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Will a black bloke make it
This is from over at blurtit:
Why Obama Wont Be President?
- In both 2000 and 2004, the South voted 100% Republican
- In Florida, one third of black men have been stripped of their right to vote.
- Blacks in inner cities were forced to literally queue all day in the hope of being allowed to vote
- Coded Racism - As Hillary let slip one time, “white Americans”
- Since 1986 Only Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, both southern good ole boys, have been able to break the Republican stranglehold.
Doug hoping Smiley of Blurtit is wrong
Wow I missed that story
George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider Stanley Hilton
Doug having a fun afternoon
Jews are moving to Germany rather than Israel
Israel this month is 6o years old…..I don’t make any political view on this and whether or not as a country it should exists. But if we went back 100 years the map of the world would be very to how it is now. One day we will have to learn to live with our neighbours, be they black, white, short, small, with foreskin, without foreskin…..
Some facts:
- In 2003, 12383 Russians Jews moved to Israel but 15442 moved to Germany.
- The Jewish population in Germany is now over 200,000 up from 20,000 when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
- Over 1 million arabs live in Israel
- Arabs breed faster than Jews
Doug who likes his neighbours
Where has all my oil gone?
My Tank Runneth Dry
You’d have to be from another planet not to realize we are headed for a major disaster with the world’s oil supply. We are using it so fast, that depletion of usable reserves is going to be a reality in the not too distant future.
We’re energy hogs. We’re most likely not going to change our consumption habits no matter how many doomsday predictions experts give us. So, what are we going to do when the well runs dry? What will our children do when there is insufficient energy resources to maintain for them an “acceptable” way of life; a way of life they have become accustomed to?
My simple solution is that we are going to have to accept new ways of life, and we need to do this long before the oil reserves become depleted.
Go out on the highways in any major city or rural town. What do you see? Hundreds of cars, buses and trucks, each going their own way, most of them having only one passenger? Does this make sense to you? It doesn’t to me, especially when you consider that many of the people occupying those vehicles are going to similar destinations as their fellow drivers. If we want to have any hope of making our energy resources last, we’re going to have to change our ways in this area. Carpooling, ride share, van share are other such cooperative ventures are going to have to become our norm.
Another thing I notice is how many people will get into traffic for a short hop, especially in city centers. Why? Are there not plenty of alternatives? How about a bicycle to go that six block trip to the supermarket to pick up just a few items? How about a moped or a scooter? Is it necessary to pull a six cylinder vehicle out of the garage for this sort of trip?
How about public transportation? Wow! What a unique concept! Most large city centers have excellent public transit systems, and they run 24/7. Public transportation works. It may take a little longer, but don’t you have plenty of diversions that can fill the added time? I read, get paperwork done, study, listen to music and sometimes even strike up conversations with others during the ride. The time goes by in a flash.
Another energy waster is all the trucks on the roads. Think of all the gas they burn day in and day out, delivering their wares to the same general destinations that other trucks are headed. Why haven’t we developed our rail systems better? Many European countries have excellent rail systems for both commuters and shipping, they can be used more for moving a far greater amount of goods with far less expenditure of oil.
True, we need to develop alternative sources of energy such as wind and solar power. But these development efforts are going to take time. We need to develop alternative energy sources that are practical so that people can rely upon them for their daily commuting and traveling needs. But those are long-term development projects. We need something in the short-term, something that can be implemented right now. I say that something is our own human creativity. We are going to have to find better ways to do the things we need to do in order to maintain or improve upon our current quality of life. I say that the best alternative source of energy is going to be our willingness to change and adapt to a new lifestyle, one that embodies a bit less convenience, but takes into account the needs of others; future generations. We are going to have to learn to think twice before we just put the keys in the ignition of a large automobile. We are going to have to learn to give up some convenience if we want to leave a planet for our grandchildren and great grandchildren that can support them into their old age. We will need to consider the needs of others; not just ourselves when we decide how to get from point A to point B.
Maybe the increasingly spiraling cost of natural gas and oil is a good thing. Maybe it will be a wake-up call for many of us. Maybe when it costs three times as much to have those books delivered to our homes by the online store, we will consider bicycling to our favorite bookstore when we want something new to read. Maybe when we become dangerously close to depleting our stores of oil we will accept the fact that we are living in a new age, one where we may have to give up some conveniences for the good of future generations.
Personally, I think that could actually be a good thing. Now leave that car in the garage and grab the bus to work! Who knows? You might actually enjoy the ride.
Doug who does like his train rides
Burn food and make fuel - you stupid person
Now is that a dam daft idea if I ever heard of one.
Whoever thought that biofuels will solve the worlds problems.
So what do we do when we have loads of cars, but start running out of fuel….it’s only a mtter of time.
We are not fixing a problem with oil dependency, but moving a problem. We simply have to look at energy sources we have in abundanc:
- solar
- wind
- wave
Doug being simple
Is Iraq a sovereign state…….
Is Iraq a sovereign nation? Or are things like democracy just theatre, something to keep the folks distracted while the real work goes on?
Seems deals are in the works to give the USA rights to do whatever they please, almost like, say, an occupying force?
So in 2000, ie. before “the war on terror” and 9/11 the PNAC report said
“a permanent unit should be based in the Persian Gulf region”
“even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region.”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9651/Rebuilding-Americas-Defenses-PNAC
Looks like Georgey boy has very nearly granted the neocons their wish. How soon before the bombs start dropping on Iran?
I can hear the war drums from here.
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Doug
We are in Europe even if you don’t like it
Why oh why do I keep getting rubbish saying lets have a referendum about being in Europe.
It’s a fact we are in Europe, we may be separated by 21 miles of sea, but even fat comedians can swim that.
I voted some people to make some decisions for me and they a long time ago decided to be part of the EEC, it made a lot of sense to me then and still does. Simple we have some French people next door and they aren’t moving, so we better get on with stuff.
One day we will have a World government, if we survive that long…again it would seem to make lots of sense to me.
Doug ver pro Europe
Do athletes protest at the Olympic Games?
So China is not that nice to some people is common knowledge.
So if you are going to compete at the Olympics should you mention anything about the dodgy things they get upto?? Well just remember the guys in 1968 at the Olympic Games in Mexico, who had some balls:
After the games, the Olympic committee banned them from ever competing again and they found it very difficult to get work?
Fancy watching another Torch Relay
Doug been to the Olympics
A blip in the life of a planet
Between 1800 and 2100 man used all of the useable products in the ground, on the land, in the sea and in the air.
After 2100 we may have to work out how to use the rubbish we created????
OR will we sort it ou before hand?
Doug looking at his rubbish
Karl Rove - the puppet master - where has he gone?
They say behind every good man is a woman. However, for George Bush, it was Karl Rove who pulls his strings.
Since Rove’s resignation in August 2007, Bush has been without his right hand man. Once called a ‘boy genius’ by the U.S. president, Rove successfully masterminded Bush’s political career.
As possibly the world’s most powerful advisor, Karl Rove has a colourful political career which spans over thirty years. Perhaps is style is best illustrated by the events of 1970. As a teenager, Rove turned up to volunteer for the election campaign of Alan Dixon who was running for the post of Illinois state treasurer. Entering and leaving the campaign’s Chicago headquarters quickly, no one took much notice of the bespectacled teen.
They certainly didn’t think of associating innocent-looking Rove with a thousand invitations, printed on official stationery which were handed out in the city’s homeless shelters and red-light district that promised “free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing.”
While Dixon was able to play down the event and still secure his elected post, Rove has outshone him by far. Despite only a high school education, Rove has managed to progress to the White House. While he may not have a title as impressive as the president, he holds a role much more powerful, for he is, without a doubt, Bush’s puppet master.
Rove has overseen the transformation of George W. Bush from a hard-drinking politician’s son into U.S. president. And for any of us who have heard Bush’s speeches which are the fodder of late night talk show hosts, that is a mean feat.
While many election campaign coordinators are cast aside upon reaching the Oval Office, Rove has been by Bush’s side since his election as governor of Texas. While the Rove camp refuses to speak out on his role, many unauthorized biographies have spoke of how he is the Bush presidency’s most powerful player.
Rove biographer Lou Dubose said: “I think it’s an enormous position of power, and it’s hard to overstate. I think he’s unique in the modern presidency.”
The Bush presidency has managed to quash many memoirs and tales of Bush’s puppet master however some ex-advisors have spoken out in recent years. Former advisor John Di Iulio revealed in a telling email to Esquire magazine just how far Rove’s power stretches.
Following his 2001 resignation, DiIulio wrote: “Karl is enormously powerful, maybe the single most powerful person in the modern, post-Hoover era ever to occupy a political adviser post near the Oval Office…Little happens on any issue without Karl’s OK, and often he supplies such policy substance as the administration puts out.”
Former treasury secretary Paul O’Neill knows all to well just how far Rove’s power stretches. Four years ago, he spoke out about a 2002 cabinet meeting concerning tax cuts. The president, it seemed had thought twice about concentrating on benefits for America’s richer classes. According to O’Neill, Bush asked: “Didn’t we already give them a break at the top?” Within moments, Rove took control of the situation, allegedly telling him to “stick to principle”. O’Neill’s economic acumen lost out to Rove’s political sway and he was eventually removed from his cabinet post.
Karl is now writing a book and scarily advising John McCain?
Doug …….