Kix, your right now that I can sit down and read for a second.
I guess I can live with us owing our self's... it's better to owe your neighbor than someone across the world.
But from the sounds of it I should stop bashing harbor freight....at least online.
Well, I missed the fun and don't really have much to add to it...
I'm with Hogan on the religion side of this debate.... more horrors have been committed in the name of god than for any other cause (the crusades, the inquisition ect ect...)
Not trying to bash on anyone's faith, but more people need to start practicing the whole peace love and good will towards all that are prevalent themes in a lot of religions.
Fundamentalists of all faiths need to sit down, shut up, and stop creating problems.... And with that I'm done peeing into that tornado.
Leaving religion alone, I'm still pretty irked that we have the capability to produce a good chunk of our own power yet we still rely on foreign oil.
"The world runs on oil. Shut off the spigot, and the world comes to a grinding halt. Like or hate it that is how it is in this day and time." Gerald, sadly you are correct.
While it's nice that at least some of the money we owe is to our self's and is going to new weapons, I'd rather it go to new power sources. What good is building a monster of a new battle tank if it runs on a gas turbine that you can't get any gas for? I think it would do our country good to try and get to the point that when the spigot shuts off, we don't fall flat on our face.
Now I realize I sound like an ungrateful little dink, so I do have to give credit to the oil industry. Without you all we wouldn't be where we are today.
*takes his hat off and bows to all in the oil industry*, you people have gotten us this far, now it's time for something else to take the stage.
Speaking of something else taking the stage, take a look at this:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/innovator_2.htmlHere's another fun technology that needs more attention drawn to it:
http://www.pyrogenesis.com/ And finally,
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page , is worth taking a look through just to see what other ideas are out there, although it can be a dig to find info from.
The answers are out there. No one wants to look for them because they're all making money off the status quo. As long as our leaders have the capability to make money off of the disasters they create, nothing will change until were out of oil or out of people to fight over the oil.
Ok, I'm done for the moment. Hopefully I haven't ticked too many of you off...
-Clif