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FDRdog Commented on Clean Energy Lobby Outspends Big Oil | Farewell TPM Cafe! by Jamie Friedland

2010-09-08T23:42:08Z

One of the most puzzling things to me about The Carbon Based industry's lobbying is that we're going to need oil, gas, and coal for a long time, until it runs out probably. None of these businesses is in any immediate danger of shutting down unless it's because we have used all of some particular commodity.

Even if we all drive electric cars and all our electricity is generated by renewable sources, which is highly unlikely to happen any time soon, we still need carbon based resources to produce a great deal of what we see around us from plastics to medicine to building materials, etc. Why isn't it in the petroleum industry's interest, for instance, to spend that money on researching alternative energy rather than lobbying?

FDRdog Commented on Clean Energy Lobby Outspends Big Oil | Farewell TPM Cafe! by Jamie Friedland

2010-09-08T21:37:39Z

P.S. Your posts are always interesting and informative. And wanted you to know my granddaughter started her freshman year at Duke this year. :)

FDRdog Commented on Clean Energy Lobby Outspends Big Oil | Farewell TPM Cafe! by Jamie Friedland

2010-09-08T21:35:29Z

Glad to hear you'll return. You had me worried for a minute.

FDRdog Commented on Has Speaker Pelosi already ensured her place in history? by dubman

2010-09-07T23:56:54Z

I'm a great admirer of Nancy Pelosi and she did an incredible job of shepherding the HC bill through the house. I believe she _could_ have left a large footprint if she had been speaker under a different president - a president who shared her values, which Obama clearly does not. But I don't think anyone connected with this administration will be making big history because the DLC contingent, which includes Obama, his aides and advisers, are too timid. Either too timid or too conservative.

FDRdog Commented on Listen up and listen good! by FDRdog

2010-09-07T23:25:16Z

And you can rest easy at night because I'm sure the wingnuts will look after your Social Security.

FDRdog Commented on Listen up and listen good! by FDRdog

2010-09-07T22:35:06Z

As I said, bb. We'll all regret it. Stay home and pout, then. That'll show them.

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FDRdog Commented on Racing to the Bottom with Phony "Two-Party" Politics by Rutabaga Ridgepole

2010-09-07T21:32:59Z

The day the dems reduce SS benefits is the day I start my own tea party. I'm hanging in there until that day actually comes. It will be worse under the cons, rootie. Please don't fool yourself about that.

FDRdog Commented on Can Science Help Frame a Moral Landscape? by wendy davis

2010-09-07T21:25:04Z

Personally, I believe that our survival as a species depends on morality. Without it we would not have been around this long.

But and this is a big but: I heard a fascinating program on NPR recently. A description from the NPR web site:

Scientists have found a surprising link between magnets and morality. A person's moral judgments can be changed almost instantly by delivering a magnetic pulse to an area of the brain near the right ear, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

I have this fantasy about sneaking up on a right winger with a magnet to see if it works. ;)

FDRdog Commented on Disqus feed by FDRdog

2010-09-07T21:03:21Z

Something you said above sent me to that spot. Thanks, AA.

FDRdog Commented on Listen up and listen good! by FDRdog

2010-09-07T20:57:25Z

I know we're all dispirited, but every vote and every individual vote does count. That's how we did it in '08, one by one. Libertine and others I'm sure have deserted to the Greens, which I think is just as stupid as of the winger's logic. People like that are the main targets of my post. But we can all do our bit.

Here's the Obama I voted for in 08. He was in Milwaukee this last weekend. Maybe, just maybe, he can rouse the troops again. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/7/105951/0816?detail=f

FDRdog Commented on Disqus feed by FDRdog

2010-09-07T15:56:37Z

Woo Hoo! mine's working. I was clicking on the wrong spot. For anyone else who wonders, it's under My Activities "subscriptions". ;)

FDRdog Commented on Disqus feed by FDRdog

2010-09-07T00:54:21Z

If I click on your avatar, I get your comments. But if I click on the disqus bookmark, I get just the one person, same person every time, instead of a list of all the people I've subscribed to.

Well, I'll play with the sign up and maybe someone will fill in the missing links (pun intended - feel free to groan) in the meantime.

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2010-09-06T19:21:38Z

FDRdog Commented on Disqus feed by FDRdog

2010-09-07T00:41:25Z

Thanks, Bwak. That makes sense, I guess. I have signed up for Disqus for other sites, but under a different pseud. I'll think about how I want to do it.

When you say you get all the people when you right click - you right click on what? The disqus logo?

FDRdog Commented on Disqus feed by FDRdog

2010-09-07T00:16:31Z

I tried setting up a feed for eash commenter, but that doesn't seem to work.

FDRdog Commented on A List For Posterity ... In the Event the Archives are Kept by OldenGoldenDecoy

2010-09-06T22:21:44Z

A scroll down memory lane. *;o)

Thanks, OGD.

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