[Rhodes22-list] Which list is this.

[stan]

OK, I can't allow losing Rummy, so here goes.

I told you guys I had a response to Brad's view that if no one knows how to 
solve our current mess, at least stop whining.  But no one showed interest 
so I kept my secret "Nixon" plan to myself.  Ah, now that Rummy is curious, 
here it is.

What fuels the terrorists:

My guess is drugs and oil money   (or course our being there probably does 
too but I won't start a war with that view just now)

The drug money cure is easy;  join me and Bill Buckley and make drugs legal. 
(Alcohol and tobacco and all the drug company drugs are already legal in 
this country so what's the big deal - just do it)  So what if this step does 
not completely shut off their funds if it helps cut down their ability to 
buy some arms and politicians.  It saves some lives and that is better than 
saving none.

Oil is another major source of funding for the religious nuts.  We import 
oil, no matter what the price.  The overseas producers make huge profits so 
they can afford to be generous with our enemy.   We simply have to stop 
importing oil.  If we become good at this, others will follow, except 
Brazil, who are already there.

Now Brad and others are going to make the correct argument that alternate 
ways of getting energy are not efficient (wind, solar, ethanol, hydro, etc.) 
and expanding our own oil reserves and atomic energy have down sides.  But 
that is missing the point.   (When I was a few years shy of the draft, our 
country was taking down the Third Avenue El and sending its steel to Japan 
who obligingly converted it to bombs for my less fortunate young friends.)

Efficiency, even environmental issues, should be back burner considerations 
if we are weighing life and the huge costs of wars we simply cannot win with 
the intelligence we currently have.  Meantime the intelligence we do have 
will come up with a US master minded energy fix if we seed such programs 
with part of the money we are pissing away hitting our heads against a 
composite stone wall.  Besides, when I hear the argument that says making 
ethanol is not efficient, I wonder, is going to war to protect our oil 
interests more efficient?

Nixon was correct when he said we should be 100% oil import free by 1986 - 
he just did not have the smarts or maybe it was the strength to overcome the 
lobby influences, to make it happen.

Today we can make it happen - although we still have the lobbyists to 
contend with and congressional Democrats have shown themselves, at least so 
far,  not to be up to that problem.  Did any one catch the 60 Minute segment 
a few weeks ago about the all night session to keep the pharmaceutical drug 
bill from reaching a vote since it did not have the votes to pass - until 3 
in the morning when enough bribery had been doled out to squeeze it through. 
The lead politician came away with a two million dollars a year job with one 
of the drug companies (don't ask his drug expertise or what he is actually 
doing to be worth that money - he earned it ahead of time)  And they listed 
all our other representatives who got amazingly hefty rewards for their 
switched votes in the middle of the night when apparently no one was looking 
other than Roger.


But I digress.  Simply help cut off the funding of my enemy, from dugs and 
oil  (and stop giving them our guns by the thousands)  and even I may vote 
for the next war.

ss

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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Which list is this.


> Personally, I preferred the list the way it was two weeks ago before the
> winers opened their mouths and blew everyone off. Without the political 
> chit
> chat a few people complained about, this is what the list
> becomes............................very quiet.
> If this continues, I'm going to sign off. It just isn't worth staying 
> around
> for.
>
> Rummy
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