Obama Eyes Speculators for Rising Gas Prices, as Other Factors Play Role
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In the political world, progressive is just a label meant to get non-politically minded people to think that they will move them forward. Similar to Dr. Breen and the Combine before Gordon ruins everything.
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7 people never played Half Life 2.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369503]In the political world, progressive is just a label meant to get non-politically minded people to think that they will move them forward. Similar to Dr. Breen and the Combine before Gordan ruins everything.[/QUOTE]
Actually, the word 'progressive' has everything to do with the elimination of archaic, draconian ideals, bigoted policies and laws, and understanding special minority groups rather than fearing, hating and oppressing them.
That's why Republicans in the USA never use it to describe their own policies.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369503]In the political world, progressive is just a label meant to get non-politically minded people to think that they will move them forward. Similar to Dr. Breen and the Combine before Gordan ruins everything.[/QUOTE]
You heard it here first folks, liberals are Dr. Breen
[QUOTE=archangel125;29369596]Actually, the word 'progressive' has everything to do with the elimination of archaic, draconian ideals, bigoted policies and laws, and understanding special minority groups rather than fearing, hating and oppressing them.
That's why Republicans in the USA never use it to describe their own policies.[/QUOTE]
What's archaic, draconian, and bigoted about the Constitution?
Why can't someone in Washington just pin the blame on the people that actually deserve it: the oil refiners themselves and the big lobbyist army they employ to essentially buy their way through the legislature.
At one point California was paying MORE than Hawaii for a gallon of gas, if you don't get why this is a big deal, EVERYTHING has to be shipped overseas to Hawaii which drives up prices here. California though has a ton of refineries, and yet they were still paying more than us.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369633]What's archaic, draconian, and bigoted about the Constitution?[/QUOTE]
I didn't mention the Constitution, did I?
No, what do you think I was really referring to? If you're as clever as you think you are, it shouldn't take you long to figure out.
What you're referring to is what you THINK their policies and laws are based on rather what they really are. Unless you're talking about the Republicans In Name Only in which care, you'd be closer to being correct.
you got to keep in mind here that when I hear attacks on Republicans and what they believe in, I automatically think you're attacking the constitution. The Very thing the US was founded upon and Progressives refuse to even try to amend.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369774]What you're referring to is what you THINK their policies and laws are based on rather what they really are. Unless you're talking about the Republicans In Name Only in which care, you'd be closer to being correct.[/QUOTE]
I'm talking about republican social and educational policies enacted in several southern states that run in direct opposition to the ideals of equality and liberty for all.
The Southern States? No wonder. The Southern States have been backwards since before the Civil War.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369817]The Southern States? No wonder. The Southern States have been backwards since before the Civil War.[/QUOTE]
Aye. But they certainly fly the Republican banner.
And let's be completely frank. While putting on a pretty public face, Fox News tells them just what they like to hear, whether it be true or not.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369774]you got to keep in mind here that when I hear attacks on Republicans and what they believe in, I automatically think you're attacking the constitution. The Very thing the US was founded upon and Progressives refuse to even try to amend.[/QUOTE]
That explains a lot. An attack on Republicans isn't an attack on the constitution, the same way an attack on the Democrats is just that, an attack on the Democrats. If you want to believe Conservative ideas are just all about adhering to the constitution, be my guest, but don't tell me the Republicans are all about adhering to the constitution. That's just naive.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369503]In the political world, progressive is just a label meant to get non-politically minded people to think that they will move them forward. Similar to Dr. Breen and the Combine before Gordan ruins everything.
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someone never played Half Life 2.[/QUOTE]
You spelled Gordon wrong
You say progressives attempt to destroy the Constitution. If I am reading your drivel correctly (which is a near-impossible task), you say they do that by amending it. Guess what function of law is outlined in the Constitution?
You also say that any attack on Republicans is an attack on the Constitution. That is an unbelievable idea that I actually cannot conceive of any human being even being able to think of holding. You're just breaking new boundaries every day.
You dodged my statement about fuel mileage. This is pretty much only our (the US)'s problem. Our average MPG, in 2010, for a domesticated passenger car is 32 MPG. An imported car is 35 MPG ([url]http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_04_23.html[/url]). You are behind the curve of the US, and the US is behind the curve of the world. The UK's urban MPG (yes, MPG, not liters per kilometer) is 47 ([url]http://www.fuel-economy.co.uk/stats.shtml[/url]). The highway MPG is usually higher than the urban MPG but's there's no data on the highway on the site. This value (which would be amazing This is a pretty shit place on the curve to be on.
Gas prices are felt to be too high because our cars are much less efficient. We get approximately 33% less travel time per gallon due to our massive cars. Gas prices have been shown to fluctuate with the whims of the companies for decades. Thus, the only way to permanently alleviate gas price whining is to institute a tighter MPG regulation for all US cars to get us up to speed with the rest of the world. This, of course, won't happen because it could lead (oh no!) to the political career-ending phrase of "job loss".
So, uh. Progressive means fitting with the current times to suit the needs and wants of people.
Honestly, constitution-humpers should really remind themselves that it was written around two centuries ago.
Here's what not wanting progression means:
Slavery
Establishment
Women not being allowed to vote
Rich nobles and feudal lords ruling over an impoverished nation of serfs and peons
You could say that petroleum was only used in the future at some point, so obviously we should go back to burning whale oil or wood or charcoal.
In fact, every advancement made by the human race is progressive, meaning that the conservative agenda is to sit around on empty lands with loincloths and clubs.
On Topic:
Oil is a business of fear. When people think prices are going to go up, people start buying more, then companies pump less oil for more money.
Honestly, I think we should develop institutions and the sort for the research of alternative fuels, while in the meantime continuing offshore drilling until a substantial discovery is made.
"no das soshulist thinking ogod"
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;29367329]Glaber, you're 24 years old and you spend your time making sonic fan comics and posting republican rhetoric from Fox News.
You should be fucking grateful that people are calling you a newsbot, because the more applicable insult is much more depressing.[/QUOTE]
Ouch.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369774]you got to keep in mind here that when I hear attacks on Republicans and what they believe in, I automatically think you're attacking the constitution.[/QUOTE]
That's funny, because whenever I hear any individual or party pretend to espouse one document perfectly and thus take attacks on themselves as an attack on the document in question, I automatically think they're fucking braindead.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369503]In the political world, progressive is just a label meant to get non-politically minded people to think that they will move them forward. Similar to Dr. Breen and the Combine before Gordon ruins everything.
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7 people never played Half Life 2.[/QUOTE]
Do you believe in women's suffrage?
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369503]In the political world, progressive is just a label meant to get non-politically minded people to think that they will move them forward. Similar to Dr. Breen and the Combine before Gordon ruins everything.
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7 people never played Half Life 2.[/QUOTE]
Wait so gordon is conservative
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That can't be he's a scientist
[QUOTE=Lizard Of Guilt;29386960]Wait so gordon is conservative
[editline]23rd April 2011[/editline]
That can't be he's a scientist[/QUOTE]
But he keeps murdering anyone from a different planet/dimension, surely he is conservative.
[QUOTE=JDK721;29367437]I see hummers/trucks/SUVs all the time in florida
all are gas guzzlers[/QUOTE]
I require a truck for my job. I have a hard time fitting carpentry tools into a sedan. Some of us drive things out of necessity, not choice, and these gas prizes can make or break the bank.
[QUOTE=koekje4life V2;29387015]But he keeps murdering anyone from a different planet/dimension, surely he is conservative.[/QUOTE]
well the combine police are some weird combination of human and machine I think
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[QUOTE=Glaber;29369774]What you're referring to is what you THINK their policies and laws are based on rather what they really are. Unless you're talking about the Republicans In Name Only in which care, you'd be closer to being correct.
you got to keep in mind here that when I hear attacks on Republicans and what they believe in, I automatically think you're attacking the constitution. The Very thing the US was founded upon and Progressives refuse to even try to amend.[/QUOTE]
Also this is really the wrongest opinion you could possibly have on the constitution.
[QUOTE=Glaber;29366294]Sometimes, that's all I got. I mean really. How would you respond to a baseless accusation of being astro-turf if you know you're not, but can't figure out how to prove it?
I could link to all my previous topics here, but I doubt that would make any difference. Just like with the accusations of being a troll and trying to defend against that.
I keep posting the same type of stuff over and over, most of it from Fox, and people still can't make the connection that I am a conservative that believes in this stuff, or in the case of progressive articles, believes against it.[/QUOTE]
No glaber, we know you believe it, that's why it scares us so much that someone can tell you something and you'll just take it as truth
[editline]24th April 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Glaber;29369774]What you're referring to is what you THINK their policies and laws are based on rather what they really are. Unless you're talking about the Republicans In Name Only in which care, you'd be closer to being correct.
you got to keep in mind here that when I hear attacks on Republicans and what they believe in, I automatically think you're attacking the constitution. The Very thing the US was founded upon and Progressives refuse to even try to amend.[/QUOTE]
I actually didn't think you could be more wrong
but you just proved me wrong, you can be entirely wrong about something so incredibly bad. The constitution wasn't written by conservatives alone in any sense of the meaning.
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I actually didn't think you could be more wrong
but you just proved me wrong, you can be entirely wrong about something so incredibly bad. The constitution wasn't written by conservatives alone in any sense of the meaning.[/QUOTE]
Is that actually what he is saying? Does he really not understand that for its lifespan the constitution and its amendments have acted as one of the most progressive legal documents since its signing?
[QUOTE=RichardCQ;29394454]Is that actually what he is saying? Does he really not understand that for its lifespan the constitution and its amendments have acted as one of the most progressive legal documents since its signing?[/QUOTE]
No it's not quite and I'm responsible for some confusion there. Glaber seems to believe that the constitution is a document that the republican party he holds so dearly is quite closely based on, that they hold the tenents of the constitution with their utmost intent. Now, why he has this idea is beyond me because you can actively see many things they say and do that go quite directly against a modern interpretation of the constitution, so maybe Glaber believes that the republicans do follow the constitution, but by his own defined version of the constitution.
In conservative land, what conservatives say, goes. Apparently, it's not "better dead than red", it's "better dead than leftist".
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;29394521]No it's not quite and I'm responsible for some confusion there. Glaber seems to believe that the constitution is a document that the republican party he holds so dearly is quite closely based on, that they hold the tenents of the constitution with their utmost intent. Now, why he has this idea is beyond me because you can actively see many things they say and do that go quite directly against a modern interpretation of the constitution, so maybe Glaber believes that the republicans do follow the constitution, but by his own defined version of the constitution.
In conservative land, what conservatives say, goes. Apparently, it's not "better dead than red", it's "better dead than leftist".[/QUOTE]
"Better hefty than lefty"? :raise:
Didn't Obama start some massive public transport program? Thats the right thing to do. The public transport in Europe is excellent, even if its over really long distances.
[QUOTE=Earthen;29398849]Didn't Obama start some massive public transport program? Thats the right thing to do. The public transport in Europe is excellent, even if its over really long distances.[/QUOTE]
Yeah he started up some cross country rail system I think.
[editline]24th April 2011[/editline]
still being built of course
I'm fairly certain that if FP still recorded the total number of ratings a user received, the total number of boxes Infamous Fox News-Bot Glaber would have received would number in the[I] tens of thousands[/I].
Republicans always have everyone's best interests at heart.
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