Rebuilding New Orleans is a mistake, and it'll just get flooded again. That's the mistake there. What do we expect with a city below sea level in hurricane central? Those levees may not have withstood a force 1 or 2 hurricane. It's tough when the ground is sinking. New Orleans gets directly hit about every 10 years, and every 3-4 years, one passes close by.

I'd rather take the money being spent on Iraq and New Orleans, build as many new nuclear plants as possible, and subsidize faultering US car companies into making more hybrids to get more fuel efficiency. Then we can cut our ties to middle east oil for good. Let them pound sand.

I don't think running on higher taxes will help the Democrats in 2006. Telling folks that they don't deserve their tax cuts, and should have their taxes raised, doesn't parlay into many votes in November. Just a historical fact, dude.

But go ahead, put that on the 2006 campaign leaflets. RAISE TAXES!

Muckdog,

You’ve got the right idea and now that we have the courts it may come about.

The trouble with nuclear power has been the cost of construction due to the one-off production methods of the past. We now have the opportunity to produce thousands of modular pebble bed reactors to a single design at a fraction of the cost.

By securing the courts, we can assure investors that every fucking twig and bug (or greenpeace protester) that now needs to be studied and protected at a cost of billions will be bulldozed with impunity.

I'd rather take the money being spent on Iraq and New Orleans, build as many new nuclear plants as possible, and subsidize faultering US car companies into making more hybrids to get more fuel efficiency.

What's wrong with the free market on these? Nuclear industry does not need any more of our tax dollars - they are doing just fine on their own. And if the car companies are faultering, it's their own damn fault. Why don't we expect industry to pull themselves up by their bootstraps - especially when they're doing quite well for themselves.

I'd rather take the money being spent on Iraq and New Orleans, build as many new nuclear plants as possible, and subsidize faultering US car companies into making more hybrids to get more fuel efficiency.

Holy moly! Muck-"The Anti-tax"-Dog is advocating government subsidies!?

...it sounds like a great idea, actually. I dunno about nuclear plants, though: they have an unfair history of leaking and/or exploding and all that. Nobody wants them in their backyard, anyway. Then there's the whole question of what to do with the nuclear waste.

(Possible neocon response: "Spread it over the Middle East, and kill two birds with one stone! Brilliant!")

Fusion plants would be nice, since they don't have the same pollution problems, but that technology is a ways away yet, and we may just hit Oil Bust before then.

I'm opposed to leaving New Orleans as is. There's more to the issue of reconstruction than just economic loss. I think the private market should shoulder a lot of it, with more government tax incentives to do so, however, since that would serve as a better way to spread around the cost.

Running on higher taxes doesn't work. Running on FAIR taxation might. If states don't get the money they request from the feds because it starved itself, the states have to make up the shortfall themselves, leading to an overall loss for John Q. Public. It's one thing to force the one-party-rule federal government to starve itself, but quite another to expect all 50 states to follow the same mentality.

Also, I thought all of Bush's tax cuts were supposed to spur the kind of investment that muck is now calling for the government to fund.

with a pair of asswipes like muck fuck and west the bed wetter on this thread all our problems are solved....

Muck you beat me to it! I only hope that the Democrats run on the platform of raising taxes, Gay Marriage, Abortion, and "I love France/un". That is just what Americans are looking for when they choose leaders. Maybe throw in a couple Republicans hate Black people and you have a real winning hand. The ONLY way the Liberals will gain ground is if they don't act like liberals. To quote Sponge Bob again: "Good luck with that."

Is it just me, or are the trolls more incoherent than usual? It's kinda spooky when they get scared.

I found this on CNN.com. I thought it was pretty amusing:

"The average nationwide price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline fell by over a penny to $2.871 a gallon from $2.885 Monday, AAA reported." (emphasis mine)

A penny! Oh my God, I'm going shopping with the tens of cents of monthly savings! Maybe I'll get a one-minute phone call back home!

On National Coming Out Day, I think it appropriate to finally unveil the homosexual agenda. Those filthy libertines! Here it is, in its entirety!

1) Leave me alone.

Calloused destructors of our national culture!

Duke,

Winter is coming to the U.P., so quickly trade your ragtop Barbie colored California Miata for a large SUV with cleats on the tires. I would hate to have them find you in a thawing snow bank next spring.

On "National Coming Out Day", is this another way for those corporate criminals at Hallmark to make money on the backs of the oppressed homosexual community?

Winter is coming to the U.P., so quickly trade your ragtop Barbie colored California Miata for a large SUV with cleats on the tires.

I rarely drive anyway, except to deliver all the money of the hard-working Americans I can steal to crack whores and immigrants in my seaweed-and-saltwater-run Pinto, or to go to whatever protest is going on that day, and then to pick up my welfare checks. All in all, not too much driving.

I would hate to have them find you in a thawing snow bank next spring.
I'm sure it would just break that icy little heart of yours. =)

On "National Coming Out Day", is this another way for those corporate criminals at Hallmark to make money on the backs of the oppressed homosexual community?
Egads! The truth is out!

DesMoines Register columnist urges Kerry to sue the Swift Boat Vets for libel.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051010/OPINION01/510100306/1035/RSS03

Yeah, he really wants to go there again.

By securing the courts, we can assure investors that every fucking twig and bug (or greenpeace protester) that now needs to be studied and protected at a cost of billions will be bulldozed with impunity.

Yeah.

Bio-diversity is such a bore!

yep coyote several trolls are loose and as usual they make little sense...so much ego driving them...

Duke,

Stealing will only take you so far. The big money is in oppressing the masses.

Try an internship with some local sweatshop. Pay particular attention to the devious methods of the Republican In Charge and take advantage of the experience he brings to task. Heartless oppression is hard work…..hard work.

Don’t forget to take copious notes on the different ways you’ll need to exploit minority groups. Hell, if we didn’t have ways around the laws, we would all be in jail!

The road from junior capitalist to full fledge republican is long, but well worth the trip.

I think the issue is America's energy infrastructure. The best way not avoid conflict in the middle east is to not use their oil. The best way to stop funding for terrorism is to stop buying their oil. In addition to an energy issue, it's a homeland security issue.

Is energy infrastructure and homeland security a free markets issue, or a government issue? I think the government has to be involved.

So yes, we should be helping companies to do whatever it takes to quit sending money and troops to the middle east. Let 'em pound sand!

The US uses 20 million barrels of crude a day. We import 12 million of that. Lets reduce that 12 million to 0.

More nuclear power.

More hybrids.

As soon as possible. It wouldn't hurt my feelings a bit to never send the Saudi's another dollar. Not one bit.

I'm taking notes. But I must respectfully disagree with you, good sir, for by raising the taxes to 185% my people can stamp the communist sickle-boot down on the free-loving people of the nation. Its all America's fault, anyway. With the raised money, we can afford to ship all our weapons to France and the UN.

As long as no whales are harmed in the process, I'm okay with it.

DesMoines Register columnist urges Kerry to sue the Swift Boat Vets for libel.

Doak's column was actually more reasoned and realistic than Yepsen's today. This presupposes that Kerry has the balls to actually do something that isn't a byzantine and unworthwhile beltway strategy - I'm looking at the winter energy cost amendment he attempted to tack onto the Pentagon budget last week that was shot down because he needed 2/3rd's approval. That was just dumb.

Good God, not pebble reactors...not yet.

Traditional reactors scare me enough, and pebble reactors scare the holy hell out of me. They have a _lot_ of issues still to work out with them. And that is before you even begin to think about dealing with the waste.

We aren't nearly as close to reasonable nuclear power as our resident 'Tards would like us to think that we are.

I think the issue is America's energy infrastructure. The best way not avoid conflict in the middle east is to not use their oil. The best way to stop funding for terrorism is to stop buying their oil. In addition to an energy issue, it's a homeland security issue.

Why, muck, are you saying that we are fighting in Iraq for oil? Shame on you for not using the party's talking points.

By your definition, conservation would be a homeland security issue. And - the best part - conservation is free! Car manufacturing would not be a homeland security issue, but, funding of mass transit would be.

But while we're on the subject of homeland security, it seems that an actual plan and practice to guard our existing nuclear plans would be prudent. Let's get on that. Chemical plants, too. Will save us billions in clean up.

I wish muck and j.west would take their little make out session over to muck's place. Maybe muck could teach j.west how to do links.

I'd rather ... build as many new nuclear plants as possible, and subsidize faultering US car companies into making more hybrids to get more fuel efficiency...Posted by muckdog
Congratulations on spouting typical Republican idiocy. You advocate borrowing even more money from the Chinese in order to grant more subsidies to American multi-nationals. You may not be aware of it, but cars cannot run on nuclear energy nor is oil used as a source for electricity. I can understand Republican foolishness suggests nuclear energy and the cure-all, but in America, coal is the main source of electricity in power generating plants. The United States has over a trillion tons of coal in reserve. I realize the party line is nuclear: it's unnecessary, expensive, unsafe, and it would take enormous sums in subsidies and hold harmless agreements, all a waste of taxpayer money for corporate welfare. Speaking of waste, no doubt you are willing to store nuclear waste in your backyard, just as much as you are willing to enlist in your Deal Leader's war in Iraq.
Perhaps you can explain why American cars companies need to be subsidized for hybrid technology. Toyota and Honda didn't.

I ...hope that the Democrats run on the platform of raising taxes, Gay Marriage, Abortion..."Posted by Cyber Sarge
Thanks for stating the election issues that will matter most to you: God, guns, and gays. Are you a Fred Phelps clone or merely a typical Republican voter? You must spin about, foaming at the mouth shouting God! Guns! Gays! God! Guns! Gays! while you are in the voting booth. I am certain that no matter what pressing issues American faces in 2006 and 2008, God, guns, and gays will remain your number one concern.

The trouble with nuclear power has been the cost of construction due to the one-off production methods of the past....Posted by j.west
The trouble with nuclear energy is not only the high cost, but also the high risk, and the fact that cheaper, cleaner sources of electricity are readily available. But you would rather subsidize power companies than use more efficient energy.