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[quote=Brutus]Warren is a Harvard lawyer, an elitist that lives in a two million dollar mansion, makes $400,000 a year from teaching one class and, like most Harvard lawyers, thinks she’s the smartest person in any room. She’s also despises capitalism in all its forms which makes her a HYPOCRITE, too.

She will lose, because NOBODY likes Harvard lawyers, even other Harvard lawyers. If it wasn’t for liberal Hollywood movie-stars, Harvard lawyers would be the most obnoxious, smarmy, know-it-all, jerks on the planet.

They still have a way to go to outdo Tim Robbins and Danny Glover, though.[/quote]

Hmmm.

Brutus

Et Tu, Brutus.

Wasn’t Brutus a Backstabbing Homosexual? But enough about your role models.

Professor Warren is a Rutgers Lawyer. She did her JD at Rutgers-Newark.
So that makes her much more middle class. Of course it helps she grew up in Oklahoma, Married young, had a daughter. Very common story.

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From both sides, I think it’s safe to say he has been a huge disappointment. And his popularity numbers reflect that fact.[/quote]

Interesting to hear you say this. Let me open by saying I’m an independent and have voted for both Dems and Reps.

Republicans regularly accuse me of being a Democrat. Democrats regularly accuse me of being a Republican. It finally dawned on me that it is because they are from extreme ends of the spectrum. Anyone not as extreme as they are is seen as being at the opposite end of the spectrum.

To hear both sides thinking I’m the enemy reinforces that I must be sitting in the middle!

This is a long-winded way of getting to my point: The Dems are unhappy with Obama because he hasn’t been as liberal as they want. The Reps are unhappy with Obama because he obviously isn’t a conservative…and I really think there is a race issue there too. They can deny it all they want, but I think it’s true.

I know it isn’t a popular opinion, but I think Obama is more moderate than many give him credit for. Thus he gets blasted by both sides.[/quote]
Obama has been far to engaged in carrying out Bush policies. That’s not moderate, it’s just stupid.

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[quote=AN][quote=patb][quote=AN][quote=briansd1]Elizabeth Warren is a decent, honest person. Nobody, even in opposition to her, would say that she’s a repugnant person. [/quote]
I’m sure Palin & Bachmann’s suporter would say the exact same thing about them as you say about Warren. I’m just pointing out the obvious that people usually only support someone they thing is decent and honest. You can disagree with them, and I’m sure they’ll disagree with you as well.
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Actually Palin/Bachmann supporters use words like Strong or Hard or Tough. They never Describe Bush or Palin or Bachmann as Smart. They use words like She shares our Values.[/quote]
I just reread mine and Brian’s quotes that you included and neither of us said smart. We said decent and honest.[/quote]

Bachmann supporters don’t describe as decent, just tough.

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[quote=Jacarandoso]Pat. I read that with the 5k system the consumer would get about 500-1000Kwh per month.http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=11630267

Locations in San Diego average 5-6 solar hours per day. Your numbers seem high/overly optimistic. Either way, I am very intrigued at this point.

BTW. I believe that if you feel like you can pull off A DIY job you can probably find someone to help with the permitting and whatever rebates plus some oversight if needed at some fair price. Not recommending it necessarily. Seems right to me that if the system doesn’t work because of BS, you make it work when you can.

I think, maybe hope or guess,that solar is now on the right track with cost benefit though. I think it’s worth doing taking the reasonable assumption that electrical charges (no pun intended) are going to go up.[/quote]

Prices for Polysilicon PV is droppping like crazy

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[quote=AN][quote=briansd1]Elizabeth Warren is a decent, honest person. Nobody, even in opposition to her, would say that she’s a repugnant person. [/quote]
I’m sure Palin & Bachmann’s suporter would say the exact same thing about them as you say about Warren. I’m just pointing out the obvious that people usually only support someone they thing is decent and honest. You can disagree with them, and I’m sure they’ll disagree with you as well.
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Actually Palin/Bachmann supporters use words like Strong or Hard or Tough. They never Describe Bush or Palin or Bachmann as Smart. They use words like She shares our Values.

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[quote=CA renter]Elizabeth Warren has more intelligence, wisdom, integrity, character, and good sense in her pinky finger than all the members of congress have in their entire bodies, combined.

There are very few people in this world whom I truly admire, but Elizabeth Warren is at the top of the list. I am beyond thrilled that she’s running for Senate.[/quote]
not quite but she is amazing.

She’s a throwback to Sen Fulbright.

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Why can’t the measure of being pro-science be the question of heritability of intelligence? Or the existence of fetal pain? Or the distribution of cognitive abilities among the sexes at the extreme right tail of the bell curve

Because there is no policy implications. You want to argue Blacks are notably less intelligent then whites. Okay. So what’s the policy implication? Are you then going to argue we need to increase school hours in black areas? Are you oing to argue blacks shouldn’t vote?

Even if Fetal pain exists, so what? Abortion is a medical procedure done by the request of a woman. It’s her right to do that. Are you going to argue that because there may be fetal pain, abortion shouldn’t be done, or that it should be done under general anesthesia? What’s your policy battle?

Or cognitive skills based upon sex. So are you going to say, men can’t be interior designers because they have no color sense? Are you going to argue women shouldn’t be allowed to sit the PE because they are inherently abd at math?

There are lots of hot battles in science. Exo-planets, is pluto a planet or asteroid? Distance to gamma ray bursters. Higgs Bosons. Gravitons and gravity waves. Dark Matter. DNA structure. Environmental switches in genetic expression. Quantum Computing. Causes of cancer.

it’s only the last one that has policy battles on it.

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The key point is really simple:

The United States does not have enough oil.

“Drill Baby Drill” is based upon a mathematical fallacy.

We certainly couldn’t do what Norway does. There’s no way we will ever produce a surplus of oil.[/quote]

So is republican tax policy.

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[quote=temeculaguy]Here’s why I hate it when people like to compare boutique countries to the big boys. Norway is cool and has a lot going for it, I’ll give you that. But at under 5 million people, it’s barely twice the size of San Diego. 80% of the population belongs to the same church, 96% speak the same language. I’m sorry, you don’t get any prizes for getting a small group of people who think and act the same to think and act the same.

Maybe if I went to Boston and got everyone to agree the Celtics are good, I’d get your admiration too. Or maybe if I convinced the crowd at a Nascar event that beer and country music was a good thing, I’d win a prize. Of course being in lockstep has it’s downfalls.

And this fouled up, disjointed and uneducated country that we call home has something Norway doesn’t have, diversity. This isn’t a politically correct statement. Our little cauldron of inefficieny is responsible for the need of Norway’s oil. In fact thier daily life would be miserable without ours, not the other way around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(before_1890)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(1890%E2%80%931945)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(1946%E2%80%931991)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(after_1991)

Their snowboards and their ice hockey rink resurfacers (things they should have come up with) courtesy of the misfits. Not to mention the birth control pill, ky jelly and buffalo wings, otherwise known as the ultimate trifecta![/quote]

But what have we done lately?

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[quote=EconProf]So the taxpayers will pay for this “investment” in green jobs. This is the problem when the government tries to pick winners and losers instead of the private sector. They make choices based on faulty science and the whims of extreme environmentalists. Private investors, with their own money at stake, tend to weigh costs and benefits before allocating resources. They may not always get it right, but they suffer the consequences when wrong (absent government bailouts). I wonder if any politicians or bureaucrats will suffer from this boondogle. Also, had that government “investment” money stayed in taxpayers’ pockets and been spent on consumer items, how many real private sector jobs been created?[/quote]

Answer None: Because the Private sector picks jobs in China over jobs in San Diego.

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there is royally screwed and screwed and tattooed.

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[quote=Jacarandoso]Just pick the nerdiest applicant. They are usually pretty trouble free roommates regardless of race.[/quote]
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[quote=Jacarandoso]Just pick the nerdiest applicant. They are usually pretty trouble free roommates regardless of race.[/quote]
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[quote=Jacarandoso]Just pick the nerdiest applicant. They are usually pretty trouble free roommates regardless of race.[/quote]
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[quote=Jacarandoso]Just pick the nerdiest applicant. They are usually pretty trouble free roommates regardless of race.[/quote]
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