http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/wallace-energy

I’ll air my grievances after xmas.

;)

Cheers.

Have a good holiday

lol

Merry Christmas

an optimist sees the glass half full

a pessimist sees it half empty

an engineer sees the glass twice too large.

Any travel plans for the holidays? All our kids are here now so we’re planning on having Christmas at our house, then Saturday my wife’s family is converging on our house for a day, going to be a long two days. Looks like we’ll have a white Christmas, we don’t have snow now but it is supposed to snow in the next couple days.

Pray for something resembling the Christmas Truce of 1914, chivalry died after that.

I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

We all have our prejudices, there isn’t much we can do about that, but when we take them to an unacceptable level we become racist etc. Just like anger and love are normal human emotions that can be taken to extremes, to be a productive member of society doesn’t mean we can’t have those emotions and prejudices, we just need to learn to control them. Just saying a word or laughing at a joke doesn’t make you racist because you are on the wrong side of the PC line. Both Woods and Obama are half white so if a black man makes a joke about that is he a racist? Maybe, maybe not, but if he hates those two celebrities simply because they are half white he is.

Look, I wish my daughter had married a white man, but I am happier she is with the man she loves. I can live with it. I wish my other daughter wasn’t gay but she is still the same cool kid as she would be if she were straight. On the plus side I don’t have to worry that she will get pregnant before she gets out of school. Always the glass half full kind of guy.

Rev. Al Sharpton Speaks Out On Tiger Woods Affairs

The Rev. Al Sharpton held a press conference today to blast Tiger Woods for the lack of diversity among his mistresses. Sharpton claims that the lack of African-American women among Woods’ harem will have a negative affect on the black community, specifically young black girls.

“Why is it that a man who calls himself black can’t bring himself to cheat on his wife with a black woman?” said Sharpton, speaking to a group of supporters in Harlem. “What does it say to young black girls everywhere when you pass them over? Shame on you, Tiger Woods. What would your daddy say?”

Sharpton, who has long championed taking black women as mistresses, said that today’s black athletes need to stop neglecting black women when it comes to extramarital affairs, and should follow the examples of positive black role models such as Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom cheated on their wives with black women. Sharpton also stressed that cheating with African-American women! would help the black community financially by giving black girls the chance to sell their stories to tabloids and gossip magazines.

Sharpton added, “I’m not asking you to not cheat on your wives, I’m just asking you to give back to your own community.”

This is one conservative that isn’t unhappy with China’s growth, I just want to play on an even field.

To throw out a couple of general comments:

There’s a really good article in the new print edition of Wired about Thorium reactors. After reading it. I think this technology is the best chance we’ve got for changing the energy infrastructure of the world. The majority of the article is about this scientist’s blog:

http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/

I would really like to see both political parties in the USA and other world governments get behind this. Thorium fission looks like the closest we’re going to come to a magic energy source. It also offers the chance of legitimately peaceful nuclear power.

The comments shcb posted by Prof Paul Ehrlich & Professor Maurice King are genuinely scary to me. Really the wrong conclusions. Regardless of anyone here personally trending toward liberal or conservative views, I wonder if we could all agree on that?

No real conservative, by my understanding, should be unhappy in the least with the growth of China’s economy and the movement of wealth from the USA to China. That is not some plot to ‘redistribute wealth’ and ‘make everyone poor’ it’s the free market in action. China has far fewer health and safety rules, fewer environmental regulations and the labor is much, much cheaper than even non-union workers in the American south. It is simply much cheaper to manufacture products in China. Come the time when China is too expensive to rely on (a natural by product of economic growth) we will see the bulk of the world’s manufacturing shift elsewhere. I believe this may already be beginning to happen.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays

Smith,

The term I use was “mud hut countries not mud hut people, this is the danger of semantic infiltration, only after your misstatement did I call them mud hut people. But whatever, we went through this same thing with the fascist statement, I was going to ask you what you wanted me to call them that wouldn’t be offensive but I just don’t care, it wouldn’t make a difference.

Back to Knarly, yeah we probably agree on more than we think, I just wish people here would read what I say instead of reading into what I say their prejudices, call it a Christmas wish.

Yep, all clear now. Definitely nothing racist about that. After all, you clearly stated you aren’t racist, so it must be true.

Like, can we agree with the FBI and the 911 comission that Barbara Olsen made No Phone calls from the hijacked planes? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjImLL4NnwA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.lies.com/wp/2008/03/18/obama-speaks-truth-to-race/#comment-77900
“So now I’m not only paying the taxes of some woman who didn’t pay attention in high school enough to graduate but also didn’t have the brains to realize that breeding to a lazy man would result in a kid she can’t afford.”

http://www.lies.com/wp/2008/03/18/obama-speaks-truth-to-race/#comment-77381
“I don’t harbor any animosity for Negros or Jews.”

http://www.lies.com/wp/2008/09/14/in-which-i-write-a-cranky-letter-to-cathleen-decker-of-the-la-times/#comment-107998
“We’re all adults here, we can say the word, yes they gave loans to negros and Mexicans, simply because they were negros and Mexicans.”

yup

wwnj blaming the financial meltdown on negroes, jews and mexicans. I am sure you used more colorful language at first and had to backspace.
Priceless.

Racist much?

yup (plenty more examples where that came from)

oh wait, I forgot, I’m supposed to be the bigot (lol) ;-)