On Wed, 21 May 2003 23:27:21 +0900, you wrote: >Hi Hakan > >>Keith, >> >>It has gone so far, that I can not stand to hear >>G. W. Bush talk on TV, without getting upset. I >>learned to turned it off now. > >Never watch the horrible thing (other than the occasional video), so >I've never heard him talk - lucky me!
An interesting policy. Easier to practice from outside the U.S., but still an accomplishment. I had a similar policy in place with President Clinton. It just didn't interest me to watch or listen. Seldom did. And that's since '87 when he was first mentioned for the White House and turned it down because his daughter was too young, or some such. >http://globalsecurity.com/archives/35_questions.htm >35 QUESTIONS THAT WILL NEVER BE ASKED ABOUT IRAQ I haven't really followed Ron Paul lately, but he is a former Libertarian who I think is now labled a Republican, but apparently still thinking for himself. I can think of two other areas where my thinking might be applied. In the case of the SUV tax credit, it comes partly from the fact that I *don't* want to have a knee-jerk anti-SUV position, and I don't want to have a knee-jerk anti-Economic-Stimulous-package position. But these views are so much harder to maintain if the Administration is to make a mockery of really trying to help the country by engaging in such cronyism. Likewise, I want to listen and consider real arguments for the choice of Iraq as a battlefront, and I want to listen and consider real arguments for drilling for Oil in ANWR. Both points of view are made so much harder for me to maintain when hypocrisy and cronyism rear their heads. An example would be the giant tax breaks annually proposed for the oil and gas industries .so that they could drill in ANWR. If the Administration *actually* wants to help bolster U.S. fuel production, then they would cease these attempts to combine that battle with the effort to loot the government of billions of dollars of taxpayer monies. So, I don't think they *actually* want to help bolster U.S. fuel production. If they *actually* were of single-minded determination to protect U.S. citizens and other people from impending violence (a worthwhile goal in my view, if true) then they have made it *much* more difficult to believe this, in some ways, with some cronyism (such as the apparent post-war less-competitive-than-warranted over-involvement of Halliburton and other Oil companies specifically connected to the Administration). It just seems to be a payoff. Maybe I'm wrong. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/aM1XQD/od7FAA/uetFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
