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State of the Union '06
What did you think of the state of the union? Good / Bad. Please vote and leave a comment on why you voted that way.
I am quite pleased. In particular I was pleased with the energy initiative. I was cheering for gas prices to increase in order to stimulate such renewable energy technologies to ovoid the use of oil, mainly because oil is very important to the chemical and plastics industries.
| horseatingweeds wrote: |
| I am quite pleased. In particular I was pleased with the energy initiative. I was cheering for gas prices to increase in order to stimulate such renewable energy technologies to ovoid the use of oil, mainly because oil is very important to the chemical and plastics industries. |
I completely agree... It was very good that he said that we are addicted to oil and need to get off of oil as soon as we can. Hopefully congress can pass some good laws for auto makers... so that they make cars more efficent if they will be running gas... And hopefully push them to make more hybrid cars.
Did anyone play the drinking game:
http://www.drinkinggame.us/
Think I would've passed out trying to keep up!
http://www.drinkinggame.us/
Think I would've passed out trying to keep up!
Overall he made a good speach.
Cons:
The energy thing was a feel good thing he's been doing all along. Lets hope it gets traction now.
Not strong enough on borders. Par to the course.
Disagree on the embryo research. It can save millions of lives. Limitations are mandatory.
Pros:
Beat the Democrats down very effectively with very little of it being noticably hostile.
Sheehan's self-ownage was absolutely priceless.
Cons:
The energy thing was a feel good thing he's been doing all along. Lets hope it gets traction now.
Not strong enough on borders. Par to the course.
Disagree on the embryo research. It can save millions of lives. Limitations are mandatory.
Pros:
Beat the Democrats down very effectively with very little of it being noticably hostile.
Sheehan's self-ownage was absolutely priceless.
| S3nd K3ys wrote: |
| embryo research. It can save millions of lives. |
At the expense of how many million more? IVF-ET generates dozens and dozens of babies, selects one for implantation, and slaughters the rest. This is not an ethical foundation for embryo research
| gonzo wrote: | ||
At the expense of how many million more? IVF-ET generates dozens and dozens of babies, selects one for implantation, and slaughters the rest. This is not an ethical foundation for embryo research |
I think you missed this part.
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| Limitations are mandatory.
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My wife had a total of 7 pregnancies which resulted in 2 kids. The embryos from the miscarriages could have been used for all kinds of testing.
Creating a life for the sake of testing is wrong.
Is that more clear?
| S3nd K3ys wrote: | ||
I think you missed this part.
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If it's anything other than not at all its not limiting enough.
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| Creating a life for the sake of testing is wrong. |
Promoting an atmosphere that encourages having a supply of babies for research is also wrong. "Oh, well since the abortion has already been done we might as well use the babies for research". No.
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If it's anything other than not at all its not limiting enough.
Promoting an atmosphere that encourages having a supply of babies for research is also wrong. "Oh, well since the abortion has already been done we might as well use the babies for research". No. |
Um... They were not abortions. They were miscarriages. My wife was devistated. If the embryos could have been used to prevent another person from going thru what she went thru, I'm all for it.
I thought it was nice, good things said. Let's hope he keeps it up.
Encore!
I am an independent and I think Bush is the most divisive and destructive president we have ever had. His answer to everything is to hunker down and stay the course. I think the captain of the Titanic said that or was it Custer!!! The state of the union speech was full of simplistic phrases like addiction to oil. Bush would rather push for drilling in the Anwar for a year of oil than have a meaningful energy plan or a significant investment for synthetic fuels. Let's see, EXXON is from Texas, and posts the record profit for any company in the US ever and Bush is from Texas and is known to be kind to oil corporations. Hmmmmmm. Cheney used to work for Halliburton, met secretively with oil executives to draft the energy plan ( isn't that an oxymoron?) and somehow Halliburton obtained billions of dollars of no-bid contracts for work in Iraq (gee how did that happen). Oh and they misplaced several million dollars, must have been an accounting error, wonder who ended up with the windfall profit?
| SunburnedCactus wrote: |
| Did anyone play the drinking game:
http://www.drinkinggame.us/ Think I would've passed out trying to keep up! |
Who is the genius you have to keep sober to govern this complex drinking game. What ever happen to "hi Bob".
| [quote="SunburnedCactus wrote: |
| "]Beat the Democrats down very effectively with very little of it being noticably hostile. |
Yeh, that tickled me pink.....
| diverden wrote: |
| His answer to everything is to hunker down and stay the course. I think the captain of the Titanic said that or was it Custer!!! |
The Titanic was breaking in boilers in fog with human eyes instead of radar. The mistake was left rudder and full reverse rather than full right screw left rudder, or straight ahead to plant on the ice burg.
Custer left the Gatlings and didn't have repeaters. His enemy had surprise and plenty of repeaters.
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