by McCain’s running mate, Lol!
Simon_Jester almost 14 years ago
ANandy seems to think that this is HIS private forum. How many times has he posted rants that haven little or nothing to do with the cartoon in question? No one else here is suggesting that we give up oil completely, not in the cartoosn or the comments.
Only you
And Tigger, only you could blame Obama for phrase COINED by McCain’s running mate, Lol!
BoxCar66 almost 14 years ago
Big Oil or Big Government, Both will put us all in the poor house before it is over. Jimmy Carter’s policies would have made the USA a third world economy by now if we kept them in place.
Jaedabee Premium Member almost 14 years ago
^ Because “bomb everyone” and “put missiles everywhere” certainly doesn’t drain our budget, our troops, or our overall morale.
“The Neo-Socialist myth”
The myth: Neo-Socialism?zev.farkas almost 14 years ago
Oil - can’t live with it, can’t live without it…
we’d better start trying to live without it (or at least a lot less…)
Motivemagus almost 14 years ago
Human - vapor carbs are fictional. http://tinyurl.com/2e86mox Like “neo-socialism.”
petergrt almost 14 years ago
Yes, absolutely!
If the incompetent GWB were in charge, the spill would have been handled a lot more inaptly - foreign ships would have been sucking-up the crud within hours of the blow-up, just for starters.
Now, that would really piss the unions off!
Dtroutma almost 14 years ago
“Drill baby drill” became “spill baby spill”, and after weeks of watching the oil pour out and destroy the future for hundreds of thousands of people, and that nasty “wildlife” - as in our food source- those same panicked people are now all for drilling immediately in these high risk areas because 1,200 jobs are temporarily on hold????? Those fools in “government” actually want to slow things down until safety measures are inspected to make sure they’re properly in place?
The last example of “slow learners” this clueless was Marie Antoinette.
sandrino almost 14 years ago
Funny how the hate big government crowd starts bitching about the government not doing enough to fix the spill. First they get rid of the regulations that protect us from spills and then they limit the liability, nice. Than big bad government is being mean to poor little BP. How dare we ask it, a foreign company, to pay for the damages! We must apologize for the terrible treatment we have given BP.
The Bush administration left nothing but disasters on its wake. This spill was made possible by Bush & Cheney, just like the numerous mine disasters. These bothersome safety regulations were in the way of profits and they had to go. Besides look at all the jobs that cleaning the oil spill has created. The Bush administration’s legacy will be with us for decades after Dick Cheney’s shriveled old heart stops beating.
Its really funny how the same people who demand accountability from EVERYONE else, start blaming the victims or anyone else within reach as soon as they are found at fault. How about you stand up and act like men for a change and accept that you have made these disasters possible? Nah, that will never happen. Its much easier and much more politically expedient to blame it on the Democrats or the environmentalists. Yeah, the Sierra Club caused the spill, that’s the story and we are sticking with it!
petergrt almost 14 years ago
We should all just get all the power from the wall sockets.
Its clean, cheap, and every house has got a few receptacles.
What’s the big deal?
edrush almost 14 years ago
Hey ANANANandy, how about sun oil or wind oil?
petergrt almost 14 years ago
The lefties are truly amazingly entertaining, particularly as it concerns energy.
Basic laws of physics and chemistry? Basic laws of supply & demand? Basic laws of human ingenuity and curiosity? Basic laws of logic, reason and facts?
Naah, they are all the invention of the dirty rotten capitalists, keeping us from plugging into the receptacles of clean cheap energy … .
Just as Europeans, who have practiced the lefties’ ideals for decades, with energy costs triple or more of those of the US, and taxes galore being funneled to every imbecilic idea that has a remote relevance to production of energy, and yet, to the Europeans’ credit, they are actually building new nuclear power plants.
lonecat almost 14 years ago
I guess oil will never ever run out, because it drops down from the sky like sunshine. And since it will never ever run out, we don’t need to think about what to do when it runs out.
petergrt almost 14 years ago
Radish, thanks for this gem illustrative of the lefties rationality.
At the risk of confusing you and your brethren, Nicola Tesla’s idea was for wireless transmission of electrical energy, which, according to a little known laws of physics, had to be first generated - somehow …
The system is now being commercialized by a small Massachusetts firm, initially to charge / power small appliances…
Motivemagus almost 14 years ago
Oh, dear God. WHAT “free broadcast energy?” Radish, sorry to burst your bubble, but energy comes from somewhere. Broadcast energy was a transmission technique, not a source. And it was (and is) impractical because it is incredibly wasteful, and there is no evidence that it would work over long distances. For the record, Tesla was the creator of AC current, too, and it’s advantage was not making it easier to meter, but that it would maintain constant strength over longer distances than DC. Edison was selling DC dynamos, so had no problem with building (and selling) plants every few miles. Westinghouse and Tesla thought it might work better otherwise, and they were right.
Carolo1 almost 14 years ago
best comic ever
Dtroutma almost 14 years ago
We have both AC and DC lines passing through our county. The problem with that wall socket is in most of the country, petroleum or coal are used to produce the electricity. It’s also one of the key “clean” uses for natural gas. Even in the northwest, with a lot of hydro- other sources feed our grid.
The problem with the argument from the right about that “lefty ignorance” is that many of us lefties DO understand physics, chemistry, and spent years working with federal leasing of gas, oil, mining claims, and other “ripoffs” of the taxpayers by corporate interests.
BTW, both my 61 and 65 Corvairs, and my 67 Lotus got well over 30 mpg. In 1977 Honda had five models getting over 50 mpg, in very road-worth and practical vehicles. But just better fuel economy won’t do it for us.
As to the ‘toon. Cheney pushed this to the extreme, not just as VP but starting back as advisor to Gerald Ford- he was also “brought up” by the that wonderful love-bug, Don Rumsfeld.
No, despite being an “oil man”, unsuccessful in an industry almost impossible to fail at, it wasn’t all “Bush’s fault”– the real directions came from Cheney.(Halliburton actually MAKES money, boy! with all those no-bid contracts do they ever!! “Lockheed Lynne”- has done okay as well.)
Motivemagus almost 14 years ago
Radish - Tesla was wrong. Ask a physicist. Ask any physicist. Tesla was an ingenious inventor of electrical items, but he was no physicist. And petergrt, the righties seem to be pretty anti-science when it comes to the life sciences and climate sciences…
petergrt almost 14 years ago
Real science is neither right or left, but left has politicized many sciences.
Man-caused global climate change being a stellar example of such politicization.
Is there a like example of politicization of any science by the right?
Motivemagus almost 14 years ago
^Yes, petergrt. Climate science has been politicized by the right, so has evolution, medical science (e.g., stem cells, the ability of the fetus to feel pain), genetics (“tampering with life!!”), physics (e.g., Star Wars being depicted both as possible and as the “peace shield)…I think that’s a good start.
parkersinthehouse almost 14 years ago
texas politics
oil politics
WarBush almost 14 years ago
<======I miss you guys too…like Hemorrhoids!
petergrt almost 14 years ago
” …like Hemorrhoids!”
What a shocker!
Coming from somebody who is astonished at the thought of someone being able to walk and chew - sometimes even at the same time.