Wow. I have never been called a Nazi before. I think I am honored. Or something.

I AM surprised, however, that you didn’t catch my KKK roots, as well, seeing as I clerked for the Hon. Robert Byrd.

Plus, I listen to jazz.

wccawa on August 3, 2008 at 11:31 PM

Got you beat, I was once called the Anti-Christ by the father of a girl I was dating. I laughed, and then pointed out if I am the Anti-Christ, I’m not doing much with that thousand year reign, and in order for me to be the anti-Christ, Jesus had come for the second time, and he missed the boat. For some reason, this angered him that much more.

I left shortly thereafter, and we never managed to get together and work out the issues before the girl and I went our separate ways.

Snake307 on August 4, 2008 at 12:08 AM

Today’s right bears little resemblance to the right of the 80’s, a cap.

The whole religious superstition thing is a big change for one.

The complete toadyism towards the defense and oil industries is another…

alphie on August 4, 2008 at 1:00 AM

Interesting, that you would bring religion into this. I’m afraid your true colors are starting to show my friend.

No one has posted that we have some sort of divine right to the oil, nor have they posted that God is creating more every minute to insure we are well supplied. So why would you bring religion into this? Only one reason, you’re now showing your bias towards those who have religious beliefs. As a guess born out of observation of the Liberals, they never seem to have any issue with any religion except Christianity, which is what I’m going to assume you are opposed to.

Conservative Values aren’t religious, although they can be. They are based upon the idea that the individual is in command of his or her own destiny, and that is exactly what Reagan told the world in the 1970’s, and the 1980’s. Although Reagan was quite religious, and was one of the first to classify the Soviet Union as evil, a move which Liberals were outraged about, even though as a fact, it was undeniable. We had the Gulag Archipelago and we knew the facts, yet somehow calling a system which wipes out twenty million of it’s own citizens in the purges evil is wrong.

So your assertion is in fact false concerning the Conservative movement of the 80’s. However, it is more than a religious belief, it is in fact, the time tested, and often demonstrated, best way to manage a society.

Only a liberal believes that the Government is the answer, a Conservative never does. The reason? We’ve seen failed Government program after failed program continue every year, and fail worse every year. Take any department you wish, and efficiency and effectiveness are two words which will not be used to describe them. The Department of Education. Tens of thousands of workers overseeing education, and our children can’t find their own state on a map. Health and Human Services, which for some reason remains mute on the public health issues which unrestricted illegal immigration poses to society. Another argument that Liberals ignore. What happens if an illegal immigrant enters a city, say Denver, carrying small pox or typhoid or any other disease which is no longer inoculated against because it’s eradicated here in the US? Answer? Potentially thousands dead, but hey, they gotta live and infect us right?

Conservative ideals work, they are time tested, and proven time and time again to work. Businesses like the Oil Companies are in competition. They compete against one another. They buy and sell products to the public. Like Walmart and K Mart, they compete.

We’ve talked before about the problem with alternatives, they just aren’t ready for prime time. No liberal has yet to explain how they are ready, just that we should pretend they are and move forward. You can’t heat a house on pretend energy, nor can you power an economy with good intentions.

$55,000 to convert a car to all electric. That is a whole bunch of money isn’t it? Yet we’re supposed to pretend that they’ll sell like hotcakes, but where do we get the electricity to power them?

Let’s pretend shall we? Let’s pretend that over the next year, the entire population converts to electric cars. The Great Depression would be a breeze compared to this. First off the current electrical grid isn’t able to keep up with current demand, California’s rolling brownouts are a perfect example. On top of this, we’re going to be charging how many cars at once? Well, we’ll have rolling brownouts at recharging stations as well. That’s fine, we’ll all suffer a bit right?

How about cost? When California had the summer of blackouts, the cost doubled, and then tripled over a couple months. So now we’re going to price the electrical system so high to reduce demand to a sustainable level that poor people can’t afford to light or heat their houses? Great plan Alphie. Before you claim it won’t happen, that will happen, it has happened, and is guaranteed to happen.

Sure the future is bright, but it’s not here yet. It’s just not ready for prime time yet. IT needs more time, more development, more production prep before it’s ready. No average citizen is going to spend a hundred thousand dollars for an electrical car. They aren’t. You can’t get the price down without improving batteries and the production of them, and you can’t do that without reducing the environmental regulations that liberals cherish.

Nuclear would be a great stop gap measure, for the next twenty to thirty years, use Nuclear to support the national electrical grid and at the same time work to improve those alternative energy sources that are at best quasi reliable.

Oh no, we can’t use nuclear the Left screams. That’s horrible for the environment.

Why is it I and the other conservatives want a better life for our citizens, more opportunity, better education, and improved quality of life while the liberals want less of all of those? Minimal education without any standards. Less air conditioning, fewer television sets, more of the Orwellian nightmare that was 1984. Why is it that Conservatives cheer when a Liberal radio station gets started up, and the Liberals scream when Rush Limbaugh picks up another radio station for his program?

Why is it that only Conservatives want true debate, true public debate? Any time a Conservative approaches with a debate topic, the Liberal shouts that they should just go and die and runs away to cheers from the college kids.

Stifling debate is not the way of an open and informed society. Yet, that is the cornerstone of the Liberal Agenda.

I’ll let you in on a little secret. The company I work for hired a Diversity Trainer to come and teach all the employees about Diversity. People, liberal and conservative, in my department all laughed when they heard it was mandatory. That meant I would go, and I am unabashedly outspoken. For two hours in that class, I challenged every single one of her assertions, and proved a vast majority of them as demonstrably wrong. The few I didn’t prove, were left in doubt mainly because I can’t possibly remember every thing.

I left the class, and went to work out the remainder of my shift. She left the class twitching, with a reported migraine headache. Show me a Liberal principal, and I’ll show you a lie built upon a misinformed supposition.

The Technology is improving, and when it’s fiscally sound to do so, the Conservatives will be first in line to get it. Why do I say that? Simple, because I know the Conservatives, and we’re generally speaking, cheap. We’ve earned that money, and we’re loath to throw it away. When wind power or solar power are fiscally competitive, you can bet Conservatives will be first in line to buy them. When Electric Cars are priced as able to compete with gasoline, you can bet we’ll be buying them.

Improve the tech first Alphie, you have to show it’s preferable by demonstrating it’s fiscally sound application. You can’t just say “Do it because I said so.” That’s the tone of an exasperated parent telling a child to eat their green beans. We’re not kids, and we’re not talking about green beans, we’re talking about the realistic application of theory into life. The theory you and the left propose, isn’t applicable to real life. Not just yet it isn’t.

Snake307 on August 4, 2008 at 2:29 AM