Just shook hands with John Kerry.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

...about ten minutes ago. He delivered a speech across the street from my house kicking off his campaign on energy policy, so I figured I'd walk over and see what he had to say. I liked the speech and the idea. He's proposing a JFK-like "Put a man on the moon" plan for a massive scientific effort to develop alternative energy technologies.

He did make a good point, among many others, that we produce 3% of the world's oil while importing 62% of our own oil consumption and there's no way in hell we're gonna drill our way out of this.

BTW, you might not see it in the photo but the dude needs to trim his nose hair...

[[AK]Squidly]

I hoped to hell you washed your hand afterwards.

[[AK]Palooka]

Maybe he'll fly in his hairdresser on his wife's personal jet to trim his nose hair for a few Benjamins.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

I hoped to hell you washed your hand afterwards.

Good point, he might've touched a Republican...

[[AK]Bribo]

He's proposing a JFK-like "Put a man on the moon" plan for a massive scientific effort to develop alternative energy technologies.

Not a bad idea... but who's going to pay for it?

Besides, there already is a great alternative energy source - it's called nuclear energy. If we relied more on nuclear energy we'd depend less on foreign oil.

Even this hero of the environment movement agrees.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

More Evidence...




On another note, I was astounded at the Secret Service protection. There was easily as many guys as when I met Clinton and Bush Sr.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

Not a bad idea... but who's going to pay for it?agrees.

He plans on starting with taking the money oil companies pay us for drilling, exploration and production of oil on public land.

Besides, since we're running a HALF A TRILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL DEFICIT under Bush, what the hell does it matter? It's just monopoly money that we don't actually have to pay...

<sarcasm off>

[[AK]Hylander]

Not a bad idea... but who's going to pay for it?

Besides, there already is a great alternative energy source - it's called nuclear energy. If we relied more on nuclear energy we'd depend less on foreign oil.

Even this hero of the environment movement agrees.

Bribo, of course... "The Rich" are going to pay for it. In other words, you and me and other hard working Americans who make more than $8 an hour - which is the definition of "The Rich" if you are a Liberal.

Nuclear energy is a very realistic solution to the problem in terms of technological feasibility, but the typical enviro-whacko with the NIMBA attitude will halt it, just like oil exploration. If our country had enviro-terrorists in charge, our industry would become highly inefficient, non-competitive in the world marketplace, and we would have our liberties hog tied. All in the name of 'global warming' and other fallacies of false science.

Trust me, I love my gas gulping auto's as much as the next guy (if not more!!), and I don't want the government making any limitations on my freedom to drive that auto. However, I truly hope that one day fuel cell technology takes off because I would most certainly drive one as my 'daily driver' back and forth to work. Hell, I was seriously considering a Prius for my daily commuter - just as long as I can keep a V8, 5mpg Roadster if I so choose.

There are many possible solutions, ways to mitigate, and false hypothesis based on shady science in terms of pollution, ozone depletion, global warming, etc. My primary motivation for alternative fuel sources is not so much for the environmental benefits, but just the fact we rely on others for this resource and it is not a free market in which it is sold and purchased.

That being said, Americans are 'spoiled' in terms of the price of oil.

[[AK]Hylander]

a HALF A TRILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL DEFICIT under Bush

Which is not nearly unprecedented, nor necessarily unhealthy, in terms of the percentage of GDP it represents (Liberals don't like you talk in terms of real economics data because it confuses them and taints their lies). More so when you consider the effect 9-11 had on the economy and the cost of war.

[[AK]Squidly]

Good point, he might've touched a Republican...

If that were the case, you'd be ok. As it is you've got a slimey handful of liberal take-your-money-run-your-life-faint-in-the-face-of-terrorism-flip-flop oil.

Wipe that garbage off.

[GovermentCheese]

Sonic had a even better story in conjunction with what happened this morning, I just got the 411 from him on it. I will let him tell it though. All I can say is !WOW!

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

Which is not nearly unprecedented, nor necessarily unhealthy, in terms of the percentage of GDP it represents (Liberals don't like you talk in terms of real economics data because it confuses them and taints their lies). More so when you consider the effect 9-11 had on the economy and the cost of war.

So, if a half-trillion dollar deficit isn't unprecedented, who did it before? Reagan?

If it's "not necessarily unhealthy," I ask, for whom? Please list all of the reasons that a half-TRILLION dollar annual deficit is "healthy."

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

If that were the case, you'd be ok. As it is you've got a slimey handful of liberal take-your-money-run-your-life-faint-in-the-face-of-terrorism-flip-flop oil.

I really must ask what makes you believe that Kerry would "faint-in-the-face-of-terrorism." Is it his his exemplary record of service in the National Guard?

Could it be Bush's record as an international statesman? Is it because Kerry thinks that we shouldn't abandon Iraq?

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

Sonic had a even better story in conjunction with what happened this morning, I just got the 411 from him on it. I will let him tell it though. All I can say is !WOW!

Okay, I got a bit freaked out by the Secret Service this morning.

When I got to the security checkpoint, I'd forgotten that I still had my pocketknife kit. The Secret Service agent told me that he wasn't going to let me in with it and I asked him, 'What do you want me to do? I'm not giving up my pocket knife or my P-38 can opener for anybody."

He told me that I could take it back to my car and that I could go and see him at the front of the line and he'd remember me. So I went home and dropped off the goods and returned. I went up to him and he looked at me and said, "Okay, Curtis, you can go on through."

The thing is, I never gave him my name.

I did notice that in the security line there were a couple of photographers with really expensive cameras who were dressed-up to look like press, except that they were wearing Secret Service lapel pins.

I suspect that they were using some sort of facial recognition technology. After I got in, we had to wait for almost an hour. Coincidentally, the same two photographers were taking photographs of every single person in the crowd.

It may have been an accident that the agent addressed my by my first name, but the fact that he knew it was no accident.

I am impressed with the job they're doing and I do credit Bush for ordering Secret Service protection for Kerry as early as he did.

[[AK]Nuts]

How tall is he?