Hybrids and their CO2

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Tuesday October 30, 2007 · 8:28 PM PDT

2007/10/30 · 20:28

Last month, after a car wreck that totaled my beloved 2000 Honda Civic, I visited my first live auction to bid on a car that I hoped would make up for my loss. I went to the auction with the hope of buying a fuel efficient, economical, sporty car – I left buying a 2004 Honda Civic Hybrid. By the time I had my first fill-up, 475 miles later, I was in love with the car. More importantly, I was in love with the fact I was now a Hybrid owner and that my fuel consumption had dropped over 50% per month. My happiness, however, is a digression from the point of this diary...

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Does building a Prius cause more CO2 emission than a Hummer?

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Does building a Prius cause more CO2 emission than a Hummer?

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My problem with Sheryl Crow, Al Gore, Hypocrisy, and Global Warming...

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Sunday May 13, 2007 · 8:25 PM PDT

2007/05/13 · 20:25

In the last couple of years, the attempt to define and stop global warming has covered the attention of the media and many notable figures that seem to be leading the charge on what is sometimes called "the most serious problem of our times". And although global warming may be affected by mankind and may even pose a serious threat, I doubt that it holds credence as "the most serious of our problems". Even so, in the minds of many it is the most serious of problems and much is being done by some to sound the alarm, but even then, I feel that the attention given by celebrities like Crow, Gore, and others is disingenuous and insincere. The point of this article is not to persuade the reader about the realities of global warming or anything dealing with warming in general; this article merely aims to recognize that even with the thousands of dollars that many celebrities try to put on the face of this issue, their efforts are aimed at more egotistical roots than the actual issue at hand.

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Saturday April 21, 2007 · 11:11 AM PDT

2007/04/21 · 11:11

For all intents and purposes I’m a troll on DKos. The same diaries that I write here I post on other blogs, more conservative blogs just for the sake of gaining a different perspective from different people. I believe in low taxes though im lower middle class, I believe in strong national defense because I’m a soldier who has served 3 tours in Iraq, I believe in conservative social values, and although I am an independent conservative and mostly vote republican, I am not duty bound to any one person or political icon.

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Sunday April 01, 2007 · 5:00 PM PDT

2007/04/01 · 17:00

Many conspiracy theories exist about government and particularly about the Bush administration. Most of these theories are pure garbage, rhetoric aimed at filling your mind with disgust for the government, this administration, and our country in general. As a rule, I do not subscribe to any of these outlandish theories that are not based in fact or are refuted by leading experts in any particular field. Theories like the district attorneys being fired for political gain, tower 7 of the WTC being imploded by the government, the war in Iraq for oil, and many others are simply asinine; propagated by shallow thinkers who attempt at any chance to drag a knife through the president’s policy and disrupt the GOP’s well oiled political machine.

Or so I thought....

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Losing the information front

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 9:11 PM PDT

2006/09/05 · 21:11

The war on terror is being fought on two fronts: the military front and the information front.

The military front consists of our forces eliminating the bad guy who seeks to cause the U.S. harm before he is capable and willing to attack our citizens and interests. This front includes intelligence gathering, military operations, and in some cases, diplomatic attempts backed with the threat of force.

The information war consists of the message that we relay to the enemy, the world, and even to ourselves about the effectiveness of our operations and the effect that it is having on the enemy's ideology. We are attempting to fix their ideology as one of passive resistance instead of active and willing resistance. Read More

Method of Leaving Iraq...advice sought

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 9:19 PM PDT

2006/08/31 · 21:19

I have thought long and hard for many painful weeks of the implications that setting a timetable in Iraq would have on our CURRENT situation in Iraq...

My conclusions and the purpose of this blog is not to discuss whether the Iraq invasion was a good idea. Likewise, the purpose is not to discuss if we should leave Iraq - both of these I accept as irrelevant to the purpose of this particular blog. I accept that we should leave and believe that we should set measures to gauge our success at leaving - not in a timetable form, rather in an event driven analysis -

- I am posting this diary because I am truly interested in a reasoned opinion about the repercussion of us leaving and creating a power vacuum, and the strategy any reader would propose about the method of our drawdown. Certainly some ways of leaving are better than others...

I'm posting these statements upfront because I am looking for discussion, not snippet comments, that would yield a different perspective from than my current view and discuss the strategic implications associated with the method of our departure.
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In the defense of logic...

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Tuesday August 29, 2006 · 7:32 PM PDT

2006/08/29 · 19:32

I'm more the type of person to scan different diaries, add comments when I see fit, and analyze the arguments that are being presented. The purpose of this opening qualifier is to communicate that I don't routinely write diaries, im far too content reading others' work - when it makes sense. I am concerned that far too routinely, many of us slip into the traps of logical flaws and present an image of bloggers, namely dkos bloggers, to fail at our analytical obligations to see an issue in its entirety. Instead we often get hampered by hatred and ad hominem attacks - the kind that cause outsiders to view ones' arguments as shortsighted and unfounded... Read More

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Losing the information front

Method of Leaving Iraq...advice sought

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