Local Posts #16 (Part One)

2009-5-19 04:31:00

[Compiler's Note: The "Local Posts" series of articles found here in "The Archives" are a collection of exchanges between JJ Dewey and others participating on a local online newspaper blog, and were subsequently re-posted by JJ Dewey on The Keys Of Knowledge discussion group. Because of the length of the original post, the archived version of this post was broken up into multiple parts. This is Part One. Links to the other parts can be found at the end of this article.]

April 29, 2009 -- Post #1

JJ:

Mr. Smith wisely suggests that we must not place dogma over thought and reason as happens with some religious fanatics.

I agree and here are some other fanatical beliefs to avoid:

Apocalyptic collapse. A Sierra Club member knocked on my door some time ago and told me he and others like him were looking forward to a complete economic collapse. I asked him how he was going to survive and he thought he could live off the land and was unconcerned that millions would die of starvation.
Manmade global warming. This dogma disregards the fact that the earth and the oceans have not warmed in the last decade. Also from 1850-1940 it warmed and when we started placing huge amounts of CO2 in the air it cooled from 1940-1976.
Dogmatic fear of nuclear energy even though it is the safest energy on the planet with not one death connected to it ever in the western hemisphere.
Dogmatic mindset of not drilling in ANWAR even to the point of not disturbing an acre of desolation.

April 29, 2009 -- Post #2

"Prophet" wrote:

"'Joseph732': You are a dangerous moron with beliefs that have NO basis in any facts that exist on this particular planet."

JJ:

Typical Lefty. Cannot refute logic so just spews out name-calling.

So you think half the people in the country who believe the way I do are morons? What does that say about you?

I'd like to see global warming dogmatists explain why it warmed from 1850-1940 when we were putting negligible amounts of CO2 in the air and then cooled from 1940-1976 when we started putting huge amounts in.

Unfortunately natural cycles are ignored by global warming dogmatists.

Unfortunately dogmatic leftists think that only the right can be dogmatic when they are about ten times worse.

April 29, 2009 -- Post #3

"Gimmeshelter" wrote:

"There is plenty of land at Three Mile Island for sale, should you be looking for cheap housing."

JJ:

The failsafes in placed worked as planned and the amount of radiation released was less than happens with a regular coal fired plant. The danger was greatly hyped by the press and the China Syndrome movie.

"Gimmeshelter":

"Maybe there have been no "deaths in the western hemisphere" due to nuclear power but, how many do you suppose will die if one does cut loose a little, mmmmm?"

JJ:

The new generation of power plants is much safer than in the past. The French get about 80% of their power through nuclear energy and have the least pollution in Europe and no deaths.

"Gimmeshelter":

"Oh! and, Joseph....pray tell what you plan to do with the reactor waste? You have an empty basement available?"

JJ:

We have the facilities at Yucca Mountain but Obama will not let is store it there. Arco was developing the technology to reprocess waste and turn it to clean energy but Clinton put a stop to it.

April 30, 2009 -- Post #1

"JobeMaha" wrote:

"If we can't pay for programs we shouldn't do it. Hmm sounds familiar. I think Bush did that for a number of years. He also put us in debt in the trillions at the same time. War I think it's called. Invasion is a better term."

JJ:

While the Left thinks their president can do no wrong the Right is not so dogmatic. Yes, Bush was a big spender (which I did not like) with a lot of help from a Democratic Congress. The war in Iraq was only cost about $100 billion a year so this was just a small part of the spending in the Bush years.

Bush though was a spending scrooge compared to Obama. I'd call him Obama light. Obama is the real thing.

And "Mgun," I'm sure I am much more positive toward Obama than you were toward Bush, even though Obama is making much graver mistakes.

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