KaskadskyjKozak

I think the average this year was more like $1.90, not $1.80. So make that $300 a year. Multiply that by two for a typical two-car household. Maybe $600 doesn't mean squat to you, but for people making tough day to day decisions about their budget and savings, $600 a year is significant.

One thing that has always has impressed me about the Bible is how it shows the good and the bad, no pulling punches. Just think how easy it would have been to edit-out these less-than-flattering stories. Consider the story of Exodus where the freed slaves continually gripe and moan about how life was better as slaves, fall back into idolatory, and so on.

The best container for hydrogen is an enormous dirigible, decorated with large swastikas.

You mean "salo" - the Ukrainian snicker's bar (imagine a chunk of bacon - just the white part).

This is an internet forum not a review board for an academic journal or doctoral thesis. Where do we get these trends? Well, from what we read, or hear about from news reports, documentaries, and so on. Where do you get your information? Europe has a deep-dependency on nuclear energy. As I recall, France is the most dependent. As JayB suggests, a simple Google search will get you specific statistics. You'll find that many countries' dependency far exceeds the paltry 20% found in the US. In recent years, several European countries have moved towards eliminating most (or all) dependency on nuclear energy within the next 10-20 years. Now, however, as the day of implementation nears, and questions arise of the economic impact as well as the effects on increasing pollution and green-house gas emissions, many are questioning these decisions.

It seems to me that most people who are secularist, atheist, or anti-religious define Christianity and other religions to be whatever allows them to most conveniently attack it. What a joke. So if you are NOT a Chrisitian, you are more moral, more ethical, and more consistent in your implementation. I will not claim that Christians are intrinsically better people than anybody else - that would be ridiculuous. Just as is your claim. And again I point out how easy it is to succeed with lower standards, and how easy it is to overlook the faults of your "friend" (he who agrees with your philosophical and moral worldview) as opposed to your "enemy" (he who does not). You utterly misunderstand and misrepresent the conservative viewpoint. Conservatives believe that it is not the ROLE of government to be in the business of providing social services to the populace. Fiscal conservatives and libertarians further argue that said services are often inefficient, wasteful, corrupt (with little accountability and oversight), and have a sole purpose of buying votes and shoring up POWER in a big government. All Americans are in general very generous people - whether they are Christian or not, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals. A primary differentiation between the latter are that conservatives prefer to donate to private charities and churches, liberals prefer to implement charities through the public coffers of government.

We have a long way to go before gas prices are "ridiculously low". I've seen local prices between $1.80 / gal up to over $2.00 / gal. I think a drop to an average of around $1.60 would have a reasonable impact on people's pocketbooks without causing exorbitant (over)usage ("inefficiencies"). I am *for* regularly raising cafe standards on fuel efficiency. Definitely a good thing, because it puts a pressure to innovate where it is needed. Adding tax breaks or other economic incentives is worthwhile as well.

To add to the irony, the same people that continually harp on how we need to look to the "enlightened" industrialized nations of Europe (like France) for answers on how to live better, conveniently ignore from where these countries derive the majority of their energy...

Rising oil prices is a very bad thing. People who have to commute with little option otherwise suffer because of it. Alternative energy sources are a good thing, and a cohesive, proactive energy policy that encourages and rewards R&D in this realm would be even better (including tax breaks and other forms of corporate welfare if that is what it takes). I am optimistic about hybrid cars. The ones out there seem to be decent with little negatives, and I see the technology as only getting better.

"Payback is a bitch!"

That's been tried before, Adolf. And lest one still question which side of this debate is truly *evil*...

How many 'yahoos' here do you think will actually catch your reference to "A Modest Proposal"??

funny I thought the lefties loved to eat babies... err embryos.

conveniently applying a few empirical anecdotes to broadbrush stroke 'the right' with such a disgusting comment is demonization

OK, I can respect that then. I take back my previous post.

when all else fails: demonize sorry, no dice

don't know - I'm not familiar with Jewish theology, or how they would explain the examples you cited.

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and scorched-earth annihilation of your enemy (Joshua). but the old testament is superceded by the new.

touche

excellent. corroborative evidence for my corollary!

There is a theory that global warming could induce an ice age by halting northerly currents in the Pacific...

And an important corollary: It's easier to overlook the shortcomings of your friend than of your enemy.

Motto of the secularists: "The lower you set your standards, the easier it is to succeed."

DC is an anachronism. Separated from Virginina/Maryland for a reason... consult a history textbook.