Post by botany on Nov 5, 2004 0:47:06 GMT -5
Doesn't say much about Bush when he could barely squeek out an election win over a supposedly "bad, flip-flopping, weak, etc." candidate (Kerry). Also, Kerry wasn't such a great candidate over Bush if he barely lost the election.
Many people seem to think of the University of Wisconsin - Madison as being chocked full of liberals/Kerry supporters. Yet, walking through campus, the amount of people sporting either Kerry or Bush buttons, etc. were about equal - which was fairly representative of Wisconsin and of Madison. It just so happens that the atmosphere allows for the liberals and other people to voice their opinions with relatively little censorship, so it seems like a large amount of liberals and such. I guarantee that there are just as many Bush supporters on/around campus as there are/were Kerry supporters.
From what little I've heard about Bush post-election, he seems to think he has the support of the whole nation now. As if Kerry supporters would suddenly switch over to Bush.
What's up with Bush's "one-question" rule?
I fear for 20+ years of environmental hell due to Bush's lax environmental policies. This isn't saying that Bush isn't doing anything at all for the environment. Just that what Bush is doing is simply not enough. Another problem I see is that Bush is too utilitarian. He wants to harvest the "money" from the land.
The environment is the house we all live in. Let's not trash it due to negligence. We all have at least one place in our own house/apartment/dwelling place that we keep neat, orderly, and as a "personal sanctuary." The nation's wilderness areas are such areas for millions of people. The majority of the population of the U.S. recreates in the wild in some form, varying from car/roadside-tourism to backpacking into remote wilderness. ALL forms of outdoor recreation requires there to be some kind of wilderness. I fear that Bush's policies will let too much of the wilderness to disappear and be replaced by machinery, roads, and a general, long lasting anthropocentric scar on the environment.
My disgust with Bush's environmental policies and actions are what pushed me to finally vote for the first time in my life. In the future, I believe my voting decisions will always be highly motivated by environmental issues.
I would love to see the day when traffic jams are caused by so many bicycles on the road with people biking to work rather than driving their cars. People's health (physical and mental) would improve. Air quality would improve. Noise pollution would drastically decrease.
Both Bush's and Kerry's agendas on improving gas mileage on vehicles are/were extremely too relaxed! Bush's 1.5 mpg improvement for SUV/trucks is a joke! With the technology we have today, there should be no reason why we have such gas guzzling vehicles. People talk about decreasing our dependence on foreign oil... well, how about increasing the standards for gas mileage?! Gee, what a novel idea! If our cars are burning less gas, then we would be buying less gas at the pump, and therefore we would be needing/importing less oil! Holy sh*t, that might actually work! Well, it would if it weren't for the oil money finding its way into politicians' and the government's pockets. I look at all the huge SUVs people drive around in the city. There's no speck of dirt on them. The closest that the SUV's/4x4 trucks have been to being offroad is the shoulder of the highway, or on the lawn to wash it. Single occupant gas guzzlers. The ultimate commuter vehicle. Sheesh.
The gas mileage improvement doesn't only apply to SUV's and trucks. The same improvement standards should also apply to cars, vans, big trucks, ships, airplanes. All sorts of petro-driven motorized transportation.
2-cycle engines should also be rethought. They're incredibly polluting, even more so than the average new car. Snowmobiles, gas lawn mowers, snowblowers.
How practical is the monoculture grass lawn that is such an ingrained part of the "american dream"? Requiring regular mowing in order to be deemed "worthy". Might as well just install astroturf.
More to come later, I'm sure.
andy
Many people seem to think of the University of Wisconsin - Madison as being chocked full of liberals/Kerry supporters. Yet, walking through campus, the amount of people sporting either Kerry or Bush buttons, etc. were about equal - which was fairly representative of Wisconsin and of Madison. It just so happens that the atmosphere allows for the liberals and other people to voice their opinions with relatively little censorship, so it seems like a large amount of liberals and such. I guarantee that there are just as many Bush supporters on/around campus as there are/were Kerry supporters.
From what little I've heard about Bush post-election, he seems to think he has the support of the whole nation now. As if Kerry supporters would suddenly switch over to Bush.
What's up with Bush's "one-question" rule?
I fear for 20+ years of environmental hell due to Bush's lax environmental policies. This isn't saying that Bush isn't doing anything at all for the environment. Just that what Bush is doing is simply not enough. Another problem I see is that Bush is too utilitarian. He wants to harvest the "money" from the land.
The environment is the house we all live in. Let's not trash it due to negligence. We all have at least one place in our own house/apartment/dwelling place that we keep neat, orderly, and as a "personal sanctuary." The nation's wilderness areas are such areas for millions of people. The majority of the population of the U.S. recreates in the wild in some form, varying from car/roadside-tourism to backpacking into remote wilderness. ALL forms of outdoor recreation requires there to be some kind of wilderness. I fear that Bush's policies will let too much of the wilderness to disappear and be replaced by machinery, roads, and a general, long lasting anthropocentric scar on the environment.
My disgust with Bush's environmental policies and actions are what pushed me to finally vote for the first time in my life. In the future, I believe my voting decisions will always be highly motivated by environmental issues.
I would love to see the day when traffic jams are caused by so many bicycles on the road with people biking to work rather than driving their cars. People's health (physical and mental) would improve. Air quality would improve. Noise pollution would drastically decrease.
Both Bush's and Kerry's agendas on improving gas mileage on vehicles are/were extremely too relaxed! Bush's 1.5 mpg improvement for SUV/trucks is a joke! With the technology we have today, there should be no reason why we have such gas guzzling vehicles. People talk about decreasing our dependence on foreign oil... well, how about increasing the standards for gas mileage?! Gee, what a novel idea! If our cars are burning less gas, then we would be buying less gas at the pump, and therefore we would be needing/importing less oil! Holy sh*t, that might actually work! Well, it would if it weren't for the oil money finding its way into politicians' and the government's pockets. I look at all the huge SUVs people drive around in the city. There's no speck of dirt on them. The closest that the SUV's/4x4 trucks have been to being offroad is the shoulder of the highway, or on the lawn to wash it. Single occupant gas guzzlers. The ultimate commuter vehicle. Sheesh.
The gas mileage improvement doesn't only apply to SUV's and trucks. The same improvement standards should also apply to cars, vans, big trucks, ships, airplanes. All sorts of petro-driven motorized transportation.
2-cycle engines should also be rethought. They're incredibly polluting, even more so than the average new car. Snowmobiles, gas lawn mowers, snowblowers.
How practical is the monoculture grass lawn that is such an ingrained part of the "american dream"? Requiring regular mowing in order to be deemed "worthy". Might as well just install astroturf.
More to come later, I'm sure.
andy