Drew Dowdell

Yes you can do that. My BF is getting his Italian citizenship prior to our move over there.

The responsibility to what? Prevent gays from legally protecting each other? To ensure that the word "God" appears on our currency? To ensure that no one can responsibly smoke pot?

fixed smallish and explodes when it takes it in the rear?

Assuming you're middle class Your tax rate = 25% Paris Hilton's tax rate = 15% (most, if not all of her income is from capital gains)

That depends.... is she a lesbian now?

While a nice document, the Declaration has no legal standing.

Yeah... Barack has been in the Senate for what... 40 years now? Barack drive a Chrysler 300C, McCain drives a CTS. I'd call that a tie. A 1/2 black man raised by a single white mother, who put himself through law school, who then turned down high paying jobs to help his local community is somehow more elitist and uppity than the white grandson of two Admirals who married a multi-millionaire heiress, and has been in the senate for 30 years..... I love it. 95% of the time is not reaching across party lines. Senator Spector is far more accomplished at that. Yes, Joe's party affiliation has changed. Liberman disagrees with the RNC with just about everything except the war. Barack drives a 300C. Senator McCain isn't a leader.... he has no executive experience remember? Here's the extreme parts about Candidate McCain. 1. He's in favor of tax cuts regardless of their fiscal responsibility. This will hurt the country more than help it. 2. He's in favor of Horse and Sparrow theory, this is only not extreme because it's been a mainstay of republican fiscal insanity for 80 years. 3. 100 year in Iraq? 4. Willing to invade Iran without even stopping and calling them to say "What would it take to get you to stop building those reactors?" 5. Willingly admits to knowing nothing about economics yet insists on setting economic policies. 6. Picked a VP candidate without vetting her. 7. Picked a VP candidate with no worthwhile experience to run with a 5 time skin cancer survivor.

What about it is extreme?

Personally, if you're truly in the sport of hunting for the sport, then you'll use a bow and arrow because that actually takes skill..... but that just me.

Had he picked Christi Todd Whitmann, I might have been more divided about my vote. With Palin on the ticket, there's just no way.

The 3.8 powered Cieras were crazy fast for what they were.

I have it and have a great time with it.... especially with the computer hooked up to the surround sound.

I'm talking about federal funding not federal control. The Federal government should set aside funding for each state to develop green energy that is most appropriate for the particular region. Florida is bad for wind but great for solar. Illinois is bad for solar but great for wind.

Fixed, but mostly right.

I'm not familiar with the technology. Let me look it up and get back to you. I might be in favor of government support of the technology if the technology was made open for multiple companies to produce it..... but that just an off the cuff answer with no background research done.

Nukes suffer from NIMBY but they don't really need any federal funding. Wind and solar are still need some funding to help with efficiency <less so with wind, but still>.

1. I'm very much in favor of an increase in capital punishment especially in cases where DNA evidence removes any reasonable doubt. As an added bonus, I believe the executions should take place on Pay Per View. Capital punishment loses it's effectiveness as a deterrent if you only hear about it when the guy on the evening news reads it to you. 2. I don't believe that at all..... I just wish the redneck and bible thumpers didn't have so much control over the Republican party. I am a fiscally prudent, socially liberaterian, and internationally isolationist. That's what the Republican party USED to stand for. 3. Not that I think Jimmy Carter was a great president, but he was right about at least one thing. We should have started switching away from oil as a transportation fuel source 35 years ago. Had we done that, we would have avoided both Iraq wars, we would have avoided war in Afghanistan, we would not be having a fuel crisis right now, and none of us would know who Osama Bin Laden is. Osama got pissed because he felt we disrespected Saudi Arabia while we where there in '92. In Iraq this time around we attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9-11. Talking with Iran is ALREADY producing results. We aren't getting along with Russia right now... what are we going to do... invade them too!? 4. I'm in favor of personal ownership of SOME firearms. I do not believe, however, that one needs to own assault rifles or fully automatic weapons. Handguns for self defense and guns for hunting are fine. If you're going to maintain that we should be able to keep weapons in case we need to overthrow our government, then we need to start building centrifuges in our basement for refining uranium.

Many states and localities are already doing that. There is a "green energy development" charge added to many utility customer's bills. Only problem is that it's NOT national so you have a patchwork of inefficient programs that don't achieve the benefits of economy of scale. There are some things, like education and healthcare, that are better handled on the local level. Things like energy, transportation, and defense are best handled on the national level.

There is a difference between long term, permanent subsidies and start up funding for a new technology/business.

The only thing that will change with a McCain administration is the stationary.

I think it's best to keep it all in one thread and not spread it around. Opening new threads encourages the topic to spill over into unrelated threads.

not even close. There was an initial burst with NAFTA (we're hearing the giant sucking sound now) and then Greenspan keeping interest rates dangerously low. Congress had nothing to do with it.

Exactly like that. Although I'm probably more in favor of trade restrictions than most here. I don't believe in massive globalization.

The ecotec is untested?

I never showed you that pic!!