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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (34961)	7/11/2004 3:36:37 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

It's the CHRISTIAN THING to do! continue powering his CRUSADE against THE MUSLIM WORLD....with OUR oil CC

To: American Spirit who wrote (34961)	7/11/2004 5:31:39 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 81568

Excuse me but you've said you oppose all oil development in the US. If this isn't true, just tell me where you would allow oil drilling to occur.

To: American Spirit who wrote (34961)	7/12/2004 1:41:11 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

All the horrendous problems arising from the need for a steady supply of oil to power America's industries and whatnot should begin to wean America's dependence on Middle East oil. To be sure some efforts are underway to produce hybrid-powered vehicles --- vehicles powered by a combination of electricity from hydrogen fuel cells and solar panels and heat energy from propane, diesel and gasoline. But such efforts seem somewhat half-hearted, IMO. Simply because there's still so much oil available in the Middle East and elsewhere and it is far easier and cheaper to extract and process the oil. Also, it seems sensible to use up the oil as much as possible before switching completely over to other energy sources (even as these technologies would have become available in the foreseeable future when the oil is still not yet depleted.) BTW, I understand that in some nuclear submarines, electricity is obtained directly from uranium. Maybe this technology could be safely adapted for use in cars of the future. But there's a rub here as terrorists might find a way to exploit the uranium??????

To: American Spirit who wrote (34961)	7/12/2004 1:56:58 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Dr. Ravindran Batra (one-time professor of economics at St. Michaels University, wrote:- Well, I have observed a curious pattern since 1929 and that is that in the final year of each decade, there has been a nightmare somewhere on earth that had consequences for the entire next decade. The 1929 Stock market crash had economic repercussions that lasted for the next decade. Then in 1939 WW II started. That affected almost the entire decade. And in 1949 the Chinese revolution started a nightmare in China that dragged the U.S. into a cold war and into many regional conflicts like the Korean War. In 1959 the Cuban revolution took place. That was a very small country, but remember the U.S. and Soviet Union almost had a nuclear war over Cuba. With the Cuban revolution, the U.S. became determined to stop the spread of Communism which was part of the reason for getting involved in Vietnam. And by 1969 the rate of inflation really began to accelerate, such that it reached double digits in the 1970's. In 1979 we had the Iranian revolution, the Soviet invasion of Afganistan and a major sea change in U.S. monetary and economic policy. Then in 1989 we had the fall of the Berlin Wall, which signified the global demise of communism. And now, in 1999, another nightmare is about to occur. =============================== At the time Professor Ravindran Batra wrote the above (way back at the beginning of 1999) he did not venture to say what the nightmare was going to be. It seems to me he hinted it had to do with the world economy. However, from what we have been seeing the last few years, the nighmare appears to be Al-Qaeda and worldwide terrorism. Care to comment?