Wednesday Open Thread

Apparently it is common knowledge that BHO wants to lose the war in Iraq.

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And Battlestar Galactica foretold the future with the election leading up to the settlement of New Caprica. If BHO is elected, the Cylons will follow us home.

In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,

Obama would swift-boat McCain if he thought that was the best strategy to win. His strategy just so happens to channel positive emotions rather than negative ones. He'd bring up a Manchurian Candidate scenario if he thought it'd be a net gain for him in the polls. If you think Obama would rather stay the junior Senator from Illinois and keep his principles than be the President, you're sorely mistaken.

This is why good people stay out of national politics. Good people don't have the stomach to do what is needed to win national elective office. Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

I never broke the law; I am the law! -- George W. Bush Judge Dredd
I'm listening to...

and probably also bad politics -- that might play well with the hardcore conservative base, but it risks alienating the undecideds.

Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world -- Tennyson

the famous 'stab in the back' ploy fabricated by the Nazi's.

Isn't that precious. And he's funny too. Great guy.

Further stabbing occurs by the McCain camp while Obama is at the holocaust museum in Israel, as McCain implies that Obama is pro-genocide .

Can folks stop calling McCain a moderate now please. He isn't and he never has been.

McCain would rather use war, than consider ending one.

It is the economy, stupid.

I think he is spot on.

McCain has nailed the essence of the Obama campaign. His willingness to morph his position to accommodate the latest poll, he ability to lie without blinking an eye, as he did when he claimed to not have ever heard anything from the pews, then in his speech admitted he had, or more recently his outright claim of being on the banking committee!?!? He knows without any room for accidental mis-statement, he is not on the Senate Banking committee, yet he could not help himself but lie. Curious.

But most of all though, and this was JM's focus, was BO's arrogance in making policy statements on Iraq without even consulting Petraeus, and then there is his unwillingness to both admit the surge worked, and that a timetable was an inappropriate way to work a war.

But worry not, because a couple weeks have passed and BO has changed all of those positions, LOL!, and now is anxious to redeploy our troops to fight a war in Afghanistan!

Do you think his code pink supporters are happy about that?

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." ~ B. Goldwater

Well....OK, I'm not glad it's hitting TX. But I am glad it isn't going to hit you in Fla.

Actually, I wish it would hit CA.....we need the rain.

Ugh. Even Pittsburgh gets too hot and humid for me.

I'll be heading to San Francisco soon for a weekend. The weather is much more to my liking this time of year.

"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was
made a man." --Frederick Douglas

While some see the scrubber as an efficient and economical way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, many environmentalists are opposing the technology because it allows people to use fossil fuels and emit carbon in the first place.

Environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace have consistently opposed similar technologies, such as carbon capture and sequestration, because they do not address what they see as the root of the problem.

Well of course it doesn't address the root "problem", but if Greenspace focused it's efforts elsewhere, the Columbia program could work in synergy with other efforts that Greenspace is trying to promote.

In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,