*'s rhetoric-spewing 'address' talked of a new energy program...

[Deja Q]

One that will free us from the dependence of foreign oil.

Is it just me, or has something so bad happened behind the scenes between US/Saudi relations that * is now parroting Kerry's stop-using-foreign-oil rhetoric (and silently telling us that Reagan's notion that alternative energy programs are no longer obsolete?!).

Go fly to Mars, *. Someone on that planet might be more gullible.

And if we did insult the Saudis, great. We all know that new energy programs will benefit only the rich; anyone bought and paid for them wants us all to be slaves or dead, I dare everyone to convince me otherwise.

[asjr]

1. I forced myself to watch the idiot just to see him make

an ass of himself again, and he did not disappoint me.

[eternalburn]

2. White House budget slashes clean energy

http://www.energybulletin.net/4545.html

~snip~

The FY06 budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) energy efficiency and renewable energy (EE/RE) programs envisions reductions totaling nearly $50 million - an overall cut of roughly 4 percent. This includes a 6 percent cut in Distributed Energy programs ($60,416 to $56,629); an 8 percent cut in the Geothermal Energy program ($25,270 to $23,299); an 18 percent cut in the Biomass/Biofuels program ($88,099 to $72,164); and a 90 percent cut in the Hydropower program ($4,862 to $500).

In fact, the Bush budget proposes to phase out DOE's hydropower program altogether and all support for the Advanced Hydropower Turbine, a joint program between DOE and the hydropower industry exploring fish-friendlier turbines, just at the time when full scale testing is about to begin at multiple locales.

Adding insult to injury for at least some of these programs, the cuts come on top of earlier reductions. The geothermal program, for example, had been funded at $28.4 million in FY03 and steadily reduced since then.

~link above~


It's amazing the articles that came up on a simple Google search with the keywords DOE, research, funding cuts.

[Deja Q]

3. AWESOME response. People have got to know what a frigging LIAR he is.

Sheesh. Clinton lies aobut sex, gets impeached.

* lies about... fuck it, he's never told the truth, and nobody impeaches him!

[DireStrike]

4. This is just more of the same

"Look! A distraction!"

His speeches are the verbal equivalent of fireworks displays. Filled with pretty things that invite you to imagine how great it would be if only we could do what he's saying, but ultimately meaningless. In some rare cases he may actually talk about something that he wants to do in reality (social security.) In most cases he will open his mouth and out will spill empty platitudes and deliberate misdirection (clear skies, no child left behind, patriot act, etc. ad nauseum...)

He is visible, so the powers that be use this aspect of his position to their advantage. He is an instrument of empty nationalistic pride. He fills the heads of those who listen with false patriotism based on ignorance, because people find it hard to believe that 90% of what he says is lies. He is an instrument of fascism.