John McCain strides in from stage left in a dark suit, the requisite stage props in the background, and grasps the podium.
He tells the audience, with all the pseudo gravitas he can muster, that what Russia has done in Georgia is, yes, unacceptable. Hm. More sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing, a foreign "policy" offered by another clueless Republican presidential nominee.
It is however a useful issue for a politician that needs to distract the easily "distractible" voters. Whatever you do don't remind the electorate what damage the Cult has wrought over the past eight years. Drill baby drill!
Another reason America must become energy independent; the Russians are coming. Yes, yes don't keep reminding us that with only 3% of the oil and 4% of the world's population we use 25% of the oil produced on the planet. For a couple of views on Georgia and the region go to Putin for US president-more than ever and Russia marks its red lines.
Move to russia ....leave us alone
How in the world the star can put your mindless drivel in support of all things socialist and totalitarian .....obviously political .....in a blog puportedly about "Earth" is way beyond any rational thought.
You sir, are dangerous in tis platform...or any platform in this country. I suggest that you pack your bags and just move to Russia, where you can have your leader of choice till the day you die....may it be soon... I read more democratic views on Pravda than I do on your ridiculous blog.
"move"
I know I know, chazzykc, I shouldn't encourage anonymous haters or more than likely the same old retreads, but I haven't heard the Pravda-love-it-or-leave-it buffoonery in a long time. I thought most of you fellas were playing hearts in nursing homes and mumbling about where J. Edgar is when "we need him." But maybe we can bring back the Palmer Raids. Do you remember them?
Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
Opinion polls are fueling politicians and candidates to push for more U.S. offshore oil drilling, with the media looking on intently.
Since the issue became a political focal point in May and June, polling has been relentless: Zogby. Rasmussen. Field. Gallup. Quinnipiac. CNN. Bloomberg. The list goes on. All point to an increasing public desire to lift a moratorium on more domestic drilling.
It's a rough reality check for the climate change movement: the American public increasingly seems willing to walk - or drive - away from climate change concerns, as high gas prices trump principle.
But as with all polls, the framing is paramount and the media's interpretation crucial.
Keith Johnson, a longtime energy reporter who now writes the "Environmental Capital" blog for The Wall Street Journal, said survey questions should be parsed carefully.
"In polls in which the question is something like, 'Do you prefer more drilling or more investment in alternative energy?,' alternative energy usually comes out ahead," Johnson told The Yale Forum in an e-mail interview. A new Quinnipiac poll bolsters that case.
Notably, a Gallup poll widely cited by the press beginning in June - precisely the time President Bush, Senator John McCain, and Governor Charlie Crist of Florida all began advocating for more drilling - did not ask respondents to choose from alternatives. It simply asked if they would favor or oppose drilling to "attempt to reduce the price of gasoline." And 57 percent said they were in favor, a factor alluded to by Crist in his decision to reverse his position and support more drilling.
Another influential, and crucially timed, poll by Zogby, released June 20, asserted that 74 percent of Americans favor offshore drilling, but it too did not present options.
Media outlets cite the Gallup and Zogby polls often, and often without qualification. (Gallup argues in its news release that asking respondents to choose among alternatives does not "provide information about the relative acceptability ... of the alternative proposals taken separately.")
Some polls, though, do show nuance when they ask multi-part questions. For example, a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California showed that 51 percent of state residents support more drilling; but it also showed that 83 percent want more federal funding for wind, solar, and hydrogen technology.
Johnson said the overall public opinion trends in favor of more drilling are unmistakable, though it remains unclear what mix of remedies the public actually wants, now or in the future.
"Whether (drilling) comes at the expense of the environment, or - like in California - the two are believed by poll-respondents to be mutually inclusive - that is a different question," he added. "It will be interesting to see if a) oil keeps falling and b) gas starts to fall seriously, then what happens to that support."
Just goes to show what our leadership & media are made of...yech!
"Yale"
Yeah, valid points are raised about "framing," a lack of environmental journalists, "deliberate" misleading, etc., but I now wonder that if Americans once again snatch ignorance from the jaws of any kind of enlightenment in November and beyond, then the whole tottering facade just might truly collapse, even in the U.S. Watch where the privileged class start taking up residence for one thing.
residence
I'm thinking 'offshore'.
Georgia
If anyone qualifies as "clueless" and a "cult", it is the Obamabots who mindlessly follow "The Obama".
The most "damage" has been done in the past 2 years, since your Democrat friends have controlled Congress. The price of gas has nearly doubled.
To obtain energy independence, we need to increase our domestic supply. How is this achieved? Drill!