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   hapa Posted 10:16 am
   03 Sep 2008

   dear sarah,i was saying, "drilling won't solveany of our energy problems." i think a few people were. you should check that before tonight's speech so you don't, um -- trip up -- in front of a national audience.

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   mreinbold Posted 10:20 am
   03 Sep 2008

   Finally a politiciantalking about energy who atually knows something about energy.

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   Colin Wright Posted 11:41 am
   03 Sep 2008

   Mreinbold -- US production won't save us...Check out the peak oil graph for the U.S. You'll see production peaked about 1970 at 10 mpb and we're down to close to 4 mbd today. There is only so much water you can wring from a sponge.

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   LPS Posted 11:55 am
   03 Sep 2008

   It's oddthat republicans seem to have won this game. Most folks, I suspect, do not understand the ins and outs of oil supply, oil reserves, USGS projections and probabilities, net exports, peak oil, and so on. All they probably know is that republicans support increasing our domestic supply by drilling and that democrats apparently do not.
   Say no more. Game over.

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   mreinbold Posted 1:33 pm
   03 Sep 2008

   Palin's speechSLAM DUNK! YES! The Delaware Windbag has got to be nervous, not to mention the former Community Organizer.

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   hapa Posted 3:26 pm
   03 Sep 2008

   slam dunks.baron davis slams it home over andrei kirilenko, NBA playoffs, 2007
   The Dunk: Best moment in Bay Area sports history -- or did it lose the series?
   I will go so far to say that the Baron Davis dunk might have cost the Warriors the series. Am I nuts? Perhaps, but there are several things about The Dunk that need to be pointed out.
   1) It was an offensive foul. Look at the picture.
   as the speech went on, a certainty grew in the wording: "i don't have to tell you what i'm going to do about the big stuff. i'm a republican; republicans are the answer."
   2) Davis acted like a goon after The Dunk and later drew his fifth technical foul of the playoffs, a sad number for the supposed leader of the team.
   this is exactly what i expect from the next two months of the mccain operation. nothing but preening character attacks.
   3) It meant nothing. The Warriors had the game well in hand and Davis didn't even need to be on the court at the time.
   it was a very well delivered speech in an auditorium that was closed to the general public, by a person who has not been allowed near a press conference.
   4) Davis was pretty awful the next game, so he may have used his last gallon of gas on that meaningless dunk. He even dished out a terrible (some would say cheap) foul on Derek Fisher late in Game 4, a foul that smacked of poor sportsmanship.
   cheap shots figured late in the speech. what else the mccain organization can offer the country is unclear.
   5) The Jazz had to get sick of seeing and hearing about The Dunk and it had to give them much incentive for Game 4, possibly backfiring in a way the Warriors could not have imagined.
   my sister, an obama fan, wrote to me when the speech was over. "r u watching this s***? i'm so angry i'm crying."
   multiply that times millions of obama supporters, people who take blatant lies about their candidate very seriously and personally. would you like to talk about sleeping giants?
   So go ahead and buy the posters, run it back on you digital recorder, savor it and remember it forever. But it wasn't that great.
   ditto.

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   mreinbold Posted 4:31 pm
   03 Sep 2008

   hapaAre you a dittohead? Me too!

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   hapa Posted 5:07 pm
   03 Sep 2008

   goodfor a minute there i was worried you swam in the deep end of the pool. pretty dangerous to be over your head like that.

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   Green Granny Posted 7:31 pm
   03 Sep 2008

   Sadly LPS you may be right"Most folks. . . do not understand the ins and outs of oil supply. . ."
   
   "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Ghandi

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    mreinbold Posted 11:44 pm
    03 Sep 2008

    good, hapaLimbaugh listeners are the most informed voters in the country. Many studies have confirmed it. Nice try at elitism, though.

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    jarrodondrums1 Posted 1:36 am
    04 Sep 2008

    Alternative energyI love the whole McCain - Palin plan for energy. Many people criticize the energy ideas and doubt they will work and what not, but at least they have a plan in general and a goal to find more efficient ways to get more American energy sources which would help us rely less on foreign energy sources. Laying down more pipelines, nuclear plants, and finding more alternative energy sources is easily one of the most important things America needs right now and the McCain - Palin administration I feel can pull it off. Not only would that open up new energy sources but also new jobs for people who want to join the cause which makes it even more worth it. All in all I feel if anybody is going to do the job of finding more alternative energy for America its McCain - Palin.

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    mreinbold Posted 1:49 am
    04 Sep 2008

    jarrodondrumsYou got it! Full disclosure: I am a geologist looking for a job in the oil patch. I worked in it back in the boom of the 1980's. Serious, honest people know that fossil fuels, including natural gas (yes, Nancy Pelosi, natural gas is a fossil fuel) are the most efficient and economic fuel sources for many years to come.

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