And one of the things that I want to do, if I have the honor of being president, is to try to bring back the kind of foreign policy that characterized the Truman administration with Marshall and Acheson and Kennan.
This is a real clanger, I forgot. Does he really think that the modern Democrat party (even IF he wanted to, and I doubt it) would consider the architects of the Cold War to be in accordance with their current world view? In those years, Dems and Republicans said politics stop at the water's edge, a position not taken by either party in 30 years.
Things may be getting a little better here.
Just filled up the SUV tonight, gasoline going at 3.12 a gallon and expected to drop much more soon, back to normal.
I know I ride the Harley now when the weather is good to try and cut the cost.
38 miles to the gallon much better than the 14 miles to the gallon from the SUV.
I could afford to drive the SUV, but hate to think this money is going into the wrong hands.
It seems that Americans are driving less and trying to conserve.
For those in countries paying 10.00 plus usd for a gallon of gas, you can blame your own government for the taxes.
This should if it holds put a big hurt on the gulf producing states.
Transferring all this money to countries like Saudi Arabia, South America is insane.
McCain does make a point about this transfer of wealth, but I think maybe he just copied T Boone Pickens with these ideas.
It seems the Democrats or at least supporters of them are being investigated with election registration fraud. What I really hope is that this does not become some banana republic fiesta like we had over the Florida votes years ago.
Here in the USA we are not down and out and doubt we will ever be unless Obama gets elected.
Then we need to worry!!
Think if that happens will just sell everything and move to Bangkok, Ha , Ha
It is clear the current liberals are opposed to free speech and secret ballots.
You need to read more carefully, GF. You see, you say "It is clear". The author uses the words, "They seem", "apparently", "I had been under the impression", " apparently", "Evidently", "seem to be"...you get the idea.
Not a bad piece of commentary but in the end, it's just an opinion.
As far as "free" speech, how much does airtime -- on the citizen's airwaves -- go for per minute now ? Think your message can compete with a guy that will pay the best writers, the best artists and a million dollars a minute to get his message across ?
Secret ballots ? You're worried about unions and Diebold owns the keys to the kingdom here in Georgia. What was that comment of Stalin's about voting and counting -- and which one matters ?
But you're the guy that doesn't like any government, right ? And the guy that was telling me what interesting cesspools there are in the world where they don't have a functional government. That was you, right ? It's possible I have you mixed up with some other libertarian. They all sound alike after awhile.
Gas, gas, gas. It’s all about the money. We are soon to be out of it and that makes us less relevant. I'm really pessimistic about any of our potential leaders making a difference in our future. Now lookin out for numero uno seems to be my vote. Hope this doesn't come full course like historical references of recent.
Have to agree with this last post.
McCain seems to be the lesser of the 2 evils.
For the 3rd election we don't have a effective leader.
I think that what most American voters are looking for is someone that has answers as to what happened with the markets, what happened with the Cheny Rumsfeld lies, Haliburton Etc.
What he will do to correct these problems and prevent them from happening again.
Am I the only one here seeing that someone with this market mess should be held accountable?
This is America,,,,Not Turkey or Saudi Arabia, no wasta here!
Does anyone remember just a short time ago when George Bush was on the news saying the Social Security system was in a bad way, and Americans should be given the choice to invest these funds, money in the stock markets?
Now he is meeting with the G7 saying we will beat this problem, more lies and un-educated remark.
More good advise from George Bush that will go down in the history books as Americas most famous idiot!!
Blame me I voted for him!
But same as now, what other choice do we have?
Obama and his handouts, welfare regime?
Wants to meet with terrorist?
Has a questionable past, religious and social?
Has his wife saying for the first time she is proud of this country.
Obama does not hold his hand over his heart when the national anthem is
played?
All of his answers to questions is based on bullshit.
If he gets elected somethings wrong here.
You imply that you may have made a mistake voting for that Liar up in Wash-DC. And now, you feel McCain is the best. How many times in a row do you have to make the same mistake before you learn?
I may be an ole redneck country boy from Texas but I ain't slow.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". Think about it, please.
You may be correct, as I said we have no one to vote for once again.
Obama has shown no leadership abilities.
What we here from McCain is the same old song and dance.
Actually, I don't blame the German government for expensive fuel. To be fairly exact, 95-Octane lead-free gasoline costs about 1.45 € per litre there, times roughly 4 for gallons makes 5.80 times about 1.4 dollars per euro makes about $8 per gallon.
The family car burns 10 litres per 100 kilometres, not bad when you consider that it is a 4WD station wagon. That's about 2.5 gallons per 60 miles or 24 miles per gallon.
So you can see that the car doesn't burn as much fuel as one of these American monsters.
I don't know if it's really so but many American movies and TV shows have people driving around in SUVs as if they were normal there. Since size and weight mostly determine fuel consumption they must be gas guzzlers. Of course there's a loophole that let SUVs be considered as utility vehicles outside of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) legislation so that Detroit could continue cranking them and those pickup trucks out until high fuel prices made them unpopular.
German enthusiasts who have big American cars enjoy standing out, with the vehicles seeming to be about 120% larger than the average European vehicle. Our car is a VW Passat and it's considered mid-size in the States but I guess it's about normal-size in Germany.
For our children, they have grown up used to good public transport, usually taking the train or the bus. We do not have part-time jobs running them all over the map just so that they can have social lives. This is subsidised in part by the high taxes on fuel.
My son is now on an exchange program in America. One of his first problems was discovering that he had to wait to get a lift when he wanted to go places. No trains and buses as he took for granted in Germany and he's not allowed to drive, even if he had his licence.
That is another thing: German children take professional driving training that is quite expensive. There is now a special program that allows them to drive at 17 under adult supervision but 18 is otherwise the limit.
Anyone else remember Driver Ed in High School? When I asked "What about recovery from a skid?" the answer was then I had been "driving too fast"! I guess crashing and dying from ignorance would serve me right? Most emphasis was on the dreaded and mysterious parallel parking.
You might think with all this Big Government involvement that American laissez-faire policy would leave us better off. Well, guess again!
Dollar for dollar German vehicles are just so far ahead of American ones that it makes me sad. Visit a BMW showroom and sit in a new 3-series then go look at a Cadillac to play "spot the differences". Then think that the BMW is just a normal car in Germany but the Cadillac is a luxury car in America. Bummer!
Drive on the German Autobahn and compare the standard of the driving, lane discipline particularly, to what you see on the Interstate. I spent some time on I-95 around Washington, D.C. a few years ago and found I could go faster in the right-hand lane than the left-hand lane. There were people parked over there at 55 m.p.h. not paying a blind bit of attention to what was happening. Do that in Germany and you would be pulled over within ten miles if you didn't find a Porsche buried in your rear first from coming up doing, oh, 160 miles per hour. Heck, Germans do 62 on the back roads where the States will have a limit of 35!
All of this stuff is a product in large part of legislation. Last time I checked that came from the government. Yes, you need a skilled work force, well-trained drivers, good roads and all that, so that individuals make their contributions but the over-all direction comes from, in this case, Big Government. You really think you are better off because you are burning essentially tax-free fuel?
Another interesting point: America isn't "transferring wealth" to Saudi Arabia. We are buying a product, crude oil! Sorry, guys but it just isn't so that the Saudis are sitting on stuff that God almighty really meant for America to have! What, He got a little mixed up between there and Pennsylvania? We pissed ours away and now we need to buy, at market prices, theirs!
This business of talking as if them Ay-rabs are robbing us blind makes me laugh, coming from the same people who love to talk about "free markets".
You pilots out there, do you like big watches? (I think I am in the running for "Stupidest Question of 2008" here.) I shall assume the answer is either "Yes! or else "Hell yes!" A Rolex or an I.W.C. costs crazy money nowadays, north of $3 000 for something that does the same job as a Timex. Are the Swiss being unfair to want so much money? Well, don't even think about an invasion, is my advice! You think we have guns in the States, every man, woman and child there has a Swiss-made assault rifle and I think they teach shooting in Kindergarten.
Take heart, though, we can do without fancy watches. Oil is another matter, when it might have been real smart to do more than just stick up "Speed Limit 55 m.p.h." signs the first time the poo hit the fan, back in 1973. For that we would have needed if not Big Government at least a much bigger one than we have.
Speeding on the interstate in the USA carries really big fines and insurance rates.
I agree left lane open for those that want to go faster, but until the law allows it its way too expensive.
By the way no big watch here, same Seiko I have worn for 10 years.
Germany is unique in having only a recommended maximum speed of 130 km./hr on the famous "Autobahn" if there is no lower limit posted. (The Autobahn is NOT directly just another one of A. Hitler's bright ideas like mass murder, by the way! The Nazi regime was heavily involved in its construction but the idea pre-dated Hitler's rule.)
The way it works is, you want, you fly but the more you go past 130 (about 80 m.p.h.) the more your share of the blame rises. If you are doing a legal 250 (155) in your BMW, which is nothing exceptional, and some half-blind little old lady pulls out in front of you in her Fiat so that carnage ensues you will have to take a large share of the blame, around at least 50%.
Anyone with any maths at all, when you work the formula for energy, half the mass times the velocity squared, well, high speeds are not to be taken lightly. I just did a long-distance trip from near Bremen to Frankfurt and back using a BMW 330ci, a fairly high-performance car but I never got much over 200 (124). Any traffic at all and really high speeds are just too risky because of the people who pull out just as you come up on them at a tremendous closing speed.
You just would not believe how quickly that little dot in the mirrors turns into some yo-yo in a Porsche doing 170 m.p.h., ending up two feet off your rear bumper flashing his lights and acting as if it is his private race track. A little of that gets old quickly and is no way to cover long distances. You often see these Michael Schumacher wannabees do breakneck overtakes but then just get off at the next exit, just blowing off steam German-style.
German drivers are well-trained, the cars get carefully inspected every two years, the roads are good, yet the accident statistics are really not all that good, sadly.
One problem I see with many German men is that if you give them a hard rule to follow they will mostly do that but on the other hand, they will still go booming along in thick fog since that calls for some judgement, so that you sometimes get mass collisions involving 100 vehicles. I have often been creeping along on the limits of my visibility, doing about 45 m.p.h., front and rear fog lights on, when the whole car shakes as a big Merc goes past still doing 100 m.p.h.! What, the guy is on an IFR flight plan? Idiot...
I was a bit disappointed to read about how the candidates came out for yet cheaper fuel in the States just this past summer when it seems obvious that it is low fuel taxes, not high fuel prices that is the real problem. Of course, yes, that is me talking up Big Government! Some of you might need to get out more and see how it can work instead of just dismissing the idea out of hand.
I look at this lame Prez tooling around in his pickup, dressed like some half-ass ranchhand, big belt buckle and all, to go beat up on some poor little mesquite bushes and wonder, "What is that all about?" Is it that the big pickup and the denim clothes show that he really is "one of us"? Hellooo! The c*nt went to Yale and Harvard, not Texas A & M!
I can only pray that we are not going to flee one phony and run too far the other way into the arms of The Man Who Isn't There, Barack Obama. Big arguments are about, "Is he this way or is he that way? What does he really believe if he sat there listening to that racist nut, Reverend Wright for so long without letting out a peep? Is "Community Organizer" a real job? How tight buddies is he with Ayers and Dohrn, two obvious terrorists?" Or at least there should be big arguments!
You know how, when you go to a play, you have "suspension of disbelief". Unless you are a total rube you don't sit there thinking, "That gun is firing blanks! He didn't really die!" What, "Homer Simpson goes to see a play"? No, the actors become real people, just for a couple of hours. Well, this one looks to me as if the Democrats are suspending their disbelief in Barack Obama. They need to believe in the guy and never mind who he really is, who his friends and associates are. Is this stupid or what?
John McCain is a big disappointment in many ways, especially compared to the way he was just eight years ago but at least we know who he is. Then there is always the off chance that the "October Surprise" will be a chance to see Sarah Palin naked, a sure vote-getter in my book.
Even semi-naked would do, I am not choosy; one of those old-fashioned cheesecake calendars, just Sarah, the bottom half of a polka-dot bikini, a Remington model 70 chambered for Winchester .300 magnum with a 10X Leupold scope and a dead moose would do it for me. I would vote at least twice for THAT so come on Republicans, how about it?
The Dems might be able to snag a significant chunk of the gay vote by making a desperate riposte with Barack Obama as a centerfold on a hand-woven Peruvian poncho with a freshly-brewed porcelain cup of Blue Mountain in one hand, pinkie raised, and nothing left to the sick imagination but I do not think the numbers could match the ones Sarah Palin could pull in from the heteros with the gun, the tits and the dead moose. Anyway, with the Chicago Machine behind him, would he need to stoop so low when good old, old-fashioned, massive fraud should carry the day?
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But you're the guy that doesn't like any government, right ? And the guy that was telling me what interesting cesspools there are in the world where they don't have a functional government. That was you, right ?
GTF
NO, it was not me, actually! I never said no government, just limited to its constitutional powers, staying out of the free markets and free minds. As to the "cesspools", governments function there, unfortunately for the common people, often with dire consequences for those not in favor; it functions for the kleptocrats that are in power without limits. There is an African country that is ruled by one man since LBJ was President. Now, there's a Survivor!
And yes, I do support secrets ballots, so union goons don't force people to vote for them having power. I am an ALPA member and didn't like it when two ALPA members were found trying to bomb a fellow pilot's house in the CO strike.
GF
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Brickhistory failed to put his cards on the table.
A.. Didn't know I was in a game.
B. ?Que? You asked how I thought the election would go and I answered if today (yesterday now), that Obama would win, but that fortunately, the election wasn't today (yesterday).
Was there another feeble 'calling out' that I missed?
Also, from another post criticizing "The American" and those who post here, I infer that the Americans you like are the ones who agree with your world views and/or are self-loathing about themselves being Americans.
I actually agree with you. I am not one of those and unabashedly so.
Also, from another post criticizing "The American" and those who post here, I infer that the Americans you like are the ones who agree with your world views and/or are self-loathing about themselves being Americans.
Aw Brick you are smarter that. What a crummy bit of spin. Nil Points.
Glad your back though and despite the fact that I was asking for "flannel free" replies, I suppose you did your best.
El Grifos universal PPRuNe poll produces result of - - - Drum Roll - - - - -
66.666 think Obama will take it.
33.333 think McCain is going to be the one.
Total sample 3
There you have it. Clear result,, the money is on The tall guy.
"After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln,FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days?"
You forgot... he's really filling the shoes of George W. Bush, a man who will go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever. A resume can be padded, and a short Senate career can be discounted. But at least Obama can speak in coherent sentances, is educated, and compared to McCain-Palin, is more attractive to me. And, thank goodness, appears to be more attractive to American voters.
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